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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 54 54
Rank change year-on-year +14 0 +17
Contract jobs citing GitHub 147 36 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.72% 3.43% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.69% 9.57% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 29 36
10th Percentile £365 £380 £411
25th Percentile £413 £456 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £520 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -6.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile £529 £610 £625
90th Percentile £568 £680 £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 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +28.44%

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 1,001 376 470
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.93% 35.84% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 264 330
10th Percentile £325 £257 £257
25th Percentile £413 £371 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.52% -5.24%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £623 £638
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £70.85 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +61.02% +19.33% -33.84%

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 21 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 21 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
South Yorkshire -13 74 £493 -7.92% 13
West Yorkshire +33 71 £476 +0.21% 26
North Yorkshire - 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 29 (19.73%) Confluence
2 9 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.68%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.68%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 60 (40.82%) AWS
2 57 (38.78%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (28.57%) Azure
4 41 (27.89%) GCP
5 22 (14.97%) OpenShift
6 15 (10.20%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 13 (8.84%) Serverless
8 12 (8.16%) Apigee
9 11 (7.48%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (6.12%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.44%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.76%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.76%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.76%) PowerApps
13 6 (4.08%) Cloud Run
13 6 (4.08%) CloudBees
13 6 (4.08%) Kong
13 6 (4.08%) Power Automate
14 5 (3.40%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (14.97%) DNS
2 11 (7.48%) Firewall
3 6 (4.08%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.08%) VPN
4 3 (2.04%) NAS
4 3 (2.04%) SAN
5 2 (1.36%) Network Security
6 1 (0.68%) HTTP
6 1 (0.68%) Internet
6 1 (0.68%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.24%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.88%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.20%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.80%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.40%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.72%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.72%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.72%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.72%) Redis
7 2 (1.36%) Power BI
8 1 (0.68%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.68%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.68%) Parquet
8 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 103 (70.07%) Jenkins
2 37 (25.17%) JIRA
3 25 (17.01%) GitLab
4 21 (14.29%) Git
5 16 (10.88%) Gatling
6 11 (7.48%) Maven
7 10 (6.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (6.12%) Selenium
9 7 (4.76%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.76%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (4.08%) Artifactory
10 6 (4.08%) Bitbucket
11 4 (2.72%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.72%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.72%) Gradle
11 4 (2.72%) JUnit
11 4 (2.72%) Snyk
12 2 (1.36%) Flyway
12 2 (1.36%) git-flow
12 2 (1.36%) Liquibase
General
1 50 (34.01%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.77%) Finance
3 24 (16.33%) Banking
4 13 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.40%) Law
7 2 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.36%) Military
8 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.68%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (21.09%) Developer
2 19 (12.93%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (12.93%) Senior
3 18 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (11.56%) Architect
4 17 (11.56%) Lead
5 13 (8.84%) Java Developer
6 12 (8.16%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (6.80%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Analyst
8 8 (5.44%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.44%) Technical Business Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) GCP DevOps
9 7 (4.76%) Lead Test Engineer
9 7 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (4.76%) Test Engineer
10 6 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 6 (4.08%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (12.24%) Playwright
1 18 (12.24%) REST
2 16 (10.88%) Kafka
2 16 (10.88%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (8.16%) Spring
3 12 (8.16%) Spring Boot
4 7 (4.76%) HTML
4 7 (4.76%) OAuth
4 7 (4.76%) OpenAPI
4 7 (4.76%) React
4 7 (4.76%) Spring Cloud
4 7 (4.76%) Swagger
5 6 (4.08%) JPA
5 6 (4.08%) JSON
5 6 (4.08%) JWT
5 6 (4.08%) OAuth2
5 6 (4.08%) YAML
6 5 (3.40%) Flask
6 5 (3.40%) RESTful
7 4 (2.72%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 27 (18.37%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.40%) NHS
4 5 (3.40%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.72%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.04%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.04%) Replication
7 2 (1.36%) CMDB
7 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.68%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.68%) EMC VMAX
8 1 (0.68%) EMC VNX
8 1 (0.68%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.68%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.56%) Linux
2 12 (8.16%) Windows
3 5 (3.40%) Unix
4 4 (2.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.36%) AIX
5 2 (1.36%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.68%) MVS
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.68%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (80.95%) CI/CD
2 102 (69.39%) DevOps
3 57 (38.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (29.25%) Observability
5 33 (22.45%) Containerisation
5 33 (22.45%) Migration
6 29 (19.73%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (18.37%) Agile
8 26 (17.69%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (17.01%) Test Automation
10 21 (14.29%) High Availability
11 20 (13.61%) Microservices
12 18 (12.24%) Software Engineering
13 17 (11.56%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (10.88%) Software Delivery
14 16 (10.88%) Task Automation
15 15 (10.20%) Load Balancing
16 14 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
16 14 (9.52%) RBAC
17 13 (8.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 85 (57.82%) Python
2 40 (27.21%) Bash
3 36 (24.49%) Java
4 25 (17.01%) PowerShell
5 21 (14.29%) SQL
6 11 (7.48%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.48%) Scala
7 7 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 7 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 6 (4.08%) Groovy
9 5 (3.40%) Shell Script
10 4 (2.72%) C#
10 4 (2.72%) Go
11 3 (2.04%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (1.36%) PromQL
12 2 (1.36%) REXX
13 1 (0.68%) Bicep
13 1 (0.68%) C
13 1 (0.68%) JCL
Qualifications
1 28 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.61%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.72%) Degree
4 4 (2.72%) OCP
4 4 (2.72%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.36%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.68%) CISM
6 1 (0.68%) CISSP
6 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.68%) NCDA
6 1 (0.68%) NCIE
6 1 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.44%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.40%) SLA
3 4 (2.72%) QA
4 1 (0.68%) HL7
System Software
1 41 (27.89%) Docker
2 16 (10.88%) vSphere
3 15 (10.20%) VMware NSX
4 10 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.72%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.72%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.36%) NFS
8 1 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.68%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.68%) SRDF
8 1 (0.68%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 82 (55.78%) Terraform
2 65 (44.22%) Kubernetes
3 59 (40.14%) Ansible
4 32 (21.77%) Grafana
5 20 (13.61%) Argo
6 16 (10.88%) Prometheus
6 16 (10.88%) vCenter Server
7 9 (6.12%) HAProxy
8 7 (4.76%) Istio
8 7 (4.76%) NetBackup
8 7 (4.76%) Puppet
9 4 (2.72%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.36%) Consul
10 2 (1.36%) Packer
10 2 (1.36%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.68%) Kibana
11 1 (0.68%) logstash
11 1 (0.68%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 27 (18.37%) Splunk
2 22 (14.97%) Google
3 19 (12.93%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.93%) Red Hat
4 16 (10.88%) Pure Storage
4 16 (10.88%) VMware
5 10 (6.80%) Sonatype
6 6 (4.08%) Veritas
7 5 (3.40%) Commvault
7 5 (3.40%) Databricks
7 5 (3.40%) Oracle
8 4 (2.72%) Brocade
9 3 (2.04%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.04%) Cisco
9 3 (2.04%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.04%) EMC
9 3 (2.04%) IBM
9 3 (2.04%) NetApp
9 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.36%) Solace