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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 57 64
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 169 40 48
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.21% 3.40% 2.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.31% 9.69% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 31 32
10th Percentile £366 £360 £400
25th Percentile £424 £459 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% -8.62% +5.81%
75th Percentile £538 £605 £625
90th Percentile £575 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -12.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £66.57 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +142.06% -60.71% +3.70%

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 1,036 413 520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.06% 35.12% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 282 362
10th Percentile £320 £258 £251
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £680 £638 £645
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 4 9
10th Percentile £18.13 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
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 £21.50
90th Percentile £71.38 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +57.50% +16.65% -36.10%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +33 90 £475 -2.56% 21
South Yorkshire -4 77 £500 -3.80% 6
North Yorkshire -8 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 (17.16%) Confluence
2 10 (5.92%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.18%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.59%) nginx
Applications
1 8 (4.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 69 (40.83%) GitHub Actions
2 59 (34.91%) AWS
3 46 (27.22%) Azure
4 41 (24.26%) GCP
5 21 (12.43%) OpenShift
6 20 (11.83%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (8.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 12 (7.10%) Apigee
9 11 (6.51%) Serverless
10 10 (5.92%) IaaS
10 10 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (5.33%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.73%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (4.73%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.73%) PowerApps
13 7 (4.14%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (4.14%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.55%) Amazon S3
14 6 (3.55%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.38%) DNS
2 15 (8.88%) Firewall
3 8 (4.73%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (4.14%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.96%) VLAN
5 5 (2.96%) VPN
6 4 (2.37%) NAS
6 4 (2.37%) SAN
7 3 (1.78%) SSL
8 2 (1.18%) Network Security
8 2 (1.18%) VSAN
9 1 (0.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.06%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.88%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.69%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.92%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.96%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (2.37%) DynamoDB
6 4 (2.37%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.37%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.37%) Redis
7 3 (1.78%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.78%) Parquet
8 2 (1.18%) Power BI
9 1 (0.59%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.59%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.59%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.59%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.59%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 110 (65.09%) Jenkins
2 44 (26.04%) JIRA
3 23 (13.61%) GitLab
4 17 (10.06%) Git
5 16 (9.47%) Gatling
6 11 (6.51%) Maven
7 9 (5.33%) Selenium
7 9 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (4.14%) Bitbucket
8 7 (4.14%) REST Assured
8 7 (4.14%) Serenity BDD
9 6 (3.55%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.37%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.37%) Gradle
10 4 (2.37%) JUnit
10 4 (2.37%) Snyk
11 2 (1.18%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.18%) JMeter
11 2 (1.18%) Mockito
11 2 (1.18%) TestNG
General
1 51 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 30 (17.75%) Finance
3 22 (13.02%) Banking
4 15 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.14%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.18%) Law
6 2 (1.18%) Military
7 1 (0.59%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (19.53%) Developer
2 24 (14.20%) Senior
3 20 (11.83%) Platform Engineer
4 19 (11.24%) Architect
5 18 (10.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (9.47%) Lead
7 14 (8.28%) Java Developer
8 12 (7.10%) GCP Engineer
9 10 (5.92%) Network Engineer
10 9 (5.33%) Business Analyst
10 9 (5.33%) GCP DevOps
11 8 (4.73%) Senior Developer
11 8 (4.73%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (4.14%) Analyst
12 7 (4.14%) Lead Test Engineer
12 7 (4.14%) Technical Business Analyst
12 7 (4.14%) Test Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Senior Java Developer
13 6 (3.55%) Software Engineer
13 6 (3.55%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (11.83%) REST
2 18 (10.65%) Playwright
3 16 (9.47%) OpenTelemetry
4 13 (7.69%) Kafka
5 12 (7.10%) Spring
5 12 (7.10%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.73%) HTML
7 7 (4.14%) JSON
7 7 (4.14%) OAuth
7 7 (4.14%) OpenAPI
7 7 (4.14%) React
7 7 (4.14%) Spring Cloud
7 7 (4.14%) Swagger
7 7 (4.14%) YAML
8 6 (3.55%) JPA
8 6 (3.55%) JWT
8 6 (3.55%) OAuth2
9 5 (2.96%) Flask
9 5 (2.96%) RESTful
10 4 (2.37%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 37 (21.89%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.88%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.51%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.14%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.14%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.96%) NHS
5 5 (2.96%) Replication
6 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.78%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.78%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (1.78%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.18%) CMDB
8 2 (1.18%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.18%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (1.18%) EMC VNX
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Cloud
8 2 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.65%) Linux
2 13 (7.69%) Windows
3 5 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.78%) Unix
5 2 (1.18%) AIX
5 2 (1.18%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.18%) MVS
5 2 (1.18%) zOS
6 1 (0.59%) Solaris
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (80.47%) CI/CD
2 114 (67.46%) DevOps
3 64 (37.87%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (29.59%) Observability
5 38 (22.49%) Agile
6 33 (19.53%) Migration
7 29 (17.16%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (16.57%) Containerisation
9 26 (15.38%) Test Automation
10 25 (14.79%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (13.02%) High Availability
12 21 (12.43%) Microservices
12 21 (12.43%) Software Engineering
13 20 (11.83%) Cloud Security
14 19 (11.24%) Roadmaps
15 17 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 17 (10.06%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
16 16 (9.47%) Software Delivery
16 16 (9.47%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 99 (58.58%) Python
2 40 (23.67%) Bash
3 34 (20.12%) Java
4 29 (17.16%) PowerShell
5 24 (14.20%) SQL
6 11 (6.51%) Scala
7 10 (5.92%) JavaScript
8 8 (4.73%) ActionScript
8 8 (4.73%) Kotlin
9 5 (2.96%) TypeScript
10 4 (2.37%) C#
10 4 (2.37%) Groovy
10 4 (2.37%) REXX
11 3 (1.78%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (1.78%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.18%) JCL
12 2 (1.18%) PromQL
13 1 (0.59%) C
13 1 (0.59%) Perl
13 1 (0.59%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.37%) Degree
4 4 (2.37%) OCP
4 4 (2.37%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.78%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.18%) CISSP
6 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.18%) NCDA
6 2 (1.18%) NCIE
6 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.59%) CISM
7 1 (0.59%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.59%) GIAC
7 1 (0.59%) GSEC
7 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.96%) GDPR
2 5 (2.96%) WCAG
3 3 (1.78%) QA
4 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.18%) HL7
4 2 (1.18%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (21.30%) Docker
2 17 (10.06%) vSphere
3 15 (8.88%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.96%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.37%) NFS
6 4 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.18%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.18%) SRDF
7 2 (1.18%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 90 (53.25%) Terraform
2 61 (36.09%) Kubernetes
3 56 (33.14%) Ansible
4 28 (16.57%) Grafana
5 21 (12.43%) Argo
6 17 (10.06%) vCenter Server
7 16 (9.47%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.33%) HAProxy
9 8 (4.73%) NetBackup
10 7 (4.14%) Istio
11 6 (3.55%) Puppet
12 5 (2.96%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (2.37%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (1.78%) Packer
15 2 (1.18%) Consul
15 2 (1.18%) EMC VPLEX
15 2 (1.18%) SnapMirror
15 2 (1.18%) SnapVault
15 2 (1.18%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 26 (15.38%) Google
2 23 (13.61%) Splunk
3 20 (11.83%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.83%) Red Hat
4 17 (10.06%) Pure Storage
4 17 (10.06%) VMware
5 9 (5.33%) F5
5 9 (5.33%) Sonatype
6 7 (4.14%) Databricks
7 6 (3.55%) Brocade
7 6 (3.55%) Veritas
8 5 (2.96%) Commvault
8 5 (2.96%) IBM
9 4 (2.37%) Broadcom
9 4 (2.37%) Cisco
9 4 (2.37%) Dell
9 4 (2.37%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.37%) EMC
9 4 (2.37%) NetApp
10 3 (1.78%) Oracle