GitHub Contracts in Central London

GitHub
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 79 100
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing GitHub 45 105 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.84% 2.72% 2.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.70% 7.08% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 48 79
10th Percentile £384 £456 £450
25th Percentile £425 £530 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £648 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.98% +12.61% +12.20%
75th Percentile £688 £727 £688
90th Percentile £759 £825 £738
London median daily rate £525 £625 £577
% change year-on-year -16.00% +8.25% +13.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.75 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £57.75 £70.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year -17.50% +22.81% -14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 957 1,483 1,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.08% 38.47% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 1,018 1,594
10th Percentile £350 £313 £389
25th Percentile £430 £456 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £680
90th Percentile £750 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £20.48 -
25th Percentile £18.93 £27.50 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +292.04% -26.58%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £52.60 - £47.78
London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% +14.29% +5.50%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Central London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Central London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
City of London +3 44 £551 -15.23% 8
City of Westminster - 1 £550 -
GitHub
London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.22%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) Azure
2 21 (46.67%) AWS
3 20 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (24.44%) Serverless
5 9 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (17.78%) Azure Functions
7 6 (13.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (13.33%) GCP
8 5 (11.11%) Azure AKS
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
11 2 (4.44%) SaaS
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
12 1 (2.22%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.22%) MQTT
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.22%) VLAN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) NoSQL
2 8 (17.78%) MySQL
3 5 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 5 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) Big Data
7 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.22%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.22%) Data Mart
7 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (2.22%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Git
1 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 8 (17.78%) GitLab
4 7 (15.56%) CircleCI
5 6 (13.33%) JIRA
6 5 (11.11%) JMeter
7 4 (8.89%) Mercurial
7 4 (8.89%) Postman
8 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
9 2 (4.44%) Appium
9 2 (4.44%) GoCD
9 2 (4.44%) Gradle
9 2 (4.44%) JUnit
9 2 (4.44%) Maven
9 2 (4.44%) Subversion
9 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (2.22%) Burp Suite
10 1 (2.22%) TestRail
10 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (22.22%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Aviation
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Legal
5 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Senior
4 4 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
5 3 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead
6 2 (4.44%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Quantitative Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Site Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.22%) React
2 7 (15.56%) Kafka
2 7 (15.56%) REST
3 6 (13.33%) Node.js
4 5 (11.11%) HTML
4 5 (11.11%) RESTful
4 5 (11.11%) Web Services
5 3 (6.67%) Django
5 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (6.67%) pytest
5 3 (6.67%) XML
6 2 (4.44%) Behat
6 2 (4.44%) JSON
6 2 (4.44%) NumPy
6 2 (4.44%) Pandas
6 2 (4.44%) React Native
6 2 (4.44%) SciPy
6 2 (4.44%) Svelte
6 2 (4.44%) Vue
6 2 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Cloud Native
1 4 (8.89%) Machine to Machine
1 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
2 3 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) BYOD
3 2 (4.44%) Derivative
3 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.22%) CBDC
4 1 (2.22%) Digital Currency
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Genomics
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
4 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 11 (24.44%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.44%) Android
5 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (51.11%) DevOps
3 18 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 14 (31.11%) Agile
5 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (17.78%) Open Source
5 8 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
6 7 (15.56%) Microservices
7 6 (13.33%) Architectural Design
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 5 (11.11%) Containerisation
8 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (11.11%) SDLC
8 5 (11.11%) TDD
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (8.89%) API Testing
9 4 (8.89%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (8.89%) Scrum
9 4 (8.89%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Python
2 16 (35.56%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.89%) Bash
5 4 (8.89%) C#
6 3 (6.67%) C++
6 3 (6.67%) PHP
6 3 (6.67%) Rust
6 3 (6.67%) TypeScript
7 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.22%) C
8 1 (2.22%) Go
8 1 (2.22%) R
8 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) Degree
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (4.44%) SANS
3 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.22%) NCSC
4 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) ACF2
4 1 (2.22%) Ceph
4 1 (2.22%) IAG
4 1 (2.22%) iptables
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
4 1 (2.22%) RACF
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 17 (37.78%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.33%) Ansible
3 6 (13.33%) Argo
4 5 (11.11%) Puppet
5 4 (8.89%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.67%) Grafana
6 3 (6.67%) Prometheus
7 2 (4.44%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (4.44%) Graylog
7 2 (4.44%) Kibana
7 2 (4.44%) logstash
7 2 (4.44%) Nagios
8 1 (2.22%) Hadoop YARN
8 1 (2.22%) HP Fortify
8 1 (2.22%) Mesos
8 1 (2.22%) Nessus
8 1 (2.22%) Packer
8 1 (2.22%) PingFederate
8 1 (2.22%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.22%) New Relic
4 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.22%) Sybase
4 1 (2.22%) Veracode