GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

GitHub Copilot
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.89% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £402 £515 -
% change year-on-year -21.94% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northamptonshire

GitHub Copilot 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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 69 96 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 26.14% 31.27% 26.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 89 42
10th Percentile £275 £339 £356
25th Percentile £358 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £420 £445
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -5.62% -6.32%
75th Percentile £484 £475 £489
90th Percentile £594 £508 £617
East Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +0.11% -0.11% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £21.39 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.97 £21.39 £29.00
% change year-on-year -15.99% -26.24% +87.10%

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Copilot within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Northampton - 5 £402 -
GitHub Copilot
East Midlands

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Apigee
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Kong
3 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Claude Code
1 5 (100.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Gradle
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
General
1 5 (100.00%) Banking
1 5 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Kafka
1 5 (100.00%) Spring
1 5 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 4 (80.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (40.00%) gRPC
3 2 (40.00%) JSON
3 2 (40.00%) JSON Schema
3 2 (40.00%) LDAP
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth
3 2 (40.00%) OAuth2
3 2 (40.00%) OpenID
3 2 (40.00%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) JWT
4 1 (20.00%) Playwright
4 1 (20.00%) REST
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) W3C
3 1 (20.00%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Observability
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
2 4 (80.00%) Event-Driven
2 4 (80.00%) Identity Access Management
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 3 (60.00%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) AI
4 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Grafana
1 3 (60.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Ping Identity