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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 58 51
Rank change year-on-year +20 -7 +41
Contract jobs citing GitHub 177 58 56
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.12% 3.76% 3.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.87% 10.03% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 38 46
10th Percentile £372 £280 £368
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £599
90th Percentile £575 £633 £638
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -10.83%

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 1,049 578 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.30% 37.46% 35.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 390 365
10th Percentile £306 £235 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 6
10th Percentile £13.45 - £16.88
25th Percentile £14.97 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £35.00 - £22.00
90th Percentile £38.38 - £25.38
England median hourly rate £33.99 £26.30 £33.00
% change year-on-year +29.24% -20.30% -

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +28 95 £475 -5.00% 63
South Yorkshire +4 79 £505 -1.56% 24
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 5
North Yorkshire -11 1 £550 - 7
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 30 (16.95%) Confluence
2 7 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.69%) nginx
4 2 (1.13%) Apache
4 2 (1.13%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 84 (47.46%) GitHub Actions
2 77 (43.50%) AWS
3 71 (40.11%) Azure
4 43 (24.29%) GCP
5 27 (15.25%) Azure DevOps
6 16 (9.04%) IaaS
6 16 (9.04%) Serverless
7 12 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (6.21%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.21%) Apigee
9 10 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (5.08%) Entra ID
10 9 (5.08%) Microsoft Copilot
10 9 (5.08%) Power Platform
11 8 (4.52%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (3.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
12 7 (3.95%) Kong
12 7 (3.95%) Power Automate
12 7 (3.95%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 20 (11.30%) DNS
2 14 (7.91%) Firewall
3 11 (6.21%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.21%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (6.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.39%) VLAN
5 5 (2.82%) Network Security
5 5 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.69%) NAS
6 3 (1.69%) SAN
6 3 (1.69%) SSL
7 2 (1.13%) VSAN
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.56%) DMZ
8 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.56%) Internet
8 1 (0.56%) Intranet
8 1 (0.56%) Modbus
8 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.82%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.17%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.65%) Redis
4 9 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.52%) DynamoDB
5 8 (4.52%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.82%) Hazelcast
6 5 (2.82%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.26%) Big Data
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.69%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.13%) Delta Lake
9 2 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.13%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.13%) Parquet
9 2 (1.13%) Power BI
9 2 (1.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (50.28%) Jenkins
2 50 (28.25%) JIRA
3 24 (13.56%) Git
4 23 (12.99%) GitLab
5 14 (7.91%) Gatling
6 13 (7.34%) Maven
7 11 (6.21%) Bitbucket
8 10 (5.65%) Selenium
8 10 (5.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.39%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.39%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.39%) JMeter
10 5 (2.82%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.82%) Gradle
11 4 (2.26%) JUnit
11 4 (2.26%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.26%) MSBuild
11 4 (2.26%) REST Assured
11 4 (2.26%) Snyk
11 4 (2.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 54 (30.51%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.77%) Finance
3 17 (9.60%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.04%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.04%) Banking
5 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.13%) Law
6 2 (1.13%) Legal
7 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (24.29%) Developer
2 25 (14.12%) Senior
3 21 (11.86%) Lead
4 18 (10.17%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (10.17%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.60%) Platform Engineer
6 11 (6.21%) Software Engineer
7 10 (5.65%) Architect
7 10 (5.65%) Network Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.08%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.52%) IAM Developer
9 8 (4.52%) Test Engineer
10 7 (3.95%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.95%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.39%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.39%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.39%) Lead Test Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) AWS Engineer
12 5 (2.82%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (55.93%) Terraform
2 29 (16.38%) Kafka
3 26 (14.69%) REST
4 18 (10.17%) Playwright
5 16 (9.04%) React
6 15 (8.47%) Spring
6 15 (8.47%) Spring Boot
7 13 (7.34%) HTML
8 12 (6.78%) .NET
9 10 (5.65%) JSON
9 10 (5.65%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.08%) OAuth
10 9 (5.08%) RESTful
11 8 (4.52%) JPA
11 8 (4.52%) JWT
11 8 (4.52%) Web Services
12 7 (3.95%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.95%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.95%) SailPoint
12 7 (3.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.34%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.60%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.34%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (5.65%) Public Cloud
6 7 (3.95%) NHS
7 6 (3.39%) Onboarding
7 6 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (2.82%) Mobile App
9 4 (2.26%) AI Agents
9 4 (2.26%) Autonomous Agent
9 4 (2.26%) Distributed Systems
9 4 (2.26%) Replication
10 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 3 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.13%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (1.13%) EMC VNX
11 2 (1.13%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.91%) Linux
2 10 (5.65%) Windows
3 4 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.13%) AIX
4 2 (1.13%) Android
4 2 (1.13%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.13%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.13%) MVS
4 2 (1.13%) zOS
5 1 (0.56%) Solaris
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (75.14%) CI/CD
2 104 (58.76%) DevOps
3 82 (46.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.20%) Observability
5 54 (30.51%) Agile
6 38 (21.47%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (18.64%) Test Automation
8 29 (16.38%) Microservices
8 29 (16.38%) Software Engineering
9 22 (12.43%) Roadmaps
10 20 (11.30%) API Development
10 20 (11.30%) Containerisation
11 19 (10.73%) Cloud Security
11 19 (10.73%) Event-Driven
11 19 (10.73%) RBAC
11 19 (10.73%) SDLC
12 18 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (10.17%) Problem-Solving
12 18 (10.17%) Validation
13 17 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 93 (52.54%) Python
2 46 (25.99%) Java
3 39 (22.03%) SQL
4 38 (21.47%) PowerShell
5 23 (12.99%) Bash
5 23 (12.99%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.78%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.21%) ActionScript
7 11 (6.21%) Scala
8 10 (5.65%) TypeScript
9 6 (3.39%) Bicep
10 5 (2.82%) C#
11 4 (2.26%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.26%) REXX
12 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.13%) Groovy
13 2 (1.13%) JCL
13 2 (1.13%) PromQL
14 1 (0.56%) Go
14 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 34 (19.21%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.65%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.39%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.82%) Degree
6 4 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.26%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.69%) OCP
7 3 (1.69%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.13%) GSEC
8 2 (1.13%) NCDA
8 2 (1.13%) NCIE
8 2 (1.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.56%) CISSP
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.65%) Accessibility
2 9 (5.08%) QA
3 6 (3.39%) GDPR
4 5 (2.82%) HL7
4 5 (2.82%) WCAG
5 4 (2.26%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.69%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.69%) NIST
7 2 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 41 (23.16%) Docker
2 15 (8.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.95%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.39%) vSphere
5 5 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (2.26%) NFS
6 4 (2.26%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.13%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.13%) SRDF
7 2 (1.13%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (36.16%) Kubernetes
2 37 (20.90%) Ansible
3 25 (14.12%) Grafana
4 17 (9.60%) Prometheus
5 13 (7.34%) Argo
6 9 (5.08%) HAProxy
7 6 (3.39%) Packer
7 6 (3.39%) vCenter Server
8 5 (2.82%) Jamf Pro
8 5 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
9 4 (2.26%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.69%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.13%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.13%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.13%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.13%) SnapMirror
11 2 (1.13%) SnapVault
11 2 (1.13%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 32 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.04%) Google
3 12 (6.78%) Splunk
4 11 (6.21%) F5
4 11 (6.21%) IBM
5 9 (5.08%) Databricks
5 9 (5.08%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.52%) Red Hat
7 6 (3.39%) Centrify
7 6 (3.39%) CyberArk
7 6 (3.39%) Pure Storage
7 6 (3.39%) VMware
8 5 (2.82%) Brocade
9 4 (2.26%) Broadcom
9 4 (2.26%) Cisco
9 4 (2.26%) Dell
9 4 (2.26%) New Relic
10 3 (1.69%) EMC
10 3 (1.69%) NetApp
11 2 (1.13%) Brio