GitHub Contracts in Cheshire

GitHub
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 22 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 51 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 12 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 2.05% 0.58% 0.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.98% 1.79% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile £402 £310 -
25th Percentile £411 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £322 £640
Median % change year-on-year +45.65% -49.69% +156.00%
75th Percentile £495 £327 -
90th Percentile £520 £328 -
North West median daily rate £462 £500 £533
% change year-on-year -7.65% -6.10% +1.43%

All Cloud Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 172 168 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 29.45% 32.50% 37.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 118 130
10th Percentile £260 £312 £215
25th Percentile £354 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -10.00% +22.85%
75th Percentile £492 £534 £575
90th Percentile £573 £632 £620
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 11
10th Percentile - £17.26 £14.00
25th Percentile - - £21.00
Median hourly rate £12.82 £17.72 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year -27.65% -21.35% +0.63%
75th Percentile - £17.76 £36.50
90th Percentile - £30.76 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £34.67 £16.06 £22.47
% change year-on-year +115.88% -28.53% -16.62%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Cheshire

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Cheshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Cheshire

GitHub
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 within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 July 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
Knutsford -9 9 £455 +41.15%
Wilmslow - 1 £675 - 1
GitHub
North West

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) Datadog
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) GitLab
2 7 (58.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 6 (50.00%) JUnit
4 5 (41.67%) Git
4 5 (41.67%) JIRA
5 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
5 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
1 6 (50.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (41.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) AWS Developer
6 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) Kafka
1 6 (50.00%) React
1 6 (50.00%) RESTful
1 6 (50.00%) Spring
1 6 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (41.67%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) .NET
3 1 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (8.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (8.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Agile
1 7 (58.33%) Microservices
1 7 (58.33%) TDD
2 6 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Cloud Security
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) Performance Optimisation
3 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Release Management
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 5 (41.67%) Sprint Retrospective
4 4 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 4 (33.33%) API Development
4 4 (33.33%) Customer Acquisition
4 4 (33.33%) High Availability
4 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 4 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
4 4 (33.33%) SDLC
4 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (83.33%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Atlassian