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

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 30 19
Rank change year-on-year +1 -11 +23
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GitHub 8 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.81% 2.42% 5.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.61% 8.45% 17.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile £263 - £338
25th Percentile £394 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.31%
75th Percentile £514 - £613
90th Percentile £575 - £850
England median daily rate £520 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -1.00% -8.70% -2.13%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 121 71 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 42.46% 28.63% 35.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 30 59
10th Percentile £326 £190 £323
25th Percentile £413 £293 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £473
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% -2.12% -14.09%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £629 £653 £655
England median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
10th Percentile - £11.44 £22.25
25th Percentile £12.50 £20.13 £31.25
Median hourly rate £13.00 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.85% +42.09% +44.44%
75th Percentile £19.13 - £46.18
90th Percentile £29.25 - -
England median hourly rate £26.15 £28.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -6.61% -15.15% +54.21%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the North East over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the North East

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitHub

GitHub
DemandTrendContract 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 28 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -4 7 £450 - 11
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Cognitive Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Postman
2 2 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Java Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Java Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) Swagger
2 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
2 2 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (12.50%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) JPA
3 1 (12.50%) JSON
3 1 (12.50%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
3 1 (12.50%) React
3 1 (12.50%) Spring Boot
3 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
1 3 (37.50%) Microservices
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (25.00%) Design Thinking
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Fintech
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Refactoring
2 2 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Usability Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform