GitHub Contracts in the North West

GitHub
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 114 135
Rank change year-on-year +21 +21 -29
Contract jobs citing GitHub 34 21 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.74% 0.79% 0.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.41% 2.47% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 15 15
10th Percentile £391 £420 £440
25th Percentile £402 £473 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £620
90th Percentile £605 £645 £705
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%

All Cloud 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 628 850 1,149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 32.11% 31.99% 37.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 614 849
10th Percentile £250 £284 £312
25th Percentile £391 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £641 £656
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 65 33
10th Percentile £12.82 £13.00 £15.81
25th Percentile £26.88 - £16.62
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -54.11% +51.99%
75th Percentile £65.22 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £60.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £21.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +21.43% -34.98% +50.23%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
Manchester +30 26 £475 -5.00% 79
Cheshire +2 5 £379 - 11
Merseyside - 2 - - 2
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 6 (17.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) CMS
2 1 (2.94%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 31 (91.18%) AWS
2 21 (61.76%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (38.24%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (26.47%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (26.47%) Serverless
5 6 (17.65%) Amazon S3
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (14.71%) Amazon SQS
7 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (8.82%) Amazon EventBridge
8 3 (8.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (8.82%) Azure
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 2 (5.88%) Amazon MSK
9 2 (5.88%) AWS CloudTrail
9 2 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
9 2 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
9 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) DNS
2 1 (2.94%) DHCP
2 1 (2.94%) HTTP
2 1 (2.94%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.94%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (17.65%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (14.71%) Data Lake
2 5 (14.71%) DynamoDB
2 5 (14.71%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.76%) ObjectStore
4 3 (8.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 3 (8.82%) NoSQL
5 2 (5.88%) DocumentDB
5 2 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (5.88%) GIS
5 2 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.94%) InfluxDB
6 1 (2.94%) MySQL
6 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.94%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) GitLab
2 5 (14.71%) Git
3 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) Gradle
4 1 (2.94%) JIRA
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) MLflow
4 1 (2.94%) Mockito
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.94%) Finance
3 1 (2.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (23.53%) Developer
2 8 (23.53%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Architect
4 5 (14.71%) AWS Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps
5 4 (11.76%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Data Architect
5 4 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Developer
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (26.47%) Kafka
2 8 (23.53%) React
3 7 (20.59%) Node.js
4 6 (17.65%) .NET
5 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
5 5 (14.71%) RESTful
6 4 (11.76%) OAuth
6 4 (11.76%) OAuth2
6 4 (11.76%) OpenID
6 4 (11.76%) SAML
7 3 (8.82%) REST
8 2 (5.88%) AWS CDK
8 2 (5.88%) GeoJSON
8 2 (5.88%) Google Maps API
8 2 (5.88%) Leaflet
8 2 (5.88%) MapLibre
8 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
9 1 (2.94%) Blazor
9 1 (2.94%) NestJS
9 1 (2.94%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.94%) Linux
1 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 17 (50.00%) DevOps
3 16 (47.06%) Data Pipeline
4 14 (41.18%) Containerisation
5 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (35.29%) Visualisation
6 11 (32.35%) Analytics
6 11 (32.35%) Digital Twin
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Deployment
7 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (26.47%) RBAC
8 7 (20.59%) Agile
8 7 (20.59%) Cloud Security
8 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (17.65%) ETL
9 6 (17.65%) High Availability
9 6 (17.65%) Load Balancing
10 5 (14.71%) Capacity Planning
10 5 (14.71%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) Python
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
3 5 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.82%) C#
4 3 (8.82%) Java
5 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 1 (2.94%) Clojure
6 1 (2.94%) Perl
6 1 (2.94%) Ruby
6 1 (2.94%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.94%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (47.06%) Kubernetes
2 12 (35.29%) Terraform
3 3 (8.82%) Istio
3 3 (8.82%) Kustomize
4 1 (2.94%) Grafana
4 1 (2.94%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (5.88%) Google
1 2 (5.88%) Mapbox
1 2 (5.88%) Talend
2 1 (2.94%) Confluent
2 1 (2.94%) New Relic
2 1 (2.94%) Ping Identity