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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 47 63
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 112 33 42
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.37% 3.61% 2.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.67% 9.54% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 27 28
10th Percentile £307 £371 £415
25th Percentile £413 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.63% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £526 £605 £650
90th Percentile £550 £650 £729
England median daily rate £525 £544 £550
% change year-on-year -3.40% -1.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £62.00 £27.50 £57.75
% change year-on-year +125.45% -52.38% +6.94%

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 884 346 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.40% 37.90% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 236 404
10th Percentile £283 £263 £225
25th Percentile £403 £375 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £542 £567 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 9 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £23.46 £14.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.81 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +72.20% +118.73% -70.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £96.64 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £37.58 £27.50 £21.57
% change year-on-year +36.65% +27.49% -13.72%

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 February 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 February 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 -16 61 £465 -23.15% 19
West Yorkshire +4 46 £500 +13.64% 30
North Yorkshire - 4 £419 - 5
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 6
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 25 (22.32%) Confluence
2 2 (1.79%) Mule
2 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.89%) Apache
3 1 (0.89%) nginx
Applications
1 13 (11.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (5.36%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 36 (32.14%) GitHub Actions
2 35 (31.25%) AWS
3 32 (28.57%) Azure
3 32 (28.57%) GCP
4 15 (13.39%) OpenShift
5 12 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 12 (10.71%) Serverless
6 11 (9.82%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (9.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 7 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (6.25%) Apigee
8 6 (5.36%) Amazon S3
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 5 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (3.57%) Azure AKS
10 4 (3.57%) Cohesity
11 3 (2.68%) AWS Direct Connect
11 3 (2.68%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.68%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.96%) DNS
2 13 (11.61%) Firewall
3 6 (5.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (3.57%) Internet
4 4 (3.57%) VPN
5 2 (1.79%) HTTP
5 2 (1.79%) Network Security
6 1 (0.89%) NAS
6 1 (0.89%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.18%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (11.61%) Relational Database
3 7 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.25%) MySQL
4 6 (5.36%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.36%) RDBMS
5 5 (4.46%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.89%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.89%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (79.46%) Jenkins
2 37 (33.04%) JIRA
3 19 (16.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 16 (14.29%) Git
5 14 (12.50%) GitLab
6 7 (6.25%) CircleCI
7 6 (5.36%) PyCharm
8 5 (4.46%) Selenium
9 3 (2.68%) Gatling
9 3 (2.68%) Postman
9 3 (2.68%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.68%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.79%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.79%) git-flow
10 2 (1.79%) MSI
10 2 (1.79%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.79%) TestRail
10 2 (1.79%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.89%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 40 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.00%) Banking
3 26 (23.21%) Finance
4 12 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.68%) Law
6 2 (1.79%) Military
7 1 (0.89%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.89%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (16.07%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (15.18%) Platform Engineer
3 16 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 14 (12.50%) Analyst
4 14 (12.50%) Senior
4 14 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
5 13 (11.61%) Technical Analyst
6 12 (10.71%) Lead
7 11 (9.82%) Architect
7 11 (9.82%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (9.82%) GCP Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
8 8 (7.14%) Developer
9 7 (6.25%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Senior Architect
11 4 (3.57%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.61%) REST
2 8 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
3 7 (6.25%) Node.js
4 6 (5.36%) Kafka
4 6 (5.36%) NumPy
4 6 (5.36%) Pandas
4 6 (5.36%) TensorFlow
5 5 (4.46%) Playwright
6 4 (3.57%) Flask
6 4 (3.57%) OpenAPI
6 4 (3.57%) React
6 4 (3.57%) Spring
6 4 (3.57%) Spring Boot
6 4 (3.57%) Swagger
7 3 (2.68%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (2.68%) JSON
7 3 (2.68%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (2.68%) Next.js
7 3 (2.68%) Spring Cloud
7 3 (2.68%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (16.96%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.04%) NHS
3 8 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.36%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.46%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.57%) Clustering
6 4 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.57%) Online Banking
7 3 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 3 (2.68%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.89%) CMDB
9 1 (0.89%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.89%) Life Science
9 1 (0.89%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.89%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.75%) Linux
2 7 (6.25%) Windows
3 5 (4.46%) Unix
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (79.46%) DevOps
2 84 (75.00%) CI/CD
3 43 (38.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (25.89%) Migration
5 28 (25.00%) Observability
6 26 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
7 21 (18.75%) Containerisation
8 20 (17.86%) Platform Engineering
9 19 (16.96%) Agile
10 18 (16.07%) Test Automation
11 15 (13.39%) Load Balancing
11 15 (13.39%) Process Improvement
12 13 (11.61%) Data Protection
12 13 (11.61%) Microservices
12 13 (11.61%) Software Delivery
13 12 (10.71%) AI
13 12 (10.71%) Data Extraction
13 12 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (10.71%) Matrix Organization
13 12 (10.71%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 73 (65.18%) Python
2 34 (30.36%) Bash
3 14 (12.50%) Java
4 10 (8.93%) PowerShell
4 10 (8.93%) SQL
5 8 (7.14%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.25%) Groovy
7 6 (5.36%) TypeScript
8 5 (4.46%) Shell Script
9 4 (3.57%) C#
10 3 (2.68%) Go
11 2 (1.79%) XPath
12 1 (0.89%) Bicep
12 1 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (16.07%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 1 (0.89%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.89%) CISM
4 1 (0.89%) CISSP
4 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.89%) OCP
4 1 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.89%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.46%) SLA
2 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.68%) QA
3 2 (1.79%) GRC
System Software
1 24 (21.43%) Docker
2 11 (9.82%) VMware NSX
2 11 (9.82%) vSphere
3 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.79%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (48.21%) Terraform
2 51 (45.54%) Ansible
3 48 (42.86%) Kubernetes
4 23 (20.54%) Grafana
5 11 (9.82%) Argo
5 11 (9.82%) vCenter Server
6 9 (8.04%) Istio
7 8 (7.14%) Prometheus
7 8 (7.14%) Puppet
8 6 (5.36%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.68%) Packer
9 3 (2.68%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.79%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.89%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.89%) Kibana
11 1 (0.89%) logstash
Vendors
1 27 (24.11%) Splunk
2 16 (14.29%) Google
2 16 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 15 (13.39%) Sonatype
4 11 (9.82%) Pure Storage
4 11 (9.82%) VMware
5 8 (7.14%) Microsoft
6 6 (5.36%) Commvault
7 5 (4.46%) Oracle
8 4 (3.57%) AppDynamics
8 4 (3.57%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.68%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.79%) Cribl.io
10 2 (1.79%) OpenAI
10 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
10 2 (1.79%) Veritas
11 1 (0.89%) BiZZdesign
11 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
11 1 (0.89%) Databricks
11 1 (0.89%) NetApp