GitHub Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitHub
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 124 110
Rank change year-on-year +4 -14 +29
Contract jobs citing GitHub 272 511 1,016
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.80% 2.03% 2.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.00% 5.15% 5.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 356 719
10th Percentile £416 £413 £416
25th Percentile £475 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +7.95% +10.00%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £638
90th Percentile £665 £713 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile - £26.25 £48.15
25th Percentile £22.50 £31.88 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -33.64% +100.00%
75th Percentile - £42.50 -
90th Percentile £46.15 £50.60 £67.17
UK median hourly rate £68.75 £54.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +27.31% -1.82% +51.72%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,438 9,928 18,314
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.02% 39.52% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,910 7,301 13,707
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 126 169
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.08 £19.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +66.15% -17.72%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +59.09% -2.22%

GitHub
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub.

GitHub daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

GitHub daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub.

GitHub hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

GitHub hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 22 (8.09%) Confluence
2 10 (3.68%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.31%) WordPress
4 7 (2.57%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.84%) Drupal
6 3 (1.10%) Apache Spark
6 3 (1.10%) IIS
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
7 2 (0.74%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.37%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.37%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.37%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.37%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 95 (34.93%) AWS
1 95 (34.93%) Azure
2 74 (27.21%) GitHub Actions
3 44 (16.18%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (9.56%) GCP
5 15 (5.51%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (5.51%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.15%) SaaS
6 14 (5.15%) Serverless
7 13 (4.78%) IaaS
7 13 (4.78%) PaaS
8 10 (3.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (3.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (3.31%) Azure Functions
9 9 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (2.94%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.57%) Datadog
11 7 (2.57%) Power Automate
12 6 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 24 (8.82%) Firewall
2 9 (3.31%) DNS
2 9 (3.31%) HTTP
3 6 (2.21%) Cisco ASA
4 5 (1.84%) VPN
5 4 (1.47%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.10%) Intranet
7 2 (0.74%) BGP
7 2 (0.74%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 2 (0.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.74%) LAN
7 2 (0.74%) Network Security
7 2 (0.74%) OSPF
7 2 (0.74%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.74%) SNA
7 2 (0.74%) SSL
7 2 (0.74%) WAN
7 2 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.37%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.29%) MySQL
2 25 (9.19%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.72%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.62%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (5.51%) Power BI
6 12 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.68%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.68%) Oracle Database
8 9 (3.31%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.94%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.94%) Metadata
10 7 (2.57%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.21%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (2.21%) PowerCenter
11 6 (2.21%) Redis
12 5 (1.84%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.84%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.84%) Oracle ODI
13 4 (1.47%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (1.47%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 62 (22.79%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.75%) JIRA
3 47 (17.28%) Git
4 37 (13.60%) GitLab
5 16 (5.88%) SonarQube
6 14 (5.15%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.41%) Bitbucket
8 11 (4.04%) CircleCI
9 9 (3.31%) Maven
9 9 (3.31%) Selenium
10 7 (2.57%) Postman
10 7 (2.57%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.21%) Cucumber
12 5 (1.84%) Appium
12 5 (1.84%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (1.47%) Gradle
13 4 (1.47%) JMeter
14 3 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 3 (1.10%) Subversion
General
1 47 (17.28%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.07%) Finance
3 32 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 22 (8.09%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (4.04%) Banking
6 9 (3.31%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.31%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.84%) Manufacturing
7 5 (1.84%) Marketing
8 3 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.10%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.10%) Law
8 3 (1.10%) Publishing
8 3 (1.10%) Retail
8 3 (1.10%) Tech for Good
9 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.74%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.37%) Aviation
10 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (29.78%) Developer
2 44 (16.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (15.07%) Senior
4 17 (6.25%) Senior Developer
4 17 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 16 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 15 (5.51%) AWS Engineer
7 14 (5.15%) Lead
8 13 (4.78%) Architect
9 12 (4.41%) AWS DevOps
9 12 (4.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 11 (4.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 10 (3.68%) Senior DevOps
11 10 (3.68%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.31%) SailPoint Developer
13 8 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.94%) DBA
13 8 (2.94%) Oracle DBA
14 7 (2.57%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (13.60%) HTML
2 31 (11.40%) XML
3 29 (10.66%) React
4 25 (9.19%) REST
5 22 (8.09%) Node.js
5 22 (8.09%) SOAP
6 19 (6.99%) CSS
7 18 (6.62%) Web Services
8 17 (6.25%) JSON
9 16 (5.88%) JSP
9 16 (5.88%) LDAP
9 16 (5.88%) SailPoint
9 16 (5.88%) Servlets
9 16 (5.88%) SPML
9 16 (5.88%) YAML
10 15 (5.51%) JDBC
11 10 (3.68%) .NET
11 10 (3.68%) ARM Templates
11 10 (3.68%) Azure Blueprints
12 8 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.93%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.51%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.04%) Management Information System
3 11 (4.04%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.31%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.57%) Greenfield Project
6 5 (1.84%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.10%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.10%) Social Media
8 2 (0.74%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.74%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (0.74%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.74%) Machine to Machine
8 2 (0.74%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.37%) PKI
9 1 (0.37%) STB
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.91%) Linux
2 16 (5.88%) Windows
3 12 (4.41%) zOS
4 7 (2.57%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.21%) AIX
6 5 (1.84%) Android
7 4 (1.47%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.47%) Unix
8 3 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.74%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (46.32%) DevOps
2 97 (35.66%) CI/CD
3 87 (31.99%) Agile
4 50 (18.38%) Test Automation
5 36 (13.24%) Software Engineering
6 32 (11.76%) Project Management
7 31 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
8 29 (10.66%) Problem-Solving
9 26 (9.56%) Containerisation
10 23 (8.46%) Full Stack Development
11 22 (8.09%) Mentoring
12 21 (7.72%) Business Intelligence
12 21 (7.72%) Scrum
13 18 (6.62%) Analytics
14 17 (6.25%) DevSecOps
14 17 (6.25%) Front End Development
15 15 (5.51%) RBAC
15 15 (5.51%) Software Testing
16 14 (5.15%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 93 (34.19%) Python
2 65 (23.90%) JavaScript
3 59 (21.69%) SQL
4 48 (17.65%) Java
5 30 (11.03%) TypeScript
6 19 (6.99%) Bash
7 18 (6.62%) PowerShell
8 14 (5.15%) Go
9 12 (4.41%) JCL
9 12 (4.41%) PHP
9 12 (4.41%) REXX
10 10 (3.68%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.57%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.21%) Apex Code
12 6 (2.21%) C#
12 6 (2.21%) Ruby
13 4 (1.47%) R
13 4 (1.47%) SOQL
14 3 (1.10%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 55 (20.22%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 20 (7.35%) Degree
4 13 (4.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.47%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.74%) CEH
7 2 (0.74%) CISM
7 2 (0.74%) CISSP
7 2 (0.74%) CREST Certified
7 2 (0.74%) CSSLP
7 2 (0.74%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.37%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (8.82%) QA
2 12 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.41%) NCSC
3 8 (2.94%) NIST
4 7 (2.57%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.47%) WCAG
7 2 (0.74%) COBIT
7 2 (0.74%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
System Software
1 47 (17.28%) Docker
2 19 (6.99%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.88%) IAG
4 15 (5.51%) ACF2
4 15 (5.51%) RACF
5 12 (4.41%) NFS
5 12 (4.41%) Time Sharing Option
6 6 (2.21%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.10%) zsh
8 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.37%) iptables
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 97 (35.66%) Terraform
2 52 (19.12%) Ansible
3 45 (16.54%) Kubernetes
4 11 (4.04%) Grafana
4 11 (4.04%) Puppet
4 11 (4.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 9 (3.31%) Kibana
6 8 (2.94%) Data Guard
6 8 (2.94%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.57%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.21%) Argo
8 6 (2.21%) logstash
8 6 (2.21%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 5 (1.84%) Packer
10 4 (1.47%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (1.10%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (1.10%) Nessus
11 3 (1.10%) SCOM
11 3 (1.10%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.74%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (14.34%) Oracle
2 29 (10.66%) Microsoft
3 19 (6.99%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.88%) Sybase
5 14 (5.15%) Dell
5 14 (5.15%) IBM
5 14 (5.15%) Splunk
6 12 (4.41%) Broadcom
6 12 (4.41%) Brocade
6 12 (4.41%) CA
6 12 (4.41%) Google
6 12 (4.41%) Salesforce
7 11 (4.04%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.94%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.57%) Informatica
10 6 (2.21%) Cisco
10 6 (2.21%) VMware
11 4 (1.47%) F5
11 4 (1.47%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.10%) Databricks