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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 59 49
Rank change year-on-year +20 -10 +44
Contract jobs citing GitHub 171 62 57
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.86% 3.91% 3.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.51% 10.20% 10.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 38 47
10th Percentile £395 £280 £371
25th Percentile £438 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £472
Median % change year-on-year - +5.93% -14.18%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £589
90th Percentile £580 £633 £641
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%

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 1,036 608 525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.53% 38.34% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 408 361
10th Percentile £324 £235 £300
25th Percentile £413 £367 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £567
90th Percentile £675 £612 £650
England median daily rate £525 £505 £530
% change year-on-year +3.96% -4.72% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 1 4
10th Percentile £13.45 - -
25th Percentile £14.41 - £20.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £200.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -90.50% +830.23% +1.15%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £23.69
90th Percentile £35.00 - £26.73
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -28.14% +7.99%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +24 90 £475 -5.00% 60
South Yorkshire +5 80 £503 -0.74% 26
East Yorkshire -2 2 - - 3
North Yorkshire -9 2 £473 - 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 32 (18.71%) Confluence
2 7 (4.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.75%) nginx
4 2 (1.17%) Apache
4 2 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.58%) FactoryTalk
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (45.61%) GitHub Actions
2 75 (43.86%) Azure
3 72 (42.11%) AWS
4 49 (28.65%) GCP
5 30 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (9.94%) IaaS
7 13 (7.60%) Serverless
8 11 (6.43%) Amazon S3
8 11 (6.43%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
8 11 (6.43%) Microsoft Copilot
9 9 (5.26%) Apigee
9 9 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.26%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 7 (4.09%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (4.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 7 (4.09%) Kong
11 6 (3.51%) Anthropic Claude
11 6 (3.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (9.36%) DNS
2 15 (8.77%) Firewall
3 11 (6.43%) BIG-IP
3 11 (6.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 11 (6.43%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.51%) VLAN
5 5 (2.92%) Network Security
5 5 (2.92%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.75%) SSL
7 2 (1.17%) NAS
7 2 (1.17%) SAN
7 2 (1.17%) VSAN
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.58%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (0.58%) DMZ
8 1 (0.58%) Internet
8 1 (0.58%) Intranet
8 1 (0.58%) Modbus
8 1 (0.58%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (14.62%) SQL Server
2 14 (8.19%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.85%) Redis
4 9 (5.26%) MongoDB
4 9 (5.26%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.92%) Big Data
5 5 (2.92%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.92%) Hazelcast
5 5 (2.92%) RDBMS
6 4 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.75%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.75%) Power BI
7 3 (1.75%) Tableau
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.17%) Delta Lake
8 2 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.17%) Parquet
8 2 (1.17%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 79 (46.20%) Jenkins
2 56 (32.75%) JIRA
3 26 (15.20%) Git
4 21 (12.28%) GitLab
5 14 (8.19%) Bitbucket
6 11 (6.43%) Gatling
6 11 (6.43%) Selenium
7 10 (5.85%) Cucumber
7 10 (5.85%) Maven
7 10 (5.85%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.26%) JMeter
9 6 (3.51%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.92%) Claude Code
10 5 (2.92%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.92%) Gradle
10 5 (2.92%) JUnit
10 5 (2.92%) LoadRunner
10 5 (2.92%) Postman
11 4 (2.34%) Snyk
11 4 (2.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 38 (22.22%) Finance
3 22 (12.87%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.94%) Banking
5 15 (8.77%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.17%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.17%) Law
6 2 (1.17%) Legal
7 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 45 (26.32%) Developer
2 29 (16.96%) Senior
3 21 (12.28%) Lead
4 19 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 17 (9.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (6.43%) Architect
7 10 (5.85%) Network Engineer
7 10 (5.85%) Platform Engineer
7 10 (5.85%) Senior Developer
8 9 (5.26%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.68%) IAM Developer
9 8 (4.68%) Python Engineer
9 8 (4.68%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.09%) Senior Java Developer
