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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 53 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 84 43 30
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.57% 3.35% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.19% 8.69% 5.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 20
10th Percentile £281 £363 £462
25th Percentile £456 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £445 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -22.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £511 £650
90th Percentile £585 £646 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%

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 751 495 583
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 40.88% 38.61% 32.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 326 432
10th Percentile £203 £288 £231
25th Percentile £370 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £567 £600
90th Percentile £616 £688 £675
England median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 3
10th Percentile - £18.86 £18.80
25th Percentile £14.25 £20.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £31.86 £96.64 £41.00
90th Percentile £132.74 £102.00 £53.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £32.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -17.81% +28.00% +11.11%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -10 41 £504 +11.94% 19
West Yorkshire +5 38 £518 +21.41% 44
North Yorkshire - 4 £419 - 10
East Yorkshire - 1 £390 - 11
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 14 (16.67%) Confluence
2 5 (5.95%) Mule
3 2 (2.38%) Apache
3 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.38%) CICS
3 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.38%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.38%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.19%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (5.95%) Chatbot
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (39.29%) GitHub Actions
2 30 (35.71%) Azure
3 29 (34.52%) AWS
4 26 (30.95%) GCP
5 15 (17.86%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (15.48%) Serverless
7 11 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.90%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.71%) Amazon S3
10 7 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (5.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (4.76%) Cohesity
12 4 (4.76%) Route 53
12 4 (4.76%) Slack
13 3 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (3.57%) AWS Direct Connect
13 3 (3.57%) Entra ID
13 3 (3.57%) OpenShift
13 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Firewall
2 4 (4.76%) DNS
2 4 (4.76%) Internet
3 1 (1.19%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (1.19%) FCoE
3 1 (1.19%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.19%) HTTP
3 1 (1.19%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.19%) LAN
3 1 (1.19%) Multicast
3 1 (1.19%) NAS
3 1 (1.19%) SAN
3 1 (1.19%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 9 (10.71%) NoSQL
4 8 (9.52%) DynamoDB
5 7 (8.33%) MySQL
6 6 (7.14%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.38%) DataStage
8 2 (2.38%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.38%) Power BI
8 2 (2.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.38%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 53 (63.10%) Jenkins
2 27 (32.14%) JIRA
3 15 (17.86%) Sonatype Nexus
4 14 (16.67%) Git
5 8 (9.52%) GitLab
6 6 (7.14%) PyCharm
7 5 (5.95%) CircleCI
8 3 (3.57%) Postman
9 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.38%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.38%) git-flow
9 2 (2.38%) MSI
9 2 (2.38%) Selenium
9 2 (2.38%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.38%) TestRail
9 2 (2.38%) Zephyr
10 1 (1.19%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.19%) Gradle
10 1 (1.19%) Maven
10 1 (1.19%) Mocha
General
1 32 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 19 (22.62%) Banking
3 12 (14.29%) Finance
3 12 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.24%) AWS Engineer
2 16 (19.05%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (13.10%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Software Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Analyst
5 8 (9.52%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 8 (9.52%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.52%) Developer
5 8 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
5 8 (9.52%) Technical Business Analyst
6 7 (8.33%) AWS DevOps
6 7 (8.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.33%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Architect
7 6 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (7.14%) Senior
8 4 (4.76%) Service Manager
9 3 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.10%) REST
2 10 (11.90%) React
3 8 (9.52%) .NET
3 8 (9.52%) Node.js
4 6 (7.14%) NumPy
4 6 (7.14%) Pandas
4 6 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 4 (4.76%) Next.js
6 3 (3.57%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (3.57%) Lambda Expressions
6 3 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
6 3 (3.57%) Playwright
7 2 (2.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.38%) ARM Templates
7 2 (2.38%) AWS CDK
7 2 (2.38%) Blazor
7 2 (2.38%) Jest
7 2 (2.38%) OAuth
7 2 (2.38%) PySpark
7 2 (2.38%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.10%) NHS
3 6 (7.14%) Clustering
3 6 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.95%) Algorithms
4 5 (5.95%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (5.95%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.95%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.76%) Online Banking
6 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.57%) Security Posture
7 2 (2.38%) Data Centre
7 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.38%) Mainframe
7 2 (2.38%) Replication
8 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (1.19%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.67%) Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Amazon Linux
2 3 (3.57%) Windows
3 2 (2.38%) Solaris
3 2 (2.38%) zOS
4 1 (1.19%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (73.81%) DevOps
2 57 (67.86%) CI/CD
3 34 (40.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (32.14%) Agile
5 17 (20.24%) Software Engineering
6 16 (19.05%) Observability
7 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
8 13 (15.48%) Microservices
9 12 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
10 11 (13.10%) Problem-Solving
10 11 (13.10%) Scrum
11 10 (11.90%) AI
11 10 (11.90%) Containerisation
11 10 (11.90%) Data Protection
11 10 (11.90%) Migration
12 9 (10.71%) Cloud Security
12 9 (10.71%) Data Modelling
12 9 (10.71%) Deployment Automation
13 8 (9.52%) Configuration Management
14 7 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.81%) Python
2 19 (22.62%) Bash
3 12 (14.29%) Java
4 8 (9.52%) SQL
4 8 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 7 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 6 (7.14%) C#
7 5 (5.95%) Groovy
8 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
9 3 (3.57%) Bicep
10 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.38%) Scala
10 2 (2.38%) XPath
11 1 (1.19%) C++
11 1 (1.19%) Go
11 1 (1.19%) PHP
11 1 (1.19%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 14 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Degree
4 2 (2.38%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.95%) QA
2 2 (2.38%) GRC
3 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.19%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (25.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.38%) KVM
3 2 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) NFS
4 1 (1.19%) SRDF
4 1 (1.19%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.19%) vSphere
4 1 (1.19%) Xen
Systems Management
1 38 (45.24%) Terraform
2 26 (30.95%) Kubernetes
3 25 (29.76%) Ansible
4 14 (16.67%) Grafana
5 10 (11.90%) Prometheus
6 6 (7.14%) Puppet
7 4 (4.76%) NetBackup
8 3 (3.57%) Packer
8 3 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.38%) Istio
10 1 (1.19%) Argo
10 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
10 1 (1.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (14.29%) Google
1 12 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.33%) Sonatype
2 7 (8.33%) Splunk
3 6 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 5 (5.95%) Databricks
5 4 (4.76%) Commvault
5 4 (4.76%) VMware
6 2 (2.38%) Cisco
6 2 (2.38%) Cribl.io
6 2 (2.38%) EMC
6 2 (2.38%) F5
6 2 (2.38%) Informatica
6 2 (2.38%) NetApp
6 2 (2.38%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.38%) Oracle
6 2 (2.38%) Pure Storage
6 2 (2.38%) Talend
7 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace