GitHub Copilot Contracts

GitHub Copilot
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.027% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £460 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 - -
75th Percentile £517 - -
90th Percentile £529 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub Copilot as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub Copilot in the UK

GitHub Copilot
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Work from Home - 3 £490 - 1
London - 2 £490 - 6
England - 2 £490 - 8
Scotland - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - - 5

GitHub Copilot
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) dbt
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Release Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Security Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) DevSecOps
2 2 (66.67%) Machine Learning
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Balanced Scorecard
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce