GitHub Contract Job Trends in Somerset

GitHub
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.78% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £575
% change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% -6.12%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 144 38 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 42.73% 26.39% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 31 24
10th Percentile £350 £406 £198
25th Percentile £403 £419 £253
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -23.01%
75th Percentile £575 £620 £525
90th Percentile £628 £638 £536
South West median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 0 3
10th Percentile £25.60 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - £12.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £13.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -31.58%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £15.89
% change year-on-year +210.64% +16.49% -69.25%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Somerset

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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
Taunton - 6 £450 -
GitHub
South West

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
2 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
2 2 (33.33%) PaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) IntelliJ
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Administrator
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 2 (33.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) DevSecOps
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft