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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 +12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 119 23 44
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.40% 2.51% 2.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.81% 6.78% 8.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 20 27
10th Percentile £346 £382 £415
25th Percentile £423 £436 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £526 £628 £650
90th Percentile £550 £653 £730
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -11.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -47.58%

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 929 339 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.13% 36.97% 28.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 639 235 351
10th Percentile £290 £263 £213
25th Percentile £401 £374 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £485 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +2.11% -9.52%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £587
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 10 6
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £30.46 £27.56 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.08 -
90th Percentile £72.43 £102.00 £38.50
England median hourly rate £38.54 £26.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +48.23% +23.81% -16.00%

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 15 March 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 15 March 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 -11 65 £482 -19.67% 22
West Yorkshire +20 52 £500 +13.64% 40
North Yorkshire - 2 £419 - 4
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 (24.37%) Confluence
2 5 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.84%) Apache
4 1 (0.84%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (10.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (5.04%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 40 (33.61%) GitHub Actions
2 38 (31.93%) AWS
3 35 (29.41%) Azure
4 32 (26.89%) GCP
5 18 (15.13%) OpenShift
6 14 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (10.92%) Serverless
8 12 (10.08%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (10.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 7 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (5.88%) Apigee
10 6 (5.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (5.04%) Amazon S3
10 6 (5.04%) Entra ID
11 5 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (4.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (4.20%) CloudBees
11 5 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (3.36%) Cohesity
12 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 22 (18.49%) DNS
2 14 (11.76%) Firewall
3 6 (5.04%) TCP/IP
3 6 (5.04%) VPN
4 4 (3.36%) Internet
5 2 (1.68%) HTTP
5 2 (1.68%) Network Security
6 1 (0.84%) NAS
6 1 (0.84%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.92%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.72%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.04%) MySQL
5 6 (5.04%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.04%) RDBMS
6 5 (4.20%) DynamoDB
7 3 (2.52%) Power BI
8 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.68%) SQL Server
9 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.84%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.84%) Parquet
9 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.84%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 94 (78.99%) Jenkins
2 39 (32.77%) JIRA
3 18 (15.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 16 (13.45%) GitLab
5 14 (11.76%) Git
6 7 (5.88%) CircleCI
7 6 (5.04%) PyCharm
8 5 (4.20%) Selenium
9 3 (2.52%) Gatling
9 3 (2.52%) Postman
9 3 (2.52%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.52%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.68%) Bitbucket
10 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.68%) MSI
10 2 (1.68%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.68%) TestRail
10 2 (1.68%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.84%) Gradle
General
1 41 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 29 (24.37%) Banking
2 29 (24.37%) Finance
3 13 (10.92%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.52%) Law
5 2 (1.68%) Military
6 1 (0.84%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.84%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (17.65%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 17 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
3 15 (12.61%) Analyst
3 15 (12.61%) Technical Business Analyst
4 14 (11.76%) Technical Analyst
5 13 (10.92%) GCP Engineer
5 13 (10.92%) Senior
6 12 (10.08%) Architect
6 12 (10.08%) AWS Engineer
6 12 (10.08%) Lead
7 11 (9.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Automation Engineer
8 9 (7.56%) Developer
9 7 (5.88%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (5.04%) GCP DevOps
11 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps
11 5 (4.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 5 (4.20%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (15.13%) REST
2 9 (7.56%) OpenTelemetry
3 6 (5.04%) Kafka
3 6 (5.04%) NumPy
3 6 (5.04%) Pandas
3 6 (5.04%) TensorFlow
4 5 (4.20%) Flask
4 5 (4.20%) Node.js
4 5 (4.20%) Playwright
5 4 (3.36%) JSON
5 4 (3.36%) OpenAPI
5 4 (3.36%) React
5 4 (3.36%) Spring
5 4 (3.36%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.36%) Swagger
5 4 (3.36%) Web Services
5 4 (3.36%) XML
6 3 (2.52%) .NET
6 3 (2.52%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.81%) Cloud Native
2 9 (7.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (7.56%) NHS
3 6 (5.04%) Product Ownership
4 5 (4.20%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.36%) Clustering
5 4 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.36%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.36%) Online Banking
6 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.52%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.68%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.84%) CMDB
8 1 (0.84%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.84%) Life Science
8 1 (0.84%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.65%) Linux
2 7 (5.88%) Windows
3 5 (4.20%) Unix
4 3 (2.52%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (83.19%) DevOps
2 91 (76.47%) CI/CD
3 48 (40.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (26.89%) Migration
5 29 (24.37%) Observability
5 29 (24.37%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.17%) Containerisation
7 21 (17.65%) Test Automation
8 20 (16.81%) Agile
8 20 (16.81%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (13.45%) Data Protection
9 16 (13.45%) Load Balancing
9 16 (13.45%) Process Improvement
10 14 (11.76%) Software Delivery
10 14 (11.76%) Task Automation
11 13 (10.92%) AI
11 13 (10.92%) Data Extraction
11 13 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
11 13 (10.92%) High Availability
11 13 (10.92%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 83 (69.75%) Python
2 42 (35.29%) Bash
3 13 (10.92%) PowerShell
4 12 (10.08%) Java
4 12 (10.08%) SQL
5 8 (6.72%) Groovy
6 7 (5.88%) C#
7 6 (5.04%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.52%) Go
9 3 (2.52%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (2.52%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.68%) XPath
11 1 (0.84%) Bicep
11 1 (0.84%) C
Qualifications
1 22 (18.49%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.45%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.04%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.84%) CISM
4 1 (0.84%) CISSP
4 1 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.84%) OCP
4 1 (0.84%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.20%) SLA
2 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.68%) GRC
4 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 27 (22.69%) Docker
2 12 (10.08%) VMware NSX
2 12 (10.08%) vSphere
3 6 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.68%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 60 (50.42%) Terraform
2 57 (47.90%) Ansible
3 49 (41.18%) Kubernetes
4 25 (21.01%) Grafana
5 12 (10.08%) Argo
5 12 (10.08%) vCenter Server
6 11 (9.24%) Puppet
7 9 (7.56%) Istio
7 9 (7.56%) NetBackup
7 9 (7.56%) Prometheus
8 3 (2.52%) Packer
8 3 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.68%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.84%) Kibana
10 1 (0.84%) logstash
Vendors
1 29 (24.37%) Splunk
2 19 (15.97%) Red Hat
3 16 (13.45%) Google
3 16 (13.45%) Sonatype
4 12 (10.08%) Microsoft
4 12 (10.08%) Pure Storage
4 12 (10.08%) VMware
5 8 (6.72%) Commvault
6 5 (4.20%) Oracle
6 5 (4.20%) Veritas
7 4 (3.36%) AppDynamics
7 4 (3.36%) Dynatrace
8 3 (2.52%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.68%) Cribl.io
9 2 (1.68%) Databricks
9 2 (1.68%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.84%) BiZZdesign
10 1 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.84%) NetApp