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

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 53 48
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 152 36 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.87% 3.40% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.12% 9.76% 11.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 28 36
10th Percentile £365 £377 £411
25th Percentile £413 £461 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £520 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -6.77% +6.19%
75th Percentile £529 £614 £625
90th Percentile £568 £683 £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% +27.27%

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 1,005 369 472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.82% 34.88% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 260 332
10th Percentile £325 £257 £258
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £560 £538 £588
90th Percentile £650 £626 £644
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 4 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £27.82 £13.43
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £17.31
90th Percentile £69.80 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +54.90% +19.33% -37.15%

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 24 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 24 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
West Yorkshire +26 75 £476 +8.80% 34
South Yorkshire -14 75 £493 -7.92% 14
North Yorkshire -6 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 29 (19.08%) Confluence
2 9 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.32%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.66%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.66%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 62 (40.79%) AWS
2 59 (38.82%) GitHub Actions
3 44 (28.95%) Azure
4 41 (26.97%) GCP
5 22 (14.47%) OpenShift
6 15 (9.87%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 13 (8.55%) Azure DevOps
7 13 (8.55%) Serverless
8 12 (7.89%) Apigee
9 11 (7.24%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
11 8 (5.26%) Power Platform
12 7 (4.61%) Amazon SQS
12 7 (4.61%) Entra ID
12 7 (4.61%) PowerApps
13 6 (3.95%) Cloud Run
13 6 (3.95%) CloudBees
13 6 (3.95%) Kong
13 6 (3.95%) Power Automate
14 5 (3.29%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (15.79%) DNS
2 13 (8.55%) Firewall
3 6 (3.95%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.95%) VPN
4 3 (1.97%) NAS
4 3 (1.97%) SAN
5 2 (1.32%) BIG-IP
5 2 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 2 (1.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.32%) Network Security
5 2 (1.32%) SSL
6 1 (0.66%) HTTP
6 1 (0.66%) Internet
6 1 (0.66%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (11.84%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (10.53%) MongoDB
3 15 (9.87%) SQL Server
4 10 (6.58%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.29%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.63%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.63%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.63%) Redis
7 3 (1.97%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.97%) Parquet
8 2 (1.32%) Power BI
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.66%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.66%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 105 (69.08%) Jenkins
2 40 (26.32%) JIRA
3 27 (17.76%) GitLab
4 21 (13.82%) Git
5 16 (10.53%) Gatling
6 11 (7.24%) Maven
7 10 (6.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.92%) Selenium
9 7 (4.61%) Bitbucket
9 7 (4.61%) REST Assured
9 7 (4.61%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (3.95%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.63%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.63%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.63%) Gradle
11 4 (2.63%) JUnit
11 4 (2.63%) Snyk
12 2 (1.32%) git-flow
12 2 (1.32%) Liquibase
12 2 (1.32%) Terragrunt
General
1 50 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 32 (21.05%) Finance
3 24 (15.79%) Banking
4 13 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.61%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Law
7 2 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.32%) Military
8 1 (0.66%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.66%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (21.05%) Developer
2 19 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
2 19 (12.50%) Senior
3 18 (11.84%) DevOps Engineer
4 17 (11.18%) Architect
4 17 (11.18%) Lead
5 14 (9.21%) Java Developer
6 12 (7.89%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (6.58%) Business Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) Analyst
8 8 (5.26%) Senior Developer
8 8 (5.26%) Technical Business Analyst
9 7 (4.61%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) GCP DevOps
9 7 (4.61%) Lead Test Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (4.61%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (4.61%) Test Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
10 6 (3.95%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (11.84%) Playwright
1 18 (11.84%) REST
2 16 (10.53%) Kafka
2 16 (10.53%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (7.89%) Spring
3 12 (7.89%) Spring Boot
4 8 (5.26%) HTML
4 8 (5.26%) JSON
5 7 (4.61%) OAuth
5 7 (4.61%) OpenAPI
5 7 (4.61%) React
5 7 (4.61%) Spring Cloud
5 7 (4.61%) Swagger
6 6 (3.95%) JPA
6 6 (3.95%) JWT
6 6 (3.95%) OAuth2
6 6 (3.95%) YAML
7 5 (3.29%) Flask
7 5 (3.29%) RESTful
8 4 (2.63%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (17.76%) Cloud Native
2 11 (7.24%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (3.95%) Data Centre
3 6 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.29%) NHS
4 5 (3.29%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.97%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.97%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.97%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.97%) Replication
6 2 (1.32%) CMDB
6 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.66%) EMC VNX
7 1 (0.66%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.66%) Life Science
7 1 (0.66%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.66%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.18%) Linux
2 12 (7.89%) Windows
3 5 (3.29%) Unix
4 4 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.32%) AIX
5 2 (1.32%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.66%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.66%) MVS
6 1 (0.66%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.66%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (80.92%) CI/CD
2 104 (68.42%) DevOps
3 59 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 43 (28.29%) Observability
5 33 (21.71%) Containerisation
5 33 (21.71%) Migration
6 29 (19.08%) Agile
6 29 (19.08%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (17.11%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (16.45%) Test Automation
9 21 (13.82%) High Availability
10 20 (13.16%) Microservices
11 18 (11.84%) Software Engineering
12 17 (11.18%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (10.53%) Software Delivery
13 16 (10.53%) Task Automation
14 15 (9.87%) Load Balancing
15 14 (9.21%) Performance Optimisation
15 14 (9.21%) RBAC
16 13 (8.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 89 (58.55%) Python
2 40 (26.32%) Bash
3 37 (24.34%) Java
4 25 (16.45%) PowerShell
5 24 (15.79%) SQL
6 12 (7.89%) JavaScript
7 11 (7.24%) Scala
8 8 (5.26%) Kotlin
9 7 (4.61%) TypeScript
10 6 (3.95%) Groovy
11 5 (3.29%) Shell Script
12 4 (2.63%) C#
12 4 (2.63%) Go
13 3 (1.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (1.32%) ActionScript
14 2 (1.32%) PromQL
14 2 (1.32%) REXX
15 1 (0.66%) Bicep
15 1 (0.66%) C
15 1 (0.66%) JCL
Qualifications
1 28 (18.42%) Security Cleared
2 20 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.63%) Degree
4 4 (2.63%) OCP
4 4 (2.63%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.66%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.66%) CISM
6 1 (0.66%) CISSP
6 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.66%) NCDA
6 1 (0.66%) NCIE
6 1 (0.66%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.29%) SLA
3 4 (2.63%) QA
4 1 (0.66%) HL7
System Software
1 41 (26.97%) Docker
2 16 (10.53%) vSphere
3 15 (9.87%) VMware NSX
4 10 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (2.63%) Active Directory
5 4 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (1.97%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.32%) NFS
8 1 (0.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.66%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.66%) SRDF
8 1 (0.66%) Time Sharing Option
8 1 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (55.26%) Terraform
2 65 (42.76%) Kubernetes
3 59 (38.82%) Ansible
4 32 (21.05%) Grafana
5 20 (13.16%) Argo
6 16 (10.53%) Prometheus
6 16 (10.53%) vCenter Server
7 9 (5.92%) HAProxy
8 7 (4.61%) Istio
8 7 (4.61%) NetBackup
8 7 (4.61%) Puppet
9 4 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.32%) Consul
10 2 (1.32%) Packer
10 2 (1.32%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.66%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.66%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 27 (17.76%) Splunk
2 22 (14.47%) Google
3 19 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 19 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 16 (10.53%) Pure Storage
4 16 (10.53%) VMware
5 10 (6.58%) Sonatype
6 7 (4.61%) Databricks
7 6 (3.95%) Veritas
8 5 (3.29%) Commvault
8 5 (3.29%) Oracle
9 4 (2.63%) Brocade
10 3 (1.97%) AppDynamics
10 3 (1.97%) Cisco
10 3 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.97%) EMC
10 3 (1.97%) F5
10 3 (1.97%) IBM
10 3 (1.97%) NetApp
10 3 (1.97%) ServiceNow