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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 63 67
Rank change year-on-year +19 +4 +1
Contract jobs citing GitHub 132 27 37
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.56% 2.70% 2.22%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.69% 7.42% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 24 22
10th Percentile £363 £367 £415
25th Percentile £425 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £529 £628 £597
90th Percentile £563 £693 £625
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 £62.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +126.48% -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 964 364 461
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.61% 36.36% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 669 264 319
10th Percentile £313 £247 £213
25th Percentile £413 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £575
90th Percentile £625 £638 £628
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 8 8
10th Percentile £14.25 £29.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £42.50 £31.69 £14.63
Median hourly rate £56.50 £65.71 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.01% +338.05% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £99.42 £17.31
90th Percentile £71.90 £102.00 £22.00
England median hourly rate £44.31 £26.50 £20.77
% change year-on-year +67.19% +27.59% -25.37%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 66 £488 +8.33% 24
South Yorkshire -10 62 £482 -12.36% 7
North Yorkshire - 3 £463 - 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 26 (19.70%) Confluence
2 6 (4.55%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 57 (43.18%) GitHub Actions
2 55 (41.67%) AWS
3 42 (31.82%) Azure
4 28 (21.21%) GCP
5 22 (16.67%) OpenShift
6 16 (12.12%) Serverless
7 15 (11.36%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (11.36%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (7.58%) Apigee
10 7 (5.30%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.55%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.55%) CloudBees
11 6 (4.55%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.55%) Power Platform
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (3.03%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (18.94%) DNS
2 14 (10.61%) Firewall
3 6 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.55%) VPN
4 3 (2.27%) Internet
4 3 (2.27%) NAS
4 3 (2.27%) SAN
5 2 (1.52%) HTTP
5 2 (1.52%) Network Security
6 1 (0.76%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.91%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.58%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.82%) DynamoDB
4 9 (6.82%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (3.03%) Power BI
7 3 (2.27%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.52%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.52%) MySQL
8 2 (1.52%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.76%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.76%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.76%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.76%) Parquet
9 1 (0.76%) Redis
9 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 99 (75.00%) Jenkins
2 34 (25.76%) JIRA
3 19 (14.39%) GitLab
4 18 (13.64%) Git
5 14 (10.61%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (9.09%) Gatling
7 8 (6.06%) Maven
8 7 (5.30%) Artifactory
9 5 (3.79%) Selenium
10 4 (3.03%) CircleCI
11 3 (2.27%) Postman
11 3 (2.27%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.27%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (1.52%) Cucumber
12 2 (1.52%) MSI
12 2 (1.52%) PyCharm
12 2 (1.52%) SpecFlow
12 2 (1.52%) TestRail
12 2 (1.52%) Zephyr
13 1 (0.76%) Mocha
General
1 40 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.45%) Finance
3 22 (16.67%) Banking
4 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.27%) Law
6 2 (1.52%) Military
7 1 (0.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.76%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (21.21%) Platform Engineer
2 17 (12.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (11.36%) Developer
4 14 (10.61%) Business Analyst
4 14 (10.61%) Senior
5 13 (9.85%) Architect
5 13 (9.85%) Lead
6 12 (9.09%) Analyst
6 12 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
6 12 (9.09%) Technical Business Analyst
7 11 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 11 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
8 7 (5.30%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 5 (3.79%) GCP DevOps
11 4 (3.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) GCP DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.03%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.12%) Playwright
1 16 (12.12%) REST
2 11 (8.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 9 (6.82%) Kafka
4 7 (5.30%) JSON
4 7 (5.30%) Node.js
5 6 (4.55%) OpenAPI
5 6 (4.55%) React
5 6 (4.55%) Swagger
6 5 (3.79%) Spring
6 5 (3.79%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.03%) .NET
7 4 (3.03%) Flask
7 4 (3.03%) XML
8 3 (2.27%) Jest
8 3 (2.27%) Lambda Expressions
8 3 (2.27%) Microsoft Graph
8 3 (2.27%) SOAP
8 3 (2.27%) Spring Cloud
8 3 (2.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.21%) Cloud Native
2 11 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (6.06%) NHS
4 6 (4.55%) Product Ownership
5 5 (3.79%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 4 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.27%) Replication
7 3 (2.27%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.52%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.52%) Clustering
8 2 (1.52%) CMDB
8 2 (1.52%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.52%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.52%) Online Banking
9 1 (0.76%) EMC VMAX
9 1 (0.76%) EMC VNX
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.12%) Linux
2 7 (5.30%) Windows
3 5 (3.79%) Unix
4 3 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.76%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (80.30%) CI/CD
2 101 (76.52%) DevOps
3 58 (43.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (26.52%) Migration
5 34 (25.76%) Containerisation
5 34 (25.76%) Observability
5 34 (25.76%) Platform Engineering
6 30 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 21 (15.91%) Agile
8 21 (15.91%) High Availability
9 19 (14.39%) Load Balancing
10 18 (13.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (13.64%) Software Engineering
11 16 (12.12%) Software Delivery
12 14 (10.61%) RBAC
12 14 (10.61%) Task Automation
13 13 (9.85%) Performance Optimisation
13 13 (9.85%) Process Improvement
13 13 (9.85%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 93 (70.45%) Python
2 38 (28.79%) Bash
3 23 (17.42%) Java
4 15 (11.36%) PowerShell
5 11 (8.33%) SQL
6 9 (6.82%) Scala
6 9 (6.82%) TypeScript
7 7 (5.30%) C#
7 7 (5.30%) JavaScript
8 6 (4.55%) Groovy
9 4 (3.03%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.27%) Go
10 3 (2.27%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.52%) Bicep
11 2 (1.52%) XPath
12 1 (0.76%) C
12 1 (0.76%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 33 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.21%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.03%) Degree
4 4 (3.03%) OCP
4 4 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.52%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.76%) CISM
6 1 (0.76%) CISSP
6 1 (0.76%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.76%) NCDA
6 1 (0.76%) NCIE
6 1 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (0.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.79%) SLA
2 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.76%) QA
System Software
1 37 (28.03%) Docker
2 16 (12.12%) vSphere
3 15 (11.36%) VMware NSX
4 10 (7.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (0.76%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.76%) NFS
6 1 (0.76%) SRDF
6 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 79 (59.85%) Terraform
2 60 (45.45%) Kubernetes
3 57 (43.18%) Ansible
4 27 (20.45%) Grafana
5 17 (12.88%) Argo
6 16 (12.12%) vCenter Server
7 9 (6.82%) HAProxy
8 8 (6.06%) Istio
8 8 (6.06%) Prometheus
9 7 (5.30%) NetBackup
9 7 (5.30%) Puppet
9 7 (5.30%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (3.79%) Packer
11 1 (0.76%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.76%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.76%) Kibana
11 1 (0.76%) logstash
11 1 (0.76%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.76%) SnapMirror
11 1 (0.76%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 30 (22.73%) Splunk
2 21 (15.91%) Microsoft
3 19 (14.39%) Red Hat
4 16 (12.12%) Pure Storage
4 16 (12.12%) VMware
5 14 (10.61%) Google
6 13 (9.85%) Sonatype
7 6 (4.55%) Veritas
8 5 (3.79%) Commvault
8 5 (3.79%) Databricks
8 5 (3.79%) Oracle
9 4 (3.03%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.27%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.27%) Brocade
10 3 (2.27%) Cisco
10 3 (2.27%) EMC
10 3 (2.27%) NetApp
10 3 (2.27%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.52%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.52%) Salesforce