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

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 60 60
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 +21
Contract jobs citing GitHub 178 52 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.20% 3.45% 3.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.89% 9.76% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 37 37
10th Percentile £379 £326 £396
25th Percentile £424 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £568 £641 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,054 533 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.74% 35.37% 32.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 367 340
10th Percentile £318 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £15.93 £37.07 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.03 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.91% +197.14% -1.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £82.53 £22.00
90th Percentile - £92.15 -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 August 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 August 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 +26 95 £473 -5.50% 43
South Yorkshire +12 80 £501 -0.99% 13
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -7 1 £550 - 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 34 (19.10%) Confluence
2 10 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.12%) nginx
4 2 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) Apache
5 1 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (43.82%) GitHub Actions
2 70 (39.33%) AWS
3 59 (33.15%) Azure
4 45 (25.28%) GCP
5 26 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (7.87%) Apigee
6 14 (7.87%) OpenShift
7 13 (7.30%) Serverless
8 12 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 11 (6.18%) IaaS
9 11 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.06%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.06%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.49%) Amazon SQS
11 8 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.49%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (3.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.24%) DNS
2 11 (6.18%) Firewall
3 8 (4.49%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.37%) VLAN
5 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.25%) Network Security
6 4 (2.25%) VPN
7 3 (1.69%) NAS
7 3 (1.69%) SAN
7 3 (1.69%) SSL
8 2 (1.12%) VSAN
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.56%) DMZ
9 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) Modbus
9 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.73%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.43%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (6.18%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.93%) Redis
6 6 (3.37%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.81%) Hazelcast
7 5 (2.81%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.69%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.69%) Parquet
9 2 (1.12%) Big Data
9 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.12%) Power BI
10 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
10 1 (0.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 96 (53.93%) Jenkins
2 51 (28.65%) JIRA
3 23 (12.92%) Git
4 21 (11.80%) GitLab
5 15 (8.43%) Gatling
6 12 (6.74%) Maven
7 10 (5.62%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.62%) Selenium
7 10 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.37%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.81%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.81%) Gradle
9 5 (2.81%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.81%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.25%) JUnit
10 4 (2.25%) MSBuild
10 4 (2.25%) Snyk
10 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
11 3 (1.69%) JMeter
General
1 46 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.42%) Finance
3 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.43%) Banking
5 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (0.56%) Legal
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (25.28%) Developer
2 23 (12.92%) Senior
3 22 (12.36%) Lead
4 20 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.11%) Java Developer
6 15 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
7 12 (6.74%) Architect
8 10 (5.62%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) GCP DevOps
9 9 (5.06%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.93%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.93%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.29%) REST
2 22 (12.36%) Kafka
3 19 (10.67%) Playwright
4 14 (7.87%) .NET
4 14 (7.87%) React
5 13 (7.30%) HTML
5 13 (7.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (7.30%) Spring
5 13 (7.30%) Spring Boot
6 10 (5.62%) Web Services
7 9 (5.06%) OAuth
7 9 (5.06%) RESTful
8 8 (4.49%) JPA
8 8 (4.49%) JSON
8 8 (4.49%) JWT
9 7 (3.93%) OAuth2
9 7 (3.93%) OpenAPI
9 7 (3.93%) Swagger
9 7 (3.93%) YAML
10 6 (3.37%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 38 (21.35%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 10 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.93%) NHS
5 7 (3.93%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.25%) Replication
9 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.74%) Linux
2 10 (5.62%) Windows
3 4 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.12%) AIX
4 2 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.12%) MVS
4 2 (1.12%) zOS
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Solaris
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (74.16%) CI/CD
2 112 (62.92%) DevOps
3 80 (44.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (30.90%) Observability
5 49 (27.53%) Agile
6 35 (19.66%) Platform Engineering
6 35 (19.66%) Test Automation
7 29 (16.29%) Microservices
8 24 (13.48%) Containerisation
8 24 (13.48%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.36%) Roadmaps
10 21 (11.80%) Cloud Security
11 19 (10.67%) API Development
11 19 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
12 17 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (9.55%) High Availability
12 17 (9.55%) Migration
12 17 (9.55%) SDLC
13 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 16 (8.99%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 99 (55.62%) Python
2 41 (23.03%) Java
3 39 (21.91%) Bash
4 38 (21.35%) SQL
5 37 (20.79%) PowerShell
6 20 (11.24%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.18%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.18%) Scala
8 9 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.49%) ActionScript
10 7 (3.93%) C#
11 6 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (2.81%) Groovy
13 4 (2.25%) REXX
14 3 (1.69%) Bicep
14 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.12%) JCL
15 2 (1.12%) PromQL
16 1 (0.56%) Perl
16 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (19.10%) Security Cleared
2 28 (15.73%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.81%) Degree
5 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.25%) OCP
5 4 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.12%) GSEC
7 2 (1.12%) NCDA
7 2 (1.12%) NCIE
7 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CISSP
8 1 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.81%) HL7
3 5 (2.81%) WCAG
4 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 40 (22.47%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 11 (6.18%) vSphere
4 9 (5.06%) VMware NSX
5 8 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.25%) NFS
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.12%) SRDF
9 2 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (56.74%) Terraform
2 63 (35.39%) Kubernetes
3 46 (25.84%) Ansible
4 25 (14.04%) Grafana
5 18 (10.11%) Argo
6 17 (9.55%) Prometheus
7 11 (6.18%) vCenter Server
8 9 (5.06%) HAProxy
9 8 (4.49%) NetBackup
10 6 (3.37%) Puppet
11 5 (2.81%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.69%) Packer
13 2 (1.12%) Consul
13 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
13 2 (1.12%) Tivoli NetView
13 2 (1.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Google
3 15 (8.43%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.74%) Splunk
5 11 (6.18%) Pure Storage
5 11 (6.18%) VMware
6 9 (5.06%) F5
7 8 (4.49%) IBM
8 7 (3.93%) Databricks
8 7 (3.93%) Dynatrace
9 6 (3.37%) Veritas
10 5 (2.81%) Brocade
10 5 (2.81%) Centrify
10 5 (2.81%) Commvault
10 5 (2.81%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.25%) Broadcom
11 4 (2.25%) Cisco
11 4 (2.25%) Dell
12 3 (1.69%) EMC
12 3 (1.69%) NetApp