GitHub Contracts in Reading

GitHub
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 - 81
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 12 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.04% - 0.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% - 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 5
10th Percentile £440 - -
25th Percentile £475 - £663
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.37%
75th Percentile - - £725
90th Percentile £610 - £748
Berkshire median daily rate £500 - £675
% change year-on-year - - +28.57%

All Cloud Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 226 339 361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 38.44% 29.35% 32.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 246 267
10th Percentile £357 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £489 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £605 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.16% +5.22% +15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £643 £674
90th Percentile £650 £681 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £558
% change year-on-year -13.04% +3.14% +9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 4
10th Percentile - £35.05 £27.84
25th Percentile £14.75 £56.50 £44.34
Median hourly rate £15.50 £60.60 £67.10
Median % change year-on-year -74.42% -9.68% +176.68%
75th Percentile £16.25 £61.06 £79.19
90th Percentile £31.70 £66.24 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £58.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -67.47% +152.17% +9.39%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Reading

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Reading.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Reading

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Reading over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Reading

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) AWS
1 9 (75.00%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (66.67%) Azure
3 6 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (50.00%) GCP
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 2 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (16.67%) Serverless
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) OCI
5 1 (8.33%) SonarCloud
5 1 (8.33%) Stackdriver
5 1 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (8.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Delta Lake
2 1 (8.33%) DynamoDB
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (8.33%) Artifactory
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (8.33%) Mocha
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Aerospace
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Python Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Python Developer
3 3 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) AWS DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Data Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) GCP DevOps Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Lead
5 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) RESTful
2 4 (33.33%) FastAPI
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) OAuth
3 2 (16.67%) OpenID
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CDK
4 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (8.33%) Fastify
4 1 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (8.33%) Jest
4 1 (8.33%) Kafka
4 1 (8.33%) Laravel
4 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
4 1 (8.33%) PySpark
4 1 (8.33%) SailPoint
4 1 (8.33%) SAML
4 1 (8.33%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (8.33%) Swagger
4 1 (8.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) DevOps
2 9 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 4 (33.33%) CQRS
3 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
3 4 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
4 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
5 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (8.33%) Agile
6 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
6 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) Functional Testing
6 1 (8.33%) High Availability
6 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Scala
3 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
1 1 (8.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Terraform
2 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 3 (25.00%) Ansible
4 1 (8.33%) Grafana
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (8.33%) Puppet
4 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Databricks
2 4 (33.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (8.33%) CyberArk
3 1 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) New Relic
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk