GitHub Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

GitHub
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 28 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 1.40% 1.08% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.65% 3.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £367 £621 -
25th Percentile £380 £634 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £662 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.30% - -
75th Percentile - £684 -
90th Percentile - £694 -
East Midlands median daily rate £418 £625 £440
% change year-on-year -33.15% +41.93% -23.48%

All Cloud Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 86 53 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 30.07% 28.65% 48.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 32 72
10th Percentile £332 £342 £213
25th Percentile £363 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.22% -5.37%
75th Percentile £475 £591 £521
90th Percentile £492 £694 £535
East Midlands median daily rate £430 £475 £453
% change year-on-year -9.47% +4.86% -9.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.08%
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.25 £18.32 £17.50
% change year-on-year +15.99% +4.69% +12.90%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing GitHub

GitHub
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 within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 5 December 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
Northampton -18 4 £402 -39.30% 10
GitHub
East Midlands

GitHub
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (25.00%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Aerospike
2 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Kafka
1 3 (75.00%) Node.js
1 3 (75.00%) pytest
2 2 (50.00%) PySpark
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (75.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Backtesting
2 3 (75.00%) Clean Code
2 3 (75.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Fraud Detection
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Secure Coding
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Databricks
2 1 (25.00%) Google