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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 56 45
Rank change year-on-year +22 -11 +51
Contract jobs citing GitHub 174 59 59
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.11% 3.83% 3.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.59% 10.48% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 41 46
10th Percentile £367 £280 £373
25th Percentile £424 £456 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% -8.10%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £617
90th Percentile £575 £610 £641
England median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% -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 1,049 563 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.82% 36.58% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 390 352
10th Percentile £306 £256 £289
25th Percentile £413 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.55% -6.19%
75th Percentile £585 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +4.90% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £14.06 £42.37 £16.15
25th Percentile £17.31 £58.29 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £91.69 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -73.82% +336.62% -1.20%
75th Percentile £35.00 £149.28 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £179.71 -
England median hourly rate £34.13 £26.30 £30.00
% change year-on-year +29.75% -12.33% -9.09%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 +28 90 £475 -5.00% 53
South Yorkshire +5 81 £503 +1.23% 17
East Yorkshire -3 2 - - 4
North Yorkshire -9 1 £550 - 6
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 31 (17.82%) Confluence
2 7 (4.02%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.72%) nginx
4 2 (1.15%) Apache
4 2 (1.15%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
5 1 (0.57%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 82 (47.13%) GitHub Actions
2 77 (44.25%) AWS
3 70 (40.23%) Azure
4 44 (25.29%) GCP
5 27 (15.52%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (8.62%) Serverless
7 11 (6.32%) Apigee
7 11 (6.32%) IaaS
8 10 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.75%) Power Platform
9 9 (5.17%) Amazon S3
9 9 (5.17%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.60%) Amazon SQS
10 8 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.60%) OpenShift
10 8 (4.60%) PowerApps
11 7 (4.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 7 (4.02%) Kong
11 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Copilot
11 7 (4.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 17 (9.77%) DNS
2 9 (5.17%) Firewall
3 8 (4.60%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.60%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 6 (3.45%) VLAN
5 5 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.30%) Network Security
7 3 (1.72%) NAS
7 3 (1.72%) SAN
7 3 (1.72%) SSL
8 2 (1.15%) VSAN
9 1 (0.57%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (0.57%) DMZ
9 1 (0.57%) Ethernet
9 1 (0.57%) Internet
9 1 (0.57%) Intranet
9 1 (0.57%) Modbus
9 1 (0.57%) VPN
9 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (5.75%) Redis
4 9 (5.17%) MongoDB
5 8 (4.60%) Relational Database
6 7 (4.02%) DynamoDB
7 5 (2.87%) Hazelcast
7 5 (2.87%) RDBMS
8 4 (2.30%) Big Data
9 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.72%) Delta Lake
9 3 (1.72%) Parquet
9 3 (1.72%) Power BI
10 2 (1.15%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 2 (1.15%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.15%) Tableau
11 1 (0.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 89 (51.15%) Jenkins
2 48 (27.59%) JIRA
3 24 (13.79%) Git
3 24 (13.79%) GitLab
4 14 (8.05%) Gatling
5 13 (7.47%) Maven
6 11 (6.32%) Bitbucket
7 10 (5.75%) Selenium
7 10 (5.75%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (3.45%) Artifactory
8 6 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.45%) JMeter
9 5 (2.87%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.87%) Gradle
10 4 (2.30%) JUnit
10 4 (2.30%) LoadRunner
10 4 (2.30%) MSBuild
10 4 (2.30%) Serenity BDD
10 4 (2.30%) Snyk
10 4 (2.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 49 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 35 (20.11%) Finance
3 18 (10.34%) Public Sector
4 15 (8.62%) Banking
5 14 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.15%) Law
8 1 (0.57%) Legal
8 1 (0.57%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (24.71%) Developer
2 25 (14.37%) Senior
3 21 (12.07%) Lead
4 19 (10.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 18 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 17 (9.77%) Platform Engineer
7 11 (6.32%) Architect
7 11 (6.32%) Software Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Python Engineer
8 9 (5.17%) Senior Developer
9 8 (4.60%) IAM Developer
9 8 (4.60%) Network Engineer
9 8 (4.60%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.60%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.02%) Senior Java Developer
11 6 (3.45%) .NET Developer
