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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 64 56
Rank change year-on-year +26 -8 +28
Contract jobs citing GitHub 178 52 46
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.20% 3.45% 3.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.00% 9.77% 9.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 37 36
10th Percentile £379 £326 £395
25th Percentile £425 £463 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £625
90th Percentile £575 £641 £645
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,047 532 499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.48% 35.28% 32.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 666 367 342
10th Percentile £321 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -7.62%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 5
10th Percentile £15.93 £37.07 £16.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £45.03 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £62.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.91% +197.14% -1.20%
75th Percentile £68.75 £82.53 £22.00
90th Percentile - £92.15 -
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +36.54% +9.24% -29.79%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +22 93 £474 -5.25% 38
South Yorkshire +6 82 £503 -0.74% 14
East Yorkshire - 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -6 1 £550 - 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 35 (19.66%) Confluence
2 10 (5.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.69%) nginx
5 2 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 76 (42.70%) GitHub Actions
2 70 (39.33%) AWS
3 59 (33.15%) Azure
4 44 (24.72%) GCP
5 26 (14.61%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.43%) OpenShift
7 13 (7.30%) Apigee
7 13 (7.30%) Serverless
8 11 (6.18%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 11 (6.18%) IaaS
8 11 (6.18%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (5.06%) Entra ID
9 9 (5.06%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.49%) Amazon S3
10 8 (4.49%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.49%) PowerApps
11 7 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (3.93%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (3.93%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (11.80%) DNS
2 12 (6.74%) Firewall
3 8 (4.49%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.37%) VLAN
5 5 (2.81%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.25%) Network Security
6 4 (2.25%) VPN
7 3 (1.69%) NAS
7 3 (1.69%) SAN
7 3 (1.69%) SSL
8 2 (1.12%) VSAN
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.56%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.56%) DMZ
9 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.56%) Internet
9 1 (0.56%) Modbus
9 1 (0.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (15.73%) SQL Server
2 16 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.62%) MongoDB
4 8 (4.49%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.37%) DynamoDB
5 6 (3.37%) Redis
6 4 (2.25%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.25%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.69%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.69%) Parquet
8 2 (1.12%) Big Data
8 2 (1.12%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.12%) Power BI
9 1 (0.56%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.56%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.56%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 96 (53.93%) Jenkins
2 52 (29.21%) JIRA
3 22 (12.36%) Git
4 20 (11.24%) GitLab
5 15 (8.43%) Gatling
6 11 (6.18%) Maven
7 10 (5.62%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.62%) Sonatype Nexus
8 9 (5.06%) Selenium
9 6 (3.37%) Artifactory
10 5 (2.81%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.81%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.81%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.25%) Cucumber
11 4 (2.25%) Gradle
11 4 (2.25%) JUnit
11 4 (2.25%) MSBuild
11 4 (2.25%) Snyk
11 4 (2.25%) Visual Studio
12 3 (1.69%) JMeter
General
1 47 (26.40%) Social Skills
2 32 (17.98%) Finance
3 18 (10.11%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.43%) Banking
5 13 (7.30%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (0.56%) Legal
8 1 (0.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.56%) Military
8 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (24.72%) Developer
2 23 (12.92%) Senior
3 22 (12.36%) Lead
4 20 (11.24%) DevOps Engineer
5 17 (9.55%) Java Developer
6 15 (8.43%) Platform Engineer
7 14 (7.87%) Architect
8 10 (5.62%) Network Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Python Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Senior Developer
9 9 (5.06%) Software Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) GCP DevOps
10 8 (4.49%) GCP Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.93%) .NET Developer
11 7 (3.93%) IAM Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Senior Java Developer
11 7 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (3.37%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (16.29%) REST
2 20 (11.24%) Kafka
3 19 (10.67%) Playwright
4 14 (7.87%) .NET
5 13 (7.30%) OpenTelemetry
5 13 (7.30%) React
6 12 (6.74%) HTML
6 12 (6.74%) Spring
6 12 (6.74%) Spring Boot
7 9 (5.06%) Web Services
8 8 (4.49%) JSON
8 8 (4.49%) OAuth
8 8 (4.49%) RESTful
9 7 (3.93%) JPA
9 7 (3.93%) JWT
9 7 (3.93%) OpenAPI
9 7 (3.93%) Swagger
9 7 (3.93%) YAML
10 6 (3.37%) .NET Core
10 6 (3.37%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 39 (21.91%) Cloud Native
2 14 (7.87%) Data Centre
3 9 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (3.93%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) NHS
5 7 (3.93%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (2.25%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.25%) Replication
9 3 (1.69%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (1.12%) EMC VNX
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.30%) Linux
2 10 (5.62%) Windows
3 5 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.12%) AIX
4 2 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.12%) MVS
4 2 (1.12%) zOS
5 1 (0.56%) Android
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Solaris
5 1 (0.56%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (73.60%) CI/CD
2 112 (62.92%) DevOps
3 79 (44.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 54 (30.34%) Observability
5 48 (26.97%) Agile
6 35 (19.66%) Platform Engineering
7 34 (19.10%) Test Automation
8 28 (15.73%) Microservices
9 24 (13.48%) Containerisation
9 24 (13.48%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.36%) Roadmaps
11 21 (11.80%) Cloud Security
12 19 (10.67%) API Development
12 19 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
13 18 (10.11%) High Availability
13 18 (10.11%) Migration
14 17 (9.55%) SDLC
15 16 (8.99%) Continuous Improvement
15 16 (8.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (8.99%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 100 (56.18%) Python
2 40 (22.47%) Bash
3 39 (21.91%) Java
4 37 (20.79%) PowerShell
4 37 (20.79%) SQL
5 21 (11.80%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.18%) Kotlin
6 11 (6.18%) Scala
7 9 (5.06%) TypeScript
8 8 (4.49%) ActionScript
9 7 (3.93%) C#
10 6 (3.37%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (2.81%) Groovy
12 4 (2.25%) REXX
13 3 (1.69%) Bicep
13 3 (1.69%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.12%) JCL
14 2 (1.12%) PromQL
15 1 (0.56%) Perl
15 1 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 33 (18.54%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (3.37%) Degree
5 4 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.25%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.25%) OCP
5 4 (2.25%) Oracle Certification
6 3 (1.69%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.12%) CISSP
7 2 (1.12%) GSEC
7 2 (1.12%) NCDA
7 2 (1.12%) NCIE
7 2 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.56%) CISM
8 1 (0.56%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.56%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.18%) Accessibility
2 7 (3.93%) QA
3 5 (2.81%) GDPR
3 5 (2.81%) HL7
3 5 (2.81%) WCAG
4 3 (1.69%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.12%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.12%) NIST
6 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.56%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (21.35%) Docker
2 13 (7.30%) Active Directory
3 12 (6.74%) vSphere
4 10 (5.62%) VMware NSX
5 8 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (2.81%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (2.25%) NFS
8 3 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
9 2 (1.12%) SRDF
9 2 (1.12%) Time Sharing Option
9 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (56.74%) Terraform
2 62 (34.83%) Kubernetes
3 47 (26.40%) Ansible
4 25 (14.04%) Grafana
5 18 (10.11%) Argo
6 16 (8.99%) Prometheus
7 12 (6.74%) vCenter Server
8 9 (5.06%) HAProxy
9 8 (4.49%) NetBackup
10 6 (3.37%) Puppet
11 5 (2.81%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (2.81%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.69%) Packer
13 2 (1.12%) Consul
13 2 (1.12%) EMC VPLEX
13 2 (1.12%) SnapMirror
13 2 (1.12%) SnapVault
13 2 (1.12%) Tivoli NetView
13 2 (1.12%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.36%) Google
3 17 (9.55%) Red Hat
4 13 (7.30%) Splunk
5 12 (6.74%) Pure Storage
5 12 (6.74%) VMware
6 9 (5.06%) F5
7 8 (4.49%) Databricks
8 7 (3.93%) Dynatrace
8 7 (3.93%) IBM
9 6 (3.37%) Veritas
10 5 (2.81%) Brocade
10 5 (2.81%) Centrify
10 5 (2.81%) Commvault
10 5 (2.81%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.25%) Broadcom
11 4 (2.25%) Cisco
11 4 (2.25%) Dell
12 3 (1.69%) EMC
12 3 (1.69%) NetApp