GitHub Contracts in the Midlands

GitHub
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 108 183
Rank change year-on-year -23 +75 -53
Contract jobs citing GitHub 7 57 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.26% 1.66% 0.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.04% 4.65% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 33 13
10th Percentile £355 £388 £356
25th Percentile £363 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £435 £700 £575
90th Percentile £441 - £585
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - -
Median hourly rate £25.00 - -
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +22.73% - -17.29%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 676 1,226 1,686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.77% 35.60% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 879 1,215
10th Percentile £199 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £23.75 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £27.25 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £50.04 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the Midlands

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the Midlands

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 28 April 2024. 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 -19 4 £375 -31.82% 11
East Midlands +9 3 £440 -37.14% 11
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (28.57%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) IaaS
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) Flink
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Hudson
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) WordPress Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Symfony
2 1 (14.29%) JDBC
2 1 (14.29%) JSON
2 1 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) ODBC
2 1 (14.29%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (14.29%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Agile
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (14.29%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Bicep
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Sage