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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 61 52
Rank change year-on-year +24 -9 +33
Contract jobs citing GitHub 176 54 49
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.11% 3.52% 3.25%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.64% 9.76% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 38 38
10th Percentile £371 £350 £397
25th Percentile £415 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -3.38% -1.43%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £624
90th Percentile £575 £633 £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 1,058 553 497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.72% 36.05% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 381 344
10th Percentile £313 £263 £283
25th Percentile £413 £369 £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 £674 £600 £654
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.49% -2.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £15.93 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.83% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile - £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £35.36 £26.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.22% +4.60% -22.62%

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 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 17 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 +27 95 £472 -5.70% 34
South Yorkshire +11 78 £501 -0.99% 14
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
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 (18.75%) Confluence
2 10 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.14%) nginx
4 2 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (46.59%) GitHub Actions
2 74 (42.05%) AWS
3 65 (36.93%) Azure
4 46 (26.14%) GCP
5 26 (14.77%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.39%) Serverless
7 11 (6.25%) Apigee
7 11 (6.25%) IaaS
7 11 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (5.68%) OpenShift
9 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.11%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (5.11%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.55%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.55%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.55%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.55%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.23%) DNS
2 11 (6.25%) Firewall
3 8 (4.55%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.41%) VLAN
5 5 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.27%) Network Security
6 4 (2.27%) VPN
7 3 (1.70%) NAS
7 3 (1.70%) SAN
7 3 (1.70%) SSL
8 2 (1.14%) VSAN
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.57%) DMZ
9 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.57%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) Modbus
9 1 (0.57%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.91%) SQL Server
2 17 (9.66%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.68%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.11%) Redis
5 8 (4.55%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.41%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.84%) Hazelcast
7 5 (2.84%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.70%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.70%) Big Data
8 3 (1.70%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.70%) Parquet
9 2 (1.14%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.14%) Power BI
9 2 (1.14%) Tableau
10 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.57%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.57%) QlikView
10 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 94 (53.41%) Jenkins
2 50 (28.41%) JIRA
3 25 (14.20%) Git
4 22 (12.50%) GitLab
5 14 (7.95%) Gatling
6 12 (6.82%) Maven
7 10 (5.68%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.68%) Selenium
7 10 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.41%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.41%) JMeter
9 5 (2.84%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.84%) Gradle
10 4 (2.27%) JUnit
10 4 (2.27%) LoadRunner
10 4 (2.27%) MSBuild
10 4 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 4 (2.27%) Snyk
10 4 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (25.57%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.32%) Finance
3 18 (10.23%) Banking
3 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 13 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.14%) Law
7 1 (0.57%) Legal
7 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (25.57%) Developer
2 25 (14.20%) Senior
3 20 (11.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 20 (11.36%) Lead
4 18 (10.23%) Java Developer
5 13 (7.39%) Platform Engineer
6 12 (6.82%) Architect
7 11 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) GCP DevOps
9 9 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.98%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Lead Test Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.48%) REST
2 26 (14.77%) Kafka
3 18 (10.23%) Playwright
4 16 (9.09%) React
5 14 (7.95%) .NET
5 14 (7.95%) Spring
5 14 (7.95%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.39%) HTML
7 11 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 10 (5.68%) JSON
8 10 (5.68%) Web Services
9 9 (5.11%) OAuth
9 9 (5.11%) RESTful
10 8 (4.55%) JPA
10 8 (4.55%) JWT
11 7 (3.98%) OAuth2
11 7 (3.98%) YAML
12 6 (3.41%) .NET Core
12 6 (3.41%) AngularJS
12 6 (3.41%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 36 (20.45%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (5.68%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.98%) NHS
5 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.27%) Replication
9 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.70%) Autonomous Agent
9 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.14%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.14%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.82%) Linux
2 10 (5.68%) Windows
3 4 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.14%) AIX
4 2 (1.14%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.14%) MVS
4 2 (1.14%) 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
1 130 (73.86%) CI/CD
2 109 (61.93%) DevOps
3 78 (44.32%) Infrastructure as Code
4 56 (31.82%) Observability
5 50 (28.41%) Agile
6 35 (19.89%) Test Automation
7 33 (18.75%) Platform Engineering
8 29 (16.48%) Microservices
9 26 (14.77%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.50%) Containerisation
10 22 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
12 18 (10.23%) API Development
12 18 (10.23%) Event-Driven
13 17 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (9.66%) SDLC
13 17 (9.66%) Validation
14 16 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
14 16 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
14 16 (9.09%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 96 (54.55%) Python
2 43 (24.43%) Java
3 38 (21.59%) SQL
4 35 (19.89%) PowerShell
5 33 (18.75%) Bash
6 22 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.25%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.25%) Scala
8 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.55%) ActionScript
10 7 (3.98%) C#
11 6 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
12 4 (2.27%) REXX
13 3 (1.70%) Bicep
13 3 (1.70%) Groovy
13 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.14%) JCL
14 2 (1.14%) PromQL
15 1 (0.57%) ABAP
15 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.84%) Degree
5 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.70%) Azure Certification
6 3 (1.70%) OCP
6 3 (1.70%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.14%) GSEC
7 2 (1.14%) NCDA
7 2 (1.14%) NCIE
7 2 (1.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.68%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.98%) QA
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
3 5 (2.84%) HL7
3 5 (2.84%) WCAG
4 4 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
System Software
1 43 (24.43%) Docker
2 13 (7.39%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.55%) vSphere
4 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.41%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.27%) NFS
7 3 (1.70%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.14%) SRDF
8 2 (1.14%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 97 (55.11%) Terraform
2 63 (35.80%) Kubernetes
3 42 (23.86%) Ansible
4 25 (14.20%) Grafana
5 16 (9.09%) Prometheus
6 15 (8.52%) Argo
7 9 (5.11%) HAProxy
8 8 (4.55%) vCenter Server
9 7 (3.98%) NetBackup
10 5 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.84%) Puppet
10 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.70%) Kustomize
11 3 (1.70%) Packer
12 2 (1.14%) Consul
12 2 (1.14%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.14%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.14%) SnapVault
12 2 (1.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 31 (17.61%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.80%) Google
3 12 (6.82%) Red Hat
3 12 (6.82%) Splunk
4 11 (6.25%) IBM
5 9 (5.11%) Databricks
5 9 (5.11%) F5
6 8 (4.55%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.55%) Pure Storage
6 8 (4.55%) VMware
7 5 (2.84%) Brocade
7 5 (2.84%) Centrify
7 5 (2.84%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.84%) Veritas
8 4 (2.27%) Broadcom
8 4 (2.27%) Cisco
8 4 (2.27%) Commvault
8 4 (2.27%) Dell
8 4 (2.27%) New Relic
9 3 (1.70%) EMC