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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 55 47
Rank change year-on-year +21 -8 +44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 176 59 58
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.15% 3.82% 3.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.73% 10.41% 11.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 41 46
10th Percentile £367 £280 £373
25th Percentile £425 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +3.63% -8.10%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £617
90th Percentile £575 £610 £641
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -0.98% -8.70%

All Cloud Computing 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 1,052 567 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.76% 36.72% 33.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 393 351
10th Percentile £306 £257 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £584 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +4.48% -4.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £14.06 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £17.31 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £34.23 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +30.15% -12.33% -9.09%

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 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Yorkshire

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing GitHub

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 29 August 2026. 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
West Yorkshire +31 93 £473 -5.50% 53
South Yorkshire +5 80 £501 +0.98% 17
East Yorkshire -3 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -9 1 £550 - 6
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 31 (17.61%) Confluence
2 10 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.70%) nginx
5 2 (1.14%) Apache
5 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 2 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.57%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.30%) GitHub Actions
2 77 (43.75%) AWS
3 72 (40.91%) Azure
4 44 (25.00%) GCP
5 30 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.52%) Serverless
7 12 (6.82%) Entra ID
8 11 (6.25%) Apigee
8 11 (6.25%) IaaS
8 11 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.68%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.68%) Power Platform
10 9 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (4.55%) OpenShift
11 8 (4.55%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (3.98%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.66%) DNS
2 9 (5.11%) Firewall
3 8 (4.55%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.41%) VLAN
5 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.27%) Network Security
7 3 (1.70%) NAS
7 3 (1.70%) SAN
7 3 (1.70%) SSL
8 2 (1.14%) VSAN
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.57%) DMZ
9 1 (0.57%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) Intranet
9 1 (0.57%) Modbus
9 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.57%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.48%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.11%) Redis
5 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.98%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.84%) Hazelcast
7 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.27%) Big Data
9 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.70%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.70%) Parquet
9 3 (1.70%) Power BI
10 2 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.14%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.14%) Tableau
11 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 88 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 48 (27.27%) JIRA
3 24 (13.64%) Git
4 23 (13.07%) GitLab
5 14 (7.95%) Gatling
6 13 (7.39%) Maven
7 11 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 10 (5.68%) Selenium
8 10 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.41%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.41%) JMeter
10 5 (2.84%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.84%) Gradle
11 4 (2.27%) JUnit
11 4 (2.27%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.27%) MSBuild
11 4 (2.27%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.27%) Snyk
11 4 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.89%) Finance
3 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.52%) Banking
5 14 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (26.14%) Developer
2 25 (14.20%) Senior
3 21 (11.93%) Lead
4 20 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.23%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Architect
7 11 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.11%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.55%) .NET Developer
9 8 (4.55%) IAM Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.55%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.55%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.98%) GCP DevOps
10 7 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
11 6 (3.41%) Lead Test Engineer
12 5 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (56.25%) Terraform
2 29 (16.48%) REST
3 28 (15.91%) Kafka
4 18 (10.23%) Playwright
5 16 (9.09%) React
6 15 (8.52%) .NET
7 14 (7.95%) HTML
7 14 (7.95%) Spring
7 14 (7.95%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (6.25%) Web Services
9 10 (5.68%) JSON
10 9 (5.11%) OAuth
10 9 (5.11%) RESTful
11 8 (4.55%) JPA
11 8 (4.55%) JWT
12 7 (3.98%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.98%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (19.89%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.98%) NHS
5 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.27%) Replication
8 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.70%) Autonomous Agent
8 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.70%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.14%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.14%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.95%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.14%) AIX
4 2 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.14%) MVS
4 2 (1.14%) zOS
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Solaris
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (73.30%) CI/CD
2 108 (61.36%) DevOps
3 80 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.39%) Observability
5 51 (28.98%) Agile
6 37 (21.02%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (19.32%) Test Automation
8 30 (17.05%) Microservices
9 26 (14.77%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 22 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 20 (11.36%) API Development
12 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
12 19 (10.80%) Event-Driven
13 18 (10.23%) RBAC
13 18 (10.23%) SDLC
14 17 (9.66%) Validation
15 16 (9.09%) Analytics
15 16 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (52.27%) Python
2 45 (25.57%) Java
3 39 (22.16%) PowerShell
3 39 (22.16%) SQL
4 27 (15.34%) Bash
5 23 (13.07%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.82%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.25%) Scala
8 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.55%) ActionScript
9 8 (4.55%) C#
10 7 (3.98%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (3.41%) Bicep
12 4 (2.27%) REXX
13 3 (1.70%) Groovy
13 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.14%) JCL
14 2 (1.14%) PromQL
15 1 (0.57%) Perl
15 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (21.59%) Security Cleared
2 32 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.84%) Degree
5 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) OCP
6 3 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.14%) GSEC
7 2 (1.14%) NCDA
7 2 (1.14%) NCIE
7 2 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.55%) QA
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
3 5 (2.84%) HL7
3 5 (2.84%) WCAG
4 4 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (25.00%) Docker
2 14 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.98%) vSphere
4 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.84%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.27%) NFS
7 2 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.14%) SRDF
7 2 (1.14%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 40 (22.73%) Ansible
3 27 (15.34%) Grafana
4 18 (10.23%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.95%) Argo
6 9 (5.11%) HAProxy
7 7 (3.98%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.41%) Packer
9 5 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.27%) NetBackup
11 3 (1.70%) Kustomize
12 2 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.14%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.14%) Progress Chef
12 2 (1.14%) Puppet
12 2 (1.14%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.14%) Tivoli NetView
12 2 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 33 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.09%) Google
3 12 (6.82%) Splunk
4 11 (6.25%) IBM
5 10 (5.68%) Databricks
5 10 (5.68%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.55%) F5
7 7 (3.98%) Pure Storage
7 7 (3.98%) VMware
8 6 (3.41%) Centrify
8 6 (3.41%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.84%) Brocade
10 4 (2.27%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.27%) Cisco
10 4 (2.27%) Dell
10 4 (2.27%) New Relic
11 3 (1.70%) EMC
11 3 (1.70%) NetApp
12 2 (1.14%) Veeam