GitHub Contracts in the South East

GitHub
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 117 151 165
Rank change year-on-year +34 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing GitHub 42 54 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.40% 0.97% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.61% 3.93% 3.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 41 34
10th Percentile £313 £350 £415
25th Percentile £415 £375 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +9.52%
75th Percentile - £588 £678
90th Percentile £576 £619 £711
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.38 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.89% +27.27% -1.79%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 911 1,373 1,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 30.27% 24.70% 29.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 924 1,252
10th Percentile £280 £250 £252
25th Percentile £403 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £635
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 52 52
10th Percentile £16.78 £16.25 £17.72
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%
75th Percentile £47.58 £52.38 £67.81
90th Percentile £75.05 £61.59 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the South East

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the South East.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the South East

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the South East

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the South East

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Thames Valley +53 28 £500 +2.56% 37
Berkshire +47 21 £500 -18.70% 13
Buckinghamshire +12 7 £421 -11.47% 11
Hampshire +18 6 £478 +13.81% 11
Surrey +19 3 £450 - 12
West Sussex -1 3 £300 -29.41% 2
East Sussex -2 2 £375 -29.25% 3
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (9.52%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Camunda
3 1 (2.38%) Gunicorn
Cloud Services
1 20 (47.62%) AWS
2 19 (45.24%) Azure
3 12 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (19.05%) Serverless
5 7 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (9.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (9.52%) PaaS
7 3 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (7.14%) GCP
7 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
7 3 (7.14%) SaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (4.76%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (4.76%) IaaS
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (2.38%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (2.38%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 2 (4.76%) BGP
2 2 (4.76%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (4.76%) IPv6
2 2 (4.76%) OSPF
2 2 (4.76%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) Spanning Tree
2 2 (4.76%) TACACS
2 2 (4.76%) VSAN
3 1 (2.38%) Firewall
3 1 (2.38%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (30.95%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (9.52%) Apache Cassandra
2 4 (9.52%) Big Data
2 4 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.52%) MySQL
3 3 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.76%) Redis
4 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Couchbase
5 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.38%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.38%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.38%) ObjectStore
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 6 (14.29%) GitLab
4 5 (11.90%) JIRA
5 2 (4.76%) Terragrunt
6 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.38%) Poetry
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) AWS Engineer
2 9 (21.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (19.05%) Developer
4 6 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 2 (4.76%) Java Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Java Technical Architect
8 2 (4.76%) Senior
8 2 (4.76%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.38%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.38%) Senior Developer
9 1 (2.38%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.67%) Kafka
2 6 (14.29%) JSON
3 5 (11.90%) Flask
4 4 (9.52%) Django
4 4 (9.52%) FastAPI
4 4 (9.52%) Keycloak
4 4 (9.52%) RESTful
4 4 (9.52%) YAML
5 3 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (4.76%) ADO
6 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.76%) Celery
6 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (4.76%) Node.js
6 2 (4.76%) OpenJDK
6 2 (4.76%) REST
6 2 (4.76%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.76%) Web Services
7 1 (2.38%) .NET
7 1 (2.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.76%) Replication
4 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.38%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.38%) GNSS
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 5 (11.90%) Windows Server
4 4 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.76%) VMS
6 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) DevOps
2 22 (52.38%) CI/CD
3 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (19.05%) Platform Engineering
5 8 (19.05%) Scrum
6 7 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 7 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 7 (16.67%) Microservices
7 6 (14.29%) Agile
7 6 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (14.29%) High Availability
7 6 (14.29%) Migration
7 6 (14.29%) Open Source
7 6 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 5 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.90%) DevSecOps
9 4 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
9 4 (9.52%) Customer-Centricity
9 4 (9.52%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 23 (54.76%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (11.90%) SQL
4 4 (9.52%) Go
4 4 (9.52%) Java
5 3 (7.14%) Bash
5 3 (7.14%) Bicep
6 1 (2.38%) C#
6 1 (2.38%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.14%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) QA
2 2 (4.76%) NCSC
3 1 (2.38%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
System Software
1 10 (23.81%) Docker
2 2 (4.76%) Ceph
3 1 (2.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Terraform
2 9 (21.43%) Kubernetes
3 6 (14.29%) Ansible
4 4 (9.52%) Grafana
4 4 (9.52%) Prometheus
5 3 (7.14%) Puppet
6 2 (4.76%) Argo
7 1 (2.38%) Packer
Vendors
1 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Splunk
3 4 (9.52%) Databricks
4 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
5 2 (4.76%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.76%) Cisco
5 2 (4.76%) Dell
6 1 (2.38%) Juniper
6 1 (2.38%) NETGEAR
6 1 (2.38%) New Relic
6 1 (2.38%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.38%) Snow
6 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.38%) TP-LINK
6 1 (2.38%) VMware