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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 55 59
Rank change year-on-year +21 +4 +15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 171 40 47
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 6.26% 3.38% 2.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.47% 9.64% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 31 32
10th Percentile £366 £360 £400
25th Percentile £424 £459 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £520 £569
Median % change year-on-year -5.72% -8.62% +5.81%
75th Percentile £535 £605 £625
90th Percentile £575 £700 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £533
% change year-on-year - -1.50% -11.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.00 - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £27.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +129.58% -60.71% +3.70%

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 1,038 415 517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 38.02% 35.08% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 282 362
10th Percentile £319 £258 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -5.71%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £688 £636 £645
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 4 9
10th Percentile £18.50 £27.82 £13.45
25th Percentile £23.00 £30.17 -
Median hourly rate £56.50 £32.96 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.42% +119.73% -53.85%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.48 £21.50
90th Percentile £72.43 £79.33 £22.00
England median hourly rate £42.69 £25.33 £21.50
% change year-on-year +68.55% +17.79% -33.85%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +34 92 £475 -2.56% 22
South Yorkshire -3 77 £500 -3.80% 6
North Yorkshire -9 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 29 (16.96%) Confluence
2 10 (5.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.17%) nginx
4 2 (1.17%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 8 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.58%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 71 (41.52%) GitHub Actions
2 61 (35.67%) AWS
3 47 (27.49%) Azure
4 42 (24.56%) GCP
5 21 (12.28%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (12.28%) OpenShift
6 15 (8.77%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 12 (7.02%) Apigee
7 12 (7.02%) Serverless
8 10 (5.85%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (5.85%) IaaS
8 10 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (5.26%) Power Platform
10 8 (4.68%) Azure Key Vault
10 8 (4.68%) Entra ID
10 8 (4.68%) PowerApps
11 7 (4.09%) Amazon S3
11 7 (4.09%) Amazon SQS
11 7 (4.09%) Power Automate
12 6 (3.51%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 26 (15.20%) DNS
2 15 (8.77%) Firewall
3 8 (4.68%) BIG-IP
3 8 (4.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 8 (4.68%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 7 (4.09%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.92%) VLAN
5 5 (2.92%) VPN
6 4 (2.34%) NAS
6 4 (2.34%) SAN
7 3 (1.75%) SSL
8 2 (1.17%) Network Security
8 2 (1.17%) VSAN
9 1 (0.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.94%) SQL Server
2 15 (8.77%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (7.60%) MongoDB
4 10 (5.85%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.92%) DynamoDB
5 5 (2.92%) Redis
6 4 (2.34%) Hazelcast
6 4 (2.34%) RDBMS
7 3 (1.75%) Delta Lake
7 3 (1.75%) Parquet
8 2 (1.17%) Power BI
9 1 (0.58%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.58%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.58%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.58%) Qlik Sense
9 1 (0.58%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.58%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 111 (64.91%) Jenkins
2 44 (25.73%) JIRA
3 23 (13.45%) GitLab
4 17 (9.94%) Git
5 16 (9.36%) Gatling
6 11 (6.43%) Maven
7 9 (5.26%) Selenium
7 9 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 7 (4.09%) Bitbucket
8 7 (4.09%) REST Assured
8 7 (4.09%) Serenity BDD
9 6 (3.51%) Artifactory
10 4 (2.34%) Cucumber
10 4 (2.34%) Gradle
10 4 (2.34%) JUnit
10 4 (2.34%) Snyk
11 2 (1.17%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.17%) JMeter
11 2 (1.17%) Mockito
11 2 (1.17%) TestNG
General
1 51 (29.82%) Social Skills
2 31 (18.13%) Finance
3 22 (12.87%) Banking
4 16 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 7 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.17%) Law
6 2 (1.17%) Military
7 1 (0.58%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.58%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.58%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.58%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (19.88%) Developer
2 24 (14.04%) Senior
3 20 (11.70%) Architect
3 20 (11.70%) Platform Engineer
4 18 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 16 (9.36%) Lead
6 14 (8.19%) Java Developer
7 12 (7.02%) GCP Engineer
8 10 (5.85%) Network Engineer
