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 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 18 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 1.81% 1.02% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.26% 2.38% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £419 - £423
25th Percentile £447 £409 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £432 £481
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -10.34% +0.26%
75th Percentile £505 £454 £527
90th Percentile £505 - £544
West Midlands median daily rate £580 £495 £425
% change year-on-year +17.17% +16.47% -22.73%

All Cloud Computing 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 94 42 74
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 42.53% 42.86% 43.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 30 58
10th Percentile £263 £200 £362
25th Percentile £305 £393 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.56% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £529 £500 £583
90th Percentile £573 £604 £611
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £460
% change year-on-year - +8.70% -8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £27.21 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £20.24 £19.23
% change year-on-year +34.44% +5.28% +17.51%

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 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) NuGet
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) GoCD
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) AI
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) System Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
2 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Argo
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce