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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
7 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 35 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 8 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.06% 2.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 8.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £601 £538 -
25th Percentile £602 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £608 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% - -
75th Percentile £617 - -
90th Percentile £620 - -
East of England median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.32% +10.00% -28.57%

All Cloud Computing 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 84 70 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 21.59% 27.89% 17.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 33 28
10th Percentile £356 £338 £189
25th Percentile £400 £431 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £503 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +11.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £548 £613 £553
90th Percentile £644 £665 £675
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.50% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 43
10th Percentile £16.00 - £14.00
25th Percentile £19.47 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £29.50 £16.00 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +84.38% -1.84% +5.16%
75th Percentile £35.91 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £39.91 - £21.46
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £16.30
% change year-on-year -1.73% +31.10% -6.86%

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
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 7 April 2026. 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 -5 8 £608 +10.45% 9
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 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 4 (50.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (37.50%) GCP
3 3 (37.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (37.50%) PaaS
3 3 (37.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (25.00%) AWS Control Tower
4 2 (25.00%) Route 53
4 2 (25.00%) Serverless
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (12.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
5 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 3 (37.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) BGP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon QuickSight
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Redis
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) GitLab
2 4 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) AWS Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
4 1 (12.50%) AWS Solution Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Developer
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) RESTful
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) A2A Protocol
2 3 (37.50%) Model Context Protocol
2 3 (37.50%) PyTorch
2 3 (37.50%) Semantic Kernel
2 3 (37.50%) TensorFlow
3 2 (25.00%) Middleware
4 1 (12.50%) Celery
4 1 (12.50%) Django
4 1 (12.50%) Flask
4 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
4 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
4 1 (12.50%) JPA
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth
4 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
4 1 (12.50%) Spring
4 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (12.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (37.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) LIMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (50.00%) DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) AI
2 3 (37.50%) API Design
2 3 (37.50%) API Management
2 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
2 3 (37.50%) Deep Learning
2 3 (37.50%) LLM
2 3 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Prompt Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Operations
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bash
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) CCNP
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) EU AI Act
1 3 (37.50%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Foundry
3 2 (25.00%) Google
4 1 (12.50%) CloudEndure
4 1 (12.50%) TOWER Software
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