GitHub Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

GitHub
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 - 26
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing GitHub 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.60% - 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.48% - 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £350 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £450 - -
90th Percentile £480 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £575
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 67 29 58
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 35.83% 27.88% 31.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 18 44
10th Percentile £222 £303 £170
25th Percentile £263 £383 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £578
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £485 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -5.37% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £24.91
Median % change year-on-year - - +46.53%
75th Percentile - - £32.32
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £25.00 £28.75 £32.32
% change year-on-year -13.04% -11.05% +55.98%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 25 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Oxfordshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 25 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
Oxford - 2 £300 - 13
GitHub
South East

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Bitbucket
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Django
1 1 (33.33%) FastAPI
1 1 (33.33%) Flask
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Response
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian