GitHub Contracts in the West Midlands

GitHub
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 106 83
Rank change year-on-year +21 -23 +61
Contract jobs citing GitHub 20 5 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.36% 0.24% 1.90%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.40% 1.02% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 28
10th Percentile £385 £398 £363
25th Percentile £418 £433 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £569
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -12.09% +3.41%
75th Percentile £556 £583 £700
90th Percentile £611 £627 -
England median daily rate £525 £533 £590
% change year-on-year -1.50% -9.66% +2.61%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 455 490 801
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.04% 23.86% 36.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 367 573
10th Percentile £220 £202 £264
25th Percentile £388 £331 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £594 £611 £625
90th Percentile £679 £688 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.24% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 4
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.14 £15.54
25th Percentile £21.88 £15.56 £15.98
Median hourly rate £34.43 £22.50 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year +53.02% +11.17% +6.53%
75th Percentile £40.22 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £51.30 £33.19 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £32.30
% change year-on-year +15.63% -32.66% +53.81%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 June 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
Coventry - 9 £450 - 16
Birmingham +8 7 £500 - 24
Shropshire - 1 - - 15
Warwickshire - 1 £450 - 6
Worcestershire - 1 £550 - 10
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 11 (55.00%) Azure
3 9 (45.00%) AWS
4 6 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 4 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (15.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (15.00%) Collibra
6 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (15.00%) Serverless
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (20.00%) Delta Lake
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 3 (15.00%) GIS
2 3 (15.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
4 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 2 (10.00%) Android Studio
3 2 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (10.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) Gradle
3 2 (10.00%) Xcode
4 1 (5.00%) Snyk
4 1 (5.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 4 (20.00%) Retail
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) React Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Testing Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) REST
2 4 (20.00%) Redux
3 3 (15.00%) Jest
3 3 (15.00%) Kafka
3 3 (15.00%) React Native
3 3 (15.00%) YAML
4 2 (10.00%) .NET
4 2 (10.00%) React
4 2 (10.00%) RESTful
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (5.00%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (5.00%) Express.js
5 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
5 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (15.00%) IoT
1 3 (15.00%) Mobile App
1 3 (15.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (85.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (55.00%) DevOps
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (25.00%) Analytics
5 5 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 4 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 4 (20.00%) High Availability
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 4 (20.00%) Zero Trust
7 3 (15.00%) Batch Processing
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 3 (15.00%) Microservices
7 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) RBAC
7 3 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
3 5 (25.00%) Bicep
3 5 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Bash
5 3 (15.00%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.00%) JSX
6 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (10.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) QA
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (35.00%) Terraform
2 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 6 (30.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Grafana
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Databricks
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Informatica
2 3 (15.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce