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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 58 54
Rank change year-on-year +16 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 137 32 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.51% 3.09% 3.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.21% 8.67% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 28 36
10th Percentile £364 £377 £411
25th Percentile £413 £455 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £520 £558
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% -6.77% +3.72%
75th Percentile £529 £614 £625
90th Percentile £569 £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 £27.38 £70.00
% change year-on-year +130.63% -60.89% +28.44%

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 964 369 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.78% 35.65% 28.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 257 329
10th Percentile £320 £251 £250
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +3.05% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £560 £550 £588
90th Percentile £650 £630 £639
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 6 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £28.86 £13.43
25th Percentile £27.88 £31.54 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £62.40 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.46% +316.00% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £101.14 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.38 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.50 £21.00
% change year-on-year +67.39% +21.43% -35.19%

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 15 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 15 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
South Yorkshire -18 68 £487 -8.90% 16
West Yorkshire +34 67 £475 +8.57% 42
North Yorkshire - 1 £550 - 4
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 (21.90%) Confluence
2 7 (5.11%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (6.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (5.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 55 (40.15%) AWS
1 55 (40.15%) GitHub Actions
2 41 (29.93%) Azure
3 38 (27.74%) GCP
4 22 (16.06%) OpenShift
5 15 (10.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 13 (9.49%) Apigee
6 13 (9.49%) Serverless
7 11 (8.03%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
8 7 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
8 7 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (5.11%) Power Platform
9 6 (4.38%) Cloud Run
9 6 (4.38%) CloudBees
9 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
10 5 (3.65%) BrowserStack
10 5 (3.65%) Kong
10 5 (3.65%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.92%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (16.06%) DNS
2 11 (8.03%) Firewall
3 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.38%) VPN
4 3 (2.19%) NAS
4 3 (2.19%) SAN
5 2 (1.46%) Network Security
6 1 (0.73%) HTTP
6 1 (0.73%) Internet
6 1 (0.73%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.68%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (10.95%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.22%) MongoDB
4 10 (7.30%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.65%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.92%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.92%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.92%) Redis
7 3 (2.19%) Power BI
8 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.73%) Parquet
8 1 (0.73%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (71.53%) Jenkins
2 36 (26.28%) JIRA
3 23 (16.79%) GitLab
4 19 (13.87%) Git
5 16 (11.68%) Gatling
6 12 (8.76%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (8.03%) Maven
8 7 (5.11%) Artifactory
8 7 (5.11%) Selenium
9 5 (3.65%) REST Assured
9 5 (3.65%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.92%) Bitbucket
10 4 (2.92%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.92%) Gradle
10 4 (2.92%) Snyk
11 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.46%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.46%) JMeter
11 2 (1.46%) JUnit
11 2 (1.46%) TestNG
General
1 48 (35.04%) Social Skills
2 29 (21.17%) Finance
3 21 (15.33%) Banking
4 10 (7.30%) Public Sector
5 7 (5.11%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.19%) Law
7 2 (1.46%) Military
8 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (18.25%) Developer
2 20 (14.60%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (12.41%) Senior
4 16 (11.68%) Architect
5 13 (9.49%) Lead
6 12 (8.76%) Business Analyst
6 12 (8.76%) GCP Engineer
7 10 (7.30%) Analyst
7 10 (7.30%) Technical Business Analyst
8 9 (6.57%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.57%) Technical Analyst
9 7 (5.11%) Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) GCP DevOps
10 6 (4.38%) Senior Developer
10 6 (4.38%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (3.65%) Lead Test Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Test Engineer
12 4 (2.92%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (11.68%) Playwright
1 16 (11.68%) REST
2 14 (10.22%) Kafka
2 14 (10.22%) OpenTelemetry
3 10 (7.30%) Spring
3 10 (7.30%) Spring Boot
4 6 (4.38%) OpenAPI
4 6 (4.38%) React
4 6 (4.38%) Swagger
5 5 (3.65%) Flask
5 5 (3.65%) HTML
5 5 (3.65%) JSON
5 5 (3.65%) Node.js
5 5 (3.65%) Spring Cloud
5 5 (3.65%) YAML
6 4 (2.92%) Apache Avro
6 4 (2.92%) JPA
6 4 (2.92%) OAuth
6 4 (2.92%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (2.92%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 27 (19.71%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (4.38%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.65%) NHS
4 5 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.19%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.19%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.19%) Replication
7 2 (1.46%) CMDB
7 2 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.73%) Data Fabric
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.73%) Life Science
8 1 (0.73%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.68%) Linux
2 9 (6.57%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.46%) AIX
5 2 (1.46%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.73%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (0.73%) MVS
6 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.73%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (82.48%) CI/CD
2 97 (70.80%) DevOps
3 55 (40.15%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (27.74%) Observability
5 33 (24.09%) Containerisation
6 32 (23.36%) Migration
7 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (18.98%) Platform Engineering
9 25 (18.25%) Agile
10 23 (16.79%) Test Automation
11 21 (15.33%) High Availability
12 18 (13.14%) Software Engineering
13 17 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (11.68%) Load Balancing
14 16 (11.68%) Microservices
14 16 (11.68%) Software Delivery
14 16 (11.68%) Task Automation
15 14 (10.22%) RBAC
16 13 (9.49%) Performance Optimisation
16 13 (9.49%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 84 (61.31%) Python
2 39 (28.47%) Bash
3 29 (21.17%) Java
4 21 (15.33%) PowerShell
5 18 (13.14%) SQL
6 10 (7.30%) Scala
7 9 (6.57%) JavaScript
8 7 (5.11%) TypeScript
9 6 (4.38%) Groovy
10 5 (3.65%) C#
10 5 (3.65%) Kotlin
11 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.19%) Go
12 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (1.46%) Bicep
13 2 (1.46%) REXX
14 1 (0.73%) C
14 1 (0.73%) JCL
Qualifications
1 26 (18.98%) Security Cleared
2 20 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.92%) OCP
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.46%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.46%) Degree
6 1 (0.73%) CISM
6 1 (0.73%) CISSP
6 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.73%) NCDA
6 1 (0.73%) NCIE
6 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.84%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.65%) SLA
3 4 (2.92%) QA
4 1 (0.73%) HL7
System Software
1 38 (27.74%) Docker
2 16 (11.68%) vSphere
3 15 (10.95%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.19%) Active Directory
5 3 (2.19%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.46%) NFS
6 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.73%) SRDF
7 1 (0.73%) Time Sharing Option
7 1 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (57.66%) Terraform
2 63 (45.99%) Kubernetes
3 57 (41.61%) Ansible
4 29 (21.17%) Grafana
5 20 (14.60%) Argo
6 16 (11.68%) vCenter Server
7 13 (9.49%) Prometheus
8 9 (6.57%) HAProxy
9 8 (5.84%) Istio
10 7 (5.11%) NetBackup
10 7 (5.11%) Puppet
11 4 (2.92%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (2.19%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (1.46%) Packer
14 1 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
14 1 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
14 1 (0.73%) Kibana
14 1 (0.73%) logstash
14 1 (0.73%) SnapMirror
Vendors
1 27 (19.71%) Splunk
2 19 (13.87%) Google
2 19 (13.87%) Red Hat
3 18 (13.14%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.68%) Pure Storage
4 16 (11.68%) VMware
5 11 (8.03%) Sonatype
6 6 (4.38%) Veritas
7 5 (3.65%) Commvault
7 5 (3.65%) Databricks
7 5 (3.65%) Oracle
8 4 (2.92%) Brocade
8 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
9 3 (2.19%) AppDynamics
9 3 (2.19%) Cisco
9 3 (2.19%) EMC
9 3 (2.19%) IBM
9 3 (2.19%) NetApp
9 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
10 2 (1.46%) Broadcom