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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 158 226
Rank change year-on-year -58 +68 -35
Contract jobs citing GitHub 196 388 363
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.94% 1.59% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.56% 4.77% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 293 258
10th Percentile £400 £400 £404
25th Percentile £465 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +7.62% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £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 2 4 8
10th Percentile - £31.35 £20.75
25th Percentile £22.50 £44.63 £35.19
Median hourly rate £25.00 £54.50 £54.63
Median % change year-on-year -54.13% -0.23% +149.89%
75th Percentile £27.50 £64.63 £55.00
90th Percentile - £77.45 £58.13
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -40.37% -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 5,506 8,126 10,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.45% 33.33% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,898 6,035 7,372
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 £668
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 241 305
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.18
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £23.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.59% +25.14% -7.50%
75th Percentile £26.50 £63.75 £24.75
90th Percentile £59.50 £70.26 £53.55
UK median hourly rate £20.99 £31.40 £21.20
% change year-on-year -33.17% +48.10% -6.84%

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 18 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
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 18 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 -18 67 £500 -9.09% 92
South East +21 57 £530 -7.83% 42
Yorkshire +1 37 £525 - 37
Wales +46 34 £525 -12.46% 14
North West +28 27 £500 +2.04% 46
South West -65 13 £550 -10.20% 29
Midlands -11 9 £420 -23.64% 40
East of England -12 9 £533 -23.93% 23
Scotland +20 6 £550 -8.33% 23
East Midlands +7 6 £440 -37.14% 17
North East -18 3 £475 -15.93% 11
West Midlands -18 3 £375 -31.82% 23
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 7
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 (8.16%) Confluence
2 6 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.02%) Apache
4 2 (1.02%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.02%) nginx
4 2 (1.02%) WordPress
5 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (31.12%) Azure
2 53 (27.04%) AWS
3 51 (26.02%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (9.18%) GCP
6 16 (8.16%) Serverless
7 8 (4.08%) Azure Functions
8 6 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (3.06%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.55%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (2.55%) BrowserStack
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (2.04%) Amazon S3
10 4 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.53%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.53%) Datadog
11 3 (1.53%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.59%) Firewall
2 7 (3.57%) DNS
3 6 (3.06%) VPN
4 3 (1.53%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.53%) DMZ
5 2 (1.02%) SAN
5 2 (1.02%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.51%) BGP
6 1 (0.51%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 1 (0.51%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (0.51%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.51%) HTTP
6 1 (0.51%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.51%) LAN
6 1 (0.51%) OSPF
6 1 (0.51%) SNA
6 1 (0.51%) SSL
6 1 (0.51%) WAN
6 1 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (13.78%) MySQL
2 24 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (5.61%) NoSQL
3 11 (5.61%) SQL Server
4 10 (5.10%) Relational Database
5 8 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (4.08%) Redis
6 7 (3.57%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (3.06%) Couchbase
7 6 (3.06%) Metadata
7 6 (3.06%) MongoDB
7 6 (3.06%) Oracle Database
8 5 (2.55%) InterSystems Cache
9 4 (2.04%) BigQuery
9 4 (2.04%) Data Lake
9 4 (2.04%) GIS
9 4 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (2.04%) RDBMS
10 3 (1.53%) Oracle Database 12c
10 3 (1.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 53 (27.04%) Jenkins
2 46 (23.47%) GitLab
3 37 (18.88%) Git
4 25 (12.76%) JIRA
5 19 (9.69%) Cypress.io
6 11 (5.61%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.10%) Cucumber
7 10 (5.10%) Postman
8 9 (4.59%) JUnit
9 7 (3.57%) LoadRunner
9 7 (3.57%) Selenium
10 6 (3.06%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.04%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.04%) SonarQube
11 4 (2.04%) Storybook
12 3 (1.53%) Appium
12 3 (1.53%) Gradle
12 3 (1.53%) Maven
12 3 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
13 2 (1.02%) JMeter
General
1 40 (20.41%) Social Skills
2 21 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 13 (6.63%) Finance
4 8 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.53%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.02%) Banking
8 2 (1.02%) Marketing
8 2 (1.02%) Retail
9 1 (0.51%) Automotive
9 1 (0.51%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Law
9 1 (0.51%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 60 (30.61%) Developer
