GitHub Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 162 225
Rank change year-on-year -45 +63 -34
Contract jobs citing GitHub 202 388 365
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.97% 1.59% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.67% 4.78% 3.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 292 257
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £470 £456 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +15.38%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -12.50% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile - £31.35 £20.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £44.63 £35.19
Median hourly rate £67.50 £54.50 £54.63
Median % change year-on-year +23.85% -0.23% +149.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £64.63 £55.00
90th Percentile - £77.45 £58.13
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.61% -0.91% +4.27%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,509 8,111 10,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.50% 33.28% 32.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,895 6,016 7,353
10th Percentile £213 £240 £206
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £495
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +1.01% +10.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £669
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 245 303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.70 £23.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.03% +25.95% -7.50%
75th Percentile £26.50 £65.00 £24.50
90th Percentile £59.95 £70.16 £53.90
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £32.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year -35.38% +54.39% -7.51%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England -8 69 £500 -9.09% 66
South East +12 57 £530 -7.83% 31
Yorkshire +9 40 £550 +4.76% 27
Wales +48 34 £525 -12.46% 10
North West +30 26 £500 +2.04% 33
South West -53 17 £550 -10.20% 27
East of England -9 10 £550 -21.43% 13
Midlands -14 9 £420 -23.64% 23
East Midlands +7 6 £440 -37.14% 10
Scotland +21 5 £588 -2.08% 16
North East -18 3 £475 -15.93% 8
West Midlands -24 3 £375 -31.82% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 5
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (7.92%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.99%) Apache
4 2 (0.99%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.99%) nginx
4 2 (0.99%) WordPress
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.47%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.99%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.19%) Azure
2 55 (27.23%) AWS
3 54 (26.73%) GitHub Actions
4 20 (9.90%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (8.91%) GCP
6 16 (7.92%) Serverless
7 8 (3.96%) Azure Functions
8 7 (3.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.97%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.48%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (2.48%) Azure Service Bus
10 5 (2.48%) BrowserStack
10 5 (2.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (1.98%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.98%) Route 53
12 3 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.49%) Datadog
12 3 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.95%) Firewall
2 7 (3.47%) DNS
3 6 (2.97%) VPN
4 4 (1.98%) Cisco ASA
5 3 (1.49%) DMZ
6 2 (0.99%) SAN
6 2 (0.99%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.50%) BGP
7 1 (0.50%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 1 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 1 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (0.50%) HTTP
7 1 (0.50%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.50%) LAN
7 1 (0.50%) OSPF
7 1 (0.50%) SNA
7 1 (0.50%) SSL
7 1 (0.50%) WAN
7 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.85%) MySQL
2 24 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (6.93%) SQL Server
4 13 (6.44%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.45%) NoSQL
6 8 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (3.96%) Redis
7 7 (3.47%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (2.97%) Couchbase
8 6 (2.97%) Metadata
8 6 (2.97%) MongoDB
8 6 (2.97%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.48%) InterSystems Cache
10 4 (1.98%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.98%) GIS
10 4 (1.98%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.98%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.49%) Oracle Database 12c
11 3 (1.49%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 60 (29.70%) Jenkins
2 48 (23.76%) GitLab
3 36 (17.82%) Git
4 29 (14.36%) JIRA
5 19 (9.41%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.45%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.95%) Cucumber
7 10 (4.95%) Postman
8 9 (4.46%) JUnit
9 7 (3.47%) LoadRunner
9 7 (3.47%) Selenium
9 7 (3.47%) SonarQube
10 6 (2.97%) Sonatype Nexus
11 5 (2.48%) AppScan
11 5 (2.48%) Burp Suite
12 4 (1.98%) CircleCI
12 4 (1.98%) Storybook
13 3 (1.49%) Appium
13 3 (1.49%) GoogleTest
13 3 (1.49%) Gradle
General
1 39 (19.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (9.90%) Public Sector
3 14 (6.93%) Finance
4 8 (3.96%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.47%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.99%) Automotive
8 2 (0.99%) Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Law
8 2 (0.99%) Marketing
