GitHub Contract Job Trends in Coventry

GitHub
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.63% 1.85% 2.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.02% 4.65% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £430 £425 £423
25th Percentile £476 £450 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £516 £481
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +7.17% -
75th Percentile £505 £582 £527
90th Percentile £505 £608 £544
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +12.20% +20.59% -15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 83 43 85
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 43.68% 39.81% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 29 69
10th Percentile £263 £353 £340
25th Percentile £304 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.90% -1.05% -7.32%
75th Percentile £529 £500 £550
90th Percentile £568 £585 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £500 £463
% change year-on-year +2.90% +8.11% -7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Coventry

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing GitHub

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 4 (80.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) NuGet
3 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (20.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) GoCD
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) YAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) AI
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (20.00%) Migration
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Secrets Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) System Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (40.00%) Ansible
2 2 (40.00%) Argo
3 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow