GitHub Contracts in England

GitHub
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 128 146
Rank change year-on-year -38 +18 +28
Contract jobs citing GitHub 557 975 1,320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.49% 2.07% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 5.71% 4.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 663 908
10th Percentile £363 £401 £423
25th Percentile £448 £469 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +4.35% +12.20%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £675
90th Percentile £675 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £600 £561
% change year-on-year -10.79% +6.90% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 5 22
10th Percentile £45.20 £52.20 £54.51
25th Percentile - £52.50 £62.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.25
Median % change year-on-year - -3.11% +45.95%
75th Percentile - £80.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - £86.00 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +164.15%

All Cloud Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,003 17,073 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.00% 36.30% 38.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,593 12,521 19,923
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £748 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 282 314
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%
75th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £44.70
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in England.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in England.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in England

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in England

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. 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
London -24 342 £525 -16.00% 173
North of England -21 72 £550 - 77
Yorkshire +10 46 £569 +8.33% 29
South West -39 46 £533 -11.17% 36
South East 0 45 £475 -17.39% 57
North West +12 21 £500 -3.61% 38
Midlands -21 10 £519 -7.78% 43
East of England -27 10 £550 -13.73% 24
East Midlands +1 6 - - 17
North East -22 5 - - 10
West Midlands -24 4 £519 -7.78% 26
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 47 (8.44%) Confluence
2 17 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (2.15%) Apache
3 12 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.80%) WordPress
5 9 (1.62%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 7 (1.26%) nginx
7 7 (1.26%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (1.08%) CMS
8 6 (1.08%) IIS
9 2 (0.36%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.18%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.18%) Drupal
10 1 (0.18%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.18%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Trello
2 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (1.08%) NEC Housing
1 6 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.18%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.18%) Magento
3 1 (0.18%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.18%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.18%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 207 (37.16%) AWS
2 202 (36.27%) Azure
3 133 (23.88%) GitHub Actions
4 76 (13.64%) GCP
5 72 (12.93%) Serverless
6 71 (12.75%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (6.10%) Power Platform
8 33 (5.92%) Azure Functions
9 28 (5.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 26 (4.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
12 23 (4.13%) Azure Service Bus
13 22 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
14 19 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
15 17 (3.05%) Power Automate
15 17 (3.05%) PowerApps
16 16 (2.87%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (2.87%) Amazon S3
17 15 (2.69%) Kong
18 13 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.28%) Firewall
2 23 (4.13%) DNS
3 17 (3.05%) HTTP
4 14 (2.51%) TCP/IP
4 14 (2.51%) VPN
5 8 (1.44%) SSL
6 6 (1.08%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (0.90%) WAN
8 4 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 4 (0.72%) Kerberos
8 4 (0.72%) Network Security
8 4 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
8 4 (0.72%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.54%) BGP
9 3 (0.54%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
9 3 (0.54%) DMZ
9 3 (0.54%) Internet
9 3 (0.54%) LAN
9 3 (0.54%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
2 62 (11.13%) NoSQL
3 55 (9.87%) SQL Server
4 43 (7.72%) MySQL
5 35 (6.28%) Data Warehouse
6 31 (5.57%) Power BI
7 28 (5.03%) Relational Database
8 23 (4.13%) BigQuery
9 17 (3.05%) MongoDB
10 16 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
11 15 (2.69%) Amazon Redshift
11 15 (2.69%) Metadata
12 14 (2.51%) Elasticsearch
13 13 (2.33%) RDBMS
14 12 (2.15%) DynamoDB
15 11 (1.97%) Redis
16 10 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.80%) Big Data
16 10 (1.80%) Data Lake
17 8 (1.44%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 161 (28.90%) Jenkins
2 118 (21.18%) Git
3 113 (20.29%) JIRA
4 88 (15.80%) GitLab
5 31 (5.57%) CircleCI
5 31 (5.57%) Cypress.io
6 27 (4.85%) GoogleTest
7 25 (4.49%) Selenium
8 21 (3.77%) SonarQube
9 16 (2.87%) JUnit
10 14 (2.51%) Cucumber
10 14 (2.51%) JMeter
10 14 (2.51%) Maven
11 13 (2.33%) Postman
12 12 (2.15%) Bitbucket
12 12 (2.15%) Gradle
12 12 (2.15%) Travis CI
13 11 (1.97%) TeamCity
14 10 (1.80%) Appium
14 10 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 127 (22.80%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.46%) Finance
3 53 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (8.08%) Public Sector
5 44 (7.90%) Banking
6 15 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (1.62%) Front Office
7 9 (1.62%) Retail
8 8 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (1.26%) Financial Institution
10 6 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.08%) Wearables
11 5 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (0.90%) Investment Banking
11 5 (0.90%) Local Government
11 5 (0.90%) Marketing
11 5 (0.90%) Telecoms
12 4 (0.72%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.54%) Aerospace
13 3 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 166 (29.80%) Developer
2 80 (14.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 72 (12.93%) Senior
4 56 (10.05%) Software Engineer
5 42 (7.54%) Architect
6 39 (7.00%) Java Engineer
7 29 (5.21%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.03%) Java Software Engineer
9 25 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
9 25 (4.49%) Cloud Engineer
10 23 (4.13%) Azure Engineer
10 23 (4.13%) Senior Developer
11 19 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
11 19 (3.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 18 (3.23%) Full Stack Engineer
12 18 (3.23%) Python Developer
13 17 (3.05%) Lead
14 16 (2.87%) C++ Software Engineer
14 16 (2.87%) Full Stack Developer
14 16 (2.87%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (14.18%) React
2 67 (12.03%) REST
3 62 (11.13%) HTML
4 52 (9.34%) Node.js
5 42 (7.54%) CSS
6 40 (7.18%) Kafka
7 36 (6.46%) RESTful
8 34 (6.10%) XML
9 30 (5.39%) .NET
10 29 (5.21%) Qt
11 27 (4.85%) JSON
11 27 (4.85%) Web Services
11 27 (4.85%) YAML
12 22 (3.95%) Spring Boot
13 20 (3.59%) Elastic Stack
13 20 (3.59%) OAuth
14 18 (3.23%) SOAP
15 17 (3.05%) Spring
16 16 (2.87%) GraphQL
16 16 (2.87%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.28%) Linux Command Line
2 30 (5.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 24 (4.31%) Mobile App
4 21 (3.77%) Product Ownership
5 18 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 16 (2.87%) Cloud Native
7 15 (2.69%) Onboarding
8 13 (2.33%) Data Centre
8 13 (2.33%) Replication
9 11 (1.97%) Data Structures
9 11 (1.97%) Derivative
9 11 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.80%) Clustering
11 8 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (1.44%) Machine to Machine
11 8 (1.44%) Renewable Energy
11 8 (1.44%) Virtual Team
12 7 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.26%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 109 (19.57%) Linux
2 27 (4.85%) Android
2 27 (4.85%) Windows
3 19 (3.41%) Unix
4 11 (1.97%) Apple iOS
5 10 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.44%) zOS
7 6 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.36%) CentOS
9 2 (0.36%) VMS
9 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.18%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (47.94%) CI/CD
2 257 (46.14%) DevOps
3 225 (40.39%) Agile
4 94 (16.88%) Software Engineering
5 88 (15.80%) Test Automation
6 78 (14.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 62 (11.13%) Continuous Integration
8 61 (10.95%) Containerisation
9 59 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (10.05%) Scrum
11 52 (9.34%) Full Stack Development
12 49 (8.80%) TDD
13 44 (7.90%) Microservices
14 42 (7.54%) SDLC
15 35 (6.28%) Project Management
16 34 (6.10%) Open Source
17 33 (5.92%) Migration
18 32 (5.75%) Computer Science
19 31 (5.57%) Analytics
20 30 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 230 (41.29%) Python
2 134 (24.06%) Java
3 121 (21.72%) SQL
4 92 (16.52%) JavaScript
5 62 (11.13%) PowerShell
6 54 (9.69%) TypeScript
7 47 (8.44%) Bash
8 46 (8.26%) C++
9 31 (5.57%) Kotlin
10 28 (5.03%) Go
11 24 (4.31%) C#
12 16 (2.87%) Rust
13 13 (2.33%) PHP
13 13 (2.33%) Ruby
14 11 (1.97%) Shell Script
15 8 (1.44%) C
15 8 (1.44%) JCL
15 8 (1.44%) R
15 8 (1.44%) REXX
16 7 (1.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 89 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 78 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 44 (7.90%) Degree
4 20 (3.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (1.62%) AWS Certification
6 8 (1.44%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 5 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 2 (0.36%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.36%) CEH
10 2 (0.36%) CISM
10 2 (0.36%) CISSP
10 2 (0.36%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.36%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.36%) SANS
11 1 (0.18%) CCIE
11 1 (0.18%) CCNP
11 1 (0.18%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.52%) QA
2 29 (5.21%) MISRA
3 23 (4.13%) Accessibility
4 11 (1.97%) NIST
4 11 (1.97%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.54%) Data Quality
6 3 (0.54%) GDPR
6 3 (0.54%) NCSC
6 3 (0.54%) WCAG
7 2 (0.36%) COBIT
7 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.36%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 119 (21.36%) Docker
2 32 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 17 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (2.51%) IAG
5 13 (2.33%) ACF2
5 13 (2.33%) RACF
6 9 (1.62%) NFS
6 9 (1.62%) vSphere
7 8 (1.44%) Time Sharing Option
8 7 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.72%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.54%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
11 2 (0.36%) zsh
12 1 (0.18%) Ceph
12 1 (0.18%) Firmware
12 1 (0.18%) iptables
12 1 (0.18%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 192 (34.47%) Terraform
2 125 (22.44%) Kubernetes
3 85 (15.26%) Ansible
4 40 (7.18%) Grafana
5 26 (4.67%) Prometheus
5 26 (4.67%) Puppet
6 21 (3.77%) Kibana
6 21 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 16 (2.87%) Argo
8 13 (2.33%) logstash
9 11 (1.97%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (1.44%) Nessus
11 7 (1.26%) Graylog
11 7 (1.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (1.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 6 (1.08%) Packer
13 5 (0.90%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.90%) WebInspect
14 4 (0.72%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (0.54%) Nagios
Vendors
1 65 (11.67%) Microsoft
2 63 (11.31%) Google
3 58 (10.41%) Oracle
4 32 (5.75%) Splunk
5 23 (4.13%) VMware
6 16 (2.87%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.51%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.51%) Sybase
8 11 (1.97%) Dell
8 11 (1.97%) IBM
9 10 (1.80%) Checkmarx
9 10 (1.80%) Cisco
9 10 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.44%) Broadcom
10 8 (1.44%) Brocade
10 8 (1.44%) CA
10 8 (1.44%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.26%) Databricks
11 7 (1.26%) F5
11 7 (1.26%) New Relic