10 7 (4.09%) Software Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.51%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.51%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.51%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (47.37%) Terraform
2 29 (16.96%) Kafka
3 27 (15.79%) REST
4 18 (10.53%) HTML
5 15 (8.77%) Spring
5 15 (8.77%) Spring Boot
6 14 (8.19%) Playwright
7 13 (7.60%) React
8 11 (6.43%) .NET
9 9 (5.26%) OAuth
10 8 (4.68%) AngularJS
10 8 (4.68%) JPA
10 8 (4.68%) JWT
10 8 (4.68%) RESTful
10 8 (4.68%) Web Services
11 7 (4.09%) .NET Core
11 7 (4.09%) JSON
11 7 (4.09%) OAuth2
11 7 (4.09%) OpenTelemetry
11 7 (4.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 31 (18.13%) Cloud Native
2 17 (9.94%) Data Centre
3 13 (7.60%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (7.60%) Enterprise Software
4 9 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 7 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.51%) AI Agents
6 6 (3.51%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.92%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.92%) NHS
7 5 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.34%) Autonomous Agent
8 4 (2.34%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.34%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.75%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (1.75%) Replication
10 2 (1.17%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.17%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.60%) Linux
2 9 (5.26%) Windows
3 3 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.17%) AIX
4 2 (1.17%) Android
4 2 (1.17%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.17%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.17%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.17%) MVS
4 2 (1.17%) zOS
5 1 (0.58%) Solaris
5 1 (0.58%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (75.44%) CI/CD
2 97 (56.73%) DevOps
3 76 (44.44%) Infrastructure as Code
4 62 (36.26%) Agile
5 58 (33.92%) Observability
6 36 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 35 (20.47%) Microservices
8 29 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
9 26 (15.20%) Software Engineering
10 23 (13.45%) API Development
11 21 (12.28%) AI
12 20 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
12 20 (11.70%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (11.70%) Roadmaps
12 20 (11.70%) SDLC
12 20 (11.70%) Validation
13 19 (11.11%) Cloud Security
14 18 (10.53%) Event-Driven
15 17 (9.94%) Analytics
15 17 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 86 (50.29%) Python
2 47 (27.49%) SQL
3 45 (26.32%) Java
4 40 (23.39%) PowerShell
5 31 (18.13%) JavaScript
6 19 (11.11%) Bash
7 14 (8.19%) Kotlin
8 11 (6.43%) ActionScript
9 9 (5.26%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.68%) C#
11 7 (4.09%) Scala
12 6 (3.51%) Bicep
13 4 (2.34%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (2.34%) REXX
14 2 (1.17%) Groovy
14 2 (1.17%) JCL
14 2 (1.17%) PromQL
14 2 (1.17%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.58%) Go
15 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (19.30%) Security Cleared
2 28 (16.37%) SC Cleared
3 8 (4.68%) BPSS Clearance
4 7 (4.09%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.92%) Degree
6 4 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.34%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.17%) GSEC
7 2 (1.17%) NCDA
7 2 (1.17%) NCIE
7 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.58%) CISSP
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.58%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.58%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) Accessibility
2 11 (6.43%) QA
3 7 (4.09%) GDPR
4 5 (2.92%) Actionable Recommendations
4 5 (2.92%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.92%) HL7
4 5 (2.92%) WCAG
5 4 (2.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.34%) NIST
6 2 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.58%) GRC
7 1 (0.58%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (21.05%) Docker
2 16 (9.36%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.09%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 4 (2.34%) NFS
6 2 (1.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.17%) SRDF
6 2 (1.17%) Time Sharing Option
6 2 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (31.58%) Kubernetes
2 29 (16.96%) Ansible
3 22 (12.87%) Grafana
4 16 (9.36%) Prometheus
5 9 (5.26%) Argo
6 5 (2.92%) HAProxy
6 5 (2.92%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (2.34%) Kustomize
7 4 (2.34%) Packer
7 4 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.17%) Consul
8 2 (1.17%) EMC VPLEX
8 2 (1.17%) Progress Chef
8 2 (1.17%) SnapMirror
8 2 (1.17%) SnapVault
8 2 (1.17%) Tivoli NetView
8 2 (1.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (1.17%) vCenter Server
8 2 (1.17%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 32 (18.71%) Microsoft
2 15 (8.77%) Google
3 13 (7.60%) IBM
4 11 (6.43%) Dynatrace
4 11 (6.43%) F5
5 10 (5.85%) Databricks
5 10 (5.85%) Splunk
6 6 (3.51%) Centrify
6 6 (3.51%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.92%) New Relic
8 4 (2.34%) Broadcom
8 4 (2.34%) Brocade
8 4 (2.34%) Dell
9 3 (1.75%) Brio
9 3 (1.75%) Cisco
9 3 (1.75%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.17%) Okta
10 2 (1.17%) OutSystems
10 2 (1.17%) Palantir
10 2 (1.17%) Solace