GitHub Contracts in Bristol

GitHub
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 51 65 81
Rank change year-on-year +14 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 4 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.74% 0.85% 1.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.42% 3.28% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 19
10th Percentile £473 £431 £372
25th Percentile £493 £441 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £600 £541 £491
90th Percentile £615 £554 £624
South West median daily rate £563 £600 £613
% change year-on-year -6.25% -2.04% +11.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - £68.50 -
25th Percentile - - £82.00
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +54.84%
75th Percentile - - £86.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% -16.67% +54.84%

All Cloud Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 165 274 387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 30.73% 25.92% 30.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 194 295
10th Percentile £213 £259 £318
25th Percentile £355 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £557 £570 £630
90th Percentile £668 £630 £711
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 12 24
10th Percentile - £12.86 £18.40
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.96 £28.88
Median hourly rate £18.51 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.08% +14.58% +140.00%
75th Percentile £27.25 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £37.50 - £70.00
South West median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
% change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Bristol

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Bristol

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Bristol

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in Bristol

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) Network Security
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Protective Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus