GitHub Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

GitHub
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 34 27
Rank change year-on-year +19 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 7.00% 1.13% 1.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.17% 3.45% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -13.04% -17.86%
75th Percentile £750 - £588
90th Percentile - - £595
Gloucestershire median daily rate £650 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +30.00% -4.76% -25.00%

All Cloud Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 24 58 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 24.00% 32.77% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 31 43
10th Percentile - £481 £414
25th Percentile £525 £519 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £681 £638 £700
90th Percentile £750 £738 £730
Gloucestershire median daily rate £500 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £22.95
25th Percentile - - £23.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £26.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.11%
75th Percentile - - £45.38
90th Percentile - - £55.65
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £33.17 £51.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year -35.59% -25.09% -28.57%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing GitHub

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (100.00%) Redis
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Backend Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) FastAPI
1 7 (100.00%) Flask
1 7 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 7 (100.00%) gRPC
1 7 (100.00%) REST
1 7 (100.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Go
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft