GitHub Contracts in the North of England

GitHub
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 103 111 103
Rank change year-on-year +8 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 64 75 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.94% 1.57% 2.23%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.76% 5.33% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 48 112
10th Percentile £358 £412 £400
25th Percentile £414 £465 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £565
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -4.87% +7.62%
75th Percentile £550 £606 £600
90th Percentile £633 £647 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.89% +27.27% -1.79%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 of England

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
Yorkshire -9 31 £510 -9.76% 51
North West +24 30 £475 -4.04% 89
North East -1 3 £419 -11.84% 18
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (10.94%) Confluence
2 5 (7.81%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.56%) CMS
3 1 (1.56%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 35 (54.69%) AWS
2 21 (32.81%) GitHub Actions
3 14 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (12.50%) Serverless
5 7 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (10.94%) Azure
5 7 (10.94%) GCP
6 5 (7.81%) Amazon S3
6 5 (7.81%) CloudBees
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.69%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (4.69%) AWS CodePipeline
8 3 (4.69%) Snowflake
9 2 (3.13%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 2 (3.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 9 (14.06%) SMTP
2 6 (9.38%) DNS
3 1 (1.56%) DHCP
3 1 (1.56%) HTTP
3 1 (1.56%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.81%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.81%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.81%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.81%) MySQL
3 4 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 4 (6.25%) ObjectStore
4 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
4 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.13%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (3.13%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (3.13%) GIS
5 2 (3.13%) Hazelcast
5 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.56%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.56%) Redis
6 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (29.69%) Git
2 17 (26.56%) Jenkins
3 12 (18.75%) GitLab
4 9 (14.06%) Cucumber
5 8 (12.50%) JIRA
6 6 (9.38%) JUnit
6 6 (9.38%) Selenium
7 5 (7.81%) Gradle
7 5 (7.81%) Maven
8 4 (6.25%) HP UFT
8 4 (6.25%) IntelliJ
9 3 (4.69%) Vagrant
9 3 (4.69%) Visual Studio
10 2 (3.13%) Jaeger
11 1 (1.56%) Bitbucket
11 1 (1.56%) Mockito
11 1 (1.56%) Postman
11 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
11 1 (1.56%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.81%) Finance
3 3 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.13%) Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (20.31%) Developer
1 13 (20.31%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (14.06%) Senior
3 6 (9.38%) Architect
3 6 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) AWS DevOps
4 5 (7.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Senior Developer
5 4 (6.25%) Software Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Lead
6 3 (4.69%) React Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (4.69%) Test Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.31%) REST
2 11 (17.19%) React
3 10 (15.63%) Kafka
4 8 (12.50%) .NET
4 8 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 7 (10.94%) Node.js
6 6 (9.38%) RESTful
7 4 (6.25%) OAuth
7 4 (6.25%) OAuth2
7 4 (6.25%) OpenID
7 4 (6.25%) React Native
7 4 (6.25%) SAML
7 4 (6.25%) Vue
8 3 (4.69%) Gherkin
8 3 (4.69%) Laravel
8 3 (4.69%) Spring Boot
8 3 (4.69%) WPF
9 2 (3.13%) Google Maps API
9 2 (3.13%) HTML
9 2 (3.13%) Leaflet
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.25%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Linux
3 3 (4.69%) Android
3 3 (4.69%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (51.56%) CI/CD
2 29 (45.31%) DevOps
3 17 (26.56%) Containerisation
4 16 (25.00%) Agile
4 16 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (23.44%) Analytics
5 15 (23.44%) TDD
6 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
6 12 (18.75%) Visualisation
7 11 (17.19%) Digital Twin
7 11 (17.19%) Software Engineering
7 11 (17.19%) Test Automation
8 10 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (14.06%) Architectural Design
9 9 (14.06%) BDD
9 9 (14.06%) Continuous Deployment
9 9 (14.06%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (14.06%) ITSM
9 9 (14.06%) Microservices
9 9 (14.06%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 23 (35.94%) Python
2 17 (26.56%) Java
3 12 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 12 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 11 (17.19%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) Bash
5 6 (9.38%) Kotlin
5 6 (9.38%) Shell Script
6 5 (7.81%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.25%) Groovy
7 4 (6.25%) Ruby
8 3 (4.69%) PHP
9 2 (3.13%) C#
10 1 (1.56%) Clojure
10 1 (1.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.13%) Degree
2 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (14.06%) Active Directory
2 8 (12.50%) Docker
3 3 (4.69%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 22 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 14 (21.88%) Terraform
3 13 (20.31%) Ansible
4 5 (7.81%) Grafana
4 5 (7.81%) Istio
5 3 (4.69%) Kustomize
5 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.69%) Puppet
6 2 (3.13%) Control-M
6 2 (3.13%) Kiali
Vendors
1 5 (7.81%) Google
1 5 (7.81%) Splunk
2 2 (3.13%) AppDynamics
2 2 (3.13%) Mapbox
2 2 (3.13%) New Relic
2 2 (3.13%) Talend
2 2 (3.13%) xMatters
3 1 (1.56%) Confluent