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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 66 63
Rank change year-on-year +27 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 137 23 41
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 5.95% 2.43% 2.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.07% 6.71% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 20 24
10th Percentile £353 £382 £415
25th Percentile £416 £444 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.36% +2.33% +4.88%
75th Percentile £529 £641 £625
90th Percentile £552 £701 £650
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £56.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +104.57% -15.77% -48.00%

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 974 343 477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 42.27% 36.22% 28.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 247 329
10th Percentile £304 £261 £213
25th Percentile £405 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £550 £553 £575
90th Percentile £625 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 7
10th Percentile £14.25 £26.25 £13.40
25th Percentile £34.52 £31.47 £14.25
Median hourly rate £56.50 £41.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.80% +173.33% -65.32%
75th Percentile £68.75 £98.56 £15.38
90th Percentile £71.38 £102.00 £18.25
England median hourly rate £42.50 £26.50 £20.97
% change year-on-year +60.38% +26.37% -20.08%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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
South Yorkshire -7 73 £487 -18.79% 13
West Yorkshire +22 61 £484 +7.50% 42
North Yorkshire - 3 £463 - 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 32 (23.36%) Confluence
2 6 (4.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.73%) Apache
4 1 (0.73%) nginx
Applications
1 14 (10.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (9.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.38%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 50 (36.50%) AWS
1 50 (36.50%) GitHub Actions
2 36 (26.28%) Azure
3 27 (19.71%) GCP
4 22 (16.06%) OpenShift
5 17 (12.41%) Serverless
6 16 (11.68%) AWS Lambda
7 15 (10.95%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (8.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 9 (6.57%) Apigee
10 7 (5.11%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (5.11%) Amazon S3
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 6 (4.38%) Amazon EventBridge
11 6 (4.38%) CloudBees
11 6 (4.38%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.38%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (4.38%) Power Platform
12 5 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (3.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 26 (18.98%) DNS
2 14 (10.22%) Firewall
3 6 (4.38%) TCP/IP
3 6 (4.38%) VPN
4 4 (2.92%) Internet
5 2 (1.46%) HTTP
5 2 (1.46%) NAS
5 2 (1.46%) Network Security
5 2 (1.46%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (14.60%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (9.49%) Relational Database
3 9 (6.57%) DynamoDB
4 8 (5.84%) MongoDB
5 7 (5.11%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
6 6 (4.38%) MySQL
6 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
6 6 (4.38%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.92%) Power BI
8 2 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.73%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.73%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.73%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.73%) Parquet
9 1 (0.73%) Spark SQL
9 1 (0.73%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 102 (74.45%) Jenkins
2 41 (29.93%) JIRA
3 19 (13.87%) GitLab
4 17 (12.41%) Git
4 17 (12.41%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (5.11%) Gatling
6 6 (4.38%) PyCharm
7 5 (3.65%) Selenium
8 4 (2.92%) Artifactory
8 4 (2.92%) CircleCI
8 4 (2.92%) Maven
9 3 (2.19%) Postman
9 3 (2.19%) REST Assured
9 3 (2.19%) Serenity BDD
10 2 (1.46%) Cucumber
10 2 (1.46%) MSI
10 2 (1.46%) SpecFlow
10 2 (1.46%) TestRail
10 2 (1.46%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
General
1 45 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 31 (22.63%) Finance
3 28 (20.44%) Banking
4 12 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.19%) Law
6 2 (1.46%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.46%) Military
7 1 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.73%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (17.52%) Platform Engineer
2 17 (12.41%) Business Analyst
2 17 (12.41%) DevOps Engineer
3 15 (10.95%) Analyst
3 15 (10.95%) Technical Business Analyst
4 14 (10.22%) Developer
4 14 (10.22%) Senior
4 14 (10.22%) Technical Analyst
5 13 (9.49%) Lead
6 12 (8.76%) Architect
6 12 (8.76%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (8.03%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (8.03%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.84%) Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.11%) AWS Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.38%) Software Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 5 (3.65%) GCP DevOps
12 4 (2.92%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (13.14%) REST
2 11 (8.03%) OpenTelemetry
2 11 (8.03%) Playwright
3 8 (5.84%) Kafka
4 7 (5.11%) JSON
4 7 (5.11%) Node.js
4 7 (5.11%) React
5 6 (4.38%) NumPy
5 6 (4.38%) OpenAPI
5 6 (4.38%) Pandas
5 6 (4.38%) Swagger
5 6 (4.38%) TensorFlow
6 5 (3.65%) Flask
7 4 (2.92%) .NET
7 4 (2.92%) Jest
7 4 (2.92%) RESTful
7 4 (2.92%) Spring
7 4 (2.92%) Spring Boot
7 4 (2.92%) Web Services
7 4 (2.92%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (18.98%) Cloud Native
2 12 (8.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (5.84%) NHS
4 5 (3.65%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 5 (3.65%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.92%) Clustering
5 4 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.92%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.92%) Online Banking
6 3 (2.19%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.19%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.46%) CMDB
7 2 (1.46%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.46%) Replication
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.73%) Life Science
8 1 (0.73%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (13.14%) Linux
2 8 (5.84%) Windows
3 5 (3.65%) Unix
4 3 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
4 3 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (78.10%) CI/CD
2 106 (77.37%) DevOps
3 53 (38.69%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (27.01%) Migration
5 32 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
6 31 (22.63%) Containerisation
6 31 (22.63%) Observability
7 29 (21.17%) Platform Engineering
8 25 (18.25%) Test Automation
9 24 (17.52%) Agile
10 20 (14.60%) High Availability
10 20 (14.60%) Load Balancing
11 18 (13.14%) Software Delivery
12 17 (12.41%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (12.41%) Software Engineering
13 16 (11.68%) Data Protection
13 16 (11.68%) Process Improvement
14 14 (10.22%) Task Automation
15 13 (9.49%) Matrix Organization
15 13 (9.49%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 96 (70.07%) Python
2 43 (31.39%) Bash
3 18 (13.14%) Java
4 14 (10.22%) PowerShell
5 12 (8.76%) SQL
6 9 (6.57%) TypeScript
7 8 (5.84%) C#
8 7 (5.11%) Groovy
8 7 (5.11%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.92%) Scala
9 4 (2.92%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.19%) Go
10 3 (2.19%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.46%) XPath
12 1 (0.73%) Bicep
12 1 (0.73%) C
12 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 29 (21.17%) Security Cleared
2 23 (16.79%) SC Cleared
3 6 (4.38%) Degree
4 4 (2.92%) OCP
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.73%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.73%) CISM
6 1 (0.73%) CISSP
6 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.65%) SLA
2 3 (2.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) QA
System Software
1 33 (24.09%) Docker
2 16 (11.68%) VMware NSX
2 16 (11.68%) vSphere
3 9 (6.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 74 (54.01%) Terraform
2 65 (47.45%) Ansible
3 56 (40.88%) Kubernetes
4 26 (18.98%) Grafana
5 16 (11.68%) Argo
5 16 (11.68%) vCenter Server
6 10 (7.30%) Puppet
7 9 (6.57%) NetBackup
8 8 (5.84%) Istio
9 6 (4.38%) Prometheus
9 6 (4.38%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (3.65%) Packer
11 4 (2.92%) HAProxy
12 1 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.73%) Kibana
12 1 (0.73%) logstash
12 1 (0.73%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 31 (22.63%) Splunk
2 23 (16.79%) Red Hat
3 17 (12.41%) Microsoft
4 16 (11.68%) Pure Storage
4 16 (11.68%) Sonatype
4 16 (11.68%) VMware
5 14 (10.22%) Google
6 8 (5.84%) Commvault
7 6 (4.38%) Veritas
8 5 (3.65%) Oracle
9 4 (2.92%) Databricks
9 4 (2.92%) Dynatrace
10 3 (2.19%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.19%) ServiceNow
11 2 (1.46%) Cisco
11 2 (1.46%) Cribl.io
11 2 (1.46%) EMC
11 2 (1.46%) NetApp
11 2 (1.46%) OpenAI
11 2 (1.46%) Salesforce