GitHub Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

GitHub
East of England > Suffolk

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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.98% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £705 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £738 - -
75th Percentile £772 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £505 £540 £555
% change year-on-year -6.48% -2.70% +13.85%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36 18 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 17.65% 29.03% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 13 21
10th Percentile £325 £203 £185
25th Percentile £413 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £225 £230
Median % change year-on-year +120.00% -2.17% -48.89%
75th Percentile £548 £475 £438
90th Percentile £592 £500 £600
East of England median daily rate £495 £503 £425
% change year-on-year -1.49% +18.24% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.01 - £11.25
Median hourly rate £17.12 £46.18 £11.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.94% +301.57% -
75th Percentile £18.22 - £11.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.39 £21.28 £16.30
% change year-on-year -18.30% +30.55% -25.91%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Suffolk

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Bury St Edmunds - 2 £738 -
GitHub
East of England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Anthropic Claude
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (100.00%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Claude Code
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Principal Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Next.js
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) React
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Experience
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Monorepo
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Product Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes