GitHub Contract Job Trends in Worcestershire

GitHub
West Midlands > Worcestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Worcestershire requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 34 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Worcestershire 23.29% - 3.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.13% - 13.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 0 3
10th Percentile £525 - £415
25th Percentile £563 - £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £575
75th Percentile £700 - £597
90th Percentile £750 - £603
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £513 £425
% change year-on-year +12.20% +20.59% -15.00%

All Cloud Skills
Worcestershire

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 Worcestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 64 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Worcestershire 43.84% 30.77% 26.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 15 18
10th Percentile £525 £136 £163
25th Percentile £563 £265 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £400 £403
Median % change year-on-year +62.50% -0.62% -19.50%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £588
90th Percentile £750 - £634
West Midlands median daily rate £507 £500 £460
% change year-on-year +1.40% +8.70% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £16.19 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - -12.49% +4.40%
75th Percentile - £17.16 £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.61 £30.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -7.35% +66.89% +8.12%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Worcestershire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Worcestershire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Worcestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Worcestershire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Worcestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Worcestershire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Worcestershire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Worcestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Worcestershire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Malvern - 27 £650 -
Worcester - 21 £650 - 7
GitHub
West Midlands

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Worcestershire 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 34 (100.00%) Azure
2 14 (41.18%) GitHub Actions
3 12 (35.29%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Data Factory
5 7 (20.59%) AWS
5 7 (20.59%) Azure Key Vault
5 7 (20.59%) Serverless
6 6 (17.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (17.65%) GCP
7 5 (14.71%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (14.71%) Azure AKS
7 5 (14.71%) Datadog
7 5 (14.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 5 (14.71%) npm
7 5 (14.71%) OpenShift
7 5 (14.71%) Pulumi
8 1 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) DNS
1 1 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (29.41%) Elasticsearch
3 7 (20.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (44.12%) SonarQube
2 7 (20.59%) GitLab
2 7 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 6 (17.65%) Git
4 5 (14.71%) Artifactory
4 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
4 5 (14.71%) CircleCI
4 5 (14.71%) Cypress.io
4 5 (14.71%) Gradle
4 5 (14.71%) JUnit
4 5 (14.71%) Maven
4 5 (14.71%) Postman
4 5 (14.71%) Selenium
4 5 (14.71%) Snyk
4 5 (14.71%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (14.71%) webpack
5 1 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Data Engineer
1 10 (29.41%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 10 (29.41%) Senior
1 10 (29.41%) Senior Data Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Backend Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Python Developer
3 6 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.94%) Consultant
4 1 (2.94%) DevOps Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (44.12%) YAML
2 12 (35.29%) REST
3 10 (29.41%) Kafka
3 10 (29.41%) Keycloak
4 7 (20.59%) FastAPI
4 7 (20.59%) Flask
4 7 (20.59%) GraphQL
4 7 (20.59%) gRPC
4 7 (20.59%) WebSockets
5 5 (14.71%) Elastic Stack
5 5 (14.71%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 10 (29.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (20.59%) Cloud Native
3 5 (14.71%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.94%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) DevOps
2 33 (97.06%) Containerisation
3 24 (70.59%) CI/CD
4 16 (47.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (47.06%) Test Automation
5 15 (44.12%) DevSecOps
6 10 (29.41%) Batch Processing
6 10 (29.41%) Data Architecture
6 10 (29.41%) Data Engineering
6 10 (29.41%) Data Pipeline
6 10 (29.41%) DataOps
6 10 (29.41%) ETL
6 10 (29.41%) Platform Engineering
6 10 (29.41%) Regulatory Compliance
7 7 (20.59%) Configuration Management
7 7 (20.59%) Microservices
8 6 (17.65%) SDLC
8 6 (17.65%) Software Delivery
8 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 5 (14.71%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) Python
2 19 (55.88%) Go
3 7 (20.59%) SQL
4 3 (8.82%) Bash
5 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (79.41%) SC Cleared
3 24 (70.59%) DV Cleared
4 10 (29.41%) Azure Certification
5 2 (5.88%) Degree
6 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) NCSC
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 34 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 34 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 16 (47.06%) Terraform
3 13 (38.24%) Grafana
3 13 (38.24%) Prometheus
4 7 (20.59%) Ansible
5 6 (17.65%) Progress Chef
5 6 (17.65%) Puppet
6 5 (14.71%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.65%) Splunk
3 1 (2.94%) VMware