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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 102 100
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 71 78 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.14% 1.66% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.47% 5.54% 5.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 52 96
10th Percentile £357 £407 £400
25th Percentile £426 £445 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -5.83% +8.41%
75th Percentile £525 £623 £629
90th Percentile £625 £645 £700
England median daily rate £525 £533 £600
% change year-on-year -1.50% -11.17% +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 £47.50 £70.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -32.14% +12.00% -10.71%

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 1,097 1,408 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.03% 29.94% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 815 988 1,480
10th Percentile £263 £263 £300
25th Percentile £388 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -7.27% +2.50%
75th Percentile £545 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £684
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 78 44
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.06
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £27.35
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -41.28% +30.92%
75th Percentile £43.39 £22.00 £56.10
90th Percentile £83.75 £44.48 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.26 £21.37 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.18% -38.94% +62.79%

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 30 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 30 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 +2 34 £500 -10.31% 385
North West +22 33 £475 -5.00% 467
North East -1 4 £419 -11.84% 111
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 8 (11.27%) Confluence
2 7 (9.86%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.82%) CMS
4 1 (1.41%) Apache
4 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.41%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 1 (1.41%) MadCap Flare
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 42 (59.15%) AWS
2 29 (40.85%) GitHub Actions
3 17 (23.94%) Amazon EKS
4 14 (19.72%) Serverless
5 13 (18.31%) AWS Lambda
6 10 (14.08%) Azure
7 8 (11.27%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (11.27%) GCP
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (9.86%) Amazon S3
9 5 (7.04%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (7.04%) CloudBees
10 4 (5.63%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (5.63%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (4.23%) Amazon ElastiCache
11 3 (4.23%) AWS CodePipeline
11 3 (4.23%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (12.68%) DNS
2 5 (7.04%) SMTP
3 4 (5.63%) TCP/IP
4 3 (4.23%) SSL
4 3 (4.23%) VPN
5 2 (2.82%) Firewall
5 2 (2.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.41%) DHCP
6 1 (1.41%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (14.08%) DynamoDB
2 5 (7.04%) BigQuery
2 5 (7.04%) Data Lake
2 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.63%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (5.63%) ObjectStore
4 3 (4.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (4.23%) MySQL
4 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.82%) DocumentDB
5 2 (2.82%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (2.82%) GIS
5 2 (2.82%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.82%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.41%) Delta Lake
6 1 (1.41%) InfluxDB
6 1 (1.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (32.39%) Git
1 23 (32.39%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.31%) GitLab
3 10 (14.08%) JIRA
4 8 (11.27%) Cucumber
5 6 (8.45%) Selenium
6 5 (7.04%) JUnit
7 4 (5.63%) Gradle
7 4 (5.63%) HP UFT
7 4 (5.63%) IntelliJ
7 4 (5.63%) Maven
8 3 (4.23%) Jaeger
8 3 (4.23%) Vagrant
8 3 (4.23%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.41%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.41%) git-flow
9 1 (1.41%) MLflow
9 1 (1.41%) Postman
9 1 (1.41%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.41%) TeamCity
General
1 17 (23.94%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Finance
3 4 (5.63%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.41%) Banking
5 1 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.41%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (23.94%) DevOps Engineer
2 16 (22.54%) Developer
3 10 (14.08%) Senior
4 7 (9.86%) Architect
4 7 (9.86%) Lead
5 6 (8.45%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) Senior Developer
6 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps
6 5 (7.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Data Architect
7 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Integration Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Software Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) JavaScript Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Test Manager
8 3 (4.23%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.90%) React
2 11 (15.49%) Node.js
3 10 (14.08%) Kafka
4 9 (12.68%) REST
5 8 (11.27%) .NET
6 7 (9.86%) AngularJS
6 7 (9.86%) RESTful
7 4 (5.63%) HTML
7 4 (5.63%) Next.js
7 4 (5.63%) OAuth
7 4 (5.63%) OAuth2
7 4 (5.63%) OpenID
7 4 (5.63%) SAML
8 3 (4.23%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.23%) Gherkin
9 2 (2.82%) AWS CDK
9 2 (2.82%) Jest
9 2 (2.82%) MapLibre
9 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
9 2 (2.82%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.27%) Cloud Native
2 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.23%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (2.82%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Unix
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
3 1 (1.41%) Android
3 1 (1.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (56.34%) CI/CD
2 36 (50.70%) DevOps
3 21 (29.58%) Agile
3 21 (29.58%) Containerisation
4 18 (25.35%) Infrastructure as Code
5 17 (23.94%) Data Pipeline
6 14 (19.72%) TDD
7 13 (18.31%) Analytics
7 13 (18.31%) RBAC
8 12 (16.90%) Microservices
8 12 (16.90%) Test Automation
9 11 (15.49%) Continuous Integration
9 11 (15.49%) Digital Twin
9 11 (15.49%) Visualisation
10 10 (14.08%) Cost Optimisation
10 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
10 10 (14.08%) Software Engineering
11 9 (12.68%) Continuous Deployment
11 9 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (12.68%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 26 (36.62%) Python
2 18 (25.35%) Java
3 15 (21.13%) JavaScript
4 11 (15.49%) SQL
5 10 (14.08%) TypeScript
6 9 (12.68%) Shell Script
7 8 (11.27%) PowerShell
8 7 (9.86%) Bash
8 7 (9.86%) Kotlin
9 5 (7.04%) Groovy
10 3 (4.23%) C#
10 3 (4.23%) Ruby
11 1 (1.41%) Bicep
11 1 (1.41%) Clojure
11 1 (1.41%) Perl
11 1 (1.41%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (28.17%) Security Cleared
2 6 (8.45%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.04%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.63%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (4.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.82%) Degree
7 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.68%) QA
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
2 3 (4.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.23%) NIST
2 3 (4.23%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.41%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 15 (21.13%) Docker
2 5 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.23%) VirtualBox
4 1 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (38.03%) Kubernetes
2 20 (28.17%) Terraform
3 15 (21.13%) Ansible
4 10 (14.08%) Grafana
5 7 (9.86%) Prometheus
6 6 (8.45%) Istio
7 5 (7.04%) Kustomize
7 5 (7.04%) Puppet
8 3 (4.23%) Control-M
8 3 (4.23%) Kiali
9 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.41%) SCOM
9 1 (1.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (12.68%) Splunk
2 5 (7.04%) Google
3 4 (5.63%) AppDynamics
4 3 (4.23%) xMatters
5 2 (2.82%) Mapbox
5 2 (2.82%) Microsoft
6 1 (1.41%) Cisco
6 1 (1.41%) Citrix
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) Dell
6 1 (1.41%) HP
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) Ping Identity