GitHub Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

GitHub
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	40	52	58
Rank change year-on-year	+12	+6	+25
Contract jobs citing GitHub	180	86	40
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire	6.27%	4.76%	2.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category	17.24%	12.04%	7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted	108	51	32
10^th Percentile	£404	£280	£359
25^th Percentile	£450	£421	£406
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£500	£440
Median % change year-on-year	-	+13.64%	-23.48%
75^th Percentile	£550	£538	£496
90^th Percentile	£600	£600	£595
England median daily rate	£523	£525	£525
% change year-on-year	-0.38%	-	-4.55%

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 citing cloud computing skills in Yorkshire.

	6 months to 13 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	1,044	714	503
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire	36.38%	39.56%	36.85%
Number of daily rates quoted	676	491	337
10^th Percentile	£338	£203	£299
25^th Percentile	£420	£360	£400
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£493	£485
Median % change year-on-year	+1.42%	+1.65%	-3.00%
75^th Percentile	£575	£538	£567
90^th Percentile	£669	£625	£673
England median daily rate	£525	£500	£535
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-6.54%	+1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted	17	2	7
10^th Percentile	-	£43.63	£17.22
25^th Percentile	£13.45	£69.69	£20.50
Median hourly rate	£18.50	£113.75	£27.50
Median % change year-on-year	-83.74%	+313.64%	+22.17%
75^th Percentile	£35.00	£157.19	£35.13
90^th Percentile	-	£182.88	£63.56
England median hourly rate	£35.00	£25.15	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+39.17%	-28.14%	+9.38%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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 13 November 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.

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 13 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
West Yorkshire	+17	99	£475	-8.21%	48
South Yorkshire	+7	80	£514	+2.75%	17
North Yorkshire	-12	3	£545	+30.15%	6
East Yorkshire	+4	2	-	-	1
GitHub England

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 13 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	76.1%	137
2	DevOps	53.3%	96
3	Python	48.9%	88
4	Terraform	45.0%	81
5	Infrastructure as Code	44.4%	80
6	Jenkins	42.2%	76
7	GitHub Actions	40.6%	73
8	Azure	40.0%	72
9	AWS	39.4%	71
10	Agile	35.6%	64
11	JIRA	29.4%	53
11	Observability	29.4%	53
13	Kubernetes	28.9%	52
14	SQL	28.3%	51
15	Test Automation	27.2%	49
16	GCP	24.4%	44
17	Microservices	22.8%	41
18	Java	22.2%	40
18	PowerShell	22.2%	40
20	REST	21.7%	39
21	JavaScript	21.1%	38
22	Git	20.6%	37
23	Docker	18.9%	34
24	Microsoft	18.3%	33
24	Security Cleared	18.3%	33
26	Platform Engineering	17.2%	31
27	Azure DevOps	16.7%	30
27	Software Engineering	16.7%	30
29	Ansible	15.0%	27
29	Confluence	15.0%	27

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub Actions	40.6%	73
2	Azure	40.0%	72
3	AWS	39.4%	71
4	GCP	24.4%	44
5	Azure DevOps	16.7%	30
6	IaaS	10.0%	18
6	Serverless	10.0%	18
8	GitHub Copilot	9.4%	17
9	Amazon S3	7.2%	13
10	AWS Lambda	6.1%	11
10	Microsoft 365	6.1%	11
10	Microsoft Copilot	6.1%	11
13	Entra ID	5.6%	10
13	Power Platform	5.6%	10
15	Azure Monitor	4.4%	8
16	Amazon CloudWatch	3.9%	7
17	Copilot Studio	3.3%	6
17	Power Automate	3.3%	6
17	PowerApps	3.3%	6
20	Anthropic Claude	2.8%	5