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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 157 129
Rank change year-on-year +33 -28 +4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 645 690 1,196
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.20% 1.59% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.86% 4.92% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 445 809
10th Percentile £363 £385 £413
25th Percentile £431 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £620 £623 £700
90th Percentile £710 £675 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £568
% change year-on-year -4.76% -7.49% +8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 19 7
10th Percentile £25.25 £29.50 £30.00
25th Percentile £25.72 £35.63 £36.50
Median hourly rate £27.38 £67.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.44% +25.00% -1.82%
75th Percentile £58.44 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.75 - £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £70.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -3.57% +29.63% -1.82%

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 11,010 14,018 21,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.57% 32.31% 36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,640 9,966 15,782
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 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 251 343 349
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.95 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £46.30 £34.38 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £62.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.69 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.31% -28.15% +29.58%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 4 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
England +33 512 £525 - 851
London +34 332 £550 +4.76% 501
Work from Home +14 246 £518 -5.91% 623
UK excluding London +53 198 £500 -4.76% 494
North of England +4 64 £475 -9.52% 153
Scotland +53 43 £513 - 32
South East +27 42 £500 +5.26% 175
North West +22 30 £475 -4.04% 89
Yorkshire -8 30 £520 -6.77% 48
South West +35 17 £563 -6.25% 41
Midlands +23 15 £475 +26.67% 52
East of England +37 14 £550 - 36
West Midlands +23 11 £463 +23.33% 31
Wales -19 7 £506 -3.76% 15
East Midlands +14 4 £488 - 13
North East -1 4 £363 -23.68% 17
Northern Ireland -8 1 £550 - 12

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 44 (6.82%) Confluence
2 31 (4.81%) Apache Airflow
3 17 (2.64%) Apache
4 12 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.71%) SharePoint
6 7 (1.09%) CMS
7 4 (0.62%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.62%) WebLogic
8 3 (0.47%) IIS
8 3 (0.47%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.47%) WordPress
9 2 (0.31%) Camunda
9 2 (0.31%) nginx
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.16%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.16%) Gunicorn
10 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%) MadCap Flare
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
1 311 (48.22%) AWS
2 241 (37.36%) GitHub Actions
3 237 (36.74%) Azure
4 113 (17.52%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (14.42%) Serverless
6 78 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (11.32%) GCP
8 58 (8.99%) AWS CloudFormation
9 49 (7.60%) Amazon EKS
10 46 (7.13%) Amazon S3
11 39 (6.05%) dbt
12 38 (5.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 37 (5.74%) Power Platform
14 33 (5.12%) AWS CodePipeline
15 28 (4.34%) SaaS
16 25 (3.88%) Amazon Cognito
17 24 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
18 23 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
18 23 (3.57%) Azure AKS
18 23 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 49 (7.60%) DNS
2 24 (3.72%) Firewall
3 22 (3.41%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.79%) SMTP
5 16 (2.48%) HTTP
6 13 (2.02%) Network Security
7 12 (1.86%) VPN
8 10 (1.55%) 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%) DSL
13 2 (0.31%) Fibre Channel
13 2 (0.31%) SAN
13 2 (0.31%) Spanning Tree
13 2 (0.31%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (8.37%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (6.51%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (5.74%) SQL Server
4 32 (4.96%) NoSQL
4 32 (4.96%) Power BI
5 31 (4.81%) DynamoDB
6 27 (4.19%) Amazon RDS
7 16 (2.48%) MongoDB
7 16 (2.48%) Relational Database
8 15 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 14 (2.17%) MySQL
10 13 (2.02%) Amazon Athena
10 13 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
10 13 (2.02%) Big Data
11 12 (1.86%) Metadata
12 11 (1.71%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.71%) Redis
13 9 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 155 (24.03%) Jenkins
2 107 (16.59%) Git
3 92 (14.26%) JIRA
4 77 (11.94%) GitLab
5 30 (4.65%) Bitbucket
5 30 (4.65%) Cypress.io
6 24 (3.72%) Postman
7 22 (3.41%) Subversion
8 21 (3.26%) CircleCI
9 19 (2.95%) Cucumber
10 17 (2.64%) JMeter
10 17 (2.64%) Selenium
11 15 (2.33%) TeamCity
12 14 (2.17%) JUnit
13 13 (2.02%) Artifactory
14 12 (1.86%) git-flow
14 12 (1.86%) REST Assured
15 10 (1.55%) SonarQube
15 10 (1.55%) Terragrunt
15 10 (1.55%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 183 (28.37%) Social Skills
2 108 (16.74%) Finance
3 64 (9.92%) Public Sector
4 48 (7.44%) Banking
5 46 (7.13%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (2.95%) Investment Banking
7 15 (2.33%) Marketing
8 12 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.86%) 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%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.31%) Electronics
15 1 (0.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 154 (23.88%) Developer
2 89 (13.80%) Senior
3 82 (12.71%) DevOps Engineer
4 70 (10.85%) Architect
5 58 (8.99%) Lead
6 54 (8.37%) AWS Engineer
7 48 (7.44%) Data Engineer
8 42 (6.51%) Azure Engineer
9 39 (6.05%) Cloud Engineer
10 38 (5.89%) Python Developer
11 32 (4.96%) Software Engineer
12 31 (4.81%) Platform Engineer
13 25 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
13 25 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 25 (3.88%) Senior Developer
14 23 (3.57%) Full-Stack Developer
15 22 (3.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 17 (2.64%) Python Engineer
17 16 (2.48%) Senior DevOps
18 15 (2.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (12.25%) REST
2 67 (10.39%) React
3 57 (8.84%) Node.js
4 56 (8.68%) Kafka
5 42 (6.51%) RESTful
6 34 (5.27%) CSS
7 33 (5.12%) .NET
7 33 (5.12%) JSON
8 31 (4.81%) HTML
8 31 (4.81%) OAuth
9 30 (4.65%) AWS CDK
10 26 (4.03%) Spring Boot
11 24 (3.72%) Jest
12 23 (3.57%) Pandas
13 22 (3.41%) AngularJS
14 21 (3.26%) Jinja
14 21 (3.26%) NumPy
15 20 (3.10%) OpenTelemetry
15 20 (3.10%) pytest
15 20 (3.10%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (7.44%) Cloud Native
2 26 (4.03%) Public Cloud
3 18 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
5 14 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 13 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (1.86%) Algorithms
8 11 (1.71%) Clustering
8 11 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
9 9 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.40%) Replication
10 8 (1.24%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (1.09%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.78%) Security Posture
13 4 (0.62%) Life Science
13 4 (0.62%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 87 (13.49%) Linux
2 45 (6.98%) Windows
3 25 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.86%) Unix
6 10 (1.55%) Ubuntu
7 9 (1.40%) Solaris
7 9 (1.40%) VMS
8 7 (1.09%) Android
9 6 (0.93%) 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
1 373 (57.83%) CI/CD
2 294 (45.58%) DevOps
3 205 (31.78%) Agile
4 165 (25.58%) Infrastructure as Code
5 111 (17.21%) Test Automation
6 103 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
7 100 (15.50%) Analytics
8 93 (14.42%) Containerisation
9 79 (12.25%) Microservices
10 77 (11.94%) Software Engineering
11 58 (8.99%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (8.06%) Scrum
13 51 (7.91%) Data Pipeline
14 48 (7.44%) Data Modelling
15 47 (7.29%) Full-Stack Development
16 46 (7.13%) Artificial Intelligence
17 45 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
17 45 (6.98%) ETL
17 45 (6.98%) High Availability
18 42 (6.51%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 297 (46.05%) Python
2 137 (21.24%) SQL
3 97 (15.04%) JavaScript
4 94 (14.57%) Java
5 75 (11.63%) PowerShell
6 74 (11.47%) TypeScript
7 59 (9.15%) Bash
8 40 (6.20%) C#
9 23 (3.57%) Go
10 21 (3.26%) Kotlin
11 19 (2.95%) Shell Script
12 17 (2.64%) Perl
13 15 (2.33%) Bicep
14 13 (2.02%) C++
14 13 (2.02%) PHP
15 12 (1.86%) R
16 11 (1.71%) Groovy
16 11 (1.71%) Scala
17 9 (1.40%) Ruby
17 9 (1.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 123 (19.07%) Security Cleared
2 98 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 40 (6.20%) Degree
4 26 (4.03%) AWS Certification
5 17 (2.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 10 (1.55%) 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 54 (8.37%) QA
2 18 (2.79%) Accessibility
2 18 (2.79%) GDPR
2 18 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 15 (2.33%) 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
1 140 (21.71%) Docker
2 29 (4.50%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.71%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.40%) 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 (37.36%) Terraform
2 194 (30.08%) Kubernetes
3 109 (16.90%) Ansible
4 42 (6.51%) Grafana
5 31 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 21 (3.26%) Puppet
7 17 (2.64%) Progress Chef
8 15 (2.33%) Argo
9 10 (1.55%) 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 48 (7.44%) Microsoft
2 47 (7.29%) Google
3 35 (5.43%) Splunk
4 31 (4.81%) Databricks
5 27 (4.19%) Red Hat
6 26 (4.03%) VMware
7 20 (3.10%) Oracle
8 18 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 16 (2.48%) SAP
9 16 (2.48%) ServiceNow
10 12 (1.86%) IBM
11 11 (1.71%) CyberArk
11 11 (1.71%) Dell
11 11 (1.71%) Qualys
12 10 (1.55%) Atlassian
13 8 (1.24%) Cisco
13 8 (1.24%) SaltStack
14 7 (1.09%) Confluent
14 7 (1.09%) Dynatrace
14 7 (1.09%) New Relic