GitHub Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

GitHub
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	28	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing GitHub	1	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire	0.51%	-	-
As % of the Cloud Services category	2.63%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	1	0	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£463	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	-	-
75^th Percentile	£488	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
West Midlands median daily rate	£480	£575	£525
% change year-on-year	-16.52%	+9.52%	+23.53%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Staffordshire

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in Staffordshire.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	38	13	32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire	19.19%	20.97%	26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted	26	7	13
10^th Percentile	£200	£167	£291
25^th Percentile	£210	£205	£306
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£475	£250	£425
Median % change year-on-year	+90.00%	-41.18%	-
75^th Percentile	£703	£456	£475
90^th Percentile	£850	£633	£558
West Midlands median daily rate	£475	£501	£500
% change year-on-year	-5.09%	+0.10%	+8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted	0	0	2
10^th Percentile	-	-	£34.04
25^th Percentile	-	-	£34.20
Median hourly rate	-	-	£34.47
75^th Percentile	-	-	£34.73
90^th Percentile	-	-	£34.89
West Midlands median hourly rate	£21.50	£30.00	£33.93
% change year-on-year	-28.33%	-11.58%	+83.41%

GitHub Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

GitHub Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

GitHub Top 23 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire

For the 6 months to 1 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Staffordshire region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	100.0%	1
1	Agile	100.0%	1
1	AI	100.0%	1
1	Architectural Patterns	100.0%	1
1	Blazor	100.0%	1
1	C#	100.0%	1
1	Claude Code	100.0%	1
1	CSS	100.0%	1
1	CSS3	100.0%	1
1	Design Patterns	100.0%	1
1	Digital Transformation Programme	100.0%	1
1	Front End Development	100.0%	1
1	GitHub Copilot	100.0%	1
1	HTML	100.0%	1
1	HTML5	100.0%	1
1	JavaScript	100.0%	1
1	Project Delivery	100.0%	1
1	QA	100.0%	1
1	Scrum	100.0%	1
1	Software Architecture	100.0%	1
1	Software Engineering	100.0%	1
1	User Experience	100.0%	1
1	WebAssembly	100.0%	1

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub Copilot	100.0%	1