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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 53 55
Rank change year-on-year +16 +2 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 167 34 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.28% 3.16% 3.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.20% 9.04% 10.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 27 36
10th Percentile £366 £358 £411
25th Percentile £421 £453 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £558
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -10.31% +3.72%
75th Percentile £527 £605 £625
90th Percentile £573 £663 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.50% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +12.00%

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 1,031 376 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.79% 34.91% 28.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 263 338
10th Percentile £321 £259 £250
25th Percentile £413 £368 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.11% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £559 £550 £588
90th Percentile £656 £638 £644
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £17.65 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -60.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.80 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.75 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +55.88% +19.33% -38.94%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +33 85 £475 +8.57% 19
South Yorkshire -10 80 £496 -4.52% 6
North Yorkshire -6 1 £550 - 2
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 29 (17.37%) Confluence
2 9 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (4.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 68 (40.72%) GitHub Actions
2 64 (38.32%) AWS
3 50 (29.94%) Azure
4 44 (26.35%) GCP
5 23 (13.77%) OpenShift
6 18 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (7.19%) Apigee
8 12 (7.19%) Serverless
9 10 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.39%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (4.79%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.19%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.19%) Azure Key Vault
12 7 (4.19%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.19%) IaaS
12 7 (4.19%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.59%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.59%) CloudBees
13 6 (3.59%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 27 (16.17%) DNS
2 16 (9.58%) Firewall
3 8 (4.79%) TCP/IP
4 6 (3.59%) VPN
5 5 (2.99%) BIG-IP
5 5 (2.99%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 5 (2.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 4 (2.40%) NAS
6 4 (2.40%) SAN
7 3 (1.80%) SSL
8 2 (1.20%) Network Security
8 2 (1.20%) VLAN
8 2 (1.20%) VSAN
9 1 (0.60%) HTTP
9 1 (0.60%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (10.78%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (10.18%) SQL Server
3 16 (9.58%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.99%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.40%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.40%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.40%) Hazelcast
5 4 (2.40%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.40%) Redis
6 3 (1.80%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.80%) Parquet
7 2 (1.20%) Power BI
8 1 (0.60%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.60%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.60%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 112 (67.07%) Jenkins
2 44 (26.35%) JIRA
3 28 (16.77%) GitLab
4 21 (12.57%) Git
5 16 (9.58%) Gatling
6 11 (6.59%) Maven
7 9 (5.39%) Selenium
7 9 (5.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (4.19%) Bitbucket
8 7 (4.19%) REST Assured
8 7 (4.19%) Serenity BDD
9 6 (3.59%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.40%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.40%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.40%) Gradle
10 4 (2.40%) JUnit
10 4 (2.40%) Snyk
11 2 (1.20%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.20%) JMeter
11 2 (1.20%) Mockito
General
1 54 (32.34%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.16%) Finance
3 25 (14.97%) Banking
4 14 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.79%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.99%) Law
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Military
8 1 (0.60%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (20.36%) Developer
2 23 (13.77%) Senior
3 20 (11.98%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (11.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.78%) Architect
5 18 (10.78%) Lead
6 14 (8.38%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.19%) GCP Engineer
8 9 (5.39%) Business Analyst
9 8 (4.79%) Automation Engineer
9 8 (4.79%) GCP DevOps
