Hybrid/Remote GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends

GitHub Copilot
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 309 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 9 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.088% - -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £374 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
75th Percentile £593 - -
90th Percentile £645 - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,362 4,693 6,830
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.83% 38.68% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 3,149 4,943
10th Percentile £325 £331 £350
25th Percentile £413 £419 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 51 88
10th Percentile £17.73 £19.30 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.38 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.69 £46.78
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -21.56% +33.65%
75th Percentile £65.22 £63.50 £74.06
90th Percentile £80.00 £80.00 £88.23
UK median hourly rate £25.74 £29.00 £25.69
% change year-on-year -11.26% +12.88% +14.18%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub Copilot and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub Copilot.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub Copilot over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

GitHub Copilot daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) GitHub
2 5 (55.56%) AWS
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (33.33%) Google Gemini
5 2 (22.22%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (22.22%) Anthropic Claude
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) ChatGPT
5 2 (22.22%) Serverless
5 2 (22.22%) Vertex AI
6 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
6 1 (11.11%) dbt
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) NoSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Pinecone
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (22.22%) Redis
1 2 (22.22%) Weaviate
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
2 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) MLflow
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Trainer
3 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) CrewAI
1 2 (22.22%) Faiss
1 2 (22.22%) FastAPI
1 2 (22.22%) LangChain
1 2 (22.22%) pgvector
1 2 (22.22%) PyTorch
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
2 1 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 1 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) RESTful
2 1 (11.11%) Spring
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Spring MVC
2 1 (11.11%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) AI
2 5 (55.56%) Generative AI
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
4 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 3 (33.33%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) LLM
5 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
5 2 (22.22%) Observability
5 2 (22.22%) Open Source
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
5 2 (22.22%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) Secure Coding
5 2 (22.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (22.22%) Systems Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Python
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Bash
4 2 (22.22%) Go
4 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (11.11%) PHP
5 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) MCT
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Knative
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (22.22%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) OpenAI
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle