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

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 59 58
Rank change year-on-year +19 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 131 22 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.75% 2.34% 2.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.75% 6.49% 8.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 19 24
10th Percentile £354 £379 £415
25th Percentile £427 £433 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £526 £618 £625
90th Percentile £559 £655 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -40.91%

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 953 339 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.85% 36.06% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 241 330
10th Percentile £304 £263 £229
25th Percentile £404 £363 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £548 £563 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 7
10th Percentile £14.25 £24.86 £13.40
25th Percentile £31.86 £27.56 £14.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £37.06 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.48% +147.03% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.08 £15.38
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £34.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £27.19 £21.00
% change year-on-year +47.13% +29.46% -18.32%

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 29 March 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 29 March 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
South Yorkshire -8 70 £487 -15.26% 13
West Yorkshire +20 58 £500 +13.64% 42
North Yorkshire - 3 £463 - 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 30 (22.90%) Confluence
2 6 (4.58%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (9.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.58%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 45 (34.35%) AWS
2 44 (33.59%) GitHub Actions
3 38 (29.01%) Azure
4 29 (22.14%) GCP
5 20 (15.27%) OpenShift
6 16 (12.21%) Serverless
7 15 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (11.45%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.87%) Apigee
10 7 (5.34%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.58%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.58%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.58%) CloudBees
11 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.82%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 25 (19.08%) DNS
2 14 (10.69%) Firewall
3 6 (4.58%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.58%) VPN
4 4 (3.05%) Internet
5 2 (1.53%) HTTP
5 2 (1.53%) Network Security
6 1 (0.76%) NAS
6 1 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.27%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.92%) Relational Database
3 8 (6.11%) DynamoDB
3 8 (6.11%) MongoDB
4 7 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (5.34%) SQL Server
5 6 (4.58%) MySQL
5 6 (4.58%) NoSQL
5 6 (4.58%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.05%) Power BI
7 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.76%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.76%) Parquet
8 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 101 (77.10%) Jenkins
2 40 (30.53%) JIRA
3 19 (14.50%) GitLab
4 18 (13.74%) Sonatype Nexus
5 17 (12.98%) Git
6 7 (5.34%) Gatling
7 6 (4.58%) PyCharm
8 5 (3.82%) Maven
8 5 (3.82%) Selenium
9 4 (3.05%) Artifactory
9 4 (3.05%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.29%) Postman
10 3 (2.29%) REST Assured
10 3 (2.29%) Serenity BDD
11 2 (1.53%) Bitbucket
11 2 (1.53%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.53%) MSI
11 2 (1.53%) SpecFlow
11 2 (1.53%) TestRail
11 2 (1.53%) Zephyr
General
1 44 (33.59%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.14%) Banking
2 29 (22.14%) Finance
3 12 (9.16%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.29%) Law
5 2 (1.53%) Military
6 1 (0.76%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (16.79%) Platform Engineer
2 18 (13.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (12.98%) Business Analyst
4 15 (11.45%) Analyst
4 15 (11.45%) Technical Business Analyst
5 14 (10.69%) Architect
5 14 (10.69%) Senior
5 14 (10.69%) Technical Analyst
6 13 (9.92%) Lead
7 12 (9.16%) GCP Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 10 (7.63%) Developer
10 9 (6.87%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.34%) AWS Platform Engineer
12 6 (4.58%) Python Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) GCP DevOps
13 5 (3.82%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.50%) REST
2 12 (9.16%) OpenTelemetry
3 11 (8.40%) Playwright
4 8 (6.11%) Kafka
5 7 (5.34%) JSON
6 6 (4.58%) Node.js
6 6 (4.58%) NumPy
6 6 (4.58%) OpenAPI
6 6 (4.58%) Pandas
6 6 (4.58%) React
6 6 (4.58%) Swagger
6 6 (4.58%) TensorFlow
7 5 (3.82%) Flask
8 4 (3.05%) .NET
8 4 (3.05%) Jest
8 4 (3.05%) RESTful
8 4 (3.05%) Spring
8 4 (3.05%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.05%) Web Services
8 4 (3.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.03%) Cloud Native
2 12 (9.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (5.34%) NHS
3 7 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.82%) Algorithms
5 4 (3.05%) Clustering
5 4 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.05%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.05%) Online Banking
5 4 (3.05%) Public Cloud
6 3 (2.29%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.76%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.76%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.50%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) Windows
3 5 (3.82%) Unix
4 3 (2.29%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (80.15%) DevOps
2 101 (77.10%) CI/CD
3 50 (38.17%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (26.72%) Migration
5 32 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (22.90%) Containerisation
7 28 (21.37%) Observability
8 26 (19.85%) Platform Engineering
8 26 (19.85%) Test Automation
9 24 (18.32%) Agile
10 19 (14.50%) Load Balancing
11 17 (12.98%) Data Protection
12 16 (12.21%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (12.21%) High Availability
12 16 (12.21%) Process Improvement
13 15 (11.45%) Software Delivery
14 14 (10.69%) Software Engineering
14 14 (10.69%) Task Automation
15 13 (9.92%) AI
15 13 (9.92%) Data Extraction
Programming Languages
1 92 (70.23%) Python
2 43 (32.82%) Bash
3 18 (13.74%) Java
4 14 (10.69%) PowerShell
5 12 (9.16%) SQL
6 8 (6.11%) C#
6 8 (6.11%) Groovy
6 8 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.34%) JavaScript
8 4 (3.05%) Scala
8 4 (3.05%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.29%) Go
9 3 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (1.53%) XPath
11 1 (0.76%) Bicep
11 1 (0.76%) C
11 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 28 (21.37%) Security Cleared
2 22 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.58%) Degree
4 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.29%) OCP
4 3 (2.29%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (0.76%) CISM
5 1 (0.76%) CISSP
5 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.82%) SLA
2 3 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.53%) GRC
4 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 34 (25.95%) Docker
2 15 (11.45%) VMware NSX
2 15 (11.45%) vSphere
3 9 (6.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 70 (53.44%) Terraform
2 63 (48.09%) Ansible
3 55 (41.98%) Kubernetes
4 26 (19.85%) Grafana
5 15 (11.45%) Argo
5 15 (11.45%) vCenter Server
6 12 (9.16%) Puppet
7 10 (7.63%) NetBackup
8 8 (6.11%) Istio
9 7 (5.34%) Prometheus
10 5 (3.82%) Packer
11 4 (3.05%) HAProxy
12 3 (2.29%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (1.53%) Progress Chef
14 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.76%) Kibana
14 1 (0.76%) logstash
Vendors
1 32 (24.43%) Splunk
2 23 (17.56%) Red Hat
3 17 (12.98%) Microsoft
4 16 (12.21%) Google
4 16 (12.21%) Sonatype
5 15 (11.45%) Pure Storage
5 15 (11.45%) VMware
6 9 (6.87%) Commvault
7 6 (4.58%) Veritas
8 5 (3.82%) Oracle
9 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
9 4 (3.05%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.29%) Databricks
10 3 (2.29%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.53%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.53%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
12 1 (0.76%) BiZZdesign
12 1 (0.76%) CheckPoint
12 1 (0.76%) NetApp