GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

GitHub Copilot
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.13% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £429 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 - -
75th Percentile £542 - -
90th Percentile £592 - -
England median daily rate £600 £490 -
% change year-on-year +22.57% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 925 446 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.96% 31.72% 23.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 297 360
10th Percentile £313 £200 £207
25th Percentile £402 £381 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% -10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £611
90th Percentile £675 £659 £688
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 9 12
10th Percentile £22.50 £15.27 £14.14
25th Percentile £24.38 £18.13 £15.56
Median hourly rate £33.99 £18.74 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.38% -16.71% +11.17%
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £45.70 £33.19
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.01 £21.37
% change year-on-year +57.97% +17.01% -38.94%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Copilot relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GitHub Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub Copilot in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub Copilot in the West Midlands

GitHub Copilot
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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
Shropshire - 2 £492 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £313 - 1
Birmingham - 1 £600 -
GitHub Copilot
England

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) GitHub
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Ingres
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (25.00%) ADO
1 1 (25.00%) COM
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) ODBC
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Runbook
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Actian
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle