GitHub Contracts

GitHub
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 133 135
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 722 1,081 1,747
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.65% 1.95% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.10% 5.34% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 733 1,190
10th Percentile £375 £406 £415
25th Percentile £450 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £600 £561
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +6.90% +12.25%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £663
90th Percentile £675 £800 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +7.62% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 7 23
10th Percentile £31.25 £46.40 £54.78
25th Percentile £66.25 £52.25 £62.47
Median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +164.15%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £77.50
90th Percentile - £84.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -26.67% +243.09%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,152 20,251 33,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.46% 38.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,986 14,657 24,479
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 356 327 381
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.89
25th Percentile £16.06 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £21.50 £36.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.28% +63.64% +2.33%
75th Percentile £43.75 £69.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £78.48 £69.38
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £27.35 £19.09
% change year-on-year -26.87% +43.27% -4.55%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 June 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
England -38 557 £529 -11.83% 423
London -24 342 £525 -16.00% 177
Work from Home +7 284 £550 -4.76% 134
UK excluding London -42 232 £528 -6.59% 273
North of England -21 72 £550 - 78
Yorkshire +10 46 £569 +8.33% 30
South West -39 46 £533 -11.17% 36
South East 0 45 £475 -17.39% 57
Wales +43 31 £520 -11.11% 14
North West +12 21 £500 -3.61% 38
Northern Ireland - 14 £588 - 6
Midlands -21 10 £519 -7.78% 42
East of England -27 10 £550 -13.73% 23
East Midlands +1 6 - - 17
North East -22 5 - - 10
Scotland +29 4 £427 -25.83% 17
West Midlands -24 4 £519 -7.78% 25

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 59 (8.17%) Confluence
2 22 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
4 18 (2.49%) WordPress
5 13 (1.80%) Apache
6 11 (1.52%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 10 (1.39%) Apache Spark
7 10 (1.39%) CMS
8 9 (1.25%) Drupal
9 7 (0.97%) nginx
9 7 (0.97%) Oracle Workflow
10 6 (0.83%) IIS
11 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.28%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.28%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.14%) Cloud Foundry
12 1 (0.14%) Headless CMS
12 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (0.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.55%) Trello
3 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (0.97%) NEC Housing
2 6 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (0.69%) Magento
4 4 (0.55%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) Aareon QL
6 1 (0.14%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.14%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.14%) OPENHousing
6 1 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 273 (37.81%) Azure
2 268 (37.12%) AWS
3 194 (26.87%) GitHub Actions
4 110 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
5 96 (13.30%) GCP
6 80 (11.08%) Serverless
7 42 (5.82%) Power Platform
8 38 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 35 (4.85%) Azure Functions
10 34 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
11 32 (4.43%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
13 27 (3.74%) Azure Service Bus
14 26 (3.60%) Dynamics 365
15 23 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
16 22 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (3.05%) PaaS
17 20 (2.77%) SaaS
18 19 (2.63%) Amazon S3
