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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 51 73
Rank change year-on-year -3 +22 +6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 90 33 36
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.63% 3.31% 2.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.06% 8.92% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 27 26
10th Percentile £284 £383 £415
25th Percentile £422 £406 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £526 £600 £641
90th Percentile £539 £650 £731
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.18% -3.41% -8.33%

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 814 370 558
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 41.85% 37.11% 31.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 249 418
10th Percentile £251 £274 £250
25th Percentile £400 £405 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £568 £600
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 3
10th Percentile £14.25 £20.67 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £26.25 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £41.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.93% +173.33% -40.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £99.32 £38.50
90th Percentile £72.13 £102.00 £52.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.46 £23.22
% change year-on-year +5.43% +22.57% +0.28%

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 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Yorkshire

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 22 January 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 -22 48 £463 -24.49% 23
West Yorkshire -5 37 £500 +13.64% 47
North Yorkshire - 4 £419 - 9
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 11
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 18 (20.00%) Confluence
2 5 (5.56%) Mule
3 2 (2.22%) CICS
3 2 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.22%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.22%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (8.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.56%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 35 (38.89%) GitHub Actions
2 34 (37.78%) AWS
3 33 (36.67%) GCP
4 32 (35.56%) Azure
5 15 (16.67%) Serverless
6 14 (15.56%) AWS Lambda
7 12 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (11.11%) Amazon S3
9 9 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 6 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
10 6 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (4.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.44%) Cohesity
12 4 (4.44%) Route 53
13 3 (3.33%) Amazon EventBridge
13 3 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (3.33%) AWS KMS
13 3 (3.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.22%) Firewall
2 10 (11.11%) DNS
3 6 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.44%) Internet
5 2 (2.22%) HTTP
5 2 (2.22%) Network Security
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.11%) FCoE
6 1 (1.11%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.11%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.11%) LAN
6 1 (1.11%) Multicast
6 1 (1.11%) NAS
6 1 (1.11%) SAN
6 1 (1.11%) VPN
6 1 (1.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (23.33%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (14.44%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.89%) DynamoDB
3 8 (8.89%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.78%) MySQL
5 6 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.67%) RDBMS
6 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.22%) Power BI
7 2 (2.22%) SQL Server
8 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 64 (71.11%) Jenkins
2 34 (37.78%) JIRA
3 19 (21.11%) Sonatype Nexus
4 17 (18.89%) Git
5 13 (14.44%) GitLab
6 9 (10.00%) CircleCI
7 6 (6.67%) PyCharm
8 3 (3.33%) Postman
9 2 (2.22%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.22%) git-flow
9 2 (2.22%) MSI
9 2 (2.22%) Selenium
9 2 (2.22%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.22%) TestRail
9 2 (2.22%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.11%) Gradle
10 1 (1.11%) Maven
10 1 (1.11%) Mocha
General
1 36 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.00%) Banking
3 17 (18.89%) Finance
4 14 (15.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Law
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.11%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (18.89%) AWS Engineer
2 15 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 12 (13.33%) Technical Business Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) Technical Analyst
5 10 (11.11%) Developer
5 10 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (11.11%) Senior
6 9 (10.00%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps
8 7 (7.78%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 6 (6.67%) Architect
9 6 (6.67%) Lead
9 6 (6.67%) Service Manager
10 5 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (4.44%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.22%) REST
2 10 (11.11%) Node.js
3 8 (8.89%) React
4 7 (7.78%) .NET
5 6 (6.67%) NumPy
5 6 (6.67%) Pandas
5 6 (6.67%) TensorFlow
6 4 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (3.33%) JSON
7 3 (3.33%) Kafka
7 3 (3.33%) Lambda Expressions
7 3 (3.33%) Next.js
7 3 (3.33%) OpenTelemetry
7 3 (3.33%) Playwright
7 3 (3.33%) XML
8 2 (2.22%) LDAP
8 2 (2.22%) Middleware
8 2 (2.22%) OAuth
8 2 (2.22%) RESTful
8 2 (2.22%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Cloud Native
2 11 (12.22%) NHS
3 9 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (6.67%) Clustering
4 6 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 5 (5.56%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.56%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.44%) Online Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.33%) Security Posture
8 2 (2.22%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.22%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.22%) Replication
9 1 (1.11%) Data Structures
9 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (1.11%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 19 (21.11%) Linux
2 8 (8.89%) Windows
3 5 (5.56%) Unix
4 3 (3.33%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (2.22%) Solaris
5 2 (2.22%) zOS
6 1 (1.11%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (80.00%) DevOps
2 66 (73.33%) CI/CD
3 40 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (24.44%) Agile
5 21 (23.33%) Observability
6 16 (17.78%) Software Engineering
7 15 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (15.56%) Microservices
8 14 (15.56%) Migration
9 13 (14.44%) Containerisation
9 13 (14.44%) Data Protection
9 13 (14.44%) Test Automation
10 12 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
11 11 (12.22%) Process Improvement
12 10 (11.11%) AI
12 10 (11.11%) DevSecOps
12 10 (11.11%) Scrum
12 10 (11.11%) Software Delivery
13 9 (10.00%) Cloud Security
14 8 (8.89%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.22%) Python
2 22 (24.44%) Bash
3 17 (18.89%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) SQL
5 9 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 7 (7.78%) Shell Script
8 6 (6.67%) PowerShell
9 5 (5.56%) C#
10 4 (4.44%) Go
10 4 (4.44%) Groovy
11 2 (2.22%) Bicep
11 2 (2.22%) XPath
12 1 (1.11%) C++
12 1 (1.11%) PHP
12 1 (1.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.67%) Degree
4 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) SLA
3 2 (2.22%) GRC
System Software
1 26 (28.89%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.22%) KVM
3 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) NFS
4 1 (1.11%) SRDF
4 1 (1.11%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.11%) vSphere
4 1 (1.11%) Xen
Systems Management
1 44 (48.89%) Terraform
2 36 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 32 (35.56%) Ansible
4 19 (21.11%) Grafana
5 10 (11.11%) Prometheus
6 7 (7.78%) Puppet
7 6 (6.67%) Istio
8 4 (4.44%) NetBackup
9 3 (3.33%) Packer
9 3 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.22%) Progress Chef
11 1 (1.11%) Argo
11 1 (1.11%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (1.11%) Kibana
11 1 (1.11%) logstash
11 1 (1.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (17.78%) Google
2 14 (15.56%) Splunk
3 11 (12.22%) Sonatype
4 10 (11.11%) Microsoft
5 7 (7.78%) Oracle
6 6 (6.67%) Red Hat
7 4 (4.44%) AppDynamics
7 4 (4.44%) Commvault
7 4 (4.44%) VMware
8 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
9 2 (2.22%) Cisco
9 2 (2.22%) Cribl.io
9 2 (2.22%) EMC
9 2 (2.22%) F5
9 2 (2.22%) NetApp
9 2 (2.22%) OpenAI
9 2 (2.22%) Pure Storage
9 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.11%) Dynatrace
10 1 (1.11%) IBM