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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 60 52
Rank change year-on-year +28 -8 +36
Contract jobs citing GitHub 176 57 54
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.16% 3.73% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.73% 10.25% 10.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 41 41
10th Percentile £373 £338 £356
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.04% -6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £622
90th Percentile £575 £610 £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 1,052 556 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.83% 36.39% 32.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 387 348
10th Percentile £305 £259 £288
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £669 £600 £655
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £15.14 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.31 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £29.50 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -67.83% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £43.44 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.84% -4.91% -16.67%

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 26 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 26 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 +34 93 £473 -5.50% 20
South Yorkshire +11 80 £504 -0.54% 5
East Yorkshire -3 2 - - 1
North Yorkshire -7 1 £550 - 2
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 32 (18.18%) 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
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 85 (48.30%) GitHub Actions
2 76 (43.18%) AWS
3 70 (39.77%) Azure
4 45 (25.57%) GCP
5 29 (16.48%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (7.39%) Serverless
7 12 (6.82%) Entra ID
8 11 (6.25%) Apigee
8 11 (6.25%) IaaS
8 11 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.11%) AWS Lambda
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%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.55%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.98%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (3.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (10.23%) DNS
2 10 (5.68%) 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
7 3 (1.70%) NAS
7 3 (1.70%) SAN
7 3 (1.70%) SSL
8 2 (1.14%) VPN
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%) Intranet
9 1 (0.57%) Modbus
9 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.48%) 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%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.57%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.57%) SAP HANA
10 1 (0.57%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 90 (51.14%) Jenkins
2 49 (27.84%) JIRA
3 24 (13.64%) Git
4 22 (12.50%) GitLab
5 14 (7.95%) Gatling
6 13 (7.39%) Maven
7 11 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 10 (5.68%) Selenium
8 10 (5.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 6 (3.41%) Artifactory
9 6 (3.41%) Cucumber
9 6 (3.41%) JMeter
10 5 (2.84%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.84%) Gradle
11 4 (2.27%) JUnit
11 4 (2.27%) LoadRunner
11 4 (2.27%) MSBuild
11 4 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.27%) Snyk
11 4 (2.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 35 (19.89%) Finance
3 18 (10.23%) Public Sector
4 16 (9.09%) Banking
5 14 (7.95%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 46 (26.14%) Developer
2 25 (14.20%) Senior
3 21 (11.93%) Lead
4 19 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.23%) Java Developer
6 16 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.25%) Architect
7 11 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 10 (5.68%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.11%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.55%) .NET Developer
10 8 (4.55%) IAM Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Python Developer
10 8 (4.55%) Test Engineer
11 7 (3.98%) GCP DevOps
11 7 (3.98%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.41%) Lead Test Engineer
13 5 (2.84%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 98 (55.68%) Terraform
2 30 (17.05%) REST
3 27 (15.34%) Kafka
4 18 (10.23%) Playwright
5 16 (9.09%) React
6 15 (8.52%) .NET
7 14 (7.95%) HTML
7 14 (7.95%) Spring
7 14 (7.95%) Spring Boot
8 11 (6.25%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (6.25%) Web Services
9 10 (5.68%) JSON
10 9 (5.11%) OAuth
10 9 (5.11%) RESTful
11 8 (4.55%) JPA
11 8 (4.55%) JWT
12 7 (3.98%) AngularJS
12 7 (3.98%) ASP.NET
12 7 (3.98%) OAuth2
12 7 (3.98%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (19.32%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.95%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.98%) NHS
5 7 (3.98%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.41%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.41%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.27%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.27%) Replication
8 3 (1.70%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.70%) Autonomous Agent
8 3 (1.70%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.14%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
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
1 128 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 107 (60.80%) DevOps
3 79 (44.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 57 (32.39%) Observability
5 51 (28.98%) Agile
6 36 (20.45%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (19.32%) Test Automation
8 30 (17.05%) Microservices
9 26 (14.77%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.50%) Roadmaps
11 21 (11.93%) Containerisation
12 20 (11.36%) API Development
13 19 (10.80%) Cloud Security
13 19 (10.80%) Event-Driven
14 18 (10.23%) RBAC
14 18 (10.23%) SDLC
15 17 (9.66%) Validation
16 16 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
16 16 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
16 16 (9.09%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 92 (52.27%) Python
2 45 (25.57%) Java
3 38 (21.59%) PowerShell
3 38 (21.59%) SQL
4 28 (15.91%) Bash
5 23 (13.07%) JavaScript
6 12 (6.82%) Kotlin
7 11 (6.25%) Scala
8 9 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 8 (4.55%) ActionScript
9 8 (4.55%) C#
10 6 (3.41%) Bicep
10 6 (3.41%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (2.27%) REXX
12 3 (1.70%) Groovy
12 3 (1.70%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.14%) JCL
13 2 (1.14%) PromQL
14 1 (0.57%) ABAP
14 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 37 (21.02%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.84%) Degree
5 4 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.27%) DV Cleared
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 8 (4.55%) QA
3 5 (2.84%) GDPR
3 5 (2.84%) HL7
3 5 (2.84%) WCAG
4 4 (2.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.70%) NIST
6 2 (1.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 44 (25.00%) Docker
2 14 (7.95%) Active Directory
3 7 (3.98%) vSphere
4 6 (3.41%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.84%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.27%) NFS
7 2 (1.14%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.14%) SRDF
7 2 (1.14%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 64 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 40 (22.73%) Ansible
3 25 (14.20%) Grafana
4 16 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 14 (7.95%) Argo
6 9 (5.11%) HAProxy
7 7 (3.98%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.41%) Packer
9 5 (2.84%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.84%) NetBackup
9 5 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.70%) Kustomize
10 3 (1.70%) Puppet
11 2 (1.14%) Consul
11 2 (1.14%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.14%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (1.14%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.14%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (1.14%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 33 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.66%) Google
3 11 (6.25%) IBM
3 11 (6.25%) Splunk
4 10 (5.68%) Red Hat
5 9 (5.11%) Databricks
5 9 (5.11%) F5
6 8 (4.55%) Dynatrace
7 7 (3.98%) Pure Storage
7 7 (3.98%) VMware
8 6 (3.41%) Centrify
8 6 (3.41%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.84%) Brocade
10 4 (2.27%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.27%) Cisco
10 4 (2.27%) Dell
10 4 (2.27%) New Relic
11 3 (1.70%) EMC
11 3 (1.70%) NetApp
11 3 (1.70%) Veritas