GitHub Contracts in England

GitHub
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 122 143
Rank change year-on-year -41 +21 +26
Contract jobs citing GitHub 531 1,096 1,374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.44% 2.17% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.51% 5.92% 5.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 351 745 943
10th Percentile £381 £411 £425
25th Percentile £456 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £623 £700 £675
90th Percentile £688 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 14
10th Percentile £22.50 £30.00 £53.73
25th Percentile £39.00 £43.50 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £78.00 £73.24
90th Percentile - £87.60 £80.20
UK median hourly rate £48.50 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -11.01% -0.91% +4.27%

All Cloud Skills
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 England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,773 18,509 27,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.85% 36.62% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,477 13,536 20,079
10th Percentile £290 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 321 316 348
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £32.50 £65.75 £42.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £78.00 £64.83
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.04% +62.79% -5.54%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -30 331 £525 -16.00% 141
North of England -13 74 £538 -4.87% 66
South East +25 55 £500 -13.04% 34
Yorkshire +11 47 £573 +9.05% 26
North West +18 23 £495 -1.10% 35
South West -53 18 £600 -2.04% 30
East of England -7 12 £550 -13.73% 13
Midlands -27 7 £400 -27.27% 21
West Midlands -19 4 £375 -31.82% 11
North East -19 4 £475 -15.93% 7
East Midlands +8 3 £440 -37.14% 10
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 44 (8.29%) Confluence
2 19 (3.58%) SharePoint
3 13 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.88%) nginx
4 10 (1.88%) WordPress
5 9 (1.69%) Apache
6 7 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 7 (1.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (1.13%) IIS
8 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.38%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.38%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.19%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.19%) CMS
9 1 (0.19%) Drupal
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.19%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Trello
2 1 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.19%) InDesign
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.19%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (1.13%) NEC Housing
3 3 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.19%) Aareon QL
4 1 (0.19%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.19%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.19%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (0.19%) OPENHousing
4 1 (0.19%) Oracle BPM
4 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 193 (36.35%) AWS
2 188 (35.40%) Azure
3 131 (24.67%) GitHub Actions
4 83 (15.63%) Serverless
5 70 (13.18%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (11.86%) GCP
7 39 (7.34%) Azure Functions
8 30 (5.65%) Power Platform
9 27 (5.08%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
10 26 (4.90%) AWS CloudFormation
11 23 (4.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 21 (3.95%) Amazon EKS
13 18 (3.39%) Amazon S3
14 17 (3.20%) Power Automate
15 16 (3.01%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (3.01%) Microsoft 365
15 16 (3.01%) PowerApps
16 13 (2.45%) Azure AKS
17 12 (2.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 35 (6.59%) Firewall
2 22 (4.14%) DNS
3 15 (2.82%) VPN
4 11 (2.07%) HTTP
4 11 (2.07%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.13%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (1.13%) DMZ
5 6 (1.13%) SSL
6 4 (0.75%) SNA
7 3 (0.56%) BGP
7 3 (0.56%) Internet
7 3 (0.56%) Intranet
7 3 (0.56%) Network Security
7 3 (0.56%) SAN
7 3 (0.56%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.56%) WAN
8 2 (0.38%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.38%) LAN
8 2 (0.38%) OSPF
8 2 (0.38%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 63 (11.86%) SQL Server
3 55 (10.36%) NoSQL
4 53 (9.98%) MySQL
5 27 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
5 27 (5.08%) Power BI
6 25 (4.71%) Oracle Reports
7 22 (4.14%) BigQuery
7 22 (4.14%) Relational Database
8 16 (3.01%) DynamoDB
8 16 (3.01%) Metadata
8 16 (3.01%) MongoDB
9 15 (2.82%) Amazon Redshift
10 13 (2.45%) Big Data
10 13 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
11 12 (2.26%) Amazon Athena
11 12 (2.26%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (1.88%) Apache Cassandra
13 10 (1.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 131 (24.67%) Jenkins
2 110 (20.72%) Git
3 85 (16.01%) GitLab
4 84 (15.82%) JIRA
5 34 (6.40%) CircleCI
6 30 (5.65%) Cypress.io
7 19 (3.58%) Selenium
8 16 (3.01%) SonarQube
9 15 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 15 (2.82%) Gradle
10 14 (2.64%) JUnit
11 13 (2.45%) JMeter
11 13 (2.45%) Maven
12 11 (2.07%) Cucumber
12 11 (2.07%) Postman
12 11 (2.07%) Sonatype Nexus
13 10 (1.88%) Appium
14 9 (1.69%) Burp Suite
15 8 (1.51%) Travis CI
15 8 (1.51%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 115 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 79 (14.88%) Finance
3 48 (9.04%) Public Sector
4 46 (8.66%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (5.65%) Banking
6 16 (3.01%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.45%) Financial Institution
7 13 (2.45%) Retail
8 10 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (1.69%) Front Office
10 7 (1.32%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.32%) Law
11 6 (1.13%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.13%) Marketing
11 6 (1.13%) Telecoms
12 5 (0.94%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.94%) Local Government
13 4 (0.75%) Legal
14 2 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 158 (29.76%) Developer
2 78 (14.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 65 (12.24%) Senior
4 37 (6.97%) Software Engineer
5 36 (6.78%) Architect
6 27 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
7 25 (4.71%) AWS Engineer
7 25 (4.71%) Lead
7 25 (4.71%) Senior Developer
8 24 (4.52%) Azure Engineer
9 20 (3.77%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.77%) Full Stack Developer
10 17 (3.20%) AWS DevOps
10 17 (3.20%) Java Engineer
11 16 (3.01%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 16 (3.01%) Python Developer
12 15 (2.82%) Full Stack Engineer
13 14 (2.64%) Software Developer
14 13 (2.45%) Storage Manager
15 12 (2.26%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (13.18%) React
2 66 (12.43%) HTML
3 61 (11.49%) REST
4 56 (10.55%) Node.js
5 43 (8.10%) XML
6 36 (6.78%) CSS
7 35 (6.59%) Web Services
8 32 (6.03%) RESTful
9 31 (5.84%) JSON
10 30 (5.65%) YAML
11 29 (5.46%) Kafka
12 28 (5.27%) .NET
12 28 (5.27%) SOAP
13 23 (4.33%) JDBC
13 23 (4.33%) LDAP
14 22 (4.14%) JSP
14 22 (4.14%) SailPoint
14 22 (4.14%) Servlets
14 22 (4.14%) SPML
15 20 (3.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 25 (4.71%) Onboarding
2 20 (3.77%) Mobile App
2 20 (3.77%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.58%) Data Centre
4 18 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
5 16 (3.01%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.26%) Replication
7 11 (2.07%) Clustering
7 11 (2.07%) Derivative
8 8 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.51%) Machine to Machine
8 8 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.32%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.32%) Solar Panel
9 7 (1.32%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.13%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 102 (19.21%) Linux
2 38 (7.16%) Windows
3 24 (4.52%) Android
4 18 (3.39%) Unix
5 16 (3.01%) zOS
6 12 (2.26%) Windows Server
7 9 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.51%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.38%) CentOS
10 2 (0.38%) Debian
10 2 (0.38%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.38%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (45.01%) CI/CD
2 227 (42.75%) DevOps
3 203 (38.23%) Agile
4 91 (17.14%) Test Automation
5 74 (13.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (11.86%) Continuous Integration
6 63 (11.86%) Software Engineering
7 56 (10.55%) Full Stack Development
7 56 (10.55%) Scrum
8 52 (9.79%) Containerisation
9 49 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
10 43 (8.10%) Microservices
11 40 (7.53%) Project Management
11 40 (7.53%) TDD
12 38 (7.16%) SDLC
13 34 (6.40%) Open Source
14 32 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
15 31 (5.84%) Computer Science
16 30 (5.65%) Migration
17 29 (5.46%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 209 (39.36%) Python
2 123 (23.16%) SQL
3 109 (20.53%) Java
4 98 (18.46%) JavaScript
5 57 (10.73%) PowerShell
6 55 (10.36%) Bash
7 44 (8.29%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.46%) Kotlin
9 27 (5.08%) C#
9 27 (5.08%) Go
10 19 (3.58%) C++
11 16 (3.01%) JCL
11 16 (3.01%) REXX
11 16 (3.01%) Rust
12 15 (2.82%) PHP
13 14 (2.64%) Ruby
14 12 (2.26%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.32%) PL/SQL
16 6 (1.13%) Swift
17 5 (0.94%) Perl
Qualifications
1 80 (15.07%) Security Cleared
2 73 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 45 (8.47%) Degree
4 21 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 7 (1.32%) Azure Certification
7 5 (0.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 5 (0.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.75%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Developer
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 3 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.38%) CEH
10 2 (0.38%) CISM
10 2 (0.38%) CISSP
10 2 (0.38%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.38%) CSSLP
10 2 (0.38%) SANS
11 1 (0.19%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (9.98%) QA
2 24 (4.52%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.07%) NIST
4 8 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (1.13%) MISRA
6 5 (0.94%) WCAG
7 4 (0.75%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.75%) GDPR
7 4 (0.75%) NCSC
8 2 (0.38%) COBIT
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.38%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.38%) SLA
9 1 (0.19%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.19%) JSP 440
System Software
1 107 (20.15%) Docker
2 36 (6.78%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.14%) IAG
4 20 (3.77%) ACF2
4 20 (3.77%) RACF
5 18 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (3.20%) NFS
7 16 (3.01%) Time Sharing Option
8 10 (1.88%) vSphere
9 8 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (1.51%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.75%) zsh
11 3 (0.56%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.38%) Varnish
12 2 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.19%) Ceph
13 1 (0.19%) Firmware
13 1 (0.19%) iptables
13 1 (0.19%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 185 (34.84%) Terraform
2 126 (23.73%) Kubernetes
3 88 (16.57%) Ansible
4 30 (5.65%) Puppet
5 29 (5.46%) Grafana
6 20 (3.77%) Progress Chef
7 18 (3.39%) Prometheus
8 15 (2.82%) Argo
8 15 (2.82%) Kibana
8 15 (2.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 10 (1.88%) logstash
10 8 (1.51%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (1.51%) Nessus
10 8 (1.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 7 (1.32%) Graylog
11 7 (1.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 6 (1.13%) Packer
12 6 (1.13%) VxRail
13 5 (0.94%) HP Fortify
13 5 (0.94%) vRealize
Vendors
1 72 (13.56%) Oracle
2 63 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 35 (6.59%) Google
4 29 (5.46%) ServiceNow
5 27 (5.08%) Splunk
6 26 (4.90%) VMware
7 23 (4.33%) Dell
8 22 (4.14%) Sybase
9 20 (3.77%) IBM
10 17 (3.20%) Red Hat
11 16 (3.01%) Broadcom
11 16 (3.01%) Brocade
11 16 (3.01%) CA
12 13 (2.45%) SolarWinds
13 10 (1.88%) Atlassian
13 10 (1.88%) Cisco
14 8 (1.51%) Salesforce
15 7 (1.32%) Checkmarx
16 6 (1.13%) NEC
16 6 (1.13%) New Relic