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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 58 46
Rank change year-on-year +22 -12 +45
Contract jobs citing GitHub 172 61 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.93% 3.96% 3.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.68% 10.36% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 38 46
10th Percentile £386 £280 £368
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £474
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.60% -17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £591
90th Percentile £578 £633 £641
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -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 1,031 589 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.55% 38.27% 35.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 394 360
10th Percentile £313 £235 £299
25th Percentile £413 £364 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £587 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £610 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £532
% change year-on-year +4.90% -5.83% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 5
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.69 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +809.09% +3.51%
75th Percentile £35.00 - -
90th Percentile - - £26.05
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £34.47
% change year-on-year +29.22% -27.03% +4.44%

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 September 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 September 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 +29 92 £473 -5.45% 43
South Yorkshire +3 78 £504 -0.54% 18
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 1
North Yorkshire -10 1 £400 - 3
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 30 (17.44%) Confluence
2 7 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.74%) nginx
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 81 (47.09%) GitHub Actions
2 73 (42.44%) AWS
3 71 (41.28%) Azure
4 46 (26.74%) GCP
5 29 (16.86%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.88%) IaaS
7 14 (8.14%) Serverless
8 12 (6.98%) Amazon S3
9 11 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
9 11 (6.40%) Microsoft Copilot
10 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.23%) Apigee
11 9 (5.23%) Entra ID
11 9 (5.23%) GitHub Copilot
12 8 (4.65%) Power Platform
13 7 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 7 (4.07%) Kong
14 6 (3.49%) Anthropic Claude
14 6 (3.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.88%) DNS
2 15 (8.72%) Firewall
3 11 (6.40%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.40%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (6.40%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.49%) VLAN
5 5 (2.91%) Network Security
5 5 (2.91%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.74%) NAS
6 3 (1.74%) SAN
6 3 (1.74%) SSL
7 2 (1.16%) VSAN
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.58%) DMZ
8 1 (0.58%) Internet
8 1 (0.58%) Intranet
8 1 (0.58%) Modbus
8 1 (0.58%) VPN
8 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.53%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) Redis
4 9 (5.23%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.23%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.49%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.91%) Big Data
6 5 (2.91%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.91%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.74%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.74%) Tableau
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.16%) Parquet
9 2 (1.16%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 80 (46.51%) Jenkins
2 53 (30.81%) JIRA
3 24 (13.95%) Git
4 21 (12.21%) GitLab
5 12 (6.98%) Bitbucket
6 11 (6.40%) Gatling
7 10 (5.81%) Selenium
7 10 (5.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.23%) Maven
9 8 (4.65%) JMeter
10 7 (4.07%) Cucumber
11 5 (2.91%) Claude Code
11 5 (2.91%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.91%) Gradle
11 5 (2.91%) LoadRunner
11 5 (2.91%) REST Assured
12 4 (2.33%) JUnit
12 4 (2.33%) Serenity BDD
12 4 (2.33%) Snyk
12 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (31.98%) Social Skills
2 37 (21.51%) Finance
3 19 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.88%) Banking
5 15 (8.72%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.16%) Law
6 2 (1.16%) Legal
7 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (25.58%) Developer
2 29 (16.86%) Senior
3 20 (11.63%) Lead
4 18 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.88%) DevOps Engineer
6 12 (6.98%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Architect
7 10 (5.81%) Network Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Senior Developer
8 8 (4.65%) IAM Developer
8 8 (4.65%) Python Developer
8 8 (4.65%) Python Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Software Engineer
