GitHub Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

GitHub
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring GitHub skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.57% - 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% - 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £225 - -
25th Percentile £263 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.52%
75th Percentile £388 - £588
90th Percentile £425 - -
East of England median daily rate £525 £555 £500
% change year-on-year -5.41% +11.00% -16.67%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 99 94 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 28.45% 22.01% 20.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 47 64
10th Percentile £246 £285 £186
25th Percentile £416 £340 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £531 £492
90th Percentile £703 £588 £575
East of England median daily rate £505 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +18.82% -8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 18
10th Percentile - - £14.18
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.58
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% +0.48%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £67.00
East of England median hourly rate £31.64 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +94.11% -18.50% +29.03%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Cambridgeshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Cambridgeshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Cambridge - 2 £325 - 9
GitHub
East of England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM