GitHub Contracts in the Midlands

GitHub
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 96 127 110
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 +80
Contract jobs citing GitHub 15 6 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.78% 0.22% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.57% 0.87% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 33
10th Percentile £401 £353 £388
25th Percentile £410 £356 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -31.82% +7.32%
75th Percentile £513 £406 £700
90th Percentile £684 £418 -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.89% +27.27% -1.79%

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 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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
West Midlands +21 11 £463 +23.33% 41
East Midlands +12 4 £488 - 15
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 1 (6.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) GitHub Actions
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Batch
6 1 (6.67%) Google Analytics
6 1 (6.67%) SonarCloud
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) Git
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) Snyk
3 1 (6.67%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) GCP Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) YAML
3 2 (13.33%) RESTful
4 1 (6.67%) ADO
4 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) Express.js
4 1 (6.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (6.67%) Next.js
4 1 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) Redux
4 1 (6.67%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Structures
1 2 (13.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Analytics
4 4 (26.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 3 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
5 3 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Microservices
5 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) API Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Open Source
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) Bicep
5 1 (6.67%) R
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NCSC
1 1 (6.67%) QA
1 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
2 4 (26.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Argo
3 1 (6.67%) Grafana
3 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 2 (13.33%) Talend
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat