GitHub Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

GitHub
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Ipswich requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	27	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing GitHub	2	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich	1.45%	-	-
As % of the Cloud Services category	7.14%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	2	0	0
10^th Percentile	£380	-	-
25^th Percentile	£400	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£433	-	-
75^th Percentile	£467	-	-
90^th Percentile	£487	-	-
Suffolk median daily rate	£500	-	-

All Cloud Computing Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	28	8	17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich	20.29%	20.00%	36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	18	4	10
10^th Percentile	£367	£404	£300
25^th Percentile	£367	£466	£314
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£495	£500	£375
Median % change year-on-year	-1.00%	+33.33%	-14.29%
75^th Percentile	£498	£554	£466
90^th Percentile	£528	£652	£505
Suffolk median daily rate	£495	£225	£300
% change year-on-year	+120.00%	-25.00%	-25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted	5	0	0
10^th Percentile	£13.73	-	-
25^th Percentile	£15.26	-	-
Median hourly rate	£16.20	-	-
75^th Percentile	£18.22	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Suffolk median hourly rate	£16.20	-	-

GitHub Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

GitHub Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

GitHub Daily Rate Histogram in Ipswich

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Ipswich over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Ipswich

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Ipswich region with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	100.0%	2
2	AI	50.0%	1
2	Application Security	50.0%	1
2	Azure	50.0%	1
2	Azure DevOps	50.0%	1
2	Bicep	50.0%	1
2	Build Automation	50.0%	1
2	Cloud Security	50.0%	1
2	Continuous Integration	50.0%	1
2	Defect Management	50.0%	1
2	DevOps	50.0%	1
2	Dynamic Application Security Testing	50.0%	1
2	Firewall	50.0%	1
2	Foundry	50.0%	1
2	GitHub Actions	50.0%	1
2	GitHub Copilot	50.0%	1
2	GitLab	50.0%	1
2	Jenkins	50.0%	1
2	JIRA	50.0%	1
2	Microsoft	50.0%	1
2	MOS	50.0%	1
2	Netsparker	50.0%	1
2	PowerShell	50.0%	1
2	QA	50.0%	1
2	Risk Management	50.0%	1
2	RTP	50.0%	1
2	Security Cleared	50.0%	1
2	Security Operations	50.0%	1
2	Security Testing	50.0%	1
2	Site Reliability Engineering	50.0%	1

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	50.0%	1
1	Azure DevOps	50.0%	1
1	GitHub Actions	50.0%	1
1	GitHub Copilot	50.0%	1