9 9 (5.26%) Business Analyst
9 9 (5.26%) GCP DevOps
10 8 (4.68%) Senior Developer
10 8 (4.68%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (4.09%) Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) Lead Test Engineer
11 7 (4.09%) Python Developer
11 7 (4.09%) Technical Business Analyst
11 7 (4.09%) Test Engineer
12 6 (3.51%) Senior Java Developer
12 6 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.28%) REST
2 18 (10.53%) Playwright
3 16 (9.36%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (8.19%) Kafka
5 12 (7.02%) Spring
5 12 (7.02%) Spring Boot
6 8 (4.68%) HTML
6 8 (4.68%) React
7 7 (4.09%) JSON
7 7 (4.09%) OAuth
7 7 (4.09%) OpenAPI
7 7 (4.09%) Spring Cloud
7 7 (4.09%) Swagger
7 7 (4.09%) YAML
8 6 (3.51%) Flask
8 6 (3.51%) JPA
8 6 (3.51%) JWT
8 6 (3.51%) OAuth2
8 6 (3.51%) RESTful
9 4 (2.34%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 39 (22.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (8.77%) Data Centre
3 11 (6.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 7 (4.09%) Product Ownership
4 7 (4.09%) Public Cloud
5 6 (3.51%) NHS
6 5 (2.92%) Replication
7 4 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.17%) CMDB
9 2 (1.17%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.17%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.17%) EMC VNX
9 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (1.17%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.17%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.53%) Linux
2 13 (7.60%) Windows
3 5 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.75%) Unix
5 2 (1.17%) AIX
5 2 (1.17%) Data ONTAP
5 2 (1.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.17%) MVS
5 2 (1.17%) zOS
6 1 (0.58%) Solaris
6 1 (0.58%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (80.70%) CI/CD
2 115 (67.25%) DevOps
3 65 (38.01%) Infrastructure as Code
4 50 (29.24%) Observability
5 39 (22.81%) Agile
6 33 (19.30%) Migration
7 29 (16.96%) Platform Engineering
8 28 (16.37%) Containerisation
9 26 (15.20%) Test Automation
10 25 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
11 23 (13.45%) High Availability
11 23 (13.45%) Microservices
12 21 (12.28%) Software Engineering
13 20 (11.70%) Cloud Security
13 20 (11.70%) Roadmaps
14 17 (9.94%) Disaster Recovery
14 17 (9.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 17 (9.94%) Performance Optimisation
15 16 (9.36%) Software Delivery
15 16 (9.36%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 100 (58.48%) Python
2 41 (23.98%) Bash
3 34 (19.88%) Java
4 29 (16.96%) PowerShell
5 24 (14.04%) SQL
6 11 (6.43%) JavaScript
6 11 (6.43%) Scala
7 8 (4.68%) ActionScript
7 8 (4.68%) Kotlin
8 6 (3.51%) TypeScript
9 4 (2.34%) C#
9 4 (2.34%) Groovy
9 4 (2.34%) REXX
10 3 (1.75%) Kusto Query Language
10 3 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.17%) JCL
11 2 (1.17%) PromQL
12 1 (0.58%) ABAP
12 1 (0.58%) Perl
12 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (16.37%) Security Cleared
2 21 (12.28%) SC Cleared
3 9 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (2.34%) Degree
4 4 (2.34%) OCP
4 4 (2.34%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.17%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.17%) CISSP
6 2 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.17%) NCDA
6 2 (1.17%) NCIE
6 2 (1.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.58%) CISM
7 1 (0.58%) CSSLP
7 1 (0.58%) GIAC
7 1 (0.58%) GSEC
7 1 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.60%) Accessibility
2 5 (2.92%) GDPR
2 5 (2.92%) WCAG
3 3 (1.75%) HL7
3 3 (1.75%) QA
4 2 (1.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.17%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (21.05%) Docker
2 17 (9.94%) vSphere
3 15 (8.77%) VMware NSX
4 11 (6.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.92%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (2.34%) NFS
6 4 (2.34%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.17%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.17%) SRDF
7 2 (1.17%) Time Sharing Option
7 2 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 91 (53.22%) Terraform
2 61 (35.67%) Kubernetes
3 56 (32.75%) Ansible
4 28 (16.37%) Grafana
5 21 (12.28%) Argo
6 17 (9.94%) vCenter Server
7 16 (9.36%) Prometheus
8 9 (5.26%) HAProxy
9 8 (4.68%) NetBackup
10 7 (4.09%) Istio
11 6 (3.51%) Puppet
12 5 (2.92%) Jamf Pro
12 5 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
13 4 (2.34%) Single Sign-On
14 3 (1.75%) Packer
15 2 (1.17%) Consul
15 2 (1.17%) EMC VPLEX
15 2 (1.17%) SnapMirror
15 2 (1.17%) SnapVault
15 2 (1.17%) Zipkin
Vendors
1 26 (15.20%) Google
2 23 (13.45%) Splunk
3 20 (11.70%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.70%) Red Hat
4 17 (9.94%) Pure Storage
4 17 (9.94%) VMware
5 9 (5.26%) F5
5 9 (5.26%) Sonatype
6 7 (4.09%) Databricks
7 6 (3.51%) Brocade
7 6 (3.51%) Veritas
8 5 (2.92%) Commvault
8 5 (2.92%) IBM
9 4 (2.34%) Broadcom
9 4 (2.34%) Cisco
9 4 (2.34%) Dell
9 4 (2.34%) Dynatrace
9 4 (2.34%) EMC
9 4 (2.34%) NetApp
10 3 (1.75%) Oracle