GitHub Contracts in the East of England

GitHub
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 98 84
Rank change year-on-year +25 -14 +32
Contract jobs citing GitHub 16 14 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.47% 0.73% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.64% 4.93% 7.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 22
10th Percentile £315 £485 £416
25th Percentile £320 £499 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year - +0.46% +1.96%
75th Percentile £563 £578 £700
90th Percentile £600 £581 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £575
% change year-on-year - -8.70% -

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 345 284 515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 31.68% 14.76% 25.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 166 363
10th Percentile £200 £225 £186
25th Percentile £400 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 56 33
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.46 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £29.90 £21.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £62.33 £65.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +14.32% -31.89% +50.23%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the East of England

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the East of England

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the East of England

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the East of England

GitHub
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cambridgeshire - 7 £550 - 83
Bedfordshire -10 4 £600 +6.67% 45
Essex +14 3 £315 -35.05% 81
Hertfordshire +25 2 £650 +30.00% 68
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (18.75%) Apache
1 3 (18.75%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Spark
2 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) SAP ERP
1 2 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
1 3 (18.75%) dbt
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
1 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
1 3 (18.75%) Vertex AI
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) Network Security
2 4 (25.00%) VSAN
3 1 (6.25%) BGP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.25%) LAN
3 1 (6.25%) OSPF
3 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 1 (6.25%) SNA
3 1 (6.25%) VPN
3 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Tableau
2 3 (18.75%) BigQuery
2 3 (18.75%) Looker
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
3 1 (6.25%) Big Data
3 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 1 (6.25%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 4 (25.00%) JMeter
2 4 (25.00%) LoadRunner
3 3 (18.75%) NeoLoad
4 2 (12.50%) Git
5 1 (6.25%) Appium
5 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
5 1 (6.25%) Gatling
5 1 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (6.25%) JUnit
5 1 (6.25%) Postman
5 1 (6.25%) Selenium
5 1 (6.25%) SonarQube
5 1 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 9 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) GCP Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) GCP Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Test Leader
5 1 (6.25%) Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.25%) Data Science Developer
5 1 (6.25%) DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.25%) SQL DBA
5 1 (6.25%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) NumPy
1 4 (25.00%) Pandas
2 3 (18.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (18.75%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) PySpark
2 3 (18.75%) React
3 1 (6.25%) ggplot2
3 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
3 1 (6.25%) JSON
3 1 (6.25%) Matplotlib
3 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.25%) RESTful
3 1 (6.25%) scikit-learn
3 1 (6.25%) Seaborn
3 1 (6.25%) Shiny
3 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Cloud Native
2 3 (18.75%) FMCG
2 3 (18.75%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
2 9 (56.25%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (43.75%) Waterfall
4 5 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (31.25%) Visualisation
5 4 (25.00%) Analytics
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (25.00%) Data Management
5 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 4 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
5 4 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Service Management
5 4 (25.00%) Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Zero Trust
6 3 (18.75%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) DataOps
6 3 (18.75%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) Java
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) R
5 1 (6.25%) C#
5 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) VCAP
2 3 (18.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
1 3 (18.75%) GDPR
1 3 (18.75%) GxP
1 3 (18.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) VMware NSX
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) Terraform
2 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 5 (31.25%) VxRail
3 4 (25.00%) PowerCLI
3 4 (25.00%) vCenter Server
4 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (12.50%) Puppet
5 1 (6.25%) Progress Chef
5 1 (6.25%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Dell
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 3 (18.75%) SAP
3 2 (12.50%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) Ariba
4 1 (6.25%) Checkmarx
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Dynatrace
4 1 (6.25%) F5
4 1 (6.25%) LogRhythm
4 1 (6.25%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) SolarWinds
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk