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

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 141 35 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.62% 3.35% 3.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.49% 9.41% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 28 36
10th Percentile £364 £377 £411
25th Percentile £413 £455 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -6.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile £529 £614 £625
90th Percentile £569 £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% +28.44%

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 973 372 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.76% 35.60% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 259 330
10th Percentile £325 £254 £257
25th Percentile £413 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £560 £544 £588
90th Percentile £650 £614 £638
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £20.75 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £70.85 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.78 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +63.84% +19.33% -37.15%

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 18 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 18 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
South Yorkshire -13 71 £487 -8.90% 15
West Yorkshire +34 68 £475 +8.57% 37
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 29 (20.57%) Confluence
2 8 (5.67%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.71%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.71%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (40.43%) AWS
2 56 (39.72%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (29.79%) Azure
4 38 (26.95%) GCP
5 22 (15.60%) OpenShift
6 15 (10.64%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 13 (9.22%) Apigee
7 13 (9.22%) Serverless
8 11 (7.80%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (7.80%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (5.67%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (5.67%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.96%) Amazon SQS
11 6 (4.26%) Cloud Run
11 6 (4.26%) CloudBees
11 6 (4.26%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.26%) PowerApps
12 5 (3.55%) BrowserStack
12 5 (3.55%) Kong
12 5 (3.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (15.60%) DNS
2 11 (7.80%) Firewall
3 6 (4.26%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.26%) VPN
4 3 (2.13%) NAS
4 3 (2.13%) SAN
5 2 (1.42%) Network Security
6 1 (0.71%) HTTP
6 1 (0.71%) Internet
6 1 (0.71%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.35%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.64%) MongoDB
2 15 (10.64%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.09%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.55%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.84%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.84%) Hazelcast
5 4 (2.84%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.84%) Redis
6 3 (2.13%) Power BI
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.71%) Parquet
7 1 (0.71%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.71%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (70.21%) Jenkins
2 36 (25.53%) JIRA
3 24 (17.02%) GitLab
4 19 (13.48%) Git
5 16 (11.35%) Gatling
6 11 (7.80%) Maven
6 11 (7.80%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (5.67%) Selenium
8 7 (4.96%) Artifactory
9 6 (4.26%) REST Assured
9 6 (4.26%) Serenity BDD
10 5 (3.55%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.84%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.84%) Gradle
11 4 (2.84%) Snyk
12 2 (1.42%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.42%) JMeter
12 2 (1.42%) JUnit
12 2 (1.42%) TestNG
General
1 49 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.57%) Finance
3 21 (14.89%) Banking
4 12 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.96%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.13%) Law
7 2 (1.42%) Military
8 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.71%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (19.86%) Developer
2 20 (14.18%) Platform Engineer
3 18 (12.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (12.06%) Senior
5 16 (11.35%) Architect
6 14 (9.93%) Lead
7 12 (8.51%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (7.80%) Business Analyst
9 10 (7.09%) Java Developer
10 9 (6.38%) Analyst
10 9 (6.38%) Technical Business Analyst
11 8 (5.67%) Technical Analyst
12 7 (4.96%) Automation Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) GCP DevOps
13 6 (4.26%) Lead Test Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.26%) Software Engineer
13 6 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
13 6 (4.26%) Test Engineer
14 4 (2.84%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.77%) REST
2 17 (12.06%) Playwright
3 15 (10.64%) Kafka
4 14 (9.93%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (7.09%) Spring
5 10 (7.09%) Spring Boot
6 6 (4.26%) HTML
6 6 (4.26%) JSON
6 6 (4.26%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.26%) React
6 6 (4.26%) Swagger
7 5 (3.55%) Flask
7 5 (3.55%) Node.js
7 5 (3.55%) Spring Cloud
7 5 (3.55%) YAML
8 4 (2.84%) Apache Avro
8 4 (2.84%) JPA
8 4 (2.84%) OAuth
8 4 (2.84%) Protocol Buffers
8 4 (2.84%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.15%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.26%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.55%) NHS
4 5 (3.55%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.13%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.13%) Replication
6 2 (1.42%) CMDB
6 2 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.71%) EMC VMAX
7 1 (0.71%) EMC VNX
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.71%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.71%) Life Science
7 1 (0.71%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.35%) Linux
2 11 (7.80%) Windows
3 5 (3.55%) Unix
4 3 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.42%) AIX
5 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.71%) MVS
6 1 (0.71%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.71%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (80.85%) CI/CD
2 98 (69.50%) DevOps
3 56 (39.72%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (26.95%) Observability
5 33 (23.40%) Containerisation
6 31 (21.99%) Migration
7 29 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (18.44%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (17.73%) Agile
10 24 (17.02%) Test Automation
11 21 (14.89%) High Availability
12 18 (12.77%) Software Engineering
13 17 (12.06%) Disaster Recovery
13 17 (12.06%) Microservices
14 16 (11.35%) Load Balancing
14 16 (11.35%) Software Delivery
14 16 (11.35%) Task Automation
15 14 (9.93%) RBAC
16 13 (9.22%) Performance Optimisation
16 13 (9.22%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (60.28%) Python
2 39 (27.66%) Bash
3 31 (21.99%) Java
4 23 (16.31%) PowerShell
5 19 (13.48%) SQL
6 10 (7.09%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.09%) Scala
7 7 (4.96%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.26%) Groovy
8 6 (4.26%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.55%) C#
9 5 (3.55%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.13%) Go
10 3 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.42%) Bicep
11 2 (1.42%) REXX
12 1 (0.71%) C
12 1 (0.71%) JCL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.18%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.84%) OCP
4 4 (2.84%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.42%) Degree
6 1 (0.71%) CISM
6 1 (0.71%) CISSP
6 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.71%) NCDA
6 1 (0.71%) NCIE
6 1 (0.71%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.55%) SLA
3 4 (2.84%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) HL7
System Software
1 40 (28.37%) Docker
2 16 (11.35%) vSphere
3 15 (10.64%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.13%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.42%) NFS
6 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.71%) SRDF
7 1 (0.71%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (56.74%) Terraform
2 64 (45.39%) Kubernetes
3 58 (41.13%) Ansible
4 29 (20.57%) Grafana
5 20 (14.18%) Argo
6 16 (11.35%) vCenter Server
7 13 (9.22%) Prometheus
8 9 (6.38%) HAProxy
9 8 (5.67%) Istio
10 7 (4.96%) NetBackup
10 7 (4.96%) Puppet
11 4 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.42%) Packer
14 1 (0.71%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.71%) EMC NetWorker
14 1 (0.71%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.71%) Tivoli NetView
14 1 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 27 (19.15%) Splunk
2 19 (13.48%) Google
2 19 (13.48%) Red Hat
3 18 (12.77%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.35%) Pure Storage
4 16 (11.35%) VMware
5 10 (7.09%) Sonatype
6 6 (4.26%) Veritas
7 5 (3.55%) Commvault
7 5 (3.55%) Databricks
7 5 (3.55%) Oracle
8 4 (2.84%) Brocade
8 4 (2.84%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.13%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.13%) Cisco
9 3 (2.13%) EMC
9 3 (2.13%) IBM
9 3 (2.13%) NetApp
9 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.42%) Salesforce