GitHub Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

GitHub
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 60 67
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 22 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 3.01% 1.24% 0.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.09% 3.40% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 3
10th Percentile £360 £375 £358
25th Percentile £405 £404 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +28.13% -38.46%
75th Percentile £595 £538 £469
90th Percentile £629 £581 £503
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +12.20% +20.59% -15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 242 265 273
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 33.11% 36.60% 36.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 201 204
10th Percentile £280 £190 £278
25th Percentile £413 £355 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £578
90th Percentile £639 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.90% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £23.40 - £22.83
25th Percentile £28.13 - £28.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £60.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +61.07% -17.22%
75th Percentile £56.63 - £46.19
90th Percentile £69.00 - £51.48
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

GitHub job vacancy trend in Birmingham

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Birmingham over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Birmingham

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (13.64%) OpenStack
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (9.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.55%) Confluence
3 1 (4.55%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) GitHub Actions
2 7 (31.82%) AWS
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) Amazon S3
3 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.55%) PaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) SSH
1 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Elasticsearch
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Big Data
2 2 (9.09%) Delta Lake
2 2 (9.09%) Hadoop
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 2 (9.09%) Parquet
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) Power BI
3 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.55%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (31.82%) GitLab
3 6 (27.27%) JIRA
4 4 (18.18%) CircleCI
4 4 (18.18%) Git
5 3 (13.64%) SonarQube
5 3 (13.64%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (9.09%) Jaeger
6 2 (9.09%) MLflow
6 2 (9.09%) Poetry
6 2 (9.09%) PyCharm
6 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.55%) Selenium
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
4 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Military
5 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (18.18%) Data Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 3 (13.64%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Lead
2 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps
2 3 (13.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Splunk Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) QA Leader
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Administrator
4 1 (4.55%) SIEM Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (40.91%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (13.64%) Flask
2 3 (13.64%) Kafka
2 3 (13.64%) NumPy
2 3 (13.64%) Pandas
2 3 (13.64%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (9.09%) .NET
3 2 (9.09%) Apache Avro
3 2 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (9.09%) REST
4 1 (4.55%) HTML
4 1 (4.55%) JSON
4 1 (4.55%) OAuth
4 1 (4.55%) Playwright
4 1 (4.55%) PySpark
4 1 (4.55%) RESTful
4 1 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (4.55%) Web Services
4 1 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 17 (77.27%) Containerisation
3 15 (68.18%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Migration
4 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
6 6 (27.27%) Observability
7 5 (22.73%) Analytics
7 5 (22.73%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (22.73%) High Availability
8 4 (18.18%) Data Analytics
8 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
8 4 (18.18%) Project Management
8 4 (18.18%) Secrets Management
8 4 (18.18%) SIEM
8 4 (18.18%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 3 (13.64%) ETL
9 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (13.64%) Microservices
9 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Python
2 7 (31.82%) Go
3 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) Bash
5 4 (18.18%) SQL
6 3 (13.64%) Groovy
7 1 (4.55%) Bicep
7 1 (4.55%) C#
7 1 (4.55%) Java
7 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.55%) Ruby
7 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
1 3 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (31.82%) Terraform
3 6 (27.27%) Grafana
4 5 (22.73%) Argo
5 4 (18.18%) Kibana
5 4 (18.18%) logstash
6 3 (13.64%) Ansible
7 2 (9.09%) Istio
7 2 (9.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Splunk
3 2 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 2 (9.09%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Databricks
4 1 (4.55%) IBM
4 1 (4.55%) Pega
4 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.55%) VMware