GitHub Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

GitHub
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 45 65
Rank change year-on-year -14 +20 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 4 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 0.61% 0.26% 0.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.13% 1.35% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £525 - -
25th Percentile £544 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.23%
75th Percentile £613 - £500
90th Percentile £635 - £613
East of England median daily rate £560 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +6.67% -4.55% -

All Cloud Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 128 74 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 19.45% 19.17% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 43 73
10th Percentile £208 £312 £363
25th Percentile £409 £396 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £688 £656 £600
90th Percentile £800 £770 £675
East of England median daily rate £483 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +7.22% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £46.26 - -
25th Percentile £63.63 £66.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £67.00 £67.50 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +233.33% -68.97%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £34.70
90th Percentile - - £54.42
East of England median hourly rate £37.25 £21.46 £18.00
% change year-on-year +73.58% +19.22% +9.09%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Hertfordshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Stevenage - 2 £550 - 2
Welwyn Garden City +2 1 - -
Hatfield - 1 £650 -
GitHub
East of England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
4 1 (25.00%) SIEM
4 1 (25.00%) SOAR
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Tech Ops
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Bash
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Databricks
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cribl.io