GitHub Contracts in the North East

GitHub
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 35 34 15
Rank change year-on-year -1 -19 +24
Contract jobs citing GitHub 3 4 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.94% 1.18% 12.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.80% 6.35% 27.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 46
10th Percentile £367 - £385
25th Percentile £383 - £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £475 £565
Median % change year-on-year -11.84% -15.93% -9.60%
75th Percentile £458 - £597
90th Percentile £476 - £842
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 63 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 33.44% 18.64% 45.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 32 147
10th Percentile £321 £161 £350
25th Percentile £411 £190 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £453 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
75th Percentile £605 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £11.44 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.77 £48.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £49.50
90th Percentile - £33.48 -
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the North East

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the North East

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the North East 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
Tyne and Wear -6 3 £419 -11.84% 13
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
2 1 (33.33%) Sumo Logic
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Lead Data Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Designer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Design Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic