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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 156 222
Rank change year-on-year -51 +66 -21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 204 374 359
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.00% 1.59% 1.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.88% 4.79% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 283 251
10th Percentile £377 £400 £406
25th Percentile £463 £454 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £647 £605
90th Percentile £644 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 8
10th Percentile £31.25 £28.40 £34.23
25th Percentile - £37.25 £50.69
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -1.82% +151.60%
75th Percentile - £56.75 £57.61
90th Percentile - £57.20 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £54.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year +27.31% -3.57% +54.48%

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 5,262 7,815 9,823
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.69% 33.31% 32.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,730 5,780 7,206
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £370 £408 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 231 279
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.38 £15.15
Median hourly rate £17.69 £24.62 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.15% +29.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £26.50 £64.75 £25.13
90th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £21.19 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -39.47% +59.09% -2.22%

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 9 May 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 9 May 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 9 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
North of England -7 76 £525 -5.83% 84
South East +17 50 £475 -17.39% 37
Yorkshire +14 50 £550 +4.76% 34
Wales +42 30 £525 -10.21% 12
South West -46 24 £575 -6.12% 38
North West +17 22 £500 -1.28% 41
East of England -18 12 £550 -13.73% 19
Midlands -16 6 £375 -30.23% 41
North East -22 4 £475 -15.93% 10
West Midlands -28 4 £375 -30.23% 25
Northern Ireland - 4 £550 - 13
Scotland +19 2 - - 20
East Midlands +14 2 - - 16
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 21 (10.29%) Confluence
2 6 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.47%) Apache
3 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.98%) nginx
4 2 (0.98%) WordPress
5 1 (0.49%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.49%) CMS
5 1 (0.49%) JBoss
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 9 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.49%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.43%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 68 (33.33%) Azure
2 55 (26.96%) AWS
3 49 (24.02%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (12.25%) GCP
5 22 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (8.33%) Serverless
7 8 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 8 (3.92%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.43%) Apigee
8 7 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.94%) BrowserStack
9 6 (2.94%) Kong
9 6 (2.94%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 5 (2.45%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.45%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.45%) Route 53
11 4 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.96%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.35%) Firewall
2 13 (6.37%) DNS
3 10 (4.90%) VPN
4 8 (3.92%) TCP/IP
5 7 (3.43%) HTTP
6 6 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (1.47%) WAN
8 2 (0.98%) BGP
8 2 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.98%) LAN
8 2 (0.98%) OSPF
8 2 (0.98%) SAN
8 2 (0.98%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 1 (0.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.49%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.49%) SNA
9 1 (0.49%) SSL
9 1 (0.49%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.24%) MySQL
2 26 (12.75%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.37%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.88%) NoSQL
4 12 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
6 7 (3.43%) Apache Cassandra
6 7 (3.43%) Elasticsearch
6 7 (3.43%) Metadata
6 7 (3.43%) MongoDB
6 7 (3.43%) Redis
7 6 (2.94%) Couchbase
8 5 (2.45%) Data Lake
8 5 (2.45%) InterSystems Cache
8 5 (2.45%) Oracle Database
9 4 (1.96%) BigQuery
9 4 (1.96%) GIS
9 4 (1.96%) Power BI
10 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (1.47%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 74 (36.27%) Jenkins
2 49 (24.02%) GitLab
3 42 (20.59%) Git
3 42 (20.59%) JIRA
4 21 (10.29%) Cypress.io
5 12 (5.88%) Bitbucket
6 10 (4.90%) CircleCI
6 10 (4.90%) GoogleTest
6 10 (4.90%) Postman
7 7 (3.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 7 (3.43%) Selenium
7 7 (3.43%) SonarQube
7 7 (3.43%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (2.94%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.94%) Travis CI
9 5 (2.45%) AppScan
9 5 (2.45%) Burp Suite
9 5 (2.45%) JUnit
9 5 (2.45%) Maven
9 5 (2.45%) Storybook
General
1 41 (20.10%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (5.88%) Finance
3 11 (5.39%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (2.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.98%) Automotive
7 2 (0.98%) Banking
7 2 (0.98%) Law
7 2 (0.98%) Retail
8 1 (0.49%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.49%) Back Office
8 1 (0.49%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.49%) Marketing
