GitHub Contracts in Tyne and Wear

GitHub
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 21 14
Rank change year-on-year -4 -7 +26
DemandTrendContract jobs citing GitHub 7 6 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.13% 3.64% 8.29%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.54% 15.00% 21.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 10
10th Percentile £250 - £338
25th Percentile £363 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -42.31%
75th Percentile £531 - £613
90th Percentile £575 - £850
North East median daily rate £463 - £375
% change year-on-year - - -42.31%

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 107 40 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 47.77% 24.24% 37.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 15 44
10th Percentile £338 £169 £316
25th Percentile £416 £348 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £639 £665 £719
North East median daily rate £475 £463 £473
% change year-on-year +2.70% -2.12% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.33
25th Percentile £12.50 - £31.44
Median hourly rate £13.00 - £32.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +68.14%
75th Percentile £19.13 - £33.31
90th Percentile £29.25 - £33.58
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £46.18 £32.50
% change year-on-year -71.85% +42.09% +44.44%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Tyne and Wear

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Tyne and Wear

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing GitHub

GitHub
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne -4 7 £450 - 6
GitHub
North East

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MadCap Flare
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Search
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Cognitive Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) OpenAPI
1 4 (57.14%) REST
1 4 (57.14%) Swagger
2 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 2 (28.57%) Next.js
2 2 (28.57%) Playwright
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) GatsbyJS
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
3 1 (14.29%) JPA
3 1 (14.29%) JSON
3 1 (14.29%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (14.29%) Node.js
3 1 (14.29%) React
3 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
3 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
2 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Fintech
2 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
2 2 (28.57%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Case Management
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
3 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (14.29%) User Research
3 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) TypeScript
2 1 (14.29%) Java
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform