GitHub Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 192 162 199
Rank change year-on-year -30 +37 -16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 223 361 394
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.07% 1.58% 1.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.15% 4.81% 3.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 272 278
10th Percentile £400 £400 £398
25th Percentile £468 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.99% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £597 £650 £625
90th Percentile £645 £700 £674
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 2 16
10th Percentile £66.25 £52.05 £59.88
25th Percentile - £52.13 £65.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.44% -27.33% +243.09%
75th Percentile - £57.13 £77.50
90th Percentile - £57.35 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +93.10%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,368 7,504 10,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.75% 32.74% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,795 5,530 7,416
10th Percentile £215 £240 £208
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +8.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £594
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 218 278
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £15.13 £16.68 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.80 £27.50 £19.17
Median % change year-on-year -35.27% +43.47% -4.16%
75th Percentile £35.00 £65.00 £30.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.58 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £21.46 £37.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -43.15% +71.59% +0.32%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
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 GitHub within the UK excluding London 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
North of England -5 76 £538 -2.27% 52
Yorkshire +23 52 £558 +3.72% 21
South East -2 46 £475 -17.39% 45
South West -37 35 £533 -11.17% 23
Wales +39 29 £515 -11.97% 5
North West +12 19 £500 -2.44% 28
East of England -22 13 £550 -13.73% 22
Northern Ireland - 12 £588 - 7
Midlands -13 9 £519 -9.78% 21
East Midlands +4 6 - - 7
North East -21 5 £475 -15.93% 3
Scotland +21 3 £427 -28.92% 11
West Midlands -27 3 £519 -9.78% 14
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 25 (11.21%) Confluence
2 8 (3.59%) Apache
3 6 (2.69%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.90%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.90%) WordPress
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) JBoss
6 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.45%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.14%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 86 (38.57%) Azure
2 67 (30.04%) AWS
3 43 (19.28%) GitHub Actions
4 31 (13.90%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (13.45%) GCP
6 17 (7.62%) Serverless
7 10 (4.48%) Power Platform
8 9 (4.04%) Azure Functions
8 9 (4.04%) Kong
9 8 (3.59%) dbt
9 8 (3.59%) Snowflake
10 7 (3.14%) Apigee
10 7 (3.14%) BrowserStack
10 7 (3.14%) OpenShift
11 6 (2.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.24%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.24%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.24%) Fivetran
12 5 (2.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.62%) Firewall
2 15 (6.73%) DNS
3 14 (6.28%) HTTP
4 13 (5.83%) VPN
5 11 (4.93%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.79%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (1.79%) SSL
8 3 (1.35%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.35%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.35%) WAN
9 2 (0.90%) BGP
9 2 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.90%) LAN
9 2 (0.90%) OSPF
9 2 (0.90%) SAN
9 2 (0.90%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.45%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.45%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.56%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (10.76%) MySQL
3 19 (8.52%) SQL Server
4 14 (6.28%) Relational Database
5 12 (5.38%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (5.38%) NoSQL
6 10 (4.48%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (4.04%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.59%) Power BI
9 7 (3.14%) Apache Cassandra
9 7 (3.14%) Metadata
9 7 (3.14%) Redis
10 6 (2.69%) Couchbase
10 6 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.24%) Data Lake
11 5 (2.24%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (2.24%) Oracle Database
11 5 (2.24%) Star Schema
11 5 (2.24%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 84 (37.67%) Jenkins
2 54 (24.22%) GitLab
3 51 (22.87%) JIRA
4 45 (20.18%) Git
5 23 (10.31%) Cypress.io
6 17 (7.62%) GoogleTest
7 12 (5.38%) CircleCI
8 10 (4.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (4.48%) Bitbucket
8 10 (4.48%) Postman
9 9 (4.04%) Maven
9 9 (4.04%) Travis CI
10 7 (3.14%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.69%) Selenium
11 6 (2.69%) Storybook
12 5 (2.24%) AppScan
12 5 (2.24%) Burp Suite
12 5 (2.24%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.79%) JUnit
General
1 48 (21.52%) Social Skills
2 17 (7.62%) Public Sector
3 15 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (4.93%) Finance
5 6 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (2.69%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.35%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.90%) Automotive
7 2 (0.90%) Banking
8 1 (0.45%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.45%) Law
8 1 (0.45%) Marketing
8 1 (0.45%) Retail
8 1 (0.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 72 (32.29%) Developer
2 30 (13.45%) Software Engineer
3 22 (9.87%) Java Engineer
4 21 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 20 (8.97%) Java Software Engineer
6 13 (5.83%) Storage Manager
7 12 (5.38%) Architect
7 12 (5.38%) C++ Software Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.38%) Java Developer
8 11 (4.93%) Full Stack Engineer
9 10 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (4.48%) Senior
10 9 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Project Manager
11 8 (3.59%) Tester
12 6 (2.69%) Database Specialist
12 6 (2.69%) Migration Project Manager
12 6 (2.69%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.90%) REST
2 24 (10.76%) React
2 24 (10.76%) YAML
3 19 (8.52%) Qt
4 18 (8.07%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.73%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.73%) Vue
6 14 (6.28%) CSS
6 14 (6.28%) JSON
7 13 (5.83%) HTML
7 13 (5.83%) Kafka
7 13 (5.83%) Node.js
8 12 (5.38%) XML
9 11 (4.93%) Playwright
10 10 (4.48%) Laravel
10 10 (4.48%) Spring
11 9 (4.04%) RESTful
12 8 (3.59%) Jest
12 8 (3.59%) Web Services
13 7 (3.14%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.87%) Linux Command Line
2 19 (8.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (8.52%) Product Ownership
3 15 (6.73%) Data Centre
4 10 (4.48%) Replication
5 9 (4.04%) Clustering
5 9 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.14%) Mobile App
6 7 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.90%) IoT
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.90%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.45%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.45%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.45%) Mashup
Operating Systems
1 62 (27.80%) Linux
2 15 (6.73%) zOS
3 10 (4.48%) Windows
4 5 (2.24%) Android
4 5 (2.24%) Unix
5 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.35%) AIX
7 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.45%) Debian
8 1 (0.45%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (52.02%) Agile
2 107 (47.98%) CI/CD
3 95 (42.60%) DevOps
4 46 (20.63%) Continuous Integration
5 44 (19.73%) Software Engineering
6 43 (19.28%) Project Management
7 41 (18.39%) Test Automation
8 35 (15.70%) Containerisation
9 33 (14.80%) Infrastructure as Code
9 33 (14.80%) Scrum
10 28 (12.56%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (11.66%) Software Testing
12 25 (11.21%) Migration
13 23 (10.31%) Storage Management
14 21 (9.42%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
15 20 (8.97%) TDD
16 19 (8.52%) SDLC
17 17 (7.62%) Task Automation
18 15 (6.73%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 81 (36.32%) Python
2 56 (25.11%) Java
3 34 (15.25%) SQL
4 33 (14.80%) Bash
5 31 (13.90%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.66%) PowerShell
7 24 (10.76%) TypeScript
8 22 (9.87%) C++
9 17 (7.62%) PHP
10 15 (6.73%) JCL
10 15 (6.73%) REXX
11 8 (3.59%) C#
11 8 (3.59%) Go
12 7 (3.14%) Kotlin
12 7 (3.14%) Shell Script
13 5 (2.24%) C
13 5 (2.24%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.79%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.79%) Bicep
15 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.28%) Degree
4 11 (4.93%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (18.83%) QA
2 19 (8.52%) MISRA
3 7 (3.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.35%) NIST
4 3 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 36 (16.14%) Docker
2 15 (6.73%) NFS
2 15 (6.73%) Time Sharing Option
3 10 (4.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.04%) vSphere
5 7 (3.14%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.79%) zsh
7 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.35%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.45%) Varnish
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (24.66%) Terraform
2 49 (21.97%) Ansible
3 41 (18.39%) Kubernetes
4 20 (8.97%) Grafana
5 15 (6.73%) Progress Chef
5 15 (6.73%) Puppet
5 15 (6.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 14 (6.28%) Prometheus
7 10 (4.48%) Kibana
7 10 (4.48%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 9 (4.04%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (4.04%) logstash
9 8 (3.59%) Argo
10 6 (2.69%) Nessus
11 5 (2.24%) Graylog
11 5 (2.24%) HP Fortify
11 5 (2.24%) WebInspect
12 3 (1.35%) Data Guard
13 2 (0.90%) OPNET
13 2 (0.90%) VxRail
Vendors
1 30 (13.45%) Google
1 30 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 21 (9.42%) Oracle
3 19 (8.52%) Splunk
4 17 (7.62%) Dell
5 15 (6.73%) Broadcom
5 15 (6.73%) Brocade
5 15 (6.73%) CA
5 15 (6.73%) IBM
6 14 (6.28%) VMware
7 13 (5.83%) Atlassian
8 10 (4.48%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.04%) SolarWinds
10 7 (3.14%) Cisco
11 6 (2.69%) F5
11 6 (2.69%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.69%) Salesforce
12 5 (2.24%) Checkmarx
12 5 (2.24%) Veracode
13 3 (1.35%) Informatica