GitHub Contract Job Trends in Swindon

GitHub
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 15 21
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 0.83% 4.29% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.35% 11.11% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £526 £476
25th Percentile £456 £547 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £588 £549
Median % change year-on-year -21.28% +7.06% +7.60%
75th Percentile £469 £622 £599
90th Percentile - £639 £622
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £588 £550
% change year-on-year -10.64% +6.82% -13.89%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 23 27 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 19.17% 38.57% 39.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 32
10th Percentile £400 £350 £201
25th Percentile £416 £410 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +0.96% -0.95%
75th Percentile £519 £638 £591
90th Percentile £575 £650 £638
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.43 - -
Median hourly rate £14.57 - £14.36
75th Percentile £14.70 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.50 - £14.50

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Swindon

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing GitHub

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java