8 8 (4.65%) Test Engineer
9 7 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (3.49%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.49%) Full-Stack Developer
10 6 (3.49%) GCP DevOps
10 6 (3.49%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (50.58%) Terraform
2 28 (16.28%) Kafka
3 26 (15.12%) REST
4 15 (8.72%) Spring
4 15 (8.72%) Spring Boot
5 14 (8.14%) HTML
5 14 (8.14%) React
6 13 (7.56%) Playwright
7 11 (6.40%) .NET
8 9 (5.23%) OAuth
9 8 (4.65%) JPA
9 8 (4.65%) JWT
9 8 (4.65%) Web Services
10 7 (4.07%) .NET Core
10 7 (4.07%) AngularJS
10 7 (4.07%) ASP.NET
10 7 (4.07%) JSON
10 7 (4.07%) OpenTelemetry
10 7 (4.07%) RESTful
10 7 (4.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.35%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.88%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.56%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (7.56%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.81%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.49%) Mobile App
6 6 (3.49%) NHS
6 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.91%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.33%) Autonomous Agent
8 4 (2.33%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.33%) Replication
9 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.16%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.16%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.16%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.16%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.56%) Linux
2 9 (5.23%) Windows
3 3 (1.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.16%) AIX
4 2 (1.16%) Android
4 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.16%) MVS
4 2 (1.16%) zOS
5 1 (0.58%) Solaris
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 99 (57.56%) DevOps
3 79 (45.93%) Infrastructure as Code
4 59 (34.30%) Observability
5 55 (31.98%) Agile
6 32 (18.60%) Platform Engineering
6 32 (18.60%) Test Automation
7 31 (18.02%) Microservices
8 28 (16.28%) Software Engineering
9 21 (12.21%) Roadmaps
9 21 (12.21%) SDLC
10 20 (11.63%) AI
10 20 (11.63%) API Development
10 20 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (11.05%) Cloud Security
11 19 (11.05%) Validation
12 18 (10.47%) Problem-Solving
13 17 (9.88%) Event-Driven
13 17 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (9.88%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 87 (50.58%) Python
2 42 (24.42%) SQL
3 41 (23.84%) Java
4 40 (23.26%) PowerShell
5 27 (15.70%) JavaScript
6 19 (11.05%) Bash
7 12 (6.98%) Kotlin
8 11 (6.40%) ActionScript
9 9 (5.23%) TypeScript
10 7 (4.07%) C#
10 7 (4.07%) Scala
11 6 (3.49%) Bicep
12 4 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.33%) REXX
13 2 (1.16%) Groovy
13 2 (1.16%) JCL
13 2 (1.16%) PromQL
13 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 26 (15.12%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.07%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.91%) Degree
6 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.16%) GSEC
7 2 (1.16%) NCDA
7 2 (1.16%) NCIE
7 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.58%) GIAC
8 1 (0.58%) OCP
8 1 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.98%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.40%) QA
3 7 (4.07%) GDPR
4 5 (2.91%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.91%) HL7
4 5 (2.91%) WCAG
5 4 (2.33%) Data Quality
5 4 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.33%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) GRC
7 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 35 (20.35%) Docker
2 16 (9.30%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.33%) NFS
6 3 (1.74%) vSphere
7 2 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.16%) SRDF
7 2 (1.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.58%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 55 (31.98%) Kubernetes
2 31 (18.02%) Ansible
3 22 (12.79%) Grafana
4 16 (9.30%) Prometheus
5 10 (5.81%) Argo
6 5 (2.91%) HAProxy
6 5 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (2.33%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.33%) Packer
8 3 (1.74%) vCenter Server
9 2 (1.16%) Consul
9 2 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (1.16%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (1.16%) NetBackup
9 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.16%) SnapMirror
9 2 (1.16%) SnapVault
9 2 (1.16%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 31 (18.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.72%) Google
3 12 (6.98%) IBM
4 11 (6.40%) Dynatrace
4 11 (6.40%) F5
5 10 (5.81%) Databricks
5 10 (5.81%) Splunk
6 6 (3.49%) Centrify
6 6 (3.49%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.91%) Brocade
7 5 (2.91%) New Relic
8 4 (2.33%) Broadcom
8 4 (2.33%) Cisco
8 4 (2.33%) Dell
8 4 (2.33%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.74%) Brio
9 3 (1.74%) EMC
9 3 (1.74%) NetApp
9 3 (1.74%) Pure Storage
9 3 (1.74%) VMware