GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

GitHub Copilot
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.71% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £352 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
75th Percentile £365 - -
90th Percentile £387 - -
North West median daily rate £358 - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Cheshire

GitHub Copilot 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 251 135 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 35.70% 31.99% 35.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 98 123
10th Percentile £339 £291 £280
25th Percentile £373 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% -8.21% -7.59%
75th Percentile £579 £573 £525
90th Percentile £647 £638 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.86% -2.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 15
10th Percentile £15.50 - £17.16
25th Percentile £16.25 £21.05 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.18 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.42% +36.46% -20.93%
75th Percentile £25.31 - £43.75
90th Percentile £33.63 £56.17 -
North West median hourly rate £62.00 £28.75 £17.29
% change year-on-year +115.65% +66.33% -67.38%

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Copilot within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Knutsford - 5 £358 -
GitHub Copilot
North West

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 5 (100.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) MySQL
1 5 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
1 4 (80.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) Spring MVC
2 4 (80.00%) Spring Security
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) API Design
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) AI
2 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) API Development
4 1 (20.00%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle