GitHub Contracts in the North of England

GitHub
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 98 109
Rank change year-on-year -5 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 76 116 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.60% 2.09% 2.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.34% 5.80% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 95 108
10th Percentile £406 £400 £319
25th Percentile £440 £456 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +8.91% +1.00%
75th Percentile £624 £633 £578
90th Percentile £646 £700 £629
England median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +13.30%
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 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +17.65%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,423 1,999 2,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.98% 36.05% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 1,484 1,942
10th Percentile £263 £288 £186
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 44 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.06 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.28% +36.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £56.10 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +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 2 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 2 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 +23 52 £558 +3.72% 21
North West +12 19 £500 -2.44% 28
North East -21 5 £475 -15.93% 3
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 17 (22.37%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.32%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.79%) Azure
2 30 (39.47%) AWS
3 15 (19.74%) GCP
4 11 (14.47%) Serverless
5 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (11.84%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (11.84%) Kong
6 7 (9.21%) BrowserStack
7 6 (7.89%) Apigee
7 6 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (6.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Functions
8 5 (6.58%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.63%) dbt
10 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
10 2 (2.63%) Sauce Labs
10 2 (2.63%) Slack
10 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.79%) DNS
2 10 (13.16%) Firewall
3 9 (11.84%) HTTP
3 9 (11.84%) TCP/IP
3 9 (11.84%) VPN
4 4 (5.26%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 3 (3.95%) BIG-IP
5 3 (3.95%) Reverse Proxy
5 3 (3.95%) SSL
6 1 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (1.32%) Network Security
6 1 (1.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (13.16%) Elasticsearch
2 10 (13.16%) MySQL
3 8 (10.53%) SQL Server
4 6 (7.89%) Redis
5 5 (6.58%) InterSystems Cache
5 5 (6.58%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.58%) Relational Database
6 4 (5.26%) GIS
6 4 (5.26%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.63%) Metadata
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Database 12c
7 2 (2.63%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (2.63%) Power BI
7 2 (2.63%) Spatial Data
8 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.32%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 40 (52.63%) Jenkins
2 22 (28.95%) Git
2 22 (28.95%) GitLab
3 20 (26.32%) JIRA
4 10 (13.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (13.16%) CircleCI
5 9 (11.84%) Travis CI
6 6 (7.89%) Bitbucket
7 5 (6.58%) Cypress.io
8 4 (5.26%) AppScan
8 4 (5.26%) Burp Suite
8 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
8 4 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (3.95%) Cucumber
9 3 (3.95%) Selenium
10 2 (2.63%) Appium
10 2 (2.63%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (1.32%) JUnit
11 1 (1.32%) Maven
11 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.84%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 5 (6.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.95%) Finance
6 2 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Developer
2 13 (17.11%) Storage Manager
3 12 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (10.53%) Automation Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Full Stack Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Full Stack Software Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Site Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Node.js Developer
7 3 (3.95%) Security Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) Senior
8 2 (2.63%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (2.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Developer
8 2 (2.63%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) Data Engineer
8 2 (2.63%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (31.58%) YAML
2 13 (17.11%) Elastic Stack
3 11 (14.47%) JSON
3 11 (14.47%) XML
4 10 (13.16%) Node.js
5 9 (11.84%) React
6 6 (7.89%) HTML
6 6 (7.89%) RESTful
7 5 (6.58%) CSS
7 5 (6.58%) Next.js
7 5 (6.58%) SignalR
8 3 (3.95%) Jest
8 3 (3.95%) Kafka
8 3 (3.95%) Playwright
9 2 (2.63%) ActiveMQ
9 2 (2.63%) PostGIS
9 2 (2.63%) pytest
9 2 (2.63%) REST
9 2 (2.63%) SAML
9 2 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 9 (11.84%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.26%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.32%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.32%) Mashup
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (28.95%) Linux
2 15 (19.74%) zOS
3 4 (5.26%) Unix
4 1 (1.32%) Android
4 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.32%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (69.74%) Agile
2 36 (47.37%) CI/CD
3 33 (43.42%) DevOps
4 24 (31.58%) Project Management
5 23 (30.26%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (26.32%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (21.05%) Containerisation
8 15 (19.74%) Storage Management
9 14 (18.42%) Continuous Deployment
9 14 (18.42%) Problem Management
9 14 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (18.42%) Scrum
10 13 (17.11%) Full Stack Development
11 12 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
12 11 (14.47%) Secure Coding
12 11 (14.47%) Software Testing
13 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
13 10 (13.16%) TDD
13 10 (13.16%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 43 (56.58%) Python
2 19 (25.00%) Bash
3 17 (22.37%) JavaScript
4 16 (21.05%) PowerShell
5 15 (19.74%) JCL
5 15 (19.74%) REXX
6 13 (17.11%) SQL
7 12 (15.79%) Java
8 9 (11.84%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.26%) ActionScript
10 3 (3.95%) C
10 3 (3.95%) C#
10 3 (3.95%) Go
11 2 (2.63%) PHP
11 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 2 (2.63%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.32%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.32%) R
12 1 (1.32%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (23.68%) QA
2 5 (6.58%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.95%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 19 (25.00%) Docker
2 15 (19.74%) NFS
2 15 (19.74%) Time Sharing Option
3 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 33 (43.42%) Ansible
2 23 (30.26%) Terraform
3 18 (23.68%) Grafana
4 17 (22.37%) Kubernetes
5 15 (19.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 13 (17.11%) Progress Chef
6 13 (17.11%) Prometheus
6 13 (17.11%) Puppet
7 9 (11.84%) Docker Swarm
7 9 (11.84%) Kibana
7 9 (11.84%) logstash
8 4 (5.26%) Graylog
8 4 (5.26%) HP Fortify
8 4 (5.26%) Nessus
8 4 (5.26%) WebInspect
9 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Broadcom
1 15 (19.74%) Brocade
1 15 (19.74%) CA
1 15 (19.74%) Dell
1 15 (19.74%) IBM
2 13 (17.11%) Splunk
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.26%) Checkmarx
4 4 (5.26%) F5
4 4 (5.26%) Veracode
5 3 (3.95%) Google
5 3 (3.95%) Oracle
6 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.63%) ESRI
6 2 (2.63%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce