GitHub Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitHub
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 127 126
Rank change year-on-year +53 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 28 18 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.85% 0.67% 0.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.48% 2.38% 2.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 10
10th Percentile £412 £438 £502
25th Percentile £482 £475 £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £688
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -29.09% +37.50%
75th Percentile - £616 £711
90th Percentile £588 £623 £716
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £575
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +9.52%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 511 755 844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.82% 28.11% 28.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 515 615
10th Percentile £304 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £608 £625
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £501 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 30 20
10th Percentile £20.96 £15.99 £18.42
25th Percentile £28.05 £19.37 £21.49
Median hourly rate £32.05 £42.50 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year -24.59% +40.59% +43.95%
75th Percentile £47.15 £59.95 £59.25
90th Percentile £76.51 £61.60 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.50 £22.36 £24.50
% change year-on-year +27.47% -8.74% +16.39%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the Thames Valley

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the Thames Valley

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the Thames Valley

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the Thames Valley

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +47 21 £500 -18.70% 22
Buckinghamshire +12 7 £421 -11.47% 21
GitHub
South East

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (7.14%) Camunda
1 2 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (67.86%) AWS
2 17 (60.71%) Azure
3 11 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
4 8 (28.57%) Serverless
5 4 (14.29%) PaaS
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.71%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (10.71%) GCP
6 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (10.71%) SaaS
7 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (7.14%) IaaS
7 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
8 1 (3.57%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (3.57%) AWS Elastic Beanstalk
8 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) BGP
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (7.14%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (7.14%) IPv6
1 2 (7.14%) OSPF
1 2 (7.14%) SAN
1 2 (7.14%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (7.14%) TACACS
1 2 (7.14%) VSAN
2 1 (3.57%) Firewall
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (14.29%) Big Data
2 4 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 4 (14.29%) MySQL
3 3 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Git
1 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.86%) GitLab
3 2 (7.14%) JIRA
3 2 (7.14%) Terragrunt
4 1 (3.57%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.57%) Postman
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.86%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) AWS Engineer
2 8 (28.57%) Azure Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Platform Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Java Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (7.14%) Technical Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Data Analyst
7 1 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) JSON
2 3 (10.71%) Django
2 3 (10.71%) FastAPI
2 3 (10.71%) Flask
2 3 (10.71%) RESTful
3 2 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 2 (7.14%) Kafka
3 2 (7.14%) Keycloak
3 2 (7.14%) OpenJDK
3 2 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.14%) YAML
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ADO
4 1 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.57%) Node.js
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) React
4 1 (3.57%) Serverless Framework
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Replication
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
3 4 (14.29%) Ubuntu
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) DevOps
2 15 (53.57%) CI/CD
3 7 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (21.43%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (21.43%) High Availability
4 6 (21.43%) Microservices
4 6 (21.43%) Open Source
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
5 5 (17.86%) DevSecOps
5 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Customer-Centric Approach
6 4 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
6 4 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (14.29%) Server Building
7 3 (10.71%) Information Security
7 3 (10.71%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 19 (67.86%) Python
2 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Bicep
3 3 (10.71%) Java
3 3 (10.71%) SQL
4 1 (3.57%) C#
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certification
2 2 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) NCSC
3 1 (3.57%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) Ceph
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (35.71%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Puppet
4 2 (7.14%) Argo
4 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Databricks
3 2 (7.14%) Cisco
3 2 (7.14%) Dell
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.57%) New Relic
4 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.57%) Snow
4 1 (3.57%) Splunk