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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 121 112
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +17
Contract jobs citing GitHub 283 495 997
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.93% 2.04% 2.26%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.29% 5.20% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 348 693
10th Percentile £414 £413 £413
25th Percentile £471 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £598 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% +8.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £676 £650
90th Percentile £675 £725 £732
UK median daily rate £540 £600 £563
% change year-on-year -10.00% +6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 13
10th Percentile - £40.80 £57.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £45.00 £65.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £74.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -27.51% +170.89%
75th Percentile - £56.75 £77.50
90th Percentile £46.15 £57.20 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +93.10%

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 5,354 9,512 18,202
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 36.57% 39.22% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,877 7,089 13,595
10th Percentile £350 £370 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £738 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 131 159
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.03
25th Percentile £17.16 £21.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £26.00 £54.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +35.00% -
75th Percentile £51.63 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.37 £75.00 £75.17
UK median hourly rate £21.37 £37.25 £22.40
% change year-on-year -42.63% +66.29% +0.67%

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 29 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 29 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 (8.13%) Confluence
2 9 (3.18%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.18%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.18%) WordPress
3 7 (2.47%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (1.41%) Apache
4 4 (1.41%) Drupal
5 3 (1.06%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.06%) IIS
6 2 (0.71%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 2 (0.71%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.35%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.35%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.35%) Markit EDM
1 1 (0.35%) NEC Housing
1 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 107 (37.81%) Azure
2 100 (35.34%) AWS
3 82 (28.98%) GitHub Actions
4 55 (19.43%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (11.31%) GCP
6 18 (6.36%) Power Platform
7 14 (4.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (4.95%) PaaS
7 14 (4.95%) SaaS
7 14 (4.95%) Serverless
8 13 (4.59%) IaaS
9 10 (3.53%) Amazon EKS
9 10 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 9 (3.18%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (3.18%) dbt
11 8 (2.83%) Azure Functions
11 8 (2.83%) Fivetran
11 8 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 7 (2.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.19%) Firewall
2 11 (3.89%) HTTP
3 10 (3.53%) DNS
4 6 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (1.77%) TCP/IP
5 5 (1.77%) VPN
6 4 (1.41%) WAN
7 3 (1.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (1.06%) Intranet
7 3 (1.06%) LAN
7 3 (1.06%) Network Security
7 3 (1.06%) SD-WAN
8 2 (0.71%) BGP
8 2 (0.71%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (0.71%) OSPF
8 2 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
8 2 (0.71%) SSL
8 2 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.35%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.25%) SQL Server
2 26 (9.19%) MySQL
3 22 (7.77%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (6.36%) Oracle Reports
4 18 (6.36%) Power BI
5 16 (5.65%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (3.89%) BigQuery
6 11 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 10 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 10 (3.53%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.83%) Metadata
9 7 (2.47%) Data Lake
10 6 (2.12%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (2.12%) PowerCenter
10 6 (2.12%) Redis
11 5 (1.77%) Couchbase
11 5 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (1.77%) InterSystems Cache
11 5 (1.77%) Oracle ODI
11 5 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 65 (22.97%) Jenkins
2 50 (17.67%) JIRA
3 46 (16.25%) Git
4 37 (13.07%) GitLab
5 17 (6.01%) SonarQube
6 13 (4.59%) Cypress.io
6 13 (4.59%) Maven
7 12 (4.24%) Bitbucket
8 11 (3.89%) Selenium
9 10 (3.53%) CircleCI
10 7 (2.47%) Cucumber
10 7 (2.47%) Postman
11 6 (2.12%) Appium
11 6 (2.12%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (1.77%) TeamCity
13 4 (1.41%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.41%) JMeter
13 4 (1.41%) Travis CI
14 3 (1.06%) Snyk
14 3 (1.06%) Storybook
General
1 52 (18.37%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.78%) Finance
3 37 (13.07%) Public Sector
4 24 (8.48%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (3.89%) Banking
6 9 (3.18%) Financial Institution
7 8 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (1.77%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.06%) Aviation
9 3 (1.06%) Marketing
9 3 (1.06%) Publishing
9 3 (1.06%) Retail
9 3 (1.06%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.71%) Law
10 2 (0.71%) Multimedia
11 1 (0.35%) Front Office
