GitHub Contracts in the South West

GitHub
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 111 72 122
Rank change year-on-year -39 +50 -28
Contract jobs citing GitHub 46 98 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.39% 2.89% 1.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% 8.89% 4.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 89 38
10th Percentile £445 £400 £466
25th Percentile £491 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +2.13% +25.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £652
90th Percentile £660 £694 £675
England median daily rate £529 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -11.83% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 1
Median hourly rate £70.00 £80.00 £54.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +47.47% -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £72.25
% change year-on-year - -3.11% +45.95%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 828 1,102 1,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.10% 32.53% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 875 860
10th Percentile £213 £288 £255
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £654 £621
90th Percentile £675 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 61 21
10th Percentile £13.52 £14.61 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £53.35 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.52% +148.14% -55.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.50 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
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 South West

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the South West

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the South West.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the South West

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South West 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
Bristol +11 34 £533 +15.24% 14
Gloucestershire +2 7 £500 -16.67%
Wiltshire -47 3 £650 +4.00% 4
Devon -7 2 £600 - 11
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (10.87%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) AWS
2 9 (19.57%) Azure
3 7 (15.22%) OpenShift
4 5 (10.87%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (8.70%) GCP
6 3 (6.52%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.35%) PaaS
7 2 (4.35%) Serverless
8 1 (2.17%) Apigee
8 1 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.17%) Heroku
8 1 (2.17%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.87%) HTTP
2 2 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Triplestore
2 1 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 37 (80.43%) Jenkins
2 31 (67.39%) JIRA
3 27 (58.70%) GoogleTest
4 7 (15.22%) GitLab
5 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 2 (4.35%) Cypress.io
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
5 2 (4.35%) Snyk
5 2 (4.35%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.17%) Git
General
1 4 (8.70%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.35%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.17%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.17%) Automotive
3 1 (2.17%) Finance
3 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (60.87%) Java Engineer
2 26 (56.52%) Java Software Engineer
2 26 (56.52%) Software Engineer
3 16 (34.78%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (15.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (13.04%) Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Java Developer
7 4 (8.70%) C++ Developer
7 4 (8.70%) C++/Java Developer
8 3 (6.52%) Full Stack Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) Python Engineer
9 2 (4.35%) SC Cleared Java Developer
9 2 (4.35%) Senior
9 2 (4.35%) Senior Cloud Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Senior DevOps
10 1 (2.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 1 (2.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (63.04%) Qt
2 7 (15.22%) CSS
2 7 (15.22%) HTML
2 7 (15.22%) REST
3 5 (10.87%) Apache Jena
3 5 (10.87%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (10.87%) GraphQL
3 5 (10.87%) Kafka
3 5 (10.87%) PostGIS
4 3 (6.52%) React
5 2 (4.35%) CSS3
5 2 (4.35%) HTML5
5 2 (4.35%) Jest
5 2 (4.35%) ModSecurity
5 2 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (4.35%) React Native
6 1 (2.17%) Django
6 1 (2.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 29 (63.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 24 (52.17%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (65.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (91.30%) CI/CD
2 40 (86.96%) DevOps
3 31 (67.39%) Agile
4 29 (63.04%) Software Engineering
5 8 (17.39%) Containerisation
6 3 (6.52%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (4.35%) ArchiMate
7 2 (4.35%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (4.35%) BDD
7 2 (4.35%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (4.35%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (4.35%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (4.35%) Loose Coupling
7 2 (4.35%) Software Architecture
7 2 (4.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (4.35%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (4.35%) TDD
7 2 (4.35%) Test Automation
7 2 (4.35%) TOGAF
7 2 (4.35%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 34 (73.91%) Java
2 31 (67.39%) C++
3 29 (63.04%) Python
4 5 (10.87%) JavaScript
4 5 (10.87%) SPARQL
5 2 (4.35%) Bicep
5 2 (4.35%) Kotlin
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 2 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 15 (32.61%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (63.04%) MISRA
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (21.74%) Kubernetes
2 4 (8.70%) Terraform
3 2 (4.35%) Ansible
3 2 (4.35%) Argo
3 2 (4.35%) OPNET
4 1 (2.17%) Istio
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Google
2 4 (8.70%) VMware
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian