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

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 130 24 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.59% 2.49% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.51% 6.86% 8.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 21 22
10th Percentile £343 £385 £415
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £528 £638 £597
90th Percentile £555 £700 £625
England median daily rate £524 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.77% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +126.48% -15.77% -48.00%

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 962 350 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.38% 36.34% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 254 319
10th Percentile £306 £259 £213
25th Percentile £408 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £628
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 £42.69 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +61.08% +27.59% -24.47%

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 12 April 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 12 April 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 0 67 £477 -20.58% 13
West Yorkshire +18 59 £480 +6.67% 42
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 29 (22.31%) Confluence
2 6 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.77%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.31%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
2 49 (37.69%) AWS
3 37 (28.46%) Azure
4 27 (20.77%) GCP
5 22 (16.92%) OpenShift
6 16 (12.31%) Serverless
7 15 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.92%) Apigee
10 7 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.62%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.62%) CloudBees
11 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.62%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.08%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.23%) DNS
2 14 (10.77%) Firewall
3 6 (4.62%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.62%) VPN
4 3 (2.31%) NAS
4 3 (2.31%) SAN
5 2 (1.54%) HTTP
5 2 (1.54%) Internet
5 2 (1.54%) Network Security
6 1 (0.77%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.08%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (7.69%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.92%) DynamoDB
4 8 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (3.08%) Power BI
8 3 (2.31%) MySQL
8 3 (2.31%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.31%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.77%) Amazon Athena
10 1 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.77%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.77%) Parquet
10 1 (0.77%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.77%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (75.38%) Jenkins
2 38 (29.23%) JIRA
3 18 (13.85%) GitLab
4 17 (13.08%) Git
4 17 (13.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (5.38%) Gatling
6 5 (3.85%) Selenium
7 4 (3.08%) Artifactory
7 4 (3.08%) CircleCI
7 4 (3.08%) Maven
8 3 (2.31%) Postman
8 3 (2.31%) PyCharm
8 3 (2.31%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.31%) Serenity BDD
9 2 (1.54%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.54%) MSI
9 2 (1.54%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.54%) TestRail
9 2 (1.54%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.77%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.31%) Finance
3 25 (19.23%) Banking
4 10 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.31%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.31%) Law
6 2 (1.54%) Military
7 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.77%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (18.46%) Platform Engineer
2 17 (13.08%) Business Analyst
3 16 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (11.54%) Analyst
4 15 (11.54%) Technical Business Analyst
5 14 (10.77%) Developer
5 14 (10.77%) Technical Analyst
6 13 (10.00%) Architect
6 13 (10.00%) Lead
6 13 (10.00%) Senior
7 12 (9.23%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.46%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Automation Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (3.85%) Software Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) GCP DevOps Engineer
12 4 (3.08%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.08%) REST
2 11 (8.46%) Playwright
3 10 (7.69%) OpenTelemetry
4 8 (6.15%) Kafka
5 7 (5.38%) JSON
5 7 (5.38%) Node.js
6 6 (4.62%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.62%) React
6 6 (4.62%) Swagger
7 4 (3.08%) .NET
7 4 (3.08%) Flask
7 4 (3.08%) RESTful
7 4 (3.08%) Spring
7 4 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.08%) XML
8 3 (2.31%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.31%) NumPy
8 3 (2.31%) Pandas
8 3 (2.31%) SOAP
8 3 (2.31%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.77%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.15%) NHS
4 5 (3.85%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.31%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.31%) Replication
6 3 (2.31%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.54%) Clustering
7 2 (1.54%) CMDB
7 2 (1.54%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.54%) Online Banking
8 1 (0.77%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.77%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (13.08%) Linux
2 7 (5.38%) Windows
3 5 (3.85%) Unix
4 3 (2.31%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.77%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (80.77%) CI/CD
2 99 (76.15%) DevOps
3 54 (41.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (28.46%) Migration
5 33 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (24.62%) Observability
7 31 (23.85%) Containerisation
8 30 (23.08%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (17.69%) Test Automation
10 20 (15.38%) High Availability
11 19 (14.62%) Agile
11 19 (14.62%) Load Balancing
12 18 (13.85%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (13.85%) Software Delivery
13 16 (12.31%) Process Improvement
13 16 (12.31%) Software Engineering
14 14 (10.77%) RBAC
14 14 (10.77%) Task Automation
15 13 (10.00%) Matrix Organization
15 13 (10.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 89 (68.46%) Python
2 39 (30.00%) Bash
3 17 (13.08%) Java
4 15 (11.54%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.46%) SQL
6 9 (6.92%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.38%) C#
7 7 (5.38%) Groovy
7 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.08%) Scala
8 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.31%) Go
9 3 (2.31%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.54%) Bicep
10 2 (1.54%) XPath
11 1 (0.77%) C
11 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 23 (17.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.08%) OCP
3 4 (3.08%) Oracle Certification
4 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.31%) Degree
5 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.77%) CISM
6 1 (0.77%) CISSP
6 1 (0.77%) NCDA
6 1 (0.77%) NCIE
6 1 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.31%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 31 (23.85%) Docker
2 16 (12.31%) vSphere
3 15 (11.54%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.77%) NFS
6 1 (0.77%) SRDF
6 1 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 73 (56.15%) Terraform
2 61 (46.92%) Ansible
3 55 (42.31%) Kubernetes
4 26 (20.00%) Grafana
5 16 (12.31%) Argo
5 16 (12.31%) vCenter Server
6 8 (6.15%) Istio
7 7 (5.38%) NetBackup
7 7 (5.38%) Prometheus
7 7 (5.38%) Puppet
8 6 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (3.85%) Packer
10 4 (3.08%) HAProxy
11 1 (0.77%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.77%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.77%) Kibana
11 1 (0.77%) logstash
11 1 (0.77%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.77%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.77%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 30 (23.08%) Splunk
2 20 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 17 (13.08%) Microsoft
4 16 (12.31%) Pure Storage
4 16 (12.31%) Sonatype
4 16 (12.31%) VMware
5 14 (10.77%) Google
6 6 (4.62%) Veritas
7 5 (3.85%) Commvault
7 5 (3.85%) Databricks
7 5 (3.85%) Oracle
8 4 (3.08%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.31%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.31%) Brocade
9 3 (2.31%) Cisco
9 3 (2.31%) EMC
9 3 (2.31%) NetApp
9 3 (2.31%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.54%) Cribl.io
10 2 (1.54%) Salesforce