GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in the East of England

GitHub Copilot
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.091% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £705 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - -
75th Percentile £772 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £536 £550 -
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 486 369 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 22.18% 29.40% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 205 147
10th Percentile £193 £200 £217
25th Percentile £372 £379 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +19.05% -6.67%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £551
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.34% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 44 48
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.74 £16.30 £14.46
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.28 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +30.55% -24.73%
75th Percentile £55.13 £44.36 £21.37
90th Percentile £65.63 £67.00 £21.46
England median hourly rate £37.37 £26.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +43.73% +18.18% -33.33%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend in the East of England

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GitHub Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 August 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
Suffolk - 2 £738 - 1
GitHub Copilot
England

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform