GitHub Contracts in the South East

GitHub
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 159 190
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 -44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 50 58 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.91% 1.02% 0.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.81% 3.40% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 45
10th Percentile £326 £427 £406
25th Percentile £375 £506 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £600
90th Percentile £613 £709 £683
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year +28.44% -4.39% -4.20%

All Cloud Skills
South East

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,314 1,708 2,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.86% 30.02% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 902 1,242 1,763
10th Percentile £251 £253 £201
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £635 £612
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.51 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.08 £21.28
Median % change year-on-year +0.61% +8.46% +1.07%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £32.30 £21.40
% change year-on-year -34.98% +50.93% +1.06%

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 9 May 2024.

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 9 May 2024. 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 +3 16 £475 -32.14% 9
West Sussex +21 15 £425 -15.00% 2
Hampshire +2 13 £300 -45.45% 14
Buckinghamshire +29 11 £475 -32.86% 3
Berkshire -12 3 £613 -9.26% 3
East Sussex +6 2 £530 -11.67% 2
Oxfordshire +1 2 £431 - 3
Sussex - 2 £350 -
Surrey +8 1 - - 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 5 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (4.00%) nginx
4 1 (2.00%) CMS
4 1 (2.00%) JBoss
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
2 10 (20.00%) Azure
3 8 (16.00%) AWS
4 4 (8.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (8.00%) GCP
4 4 (8.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
6 2 (4.00%) CloudFront
6 2 (4.00%) Datadog
6 2 (4.00%) dbt
6 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (4.00%) Fastly
6 2 (4.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (4.00%) Route 53
6 2 (4.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) DNS
2 2 (4.00%) Firewall
2 2 (4.00%) SAN
2 2 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.00%) HTTP
3 1 (2.00%) SNA
3 1 (2.00%) SSL
3 1 (2.00%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (28.00%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (16.00%) NoSQL
3 6 (12.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 6 (12.00%) Couchbase
3 6 (12.00%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (10.00%) Metadata
5 4 (8.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (8.00%) Data Lake
5 4 (8.00%) MongoDB
6 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
7 2 (4.00%) Power BI
7 2 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (2.00%) Big Data
8 1 (2.00%) MySQL
8 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
8 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Git
1 15 (30.00%) GitLab
2 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
3 4 (8.00%) JIRA
4 3 (6.00%) Bitbucket
4 3 (6.00%) JUnit
5 2 (4.00%) CircleCI
5 2 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (4.00%) Gradle
5 2 (4.00%) JMeter
6 1 (2.00%) Appium
6 1 (2.00%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.00%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.00%) Selenium
6 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.00%) TestNG
General
1 6 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Automotive
4 1 (2.00%) Marketing
4 1 (2.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 15 (30.00%) Developer
2 6 (12.00%) Database Specialist
2 6 (12.00%) Platform Specialist
3 5 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Architect
4 3 (6.00%) Lead
4 3 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) .NET Developer
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 2 (4.00%) Full Stack Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
5 2 (4.00%) Senior
5 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.00%) REST
2 6 (12.00%) Spring
2 6 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 4 (8.00%) .NET
3 4 (8.00%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (6.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) 802.1X
5 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (4.00%) Django
5 2 (4.00%) HornetQ
5 2 (4.00%) Jest
5 2 (4.00%) JSON
5 2 (4.00%) React
5 2 (4.00%) Redux
5 2 (4.00%) RxJava
5 2 (4.00%) VCL
6 1 (2.00%) Dagger
6 1 (2.00%) Retrofit
6 1 (2.00%) Vert.x
6 1 (2.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Clustering
2 8 (16.00%) Linux Command Line
2 8 (16.00%) Replication
3 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (4.00%) IoT
4 2 (4.00%) Legacy Code
4 2 (4.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.00%) Augmented Reality
5 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.00%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) Android
3 3 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (6.00%) Windows
4 2 (4.00%) Debian
4 2 (4.00%) Unix
4 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.00%) Ubuntu
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (36.00%) Agile
2 13 (26.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.00%) DevOps
4 9 (18.00%) High Availability
4 9 (18.00%) Migration
5 8 (16.00%) Capacity Management
5 8 (16.00%) Data Migration
5 8 (16.00%) Database Security
5 8 (16.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (16.00%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (16.00%) Storage Management
5 8 (16.00%) Task Automation
5 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 7 (14.00%) Open Source
7 6 (12.00%) Microservices
7 6 (12.00%) Software Testing
8 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
8 5 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) Python
1 12 (24.00%) SQL
2 10 (20.00%) Bash
3 7 (14.00%) Java
4 5 (10.00%) Go
5 4 (8.00%) Kotlin
6 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.00%) C
7 2 (4.00%) C#
7 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Security Cleared
2 14 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) Degree
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) JSP 440
3 1 (2.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 9 (18.00%) vSphere
2 8 (16.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (12.00%) Docker
4 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
4 3 (6.00%) VMware NSX
5 2 (4.00%) Varnish
5 2 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (38.00%) Terraform
2 13 (26.00%) Ansible
3 9 (18.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (14.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (6.00%) VxRail
6 2 (4.00%) HAProxy
6 2 (4.00%) vRealize
7 1 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (2.00%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.00%) Grafana
7 1 (2.00%) Kibana
7 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (2.00%) Nessus
7 1 (2.00%) Packer
7 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
7 1 (2.00%) Puppet
7 1 (2.00%) SCCM
7 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (30.00%) Oracle
2 11 (22.00%) Red Hat
3 10 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 10 (20.00%) VMware
4 4 (8.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.00%) Dell
6 2 (4.00%) Atmel
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco
6 2 (4.00%) Foundry
6 2 (4.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.00%) Palantir
7 1 (2.00%) Apple
7 1 (2.00%) EMC
7 1 (2.00%) Google
7 1 (2.00%) HP
7 1 (2.00%) LogRhythm
7 1 (2.00%) Micro Focus
7 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.00%) Veritas