GitHub Contract Job Trends in the North West

GitHub
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 82 101
Rank change year-on-year -31 +19 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 62 48 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.58% 2.24% 0.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.18% 6.73% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 39 13
10th Percentile £313 £360 £311
25th Percentile £425 £397 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +27.91% -14.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £575
90th Percentile £767 £630 £628
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -10.64%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,198 713 713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.51% 33.29% 30.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 766 536 470
10th Percentile £233 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £379 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £535 £575
90th Percentile £694 £630 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 24 13
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £13.09
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.25 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £29.97 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.55% -16.76% +9.09%
75th Percentile £76.00 £61.81 £58.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £73.06 £71.15
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £31.75
% change year-on-year +29.24% -17.17% -3.79%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the North West

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the North West over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the North West

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 15 September 2026. 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 -24 49 £620 +37.78% 132
Cheshire -13 5 £409 -5.00% 9
Merseyside -17 3 £375 -12.79% 13
Lancashire - 1 £519 - 24
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.61%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
1 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (54.84%) AWS
1 34 (54.84%) GitHub Actions
2 25 (40.32%) Azure
3 19 (30.65%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (17.74%) GitHub Copilot
5 7 (11.29%) Anthropic Claude
5 7 (11.29%) Serverless
6 6 (9.68%) Google Gemini
7 5 (8.06%) Amazon ECS
7 5 (8.06%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.45%) GCP
8 4 (6.45%) IaaS
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
9 3 (4.84%) Amazon SQS
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (4.84%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.84%) OCI
9 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (4.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Firewall
2 6 (9.68%) DNS
3 3 (4.84%) BIG-IP
3 3 (4.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (4.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (4.84%) Network Security
3 3 (4.84%) SSL
4 2 (3.23%) VPN
5 1 (1.61%) BGP
5 1 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.61%) DHCP
5 1 (1.61%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.61%) HTTP
5 1 (1.61%) Internet
5 1 (1.61%) MPLS
5 1 (1.61%) OSPF
5 1 (1.61%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (1.61%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.61%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.61%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.06%) MongoDB
1 5 (8.06%) NoSQL
1 5 (8.06%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (4.84%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.23%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (3.23%) MySQL
4 2 (3.23%) Oracle Database
4 2 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.23%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.61%) Data Vault
5 1 (1.61%) Power BI
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.61%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (32.26%) Jenkins
2 18 (29.03%) Git
3 13 (20.97%) GitLab
4 8 (12.90%) JIRA
5 7 (11.29%) Claude Code
6 6 (9.68%) REST Assured
7 5 (8.06%) Gatling
8 4 (6.45%) Postman
8 4 (6.45%) Selenium
8 4 (6.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (4.84%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.84%) Gradle
9 3 (4.84%) Serenity BDD
9 3 (4.84%) SonarQube
9 3 (4.84%) TestRail
9 3 (4.84%) Zephyr
10 2 (3.23%) Burp Suite
10 2 (3.23%) Charles Proxy
10 2 (3.23%) JUnit
10 2 (3.23%) Maven
General
1 13 (20.97%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Retail
3 7 (11.29%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Finance
6 2 (3.23%) Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Automotive
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (38.71%) Senior
2 13 (20.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Developer
3 11 (17.74%) Principal Engineer
4 9 (14.52%) Senior DevOps
5 8 (12.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 7 (11.29%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (9.68%) Lead
7 6 (9.68%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.06%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 4 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Administrator
10 3 (4.84%) Analyst
10 3 (4.84%) Architect
10 3 (4.84%) Java Developer
10 3 (4.84%) Network Engineer
10 3 (4.84%) Principal Developer
10 3 (4.84%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (58.06%) Terraform
2 13 (20.97%) REST
3 10 (16.13%) Node.js
3 10 (16.13%) Playwright
3 10 (16.13%) React
4 8 (12.90%) Kafka
5 7 (11.29%) Spring Boot
6 6 (9.68%) .NET
6 6 (9.68%) Next.js
6 6 (9.68%) Spring
7 5 (8.06%) JSON
8 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
8 3 (4.84%) RESTful
8 3 (4.84%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (4.84%) XML
9 2 (3.23%) AWS CDK
9 2 (3.23%) Django
9 2 (3.23%) OpenAPI
9 2 (3.23%) Quarkus
9 2 (3.23%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.19%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.06%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.84%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (4.84%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.84%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.84%) Replication
5 2 (3.23%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.23%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.23%) PKI
5 2 (3.23%) Public Cloud
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Licensing
6 1 (1.61%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.13%) Linux
2 4 (6.45%) Unix
3 3 (4.84%) Windows
4 2 (3.23%) Android
4 2 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.61%) VMS
5 1 (1.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (95.16%) CI/CD
2 46 (74.19%) DevOps
3 26 (41.94%) Agile
4 25 (40.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (40.32%) Observability
5 19 (30.65%) Test Automation
6 17 (27.42%) Microservices
7 16 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (25.81%) Event-Driven
8 15 (24.19%) AI
8 15 (24.19%) Containerisation
8 15 (24.19%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 13 (20.97%) Mentoring
10 12 (19.35%) Monorepo
10 12 (19.35%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (17.74%) Software Delivery
12 10 (16.13%) Code Quality
12 10 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
12 10 (16.13%) Software Engineering
13 9 (14.52%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.87%) Python
2 14 (22.58%) Bash
3 11 (17.74%) Java
4 10 (16.13%) TypeScript
5 9 (14.52%) SQL
6 7 (11.29%) C#
6 7 (11.29%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.06%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.84%) ActionScript
8 3 (4.84%) Bicep
9 2 (3.23%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.61%) Go
10 1 (1.61%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.61%) Swift
10 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.61%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 14 (22.58%) SC Cleared
1 14 (22.58%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 2 (3.23%) Degree
4 1 (1.61%) CCIE
4 1 (1.61%) CCNP
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.61%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.61%) OCP
4 1 (1.61%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (27.42%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.61%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (35.48%) Docker
2 2 (3.23%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.23%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.61%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (30.65%) Kubernetes
2 9 (14.52%) Ansible
3 8 (12.90%) Grafana
4 6 (9.68%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.45%) Argo
6 2 (3.23%) Istio
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.61%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.61%) Puppet
7 1 (1.61%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (11.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Splunk
3 4 (6.45%) Dynatrace
3 4 (6.45%) F5
4 3 (4.84%) Cisco
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle
4 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.84%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.23%) Confluent
5 2 (3.23%) Palo Alto
5 2 (3.23%) VMware
6 1 (1.61%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.61%) Google
6 1 (1.61%) IBM
6 1 (1.61%) Moogsoft
6 1 (1.61%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.61%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.61%) Pure Storage
6 1 (1.61%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.61%) Workday