GitHub Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

GitHub
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Oct 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 39 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +27 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 29 29 23
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 3.49% 3.67% 1.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.99% 8.55% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 25 16
10th Percentile £474 £366 £481
25th Percentile - £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £438 £588
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -25.53% +17.50%
75th Percentile £569 £500 £669
90th Percentile £661 £570 £738
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +11.11% -25.00% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
West 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 363 339 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.68% 42.86% 32.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 235 314
10th Percentile £313 £327 £287
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% -2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £600
90th Percentile £640 £650 £688
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.09 -
25th Percentile £69.69 £19.28 -
Median hourly rate £113.75 £27.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +313.64% -55.65% +175.56%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 -
90th Percentile £182.88 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
% change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

GitHub job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in West Yorkshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Leeds -9 29 £500 +14.29% 29
Halifax - 1 - - 2
GitHub
Yorkshire

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.90%) Apache
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 21 (72.41%) GitHub Actions
2 17 (58.62%) AWS
3 13 (44.83%) Azure
4 10 (34.48%) GCP
5 9 (31.03%) Serverless
6 6 (20.69%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (17.24%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (13.79%) Slack
9 3 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (6.90%) Amazon ElastiCache
10 2 (6.90%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 2 (6.90%) Amazon SQS
10 2 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (6.90%) AWS KMS
10 2 (6.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
10 2 (6.90%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (6.90%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) DNS
1 2 (6.90%) SSL
1 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) Network Security
2 1 (3.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) DynamoDB
2 3 (10.34%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.45%) DataStage
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Jenkins
2 5 (17.24%) CircleCI
2 5 (17.24%) Git
3 4 (13.79%) GitLab
3 4 (13.79%) JIRA
4 1 (3.45%) Crashlytics
4 1 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.45%) Banking
3 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (34.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (31.03%) AWS Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Software Engineer
4 6 (20.69%) AWS DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 5 (17.24%) Senior
6 3 (10.34%) Architect
6 3 (10.34%) AWS Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 3 (10.34%) Lead DevOps
6 3 (10.34%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Security Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Developer
7 2 (6.90%) Security Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Security Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 2 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) React
2 3 (10.34%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) Node.js
2 3 (10.34%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.90%) ARM Templates
3 2 (6.90%) Blazor
3 2 (6.90%) Next.js
3 2 (6.90%) pytest
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Django
4 1 (3.45%) FastAPI
4 1 (3.45%) Flask
4 1 (3.45%) J2EE
4 1 (3.45%) JPA
4 1 (3.45%) Playwright
4 1 (3.45%) Ruby on Rails
4 1 (3.45%) Spring
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Cloud Native
2 6 (20.69%) NHS
3 2 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (79.31%) CI/CD
2 20 (68.97%) DevOps
3 18 (62.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (44.83%) Agile
5 7 (24.14%) Observability
5 7 (24.14%) Software Engineering
6 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
7 5 (17.24%) Containerisation
7 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Management
8 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 3 (10.34%) Clean Code
9 3 (10.34%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (10.34%) Deployment Automation
9 3 (10.34%) DevSecOps
9 3 (10.34%) Risk Management
9 3 (10.34%) Secrets Management
10 2 (6.90%) Cost Optimisation
10 2 (6.90%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) Python
2 9 (31.03%) Bash
3 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
4 3 (10.34%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) Bicep
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) C++
6 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) Ruby
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (10.34%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) GDPR
2 2 (6.90%) GRC
2 2 (6.90%) SOC 2
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 10 (34.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (72.41%) Terraform
2 11 (37.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (31.03%) Prometheus
4 8 (27.59%) Grafana
5 5 (17.24%) Ansible
6 1 (3.45%) Istio
6 1 (3.45%) Kustomize
6 1 (3.45%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Google
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) Talend
47 GitHub jobs in West Yorkshire