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

6 months to
21 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 59 62
Rank change year-on-year +21 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 130 23 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.84% 2.48% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.80% 6.61% 8.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 20 25
10th Percentile £363 £382 £415
25th Percentile £430 £436 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £526 £628 £650
90th Percentile £561 £653 £733
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -47.58%

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 942 348 493
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.30% 37.58% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 247 338
10th Percentile £304 £263 £213
25th Percentile £405 £375 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £584
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 7
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.86 £13.40
25th Percentile £31.86 £27.56 £14.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.08 £15.38
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £34.25
England median hourly rate £37.31 £27.13 £21.19
% change year-on-year +37.55% +28.04% -15.26%

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 21 March 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 21 March 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
South Yorkshire -14 69 £482 -19.67% 10
West Yorkshire +20 58 £500 +13.64% 49
North Yorkshire - 3 £463 - 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 30 (23.08%) Confluence
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.77%) Apache
4 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.62%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 44 (33.85%) GitHub Actions
2 43 (33.08%) AWS
3 39 (30.00%) Azure
4 32 (24.62%) GCP
5 20 (15.38%) OpenShift
6 15 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.00%) Serverless
8 12 (9.23%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (9.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.38%) Apigee
10 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.62%) CloudBees
10 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.08%) Cohesity
12 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.23%) DNS
2 14 (10.77%) Firewall
3 6 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.62%) VPN
4 4 (3.08%) Internet
5 2 (1.54%) HTTP
5 2 (1.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.77%) NAS
6 1 (0.77%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.38%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.62%) MySQL
5 6 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.62%) RDBMS
6 5 (3.85%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.31%) Power BI
8 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.77%) Parquet
9 1 (0.77%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 103 (79.23%) Jenkins
2 40 (30.77%) JIRA
3 18 (13.85%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (13.08%) GitLab
5 15 (11.54%) Git
6 7 (5.38%) Gatling
7 6 (4.62%) CircleCI
7 6 (4.62%) PyCharm
8 5 (3.85%) Maven
8 5 (3.85%) Selenium
9 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
10 3 (2.31%) Postman
10 3 (2.31%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.31%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.54%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.54%) MSI
11 2 (1.54%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.54%) TestRail
11 2 (1.54%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.31%) Banking
2 29 (22.31%) Finance
3 12 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.31%) Law
5 2 (1.54%) Military
6 1 (0.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.77%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (16.92%) Platform Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (13.08%) Business Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Senior
4 15 (11.54%) Technical Business Analyst
5 14 (10.77%) Lead
5 14 (10.77%) Technical Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Architect
6 13 (10.00%) GCP Engineer
7 12 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Automation Engineer
9 9 (6.92%) Developer
10 7 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
11 6 (4.62%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (4.62%) Python Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 5 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.85%) REST
2 12 (9.23%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (6.92%) Playwright
4 6 (4.62%) Kafka
4 6 (4.62%) Node.js
4 6 (4.62%) NumPy
4 6 (4.62%) Pandas
4 6 (4.62%) TensorFlow
5 5 (3.85%) Flask
6 4 (3.08%) .NET
6 4 (3.08%) JSON
6 4 (3.08%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.08%) React
6 4 (3.08%) Spring
6 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.08%) Swagger
6 4 (3.08%) Web Services
6 4 (3.08%) XML
7 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (2.31%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.69%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.23%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.15%) NHS
4 7 (5.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.85%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.08%) Clustering
6 4 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.08%) Online Banking
6 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.77%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) Windows
3 5 (3.85%) Unix
4 3 (2.31%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (80.77%) DevOps
2 100 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 51 (39.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (26.92%) Migration
5 32 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (23.08%) Containerisation
7 29 (22.31%) Observability
8 26 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
9 24 (18.46%) Test Automation
10 21 (16.15%) Agile
11 19 (14.62%) Load Balancing
12 17 (13.08%) Data Protection
13 16 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (12.31%) High Availability
13 16 (12.31%) Process Improvement
14 15 (11.54%) Software Delivery
15 14 (10.77%) Task Automation
16 13 (10.00%) AI
16 13 (10.00%) Data Extraction
16 13 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 91 (70.00%) Python
2 45 (34.62%) Bash
3 18 (13.85%) Java
4 14 (10.77%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.23%) SQL
6 8 (6.15%) C#
6 8 (6.15%) Groovy
7 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
8 5 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.08%) Scala
10 3 (2.31%) Go
10 3 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (2.31%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.54%) XPath
12 1 (0.77%) Bicep
12 1 (0.77%) C
12 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 26 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.38%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.62%) Degree
4 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) OCP
4 3 (2.31%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.77%) CISM
5 1 (0.77%) CISSP
5 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.54%) GRC
4 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 33 (25.38%) Docker
2 15 (11.54%) VMware NSX
2 15 (11.54%) vSphere
3 9 (6.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 69 (53.08%) Terraform
2 63 (48.46%) Ansible
3 57 (43.85%) Kubernetes
4 28 (21.54%) Grafana
5 15 (11.54%) Argo
5 15 (11.54%) vCenter Server
6 12 (9.23%) Puppet
7 10 (7.69%) NetBackup
8 9 (6.92%) Istio
8 9 (6.92%) Prometheus
9 5 (3.85%) Packer
10 4 (3.08%) HAProxy
11 3 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
13 1 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
13 1 (0.77%) Kibana
13 1 (0.77%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (24.62%) Splunk
2 23 (17.69%) Red Hat
3 17 (13.08%) Google
3 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
4 16 (12.31%) Sonatype
5 15 (11.54%) Pure Storage
5 15 (11.54%) VMware
6 9 (6.92%) Commvault
7 6 (4.62%) Veritas
8 5 (3.85%) Oracle
9 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
9 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.54%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.54%) Databricks
11 2 (1.54%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.54%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.77%) BiZZdesign
12 1 (0.77%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.77%) NetApp