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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 112 122
Rank change year-on-year +22 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 281 279 481
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.88% 1.90% 2.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.07% 5.20% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 198 341
10th Percentile £349 £412 £413
25th Percentile £419 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -5.22% +4.03%
75th Percentile £627 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £675 £724
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £589
% change year-on-year -0.10% -10.74% +4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - - £40.80
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £45.00
Median hourly rate £25.50 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.25% -25.93% -28.00%
75th Percentile £25.75 - £56.75
90th Percentile - £46.15 £57.20
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £70.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -60.71% +27.27% -21.43%

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 3,972 5,363 9,406
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 40.78% 36.53% 39.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,837 3,861 7,000
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £761 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 86 134
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £25.19 £16.90 £21.48
Median hourly rate £48.00 £26.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -48.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.19 £69.88
90th Percentile £92.50 £72.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.88 £21.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.67% -38.57% +59.09%

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 17 June 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 11 (3.91%) Confluence
2 10 (3.56%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.14%) Apache
3 6 (2.14%) CMS
4 3 (1.07%) IIS
4 3 (1.07%) JBoss
4 3 (1.07%) WordPress
5 2 (0.71%) Camunda
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
5 2 (0.71%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
6 1 (0.36%) Drupal
6 1 (0.36%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.36%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.36%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Trello
2 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.36%) Magento
1 1 (0.36%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.36%) SAP ERP
1 1 (0.36%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 151 (53.74%) AWS
2 118 (41.99%) GitHub Actions
3 115 (40.93%) Azure
4 57 (20.28%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (17.44%) Serverless
6 45 (16.01%) AWS Lambda
7 41 (14.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.61%) GCP
9 20 (7.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 20 (7.12%) Amazon S3
10 18 (6.41%) Amazon EKS
11 17 (6.05%) AWS CodePipeline
12 14 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
12 14 (4.98%) Azure AKS
12 14 (4.98%) dbt
13 12 (4.27%) Amazon Cognito
13 12 (4.27%) SaaS
14 10 (3.56%) Amazon SQS
14 10 (3.56%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (3.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (6.76%) DNS
2 13 (4.63%) HTTP
3 11 (3.91%) TCP/IP
4 10 (3.56%) Firewall
4 10 (3.56%) Network Security
5 8 (2.85%) DHCP
6 6 (2.14%) SMTP
6 6 (2.14%) SSL
7 5 (1.78%) VPN
8 2 (0.71%) BGP
8 2 (0.71%) FTP
8 2 (0.71%) LAN
8 2 (0.71%) OSPF
8 2 (0.71%) SSH
8 2 (0.71%) WAN
9 1 (0.36%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.36%) IPsec
9 1 (0.36%) SNMP
9 1 (0.36%) VLAN
9 1 (0.36%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.39%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (6.76%) DynamoDB
3 13 (4.63%) Amazon RDS
4 12 (4.27%) NoSQL
5 11 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (2.85%) Metadata
6 8 (2.85%) MongoDB
6 8 (2.85%) MySQL
6 8 (2.85%) Power BI
6 8 (2.85%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.49%) Redis
8 6 (2.14%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
10 4 (1.42%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.42%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.42%) Relational Database
11 3 (1.07%) Data Vault
11 3 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.07%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 84 (29.89%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.15%) GitLab
3 48 (17.08%) Git
4 38 (13.52%) JIRA
5 21 (7.47%) Cypress.io
6 14 (4.98%) Postman
7 13 (4.63%) CircleCI
8 12 (4.27%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.56%) Visual Studio Code
10 9 (3.20%) JMeter
10 9 (3.20%) SonarQube
11 7 (2.49%) git-flow
11 7 (2.49%) JUnit
11 7 (2.49%) REST Assured
12 6 (2.14%) Selenium
13 5 (1.78%) Artifactory
13 5 (1.78%) Gatling
13 5 (1.78%) Terragrunt
14 4 (1.42%) Appium
14 4 (1.42%) TestRail
General
1 91 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.88%) Finance
3 36 (12.81%) Public Sector
4 30 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.19%) Banking
6 11 (3.91%) Investment Banking
7 7 (2.49%) Marketing
8 6 (2.14%) Front Office
8 6 (2.14%) Retail
9 5 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Legal
11 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Danish Language
12 1 (0.36%) iGaming
12 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (23.13%) Developer
2 39 (13.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 33 (11.74%) Architect
4 31 (11.03%) Senior
5 30 (10.68%) AWS Engineer
6 24 (8.54%) Lead
7 20 (7.12%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (6.05%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (5.34%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (5.34%) Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) DevSecOps Engineer