18 19 (2.63%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (5.68%) Firewall
2 25 (3.46%) DNS
3 21 (2.91%) HTTP
4 15 (2.08%) VPN
5 14 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.25%) SSL
7 6 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
7 6 (0.83%) WAN
8 5 (0.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 4 (0.55%) DMZ
9 4 (0.55%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.55%) Network Security
9 4 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
9 4 (0.55%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.42%) BGP
10 3 (0.42%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.42%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.42%) Internet
10 3 (0.42%) LAN
10 3 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (10.80%) PostgreSQL
2 71 (9.83%) SQL Server
3 65 (9.00%) MySQL
4 62 (8.59%) NoSQL
5 41 (5.68%) Relational Database
6 40 (5.54%) Data Warehouse
7 39 (5.40%) Power BI
8 29 (4.02%) BigQuery
9 25 (3.46%) Oracle Reports
10 18 (2.49%) Metadata
11 17 (2.35%) MongoDB
12 15 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
13 14 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
13 14 (1.94%) RDBMS
14 12 (1.66%) Data Lake
14 12 (1.66%) DynamoDB
15 11 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 11 (1.52%) Redis
16 10 (1.39%) Apache Cassandra
16 10 (1.39%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 186 (25.76%) Jenkins
2 142 (19.67%) JIRA
3 141 (19.53%) Git
4 103 (14.27%) GitLab
5 51 (7.06%) Cypress.io
6 35 (4.85%) SonarQube
7 34 (4.71%) Selenium
8 33 (4.57%) CircleCI
9 27 (3.74%) GoogleTest
10 25 (3.46%) Maven
11 24 (3.32%) Postman
12 22 (3.05%) JUnit
13 21 (2.91%) Bitbucket
13 21 (2.91%) Cucumber
14 14 (1.94%) JMeter
15 13 (1.80%) Appium
15 13 (1.80%) TeamCity
16 12 (1.66%) Gradle
16 12 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
16 12 (1.66%) Travis CI
General
1 157 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 92 (12.74%) Finance
3 66 (9.14%) Public Sector
4 64 (8.86%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (6.37%) Banking
6 22 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (2.22%) Financial Institution
8 9 (1.25%) Front Office
8 9 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (1.25%) Marketing
8 9 (1.25%) Retail
9 8 (1.11%) Wearables
10 7 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (0.69%) Investment Banking
12 5 (0.69%) Local Government
12 5 (0.69%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.55%) Manufacturing
13 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.55%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 219 (30.33%) Developer
2 99 (13.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 90 (12.47%) Senior
4 61 (8.45%) Software Engineer
5 46 (6.37%) Architect
6 43 (5.96%) Data Engineer
6 43 (5.96%) Java Engineer
7 36 (4.99%) AWS Engineer
8 35 (4.85%) Senior Developer
9 32 (4.43%) Java Software Engineer
10 29 (4.02%) Python Developer
11 28 (3.88%) AWS DevOps
11 28 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 26 (3.60%) Azure Engineer
13 25 (3.46%) Cloud Engineer
14 22 (3.05%) Lead
15 21 (2.91%) Full Stack Developer
15 21 (2.91%) Java Developer
16 20 (2.77%) Software Developer
17 19 (2.63%) Full Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (13.43%) React
2 82 (11.36%) REST
3 75 (10.39%) HTML
4 56 (7.76%) Node.js
5 48 (6.65%) CSS
6 45 (6.23%) XML
7 41 (5.68%) Kafka
7 41 (5.68%) Web Services
8 40 (5.54%) RESTful
9 36 (4.99%) .NET
9 36 (4.99%) Spring Boot
10 32 (4.43%) JSON
11 31 (4.29%) SOAP
12 30 (4.16%) YAML
13 29 (4.02%) Qt
14 25 (3.46%) Vue
15 24 (3.32%) LDAP
15 24 (3.32%) Spring
16 23 (3.19%) JSP
16 23 (3.19%) Servlets
Miscellaneous
1 44 (6.09%) Product Ownership
2 37 (5.12%) Linux Command Line
3 34 (4.71%) Onboarding
4 32 (4.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 30 (4.16%) Mobile App
6 20 (2.77%) Cloud Native
7 19 (2.63%) Public Cloud
8 17 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 14 (1.94%) Data Structures
9 14 (1.94%) Replication
10 13 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.66%) Management Information System
12 11 (1.52%) Derivative
13 10 (1.39%) Clustering
13 10 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.11%) Machine to Machine
14 8 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
14 8 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 129 (17.87%) Linux
2 40 (5.54%) Windows
3 28 (3.88%) Android
4 21 (2.91%) Unix
5 18 (2.49%) Windows Server
6 11 (1.52%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.52%) zOS
7 7 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.83%) AIX
9 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.28%) CentOS
11 2 (0.28%) VMS
11 2 (0.28%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.14%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.14%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 334 (46.26%) DevOps
2 311 (43.07%) CI/CD
3 282 (39.06%) Agile
4 124 (17.17%) Test Automation
5 120 (16.62%) Software Engineering
6 87 (12.05%) Infrastructure as Code
7 85 (11.77%) Continuous Integration
8 81 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
9 80 (11.08%) Containerisation
9 80 (11.08%) Scrum
10 70 (9.70%) Project Management
11 60 (8.31%) Full Stack Development
12 55 (7.62%) SDLC
13 53 (7.34%) TDD
14 52 (7.20%) Analytics
15 49 (6.79%) Migration
16 46 (6.37%) Microservices
17 41 (5.68%) Business Intelligence
17 41 (5.68%) Computer Science
17 41 (5.68%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 271 (37.53%) Python
2 164 (22.71%) Java
3 157 (21.75%) SQL
4 115 (15.93%) JavaScript
5 74 (10.25%) TypeScript
6 70 (9.70%) PowerShell
7 53 (7.34%) Bash
8 47 (6.51%) C++
9 34 (4.71%) Kotlin
10 33 (4.57%) C#
11 28 (3.88%) Go
12 26 (3.60%) PHP
13 18 (2.49%) Shell Script
14 16 (2.22%) Rust
15 15 (2.08%) Ruby
16 11 (1.52%) JCL
16 11 (1.52%) REXX
17 9 (1.25%) C
18 8 (1.11%) R
19 7 (0.97%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 131 (18.14%) Security Cleared
2 107 (14.82%) SC Cleared
3 63 (8.73%) Degree
4 27 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.39%) AWS Certification
8 8 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.83%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 3 (0.42%) SANS
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.28%) CEH
12 2 (0.28%) CISM
12 2 (0.28%) CISSP
12 2 (0.28%) CREST Certified
12 2 (0.28%) CSSLP
13 1 (0.14%) CCIE
13 1 (0.14%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (11.91%) QA
2 29 (4.02%) MISRA
3 26 (3.60%) Accessibility
4 13 (1.80%) NCSC
5 11 (1.52%) NIST
5 11 (1.52%) PCI DSS
6 6 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.69%) Data Quality
7 5 (0.69%) WCAG
8 3 (0.42%) GDPR
9 2 (0.28%) COBIT
9 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.14%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 141 (19.53%) Docker
2 42 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 23 (3.19%) IAG
4 21 (2.91%) ACF2
4 21 (2.91%) RACF
5 17 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (1.66%) NFS
7 11 (1.52%) Time Sharing Option
8 9 (1.25%) vSphere
9 7 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
11 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.42%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
13 2 (0.28%) zsh
14 1 (0.14%) Ceph
14 1 (0.14%) Firmware
14 1 (0.14%) iptables
14 1 (0.14%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 234 (32.41%) Terraform
2 148 (20.50%) Kubernetes
3 111 (15.37%) Ansible
4 43 (5.96%) Grafana
5 31 (4.29%) Puppet
6 29 (4.02%) Prometheus
7 24 (3.32%) Progress Chef
8 23 (3.19%) Argo
9 21 (2.91%) Kibana
10 13 (1.80%) Docker Swarm
10 13 (1.80%) logstash
10 13 (1.80%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 10 (1.39%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 9 (1.25%) Nessus
13 8 (1.11%) Data Guard
13 8 (1.11%) Graylog
13 8 (1.11%) Packer
14 6 (0.83%) HP Fortify
14 6 (0.83%) WebInspect
15 4 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 102 (14.13%) Microsoft
2 80 (11.08%) Google
2 80 (11.08%) Oracle
3 37 (5.12%) Splunk
4 26 (3.60%) ServiceNow
5 24 (3.32%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.19%) Sybase
6 23 (3.19%) VMware
7 17 (2.35%) Atlassian
8 14 (1.94%) Dell
8 14 (1.94%) IBM
8 14 (1.94%) Red Hat
9 12 (1.66%) Checkmarx
10 11 (1.52%) Broadcom
10 11 (1.52%) Brocade
10 11 (1.52%) CA
11 10 (1.39%) Cisco
12 9 (1.25%) Databricks
12 9 (1.25%) Informatica
13 8 (1.11%) Palo Alto