11 6 (3.45%) GCP DevOps
11 6 (3.45%) Lead Test Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 5 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (56.90%) Terraform
2 29 (16.67%) Kafka
3 27 (15.52%) REST
4 18 (10.34%) Playwright
5 17 (9.77%) React
6 15 (8.62%) Spring
6 15 (8.62%) Spring Boot
7 14 (8.05%) HTML
8 12 (6.90%) .NET
9 11 (6.32%) JSON
9 11 (6.32%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (5.17%) OAuth
10 9 (5.17%) RESTful
11 8 (4.60%) JPA
11 8 (4.60%) JWT
11 8 (4.60%) Web Services
12 7 (4.02%) AngularJS
12 7 (4.02%) ASP.NET
12 7 (4.02%) SailPoint
12 7 (4.02%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (20.11%) Cloud Native
2 14 (8.05%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.90%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (6.32%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (4.02%) NHS
5 7 (4.02%) Public Cloud
6 6 (3.45%) Onboarding
6 6 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 6 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (2.30%) AI Agents
7 4 (2.30%) Autonomous Agent
7 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.30%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.30%) Replication
8 3 (1.72%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.15%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.15%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.05%) Linux
2 10 (5.75%) Windows
3 4 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.15%) AIX
4 2 (1.15%) Data ONTAP
4 2 (1.15%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.15%) MVS
4 2 (1.15%) zOS
5 1 (0.57%) Android
5 1 (0.57%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.57%) Solaris
5 1 (0.57%) Unix
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (74.71%) CI/CD
2 105 (60.34%) DevOps
3 81 (46.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 55 (31.61%) Observability
5 51 (29.31%) Agile
6 38 (21.84%) Platform Engineering
7 33 (18.97%) Test Automation
8 29 (16.67%) Microservices
9 27 (15.52%) Software Engineering
10 22 (12.64%) Roadmaps
11 21 (12.07%) Containerisation
12 20 (11.49%) API Development
12 20 (11.49%) Event-Driven
13 19 (10.92%) Cloud Security
13 19 (10.92%) RBAC
13 19 (10.92%) SDLC
14 18 (10.34%) Validation
15 17 (9.77%) Full-Stack Development
16 16 (9.20%) Performance Optimisation
16 16 (9.20%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 92 (52.87%) Python
2 46 (26.44%) Java
3 39 (22.41%) SQL
4 36 (20.69%) PowerShell
5 26 (14.94%) Bash
6 23 (13.22%) JavaScript
7 12 (6.90%) Kotlin
8 11 (6.32%) Scala
9 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
10 8 (4.60%) ActionScript
11 6 (3.45%) Bicep
12 5 (2.87%) C#
13 4 (2.30%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (2.30%) REXX
14 3 (1.72%) Groovy
14 3 (1.72%) Shell Script
15 2 (1.15%) JCL
15 2 (1.15%) PromQL
16 1 (0.57%) Perl
16 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (20.11%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 5 (2.87%) Azure Certification
4 5 (2.87%) Degree
5 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.30%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.72%) OCP
6 3 (1.72%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (1.15%) GSEC
7 2 (1.15%) NCDA
7 2 (1.15%) NCIE
7 2 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.57%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.57%) CISSP
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.57%) CSSLP
8 1 (0.57%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.75%) Accessibility
2 8 (4.60%) QA
3 5 (2.87%) GDPR
3 5 (2.87%) HL7
3 5 (2.87%) WCAG
4 4 (2.30%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.72%) NIST
6 2 (1.15%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (24.71%) Docker
2 14 (8.05%) Active Directory
3 7 (4.02%) vSphere
4 6 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.87%) VMware NSX
6 4 (2.30%) NFS
7 2 (1.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.15%) SRDF
7 2 (1.15%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 66 (37.93%) Kubernetes
2 40 (22.99%) Ansible
3 26 (14.94%) Grafana
4 17 (9.77%) Prometheus
5 14 (8.05%) Argo
6 9 (5.17%) HAProxy
7 7 (4.02%) vCenter Server
8 6 (3.45%) Packer
9 5 (2.87%) Jamf Pro
9 5 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.87%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (2.30%) Kustomize
10 4 (2.30%) NetBackup
11 2 (1.15%) Consul
11 2 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (1.15%) Progress Chef
11 2 (1.15%) Puppet
11 2 (1.15%) Tivoli NetView
11 2 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 2 (1.15%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 30 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (9.20%) Google
3 12 (6.90%) Splunk
4 11 (6.32%) IBM
5 10 (5.75%) Databricks
5 10 (5.75%) Red Hat
6 8 (4.60%) Dynatrace
6 8 (4.60%) F5
7 7 (4.02%) Pure Storage
7 7 (4.02%) VMware
8 6 (3.45%) Centrify
8 6 (3.45%) CyberArk
9 5 (2.87%) Brocade
10 4 (2.30%) Broadcom
10 4 (2.30%) Cisco
10 4 (2.30%) Dell
10 4 (2.30%) New Relic
11 3 (1.72%) EMC
11 3 (1.72%) NetApp
12 2 (1.15%) Veritas