GitHub Contracts in the North West

GitHub
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 132 126
Rank change year-on-year +18 -6 -19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 23 21 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.83% 0.65% 1.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.60% 1.74% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 46
10th Percentile £415 £375 £394
25th Percentile £471 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -4.67% +31.25%
75th Percentile £544 £600 £625
90th Percentile £628 £695 £634
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
North West

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 886 1,208 1,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.07% 37.60% 34.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 641 896 1,071
10th Percentile £284 £310 £213
25th Percentile £393 £417 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £672
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 32 42
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.19 £14.25
25th Percentile - £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.30 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -56.94% +100.62% +2.07%
75th Percentile £20.00 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £43.75 £70.00 £59.88
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the North West

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the North West

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the North West

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the North West

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
Manchester +17 17 £500 +3.09% 22
Cheshire +7 3 - - 5
Cumbria - 2 £473 - 1
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (17.39%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.35%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (13.04%) BrowserStack
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (8.70%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (8.70%) Serverless
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (4.35%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.35%) Datadog
5 1 (4.35%) dbt
5 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
5 1 (4.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DMZ
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
1 2 (8.70%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) MySQL
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.70%) Metadata
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database 12c
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.35%) Azkaban
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (4.35%) Redis
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Spark SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) JIRA
2 6 (26.09%) Git
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (21.74%) GitLab
4 4 (17.39%) Bitbucket
5 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
5 3 (13.04%) Selenium
6 2 (8.70%) Appium
6 2 (8.70%) JUnit
6 2 (8.70%) Maven
6 2 (8.70%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (4.35%) CircleCI
7 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
7 1 (4.35%) Gradle
7 1 (4.35%) Mockito
7 1 (4.35%) RStudio
7 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 8 (34.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Automation Tester
3 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) C# Developer
3 2 (8.70%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) QA Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Tester
4 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (4.35%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) CSS
1 5 (21.74%) HTML
2 4 (17.39%) Node.js
2 4 (17.39%) React
3 3 (13.04%) Jest
3 3 (13.04%) Kafka
4 2 (8.70%) AWS CDK
4 2 (8.70%) pytest
4 2 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) RESTful
4 2 (8.70%) SAML
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Boot
4 2 (8.70%) Web Services
4 2 (8.70%) WebdriverIO
4 2 (8.70%) XML
5 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
5 1 (4.35%) Next.js
5 1 (4.35%) PySpark
5 1 (4.35%) Spring
5 1 (4.35%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Unix
2 2 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
2 8 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 7 (30.43%) DevOps
4 5 (21.74%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (21.74%) Data Migration
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (21.74%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (21.74%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) BDD
5 4 (17.39%) E-Commerce
5 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.04%) High Availability
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Time Management
7 2 (8.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (8.70%) Information Management
7 2 (8.70%) Information Security
7 2 (8.70%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Python
2 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) TypeScript
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) PHP
4 2 (8.70%) PL/SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.35%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 3 (13.04%) NIST
1 3 (13.04%) PCI DSS
1 3 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (8.70%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Terraform
2 3 (13.04%) Ansible
2 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Atlassian
3 2 (8.70%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) New Relic