GitHub Contracts in the South West

GitHub
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 117 78 128
Rank change year-on-year -39 +50 -31
Contract jobs citing GitHub 33 92 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.04% 2.65% 1.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.16% 7.80% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 86 36
10th Percentile £425 £400 £447
25th Percentile £475 £450 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £600 £529
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +13.37% +16.32%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £653 £694 £642
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 1
10th Percentile £67.75 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £54.25
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.44% -22.14% +17.65%

All Cloud Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 794 1,180 1,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.09% 34.01% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 605 954 862
10th Percentile £213 £300 £250
25th Percentile £381 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £505
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +8.91% +6.32%
75th Percentile £600 £656 £600
90th Percentile £679 £722 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 55 21
10th Percentile £12.55 £17.18 £11.17
25th Percentile £14.25 £28.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 £53.35 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -60.64% +148.14% -52.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £42.00
90th Percentile - £78.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +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

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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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the South West

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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 20 May 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 +12 22 £520 +12.43% 20
Gloucestershire +5 6 £517 -13.92% 1
Wiltshire -31 3 £650 +1.76% 6
Devon -3 2 £600 - 9
GitHub
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 (15.15%) Apache
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 9 (27.27%) Azure
3 7 (21.21%) OpenShift
4 5 (15.15%) Amazon Cognito
5 4 (12.12%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.06%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure AKS
7 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (6.06%) PaaS
7 2 (6.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (6.06%) Serverless
8 1 (3.03%) Apigee
8 1 (3.03%) Heroku
8 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (3.03%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (15.15%) HTTP
2 2 (6.06%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.15%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 23 (69.70%) Jenkins
2 18 (54.55%) JIRA
3 13 (39.39%) GoogleTest
4 10 (30.30%) GitLab
5 2 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 2 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.06%) Selenium
5 2 (6.06%) Snyk
5 2 (6.06%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.06%) Law
2 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
3 1 (3.03%) Automotive
3 1 (3.03%) Back Office
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Java Engineer
2 14 (42.42%) Java Software Engineer
2 14 (42.42%) Software Engineer
3 10 (30.30%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (21.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (18.18%) Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Full Stack Engineer
6 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 3 (9.09%) Salesforce Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) C++ Developer
7 2 (6.06%) C++/Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) Python Engineer
7 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (6.06%) Senior
7 2 (6.06%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (3.03%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.03%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (45.45%) Qt
2 7 (21.21%) CSS
2 7 (21.21%) HTML
2 7 (21.21%) REST
3 5 (15.15%) Apache Jena
3 5 (15.15%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (15.15%) GraphQL
3 5 (15.15%) Kafka
3 5 (15.15%) PostGIS
4 3 (9.09%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (9.09%) React
5 2 (6.06%) CSS3
5 2 (6.06%) HTML5
5 2 (6.06%) Jest
5 2 (6.06%) jQuery
5 2 (6.06%) JSON
5 2 (6.06%) ModSecurity
5 2 (6.06%) Node.js
5 2 (6.06%) React Native
6 1 (3.03%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (30.30%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (6.06%) Public Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (90.91%) CI/CD
2 26 (78.79%) DevOps
3 20 (60.61%) Agile
4 15 (45.45%) Software Engineering
5 7 (21.21%) Containerisation
6 3 (9.09%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 3 (9.09%) Full Stack Development
7 2 (6.06%) ArchiMate
7 2 (6.06%) Backlog Management
7 2 (6.06%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 2 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (6.06%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 2 (6.06%) GitOps
7 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (6.06%) IT Strategy
7 2 (6.06%) Loose Coupling
7 2 (6.06%) NsoIT
7 2 (6.06%) Runbook
7 2 (6.06%) SDLC
7 2 (6.06%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 20 (60.61%) Java
2 17 (51.52%) C++
3 14 (42.42%) Python
4 7 (21.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (15.15%) SPARQL
6 2 (6.06%) Apex Code
6 2 (6.06%) Bicep
6 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
6 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
6 2 (6.06%) TypeScript
7 1 (3.03%) SOQL
7 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 14 (42.42%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (45.45%) MISRA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Hyper-V
2 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.06%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Ansible
3 2 (6.06%) Argo
3 2 (6.06%) OPNET
4 1 (3.03%) Istio
Vendors
1 17 (51.52%) Google
2 4 (12.12%) VMware
3 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow