GitHub Contracts in Central London

GitHub
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 89 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 49 44 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.45% 1.80% 2.72%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.70% 4.61% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 24 48
10th Percentile £413 £388 £456
25th Percentile £470 £425 £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £551 £648
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -14.98% +12.61%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £727
90th Percentile £659 £759 £825
London median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate - £57.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -17.50% +20.95%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 859 955 1,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 43.01% 39.04% 38.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 689 1,022
10th Percentile £370 £350 £313
25th Percentile £458 £438 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
75th Percentile £663 £650 £700
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 9
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £24.20
25th Percentile £26.00 £17.39 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.56 £88.30
90th Percentile £94.88 £33.98 -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +13 47 £570 +2.15% 29
City of Westminster 0 1 £425 -22.73% 2
West End of London - 1 £425 - 11
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 4 (8.16%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.12%) Apache
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (53.06%) Azure
2 21 (42.86%) GitHub Actions
3 20 (40.82%) AWS
4 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.20%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.20%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.20%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.20%) GCP
5 5 (10.20%) Serverless
6 4 (8.16%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (8.16%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.16%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.12%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.12%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.12%) dbt
7 3 (6.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) DNS
2 5 (10.20%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.12%) HTTP
3 3 (6.12%) SMTP
4 2 (4.08%) DHCP
4 2 (4.08%) Firewall
4 2 (4.08%) FTP
4 2 (4.08%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.08%) SSL
4 2 (4.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.24%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.16%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.16%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.16%) Power BI
4 3 (6.12%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.08%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.08%) Flink
5 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.04%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.04%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.04%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.04%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.04%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (24.49%) Jenkins
2 8 (16.33%) JIRA
3 5 (10.20%) Git
4 4 (8.16%) Postman
4 4 (8.16%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.12%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) Selenium
5 3 (6.12%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.12%) Subversion
6 2 (4.08%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.08%) JMeter
6 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.08%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.04%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.04%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.04%) Serena SBM
7 1 (2.04%) Snyk
7 1 (2.04%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 7 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Retail
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) International Banking
7 1 (2.04%) Marketing
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 7 (14.29%) Lead
2 7 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Architect
5 3 (6.12%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Product Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Products Support Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Kafka
1 6 (12.24%) Pandas
1 6 (12.24%) REST
2 5 (10.20%) .NET
2 5 (10.20%) Node.js
2 5 (10.20%) NumPy
2 5 (10.20%) OAuth
2 5 (10.20%) React
3 4 (8.16%) OpenID
3 4 (8.16%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.12%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.12%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.08%) CSS
5 2 (4.08%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.08%) HTML
5 2 (4.08%) Jest
5 2 (4.08%) PySpark
5 2 (4.08%) pytest
5 2 (4.08%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.08%) Clustering
3 1 (2.04%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) CUDA
3 1 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.04%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.04%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.04%) Replication
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (16.33%) Linux
2 6 (12.24%) Windows
3 5 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.12%) Unix
5 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.08%) Solaris
6 1 (2.04%) VMS
6 1 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.04%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (59.18%) CI/CD
2 22 (44.90%) DevOps
3 16 (32.65%) Agile
4 15 (30.61%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
6 11 (22.45%) Test Automation
7 8 (16.33%) Containerisation
7 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
7 8 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (12.24%) Analytics
8 6 (12.24%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (12.24%) Observability
8 6 (12.24%) Performance Testing
8 6 (12.24%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (10.20%) API Integration
9 5 (10.20%) Code Quality
9 5 (10.20%) ETL
10 4 (8.16%) Configuration Management
10 4 (8.16%) Microservices
10 4 (8.16%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 30 (61.22%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) Bash
2 9 (18.37%) C#
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
3 8 (16.33%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.20%) Java
4 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
5 4 (8.16%) Perl
6 3 (6.12%) C++
6 3 (6.12%) Go
6 3 (6.12%) Rust
7 2 (4.08%) Bicep
7 2 (4.08%) Ruby
7 2 (4.08%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.04%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (24.49%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.12%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.04%) Lustre
4 1 (2.04%) NFS
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.04%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 22 (44.90%) Terraform
2 18 (36.73%) Kubernetes
3 8 (16.33%) Ansible
4 5 (10.20%) Grafana
5 4 (8.16%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.08%) Control-M
7 2 (4.08%) QRadar
7 2 (4.08%) Tivoli
8 1 (2.04%) Argo
8 1 (2.04%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (2.04%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.04%) Netcool
8 1 (2.04%) Podman
8 1 (2.04%) Puppet
8 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.04%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.20%) VMware
2 4 (8.16%) Databricks
2 4 (8.16%) IBM
2 4 (8.16%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.12%) Confluent
3 3 (6.12%) Google
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) SAP
3 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.12%) Splunk
4 2 (4.08%) BMC
4 2 (4.08%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.08%) Qualys
5 1 (2.04%) EMC
5 1 (2.04%) Informatica
5 1 (2.04%) Juniper
5 1 (2.04%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.04%) Sybase