GoCD Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GoCD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 394 - 372
Rank change year-on-year - - +79
Contract jobs citing GoCD 2 0 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - 0.082%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.078% - 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £484 - £436
25th Percentile £487 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 - £465
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.64%
75th Percentile £502 - £466
90th Percentile £504 - £539
UK median daily rate £505 - £466
% change year-on-year - - +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.13
25th Percentile - - £62.19
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £73.44
90th Percentile - - £75.88
UK median hourly rate - - £67.50

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

GoCD falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,562 1,821 2,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.22% 13.11% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,758 1,092 1,630
10th Percentile £320 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £477 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% -6.93% -2.38%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.48% -5.58% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 62 174
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £53.75 £51.94 £54.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £81.90 £75.23 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

GoCD
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GoCD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GoCD job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GoCD
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GoCD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GoCD

GoCD
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GoCD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GoCD

GoCD
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GoCD within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Midlands - 1 £505 -
South West - 1 £488 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £505 -
GoCD
UK

GoCD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) FreeIPA
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) SAP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware