GitHub Contracts in Berkshire

GitHub
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 119 103
Rank change year-on-year +47 -16 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 21 5 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.79% 0.25% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.30% 0.91% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 3 6
10th Percentile - £607 £458
25th Percentile - £607 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £675
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% -8.89% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £623 £697
90th Percentile £550 - £713
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Berkshire

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 396 551 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 33.76% 27.77% 28.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 369 367
10th Percentile £350 £329 £383
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £618 £625 £638
90th Percentile £663 £688 £713
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 15
10th Percentile £24.04 £20.49 £18.03
25th Percentile £29.31 £41.25 £20.50
Median hourly rate £32.05 £58.30 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +74.03% +53.85%
75th Percentile £68.63 £61.60 £70.13
90th Percentile £79.02 - £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Berkshire

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Berkshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Berkshire

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in Berkshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Windsor - 14 £500 -
Reading +30 2 - - 12
Slough - 1 £650 - 8
Wokingham - 1 £500 -
GitHub
South East

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 14 (66.67%) AWS
2 10 (47.62%) Azure
3 9 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (38.10%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (38.10%) Serverless
5 3 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (9.52%) IaaS
6 2 (9.52%) OpenShift
6 2 (9.52%) PaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.76%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) SaaS
7 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) BGP
1 2 (9.52%) DNS
1 2 (9.52%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (9.52%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (9.52%) IPv6
1 2 (9.52%) OSPF
1 2 (9.52%) SAN
1 2 (9.52%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (9.52%) TACACS
1 2 (9.52%) VSAN
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) Big Data
2 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (9.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.76%) MySQL
3 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (23.81%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) GitLab
4 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) AWS Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Azure Platform Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Python Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) JSON
2 2 (9.52%) YAML
3 1 (4.76%) .NET
3 1 (4.76%) ADO
3 1 (4.76%) AWS CDK
3 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.76%) GraphQL
3 1 (4.76%) Node.js
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) React
3 1 (4.76%) REST
3 1 (4.76%) Serverless Framework
3 1 (4.76%) SOAP
3 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Ubuntu
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
3 7 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 6 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (28.57%) High Availability
4 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 4 (19.05%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (19.05%) Open Source
6 4 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Server Building
7 3 (14.29%) DevSecOps
7 3 (14.29%) Information Security
7 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (76.19%) Python
2 8 (38.10%) PowerShell
3 3 (14.29%) Bicep
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 1 (4.76%) C#
4 1 (4.76%) Java
4 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) Ceph
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Terraform
2 5 (23.81%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Puppet
4 2 (9.52%) Argo
4 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (19.05%) Databricks
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Dell
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) New Relic
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Snow
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk