GitHub Copilot Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub Copilot over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 369 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.084% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £363 - -
25th Percentile £419 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 - -
75th Percentile £523 - -
90th Percentile £524 - -
UK median daily rate £538 - -

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,741 4,996 7,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.00% 27.00% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 3,447 5,258
10th Percentile £250 £242 £225
25th Percentile £380 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £569 £600 £600
90th Percentile £646 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 201 238
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.13 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £16.06 £16.84
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.37 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -11.70% -20.11% +38.85%
75th Percentile £34.98 £51.91 £60.41
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £23.80 £35.00
% change year-on-year +15.13% -32.00% +59.09%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitHub Copilot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Copilot in the UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Copilot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Copilot in the UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Copilot within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Midlands - 3 £515 -
East Midlands - 2 £518 -
North West - 1 £350 - 9
West Midlands - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £350 - 10
GitHub Copilot
UK

GitHub Copilot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Trainer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) DevSecOps
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Release Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Debt
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCT
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce