GitHub Contract Job Trends in Devon

GitHub
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Devon 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 18 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 10 23 20
As % of all contract jobs in Devon 6.13% 10.09% 7.58%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.64% 22.55% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 19
10th Percentile £481 £500 -
25th Percentile £489 £621 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.19% +8.33% +60.00%
75th Percentile £539 £685 -
90th Percentile £542 - -
South West median daily rate £650 £650 £525
% change year-on-year - +23.81% -16.00%

All Cloud Skills
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 39 102 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 23.93% 44.74% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 68 76
10th Percentile £173 £330 £153
25th Percentile £210 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -39.58% - +0.08%
75th Percentile £530 £664 £675
90th Percentile £588 £685 £694
South West median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £16.20
25th Percentile - - £17.10
Median hourly rate - £19.83 £18.62
Median % change year-on-year - +6.53% -66.15%
75th Percentile - - £20.13
90th Percentile - - £21.04
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% +50.00% -65.37%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Devon

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Devon region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Exeter -4 9 £519 -20.19% 7
GitHub
South West

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Devon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) AWS
2 7 (70.00%) Serverless
3 2 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) JIRA
2 6 (60.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (30.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Digital Developer
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 6 (60.00%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) BDD
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) Clean Code
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) B2C
5 2 (20.00%) Coaching
5 2 (20.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (20.00%) Secure Coding
5 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
5 2 (20.00%) User Stories
6 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (70.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (20.00%) Java
2 2 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow