GitHub Contracts in Manchester

GitHub
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 79 102
Rank change year-on-year +22 +23 -10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 22 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.38% 1.12% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.79% 3.05% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 11 14
10th Percentile £400 £400 £375
25th Percentile £438 £463 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -7.62%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £585
90th Percentile £533 £650 £710
North West median daily rate £475 £495 £501
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.10% -4.67%

All Cloud Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 380 558 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 41.04% 36.78% 39.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 440 554
10th Percentile £313 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £567 £570 £588
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £36.70 £18.18 £20.00
25th Percentile £48.25 £22.25 £28.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £26.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.23% -60.00% +271.43%
75th Percentile £80.63 £71.87 £70.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £72.50 -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Manchester

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Manchester

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Manchester

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in Manchester

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Salford -2 1 £300 -33.33%
Altrincham - 1 - - 9
GitHub
North West

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 22 (100.00%) AWS
2 18 (81.82%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (54.55%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (31.82%) AWS Lambda
4 7 (31.82%) Serverless
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
7 3 (13.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon Cognito
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon EventBridge
8 2 (9.09%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudTrail
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (9.09%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (4.55%) Amazon MSK
9 1 (4.55%) Contentful
9 1 (4.55%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) HTTP
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
1 4 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 4 (18.18%) ObjectStore
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (9.09%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (9.09%) GIS
2 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.55%) DocumentDB
3 1 (4.55%) InfluxDB
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git
1 4 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.55%) Gradle
3 1 (4.55%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) JUnit
3 1 (4.55%) Maven
3 1 (4.55%) Mockito
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Senior
3 4 (18.18%) Data Architect
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Software Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
5 2 (9.09%) GIS Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 2 (9.09%) JavaScript Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Lead
5 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
6 1 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) Kafka
2 7 (31.82%) React
3 6 (27.27%) Node.js
4 4 (18.18%) .NET
4 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
4 4 (18.18%) OAuth
4 4 (18.18%) OAuth2
4 4 (18.18%) OpenID
4 4 (18.18%) RESTful
4 4 (18.18%) SAML
5 2 (9.09%) GeoJSON
5 2 (9.09%) Google Maps API
5 2 (9.09%) Leaflet
5 2 (9.09%) MapLibre
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Amplify
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CDK
6 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
6 1 (4.55%) Jest
6 1 (4.55%) Next.js
6 1 (4.55%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Containerisation
3 11 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 11 (50.00%) Digital Twin
3 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 11 (50.00%) Visualisation
4 9 (40.91%) Analytics
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Deployment
4 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
4 9 (40.91%) DevOps
4 9 (40.91%) RBAC
5 6 (27.27%) Load Balancing
6 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Cost Optimisation
6 5 (22.73%) Microservices
6 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (18.18%) Architectural Design
7 4 (18.18%) Data Security
7 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (18.18%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
5 2 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (4.55%) Clojure
6 1 (4.55%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.09%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) Kubernetes
2 10 (45.45%) Terraform
3 3 (13.64%) Istio
3 3 (13.64%) Kustomize
4 1 (4.55%) Grafana
4 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Google
1 2 (9.09%) Mapbox
2 1 (4.55%) Confluent
2 1 (4.55%) New Relic