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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 61 52
Rank change year-on-year +18 -9 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 137 31 48
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.62% 3.05% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.27% 8.22% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 28 33
10th Percentile £366 £377 £415
25th Percentile £421 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £510 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.47% -9.76% +7.62%
75th Percentile £530 £614 £625
90th Percentile £560 £683 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £27.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +27.27%

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 960 377 468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 39.41% 37.07% 27.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 269 327
10th Percentile £313 £241 £250
25th Percentile £413 £360 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £555 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £640
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £46.00 £25.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +80.39% +22.77% -35.70%

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 1 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 1 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 +26 68 £480 +1.05% 23
South Yorkshire -18 67 £482 -7.26% 8
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 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 (21.90%) Confluence
2 5 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.46%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 58 (42.34%) AWS
2 56 (40.88%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (30.66%) Azure
4 32 (23.36%) GCP
5 22 (16.06%) OpenShift
6 16 (11.68%) Serverless
7 15 (10.95%) AWS Lambda
8 13 (9.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 12 (8.76%) Azure DevOps
10 11 (8.03%) Apigee
11 7 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (4.38%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (4.38%) Amazon S3
12 6 (4.38%) CloudBees
12 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
13 5 (3.65%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (3.65%) BrowserStack
13 5 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
13 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.25%) DNS
2 14 (10.22%) Firewall
3 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.38%) VPN
4 3 (2.19%) NAS
4 3 (2.19%) SAN
5 2 (1.46%) Internet
5 2 (1.46%) Network Security
6 1 (0.73%) HTTP
6 1 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (8.76%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.03%) Relational Database
4 10 (7.30%) MongoDB
5 9 (6.57%) DynamoDB
6 6 (4.38%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (2.92%) Power BI
8 3 (2.19%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.46%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.46%) Redis
10 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.73%) MySQL
10 1 (0.73%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.73%) Parquet
10 1 (0.73%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (71.53%) Jenkins
2 36 (26.28%) JIRA
3 20 (14.60%) GitLab
4 18 (13.14%) Git
5 14 (10.22%) Gatling
6 12 (8.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (6.57%) Maven
8 7 (5.11%) Artifactory
9 5 (3.65%) Selenium
10 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.92%) CircleCI
11 3 (2.19%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.19%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.46%) Gradle
12 2 (1.46%) JMeter
12 2 (1.46%) JUnit
12 2 (1.46%) Snyk
12 2 (1.46%) TestNG
General
1 42 (30.66%) Social Skills
2 26 (18.98%) Finance
3 20 (14.60%) Banking
4 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Law
7 2 (1.46%) Military
8 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (19.71%) Platform Engineer
2 21 (15.33%) Developer
3 17 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (10.95%) Senior
5 13 (9.49%) Architect
6 12 (8.76%) Business Analyst
6 12 (8.76%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (8.76%) Lead
7 11 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 10 (7.30%) Analyst
8 10 (7.30%) Technical Business Analyst
9 9 (6.57%) Technical Analyst
10 8 (5.84%) Java Developer
11 7 (5.11%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.38%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.65%) GCP DevOps
14 4 (2.92%) GCP DevOps Engineer
14 4 (2.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (10.22%) Playwright
1 14 (10.22%) REST
2 12 (8.76%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (7.30%) Kafka
4 7 (5.11%) Node.js
4 7 (5.11%) Spring
4 7 (5.11%) Spring Boot
5 6 (4.38%) OpenAPI
5 6 (4.38%) React
5 6 (4.38%) Swagger
6 5 (3.65%) JSON
7 4 (2.92%) .NET
7 4 (2.92%) Flask
7 4 (2.92%) HTML
7 4 (2.92%) OAuth
8 3 (2.19%) Jest
8 3 (2.19%) JWT
8 3 (2.19%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.19%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 29 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.84%) NHS
4 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.65%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (2.92%) Mobile App
6 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (2.19%) Replication
7 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.46%) CMDB
8 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.73%) Clustering
9 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.73%) Life Science
9 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.73%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 19 (13.87%) Linux
2 7 (5.11%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.46%) AIX
5 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.73%) MVS
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (78.83%) CI/CD
2 97 (70.80%) DevOps
3 59 (43.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (25.55%) Observability
5 34 (24.82%) Containerisation
6 33 (24.09%) Migration
6 33 (24.09%) Platform Engineering
7 28 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (18.98%) Test Automation
9 24 (17.52%) Agile
10 21 (15.33%) High Availability
11 20 (14.60%) Software Engineering
12 19 (13.87%) Load Balancing
13 18 (13.14%) Disaster Recovery
14 15 (10.95%) Microservices
14 15 (10.95%) Software Delivery
15 14 (10.22%) RBAC
15 14 (10.22%) Task Automation
16 13 (9.49%) Performance Optimisation
16 13 (9.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 91 (66.42%) Python
2 38 (27.74%) Bash
3 26 (18.98%) Java
4 15 (10.95%) PowerShell
4 15 (10.95%) SQL
5 10 (7.30%) JavaScript
5 10 (7.30%) Scala
6 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.38%) Groovy
8 5 (3.65%) C#
8 5 (3.65%) Kotlin
9 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.19%) Go
10 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.46%) Bicep
11 2 (1.46%) REXX
12 1 (0.73%) C
12 1 (0.73%) JCL
Qualifications
1 34 (24.82%) Security Cleared
2 29 (21.17%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.92%) OCP
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.19%) Degree
6 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.73%) CISM
7 1 (0.73%) CISSP
7 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.73%) NCDA
7 1 (0.73%) NCIE
7 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.65%) SLA
3 3 (2.19%) QA
System Software
1 38 (27.74%) Docker
2 16 (11.68%) vSphere
3 15 (10.95%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.46%) NFS
5 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.73%) SRDF
6 1 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (58.39%) Terraform
2 62 (45.26%) Kubernetes
3 56 (40.88%) Ansible
4 28 (20.44%) Grafana
5 18 (13.14%) Argo
6 16 (11.68%) vCenter Server
7 9 (6.57%) HAProxy
7 9 (6.57%) Prometheus
8 8 (5.84%) Istio
9 7 (5.11%) NetBackup
9 7 (5.11%) Puppet
9 7 (5.11%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (3.65%) Packer
11 1 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.73%) Kibana
11 1 (0.73%) logstash
11 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.73%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.73%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 30 (21.90%) Splunk
2 19 (13.87%) Red Hat
3 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.68%) Pure Storage
4 16 (11.68%) VMware
5 15 (10.95%) Google
6 11 (8.03%) Sonatype
7 6 (4.38%) Veritas
8 5 (3.65%) Commvault
8 5 (3.65%) Databricks
8 5 (3.65%) Oracle
9 4 (2.92%) Brocade
9 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.19%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.19%) Cisco
10 3 (2.19%) EMC
10 3 (2.19%) IBM
10 3 (2.19%) NetApp
10 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.46%) Dell