8 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.50%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.50%) Back Office
9 1 (0.50%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (29.70%) Developer
2 17 (8.42%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (6.93%) Software Engineer
4 13 (6.44%) Project Manager
4 13 (6.44%) Storage Manager
5 12 (5.94%) Architect
6 11 (5.45%) Migration Manager
6 11 (5.45%) Migration Project Manager
7 9 (4.46%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (3.96%) Full Stack Engineer
8 8 (3.96%) Java Engineer
8 8 (3.96%) Senior
9 7 (3.47%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (3.47%) Site Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 7 (3.47%) Tester
10 6 (2.97%) Database Specialist
10 6 (2.97%) Software Developer
10 6 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.97%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (9.90%) React
2 18 (8.91%) REST
3 15 (7.43%) Node.js
3 15 (7.43%) YAML
4 12 (5.94%) Vue
5 8 (3.96%) HTML
5 8 (3.96%) Jest
5 8 (3.96%) Laravel
6 7 (3.47%) CSS
6 7 (3.47%) JSON
6 7 (3.47%) Playwright
6 7 (3.47%) Spring Boot
7 6 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
7 6 (2.97%) RESTful
7 6 (2.97%) Spring
7 6 (2.97%) XML
8 5 (2.48%) .NET
8 5 (2.48%) Kafka
8 5 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.48%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.42%) Product Ownership
2 14 (6.93%) Data Centre
3 10 (4.95%) Linux Command Line
4 9 (4.46%) Clustering
4 9 (4.46%) Replication
5 7 (3.47%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.47%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.99%) IoT
9 2 (0.99%) Legacy Code
9 2 (0.99%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.99%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.99%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.50%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.50%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.50%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 49 (24.26%) Linux
2 15 (7.43%) zOS
3 13 (6.44%) Unix
4 10 (4.95%) Windows
5 4 (1.98%) Android
5 4 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.49%) AIX
6 3 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.99%) Debian
7 2 (0.99%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.50%) VMS
8 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (52.48%) Agile
2 75 (37.13%) CI/CD
3 59 (29.21%) DevOps
4 43 (21.29%) Test Automation
5 41 (20.30%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (16.34%) Project Management
6 33 (16.34%) Scrum
7 28 (13.86%) Migration
8 26 (12.87%) Containerisation
9 25 (12.38%) Full Stack Development
9 25 (12.38%) Infrastructure as Code
10 23 (11.39%) Storage Management
11 22 (10.89%) Software Engineering
12 20 (9.90%) SDLC
13 16 (7.92%) Configuration Management
13 16 (7.92%) Software Testing
13 16 (7.92%) TDD
14 15 (7.43%) High Availability
14 15 (7.43%) Problem Management
15 14 (6.93%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 66 (32.67%) Python
2 33 (16.34%) Java
3 27 (13.37%) JavaScript
3 27 (13.37%) SQL
4 24 (11.88%) TypeScript
5 23 (11.39%) Bash
6 22 (10.89%) PHP
7 18 (8.91%) PowerShell
8 15 (7.43%) JCL
8 15 (7.43%) REXX
9 10 (4.95%) Go
9 10 (4.95%) Shell Script
10 7 (3.47%) Kotlin
11 6 (2.97%) C#
12 5 (2.48%) C++
13 4 (1.98%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.98%) Bicep
14 3 (1.49%) PL/SQL
15 2 (0.99%) C
15 2 (0.99%) Scala
Qualifications
1 44 (21.78%) Security Cleared
2 41 (20.30%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.41%) Degree
4 6 (2.97%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.98%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.99%) SANS
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.50%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (14.85%) QA
2 8 (3.96%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.48%) NIST
4 3 (1.49%) MISRA
4 3 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.99%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.50%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (11.39%) Docker
2 15 (7.43%) NFS
2 15 (7.43%) Time Sharing Option
3 10 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.46%) vSphere
5 5 (2.48%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.98%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.98%) zsh
7 3 (1.49%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.99%) Varnish
8 2 (0.99%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.50%) IAG
9 1 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 50 (24.75%) Terraform
2 43 (21.29%) Ansible
3 28 (13.86%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 13 (6.44%) Argo
6 10 (4.95%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 8 (3.96%) Grafana
7 8 (3.96%) Puppet
8 6 (2.97%) Nessus
8 6 (2.97%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.97%) Prometheus
9 5 (2.48%) Graylog
9 5 (2.48%) HP Fortify
9 5 (2.48%) WebInspect
10 3 (1.49%) Data Guard
10 3 (1.49%) Packer
10 3 (1.49%) VxRail
11 2 (0.99%) Nagios
11 2 (0.99%) OPNET
11 2 (0.99%) vRealize
Vendors
1 28 (13.86%) Microsoft
1 28 (13.86%) Oracle
2 20 (9.90%) Atlassian
3 18 (8.91%) Dell
4 15 (7.43%) Broadcom
4 15 (7.43%) Brocade
4 15 (7.43%) CA
4 15 (7.43%) IBM
5 14 (6.93%) VMware
6 10 (4.95%) Red Hat
6 10 (4.95%) SolarWinds
7 9 (4.46%) Google
8 8 (3.96%) Splunk
9 6 (2.97%) Cisco
9 6 (2.97%) Salesforce
10 5 (2.48%) Checkmarx
10 5 (2.48%) Veracode
11 4 (1.98%) Palo Alto
12 3 (1.49%) Foundry
12 3 (1.49%) ServiceNow