GitHub Contracts with Work from Home Options

GitHub
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 119 121 111
Rank change year-on-year +2 -10 +24
Contract jobs citing GitHub 276 500 1,003
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.86% 2.03% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.12% 5.13% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 350 702
10th Percentile £420 £413 £413
25th Percentile £475 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £643
90th Percentile £673 £725 £719
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £560
% change year-on-year -11.67% +7.14% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 18
10th Percentile - £27.50 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -45.71% +154.55%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £46.15 £56.90 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £68.13
% change year-on-year +28.44% -20.00% +87.93%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,395 9,743 18,197
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.45% 39.53% 41.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,887 7,220 13,607
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 125 173
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.00 £21.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £50.94 £70.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.06 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.94% +56.25% -0.44%

GitHub
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing GitHub over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing GitHub.

GitHub hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

GitHub hourly rate histogram 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 23 (8.33%) Confluence
2 10 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 9 (3.26%) WordPress
4 7 (2.54%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 6 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.45%) Drupal
7 3 (1.09%) Apache
7 3 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.09%) IIS
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 2 (0.72%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.36%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.36%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.36%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 102 (36.96%) Azure
2 93 (33.70%) AWS
3 78 (28.26%) GitHub Actions
4 48 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
5 27 (9.78%) GCP
6 16 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (5.43%) Microsoft 365
7 15 (5.43%) Power Platform
8 14 (5.07%) SaaS
9 13 (4.71%) IaaS
9 13 (4.71%) PaaS
9 13 (4.71%) Serverless
10 10 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (3.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.26%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (2.90%) Azure Functions
12 8 (2.90%) PowerApps
13 7 (2.54%) Datadog
13 7 (2.54%) Power Automate
14 6 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (9.78%) Firewall
2 13 (4.71%) HTTP
3 10 (3.62%) DNS
4 6 (2.17%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.17%) VPN
5 5 (1.81%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.09%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 3 (1.09%) Intranet
6 3 (1.09%) Network Security
6 3 (1.09%) SSL
6 3 (1.09%) WAN
7 2 (0.72%) BGP
7 2 (0.72%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 2 (0.72%) LAN
7 2 (0.72%) OSPF
7 2 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (0.72%) SD-WAN
7 2 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.36%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (10.14%) MySQL
2 25 (9.06%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.52%) Oracle Reports
5 15 (5.43%) Power BI
6 12 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.62%) Oracle Database
8 9 (3.26%) Relational Database
9 8 (2.90%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.90%) Metadata
10 7 (2.54%) Data Lake
11 6 (2.17%) Apache Cassandra
11 6 (2.17%) PowerCenter
11 6 (2.17%) Redis
12 5 (1.81%) Couchbase
12 5 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (1.81%) InterSystems Cache
12 5 (1.81%) Oracle ODI
13 4 (1.45%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 61 (22.10%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.48%) JIRA
3 45 (16.30%) Git
4 38 (13.77%) GitLab
5 16 (5.80%) SonarQube
6 14 (5.07%) Cypress.io
7 12 (4.35%) Bitbucket
7 12 (4.35%) CircleCI
8 11 (3.99%) Maven
9 9 (3.26%) Selenium
10 7 (2.54%) Postman
11 6 (2.17%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.81%) Appium
12 5 (1.81%) Visual Studio Code
13 4 (1.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.45%) JMeter
13 4 (1.45%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.45%) Travis CI
14 3 (1.09%) Subversion
General
1 51 (18.48%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.13%) Finance
3 35 (12.68%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.62%) Banking
6 9 (3.26%) Financial Institution
6 9 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (1.81%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.45%) Marketing
9 3 (1.09%) Aviation
9 3 (1.09%) Publishing
9 3 (1.09%) Retail
9 3 (1.09%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.72%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.72%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.72%) Law
10 2 (0.72%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 82 (29.71%) Developer
2 46 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 41 (14.86%) Senior
4 20 (7.25%) Architect
5 17 (6.16%) Senior Developer
6 16 (5.80%) Data Engineer
6 16 (5.80%) Software Engineer
7 15 (5.43%) AWS Engineer
8 12 (4.35%) AWS DevOps
8 12 (4.35%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) Azure Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (3.62%) Senior DevOps
9 10 (3.62%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) Software Developer
10 9 (3.26%) Lead
10 9 (3.26%) SailPoint Developer
11 8 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
11 8 (2.90%) DBA
11 8 (2.90%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (13.77%) HTML
2 32 (11.59%) REST
2 32 (11.59%) XML
3 27 (9.78%) React
4 22 (7.97%) SOAP
5 21 (7.61%) Node.js
6 19 (6.88%) CSS
6 19 (6.88%) Web Services
7 18 (6.52%) JSON
8 16 (5.80%) JSP
8 16 (5.80%) LDAP
8 16 (5.80%) SailPoint
8 16 (5.80%) Servlets
8 16 (5.80%) SPML
8 16 (5.80%) YAML
9 15 (5.43%) JDBC
10 11 (3.99%) ARM Templates
11 10 (3.62%) .NET
11 10 (3.62%) Azure Blueprints
12 9 (3.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.78%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.43%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.99%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.26%) Mobile App
5 6 (2.17%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
6 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.09%) Social Media
7 2 (0.72%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.72%) Machine to Machine
7 2 (0.72%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.36%) Over-the-Top Content
Operating Systems
1 46 (16.67%) Linux
2 15 (5.43%) Windows
3 12 (4.35%) zOS
4 6 (2.17%) AIX
4 6 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.81%) Android
6 4 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.09%) Unix
8 2 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.72%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (47.83%) DevOps
2 96 (34.78%) CI/CD
3 84 (30.43%) Agile
4 47 (17.03%) Test Automation
5 35 (12.68%) Software Engineering
6 32 (11.59%) Project Management
7 31 (11.23%) Continuous Integration
8 30 (10.87%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
10 27 (9.78%) Containerisation
11 21 (7.61%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (7.61%) Full Stack Development
11 21 (7.61%) Mentoring
12 20 (7.25%) Scrum
13 19 (6.88%) Analytics
14 18 (6.52%) DevSecOps
14 18 (6.52%) Software Testing
15 16 (5.80%) Front End Development
15 16 (5.80%) RBAC
16 15 (5.43%) Continuous Deployment
Programming Languages
1 94 (34.06%) Python
2 64 (23.19%) JavaScript
3 60 (21.74%) SQL
4 51 (18.48%) Java
5 28 (10.14%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.52%) Bash
6 18 (6.52%) PowerShell
7 14 (5.07%) Go
8 12 (4.35%) JCL
8 12 (4.35%) REXX
9 11 (3.99%) PHP
10 10 (3.62%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.54%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.17%) Apex Code
12 6 (2.17%) C#
13 5 (1.81%) Ruby
14 4 (1.45%) Bicep
14 4 (1.45%) R
14 4 (1.45%) SOQL
15 3 (1.09%) Rust
Qualifications
1 62 (22.46%) Security Cleared
2 51 (18.48%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.52%) Degree
4 13 (4.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.17%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.45%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.72%) CEH
8 2 (0.72%) CISM
8 2 (0.72%) CISSP
8 2 (0.72%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.72%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.36%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.06%) QA
2 12 (4.35%) NCSC
3 10 (3.62%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.90%) NIST
5 7 (2.54%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.72%) COBIT
7 2 (0.72%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.72%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.72%) WCAG
8 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 48 (17.39%) Docker
2 20 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.80%) IAG
4 15 (5.43%) ACF2
4 15 (5.43%) RACF
5 12 (4.35%) NFS
5 12 (4.35%) Time Sharing Option
6 6 (2.17%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.09%) zsh
8 2 (0.72%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.36%) iptables
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 101 (36.59%) Terraform
2 49 (17.75%) Ansible
3 45 (16.30%) Kubernetes
4 11 (3.99%) Grafana
4 11 (3.99%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 10 (3.62%) Kibana
6 8 (2.90%) Data Guard
6 8 (2.90%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.90%) Puppet
7 7 (2.54%) logstash
8 6 (2.17%) Argo
8 6 (2.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.45%) Docker Swarm
9 4 (1.45%) Packer
10 3 (1.09%) Nessus
10 3 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.09%) SCOM
11 2 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (13.77%) Oracle
2 32 (11.59%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.16%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.80%) Sybase
5 15 (5.43%) Splunk
6 14 (5.07%) IBM
7 12 (4.35%) Broadcom
7 12 (4.35%) Brocade
7 12 (4.35%) CA
7 12 (4.35%) Dell
7 12 (4.35%) Google
7 12 (4.35%) Salesforce
8 11 (3.99%) Atlassian
9 8 (2.90%) Palo Alto
10 7 (2.54%) Informatica
11 6 (2.17%) Cisco
12 5 (1.81%) F5
13 4 (1.45%) VMware
14 3 (1.09%) Avaya
14 3 (1.09%) Genesys