GitHub Contract Job Trends in Central London

GitHub
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 79 91
Rank change year-on-year +31 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing GitHub 99 51 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.36% 2.53% 1.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.48% 5.97% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 26 24
10th Percentile £356 £413 £384
25th Percentile £413 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £573 £551
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% +4.00% -15.31%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £681
90th Percentile £695 £679 £734
London median daily rate £550 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -2.22% +7.14% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £46.00 - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%

All Cloud Computing 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 945 854 993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.61% 42.38% 38.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 556 706
10th Percentile £343 £375 £343
25th Percentile £450 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £741
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.64 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £27.97 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -48.57%
75th Percentile £49.83 £38.44 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £90.38 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.00 £30.21 £30.11
% change year-on-year +15.87% +0.32% -13.97%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

GitHub job vacancy trend in Central London

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Central London over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing GitHub

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 22 March 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
City of London +22 93 £525 -8.70% 63
West End of London +11 3 £650 +52.94% 3
City of Westminster +5 3 £650 +52.94% 3
GitHub
London

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 6 (6.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.03%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (51.52%) Azure
2 47 (47.47%) AWS
3 44 (44.44%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (21.21%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (20.20%) Serverless
6 16 (16.16%) Amazon S3
7 14 (14.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 14 (14.14%) Amazon ECS
7 14 (14.14%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (14.14%) GCP
8 10 (10.10%) Power Platform
9 9 (9.09%) Azure AKS
9 9 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (8.08%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (7.07%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (7.07%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.07%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (7.07%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (6.06%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) DNS
1 3 (3.03%) Firewall
1 3 (3.03%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.12%) NoSQL
2 11 (11.11%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.10%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.08%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (7.07%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (7.07%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.06%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.06%) Power BI
7 4 (4.04%) DB2
8 3 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (3.03%) MySQL
8 3 (3.03%) Redis
8 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
8 3 (3.03%) Tick Data
9 2 (2.02%) Amazon Aurora
9 2 (2.02%) Hazelcast
10 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.01%) CouchDB
10 1 (1.01%) Metadata
10 1 (1.01%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 26 (26.26%) Git
2 22 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.13%) JIRA
4 8 (8.08%) GitLab
5 6 (6.06%) Bitbucket
5 6 (6.06%) Cypress.io
5 6 (6.06%) JUnit
6 5 (5.05%) Mockito
7 4 (4.04%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.04%) Maven
7 4 (4.04%) Postman
7 4 (4.04%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.03%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.03%) webpack
9 2 (2.02%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.02%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.02%) Gatling
9 2 (2.02%) Mocha
9 2 (2.02%) Selenium
10 1 (1.01%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (18.18%) Finance
2 17 (17.17%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.09%) Banking
4 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.02%) Advertising
6 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.02%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.01%) Front Office
7 1 (1.01%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.01%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.23%) Developer
2 16 (16.16%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (12.12%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.12%) Senior
4 9 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (7.07%) Architect
6 5 (5.05%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.05%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.05%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Angular Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.04%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Site Engineer
7 4 (4.04%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.03%) Fidessa Developer
8 3 (3.03%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.18%) React
2 16 (16.16%) Spring
3 14 (14.14%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.12%) REST
5 11 (11.11%) Node.js
6 10 (10.10%) AngularJS
6 10 (10.10%) OAuth
7 9 (9.09%) Kafka
8 8 (8.08%) .NET
9 7 (7.07%) Playwright
10 6 (6.06%) FastAPI
11 5 (5.05%) Next.js
12 4 (4.04%) Jest
12 4 (4.04%) JWT
12 4 (4.04%) LangGraph
12 4 (4.04%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (4.04%) PyTorch
12 4 (4.04%) RESTful
12 4 (4.04%) TensorFlow
13 3 (3.03%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 24 (24.24%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.10%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.04%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.04%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.04%) Equities
3 4 (4.04%) NHS
4 3 (3.03%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.02%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.02%) Life Science
5 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.02%) Replication
6 1 (1.01%) Blog
6 1 (1.01%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.01%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.01%) Genomics
6 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.01%) PKI
6 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.09%) Linux
2 3 (3.03%) Android
2 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.03%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 52 (52.53%) DevOps
3 38 (38.38%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (29.29%) Agile
5 28 (28.28%) AI
6 25 (25.25%) Test Automation
7 21 (21.21%) Containerisation
7 21 (21.21%) Microservices
7 21 (21.21%) Observability
8 18 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (16.16%) Migration
10 14 (14.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (14.14%) TDD
11 13 (13.13%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.12%) Analytics
12 12 (12.12%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (10.10%) DevSecOps
14 10 (10.10%) LLM
14 10 (10.10%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 46 (46.46%) Python
2 31 (31.31%) Java
3 25 (25.25%) SQL
4 15 (15.15%) JavaScript
5 14 (14.14%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.10%) C#
7 4 (4.04%) Bicep
8 3 (3.03%) Ruby
9 2 (2.02%) Bash
9 2 (2.02%) Go
9 2 (2.02%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.01%) C
10 1 (1.01%) C++
10 1 (1.01%) PHP
10 1 (1.01%) ProC
10 1 (1.01%) Scala
10 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.01%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) SC Cleared
1 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.08%) Degree
3 7 (7.07%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.03%) PhD
6 1 (1.01%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CCSP
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.01%) CISSP
6 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.01%) OSCP
6 1 (1.01%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.05%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.02%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.02%) PSD2
3 2 (2.02%) SEPA
3 2 (2.02%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) GRC
4 1 (1.01%) MiFID
4 1 (1.01%) NCSC
4 1 (1.01%) NIST
4 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (29.29%) Docker
2 4 (4.04%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 44 (44.44%) Terraform
2 29 (29.29%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.09%) Ansible
4 5 (5.05%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.04%) Grafana
6 3 (3.03%) Argo
7 2 (2.02%) Istio
8 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.01%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.09%) Oracle
3 7 (7.07%) Databricks
3 7 (7.07%) Google
4 3 (3.03%) Foundry
4 3 (3.03%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.03%) Palantir
4 3 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.03%) Solace
5 2 (2.02%) Confluent
5 2 (2.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.01%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.01%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.01%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.01%) SAP
6 1 (1.01%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.01%) Sybase
6 1 (1.01%) Workday