GitHub Contracts in the West Midlands

GitHub
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 86 154
Rank change year-on-year -22 +68 -44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 4 54 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 2.27% 0.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.85% 5.89% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 33 14
10th Percentile £353 £388 £366
25th Percentile £356 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -31.82% +7.32% -
75th Percentile £406 £700 £575
90th Percentile £418 - £584
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 470 917 1,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 24.21% 38.46% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 365 648 896
10th Percentile £213 £300 £223
25th Percentile £350 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -10.04% +2.09% +13.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 17
10th Percentile £14.08 £15.54 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.95 £15.98 £15.04
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.24 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.46% +15.66% +9.38%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.51
90th Percentile £55.00 £25.31 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -2.33%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the West Midlands

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the West Midlands

GitHub
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Birmingham -10 4 £375 -46.43% 4
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) Big Data
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (25.00%) Flink
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Hudson
1 1 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) JDBC
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) ODBC
1 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (25.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Developer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Sage