GitHub Contracts in Leeds

GitHub
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 50 53
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 14 19 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.69% 2.35% 3.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.65% 7.01% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 28
10th Percentile £362 £462 £425
25th Percentile £443 £531 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £700
90th Percentile £641 £638 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -14.85% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £54.00

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 248 271 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.69% 33.54% 32.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 201 288
10th Percentile £313 £288 £367
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -15.91% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £563 £638
90th Percentile £634 £638 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £550
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £31.53 - -
25th Percentile £31.62 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 - £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +151.16%
75th Percentile £66.51 - £56.00
90th Percentile £85.74 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +119.73% -72.22% +160.24%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Leeds

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Leeds

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Leeds over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Leeds

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (7.14%) Apache
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) GitHub Actions
2 8 (57.14%) AWS
3 4 (28.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (28.57%) Azure
4 3 (21.43%) Serverless
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 2 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS KMS
5 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) GCP
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (7.14%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (7.14%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (7.14%) Firebase
6 1 (7.14%) Sentry
6 1 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) SSL
1 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) DynamoDB
2 2 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (7.14%) DataStage
3 1 (7.14%) Delta Lake
3 1 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
3 3 (21.43%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (7.14%) Crashlytics
4 1 (7.14%) Selenium
4 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) React Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Android Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) React
2 1 (7.14%) ADO
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.14%) Lambda Expressions
2 1 (7.14%) Laravel
2 1 (7.14%) Next.js
2 1 (7.14%) PySpark
2 1 (7.14%) pytest
2 1 (7.14%) React Native
2 1 (7.14%) Vue
2 1 (7.14%) WPF
2 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Agile
4 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
5 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
6 2 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (14.29%) DevSecOps
6 2 (14.29%) FinOps
6 2 (14.29%) Observability
6 2 (14.29%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Transpiler
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) Kotlin
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) GDPR
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (14.29%) NIST
1 2 (14.29%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.14%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
2 5 (35.71%) Ansible
3 4 (28.57%) Prometheus
4 3 (21.43%) Grafana
4 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.14%) Kustomize
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Splunk
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica
2 1 (7.14%) Talend