GitHub Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

GitHub
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 119 117
Rank change year-on-year +16 -2 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 246 280 535
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.48% 1.82% 2.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.24% 5.04% 5.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 200 373
10th Percentile £374 £425 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.56% +8.18%
75th Percentile £630 £623 £675
90th Percentile £750 £650 £723
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile - - £27.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £40.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% +5.26% -30.91%
75th Percentile £26.56 - £56.00
90th Percentile £27.05 £46.15 £74.00
UK median hourly rate £27.38 £67.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year -59.14% +22.94% -0.91%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

GitHub 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 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

GitHub
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub.

GitHub daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing GitHub over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

GitHub daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing GitHub.

GitHub hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (4.07%) Confluence
2 7 (2.85%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.44%) CMS
4 5 (2.03%) Apache
5 3 (1.22%) IIS
5 3 (1.22%) WordPress
6 2 (0.81%) Camunda
6 2 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.41%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.41%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) SAS
7 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (1.63%) Trello
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.41%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 135 (54.88%) AWS
2 99 (40.24%) GitHub Actions
3 95 (38.62%) Azure
4 45 (18.29%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (17.48%) Serverless
6 41 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (12.60%) AWS CloudFormation
8 24 (9.76%) GCP
9 23 (9.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (8.13%) Amazon EKS
11 19 (7.72%) dbt
12 18 (7.32%) Amazon S3
13 15 (6.10%) AWS CodePipeline
14 14 (5.69%) Azure AKS
14 14 (5.69%) Power Platform
15 13 (5.28%) Amazon ECS
16 11 (4.47%) Amazon SQS
16 11 (4.47%) SaaS
17 10 (4.07%) Amazon Cognito
17 10 (4.07%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (6.50%) DNS
2 12 (4.88%) HTTP
3 9 (3.66%) Firewall
3 9 (3.66%) TCP/IP
4 7 (2.85%) DHCP
4 7 (2.85%) SMTP
5 6 (2.44%) Network Security
6 4 (1.63%) SSL
6 4 (1.63%) VPN
7 2 (0.81%) BGP
7 2 (0.81%) FTP
7 2 (0.81%) OSPF
7 2 (0.81%) SSH
8 1 (0.41%) EIGRP
8 1 (0.41%) IPsec
8 1 (0.41%) LAN
8 1 (0.41%) SNMP
8 1 (0.41%) VLAN
8 1 (0.41%) WAN
8 1 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (10.98%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (7.72%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (7.32%) DynamoDB
4 14 (5.69%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (5.69%) SQL Server
5 12 (4.88%) Power BI
6 8 (3.25%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.25%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.85%) Metadata
7 7 (2.85%) Redis
7 7 (2.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.44%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (2.03%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.03%) MySQL
10 4 (1.63%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.22%) ObjectStore
11 3 (1.22%) Parquet
11 3 (1.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 62 (25.20%) Jenkins
2 36 (14.63%) Git
3 32 (13.01%) GitLab
4 31 (12.60%) JIRA
5 16 (6.50%) Cypress.io
6 13 (5.28%) Postman
7 12 (4.88%) Bitbucket
8 11 (4.47%) CircleCI
9 8 (3.25%) JMeter
9 8 (3.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 7 (2.85%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.44%) git-flow
12 5 (2.03%) Subversion
12 5 (2.03%) Terragrunt
13 4 (1.63%) Gatling
13 4 (1.63%) Maven
13 4 (1.63%) Mocha
13 4 (1.63%) SonarQube
13 4 (1.63%) Visual Studio
13 4 (1.63%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 77 (31.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.85%) Public Sector
3 31 (12.60%) Finance
4 26 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.94%) Banking
6 11 (4.47%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.85%) Marketing
8 6 (2.44%) Front Office
9 5 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.03%) Retail
10 3 (1.22%) Legal
10 3 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.81%) Electronics
11 2 (0.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.81%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.41%) Advertising
12 1 (0.41%) Aviation
12 1 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.41%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (22.76%) Developer
2 39 (15.85%) Senior
3 36 (14.63%) DevOps Engineer
4 27 (10.98%) Architect
4 27 (10.98%) AWS Engineer
5 24 (9.76%) Lead
6 15 (6.10%) Cloud Engineer
6 15 (6.10%) Data Engineer
6 15 (6.10%) Python Developer
7 14 (5.69%) Platform Engineer
8 12 (4.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 12 (4.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (4.47%) AWS DevOps
9 11 (4.47%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
9 11 (4.47%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.07%) Senior DevOps
10 10 (4.07%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.66%) Node.js Developer
11 9 (3.66%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (13.01%) React
1 32 (13.01%) REST
2 28 (11.38%) Node.js
3 21 (8.54%) CSS
4 19 (7.72%) HTML
4 19 (7.72%) JSON
5 17 (6.91%) AWS CDK
5 17 (6.91%) Kafka
5 17 (6.91%) RESTful
6 15 (6.10%) .NET
7 14 (5.69%) Jest
8 13 (5.28%) Jinja
8 13 (5.28%) OAuth
9 11 (4.47%) AngularJS
9 11 (4.47%) Playwright
10 9 (3.66%) Elastic Stack
10 9 (3.66%) Redux
11 8 (3.25%) Express.js
11 8 (3.25%) Web Services
11 8 (3.25%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.91%) Cloud Native
2 9 (3.66%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.85%) Greenfield Project
3 7 (2.85%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (2.44%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.03%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (2.03%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.03%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.22%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.22%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.22%) Vector Graphics
7 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.81%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.81%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.41%) Life Science
8 1 (0.41%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.26%) Linux
2 18 (7.32%) Windows
3 11 (4.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.03%) Ubuntu
6 3 (1.22%) CentOS
6 3 (1.22%) VMS
7 2 (0.81%) SUSE
7 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.81%) zOS
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
8 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (62.60%) CI/CD
2 116 (47.15%) DevOps
3 81 (32.93%) Agile
4 70 (28.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 47 (19.11%) Test Automation
6 43 (17.48%) Analytics
7 42 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (15.04%) Containerisation
9 30 (12.20%) Software Engineering
10 28 (11.38%) Microservices
11 27 (10.98%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (10.16%) Data Modelling
13 24 (9.76%) Scrum
14 22 (8.94%) Artificial Intelligence
14 22 (8.94%) Continuous Integration
15 20 (8.13%) Data Science
15 20 (8.13%) Full-Stack Development
15 20 (8.13%) Platform Engineering
16 17 (6.91%) DevSecOps
16 17 (6.91%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 118 (47.97%) Python
2 62 (25.20%) SQL
3 40 (16.26%) JavaScript
4 30 (12.20%) TypeScript
5 29 (11.79%) Bash
5 29 (11.79%) Java
6 26 (10.57%) PowerShell
7 20 (8.13%) C#
8 10 (4.07%) Shell Script
9 7 (2.85%) Scala
10 6 (2.44%) Go
10 6 (2.44%) T-SQL
11 5 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.63%) Bicep
12 4 (1.63%) Groovy
12 4 (1.63%) Perl
12 4 (1.63%) PHP
12 4 (1.63%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.22%) Ruby
14 2 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 57 (23.17%) Security Cleared
2 52 (21.14%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.88%) AWS Certification
4 10 (4.07%) Degree
5 7 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.03%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.63%) OCP
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.41%) MCAD
11 1 (0.41%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.41%) VCAP
11 1 (0.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.32%) QA
2 6 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.03%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.03%) GDPR
3 5 (2.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.63%) NCSC
4 4 (1.63%) PCI DSS
4 4 (1.63%) WCAG
5 1 (0.41%) GxP
5 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.41%) HL7
5 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
5 1 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 63 (25.61%) Docker
2 8 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.22%) vSphere
5 2 (0.81%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.81%) NFS
5 2 (0.81%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.41%) Microcode
6 1 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 98 (39.84%) Terraform
2 75 (30.49%) Kubernetes
3 42 (17.07%) Ansible
4 19 (7.72%) Grafana
5 14 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 8 (3.25%) Progress Chef
7 6 (2.44%) Puppet
8 5 (2.03%) Argo
9 4 (1.63%) Consul
9 4 (1.63%) Packer
10 3 (1.22%) logstash
11 2 (0.81%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.81%) Istio
11 2 (0.81%) Nessus
11 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (0.81%) WSUS
12 1 (0.41%) Kubeflow
12 1 (0.41%) linkerd
12 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 19 (7.72%) Microsoft
2 17 (6.91%) Google
3 16 (6.50%) Databricks
4 9 (3.66%) Splunk
5 7 (2.85%) SAP
6 6 (2.44%) VMware
7 5 (2.03%) Dynatrace
7 5 (2.03%) Red Hat
8 4 (1.63%) Oracle
9 3 (1.22%) Cisco
9 3 (1.22%) Dell
9 3 (1.22%) Sage
9 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.81%) Broadcom
10 2 (0.81%) Citrix
10 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
10 2 (0.81%) MicroStrategy
10 2 (0.81%) New Relic
10 2 (0.81%) Solace
10 2 (0.81%) Talend