GitHub Contract Job Trends in the North of England

GitHub
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 73 96
Rank change year-on-year +9 +23 +37
Contract jobs citing GitHub 274 139 78
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 3.59% 3.34% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.91% 9.13% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 100 59
10th Percentile £388 £329 £316
25th Percentile £419 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +6.11% -21.74%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £626 £639
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,511 1,523 1,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.92% 36.64% 32.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,606 1,088 852
10th Percentile £284 £278 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% -7.64% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -2.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 32 23
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £12.06
25th Percentile £28.50 £15.50 £18.97
Median hourly rate £65.00 £18.94 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +243.28% -31.15% -16.03%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £77.00 £71.03 £71.15
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +6.87%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire +22 177 £483 -3.50% 70
North West -31 75 £550 +27.91% 99
North East -28 24 £425 -11.69% 26
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 33 (12.04%) Confluence
2 8 (2.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.09%) Apache
3 3 (1.09%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.73%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Pulsar
5 1 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.36%) Sage 50
2 1 (0.36%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 140 (51.09%) GitHub Actions
2 131 (47.81%) AWS
3 109 (39.78%) Azure
4 63 (22.99%) GCP
5 55 (20.07%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (9.12%) IaaS
7 24 (8.76%) GitHub Copilot
8 20 (7.30%) Serverless
9 14 (5.11%) Amazon S3
9 14 (5.11%) Anthropic Claude
9 14 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (4.74%) Microsoft Copilot
11 12 (4.38%) Amazon EKS
11 12 (4.38%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 12 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (4.38%) Power Platform
12 11 (4.01%) Amazon SQS
12 11 (4.01%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.65%) Apigee
13 10 (3.65%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.49%) DNS
1 26 (9.49%) Firewall
2 17 (6.20%) BIG-IP
2 17 (6.20%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 17 (6.20%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 11 (4.01%) Network Security
4 8 (2.92%) SSL
4 8 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.19%) VLAN
6 3 (1.09%) HTTP
6 3 (1.09%) VPN
7 2 (0.73%) Internet
7 2 (0.73%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.73%) WAN
8 1 (0.36%) DMZ
8 1 (0.36%) Ethernet VPN
8 1 (0.36%) MPLS
8 1 (0.36%) SAN
8 1 (0.36%) VSAN
8 1 (0.36%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.22%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.12%) MongoDB
3 18 (6.57%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (5.11%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.01%) DynamoDB
6 10 (3.65%) Redis
7 8 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.55%) RDBMS
9 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.82%) Big Data
9 5 (1.82%) Hazelcast
9 5 (1.82%) MySQL
9 5 (1.82%) Power BI
10 4 (1.46%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (1.46%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.46%) Tableau
11 3 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
12 2 (0.73%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.73%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 119 (43.43%) Jenkins
2 64 (23.36%) JIRA
3 55 (20.07%) Git
4 42 (15.33%) GitLab
5 17 (6.20%) Gatling
5 17 (6.20%) Selenium
5 17 (6.20%) Sonatype Nexus
6 16 (5.84%) Bitbucket
6 16 (5.84%) Cucumber
7 14 (5.11%) Claude Code
7 14 (5.11%) REST Assured
8 13 (4.74%) Maven
9 12 (4.38%) Gradle
10 9 (3.28%) JMeter
10 9 (3.28%) JUnit
10 9 (3.28%) Postman
11 7 (2.55%) LoadRunner
11 7 (2.55%) Serenity BDD
12 5 (1.82%) TestNG
12 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 77 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.34%) Finance
3 42 (15.33%) Public Sector
4 26 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.39%) Banking
6 16 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (4.38%) Retail
8 4 (1.46%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Legal
9 3 (1.09%) Military
10 2 (0.73%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Law
10 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Automotive
11 1 (0.36%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.36%) French Language
11 1 (0.36%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 79 (28.83%) Developer
2 62 (22.63%) Senior
3 36 (13.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (9.85%) Lead
5 24 (8.76%) Java Developer
6 19 (6.93%) Senior Developer
7 17 (6.20%) Senior DevOps
8 15 (5.47%) Platform Engineer
9 14 (5.11%) Architect
10 13 (4.74%) Network Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 13 (4.74%) Test Engineer
11 12 (4.38%) AWS Engineer
12 11 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 11 (4.01%) Principal Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.65%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.28%) Python Developer
15 8 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
15 8 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 130 (47.45%) Terraform
2 49 (17.88%) REST
3 44 (16.06%) Kafka
4 31 (11.31%) Playwright
5 26 (9.49%) React
6 25 (9.12%) Spring Boot
7 23 (8.39%) Spring
8 22 (8.03%) HTML
8 22 (8.03%) RESTful
9 19 (6.93%) Node.js
10 17 (6.20%) .NET
11 14 (5.11%) AngularJS
12 12 (4.38%) JSON
13 10 (3.65%) Jest
13 10 (3.65%) OAuth
14 9 (3.28%) OpenTelemetry
15 8 (2.92%) .NET Core
15 8 (2.92%) JPA
15 8 (2.92%) JWT
15 8 (2.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.15%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.03%) Data Centre
3 19 (6.93%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.84%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.11%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.74%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (4.01%) Mobile App
8 11 (4.01%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.92%) Blog
9 8 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.19%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.19%) NHS
11 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (1.46%) Autonomous Agent
12 4 (1.46%) Data Structures
12 4 (1.46%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.46%) Replication
13 3 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
13 3 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.49%) Linux
2 11 (4.01%) Windows
3 9 (3.28%) Android
4 8 (2.92%) Unix
5 6 (2.19%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) AIX
7 2 (0.73%) macOS
7 2 (0.73%) MVS
7 2 (0.73%) zOS
8 1 (0.36%) Data ONTAP
8 1 (0.36%) Solaris
8 1 (0.36%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (82.48%) CI/CD
2 156 (56.93%) DevOps
3 115 (41.97%) Agile
4 105 (38.32%) Infrastructure as Code
5 96 (35.04%) Observability
6 79 (28.83%) Test Automation
7 64 (23.36%) Microservices
8 44 (16.06%) Software Engineering
9 40 (14.60%) AI
10 38 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 38 (13.87%) Platform Engineering
11 36 (13.14%) Event-Driven
12 33 (12.04%) API Development
12 33 (12.04%) Containerisation
13 31 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (10.58%) Mentoring
14 29 (10.58%) SDLC
14 29 (10.58%) Technical Leadership
15 28 (10.22%) Full-Stack Development
16 27 (9.85%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 117 (42.70%) Python
2 69 (25.18%) Java
3 61 (22.26%) SQL
4 44 (16.06%) PowerShell
5 40 (14.60%) JavaScript
6 38 (13.87%) Bash
7 27 (9.85%) TypeScript
8 22 (8.03%) Kotlin
9 17 (6.20%) ActionScript
10 16 (5.84%) Scala
11 14 (5.11%) C#
12 8 (2.92%) Bicep
13 6 (2.19%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.82%) Go
14 5 (1.82%) Groovy
15 4 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
15 4 (1.46%) REXX
16 3 (1.09%) Swift
17 2 (0.73%) JCL
17 2 (0.73%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 57 (20.80%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.88%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (3.28%) Azure Certification
5 7 (2.55%) Degree
6 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (1.82%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.73%) GSEC
8 1 (0.36%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CCIE
8 1 (0.36%) CCNP
8 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.36%) CISSP
8 1 (0.36%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.36%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.36%) GIAC
8 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.36%) NCDA
8 1 (0.36%) NCIE
8 1 (0.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (12.04%) Accessibility
2 30 (10.95%) QA
3 13 (4.74%) WCAG
4 8 (2.92%) GDPR
5 6 (2.19%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.19%) HL7
6 5 (1.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.46%) NIST
8 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.36%) GRC
9 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 64 (23.36%) Docker
2 16 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (1.09%) NFS
6 2 (0.73%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 2 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (0.73%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) SRDF
7 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 91 (33.21%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.87%) Grafana
3 36 (13.14%) Ansible
4 23 (8.39%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.01%) Argo
6 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.19%) Packer
7 5 (1.82%) HAProxy
7 5 (1.82%) Istio
7 5 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
7 5 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (1.46%) Consul
8 4 (1.46%) Kustomize
9 3 (1.09%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.73%) Tivoli NetView
10 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (0.73%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.73%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.36%) QRadar
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 43 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.85%) Google
3 26 (9.49%) Dynatrace
4 25 (9.12%) Splunk
5 18 (6.57%) F5
6 14 (5.11%) IBM
7 11 (4.01%) Databricks
8 6 (2.19%) Centrify
8 6 (2.19%) CyberArk
8 6 (2.19%) New Relic
9 5 (1.82%) Cisco
9 5 (1.82%) Oracle
10 4 (1.46%) Broadcom
10 4 (1.46%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.09%) Brio
11 3 (1.09%) Brocade
11 3 (1.09%) Dell
11 3 (1.09%) Fujitsu
11 3 (1.09%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.09%) SAP