GitHub Contract Job Trends in Essex

GitHub
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 16 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing GitHub 8 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 4.94% 3.95% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.18% 10.00% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £300 - -
25th Percentile £413 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £315 £493
Median % change year-on-year +58.73% -36.04% +37.38%
75th Percentile £504 £318 £525
90th Percentile £515 £320 £570
East of England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -18.03%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 44 30 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 27.16% 39.47% 25.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 20 45
10th Percentile £191 £181 £206
25th Percentile £300 £243 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £318 £475
Median % change year-on-year +17.84% -33.01% -5.00%
75th Percentile £441 £478 £556
90th Percentile £514 £546 £650
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £64.00 -
25th Percentile £16.50 £115.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £200.00 £88.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.75% +127.27% +283.28%
75th Percentile £55.00 - -
90th Percentile £58.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £21.37 £16.30
% change year-on-year -1.73% +31.10% -6.86%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Essex

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Essex over the 6 months to 5 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Essex

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Essex region over the 6 months to 5 April 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
Basildon +2 7 £500 +58.73% 2
Brentwood - 3 £500 -
GitHub
East of England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) GCP
2 3 (37.50%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
3 2 (25.00%) TestFlight
4 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Git
1 5 (62.50%) JUnit
1 5 (62.50%) SonarQube
2 3 (37.50%) IntelliJ
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) Android Studio
3 2 (25.00%) Appium
3 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (25.00%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) Sourcetree
3 2 (25.00%) Xcode
4 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (12.50%) Hudson
4 1 (12.50%) JMeter
4 1 (12.50%) Serenity BDD
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Automotive
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) GCP Software Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Backend Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Developer in Test
3 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) UAT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) Spring
1 5 (62.50%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Node.js
3 2 (25.00%) pytest
4 1 (12.50%) .NET
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (25.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) BDD
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
2 3 (37.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Application Security
2 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
2 3 (37.50%) Code Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Open Source
2 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Static Application Security Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) Java
2 7 (87.50%) Python
3 3 (37.50%) Go
3 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Grafana
1 2 (25.00%) Kibana
1 2 (25.00%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Checkmarx
1 5 (62.50%) Google
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian