GitHub Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

GitHub
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 52 72
Rank change year-on-year +3 +20 +21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 85 35 39
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.49% 3.13% 2.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.87% 8.25% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 29 27
10th Percentile £283 £375 £416
25th Percentile £431 £406 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -12.20% +2.50%
75th Percentile £526 £515 £631
90th Percentile £550 £640 £730
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 782 424 564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.27% 37.96% 31.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 281 415
10th Percentile £216 £275 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £615 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 3
10th Percentile - £18.04 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £24.81 £19.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £34.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.39% +71.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £57.25 £97.98 £41.00
90th Percentile £71.20 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £27.21 £29.00 £23.43
% change year-on-year -6.17% +23.80% +4.11%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Yorkshire

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 December 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
South Yorkshire -18 43 £474 -9.81% 44
West Yorkshire -9 37 £500 +21.21% 102
North Yorkshire - 4 £419 - 28
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 21
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 15 (17.65%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Mule
3 2 (2.35%) CICS
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.18%) Apache
4 1 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.88%) Chatbot
2 5 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (40.00%) AWS
1 34 (40.00%) Azure
2 33 (38.82%) GitHub Actions
3 30 (35.29%) GCP
4 15 (17.65%) Serverless
5 13 (15.29%) AWS Lambda
5 13 (15.29%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (10.59%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (10.59%) Amazon S3
7 6 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
8 5 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (4.71%) Cohesity
9 4 (4.71%) Route 53
9 4 (4.71%) Slack
10 3 (3.53%) Apigee
10 3 (3.53%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.53%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) Firewall
2 10 (11.76%) DNS
3 6 (7.06%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.71%) Internet
5 2 (2.35%) HTTP
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.18%) FCoE
6 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.18%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.18%) LAN
6 1 (1.18%) Multicast
6 1 (1.18%) NAS
6 1 (1.18%) SAN
6 1 (1.18%) VPN
6 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (24.71%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (15.29%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.41%) DynamoDB
5 7 (8.24%) MySQL
6 6 (7.06%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
9 2 (2.35%) Power BI
9 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
10 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (1.18%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (1.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (64.71%) Jenkins
2 31 (36.47%) JIRA
3 18 (21.18%) Git
4 15 (17.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (14.12%) GitLab
6 9 (10.59%) CircleCI
7 6 (7.06%) PyCharm
8 3 (3.53%) Postman
9 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.35%) git-flow
9 2 (2.35%) MSI
9 2 (2.35%) Selenium
9 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.35%) TestRail
9 2 (2.35%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.18%) Gradle
10 1 (1.18%) Maven
General
1 34 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (28.24%) Banking
3 14 (16.47%) Finance
4 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Law
6 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.18%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Developer
5 8 (9.41%) Analyst
5 8 (9.41%) Business Analyst
5 8 (9.41%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.41%) Technical Analyst
5 8 (9.41%) Technical Business Analyst
6 7 (8.24%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (8.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.06%) Lead
7 6 (7.06%) Senior
7 6 (7.06%) Service Manager
8 5 (5.88%) Architect
8 5 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.94%) REST
2 10 (11.76%) Node.js
3 9 (10.59%) React
4 8 (9.41%) .NET
5 6 (7.06%) NumPy
5 6 (7.06%) Pandas
5 6 (7.06%) TensorFlow
6 4 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.53%) JSON
7 3 (3.53%) Kafka
7 3 (3.53%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (3.53%) Next.js
7 3 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.53%) Playwright
7 3 (3.53%) XML
8 2 (2.35%) ARM Templates
8 2 (2.35%) AWS CDK
8 2 (2.35%) Blazor
8 2 (2.35%) Jest
8 2 (2.35%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.12%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.94%) NHS
3 9 (10.59%) Onboarding
4 6 (7.06%) Clustering
4 6 (7.06%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.88%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.71%) Online Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.53%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.35%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.35%) Replication
9 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.18%) IBM Mainframe
9 1 (1.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Linux
2 8 (9.41%) Windows
3 5 (5.88%) Unix
4 3 (3.53%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.35%) Solaris
5 2 (2.35%) zOS
6 1 (1.18%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (77.65%) DevOps
2 58 (68.24%) CI/CD
3 36 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (28.24%) Agile
5 21 (24.71%) Observability
6 17 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 13 (15.29%) Containerisation
7 13 (15.29%) Data Protection
7 13 (15.29%) Microservices
7 13 (15.29%) Test Automation
8 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (12.94%) DevSecOps
9 11 (12.94%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (12.94%) Scrum
10 10 (11.76%) AI
11 9 (10.59%) Cloud Security
11 9 (10.59%) Migration
12 8 (9.41%) Process Improvement
12 8 (9.41%) Secure Coding
13 7 (8.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (49.41%) Python
2 22 (25.88%) Bash
3 17 (20.00%) Java
4 11 (12.94%) SQL
5 9 (10.59%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
7 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
8 6 (7.06%) C#
8 6 (7.06%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.71%) Go
9 4 (4.71%) Groovy
10 3 (3.53%) Bicep
11 2 (2.35%) XPath
12 1 (1.18%) C++
12 1 (1.18%) PHP
12 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Degree
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) QA
2 5 (5.88%) SLA
3 2 (2.35%) GRC
4 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.18%) NIST
System Software
1 26 (30.59%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.35%) KVM
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.18%) NFS
4 1 (1.18%) SRDF
4 1 (1.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.18%) vSphere
4 1 (1.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 40 (47.06%) Terraform
2 32 (37.65%) Kubernetes
3 28 (32.94%) Ansible
4 19 (22.35%) Grafana
5 10 (11.76%) Prometheus
6 7 (8.24%) Puppet
7 4 (4.71%) NetBackup
8 3 (3.53%) Packer
8 3 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.35%) Istio
9 2 (2.35%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.18%) Argo
10 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (1.18%) Kibana
10 1 (1.18%) logstash
10 1 (1.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Splunk
2 12 (14.12%) Google
2 12 (14.12%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
3 7 (8.24%) Sonatype
4 6 (7.06%) Red Hat
5 4 (4.71%) AppDynamics
5 4 (4.71%) Commvault
5 4 (4.71%) VMware
6 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.35%) Cisco
7 2 (2.35%) Cribl.io
7 2 (2.35%) EMC
7 2 (2.35%) F5
7 2 (2.35%) NetApp
7 2 (2.35%) OpenAI
7 2 (2.35%) Pure Storage
7 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.18%) IBM