GitHub Contracts in Sheffield

GitHub
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 37 42
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 0
Contract jobs citing GitHub 25 18 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 7.84% 4.75% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.27% 19.35% 9.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 11 14
10th Percentile £395 £472 £495
25th Percentile £461 £538 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £575 £700
Median % change year-on-year -9.61% -17.86% +40.00%
75th Percentile £631 £635 -
90th Percentile £695 £645 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £499 £700
% change year-on-year +4.26% -28.79% +40.00%

All Cloud Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 93 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 32.29% 24.54% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 63 113
10th Percentile £294 £191 £450
25th Percentile £400 £411 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £588
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -11.49% +11.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £688
90th Percentile £653 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £448 £550
% change year-on-year +11.73% -18.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +22.14%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +17.27%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Sheffield

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Sheffield

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Sheffield over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Sheffield

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 7 (28.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) CloudBees
1 5 (20.00%) GCP
2 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (8.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
2 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (36.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.00%) Hazelcast
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (52.00%) Git
2 12 (48.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (28.00%) Cucumber
3 7 (28.00%) JIRA
4 4 (16.00%) Gradle
4 4 (16.00%) HP UFT
4 4 (16.00%) IntelliJ
4 4 (16.00%) JUnit
4 4 (16.00%) Maven
4 4 (16.00%) Selenium
5 3 (12.00%) Vagrant
5 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (8.00%) GitLab
6 2 (8.00%) Jaeger
General
1 6 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Tester
4 1 (4.00%) Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (36.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (8.00%) gRPC
3 2 (8.00%) Kafka
4 1 (4.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) CSS3
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) HTML5
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) React
4 1 (4.00%) RESTful
4 1 (4.00%) Spring
4 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
2 10 (40.00%) TDD
3 9 (36.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) ITSM
3 9 (36.00%) SIEM
4 8 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
6 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) Change Management
6 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (20.00%) Software Delivery
6 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Code Coverage
7 4 (16.00%) Document Management
7 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (48.00%) Java
1 12 (48.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (40.00%) Python
3 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (24.00%) Kotlin
4 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (16.00%) Groovy
6 3 (12.00%) Bash
6 3 (12.00%) Ruby
7 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 12 (48.00%) Ansible
2 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 4 (16.00%) Grafana
4 3 (12.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) Control-M
5 2 (8.00%) Istio
5 2 (8.00%) Kiali
5 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
6 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Splunk
2 2 (8.00%) AppDynamics
2 2 (8.00%) Google
2 2 (8.00%) xMatters