2 18 (9.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (6.63%) Project Manager
3 13 (6.63%) Storage Manager
4 11 (5.61%) Architect
4 11 (5.61%) Migration Manager
4 11 (5.61%) Migration Project Manager
5 10 (5.10%) Software Engineer
6 9 (4.59%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
7 8 (4.08%) Senior
8 7 (3.57%) Data Engineer
8 7 (3.57%) Full Stack Developer
8 7 (3.57%) Tester
9 6 (3.06%) Database Specialist
9 6 (3.06%) PHP Developer
9 6 (3.06%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.06%) Software Developer
9 6 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.06%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.20%) React
2 18 (9.18%) REST
3 15 (7.65%) Node.js
3 15 (7.65%) YAML
4 12 (6.12%) Vue
5 8 (4.08%) HTML
5 8 (4.08%) Jest
5 8 (4.08%) Laravel
6 7 (3.57%) CSS
6 7 (3.57%) JSON
6 7 (3.57%) Playwright
6 7 (3.57%) Spring Boot
7 6 (3.06%) RESTful
7 6 (3.06%) Spring
7 6 (3.06%) XML
8 5 (2.55%) .NET
8 5 (2.55%) Kafka
8 5 (2.55%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (2.55%) SignalR
9 4 (2.04%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.67%) Product Ownership
2 14 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.59%) Clustering
3 9 (4.59%) Replication
4 8 (4.08%) Linux Command Line
5 7 (3.57%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.02%) IoT
9 2 (1.02%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
9 2 (1.02%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.51%) Augmented Reality
10 1 (0.51%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
10 1 (0.51%) PKI
10 1 (0.51%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.94%) Linux
2 15 (7.65%) zOS
3 13 (6.63%) Unix
4 10 (5.10%) Windows
5 4 (2.04%) Android
5 4 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.53%) AIX
6 3 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.02%) Debian
7 2 (1.02%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.51%) VMS
8 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (52.04%) Agile
2 70 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 55 (28.06%) DevOps
4 43 (21.94%) Test Automation
5 38 (19.39%) Continuous Integration
6 33 (16.84%) Scrum
7 30 (15.31%) Project Management
8 28 (14.29%) Migration
9 25 (12.76%) Full Stack Development
10 24 (12.24%) Containerisation
11 23 (11.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 23 (11.73%) Storage Management
12 20 (10.20%) SDLC
13 18 (9.18%) Software Engineering
14 16 (8.16%) Software Testing
14 16 (8.16%) TDD
15 15 (7.65%) High Availability
15 15 (7.65%) Problem Management
16 14 (7.14%) Configuration Management
16 14 (7.14%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 62 (31.63%) Python
2 29 (14.80%) Java
3 27 (13.78%) JavaScript
3 27 (13.78%) SQL
4 24 (12.24%) TypeScript
5 22 (11.22%) PHP
6 20 (10.20%) Bash
7 15 (7.65%) JCL
7 15 (7.65%) PowerShell
7 15 (7.65%) REXX
8 10 (5.10%) Go
8 10 (5.10%) Shell Script
9 7 (3.57%) Kotlin
10 6 (3.06%) C#
11 4 (2.04%) Apex Code
11 4 (2.04%) Bicep
12 3 (1.53%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.02%) C
13 2 (1.02%) Scala
13 2 (1.02%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 43 (21.94%) Security Cleared
2 40 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 19 (9.69%) Degree
4 6 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.02%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.02%) SANS
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.51%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (13.78%) QA
2 8 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.55%) NIST
4 3 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.02%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.51%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.51%) NCSC
6 1 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (10.71%) Docker
2 15 (7.65%) NFS
2 15 (7.65%) Time Sharing Option
3 10 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.59%) vSphere
5 5 (2.55%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.04%) Active Directory
6 4 (2.04%) zsh
7 3 (1.53%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.53%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (1.02%) Varnish
8 2 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.51%) IAG
9 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 47 (23.98%) Terraform
2 40 (20.41%) Ansible
3 25 (12.76%) Kubernetes
4 15 (7.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 13 (6.63%) Argo
6 10 (5.10%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 5 (2.55%) Grafana
7 5 (2.55%) Puppet
8 3 (1.53%) Data Guard
8 3 (1.53%) Nessus
8 3 (1.53%) Packer
8 3 (1.53%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (1.53%) VxRail
9 2 (1.02%) Graylog
9 2 (1.02%) HAProxy
9 2 (1.02%) HP Fortify
9 2 (1.02%) Nagios
9 2 (1.02%) OPNET
9 2 (1.02%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 28 (14.29%) Oracle
2 27 (13.78%) Microsoft
3 20 (10.20%) Atlassian
4 18 (9.18%) Dell
5 15 (7.65%) Broadcom
5 15 (7.65%) Brocade
5 15 (7.65%) CA
5 15 (7.65%) IBM
6 14 (7.14%) VMware
7 10 (5.10%) Red Hat
7 10 (5.10%) SolarWinds
8 6 (3.06%) Google
8 6 (3.06%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.55%) Cisco
9 5 (2.55%) Splunk
10 3 (1.53%) Foundry
10 3 (1.53%) Informatica
10 3 (1.53%) Palantir
10 3 (1.53%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.53%) ServiceNow