8 1 (0.49%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 63 (30.88%) Developer
2 22 (10.78%) Software Engineer
3 18 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (7.84%) Java Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Java Software Engineer
5 13 (6.37%) Storage Manager
6 11 (5.39%) Architect
6 11 (5.39%) Project Manager
7 9 (4.41%) C++ Software Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 9 (4.41%) Full Stack Engineer
7 9 (4.41%) Migration Manager
7 9 (4.41%) Migration Project Manager
8 8 (3.92%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.92%) Senior
9 7 (3.43%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (3.43%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 6 (2.94%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.78%) React
2 21 (10.29%) YAML
3 19 (9.31%) REST
4 14 (6.86%) Node.js
4 14 (6.86%) Vue
5 13 (6.37%) JSON
6 12 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
7 11 (5.39%) Qt
7 11 (5.39%) Spring Boot
8 10 (4.90%) XML
9 9 (4.41%) Laravel
9 9 (4.41%) Playwright
10 8 (3.92%) Jest
11 7 (3.43%) CSS
11 7 (3.43%) HTML
11 7 (3.43%) Kafka
11 7 (3.43%) Spring
12 6 (2.94%) RESTful
13 5 (2.45%) .NET
13 5 (2.45%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.82%) Product Ownership
2 15 (7.35%) Data Centre
2 15 (7.35%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (5.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (4.41%) Clustering
4 9 (4.41%) Replication
5 7 (3.43%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.43%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.94%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.98%) IoT
9 2 (0.98%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.98%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.98%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.49%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.49%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.49%) Mashup
10 1 (0.49%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 52 (25.49%) Linux
2 15 (7.35%) zOS
3 9 (4.41%) Windows
4 5 (2.45%) Android
4 5 (2.45%) Unix
5 3 (1.47%) AIX
5 3 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.98%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.98%) Debian
6 2 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.49%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.49%) VMS
7 1 (0.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (53.92%) Agile
2 91 (44.61%) CI/CD
3 75 (36.76%) DevOps
4 42 (20.59%) Continuous Integration
5 40 (19.61%) Test Automation
6 39 (19.12%) Project Management
7 33 (16.18%) Scrum
7 33 (16.18%) Software Engineering
8 32 (15.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (14.22%) Containerisation
10 27 (13.24%) Full Stack Development
11 25 (12.25%) Migration
12 23 (11.27%) Storage Management
13 20 (9.80%) SDLC
14 19 (9.31%) Software Testing
14 19 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.31%) TDD
15 16 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
16 15 (7.35%) Problem Management
17 14 (6.86%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 74 (36.27%) Python
2 39 (19.12%) Java
3 31 (15.20%) Bash
4 28 (13.73%) SQL
5 26 (12.75%) JavaScript
6 23 (11.27%) TypeScript
7 21 (10.29%) PowerShell
8 20 (9.80%) PHP
9 15 (7.35%) JCL
9 15 (7.35%) REXX
10 14 (6.86%) C++
11 8 (3.92%) Go
11 8 (3.92%) Shell Script
12 7 (3.43%) C#
12 7 (3.43%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.96%) Bicep
13 4 (1.96%) C
14 3 (1.47%) Apex Code
15 2 (0.98%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 36 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 29 (14.22%) SC Cleared
3 17 (8.33%) Degree
4 6 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.45%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.47%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.49%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (18.63%) QA
2 11 (5.39%) MISRA
3 9 (4.41%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.47%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.47%) NIST
4 3 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.49%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.49%) NCSC
6 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (13.24%) Docker
2 15 (7.35%) NFS
2 15 (7.35%) Time Sharing Option
3 10 (4.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.41%) vSphere
5 5 (2.45%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.96%) zsh
7 3 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.47%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.98%) Varnish
8 2 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 58 (28.43%) Terraform
2 49 (24.02%) Ansible
3 34 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 16 (7.84%) Grafana
5 15 (7.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 14 (6.86%) Puppet
7 12 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 12 (5.88%) Prometheus
8 11 (5.39%) Argo
9 10 (4.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (3.43%) Kibana
11 6 (2.94%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (2.94%) logstash
11 6 (2.94%) Nessus
12 5 (2.45%) Graylog
12 5 (2.45%) HP Fortify
12 5 (2.45%) WebInspect
13 3 (1.47%) Data Guard
13 3 (1.47%) Packer
13 3 (1.47%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (14.22%) Microsoft
2 22 (10.78%) Oracle
3 20 (9.80%) Google
4 18 (8.82%) Dell
5 17 (8.33%) Atlassian
6 16 (7.84%) Splunk
7 15 (7.35%) Broadcom
7 15 (7.35%) Brocade
7 15 (7.35%) CA
7 15 (7.35%) IBM
8 14 (6.86%) VMware
9 11 (5.39%) Red Hat
10 10 (4.90%) SolarWinds
11 8 (3.92%) Cisco
12 6 (2.94%) Palo Alto
13 5 (2.45%) Checkmarx
13 5 (2.45%) Salesforce
13 5 (2.45%) Veracode
14 3 (1.47%) F5
14 3 (1.47%) Informatica