9 8 (4.79%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.19%) Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) Lead Test Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Network Engineer
10 7 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.19%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (4.19%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.59%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.59%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.98%) REST
2 18 (10.78%) Playwright
3 16 (9.58%) Kafka
3 16 (9.58%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (7.19%) Spring
4 12 (7.19%) Spring Boot
5 8 (4.79%) HTML
5 8 (4.79%) JSON
6 7 (4.19%) OAuth
6 7 (4.19%) OpenAPI
6 7 (4.19%) React
6 7 (4.19%) Spring Cloud
6 7 (4.19%) Swagger
6 7 (4.19%) YAML
7 6 (3.59%) JPA
7 6 (3.59%) JWT
7 6 (3.59%) OAuth2
8 5 (2.99%) Flask
8 5 (2.99%) RESTful
9 4 (2.40%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.56%) Cloud Native
2 12 (7.19%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.59%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.99%) Replication
7 4 (2.40%) NHS
7 4 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.80%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.20%) CMDB
9 2 (1.20%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.20%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.60%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.98%) Linux
2 15 (8.98%) Windows
3 5 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.99%) Unix
4 2 (1.20%) AIX
4 2 (1.20%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.20%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.20%) MVS
4 2 (1.20%) zOS
5 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (80.24%) CI/CD
2 113 (67.66%) DevOps
3 68 (40.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (29.94%) Observability
5 34 (20.36%) Containerisation
6 33 (19.76%) Agile
6 33 (19.76%) Migration
7 30 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (17.37%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (14.97%) Test Automation
10 22 (13.17%) High Availability
11 21 (12.57%) Microservices
12 20 (11.98%) Software Engineering
13 19 (11.38%) Disaster Recovery
14 18 (10.78%) Roadmaps
15 17 (10.18%) Cloud Security
15 17 (10.18%) Task Automation
16 16 (9.58%) API Development
16 16 (9.58%) RBAC
17 15 (8.98%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 97 (58.08%) Python
2 43 (25.75%) Bash
3 37 (22.16%) Java
4 30 (17.96%) PowerShell
5 26 (15.57%) SQL
6 12 (7.19%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.59%) Scala
8 8 (4.79%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.19%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.59%) Groovy
11 5 (2.99%) ActionScript
11 5 (2.99%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.40%) C#
12 4 (2.40%) Go
12 4 (2.40%) REXX
13 3 (1.80%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.20%) JCL
14 2 (1.20%) PromQL
15 1 (0.60%) Bicep
15 1 (0.60%) C
Qualifications
1 30 (17.96%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.39%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.40%) Degree
4 4 (2.40%) OCP
4 4 (2.40%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.20%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.20%) NCDA
5 2 (1.20%) NCIE
5 2 (1.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.60%) CISM
6 1 (0.60%) CISSP
6 1 (0.60%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.19%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.99%) SLA
3 4 (2.40%) GDPR
3 4 (2.40%) QA
3 4 (2.40%) WCAG
4 1 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.60%) HL7
System Software
1 42 (25.15%) Docker
2 17 (10.18%) vSphere
3 15 (8.98%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.40%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.40%) NFS
5 4 (2.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.40%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.20%) SRDF
6 2 (1.20%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 93 (55.69%) Terraform
2 67 (40.12%) Kubernetes
3 62 (37.13%) Ansible
4 32 (19.16%) Grafana
5 21 (12.57%) Argo
6 17 (10.18%) Prometheus
6 17 (10.18%) vCenter Server
7 9 (5.39%) HAProxy
8 8 (4.79%) NetBackup
9 7 (4.19%) Istio
9 7 (4.19%) Puppet
10 4 (2.40%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
10 4 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.80%) Packer
12 2 (1.20%) Consul
12 2 (1.20%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.20%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.20%) SnapVault
12 2 (1.20%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 27 (16.17%) Splunk
2 24 (14.37%) Google
3 20 (11.98%) Red Hat
4 19 (11.38%) Microsoft
5 17 (10.18%) Pure Storage
5 17 (10.18%) VMware
6 9 (5.39%) Sonatype
7 7 (4.19%) Databricks
8 6 (3.59%) Brocade
8 6 (3.59%) F5
8 6 (3.59%) Veritas
9 5 (2.99%) Commvault
9 5 (2.99%) IBM
9 5 (2.99%) Oracle
10 4 (2.40%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.40%) Cisco
10 4 (2.40%) Dell
10 4 (2.40%) Dynatrace
10 4 (2.40%) EMC
10 4 (2.40%) NetApp