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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 47
Rank change year-on-year - - +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 12 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.23% - 0.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.84% - 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 1
10th Percentile £218 - -
25th Percentile £394 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.55%
75th Percentile £585 - £588
90th Percentile £607 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% -9.09%

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 122 96 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 32.88% 23.59% 19.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 51 55
10th Percentile £306 £300 £180
25th Percentile £402 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £440
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -4.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £537
90th Percentile £700 £625 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £420 £456
% change year-on-year +19.05% -7.95% -10.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 22
10th Percentile £14.99 - -
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year - -13.57% +30.07%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.75
90th Percentile - £21.40 £77.50
East of England median hourly rate £23.78 £20.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +18.90% - +29.03%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend 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 18 October 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 18 October 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 - 12 £550 - 12
GitHub
East of England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) Azure AKS
2 9 (75.00%) GitHub Copilot
3 8 (66.67%) PaaS
3 8 (66.67%) Serverless
4 7 (58.33%) Azure Functions
5 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon GuardDuty
6 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (8.33%) Azure API Management
6 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (8.33%) Sumo Logic
6 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Appium
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Gatling
2 1 (8.33%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) TestNG
General
1 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (83.33%) RESTful
2 9 (75.00%) PyTorch
2 9 (75.00%) Semantic Kernel
2 9 (75.00%) TensorFlow
3 8 (66.67%) .NET
4 1 (8.33%) Middleware
4 1 (8.33%) Pandas
4 1 (8.33%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 9 (75.00%) Algorithms
1 9 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) AI
2 9 (75.00%) API Management
2 9 (75.00%) Data Privacy
2 9 (75.00%) LLM
2 9 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 9 (75.00%) Prompt Engineering
2 9 (75.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 8 (66.67%) API Design
3 8 (66.67%) Deep Learning
3 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (58.33%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (58.33%) Software Engineering
5 5 (41.67%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) Data Science
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 3 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) MCP
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) EU AI Act
2 8 (66.67%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Foundry
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) CloudEndure
2 1 (8.33%) IBM