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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 115 103
Rank change year-on-year +50 -12 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 31 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.57% 0.16% 0.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.86% 0.60% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 7
10th Percentile £423 - £493
25th Percentile - - £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.57%
75th Percentile £600 - £713
90th Percentile - - £740
South East median daily rate £475 £463 £575
% change year-on-year +2.70% -19.57% +4.55%

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 452 500 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 37.42% 26.71% 30.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 335 394
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £648
90th Percentile £663 £675 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £538
% change year-on-year -1.57% -5.49% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 13
10th Percentile - £20.63 £16.92
25th Percentile £14.75 £41.25 £18.50
Median hourly rate £21.77 £58.17 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.59% +152.92% +9.26%
75th Percentile £32.25 £60.72 £56.50
90th Percentile £47.65 £61.60 £76.25
South East median hourly rate £18.82 £27.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year -31.56% +1.85% +35.00%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 - 13 £500 - 4
Reading - 11 £600 - 12
Wokingham - 3 £450 -
Slough - 1 £650 - 9
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 22 (70.97%) Azure
2 19 (61.29%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (58.06%) AWS
4 10 (32.26%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (16.13%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) Serverless
7 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (9.68%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) IaaS
8 2 (6.45%) OpenShift
8 2 (6.45%) PaaS
8 2 (6.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon Cognito
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) BGP
1 2 (6.45%) DNS
1 2 (6.45%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (6.45%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (6.45%) IPv6
1 2 (6.45%) OSPF
1 2 (6.45%) SAN
1 2 (6.45%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (6.45%) TACACS
1 2 (6.45%) VSAN
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.13%) Big Data
2 4 (12.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.45%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.45%) MySQL
3 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.23%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.23%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 7 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.13%) GitLab
4 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.23%) Artifactory
5 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (3.23%) Postman
General
1 7 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (9.68%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Developer
2 8 (25.81%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (22.58%) Cloud Developer
4 6 (19.35%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (19.35%) Senior
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (16.13%) Python Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Senior Python Developer
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (9.68%) Salesforce Developer
8 2 (6.45%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (6.45%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (6.45%) Security Engineer
9 1 (3.23%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) JSON
1 5 (16.13%) RESTful
2 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
2 4 (12.90%) YAML
3 3 (9.68%) HTML
3 3 (9.68%) jQuery
3 3 (9.68%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (9.68%) SOAP
3 3 (9.68%) XML
4 2 (6.45%) ADO
4 2 (6.45%) Node.js
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth
4 2 (6.45%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) .NET
5 1 (3.23%) Kafka
5 1 (3.23%) Laravel
5 1 (3.23%) OpenID
5 1 (3.23%) React
5 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
5 1 (3.23%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.90%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (9.68%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.45%) Replication
4 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.13%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Ubuntu
2 4 (12.90%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (83.87%) DevOps
2 20 (64.52%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (22.58%) Agile
4 7 (22.58%) Configuration Management
4 7 (22.58%) Platform Engineering
4 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (19.35%) High Availability
6 5 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 4 (12.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (12.90%) CQRS
7 4 (12.90%) Customer-Centric Approach
7 4 (12.90%) Customer-Centricity
7 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
7 4 (12.90%) Generative AI
7 4 (12.90%) Migration
7 4 (12.90%) Open Source
7 4 (12.90%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) PowerShell
3 4 (12.90%) SQL
4 3 (9.68%) Apex Code
4 3 (9.68%) Bicep
4 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.68%) SOQL
5 2 (6.45%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) C#
6 1 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 2 (6.45%) Ceph
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (41.94%) Terraform
2 6 (19.35%) Ansible
3 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (9.68%) Puppet
5 2 (6.45%) Argo
6 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Databricks
2 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) Virgin Media
4 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
5 2 (6.45%) Cisco
5 2 (6.45%) Dell
5 2 (6.45%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) New Relic
6 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.23%) Snow
6 1 (3.23%) Splunk