GitHub Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

GitHub
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 23 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +11 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 7 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 3.76% 2.99% 1.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.14% 11.43% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £402 £424 £528
25th Percentile £416 £441 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -20.35% -10.32%
75th Percentile £453 £459 £573
90th Percentile - £476 -
Hampshire median daily rate £435 £450 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -16.67% +2.86%

All Cloud Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29 35 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 15.59% 26.12% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 35
10th Percentile £190 £288 £444
25th Percentile £213 £360 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £548 £509 £602
90th Percentile - £620 £667
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £536 £545
% change year-on-year -6.76% -1.61% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £19.55
25th Percentile £46.25 - £19.87
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £21.35
Median % change year-on-year - - +98.33%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £58.13
90th Percentile - - £65.50
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.00 £19.97 £21.43
% change year-on-year +0.15% -6.79% +15.81%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing GitHub

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (14.29%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) OpenShift
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SSH
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (85.71%) Redis
3 1 (14.29%) Big Data
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
2 1 (14.29%) Poetry
2 1 (14.29%) PyCharm
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) Kafka
1 6 (85.71%) Keycloak
2 5 (71.43%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (57.14%) YAML
4 1 (14.29%) Apache Avro
4 1 (14.29%) Flask
4 1 (14.29%) NumPy
4 1 (14.29%) Pandas
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
2 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 6 (85.71%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (85.71%) Observability
2 6 (85.71%) Platform Engineering
3 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 4 (57.14%) Immutable Infrastructure
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) DevSecOps
5 2 (28.57%) GitOps
5 2 (28.57%) SBOM
6 1 (14.29%) Data Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Dependency Management
6 1 (14.29%) ETL
6 1 (14.29%) Memory Management
6 1 (14.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Bash
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) Groovy
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 6 (85.71%) Grafana
2 6 (85.71%) Prometheus
2 6 (85.71%) Terraform
3 4 (57.14%) Packer
4 3 (42.86%) Argo
4 3 (42.86%) Istio
5 2 (28.57%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (85.71%) Splunk
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
4 1 (14.29%) Cloudera