GitHub Contract Job Trends in Surrey

GitHub
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -3
Contract jobs citing GitHub 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.74% 0.47% 0.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.11% 1.79% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £658
25th Percentile £513 - £669
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £700
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -50.00% -9.68%
75th Percentile £538 - £744
90th Percentile - - £763
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £575
% change year-on-year - -21.74% +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 142 112 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 34.89% 26.42% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 74 139
10th Percentile - £210 £182
25th Percentile £204 £289 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +5.88% -15.63%
75th Percentile £550 £523 £544
90th Percentile £678 £593 £650
South East median daily rate £488 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -5.34% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £34.99 - £30.94
25th Percentile £38.33 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £43.89 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +145.16%
75th Percentile £49.44 - £50.00
90th Percentile £52.78 - -
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £28.75 £29.66
% change year-on-year -30.43% -3.07% +48.30%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Surrey

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Staines - 2 £525 -
Horley - 1 - -
GitHub
South East

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Architect
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (33.33%) Loki
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Bicep
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (33.33%) JSP 440
2 1 (33.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (33.33%) Argo
3 1 (33.33%) Grafana
3 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
3 1 (33.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft