GitHub Contracts in the UK excluding London

GitHub
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 162 211
Rank change year-on-year -34 +49 -16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 217 360 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.07% 1.56% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.13% 4.72% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 273 263
10th Percentile £390 £400 £400
25th Percentile £464 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +8.57% +10.53%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £624
90th Percentile £645 £700 £661
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -11.67% +7.14% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 20
10th Percentile £48.75 £28.40 £54.93
25th Percentile - £37.25 £57.21
Median hourly rate £70.00 £54.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -22.86% +220.22%
75th Percentile - £56.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - £57.20 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £68.13
% change year-on-year +28.44% -20.00% +87.93%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,254 7,633 9,840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.89% 33.18% 32.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,726 5,635 7,234
10th Percentile £213 £250 £208
25th Percentile £375 £406 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 222 284
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.28
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £25.87 £19.63
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% +31.80% -1.88%
75th Percentile £27.25 £64.31 £31.69
90th Percentile £65.75 £75.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
North of England -7 77 £538 -3.59% 82
Yorkshire +13 52 £558 +3.72% 32
South East +3 48 £475 -17.39% 44
South West -40 33 £533 -11.17% 38
Wales +40 28 £515 -11.97% 15
North West +21 21 £500 -2.44% 41
East of England -18 13 £550 -4.35% 18
Northern Ireland - 9 £600 - 10
Midlands -17 7 £400 -28.89% 39
West Midlands -18 5 £400 -28.89% 22
North East -22 4 £475 -15.93% 10
Scotland +13 2 - - 20
East Midlands +3 2 - - 17
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 24 (11.06%) Confluence
2 8 (3.69%) Apache
3 6 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.92%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.92%) nginx
5 2 (0.92%) WordPress
6 1 (0.46%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) JBoss
6 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.94%) Azure
2 64 (29.49%) AWS
3 45 (20.74%) GitHub Actions
4 28 (12.90%) GCP
5 27 (12.44%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (7.37%) Serverless
7 9 (4.15%) Kong
8 8 (3.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 7 (3.23%) Apigee
9 7 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.23%) Azure Functions
9 7 (3.23%) OpenShift
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon Cognito
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.76%) BrowserStack
10 6 (2.76%) Power Platform
10 6 (2.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (2.30%) Route 53
12 4 (1.84%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.83%) Firewall
2 16 (7.37%) DNS
3 15 (6.91%) HTTP
4 13 (5.99%) VPN
5 11 (5.07%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (1.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 4 (1.84%) SSL
8 3 (1.38%) BIG-IP
8 3 (1.38%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (1.38%) WAN
9 2 (0.92%) BGP
9 2 (0.92%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (0.92%) LAN
9 2 (0.92%) OSPF
9 2 (0.92%) SAN
9 2 (0.92%) SD-WAN
9 2 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 1 (0.46%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (11.98%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (11.06%) MySQL
3 13 (5.99%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.99%) SQL Server
4 11 (5.07%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.61%) Elasticsearch
6 9 (4.15%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (3.23%) Metadata
7 7 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.23%) Redis
8 6 (2.76%) Couchbase
9 5 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.30%) InterSystems Cache
9 5 (2.30%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.30%) Triplestore
10 4 (1.84%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.84%) GIS
10 4 (1.84%) Power BI
11 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 80 (36.87%) Jenkins
2 56 (25.81%) GitLab
3 49 (22.58%) JIRA
4 44 (20.28%) Git
5 22 (10.14%) Cypress.io
6 13 (5.99%) CircleCI
6 13 (5.99%) GoogleTest
7 12 (5.53%) Bitbucket
8 10 (4.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 10 (4.61%) Postman
9 9 (4.15%) Travis CI
10 7 (3.23%) Maven
10 7 (3.23%) Selenium
10 7 (3.23%) SonarQube
10 7 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
11 6 (2.76%) Storybook
12 5 (2.30%) AppScan
12 5 (2.30%) Burp Suite
12 5 (2.30%) Cucumber
13 4 (1.84%) JUnit
General
1 49 (22.58%) Social Skills
2 15 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.45%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.99%) Finance
5 7 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.92%) Automotive
8 2 (0.92%) Banking
8 2 (0.92%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing
9 1 (0.46%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (31.80%) Developer
2 25 (11.52%) Software Engineer
3 24 (11.06%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (8.29%) Java Engineer
5 16 (7.37%) Java Software Engineer
6 13 (5.99%) Storage Manager
7 12 (5.53%) Architect
8 10 (4.61%) C++ Software Engineer
8 10 (4.61%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 10 (4.61%) Full Stack Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.69%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.69%) Project Manager
10 8 (3.69%) Senior
10 8 (3.69%) Software Developer
10 8 (3.69%) Tester
11 7 (3.23%) Site Engineer
11 7 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (2.76%) DevOps Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (12.90%) REST
2 24 (11.06%) YAML
3 23 (10.60%) React
4 16 (7.37%) JSON
5 15 (6.91%) Elastic Stack
5 15 (6.91%) Qt
5 15 (6.91%) Spring Boot
5 15 (6.91%) Vue
6 14 (6.45%) Node.js
7 13 (5.99%) XML
8 12 (5.53%) CSS
8 12 (5.53%) HTML
9 11 (5.07%) Kafka
10 10 (4.61%) Laravel
10 10 (4.61%) Playwright
11 9 (4.15%) Spring
12 8 (3.69%) Jest
13 7 (3.23%) PostGIS
14 6 (2.76%) GraphQL
14 6 (2.76%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.76%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.29%) Linux Command Line
3 15 (6.91%) Data Centre
3 15 (6.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (4.15%) Clustering
4 9 (4.15%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.15%) Replication
5 7 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 7 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.92%) IoT
8 2 (0.92%) Legacy Code
8 2 (0.92%) Security Posture
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.46%) Mashup
9 1 (0.46%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.46%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 58 (26.73%) Linux
2 15 (6.91%) zOS
3 10 (4.61%) Windows
4 5 (2.30%) Android
5 4 (1.84%) Unix
5 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 3 (1.38%) AIX
6 3 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.92%) Debian
8 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.46%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.46%) VMS
8 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (52.07%) Agile
2 103 (47.47%) CI/CD
3 90 (41.47%) DevOps
4 45 (20.74%) Continuous Integration
5 43 (19.82%) Project Management
6 41 (18.89%) Test Automation
7 38 (17.51%) Software Engineering
8 35 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 34 (15.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (15.67%) Scrum
10 27 (12.44%) Full Stack Development
11 23 (10.60%) Migration
11 23 (10.60%) Software Testing
11 23 (10.60%) Storage Management
12 22 (10.14%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (8.76%) Problem-Solving
14 18 (8.29%) SDLC
14 18 (8.29%) TDD
15 17 (7.83%) Task Automation
16 15 (6.91%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 80 (36.87%) Python
2 47 (21.66%) Java
3 33 (15.21%) Bash
4 31 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.90%) SQL
6 25 (11.52%) PowerShell
7 23 (10.60%) TypeScript
8 18 (8.29%) C++
9 17 (7.83%) PHP
10 15 (6.91%) JCL
10 15 (6.91%) REXX
11 8 (3.69%) Go
11 8 (3.69%) Shell Script
12 7 (3.23%) C#
12 7 (3.23%) Kotlin
13 5 (2.30%) SPARQL
14 4 (1.84%) ActionScript
14 4 (1.84%) Bicep
14 4 (1.84%) C
15 3 (1.38%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 44 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.75%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.45%) Degree
4 8 (3.69%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.76%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.46%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (19.35%) QA
2 15 (6.91%) MISRA
3 8 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.38%) NIST
4 3 (1.38%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.46%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 35 (16.13%) Docker
2 15 (6.91%) NFS
2 15 (6.91%) Time Sharing Option
3 10 (4.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.15%) vSphere
5 5 (2.30%) Active Directory
6 4 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.84%) zsh
7 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.38%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.92%) Varnish
8 2 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 59 (27.19%) Terraform
2 51 (23.50%) Ansible
3 42 (19.35%) Kubernetes
4 19 (8.76%) Grafana
5 16 (7.37%) Puppet
6 15 (6.91%) Progress Chef
6 15 (6.91%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 14 (6.45%) Prometheus
8 10 (4.61%) Kibana
8 10 (4.61%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 9 (4.15%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (4.15%) logstash
10 8 (3.69%) Argo
11 6 (2.76%) Nessus
12 5 (2.30%) Graylog
12 5 (2.30%) HP Fortify
12 5 (2.30%) WebInspect
13 3 (1.38%) Data Guard
14 2 (0.92%) HAProxy
14 2 (0.92%) OPNET
Vendors
1 30 (13.82%) Microsoft
2 24 (11.06%) Google
3 21 (9.68%) Oracle
4 19 (8.76%) Splunk
5 17 (7.83%) Dell
6 15 (6.91%) Broadcom
6 15 (6.91%) Brocade
6 15 (6.91%) CA
6 15 (6.91%) IBM
7 14 (6.45%) Atlassian
7 14 (6.45%) VMware
8 11 (5.07%) Red Hat
9 9 (4.15%) SolarWinds
10 8 (3.69%) Cisco
11 6 (2.76%) F5
11 6 (2.76%) Palo Alto
12 5 (2.30%) Checkmarx
12 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
12 5 (2.30%) Veracode
13 3 (1.38%) Informatica