GitHub Contracts in the South West

GitHub
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 94 137 78
Rank change year-on-year +43 -59 +50
Contract jobs citing GitHub 17 20 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.01% 0.63% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 2.45% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 91
10th Percentile £446 £475 £400
25th Percentile £473 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £613
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.04% +11.36%
75th Percentile £644 £656 £694
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £600
% change year-on-year - -12.50% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile - £68.88 -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £82.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% -16.67% +54.84%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £86.00
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 491 816 1,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.26% 25.51% 34.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 616 1,019
10th Percentile £235 £205 £287
25th Percentile £406 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £594 £650
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 57
10th Percentile £18.13 £12.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £14.50 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% -72.82% +113.40%
75th Percentile £34.50 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £53.13 £70.00 £78.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the South West

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the South West

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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 within the South West 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
Gloucestershire +18 7 £700 +33.33% 20
Wiltshire +33 4 £575 -11.54% 1
Bristol +14 4 £550 +12.82% 15
Devon +14 2 £425 -29.17% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (17.65%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (23.53%) Serverless
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (11.76%) Amazon EventBridge
4 2 (11.76%) Datadog
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.76%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.88%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.88%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DHCP
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) HTTP
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (23.53%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (17.65%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
5 1 (5.88%) MySQL
5 1 (5.88%) Power BI
5 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
1 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) GitLab
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
General
1 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Aviation
2 1 (5.88%) Law
2 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Software Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) C++ Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Integration Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Scientific Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (17.65%) Node.js
2 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
3 8 (47.06%) DevOps
4 7 (41.18%) Software Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Incident Management
6 2 (11.76%) API Development
6 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
7 1 (5.88%) Application Virtualisation
7 1 (5.88%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (5.88%) Data Strategy
7 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (5.88%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) C++
3 4 (23.53%) Java
4 3 (17.65%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) C
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.88%) Fortran
6 1 (5.88%) Perl
6 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Grafana
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) Jaspersoft
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow