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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +25 -5 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 178 42 48
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.41% 3.39% 2.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.89% 9.52% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 31 33
10th Percentile £366 £360 £400
25th Percentile £424 £459 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £520 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -8.01% +2.73%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £625
90th Percentile £575 £700 £649
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £26.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +138.25% -62.14% -6.67%

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 1,054 441 518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.95% 35.59% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 299 363
10th Percentile £313 £258 £253
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £578
90th Percentile £688 £620 £642
England median daily rate £519 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.68% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +63.26% +14.32% -31.89%

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 30 June 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 30 June 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 +32 94 £475 -2.56% 19
South Yorkshire -2 82 £500 -3.80% 11
North Yorkshire -8 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 33 (18.54%) Confluence
2 10 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.12%) nginx
4 2 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.01%) GitHub Actions
2 64 (35.96%) AWS
3 53 (29.78%) Azure
4 44 (24.72%) GCP
5 23 (12.92%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.80%) OpenShift
7 15 (8.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (6.74%) Apigee
8 12 (6.74%) Serverless
9 10 (5.62%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (5.62%) IaaS
9 10 (5.62%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (5.06%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.49%) Entra ID
11 8 (4.49%) PowerApps
12 7 (3.93%) Amazon S3
12 7 (3.93%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.93%) Power Automate
13 6 (3.37%) CloudBees
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.48%) DNS
2 13 (7.30%) Firewall
3 8 (4.49%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.81%) Network Security
4 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.81%) VLAN
4 5 (2.81%) VPN
5 4 (2.25%) NAS
5 4 (2.25%) SAN
6 3 (1.69%) SSL
7 2 (1.12%) VSAN
8 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (13.48%) SQL Server
2 13 (7.30%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.74%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.81%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.81%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.81%) Redis
6 4 (2.25%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.69%) Parquet
8 2 (1.12%) Power BI
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.56%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.56%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.56%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.56%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 118 (66.29%) Jenkins
2 49 (27.53%) JIRA
3 21 (11.80%) GitLab
4 18 (10.11%) Git
5 16 (8.99%) Gatling
6 15 (8.43%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (6.18%) Maven
8 9 (5.06%) Selenium
9 7 (3.93%) Bitbucket
9 7 (3.93%) REST Assured
9 7 (3.93%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (3.37%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.25%) Gradle
11 4 (2.25%) JUnit
11 4 (2.25%) Snyk
12 3 (1.69%) MSBuild
12 3 (1.69%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.12%) Flyway
13 2 (1.12%) Liquibase
General
1 51 (28.65%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.98%) Finance
3 21 (11.80%) Banking
4 15 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.12%) Law
6 2 (1.12%) Military
7 1 (0.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (21.35%) Developer
2 24 (13.48%) Senior
3 21 (11.80%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (11.24%) Architect
4 20 (11.24%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (8.43%) Lead
6 14 (7.87%) Java Developer
7 13 (7.30%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) GCP DevOps
8 10 (5.62%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Business Analyst
10 8 (4.49%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.49%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.93%) Analyst
11 7 (3.93%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Lead Test Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Technical Business Analyst
11 7 (3.93%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (14.04%) REST
2 18 (10.11%) Playwright
3 16 (8.99%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (7.87%) Kafka
5 12 (6.74%) Spring
5 12 (6.74%) Spring Boot
6 11 (6.18%) .NET
7 8 (4.49%) HTML
7 8 (4.49%) React
8 7 (3.93%) JSON
8 7 (3.93%) OAuth
8 7 (3.93%) OpenAPI
8 7 (3.93%) Spring Cloud
8 7 (3.93%) Swagger
8 7 (3.93%) Web Services
8 7 (3.93%) YAML
9 6 (3.37%) Flask
9 6 (3.37%) JPA
9 6 (3.37%) JWT
9 6 (3.37%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.91%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.43%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.18%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.49%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.93%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.37%) NHS
7 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.81%) Replication
7 5 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.12%) CMDB
9 2 (1.12%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.99%) Linux
2 11 (6.18%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) 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%) Solaris
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (79.78%) CI/CD
2 118 (66.29%) DevOps
3 70 (39.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 51 (28.65%) Observability
5 40 (22.47%) Agile
6 33 (18.54%) Migration
6 33 (18.54%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (17.42%) Test Automation
8 28 (15.73%) Containerisation
9 26 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
10 25 (14.04%) Microservices
11 23 (12.92%) High Availability
12 22 (12.36%) Cloud Security
13 21 (11.80%) Software Engineering
14 20 (11.24%) Roadmaps
15 17 (9.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 17 (9.55%) Performance Optimisation
15 17 (9.55%) RBAC
16 16 (8.99%) Software Delivery
16 16 (8.99%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 105 (58.99%) Python
2 43 (24.16%) Bash
3 34 (19.10%) PowerShell
4 32 (17.98%) Java
5 28 (15.73%) SQL
6 11 (6.18%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.18%) Scala
7 8 (4.49%) ActionScript
7 8 (4.49%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.37%) Groovy
8 6 (3.37%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.81%) C#
10 4 (2.25%) REXX
11 3 (1.69%) Bicep
11 3 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.12%) JCL
12 2 (1.12%) PromQL
13 1 (0.56%) Perl
13 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (15.17%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.80%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.25%) Degree
4 4 (2.25%) OCP
4 4 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.12%) CISSP
6 2 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.12%) NCDA
6 2 (1.12%) NCIE
6 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.56%) CISM
7 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.56%) GIAC
7 1 (0.56%) GSEC
7 1 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.30%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.37%) QA
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.81%) WCAG
4 3 (1.69%) HL7
5 2 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (21.35%) Docker
2 17 (9.55%) vSphere
3 15 (8.43%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 9 (5.06%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.25%) NFS
7 4 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.12%) SRDF
8 2 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (53.93%) Terraform
2 65 (36.52%) Kubernetes
3 61 (34.27%) Ansible
4 26 (14.61%) Grafana
5 21 (11.80%) Argo
6 17 (9.55%) vCenter Server
7 16 (8.99%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.06%) HAProxy
9 8 (4.49%) NetBackup
10 7 (3.93%) Istio
11 6 (3.37%) Puppet
12 5 (2.81%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
13 3 (1.69%) Packer
14 2 (1.12%) Consul
14 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
14 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
14 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
14 2 (1.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 28 (15.73%) Google
2 25 (14.04%) Microsoft
3 21 (11.80%) Splunk
4 20 (11.24%) Red Hat
5 17 (9.55%) Pure Storage
5 17 (9.55%) VMware
6 9 (5.06%) F5
6 9 (5.06%) Sonatype
7 7 (3.93%) Databricks
8 6 (3.37%) Brocade
8 6 (3.37%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.37%) Veritas
9 5 (2.81%) Commvault
9 5 (2.81%) IBM
10 4 (2.25%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.25%) Cisco
10 4 (2.25%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.25%) Dell
10 4 (2.25%) EMC
10 4 (2.25%) NetApp