GitHub Contracts in the Thames Valley

GitHub
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 120 139
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -48
Contract jobs citing GitHub 17 29 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.63% 0.98% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.18% 3.43% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 28
10th Percentile - £415 £415
25th Percentile £475 £543 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £675 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £622 £704 £575
90th Percentile £633 £715 £640
South East median daily rate £521 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -9.35% +6.98% +19.44%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 780 846 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.69% 28.57% 30.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 621 833
10th Percentile £273 £300 £180
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £600
90th Percentile £678 £695 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 20 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £20.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £26.58 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.89% +26.57% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.73 £56.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.15 £21.05
% change year-on-year +0.28% +9.98% -2.21%

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 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 23 April 2024. 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
Buckinghamshire +34 11 £494 -30.21% 4
Berkshire -19 5 £615 -7.17% 4
Oxfordshire +1 1 £488 - 5
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
1 3 (17.65%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) HTTPS
2 1 (5.88%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) DynamoDB
1 2 (11.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) LoadRunner
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Appium
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Eclipse
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) JUnit
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Sourcetree
3 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Automotive
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Marketing
2 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Lead
2 2 (11.76%) Tester
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Tester
3 1 (5.88%) Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Embedded Software Developer
3 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Performance Tester
3 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Consultant
3 1 (5.88%) Software Developer
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
1 3 (17.65%) Spring Boot
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) 802.1X
2 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
2 2 (11.76%) Kafka
2 2 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (5.88%) COM+
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (5.88%) Visualforce
3 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
1 3 (17.65%) DevOps
1 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
1 3 (17.65%) Refactoring
1 3 (17.65%) Validation
2 2 (11.76%) Agile
2 2 (11.76%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
2 2 (11.76%) Embedded Software Development
2 2 (11.76%) Microservices
2 2 (11.76%) OO
2 2 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
2 2 (11.76%) SOLID
2 2 (11.76%) TDD
2 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
2 2 (11.76%) YAGNI
3 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.88%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (5.88%) Product Backlog
3 1 (5.88%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) C
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) Scala
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
3 1 (5.88%) SOQL
3 1 (5.88%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.88%) Puppet
3 1 (5.88%) vRealize
3 1 (5.88%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Atmel
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) LogRhythm
3 1 (5.88%) Marketo
3 1 (5.88%) Micro Focus
3 1 (5.88%) OpenText
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
3 1 (5.88%) VMware