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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 34 37
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing GitHub 25 20 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 6.98% 5.17% 3.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 23.81% 19.42% 10.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 12 14
10th Percentile £365 £407 £495
25th Percentile £460 £540 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £622 £700
Median % change year-on-year -16.44% -11.14% +55.56%
75th Percentile £610 £639 -
90th Percentile £688 £645 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £472 £700
% change year-on-year +10.12% -32.57% +55.56%

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 105 103 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 29.33% 26.61% 31.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 69 108
10th Percentile £282 £243 £441
25th Percentile £400 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £594
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -14.61% +13.10%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £691
90th Percentile £660 £638 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +1.25% -9.09% +6.69%
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% +19.40%
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 31 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 8 (32.00%) Confluence
2 1 (4.00%) Apache
2 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) GCP
2 5 (20.00%) CloudBees
3 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 2 (8.00%) Hazelcast
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
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 14 (56.00%) Jenkins
2 13 (52.00%) Git
3 8 (32.00%) JIRA
4 7 (28.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (16.00%) Gradle
5 4 (16.00%) HP UFT
5 4 (16.00%) IntelliJ
5 4 (16.00%) JUnit
5 4 (16.00%) Maven
5 4 (16.00%) Selenium
6 3 (12.00%) Jaeger
6 3 (12.00%) Vagrant
6 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
7 1 (4.00%) CircleCI
7 1 (4.00%) GitLab
General
1 6 (24.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
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%) Data Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Tester
4 1 (4.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Lead
4 1 (4.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Technical Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) 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%) Middleware
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) PySpark
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 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (44.00%) Agile
1 11 (44.00%) DevOps
1 11 (44.00%) TDD
2 10 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
4 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 5 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 5 (20.00%) Change Management
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (20.00%) ITSM
4 5 (20.00%) Microservices
4 5 (20.00%) SIEM
4 5 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Java
2 11 (44.00%) Python
3 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (28.00%) Kotlin
5 6 (24.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (24.00%) Shell Script
6 5 (20.00%) Groovy
7 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 3 (12.00%) Ruby
7 3 (12.00%) SQL
8 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Docker
3 3 (12.00%) VirtualBox
4 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
3 6 (24.00%) Grafana
4 3 (12.00%) Control-M
4 3 (12.00%) Istio
4 3 (12.00%) Kiali
4 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (12.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (4.00%) SCOM
5 1 (4.00%) Terraform
5 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Splunk
2 4 (16.00%) AppDynamics
3 3 (12.00%) xMatters
4 2 (8.00%) Google
4 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) Databricks
5 1 (4.00%) Dell
5 1 (4.00%) HP
5 1 (4.00%) IBM