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

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	38	55	48
Rank change year-on-year	+17	-7	+34
Contract jobs citing GitHub	177	74	51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire	6.16%	4.43%	3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category	17.20%	11.37%	9.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	100	42	42
10^th Percentile	£399	£280	£359
25^th Percentile	£438	£458	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£478	£500	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-4.50%	+11.11%	-25.00%
75^th Percentile	£538	£536	£596
90^th Percentile	£588	£600	£644
England median daily rate	£523	£525	£525
% change year-on-year	-0.38%	-	-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.

	6 months to 20 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	1,029	651	514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire	35.82%	38.94%	35.99%
Number of daily rates quoted	657	433	348
10^th Percentile	£313	£235	£296
25^th Percentile	£413	£369	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£488	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+2.56%	-2.50%	-4.76%
75^th Percentile	£575	£538	£569
90^th Percentile	£675	£625	£650
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£530
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-5.66%	-1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted	18	2	5
10^th Percentile	£13.45	£43.63	£15.58
25^th 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%
75^th Percentile	£32.50	£157.19	£28.75
90^th Percentile	£35.00	£182.88	-
England median hourly rate	£32.50	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+29.22%	-28.14%	+27.27%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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 20 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.

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 20 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	95	£475	-5.00%	52
South Yorkshire	+9	81	£500	-	23
North Yorkshire	-7	3	£545	-	2
East Yorkshire	0	2	-	-	1
GitHub England

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 20 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	76.8%	136
2	DevOps	54.2%	96
3	Python	45.8%	81
4	Terraform	44.6%	79
5	GitHub Actions	42.9%	76
6	Azure	42.4%	75
6	Infrastructure as Code	42.4%	75
8	Jenkins	41.8%	74
9	AWS	40.7%	72
10	Agile	38.4%	68
11	Observability	32.8%	58
12	JIRA	32.2%	57
13	SQL	29.9%	53
14	GCP	29.4%	52
15	Kubernetes	28.8%	51
16	Test Automation	26.6%	47
17	Microservices	24.9%	44
18	Java	24.3%	43
19	PowerShell	22.6%	40
20	JavaScript	22.0%	39
21	REST	19.8%	35
22	Git	18.6%	33
22	Microsoft	18.6%	33
24	Confluence	18.1%	32
24	Docker	18.1%	32
26	Azure DevOps	17.5%	31
27	Kafka	15.8%	28
27	Platform Engineering	15.8%	28
27	Security Cleared	15.8%	28
27	Software Engineering	15.8%	28

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub Actions	42.9%	76
2	Azure	42.4%	75
3	AWS	40.7%	72
4	GCP	29.4%	52
5	Azure DevOps	17.5%	31
6	IaaS	10.2%	18
7	GitHub Copilot	8.5%	15
7	Serverless	8.5%	15
9	Microsoft 365	7.3%	13
9	Microsoft Copilot	7.3%	13
11	Power Platform	6.8%	12
12	Amazon S3	6.2%	11
13	Entra ID	5.6%	10
14	AWS Lambda	5.1%	9
15	Apigee	4.5%	8
15	Azure Monitor	4.5%	8
15	Power Automate	4.5%	8
15	PowerApps	4.5%	8
19	Anthropic Claude	3.4%	6
19	Google Kubernetes Engine	3.4%	6