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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 58 49
Rank change year-on-year +20 -9 +44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 172 59 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.01% 3.81% 3.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.51% 10.39% 10.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 39 46
10th Percentile £371 £280 £368
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £547 £563 £599
90th Percentile £581 £626 £638
England median daily rate £525 £514 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -2.14% -8.70%

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 1,042 568 513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.38% 36.67% 34.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 386 353
10th Percentile £305 £258 £300
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £585 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 6
10th Percentile £13.45 £42.37 £16.88
25th Percentile £15.25 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £91.69 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -79.28% +326.47% +1.15%
75th Percentile £35.00 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 £25.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £30.73
% change year-on-year +29.24% -14.42% -6.87%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +29 91 £475 -5.00% 38
South Yorkshire +10 78 £505 -0.35% 15
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -10 1 £550 - 7
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 (17.44%) Confluence
2 7 (4.07%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.74%) nginx
4 2 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.16%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (47.67%) GitHub Actions
2 76 (44.19%) AWS
3 69 (40.12%) Azure
4 43 (25.00%) GCP
5 26 (15.12%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.72%) Serverless
7 13 (7.56%) IaaS
8 11 (6.40%) Apigee
9 10 (5.81%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.23%) Amazon S3
10 9 (5.23%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.23%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (5.23%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.65%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (4.07%) Kong
12 7 (4.07%) Power Automate
12 7 (4.07%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.49%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.47%) DNS
2 11 (6.40%) Firewall
3 9 (5.23%) BIG-IP
3 9 (5.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 9 (5.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.49%) VLAN
5 5 (2.91%) Network Security
5 5 (2.91%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.74%) NAS
6 3 (1.74%) SAN
6 3 (1.74%) SSL
7 2 (1.16%) VSAN
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.58%) DMZ
8 1 (0.58%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.58%) Intranet
8 1 (0.58%) Modbus
8 1 (0.58%) VPN
8 1 (0.58%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.28%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.47%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.81%) Redis
4 9 (5.23%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.65%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.07%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.91%) Hazelcast
7 5 (2.91%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.33%) Big Data
9 3 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (1.16%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.16%) Delta Lake
10 2 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.16%) Parquet
10 2 (1.16%) Power BI
10 2 (1.16%) Tableau
11 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 87 (50.58%) Jenkins
2 48 (27.91%) JIRA
3 23 (13.37%) Git
3 23 (13.37%) GitLab
4 14 (8.14%) Gatling
5 13 (7.56%) Maven
6 11 (6.40%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.81%) Selenium
7 10 (5.81%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.49%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.49%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.49%) JMeter
9 5 (2.91%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.91%) Gradle
10 4 (2.33%) JUnit
10 4 (2.33%) LoadRunner
10 4 (2.33%) MSBuild
10 4 (2.33%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.33%) Snyk
10 4 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.77%) Finance
3 17 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.30%) Banking
5 15 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.74%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.16%) Law
7 2 (1.16%) Legal
8 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (25.00%) Developer
2 24 (13.95%) Senior
3 21 (12.21%) Lead
4 18 (10.47%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.47%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.88%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.40%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.81%) Architect
8 9 (5.23%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.65%) IAM Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.65%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.65%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.07%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.49%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.49%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.49%) Lead Test Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (56.40%) Terraform
2 29 (16.86%) Kafka
3 26 (15.12%) REST
4 18 (10.47%) Playwright
5 17 (9.88%) React
6 15 (8.72%) Spring
6 15 (8.72%) Spring Boot
7 14 (8.14%) HTML
8 12 (6.98%) .NET
9 10 (5.81%) JSON
9 10 (5.81%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.23%) OAuth
10 9 (5.23%) RESTful
11 8 (4.65%) JPA
11 8 (4.65%) JWT
11 8 (4.65%) Web Services
12 7 (4.07%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.07%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.07%) SailPoint
12 7 (4.07%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.77%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.72%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.56%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (4.65%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.07%) NHS
7 6 (3.49%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.49%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.49%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.91%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.33%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.33%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.33%) Replication
10 3 (1.74%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (1.16%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (1.16%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.14%) Linux
2 10 (5.81%) Windows
3 4 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.16%) AIX
4 2 (1.16%) Android
4 2 (1.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.16%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.16%) MVS
4 2 (1.16%) zOS
5 1 (0.58%) Solaris
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
5 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (74.42%) CI/CD
2 102 (59.30%) DevOps
3 80 (46.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (31.98%) Observability
5 53 (30.81%) Agile
6 38 (22.09%) Platform Engineering
7 32 (18.60%) Test Automation
8 29 (16.86%) Microservices
9 27 (15.70%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.79%) Roadmaps
11 20 (11.63%) API Development
11 20 (11.63%) Event-Driven
12 19 (11.05%) Cloud Security
12 19 (11.05%) Containerisation
12 19 (11.05%) SDLC
13 18 (10.47%) RBAC
14 17 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (9.88%) Validation
15 16 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (9.30%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 89 (51.74%) Python
2 46 (26.74%) Java
3 38 (22.09%) SQL
4 37 (21.51%) PowerShell
5 23 (13.37%) Bash
5 23 (13.37%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.98%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.40%) Scala
8 9 (5.23%) ActionScript
8 9 (5.23%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.49%) Bicep
10 5 (2.91%) C#
11 4 (2.33%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.33%) REXX
12 3 (1.74%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.16%) Groovy
13 2 (1.16%) JCL
13 2 (1.16%) PromQL
14 1 (0.58%) Perl
14 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.91%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.91%) Degree
5 4 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.74%) OCP
6 3 (1.74%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.16%) GSEC
7 2 (1.16%) NCDA
7 2 (1.16%) NCIE
7 2 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.81%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.65%) QA
3 5 (2.91%) GDPR
3 5 (2.91%) HL7
3 5 (2.91%) WCAG
4 4 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.74%) NIST
6 2 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.58%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 42 (24.42%) Docker
2 15 (8.72%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.07%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.49%) vSphere
5 5 (2.91%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.33%) NFS
6 4 (2.33%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.16%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.16%) SRDF
7 2 (1.16%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (37.21%) Kubernetes
2 37 (21.51%) Ansible
3 25 (14.53%) Grafana
4 17 (9.88%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.56%) Argo
6 9 (5.23%) HAProxy
7 6 (3.49%) Packer
7 6 (3.49%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.33%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.74%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.16%) Consul
11 2 (1.16%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.16%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.16%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.16%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (1.16%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.30%) Google
3 11 (6.40%) IBM
3 11 (6.40%) Splunk
4 9 (5.23%) Databricks
4 9 (5.23%) F5
5 8 (4.65%) Dynatrace
5 8 (4.65%) Red Hat
6 6 (3.49%) Centrify
6 6 (3.49%) CyberArk
6 6 (3.49%) Pure Storage
6 6 (3.49%) VMware
7 5 (2.91%) Brocade
8 4 (2.33%) Broadcom
8 4 (2.33%) Cisco
8 4 (2.33%) Dell
8 4 (2.33%) New Relic
9 3 (1.74%) EMC
9 3 (1.74%) NetApp
10 2 (1.16%) Oracle