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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 62 61
Rank change year-on-year +25 -1 +22
Contract jobs citing GitHub 174 48 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.11% 3.24% 3.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.65% 9.21% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 34 37
10th Percentile £384 £343 £396
25th Percentile £425 £458 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £625
90th Percentile £575 £664 £645
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -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 1,045 521 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.72% 35.13% 32.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 358 347
10th Percentile £320 £264 £275
25th Percentile £413 £371 £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 £602 £647
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 £37.24 £25.15 £23.80
% change year-on-year +48.07% +5.67% -29.79%

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 5 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 5 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 +29 92 £474 -5.25% 47
South Yorkshire +16 79 £500 +1.46% 12
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -7 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 35 (20.11%) Confluence
2 10 (5.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.15%) nginx
4 2 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (41.95%) GitHub Actions
2 70 (40.23%) AWS
3 55 (31.61%) Azure
4 42 (24.14%) GCP
5 23 (13.22%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.62%) OpenShift
7 12 (6.90%) Apigee
7 12 (6.90%) Serverless
8 11 (6.32%) IaaS
8 11 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (5.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 9 (5.17%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.17%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.60%) Amazon S3
11 8 (4.60%) Azure Key Vault
11 8 (4.60%) Entra ID
11 8 (4.60%) PowerApps
12 7 (4.02%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
12 7 (4.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (12.07%) DNS
2 12 (6.90%) Firewall
3 8 (4.60%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.87%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.87%) VLAN
5 4 (2.30%) Network Security
6 3 (1.72%) NAS
6 3 (1.72%) SAN
6 3 (1.72%) SSL
6 3 (1.72%) VPN
7 2 (1.15%) VSAN
8 1 (0.57%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (16.09%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.20%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.75%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.45%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.45%) Redis
6 4 (2.30%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.30%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.72%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.72%) Parquet
8 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.15%) Power BI
9 1 (0.57%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.57%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
9 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 94 (54.02%) Jenkins
2 52 (29.89%) JIRA
3 22 (12.64%) Git
4 19 (10.92%) GitLab
5 14 (8.05%) Gatling
6 11 (6.32%) Maven
7 10 (5.75%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.17%) Selenium
9 6 (3.45%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.87%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.87%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.87%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.30%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.30%) Gradle
11 4 (2.30%) JUnit
11 4 (2.30%) MSBuild
11 4 (2.30%) Snyk
11 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.15%) Liquibase
General
1 47 (27.01%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.82%) Finance
3 18 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.62%) Banking
5 12 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Military
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (25.29%) Developer
2 23 (13.22%) Senior
3 21 (12.07%) DevOps Engineer
4 20 (11.49%) Lead
5 17 (9.77%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (8.05%) Architect
8 10 (5.75%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.17%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.17%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.60%) GCP DevOps
10 8 (4.60%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.02%) .NET Developer
11 7 (4.02%) GCP Engineer
11 7 (4.02%) IAM Developer
11 7 (4.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (4.02%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.67%) REST
2 19 (10.92%) Playwright
3 18 (10.34%) Kafka
4 14 (8.05%) .NET
5 13 (7.47%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (7.47%) React
6 12 (6.90%) HTML
6 12 (6.90%) Spring
6 12 (6.90%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.17%) Web Services
8 8 (4.60%) JSON
8 8 (4.60%) RESTful
9 7 (4.02%) JPA
9 7 (4.02%) OAuth
9 7 (4.02%) OpenAPI
9 7 (4.02%) Swagger
9 7 (4.02%) YAML
10 6 (3.45%) AngularJS
10 6 (3.45%) JWT
10 6 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.41%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.05%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.02%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (4.02%) NHS
5 7 (4.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.87%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.30%) Replication
9 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.15%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.15%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.15%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.90%) Linux
2 10 (5.75%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.15%) AIX
4 2 (1.15%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.15%) MVS
4 2 (1.15%) zOS
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Solaris
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (72.99%) CI/CD
2 108 (62.07%) DevOps
3 76 (43.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (31.03%) Observability
5 46 (26.44%) Agile
6 33 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
6 33 (18.97%) Test Automation
7 28 (16.09%) Microservices
8 24 (13.79%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.64%) Containerisation
9 22 (12.64%) Roadmaps
10 21 (12.07%) Cloud Security
11 20 (11.49%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.34%) API Development
12 18 (10.34%) High Availability
13 17 (9.77%) Migration
13 17 (9.77%) SDLC
14 16 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (9.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (9.20%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 96 (55.17%) Python
2 37 (21.26%) Java
3 36 (20.69%) Bash
4 34 (19.54%) PowerShell
4 34 (19.54%) SQL
5 20 (11.49%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.32%) Kotlin
6 11 (6.32%) Scala
7 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.60%) ActionScript
9 5 (2.87%) C#
9 5 (2.87%) Groovy
10 4 (2.30%) REXX
11 3 (1.72%) Bicep
11 3 (1.72%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.15%) JCL
12 2 (1.15%) PromQL
13 1 (0.57%) Perl
13 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (18.39%) Security Cleared
2 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.45%) Degree
5 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.30%) OCP
5 4 (2.30%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.15%) CISSP
7 2 (1.15%) GSEC
7 2 (1.15%) NCDA
7 2 (1.15%) NCIE
7 2 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISM
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
8 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.32%) Accessibility
2 7 (4.02%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) GDPR
3 5 (2.87%) HL7
3 5 (2.87%) WCAG
4 2 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
System Software
1 37 (21.26%) Docker
2 12 (6.90%) Active Directory
2 12 (6.90%) vSphere
3 10 (5.75%) VMware NSX
4 8 (4.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.30%) NFS
6 4 (2.30%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.15%) SRDF
7 2 (1.15%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 97 (55.75%) Terraform
2 61 (35.06%) Kubernetes
3 47 (27.01%) Ansible
4 23 (13.22%) Grafana
5 18 (10.34%) Argo
6 15 (8.62%) Prometheus
7 12 (6.90%) vCenter Server
8 9 (5.17%) HAProxy
9 8 (4.60%) NetBackup
10 6 (3.45%) Puppet
11 5 (2.87%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.72%) Packer
13 2 (1.15%) Consul
13 2 (1.15%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.15%) Istio
13 2 (1.15%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.15%) SnapVault
13 2 (1.15%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 29 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.07%) Google
3 16 (9.20%) Red Hat
4 12 (6.90%) Pure Storage
4 12 (6.90%) Splunk
4 12 (6.90%) VMware
5 9 (5.17%) F5
6 7 (4.02%) Databricks
7 6 (3.45%) Dynatrace
7 6 (3.45%) IBM
7 6 (3.45%) Veritas
8 5 (2.87%) Brocade
8 5 (2.87%) Centrify
8 5 (2.87%) Commvault
8 5 (2.87%) CyberArk
9 4 (2.30%) Broadcom
9 4 (2.30%) Dell
10 3 (1.72%) Cisco
10 3 (1.72%) EMC
10 3 (1.72%) NetApp