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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 57 51
Rank change year-on-year +21 -6 +35
Contract jobs citing GitHub 182 72 55
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.29% 4.27% 3.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.65% 11.03% 10.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 41 46
10th Percentile £400 £280 £368
25th Percentile £438 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +8.11% -22.92%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £591
90th Percentile £583 £600 £641
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -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 1,031 653 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.65% 38.73% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 660 433 359
10th Percentile £313 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £369 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £574
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 5
10th Percentile £13.45 £43.63 £15.58
25th Percentile £14.41 £69.69 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £113.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -83.30% +441.67% -6.71%
75th Percentile £32.50 £157.19 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £182.88 -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +8.36%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +26 100 £475 -5.00% 43
South Yorkshire +8 82 £501 -0.50% 18
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 1
North Yorkshire -9 2 £473 - 1
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 33 (18.13%) Confluence
2 7 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.65%) nginx
4 2 (1.10%) Apache
4 2 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.55%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (45.05%) GitHub Actions
2 78 (42.86%) AWS
3 77 (42.31%) Azure
4 52 (28.57%) GCP
5 30 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (9.89%) IaaS
7 14 (7.69%) Serverless
8 12 (6.59%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (6.59%) Microsoft 365
8 12 (6.59%) Microsoft Copilot
9 11 (6.04%) Amazon S3
10 10 (5.49%) Entra ID
10 10 (5.49%) Power Platform
11 9 (4.95%) Apigee
11 9 (4.95%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (4.40%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (3.85%) Kong
13 7 (3.85%) Power Automate
13 7 (3.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.79%) DNS
1 16 (8.79%) Firewall
2 11 (6.04%) BIG-IP
2 11 (6.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 11 (6.04%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (3.85%) VLAN
4 5 (2.75%) Network Security
4 5 (2.75%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.65%) SSL
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.55%) DMZ
6 1 (0.55%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.55%) Internet
6 1 (0.55%) Intranet
6 1 (0.55%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.55%) SAN
6 1 (0.55%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.55%) VPN
6 1 (0.55%) VSAN
6 1 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.74%) SQL Server
2 18 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.49%) Redis
4 9 (4.95%) MongoDB
4 9 (4.95%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.75%) Big Data
5 5 (2.75%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.75%) Hazelcast
5 5 (2.75%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.20%) Power BI
7 3 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.65%) Neo4j
7 3 (1.65%) Tableau
8 2 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.10%) Parquet
8 2 (1.10%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 80 (43.96%) Jenkins
2 57 (31.32%) JIRA
3 34 (18.68%) Git
4 21 (11.54%) GitLab
5 16 (8.79%) Bitbucket
6 13 (7.14%) Selenium
7 12 (6.59%) Sonatype Nexus
8 11 (6.04%) Cucumber
8 11 (6.04%) Gatling
9 10 (5.49%) Maven
10 9 (4.95%) JMeter
11 7 (3.85%) Cypress.io
12 6 (3.30%) JUnit
12 6 (3.30%) REST Assured
13 5 (2.75%) Claude Code
13 5 (2.75%) Gradle
13 5 (2.75%) LoadRunner
13 5 (2.75%) Postman
14 4 (2.20%) Serenity BDD
14 4 (2.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 39 (21.43%) Finance
3 21 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (10.99%) Banking
5 16 (8.79%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.10%) Law
6 2 (1.10%) Legal
7 1 (0.55%) Digital Health
7 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (28.02%) Developer
2 32 (17.58%) Senior
3 23 (12.64%) Lead
4 21 (11.54%) Java Developer
5 16 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.04%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.49%) Architect
7 10 (5.49%) Network Engineer
7 10 (5.49%) Senior Developer
8 9 (4.95%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.40%) IAM Developer
9 8 (4.40%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.40%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.85%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.30%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.30%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (46.15%) Terraform
2 33 (18.13%) REST
3 29 (15.93%) Kafka
4 21 (11.54%) Playwright
5 20 (10.99%) HTML
5 20 (10.99%) React
6 17 (9.34%) Spring
6 17 (9.34%) Spring Boot
7 14 (7.69%) AngularJS
8 13 (7.14%) RESTful
9 12 (6.59%) .NET
10 10 (5.49%) Jest
10 10 (5.49%) Node.js
10 10 (5.49%) OAuth
11 8 (4.40%) JPA
11 8 (4.40%) JWT
11 8 (4.40%) OAuth2
11 8 (4.40%) Web Services
12 7 (3.85%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.85%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.03%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.79%) Data Centre
3 14 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 13 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (4.95%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.85%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.30%) AI Agents
7 6 (3.30%) NHS
8 4 (2.20%) Autonomous Agent
8 4 (2.20%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.20%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.20%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
10 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.10%) Replication
11 1 (0.55%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.69%) Linux
2 9 (4.95%) Windows
3 3 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) AIX
4 2 (1.10%) Android
4 2 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.10%) macOS
4 2 (1.10%) MVS
4 2 (1.10%) zOS
5 1 (0.55%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.55%) Solaris
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (75.82%) CI/CD
2 100 (54.95%) DevOps
3 79 (43.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 69 (37.91%) Agile
5 58 (31.87%) Observability
6 45 (24.73%) Test Automation
7 43 (23.63%) Microservices
8 31 (17.03%) Platform Engineering
9 28 (15.38%) Software Engineering
10 26 (14.29%) API Development
11 22 (12.09%) AI
12 21 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
12 21 (11.54%) Validation
13 20 (10.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
13 20 (10.99%) Roadmaps
13 20 (10.99%) SDLC
14 19 (10.44%) Event-Driven
15 18 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (9.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 86 (47.25%) Python
2 52 (28.57%) SQL
3 49 (26.92%) Java
4 40 (21.98%) PowerShell
5 37 (20.33%) JavaScript
6 19 (10.44%) Bash
7 17 (9.34%) Kotlin
7 17 (9.34%) TypeScript
8 11 (6.04%) ActionScript
9 9 (4.95%) C#
10 7 (3.85%) Scala
11 5 (2.75%) Bicep
12 4 (2.20%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.20%) REXX
13 2 (1.10%) Groovy
13 2 (1.10%) JCL
13 2 (1.10%) PromQL
13 2 (1.10%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.55%) Go
14 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.13%) Security Cleared
2 29 (15.93%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (3.85%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.75%) Degree
6 4 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.20%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.10%) GSEC
8 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.55%) CISSP
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.55%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.55%) GIAC
8 1 (0.55%) NCDA
8 1 (0.55%) NCIE
8 1 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 12 (6.59%) QA
3 8 (4.40%) GDPR
4 6 (3.30%) HL7
5 5 (2.75%) Actionable Recommendations
5 5 (2.75%) Data Quality
5 5 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.75%) WCAG
6 4 (2.20%) NIST
7 2 (1.10%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.55%) GRC
8 1 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (20.33%) Docker
2 16 (8.79%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.75%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.20%) NFS
6 2 (1.10%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.10%) vSphere
7 1 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.55%) etcd
7 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.55%) KVM
7 1 (0.55%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 57 (31.32%) Kubernetes
2 27 (14.84%) Ansible
3 21 (11.54%) Grafana
4 15 (8.24%) Prometheus
5 8 (4.40%) Argo
6 5 (2.75%) HAProxy
6 5 (2.75%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.20%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.20%) Packer
8 3 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.10%) Consul
9 2 (1.10%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.10%) Tivoli NetView
9 2 (1.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (1.10%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.10%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.55%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.55%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 35 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.24%) Google
3 13 (7.14%) IBM
4 12 (6.59%) Dynatrace
5 11 (6.04%) F5
6 10 (5.49%) Splunk
7 9 (4.95%) Databricks
8 6 (3.30%) Centrify
8 6 (3.30%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.75%) New Relic
10 4 (2.20%) Broadcom
11 3 (1.65%) Brio
11 3 (1.65%) Brocade
11 3 (1.65%) Dell
11 3 (1.65%) Fujitsu
11 3 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.65%) Solace
12 2 (1.10%) Oracle
12 2 (1.10%) SAP
12 2 (1.10%) VMware