10 12 (4.27%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.56%) AWS DevOps
11 10 (3.56%) Node.js Developer
12 9 (3.20%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Senior DevOps Engineer
12 9 (3.20%) Technical Architect
12 9 (3.20%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.46%) React
2 34 (12.10%) REST
3 33 (11.74%) Node.js
4 26 (9.25%) CSS
5 23 (8.19%) HTML
6 22 (7.83%) Jest
6 22 (7.83%) RESTful
7 20 (7.12%) Kafka
8 18 (6.41%) AWS CDK
9 17 (6.05%) JSON
10 15 (5.34%) .NET
10 15 (5.34%) OAuth
11 13 (4.63%) AngularJS
11 13 (4.63%) Playwright
12 11 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (3.91%) Redux
13 10 (3.56%) Next.js
14 9 (3.20%) GraphQL
14 9 (3.20%) Jinja
14 9 (3.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.83%) Cloud Native
2 10 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (3.20%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.85%) Public Cloud
5 7 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
5 7 (2.49%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.49%) Product Ownership
6 6 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.42%) Onboarding
9 3 (1.07%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.07%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.07%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.07%) Vector Graphics
10 2 (0.71%) Clustering
10 2 (0.71%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.71%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.37%) Linux
2 18 (6.41%) Windows
3 11 (3.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (2.14%) Unix
4 6 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.78%) Ubuntu
6 4 (1.42%) Android
6 4 (1.42%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.07%) CentOS
7 3 (1.07%) VMS
8 2 (0.71%) SUSE
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (66.19%) CI/CD
2 149 (53.02%) DevOps
3 94 (33.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 90 (32.03%) Agile
5 55 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 54 (19.22%) Test Automation
7 48 (17.08%) Containerisation
8 35 (12.46%) Microservices
9 33 (11.74%) Analytics
10 31 (11.03%) DevSecOps
11 30 (10.68%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.32%) Scrum
13 28 (9.96%) Full-Stack Development
14 27 (9.61%) Artificial Intelligence
15 25 (8.90%) Platform Engineering
16 23 (8.19%) Mentoring
16 23 (8.19%) Observability
17 22 (7.83%) Data Science
17 22 (7.83%) Migration
17 22 (7.83%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 122 (43.42%) Python
2 49 (17.44%) JavaScript
2 49 (17.44%) SQL
3 42 (14.95%) TypeScript
4 41 (14.59%) Bash
5 38 (13.52%) Java
6 31 (11.03%) PowerShell
7 22 (7.83%) C#
8 12 (4.27%) Shell Script
9 8 (2.85%) Bicep
9 8 (2.85%) Go
9 8 (2.85%) Kotlin
9 8 (2.85%) Scala
10 6 (2.14%) Perl
11 5 (1.78%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.42%) Groovy
12 4 (1.42%) PHP
12 4 (1.42%) R
13 3 (1.07%) C++
13 3 (1.07%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (24.20%) Security Cleared
2 57 (20.28%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.69%) AWS Certification
4 13 (4.63%) Degree
5 9 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (1.78%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.42%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.42%) OCP
8 4 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.71%) CHECK Team Member
10 2 (0.71%) CISM
10 2 (0.71%) CISSP
10 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.71%) OSCP
10 2 (0.71%) Tigerscheme
11 1 (0.36%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.36%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (9.25%) QA
2 14 (4.98%) GDPR
3 10 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.56%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.20%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.49%) NCSC
6 6 (2.14%) HIPAA
7 5 (1.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (1.42%) WCAG
9 3 (1.07%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.71%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.71%) NIST
10 2 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.36%) GRC
11 1 (0.36%) GxP
11 1 (0.36%) HL7
System Software
1 77 (27.40%) Docker
2 8 (2.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.07%) vSphere
5 2 (0.71%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 2 (0.71%) NFS
5 2 (0.71%) Time Sharing Option
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.36%) Microcode
6 1 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 120 (42.70%) Terraform
2 91 (32.38%) Kubernetes
3 45 (16.01%) Ansible
4 21 (7.47%) Grafana
5 20 (7.12%) Prometheus
6 14 (4.98%) Puppet
7 8 (2.85%) Progress Chef
8 6 (2.14%) Nessus
8 6 (2.14%) Packer
9 5 (1.78%) Argo
9 5 (1.78%) HP Fortify
10 4 (1.42%) Consul
11 2 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
11 2 (0.71%) Istio
11 2 (0.71%) ITRS Geneos
11 2 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.71%) logstash
11 2 (0.71%) Nmap
11 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
11 2 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (7.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (6.76%) Google
3 14 (4.98%) Splunk
4 12 (4.27%) Databricks
5 9 (3.20%) Oracle
5 9 (3.20%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.14%) SAP
6 6 (2.14%) VMware
7 5 (1.78%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.78%) Qualys
8 4 (1.42%) Cisco
8 4 (1.42%) Dell
8 4 (1.42%) Solace
9 3 (1.07%) Mapbox
9 3 (1.07%) Sage
9 3 (1.07%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.07%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.71%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.71%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (0.71%) Refinitiv