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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 56 55
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 157 35 51
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.02% 3.34% 3.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.50% 9.49% 10.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 28 35
10th Percentile £365 £358 £410
25th Percentile £416 £455 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £510 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -9.76% +5.12%
75th Percentile £527 £610 £625
90th Percentile £565 £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 £47.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +32.92% -32.14% +12.00%

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 1,013 369 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.86% 35.18% 28.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 259 335
10th Percentile £325 £258 £263
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £588
90th Percentile £657 £619 £643
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -60.26%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.80 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -38.58%

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 27 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 27 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 +31 80 £475 +8.57% 31
South Yorkshire -12 75 £493 -5.24% 16
North Yorkshire -6 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 (18.47%) Confluence
2 9 (5.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.27%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.64%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 63 (40.13%) GitHub Actions
2 61 (38.85%) AWS
3 47 (29.94%) Azure
4 43 (27.39%) GCP
5 22 (14.01%) OpenShift
6 16 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (9.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (7.64%) Apigee
8 12 (7.64%) Serverless
9 10 (6.37%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.10%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.46%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.46%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.46%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.82%) Azure Key Vault
13 6 (3.82%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.82%) CloudBees
13 6 (3.82%) Kong
13 6 (3.82%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (15.92%) DNS
2 14 (8.92%) Firewall
3 6 (3.82%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.82%) VPN
4 3 (1.91%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (1.91%) NAS
4 3 (1.91%) SAN
4 3 (1.91%) SSL
5 2 (1.27%) Network Security
6 1 (0.64%) HTTP
6 1 (0.64%) Internet
6 1 (0.64%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.19%) MongoDB
3 15 (9.55%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.37%) Relational Database
5 4 (2.55%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.55%) DynamoDB
5 4 (2.55%) Hazelcast
5 4 (2.55%) RDBMS
5 4 (2.55%) Redis
6 3 (1.91%) Delta Lake
6 3 (1.91%) Parquet
7 2 (1.27%) Power BI
8 1 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.64%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.64%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.64%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 108 (68.79%) Jenkins
2 42 (26.75%) JIRA
3 27 (17.20%) GitLab
4 21 (13.38%) Git
5 16 (10.19%) Gatling
6 11 (7.01%) Maven
7 10 (6.37%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.73%) Selenium
9 7 (4.46%) Bitbucket
9 7 (4.46%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.46%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (3.82%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.55%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.55%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.55%) Gradle
11 4 (2.55%) JUnit
11 4 (2.55%) Snyk
12 2 (1.27%) git-flow
12 2 (1.27%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 51 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.02%) Finance
3 24 (15.29%) Banking
4 13 (8.28%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.46%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.18%) Law
7 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.64%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (20.38%) Developer
2 22 (14.01%) Senior
3 19 (12.10%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (11.46%) Lead
5 17 (10.83%) Architect
6 14 (8.92%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.64%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (6.37%) Business Analyst
9 8 (5.10%) Analyst
9 8 (5.10%) GCP DevOps
9 8 (5.10%) Senior Developer
9 8 (5.10%) Technical Business Analyst
10 7 (4.46%) Automation Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Lead Test Engineer
10 7 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.46%) Technical Analyst
10 7 (4.46%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.82%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.82%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.46%) Playwright
1 18 (11.46%) REST
2 16 (10.19%) Kafka
2 16 (10.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (7.64%) Spring
3 12 (7.64%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.10%) HTML
4 8 (5.10%) JSON
5 7 (4.46%) OAuth
5 7 (4.46%) OpenAPI
5 7 (4.46%) React
5 7 (4.46%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (4.46%) Swagger
6 6 (3.82%) JPA
6 6 (3.82%) JWT
6 6 (3.82%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.82%) YAML
7 5 (3.18%) Flask
7 5 (3.18%) RESTful
8 4 (2.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.20%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.10%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.82%) Public Cloud
6 4 (2.55%) NHS
7 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.91%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.91%) Replication
8 2 (1.27%) CMDB
8 2 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.64%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.64%) Life Science
9 1 (0.64%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (11.46%) Linux
2 13 (8.28%) Windows
3 5 (3.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (3.18%) Unix
4 2 (1.27%) AIX
4 2 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.64%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.64%) MVS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.64%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (82.17%) CI/CD
2 107 (68.15%) DevOps
3 63 (40.13%) Infrastructure as Code
4 46 (29.30%) Observability
5 33 (21.02%) Containerisation
5 33 (21.02%) Migration
6 30 (19.11%) Agile
7 29 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
8 25 (15.92%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (15.92%) Test Automation
9 22 (14.01%) High Availability
10 20 (12.74%) Microservices
11 18 (11.46%) Software Engineering
12 17 (10.83%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (10.83%) Roadmaps
13 16 (10.19%) Software Delivery
14 15 (9.55%) API Development
14 15 (9.55%) Load Balancing
14 15 (9.55%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (9.55%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (57.96%) Python
2 42 (26.75%) Bash
3 37 (23.57%) Java
4 27 (17.20%) PowerShell
5 24 (15.29%) SQL
6 12 (7.64%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.01%) Scala
8 8 (5.10%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.46%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.82%) Groovy
11 5 (3.18%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.55%) C#
12 4 (2.55%) Go
13 3 (1.91%) ActionScript
13 3 (1.91%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.27%) PromQL
14 2 (1.27%) REXX
15 1 (0.64%) Bicep
15 1 (0.64%) C
15 1 (0.64%) JCL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.83%) Security Cleared
2 20 (12.74%) SC Cleared
3 8 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.55%) Degree
4 4 (2.55%) OCP
4 4 (2.55%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.64%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.64%) CISM
6 1 (0.64%) CISSP
6 1 (0.64%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.64%) NCDA
6 1 (0.64%) NCIE
6 1 (0.64%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.01%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.18%) SLA
3 4 (2.55%) QA
4 3 (1.91%) GDPR
4 3 (1.91%) WCAG
5 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.64%) HL7
System Software
1 41 (26.11%) Docker
2 16 (10.19%) vSphere
3 15 (9.55%) VMware NSX
4 10 (6.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.55%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.55%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.27%) NFS
7 1 (0.64%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.64%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.64%) SRDF
7 1 (0.64%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 88 (56.05%) Terraform
2 65 (41.40%) Kubernetes
3 59 (37.58%) Ansible
4 31 (19.75%) Grafana
5 20 (12.74%) Argo
6 16 (10.19%) Prometheus
6 16 (10.19%) vCenter Server
7 9 (5.73%) HAProxy
8 7 (4.46%) Istio
8 7 (4.46%) NetBackup
8 7 (4.46%) Puppet
9 4 (2.55%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.55%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.91%) Packer
11 2 (1.27%) Consul
11 2 (1.27%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.64%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.64%) EMC VPLEX
12 1 (0.64%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 27 (17.20%) Splunk
2 24 (15.29%) Google
3 19 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.10%) Red Hat
4 16 (10.19%) Pure Storage
4 16 (10.19%) VMware
5 10 (6.37%) Sonatype
6 7 (4.46%) Databricks
7 6 (3.82%) Veritas
8 5 (3.18%) Commvault
8 5 (3.18%) Oracle
9 4 (2.55%) Brocade
9 4 (2.55%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.55%) F5
10 3 (1.91%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.91%) Cisco
10 3 (1.91%) EMC
10 3 (1.91%) IBM
10 3 (1.91%) NetApp
10 3 (1.91%) ServiceNow