GitHub Contracts

GitHub
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 156 130
Rank change year-on-year +30 -26 +2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 643 688 1,204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.20% 1.58% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.85% 4.88% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 448 815
10th Percentile £374 £398 £413
25th Percentile £438 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% +6.67%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £700
90th Percentile £710 £675 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £528 £565
% change year-on-year -5.26% -6.59% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 8
10th Percentile £25.25 £27.75 £31.25
25th Percentile £25.72 £31.25 £37.25
Median hourly rate £27.38 £67.00 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% +22.94% -0.91%
75th Percentile £58.44 £70.00 £74.00
90th Percentile £68.75 - £87.20
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -3.57% +28.44% -0.91%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 10,997 14,094 22,029
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.61% 32.33% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 10,005 15,924
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 £634 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 348 350
10th Percentile £15.28 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.05 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.43 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £48.56 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.53 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.47% -28.03% +31.31%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +36 516 £525 - 651
London +33 336 £550 +4.76% 378
Work from Home +21 247 £518 -5.91% 474
UK excluding London +39 191 £500 -5.26% 310
North of England +16 64 £475 -11.63% 116
South East +30 42 £500 - 57
Scotland +42 36 £500 -9.09% 22
Yorkshire -3 31 £510 -9.76% 38
North West +18 30 £475 -4.04% 65
South West +42 17 £563 -6.25% 32
East of England +36 15 £550 - 25
Midlands +31 14 £475 +18.75% 38
West Midlands +23 11 £463 +23.33% 28
Wales -22 7 £506 -3.76% 14
East Midlands +10 3 £500 +13.64% 9
North East -1 3 £419 -11.84% 14
Northern Ireland -10 1 £550 - 10

GitHub
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:

Application Platforms
1 46 (7.15%) Confluence
2 30 (4.67%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.64%) Apache
4 12 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 6 (0.93%) CMS
6 4 (0.62%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.62%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.47%) IIS
7 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.47%) WordPress
8 2 (0.31%) Camunda
8 2 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
8 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.16%) Gunicorn
9 1 (0.16%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (0.78%) Trello
2 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (0.31%) SAP ERP
1 2 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (0.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.16%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.16%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 308 (47.90%) AWS
2 236 (36.70%) Azure
3 230 (35.77%) GitHub Actions
4 112 (17.42%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (13.53%) Serverless
6 71 (11.04%) AWS Lambda
7 70 (10.89%) GCP
8 54 (8.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 51 (7.93%) Amazon EKS
10 43 (6.69%) Amazon S3
11 39 (6.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 38 (5.91%) dbt
12 38 (5.91%) Power Platform
13 28 (4.35%) SaaS
14 25 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (3.89%) AWS CodePipeline
15 24 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
16 23 (3.58%) Azure AKS
16 23 (3.58%) Entra ID
16 23 (3.58%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.62%) DNS
2 24 (3.73%) Firewall
3 22 (3.42%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.80%) SMTP
5 16 (2.49%) HTTP
6 13 (2.02%) Network Security
7 12 (1.87%) VPN
8 10 (1.56%) DHCP
9 7 (1.09%) SSL
10 6 (0.93%) VSAN
11 4 (0.62%) BGP
11 4 (0.62%) FTP
11 4 (0.62%) Kerberos
11 4 (0.62%) OSPF
12 3 (0.47%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.31%) IPv6
13 2 (0.31%) LAN
13 2 (0.31%) SAN
13 2 (0.31%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (8.55%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.53%) Data Warehouse
3 39 (6.07%) SQL Server
4 33 (5.13%) Power BI
5 32 (4.98%) DynamoDB
5 32 (4.98%) NoSQL
6 27 (4.20%) Amazon RDS
7 17 (2.64%) MongoDB
8 15 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.18%) Amazon Athena
9 14 (2.18%) MySQL
10 13 (2.02%) Big Data
10 13 (2.02%) Metadata
11 12 (1.87%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.87%) Relational Database
12 11 (1.71%) Redis
13 10 (1.56%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 154 (23.95%) Jenkins
2 103 (16.02%) Git
3 94 (14.62%) JIRA
4 79 (12.29%) GitLab
5 29 (4.51%) Bitbucket
6 26 (4.04%) Cypress.io
7 25 (3.89%) Postman
8 22 (3.42%) Subversion
9 21 (3.27%) CircleCI
10 19 (2.95%) Cucumber
11 18 (2.80%) Selenium
12 17 (2.64%) JMeter
13 15 (2.33%) TeamCity
14 14 (2.18%) JUnit
15 12 (1.87%) Artifactory
15 12 (1.87%) git-flow
15 12 (1.87%) REST Assured
16 10 (1.56%) SonarQube
16 10 (1.56%) Terragrunt
16 10 (1.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 182 (28.30%) Social Skills
2 107 (16.64%) Finance
3 65 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.47%) Banking
5 46 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.95%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.33%) Marketing
8 13 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (2.02%) Retail
9 8 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.24%) Telecoms
10 6 (0.93%) Front Office
10 6 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.78%) Legal
11 5 (0.78%) Military
12 4 (0.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.47%) Electronics
13 3 (0.47%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.16%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 151 (23.48%) Developer
2 92 (14.31%) Senior
3 84 (13.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 65 (10.11%) Architect
5 57 (8.86%) Lead
6 56 (8.71%) AWS Engineer
7 48 (7.47%) Data Engineer
8 42 (6.53%) Azure Engineer
9 39 (6.07%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (5.91%) Python Developer
11 33 (5.13%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.82%) Platform Engineer
13 26 (4.04%) AWS DevOps
13 26 (4.04%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 25 (3.89%) Senior Developer
15 22 (3.42%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 22 (3.42%) Full-Stack Developer
16 18 (2.80%) Python Engineer
17 16 (2.49%) Senior DevOps
17 16 (2.49%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (12.13%) REST
2 60 (9.33%) React
3 58 (9.02%) Node.js
4 57 (8.86%) Kafka
5 39 (6.07%) RESTful
6 34 (5.29%) .NET
7 33 (5.13%) JSON
8 31 (4.82%) HTML
8 31 (4.82%) OAuth
9 28 (4.35%) CSS
9 28 (4.35%) Spring Boot
10 24 (3.73%) AWS CDK
11 23 (3.58%) Pandas
12 22 (3.42%) AngularJS
13 21 (3.27%) Jinja
13 21 (3.27%) NumPy
13 21 (3.27%) pytest
13 21 (3.27%) Spring
14 20 (3.11%) OpenTelemetry
14 20 (3.11%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.84%) Cloud Native
2 24 (3.73%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
6 13 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 12 (1.87%) Clustering
8 11 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 10 (1.56%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.40%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.40%) Replication
11 8 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
13 5 (0.78%) Security Posture
14 4 (0.62%) Life Science
14 4 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 86 (13.37%) Linux
2 45 (7.00%) Windows
3 25 (3.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.71%) Unix
6 10 (1.56%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.40%) Solaris
7 9 (1.40%) VMS
8 8 (1.24%) Android
9 7 (1.09%) Apple iOS
10 5 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.62%) CentOS
12 2 (0.31%) SUSE
12 2 (0.31%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.31%) zOS
13 1 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (57.08%) CI/CD
2 296 (46.03%) DevOps
3 208 (32.35%) Agile
4 160 (24.88%) Infrastructure as Code
5 110 (17.11%) Test Automation
6 104 (16.17%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (15.55%) Analytics
8 93 (14.46%) Containerisation
9 77 (11.98%) Software Engineering
10 75 (11.66%) Microservices
11 58 (9.02%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (8.09%) Scrum
13 50 (7.78%) Data Pipeline
14 48 (7.47%) Data Modelling
15 46 (7.15%) Artificial Intelligence
16 45 (7.00%) Business Intelligence
16 45 (7.00%) High Availability
17 44 (6.84%) ETL
18 42 (6.53%) Cloud Security
19 41 (6.38%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 298 (46.35%) Python
2 137 (21.31%) SQL
3 97 (15.09%) Java
4 94 (14.62%) JavaScript
5 75 (11.66%) PowerShell
6 68 (10.58%) TypeScript
7 59 (9.18%) Bash
8 41 (6.38%) C#
9 24 (3.73%) Kotlin
10 23 (3.58%) Go
11 18 (2.80%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.64%) Perl
13 16 (2.49%) Bicep
14 13 (2.02%) C++
14 13 (2.02%) PHP
15 12 (1.87%) R
16 11 (1.71%) Scala
17 10 (1.56%) Groovy
18 9 (1.40%) Ruby
18 9 (1.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (19.60%) Security Cleared
2 101 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.22%) Degree
4 27 (4.20%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.56%) Azure Certification
8 8 (1.24%) DV Cleared
9 7 (1.09%) Master's Degree
10 6 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.93%) OCP
10 6 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (0.47%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 3 (0.47%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.47%) VCAP
11 3 (0.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 2 (0.31%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.31%) Sun Certification
12 2 (0.31%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.55%) QA
2 18 (2.80%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.80%) GDPR
2 18 (2.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 14 (2.18%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 6 (0.93%) WCAG
6 5 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.62%) GxP
7 4 (0.62%) NCSC
7 4 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.31%) NIST
9 1 (0.16%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.16%) HL7
9 1 (0.16%) SLA
9 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (22.40%) Docker
2 29 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.24%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.93%) NFS
6 6 (0.93%) vSphere
7 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.62%) Veritas File System
8 4 (0.62%) Veritas Volume Manager
9 3 (0.47%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 3 (0.47%) Lustre
9 3 (0.47%) VirtualBox
10 2 (0.31%) Ceph
10 2 (0.31%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.16%) Firmware
11 1 (0.16%) LXC
11 1 (0.16%) Microcode
11 1 (0.16%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 241 (37.48%) Terraform
2 195 (30.33%) Kubernetes
3 108 (16.80%) Ansible
4 42 (6.53%) Grafana
5 31 (4.82%) Prometheus
6 20 (3.11%) Puppet
7 17 (2.64%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.33%) Argo
9 10 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
10 9 (1.40%) QRadar
11 8 (1.24%) Istio
12 7 (1.09%) Packer
12 7 (1.09%) Tivoli
12 7 (1.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 5 (0.78%) Consul
13 5 (0.78%) Control-M
13 5 (0.78%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (0.78%) VxRail
14 4 (0.62%) Kustomize
14 4 (0.62%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 51 (7.93%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.15%) Google
3 35 (5.44%) Splunk
4 31 (4.82%) Databricks
5 27 (4.20%) Red Hat
6 26 (4.04%) VMware
7 20 (3.11%) Oracle
8 19 (2.95%) Salesforce
9 17 (2.64%) SAP
10 16 (2.49%) ServiceNow
11 12 (1.87%) IBM
12 11 (1.71%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.71%) Dell
12 11 (1.71%) Qualys
13 9 (1.40%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.24%) Cisco
14 8 (1.24%) SaltStack
15 7 (1.09%) Confluent
15 7 (1.09%) Dynatrace
15 7 (1.09%) New Relic