11 1 (0.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (28.98%) Developer
2 45 (15.90%) DevOps Engineer
3 44 (15.55%) Senior
4 24 (8.48%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.77%) Architect
6 18 (6.36%) Senior Developer
7 16 (5.65%) Software Engineer
8 13 (4.59%) AWS Engineer
9 12 (4.24%) Software Developer
10 11 (3.89%) AWS DevOps
10 11 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Azure Engineer
11 10 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
12 9 (3.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 9 (3.18%) SailPoint Developer
12 9 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (2.83%) DBA
13 8 (2.83%) Oracle DBA
13 8 (2.83%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (13.78%) HTML
2 37 (13.07%) REST
3 29 (10.25%) XML
4 26 (9.19%) React
5 23 (8.13%) SOAP
6 21 (7.42%) CSS
6 21 (7.42%) Node.js
6 21 (7.42%) Web Services
7 16 (5.65%) JSP
7 16 (5.65%) LDAP
7 16 (5.65%) SailPoint
7 16 (5.65%) Servlets
7 16 (5.65%) SPML
7 16 (5.65%) YAML
8 15 (5.30%) JDBC
8 15 (5.30%) JSON
9 13 (4.59%) Spring Boot
10 12 (4.24%) ARM Templates
11 11 (3.89%) .NET
12 10 (3.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.54%) Onboarding
2 16 (5.65%) Data Centre
3 11 (3.89%) Management Information System
3 11 (3.89%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.53%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (2.12%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.77%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.06%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.06%) Social Media
9 2 (0.71%) Algorithms
9 2 (0.71%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.71%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.71%) Machine to Machine
9 2 (0.71%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.35%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.35%) Genomics
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.19%) Linux
2 13 (4.59%) Windows
3 12 (4.24%) zOS
4 6 (2.12%) AIX
4 6 (2.12%) Android
5 5 (1.77%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.06%) Unix
8 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (50.18%) DevOps
2 99 (34.98%) CI/CD
3 86 (30.39%) Agile
4 48 (16.96%) Test Automation
5 36 (12.72%) Software Engineering
6 32 (11.31%) Continuous Integration
6 32 (11.31%) Project Management
7 30 (10.60%) Containerisation
7 30 (10.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 30 (10.60%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (7.77%) Scrum
8 22 (7.77%) Software Testing
9 21 (7.42%) Mentoring
10 20 (7.07%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (7.07%) Full Stack Development
11 19 (6.71%) Analytics
12 18 (6.36%) DevSecOps
13 16 (5.65%) Migration
13 16 (5.65%) RBAC
14 15 (5.30%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 95 (33.57%) Python
2 70 (24.73%) SQL
3 60 (21.20%) JavaScript
4 56 (19.79%) Java
5 26 (9.19%) TypeScript
6 18 (6.36%) PowerShell
7 16 (5.65%) Bash
8 14 (4.95%) Go
9 12 (4.24%) JCL
9 12 (4.24%) REXX
10 11 (3.89%) PHP
10 11 (3.89%) Shell Script
11 7 (2.47%) C#
11 7 (2.47%) PL/SQL
12 5 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 4 (1.41%) Bicep
13 4 (1.41%) Ruby
14 3 (1.06%) ActionScript
14 3 (1.06%) Rust
14 3 (1.06%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (22.26%) Security Cleared
2 49 (17.31%) SC Cleared
3 18 (6.36%) Degree
4 13 (4.59%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 5 (1.77%) AWS Certification
7 4 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.71%) CEH
8 2 (0.71%) CISM
8 2 (0.71%) CISSP
8 2 (0.71%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.71%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.35%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.35%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.35%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (8.83%) QA
2 11 (3.89%) NCSC
3 10 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.83%) NIST
5 7 (2.47%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.71%) COBIT
7 2 (0.71%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.71%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.71%) WCAG
8 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 51 (18.02%) Docker
2 21 (7.42%) Active Directory
3 16 (5.65%) IAG
4 15 (5.30%) ACF2
4 15 (5.30%) RACF
5 12 (4.24%) NFS
5 12 (4.24%) Time Sharing Option
6 6 (2.12%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.06%) zsh
8 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.71%) VMware Infrastructure
9 1 (0.35%) iptables
9 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 102 (36.04%) Terraform
2 50 (17.67%) Ansible
3 46 (16.25%) Kubernetes
4 13 (4.59%) Grafana
5 11 (3.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 10 (3.53%) Kibana
6 10 (3.53%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.83%) Data Guard
8 7 (2.47%) logstash
8 7 (2.47%) Puppet
9 6 (2.12%) Argo
9 6 (2.12%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 6 (2.12%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.41%) Docker Swarm
10 4 (1.41%) Packer
11 3 (1.06%) Nessus
11 3 (1.06%) SCOM
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle Flashback
12 2 (0.71%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 38 (13.43%) Oracle
2 31 (10.95%) Microsoft
3 16 (5.65%) Google
3 16 (5.65%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.65%) Sybase
4 15 (5.30%) Splunk
5 14 (4.95%) IBM
5 14 (4.95%) Salesforce
6 12 (4.24%) Broadcom
6 12 (4.24%) Brocade
6 12 (4.24%) CA
6 12 (4.24%) Dell
7 10 (3.53%) Atlassian
8 8 (2.83%) Palo Alto
9 7 (2.47%) Cisco
9 7 (2.47%) Informatica
10 5 (1.77%) F5
11 4 (1.41%) VMware
12 3 (1.06%) Avaya
12 3 (1.06%) Computacenter