GitHub Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

GitHub
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 115 108
Rank change year-on-year +32 -7 +50
Contract jobs citing GitHub 85 17 26
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.75% 0.68% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.31% 2.23% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 13 18
10th Percentile £400 £375 £328
25th Percentile £463 £409 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £433
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +21.39% -13.50%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £548
90th Percentile £700 £634 £593
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,023 763 951
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.10% 30.41% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 490 730
10th Percentile £290 £210 £212
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £568
90th Percentile £688 £685 £688
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 29
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.05 £12.60
25th Percentile £19.28 £16.94 £13.25
Median hourly rate £26.31 £25.56 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% +38.15% +13.08%
75th Percentile £31.50 £35.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £64.13 £41.21 £88.75
England median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% +24.00% +11.11%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the Midlands

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +32 72 £575 +12.20% 86
East Midlands -8 13 £418 -33.15% 54
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (9.41%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.71%) Apache Spark
3 3 (3.53%) Confluence
4 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.35%) nginx
5 1 (1.18%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 50 (58.82%) Azure
2 41 (48.24%) GitHub Actions
3 24 (28.24%) Azure DevOps
4 23 (27.06%) AWS
5 10 (11.76%) Azure Data Factory
5 10 (11.76%) Azure Key Vault
5 10 (11.76%) Serverless
6 9 (10.59%) Azure AKS
7 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (9.41%) GCP
8 7 (8.24%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (5.88%) Amazon S3
10 4 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.71%) Datadog
10 4 (4.71%) GitHub Copilot
10 4 (4.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (4.71%) npm
10 4 (4.71%) OpenShift
10 4 (4.71%) Pulumi
11 3 (3.53%) ChatGPT
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.35%) DNS
1 2 (2.35%) Firewall
1 2 (2.35%) SSH
1 2 (2.35%) SSL
1 2 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (30.59%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (16.47%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (11.76%) Redis
4 3 (3.53%) Aerospike
4 3 (3.53%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.35%) Big Data
5 2 (2.35%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.35%) Parquet
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.18%) DocumentDB
6 1 (1.18%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.18%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.18%) Power BI
6 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (27.06%) Jenkins
2 18 (21.18%) SonarQube
3 16 (18.82%) GitLab
4 14 (16.47%) Git
4 14 (16.47%) JIRA
5 9 (10.59%) CircleCI
6 8 (9.41%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (7.06%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.88%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.88%) JUnit
8 5 (5.88%) Selenium
9 4 (4.71%) Artifactory
9 4 (4.71%) Gradle
9 4 (4.71%) Maven
9 4 (4.71%) Postman
9 4 (4.71%) Snyk
9 4 (4.71%) webpack
10 2 (2.35%) Jaeger
10 2 (2.35%) MLflow
10 2 (2.35%) Poetry
General
1 28 (32.94%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.59%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.88%) Finance
4 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Military
7 1 (1.18%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.18%) Banking
7 1 (1.18%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 16 (18.82%) Data Engineer
1 16 (18.82%) DevOps Engineer
1 16 (18.82%) Senior
2 15 (17.65%) Developer
3 11 (12.94%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Backend Developer
5 8 (9.41%) Python Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Architect
7 4 (4.71%) Systems Architect
8 3 (3.53%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Lead
8 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (3.53%) Splunk Engineer
9 2 (2.35%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (22.35%) YAML
2 17 (20.00%) Kafka
3 16 (18.82%) REST
4 13 (15.29%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (12.94%) Flask
5 11 (12.94%) Keycloak
6 9 (10.59%) GraphQL
7 8 (9.41%) .NET
7 8 (9.41%) FastAPI
7 8 (9.41%) WebSockets
8 7 (8.24%) gRPC
9 6 (7.06%) JSON
10 4 (4.71%) ADO
10 4 (4.71%) Node.js
10 4 (4.71%) pytest
11 3 (3.53%) NumPy
11 3 (3.53%) OAuth
11 3 (3.53%) Pandas
11 3 (3.53%) PySpark
11 3 (3.53%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Cloud Native
2 12 (14.12%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.71%) Private Cloud
4 3 (3.53%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.53%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.18%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.18%) IoT
6 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.18%) SCADA
6 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (77.65%) DevOps
2 64 (75.29%) CI/CD
3 57 (67.06%) Containerisation
4 31 (36.47%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (23.53%) Microservices
6 19 (22.35%) Agile
6 19 (22.35%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.82%) DevSecOps
7 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (17.65%) ETL
9 14 (16.47%) Data Engineering
10 13 (15.29%) Migration
11 12 (14.12%) Data Pipeline
11 12 (14.12%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (12.94%) Configuration Management
12 11 (12.94%) DataOps
13 10 (11.76%) Analytics
13 10 (11.76%) Batch Processing
13 10 (11.76%) Data Architecture
13 10 (11.76%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 37 (43.53%) Python
2 26 (30.59%) Go
3 15 (17.65%) SQL
4 10 (11.76%) Bash
5 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
7 4 (4.71%) C#
7 4 (4.71%) Java
8 3 (3.53%) Groovy
8 3 (3.53%) PHP
9 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.35%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.18%) Bicep
10 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (49.41%) Security Cleared
2 31 (36.47%) SC Cleared
3 23 (27.06%) DV Cleared
4 13 (15.29%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.71%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.71%) Degree
6 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.76%) NCSC
2 6 (7.06%) QA
3 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 60 (70.59%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 60 (70.59%) Kubernetes
2 36 (42.35%) Terraform
3 19 (22.35%) Grafana
4 17 (20.00%) Prometheus
5 16 (18.82%) Ansible
6 7 (8.24%) Argo
7 5 (5.88%) Progress Chef
7 5 (5.88%) Puppet
8 4 (4.71%) Kibana
8 4 (4.71%) logstash
8 4 (4.71%) Podman
9 2 (2.35%) Istio
Vendors
1 16 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Splunk
3 7 (8.24%) VMware
4 5 (5.88%) Broadcom
5 4 (4.71%) Databricks
6 3 (3.53%) Oracle
6 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.35%) Cloudera
7 2 (2.35%) Google
7 2 (2.35%) Pega
7 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.18%) Adobe
8 1 (1.18%) F5
8 1 (1.18%) IBM
8 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow