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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 64 51
Rank change year-on-year +27 -13 +33
Contract jobs citing GitHub 181 41 52
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.34% 3.01% 3.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.06% 8.35% 9.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 30 38
10th Percentile £366 £359 £397
25th Percentile £425 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -7.30% +2.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £575 £690 £647
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 - £70.00
% change year-on-year - - -9.68%

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 1,061 491 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 37.15% 36.10% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 333 370
10th Percentile £313 £263 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £609 £644
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £35.00 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +119.73% -29.43%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile - £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -33.33%

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 July 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 July 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 +30 92 £475 -5.00% 15
South Yorkshire +11 86 £500 -3.80% 6
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 3
North Yorkshire -12 1 £550 - 2
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 34 (18.78%) Confluence
2 10 (5.52%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.10%) nginx
4 2 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (41.44%) GitHub Actions
2 68 (37.57%) AWS
3 54 (29.83%) Azure
4 42 (23.20%) GCP
5 23 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.60%) OpenShift
7 13 (7.18%) Apigee
8 12 (6.63%) Serverless
9 11 (6.08%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 10 (5.52%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (5.52%) IaaS
10 10 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (4.97%) Power Platform
12 8 (4.42%) Azure Key Vault
12 8 (4.42%) Entra ID
12 8 (4.42%) PowerApps
13 7 (3.87%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.87%) Amazon SQS
13 7 (3.87%) Power Automate
14 6 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 24 (13.26%) DNS
2 13 (7.18%) Firewall
3 8 (4.42%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (2.76%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.76%) VLAN
4 5 (2.76%) VPN
5 4 (2.21%) NAS
5 4 (2.21%) Network Security
5 4 (2.21%) SAN
6 3 (1.66%) SSL
7 2 (1.10%) VSAN
8 1 (0.55%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.36%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.73%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (6.63%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.52%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.31%) Redis
6 5 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (2.76%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.21%) Hazelcast
7 4 (2.21%) RDBMS
8 3 (1.66%) Delta Lake
8 3 (1.66%) Parquet
9 2 (1.10%) Oracle Database
9 2 (1.10%) Power BI
10 1 (0.55%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.55%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.55%) Qlik Sense
10 1 (0.55%) QlikView
10 1 (0.55%) SAP BW
10 1 (0.55%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 115 (63.54%) Jenkins
2 51 (28.18%) JIRA
3 21 (11.60%) GitLab
4 19 (10.50%) Git
5 16 (8.84%) Gatling
6 14 (7.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 11 (6.08%) Maven
8 9 (4.97%) Bitbucket
8 9 (4.97%) Selenium
9 7 (3.87%) REST Assured
9 7 (3.87%) Serenity BDD
10 6 (3.31%) Artifactory
11 4 (2.21%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.21%) Gradle
11 4 (2.21%) JUnit
11 4 (2.21%) MSBuild
11 4 (2.21%) Snyk
11 4 (2.21%) Visual Studio
12 2 (1.10%) JMeter
12 2 (1.10%) Liquibase
General
1 51 (28.18%) Social Skills
2 33 (18.23%) Finance
3 19 (10.50%) Banking
4 16 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.10%) Law
7 2 (1.10%) Military
8 1 (0.55%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 40 (22.10%) Developer
2 25 (13.81%) DevOps Engineer
3 21 (11.60%) Senior
4 20 (11.05%) Platform Engineer
5 18 (9.94%) Architect
5 18 (9.94%) Lead
6 15 (8.29%) Java Developer
7 11 (6.08%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.52%) GCP DevOps
8 10 (5.52%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.97%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.42%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.87%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.87%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.87%) Lead Test Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Python Engineer
11 7 (3.87%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.87%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.31%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (15.47%) REST
2 19 (10.50%) Kafka
3 18 (9.94%) Playwright
4 16 (8.84%) OpenTelemetry
5 14 (7.73%) Spring
5 14 (7.73%) Spring Boot
6 13 (7.18%) .NET
7 10 (5.52%) HTML
8 9 (4.97%) React
9 8 (4.42%) JSON
9 8 (4.42%) OpenAPI
9 8 (4.42%) Swagger
9 8 (4.42%) Web Services
10 7 (3.87%) JPA
10 7 (3.87%) OAuth
10 7 (3.87%) RESTful
10 7 (3.87%) Spring Cloud
10 7 (3.87%) YAML
11 6 (3.31%) Flask
11 6 (3.31%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.55%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.29%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.31%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (3.31%) NHS
6 6 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.76%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 5 (2.76%) Replication
8 3 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.66%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.10%) CMDB
9 2 (1.10%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.10%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.10%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.10%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.10%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.84%) Linux
2 11 (6.08%) Windows
3 5 (2.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.10%) AIX
4 2 (1.10%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.10%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.10%) MVS
4 2 (1.10%) zOS
5 1 (0.55%) Solaris
5 1 (0.55%) Unix
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (76.80%) CI/CD
2 118 (65.19%) DevOps
3 70 (38.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 53 (29.28%) Observability
5 45 (24.86%) Agile
6 33 (18.23%) Platform Engineering
7 31 (17.13%) Test Automation
8 29 (16.02%) Migration
9 27 (14.92%) Containerisation
10 26 (14.36%) Microservices
10 26 (14.36%) Problem-Solving
11 24 (13.26%) Cloud Security
12 23 (12.71%) High Availability
12 23 (12.71%) Software Engineering
13 20 (11.05%) Roadmaps
14 18 (9.94%) API Development
14 18 (9.94%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (9.94%) RBAC
15 17 (9.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 16 (8.84%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 104 (57.46%) Python
2 43 (23.76%) Bash
3 36 (19.89%) Java
4 35 (19.34%) PowerShell
5 32 (17.68%) SQL
6 15 (8.29%) JavaScript
7 11 (6.08%) Scala
8 10 (5.52%) Kotlin
9 8 (4.42%) ActionScript
10 6 (3.31%) Groovy
10 6 (3.31%) TypeScript
11 5 (2.76%) C#
12 4 (2.21%) REXX
13 3 (1.66%) Bicep
13 3 (1.66%) Kusto Query Language
13 3 (1.66%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.10%) JCL
14 2 (1.10%) PromQL
15 1 (0.55%) Perl
15 1 (0.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 27 (14.92%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.60%) SC Cleared
3 9 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.21%) Degree
4 4 (2.21%) OCP
4 4 (2.21%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.66%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.66%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.10%) CISSP
6 2 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.10%) GSEC
6 2 (1.10%) NCDA
6 2 (1.10%) NCIE
6 2 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.55%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.55%) CISM
7 1 (0.55%) CompTIA CySA+
7 1 (0.55%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.55%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.18%) Accessibility
2 6 (3.31%) QA
3 5 (2.76%) GDPR
3 5 (2.76%) WCAG
4 4 (2.21%) HL7
5 2 (1.10%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 38 (20.99%) Docker
2 17 (9.39%) vSphere
3 15 (8.29%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.08%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (5.52%) Active Directory
6 5 (2.76%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.21%) NFS
7 4 (2.21%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.10%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (1.10%) Hyper-V
8 2 (1.10%) SRDF
8 2 (1.10%) Time Sharing Option
8 2 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (53.04%) Terraform
2 65 (35.91%) Kubernetes
3 60 (33.15%) Ansible
4 26 (14.36%) Grafana
5 23 (12.71%) Argo
6 17 (9.39%) Prometheus
6 17 (9.39%) vCenter Server
7 9 (4.97%) HAProxy
8 8 (4.42%) NetBackup
9 6 (3.31%) Puppet
10 5 (2.76%) Jamf Pro
10 5 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.76%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.66%) Istio
11 3 (1.66%) Packer
12 2 (1.10%) Consul
12 2 (1.10%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (1.10%) EMC VPLEX
12 2 (1.10%) SnapMirror
12 2 (1.10%) SnapVault
Vendors
1 28 (15.47%) Microsoft
2 24 (13.26%) Google
3 22 (12.15%) Splunk
4 20 (11.05%) Red Hat
5 17 (9.39%) Pure Storage
5 17 (9.39%) VMware
6 9 (4.97%) F5
7 7 (3.87%) Databricks
8 6 (3.31%) Brocade
8 6 (3.31%) Dynatrace
8 6 (3.31%) IBM
8 6 (3.31%) Sonatype
8 6 (3.31%) Veritas
9 5 (2.76%) Commvault
10 4 (2.21%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.21%) Cisco
10 4 (2.21%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.21%) Dell
10 4 (2.21%) EMC
10 4 (2.21%) NetApp