GitHub Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

GitHub
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring GitHub skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 49 34
Rank change year-on-year +18 -15 +22
Contract jobs citing GitHub 9 12 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 3.17% 2.69% 5.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 7.14% 13.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 20
10th Percentile £411 £440 £500
25th Percentile £422 £463 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% -6.98% +10.26%
75th Percentile £700 £517 £674
90th Percentile - £526 £775
South West median daily rate £600 £606 £520
% change year-on-year -1.03% +16.59% -16.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £70.00 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +47.47%

All Cloud Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 108 168 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 38.03% 37.67% 39.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 103 132
10th Percentile £189 £460 £425
25th Percentile £315 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £700
90th Percentile £700 £695 £774
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 26
10th Percentile £31.50 £30.00 £23.63
25th Percentile £31.96 £31.50 £58.13
Median hourly rate £35.17 £33.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.58% -57.69% +432.79%
75th Percentile £36.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile - - £80.25
South West median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -73.04% +76.99% +97.75%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Gloucestershire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 1 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Gloucestershire

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Gloucester +5 9 £675 +58.82% 2
Cheltenham +26 1 £650 +30.00% 2
GitHub
South West

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) SonarQube
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Backend Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) ARM Templates
1 4 (44.44%) YAML
2 1 (11.11%) FastAPI
2 1 (11.11%) Flask
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) gRPC
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 9 (100.00%) DevOps
2 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (55.56%) Containerisation
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) DevSecOps
4 4 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Regulatory Compliance
4 4 (44.44%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
5 3 (33.33%) High Availability
5 3 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 3 (33.33%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) Go
2 1 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Terraform
2 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Grafana
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) NetApp
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow