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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 75 89
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 19 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.91% 1.31% 1.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.49% 3.65% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 19
10th Percentile £397 £408 £455
25th Percentile £413 £483 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £504 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -12.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile £500 £641 £675
90th Percentile £635 £673 £738
North West median daily rate £455 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -9.10% -7.41% +2.86%

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 346 438 760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 34.70% 35.81% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 321 601
10th Percentile £358 £325 £319
25th Percentile £403 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 20
10th Percentile £33.46 £27.60 £15.72
25th Percentile £55.34 £58.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £76.25 £67.00 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +13.81% +248.05% -26.67%
75th Percentile £90.31 £71.87 £36.15
90th Percentile £93.13 £72.90 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.20
% change year-on-year +79.02% -40.96% +13.20%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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
Altrincham - 1 - - 1
Bolton - 1 £425 - 5
Salford - 1 £300 - 3
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 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Headless CMS
1 1 (5.26%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (89.47%) AWS
2 11 (57.89%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (57.89%) GitHub Actions
2 11 (57.89%) Serverless
3 9 (47.37%) Amazon S3
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon ECS
4 5 (26.32%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (26.32%) Azure
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (21.05%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (15.79%) Amazon EventBridge
6 3 (15.79%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (10.53%) Amazon MSK
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.53%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (10.53%) SaaS
8 1 (5.26%) Amazon Kinesis
8 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) HTTP
2 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) DynamoDB
2 3 (15.79%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (15.79%) MongoDB
2 3 (15.79%) Redis
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (10.53%) DocumentDB
3 2 (10.53%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
4 1 (5.26%) MySQL
4 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Jenkins
1 4 (21.05%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) GitLab
3 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) MLflow
3 1 (5.26%) Storybook
3 1 (5.26%) Xcode
General
1 7 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
3 4 (21.05%) Senior Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS Developer
4 2 (10.53%) AWS DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Lead Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior JavaScript Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Backend Developer
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) React Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Backend Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (42.11%) Node.js
2 5 (26.32%) React
3 4 (21.05%) HTML
3 4 (21.05%) REST
4 3 (15.79%) .NET
4 3 (15.79%) Express.js
4 3 (15.79%) Jest
4 3 (15.79%) Kafka
4 3 (15.79%) Next.js
4 3 (15.79%) OAuth
5 2 (10.53%) AWS CDK
5 2 (10.53%) GraphQL
5 2 (10.53%) OAuth2
5 2 (10.53%) React Native
5 2 (10.53%) RESTful
6 1 (5.26%) D3.js
6 1 (5.26%) Entity Framework
6 1 (5.26%) HTML5
6 1 (5.26%) Laravel
6 1 (5.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.53%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (10.53%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.26%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Android
1 1 (5.26%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) CI/CD
2 12 (63.16%) DevOps
3 10 (52.63%) Agile
4 6 (31.58%) Microservices
5 5 (26.32%) Containerisation
5 5 (26.32%) Mentoring
5 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
7 3 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
7 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (10.53%) API Development
8 2 (10.53%) Deployment Automation
8 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven
8 2 (10.53%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 2 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
8 2 (10.53%) Scrum
8 2 (10.53%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) TypeScript
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) C#
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) PHP
5 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
2 2 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 4 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Google
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) IBM
2 1 (5.26%) Pega
2 1 (5.26%) Ping Identity