GitHub Contracts in the North of England

GitHub
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 113 92 113
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +17
Contract jobs citing GitHub 72 117 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.49% 2.15% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.98% 5.97% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 95 107
10th Percentile £400 £400 £318
25th Percentile £474 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £575
90th Percentile £649 £715 £638
England median daily rate £529 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.83% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -28.00% -
75th Percentile - £56.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - - £81.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.25
% change year-on-year - -3.11% +45.95%

All Cloud 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 1,445 1,960 2,519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.82% 36.02% 35.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,005 1,454 1,935
10th Percentile £263 £286 £185
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 42 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.02 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.53 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.72% +12.65% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £42.44 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £62.34 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the North of England

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 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the North of England

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 13 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
Yorkshire +10 46 £569 +8.33% 29
North West +12 21 £500 -3.61% 38
North East -22 5 - - 9
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 19 (26.39%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 31 (43.06%) Azure
2 29 (40.28%) AWS
3 15 (20.83%) GCP
4 11 (15.28%) Serverless
5 10 (13.89%) Kong
6 9 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (11.11%) BrowserStack
8 6 (8.33%) Apigee
8 6 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (6.94%) Azure Functions
9 5 (6.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (6.94%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (2.78%) dbt
11 2 (2.78%) Sauce Labs
11 2 (2.78%) Slack
11 2 (2.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) DNS
2 10 (13.89%) Firewall
3 9 (12.50%) HTTP
3 9 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 9 (12.50%) VPN
4 4 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (4.17%) BIG-IP
5 3 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (4.17%) SSL
6 1 (1.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.39%) Network Security
6 1 (1.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.06%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (15.28%) MySQL
3 10 (13.89%) Elasticsearch
4 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
5 6 (8.33%) MongoDB
5 6 (8.33%) Redis
6 5 (6.94%) InterSystems Cache
6 5 (6.94%) NoSQL
6 5 (6.94%) Relational Database
7 4 (5.56%) GIS
8 2 (2.78%) Metadata
8 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database
8 2 (2.78%) Oracle Database 12c
8 2 (2.78%) Oracle Reports
8 2 (2.78%) Spatial Data
9 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.39%) Azkaban
9 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
9 1 (1.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 35 (48.61%) Jenkins
2 23 (31.94%) Git
2 23 (31.94%) JIRA
3 20 (27.78%) GitLab
4 10 (13.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (13.89%) CircleCI
5 9 (12.50%) Travis CI
6 6 (8.33%) Bitbucket
6 6 (8.33%) Cypress.io
7 5 (6.94%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (5.56%) AppScan
8 4 (5.56%) Burp Suite
8 4 (5.56%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.56%) Selenium
8 4 (5.56%) SonarQube
9 3 (4.17%) Maven
10 2 (2.78%) Appium
10 2 (2.78%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (1.39%) CocoaPods
11 1 (1.39%) Mockito
General
1 29 (40.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Finance
6 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Developer
2 11 (15.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Full Stack Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Storage Manager
5 5 (6.94%) Site Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Automation Tester
6 3 (4.17%) Node.js Developer
6 3 (4.17%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Senior
6 3 (4.17%) Tester
7 2 (2.78%) C# Developer
7 2 (2.78%) GIS Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.78%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (2.78%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) YAML
2 13 (18.06%) Elastic Stack
3 12 (16.67%) JSON
4 11 (15.28%) XML
5 10 (13.89%) Node.js
5 10 (13.89%) React
6 7 (9.72%) RESTful
7 6 (8.33%) HTML
7 6 (8.33%) Next.js
8 5 (6.94%) CSS
8 5 (6.94%) SignalR
9 3 (4.17%) Jest
9 3 (4.17%) Kafka
9 3 (4.17%) Playwright
9 3 (4.17%) REST
10 2 (2.78%) OpenLayers
10 2 (2.78%) PostGIS
10 2 (2.78%) pytest
10 2 (2.78%) SAML
10 2 (2.78%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Data Structures
2 7 (9.72%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.17%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.39%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 7 (9.72%) zOS
3 5 (6.94%) Unix
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (68.06%) Agile
2 38 (52.78%) CI/CD
3 31 (43.06%) DevOps
4 24 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 16 (22.22%) Project Management
7 15 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (20.83%) Scrum
8 14 (19.44%) Continuous Deployment
8 14 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (18.06%) TDD
10 12 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
10 12 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (15.28%) BDD
11 11 (15.28%) Secure Coding
11 11 (15.28%) Software Engineering
11 11 (15.28%) Test Automation
12 10 (13.89%) SDLC
13 9 (12.50%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) Python
2 18 (25.00%) Bash
2 18 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 16 (22.22%) PowerShell
4 14 (19.44%) Java
4 14 (19.44%) SQL
5 10 (13.89%) TypeScript
6 7 (9.72%) JCL
6 7 (9.72%) REXX
7 4 (5.56%) ActionScript
8 3 (4.17%) C
8 3 (4.17%) Go
9 2 (2.78%) C#
9 2 (2.78%) PHP
9 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.39%) Groovy
10 1 (1.39%) R
10 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (25.00%) QA
2 6 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.17%) NIST
3 3 (4.17%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 20 (27.78%) Docker
2 7 (9.72%) NFS
2 7 (9.72%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (37.50%) Ansible
2 21 (29.17%) Terraform
3 19 (26.39%) Grafana
4 18 (25.00%) Kubernetes
5 13 (18.06%) Progress Chef
5 13 (18.06%) Prometheus
5 13 (18.06%) Puppet
6 9 (12.50%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (12.50%) Kibana
6 9 (12.50%) logstash
7 7 (9.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (5.56%) Graylog
8 4 (5.56%) HP Fortify
8 4 (5.56%) Nessus
8 4 (5.56%) WebInspect
9 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 14 (19.44%) Splunk
2 7 (9.72%) Broadcom
2 7 (9.72%) Brocade
2 7 (9.72%) CA
2 7 (9.72%) Dell
2 7 (9.72%) IBM
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.56%) Checkmarx
4 4 (5.56%) F5
4 4 (5.56%) Veracode
5 3 (4.17%) Google
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle
6 2 (2.78%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.78%) ESRI
6 2 (2.78%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (1.39%) AppDynamics