GitHub Contracts in South Yorkshire

GitHub
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 38 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 -1
Contract jobs citing GitHub 27 24 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.95% 5.11% 2.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.61% 15.89% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 14
10th Percentile £371 £393 £495
25th Percentile £463 £400 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £547 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.98% -21.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £610 £634 -
90th Percentile £675 £645 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £520 £569 £538
% change year-on-year -8.62% +5.81% +7.50%

All Cloud Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 131 151 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 28.85% 32.13% 29.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 101 115
10th Percentile £265 £210 £413
25th Percentile £400 £400 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £551
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -9.22% +5.02%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £669
90th Percentile £650 £625 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -3.55% -6.19% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £15.60 -
25th Percentile - £18.75 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +7.50% +17.27%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +119.73% -53.85% +72.19%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in South Yorkshire

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in South Yorkshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in South Yorkshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 June 2025. 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
Sheffield +6 27 £520 -16.44% 97
GitHub
Yorkshire

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 8 (29.63%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) GCP
2 5 (18.52%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) CloudBees
3 3 (11.11%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) BigQuery
2 2 (7.41%) Hazelcast
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.70%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 13 (48.15%) Git
3 8 (29.63%) JIRA
4 7 (25.93%) Cucumber
5 4 (14.81%) Gradle
5 4 (14.81%) HP UFT
5 4 (14.81%) IntelliJ
5 4 (14.81%) JUnit
5 4 (14.81%) Maven
5 4 (14.81%) Selenium
6 3 (11.11%) Jaeger
6 3 (11.11%) Vagrant
6 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.70%) CircleCI
7 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 7 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Banking
4 1 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (14.81%) DevOps Engineer
1 4 (14.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (11.11%) Test Manager
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Data Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Developer
3 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (7.41%) Tester
4 1 (3.70%) Automation Tester
4 1 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Lead
4 1 (3.70%) Middleware Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Senior
4 1 (3.70%) Senior Architect
4 1 (3.70%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 2 (7.41%) gRPC
3 2 (7.41%) Kafka
4 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.70%) CSS
4 1 (3.70%) CSS3
4 1 (3.70%) HTML
4 1 (3.70%) HTML5
4 1 (3.70%) Middleware
4 1 (3.70%) Node.js
4 1 (3.70%) PySpark
4 1 (3.70%) React
4 1 (3.70%) RESTful
4 1 (3.70%) Spring
4 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.70%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
1 13 (48.15%) DevOps
2 12 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 11 (40.74%) TDD
4 6 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 5 (18.52%) Architectural Design
5 5 (18.52%) Architectural Patterns
5 5 (18.52%) Change Management
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (18.52%) Deployment Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Design Patterns
5 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (18.52%) ITSM
5 5 (18.52%) Microservices
5 5 (18.52%) SIEM
5 5 (18.52%) Software Delivery
5 5 (18.52%) Software Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Test Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (51.85%) Java
2 13 (48.15%) Python
3 8 (29.63%) PowerShell
4 7 (25.93%) Kotlin
5 6 (22.22%) Groovy
5 6 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 6 (22.22%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.11%) Bash
6 3 (11.11%) Ruby
6 3 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) Docker
3 3 (11.11%) VirtualBox
4 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (44.44%) Ansible
2 7 (25.93%) Kubernetes
3 6 (22.22%) Grafana
4 3 (11.11%) Control-M
4 3 (11.11%) Istio
4 3 (11.11%) Kiali
4 3 (11.11%) Prometheus
4 3 (11.11%) Puppet
4 3 (11.11%) Terraform
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.70%) SCOM
5 1 (3.70%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Splunk
2 4 (14.81%) AppDynamics
3 3 (11.11%) Databricks
3 3 (11.11%) xMatters
4 2 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco
5 1 (3.70%) Citrix
5 1 (3.70%) Dell
5 1 (3.70%) HP
5 1 (3.70%) IBM