GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in the South West

GitHub Copilot
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.15% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.59% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £455 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile £495 - -
England median daily rate £600 £490 -
% change year-on-year +22.57% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

GitHub Copilot 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 850 506 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 25.53% 29.56% 25.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 374 606
10th Percentile £289 £235 £206
25th Percentile £404 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £594
90th Percentile £688 £675 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 29 32
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.13 £12.53
25th Percentile £17.75 £18.13 £14.19
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.87 £16.95
Median % change year-on-year +204.72% +11.36% -68.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £34.50 £70.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 -
England median hourly rate £45.50 £25.98 £21.00
% change year-on-year +75.17% +23.69% -35.19%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend in the South West

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Copilot within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 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
Devon - 2 - - 2
Somerset - 2 £450 - 3
Bristol - 1 £500 -
GitHub Copilot
England

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 2 (40.00%) PaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Firebase
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
2 1 (20.00%) Crashlytics
2 1 (20.00%) fastlane
2 1 (20.00%) Xcode
2 1 (20.00%) XCTest
2 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) iOS Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Core Data
2 1 (20.00%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (40.00%) Wiki
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Analytics
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) AI
2 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (40.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Biometrics
3 1 (20.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (20.00%) iOS Development
3 1 (20.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 1 (20.00%) MVC
3 1 (20.00%) MVVM
3 1 (20.00%) Re-Platforming
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft