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 5 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 56 80
Rank change year-on-year +7 +24 +5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 85 42 29
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.78% 3.04% 1.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.27% 8.45% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 34 19
10th Percentile £280 £363 £461
25th Percentile £403 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £575
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -23.48% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £499 £650
90th Percentile £600 £633 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £553
% change year-on-year - -5.06% -6.07%

All Cloud 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 693 497 617
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.98% 36.01% 33.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 334 453
10th Percentile £213 £300 £225
25th Percentile £359 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.01% -0.50% -0.45%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
England median daily rate £500 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -6.54% +0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
10th Percentile £43.63 £15.58 £19.10
25th Percentile £69.69 £20.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £113.75 £21.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +441.67% -6.71% +0.04%
75th Percentile £157.19 £28.75 £44.50
90th Percentile £182.88 - £55.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.72
% change year-on-year -28.14% +17.77% +32.09%

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 5 November 2025.

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 5 November 2025. 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 -8 41 £500 +11.11% 16
West Yorkshire -7 37 £518 +21.76% 48
North Yorkshire - 5 £419 - 8
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 5
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 13 (15.29%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) Mule
3 3 (3.53%) Apache
3 3 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (2.35%) CICS
4 2 (2.35%) Tomcat
4 2 (2.35%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.18%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (7.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (5.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.18%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) GitHub Actions
2 30 (35.29%) AWS
3 27 (31.76%) Azure
4 25 (29.41%) GCP
5 13 (15.29%) Serverless
6 12 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (9.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (9.41%) Amazon S3
10 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (5.88%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (5.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (4.71%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (4.71%) Cohesity
11 4 (4.71%) Route 53
11 4 (4.71%) Slack
12 3 (3.53%) Amazon ElastiCache
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) DNS
1 7 (8.24%) Firewall
2 4 (4.71%) Internet
3 3 (3.53%) SSL
3 3 (3.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.35%) Network Security
4 2 (2.35%) VPN
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.18%) FCoE
5 1 (1.18%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.18%) HTTP
5 1 (1.18%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.18%) LAN
5 1 (1.18%) Multicast
5 1 (1.18%) NAS
5 1 (1.18%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.82%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.12%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.59%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.41%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (8.24%) MySQL
6 6 (7.06%) RDBMS
7 3 (3.53%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.35%) DataStage
8 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.35%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 53 (62.35%) Jenkins
2 26 (30.59%) JIRA
3 17 (20.00%) Git
4 12 (14.12%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (8.24%) GitLab
6 6 (7.06%) CircleCI
6 6 (7.06%) PyCharm
7 3 (3.53%) git-flow
8 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.35%) Jaeger
8 2 (2.35%) MSI
8 2 (2.35%) Postman
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.35%) SpecFlow
8 2 (2.35%) TestRail
8 2 (2.35%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.18%) Crashlytics
9 1 (1.18%) Gradle
9 1 (1.18%) Maven
General
1 30 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Banking
3 13 (15.29%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (21.18%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
3 10 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (10.59%) Senior
5 7 (8.24%) Architect
5 7 (8.24%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) AWS DevOps
5 7 (8.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 7 (8.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Lead
7 5 (5.88%) Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Technical Business Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Lead DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) React
2 8 (9.41%) .NET
2 8 (9.41%) REST
3 6 (7.06%) Node.js
3 6 (7.06%) NumPy
3 6 (7.06%) Pandas
3 6 (7.06%) TensorFlow
4 5 (5.88%) Next.js
5 4 (4.71%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.53%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (3.53%) Middleware
6 3 (3.53%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (3.53%) Playwright
6 3 (3.53%) PySpark
7 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.35%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.35%) JSON
7 2 (2.35%) LDAP
7 2 (2.35%) RESTful
7 2 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.76%) NHS
3 7 (8.24%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.06%) Algorithms
4 6 (7.06%) Clustering
5 5 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
5 5 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 5 (5.88%) Product Ownership
6 4 (4.71%) Online Banking
7 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (2.35%) Data Centre
8 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.35%) Mainframe
8 2 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (2.35%) Replication
8 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
9 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 16 (18.82%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Windows
3 2 (2.35%) Solaris
3 2 (2.35%) zOS
4 1 (1.18%) Android
4 1 (1.18%) MVS
4 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (68.24%) DevOps
2 57 (67.06%) CI/CD
3 33 (38.82%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (34.12%) Agile
5 18 (21.18%) Observability
6 17 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 13 (15.29%) Microservices
8 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (14.12%) Scrum
8 12 (14.12%) Test Automation
9 11 (12.94%) AI
9 11 (12.94%) Data Protection
10 10 (11.76%) Cloud Security
10 10 (11.76%) Configuration Management
10 10 (11.76%) Containerisation
10 10 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (10.59%) Data Modelling
11 9 (10.59%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (8.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 40 (47.06%) Python
2 18 (21.18%) Bash
3 13 (15.29%) Java
4 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.41%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.24%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.24%) SQL
7 5 (5.88%) C#
8 4 (4.71%) Groovy
9 3 (3.53%) Bicep
10 2 (2.35%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.35%) Scala
10 2 (2.35%) XPath
11 1 (1.18%) C++
11 1 (1.18%) Go
11 1 (1.18%) PHP
11 1 (1.18%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.18%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.06%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.71%) NIST
3 3 (3.53%) GDPR
3 3 (3.53%) SOC 2
4 2 (2.35%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.35%) GRC
5 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
System Software
1 19 (22.35%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.35%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.35%) KVM
3 2 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.18%) NFS
4 1 (1.18%) SRDF
4 1 (1.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.18%) vSphere
4 1 (1.18%) Xen
Systems Management
1 37 (43.53%) Terraform
2 26 (30.59%) Kubernetes
3 25 (29.41%) Ansible
4 17 (20.00%) Grafana
5 15 (17.65%) Prometheus
6 8 (9.41%) Puppet
7 4 (4.71%) NetBackup
8 3 (3.53%) Packer
9 2 (2.35%) Istio
9 2 (2.35%) Kustomize
9 2 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.35%) vCenter Server
10 1 (1.18%) Argo
10 1 (1.18%) Control-M
10 1 (1.18%) Kiali
10 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (1.18%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.12%) Google
3 11 (12.94%) Splunk
4 6 (7.06%) Databricks
4 6 (7.06%) Red Hat
5 5 (5.88%) Sonatype
6 4 (4.71%) Commvault
6 4 (4.71%) VMware
7 3 (3.53%) AppDynamics
7 3 (3.53%) Cisco
8 2 (2.35%) Cribl.io
8 2 (2.35%) EMC
8 2 (2.35%) F5
8 2 (2.35%) IBM
8 2 (2.35%) Informatica
8 2 (2.35%) NetApp
8 2 (2.35%) Oracle
8 2 (2.35%) Pure Storage
8 2 (2.35%) Talend
9 1 (1.18%) HP