GitHub Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

GitHub
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 6 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 2.96% - 5.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.24% - 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £530
25th Percentile £525 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
75th Percentile £575 - £675
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £519 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -1.14% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £29.64 - -
25th Percentile £35.48 - -
Median hourly rate £45.20 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £83.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -24.61% +19.64% -9.68%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Northern Ireland

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in Northern Ireland.

6 months to
7 Nov 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills 49 41 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 24.14% 16.21% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 15 19
10th Percentile £330 £333 £350
25th Percentile £402 £381 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -30.43% +35.29%
75th Percentile £650 £594 £650
90th Percentile £663 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 0
10th Percentile £35.86 - -
25th Percentile £41.30 £21.50 -
Median hourly rate £44.50 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +93.48% - -
75th Percentile £44.68 £31.97 -
90th Percentile £45.20 £36.44 -
UK median hourly rate £34.18 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +35.89% -28.14% +16.67%

GitHub Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

GitHub Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northern Ireland citing GitHub

GitHub Hourly Rate Histogram in Northern Ireland

Hourly rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 7 November 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in Northern Ireland

GitHub Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Job Ads
Past 6 Months
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
County Antrim - 6 £550 - 20
GitHub
UK

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1AWS66.7%4
2Azure50.0%3
2Azure DevOps50.0%3
4Amazon S333.3%2
4AWS Lambda33.3%2
4CloudFront33.3%2
4Copilot Studio33.3%2
4Entra ID33.3%2
4GitHub Actions33.3%2
4Microsoft Copilot33.3%2
4Power Automate33.3%2
4Power Platform33.3%2
4PowerApps33.3%2
4Serverless33.3%2
4Snowflake33.3%2
16GCP16.7%1
16GitHub Copilot16.7%1
16OpenShift16.7%1