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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 73 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 95 55 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.98% 2.75% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.82% 6.38% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 27 27
10th Percentile £356 £398 £393
25th Percentile £413 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £558 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +1.18% -15.23%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £683
90th Percentile £675 £664 £750
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -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 967 862 960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.55% 43.06% 38.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 559 686
10th Percentile £350 £375 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £555 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.15% +3.16% -6.43%
75th Percentile £644 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 10
10th Percentile £21.29 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.70% +54.78% -66.67%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -26.76%

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 19 April 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 19 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
City of London +13 88 £525 -7.89% 66
West End of London +6 4 £650 +52.94% 3
City of Westminster +4 4 £650 +52.94% 1
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 3 (3.16%) Confluence
1 3 (3.16%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 54 (56.84%) Azure
2 47 (49.47%) AWS
3 44 (46.32%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (21.05%) Serverless
6 15 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 14 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (14.74%) GCP
8 12 (12.63%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (12.63%) Power Platform
9 11 (11.58%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (10.53%) Azure AKS
11 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECR
11 8 (8.42%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (7.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (7.37%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (7.37%) Entra ID
13 6 (6.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.16%) Firewall
1 3 (3.16%) Network Security
2 2 (2.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.68%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.42%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.37%) Power BI
6 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
7 5 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (4.21%) DB2
9 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.11%) Hazelcast
10 2 (2.11%) Metadata
10 2 (2.11%) MySQL
10 2 (2.11%) Redis
10 2 (2.11%) Tick Data
11 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.05%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (26.32%) Git
2 19 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.53%) JIRA
4 9 (9.47%) GitLab
5 7 (7.37%) JUnit
6 6 (6.32%) Mockito
7 5 (5.26%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.26%) Maven
8 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
8 4 (4.21%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.21%) Postman
9 3 (3.16%) Gradle
9 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.11%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.11%) Gatling
10 2 (2.11%) Mocha
10 2 (2.11%) Selenium
10 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.11%) webpack
General
1 18 (18.95%) Finance
2 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Banking
4 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Advertising
6 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.05%) Front Office
7 1 (1.05%) Law
7 1 (1.05%) Police
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) Developer
2 16 (16.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (13.68%) Java Developer
3 13 (13.68%) Senior
4 9 (9.47%) Architect
4 9 (9.47%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (7.37%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.21%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.16%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.16%) Azure Architect
9 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.95%) Spring
2 16 (16.84%) React
2 16 (16.84%) Spring Boot
3 12 (12.63%) Kafka
4 11 (11.58%) REST
5 10 (10.53%) Node.js
6 9 (9.47%) AngularJS
6 9 (9.47%) OAuth
7 7 (7.37%) .NET
7 7 (7.37%) RESTful
8 6 (6.32%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.32%) Playwright
9 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.21%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.21%) JWT
9 4 (4.21%) Next.js
9 4 (4.21%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.21%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.16%) Keras
10 3 (3.16%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 27 (28.42%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.21%) NHS
5 3 (3.16%) Equities
5 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Life Science
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Blog
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.05%) Genomics
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) PKI
7 1 (1.05%) Replication
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (3.16%) Android
2 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.16%) Windows
3 2 (2.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 54 (56.84%) DevOps
3 39 (41.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.53%) Agile
5 26 (27.37%) Test Automation
6 25 (26.32%) Containerisation
6 25 (26.32%) Observability
7 24 (25.26%) AI
8 23 (24.21%) Microservices
9 15 (15.79%) Migration
9 15 (15.79%) Software Engineering
10 14 (14.74%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 13 (13.68%) Analytics
11 13 (13.68%) Event-Driven
11 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (13.68%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (13.68%) TDD
12 11 (11.58%) Platform Engineering
13 10 (10.53%) DevSecOps
14 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (44.21%) Python
2 32 (33.68%) Java
3 23 (24.21%) SQL
4 13 (13.68%) JavaScript
5 12 (12.63%) TypeScript
6 9 (9.47%) C#
7 5 (5.26%) Bicep
8 3 (3.16%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.16%) Ruby
9 2 (2.11%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.11%) Bash
9 2 (2.11%) Go
9 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.05%) C
10 1 (1.05%) C++
10 1 (1.05%) ProC
10 1 (1.05%) Scala
10 1 (1.05%) VB
10 1 (1.05%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (28.42%) SC Cleared
1 27 (28.42%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) Degree
3 7 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) PhD
6 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.05%) CCSP
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) OSCP
7 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
2 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.11%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.11%) PSD2
2 2 (2.11%) SEPA
3 1 (1.05%) GRC
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (33.68%) Docker
2 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (45.26%) Terraform
2 34 (35.79%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.42%) Ansible
4 7 (7.37%) Grafana
4 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.16%) Argo
6 2 (2.11%) Istio
7 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.47%) Oracle
3 7 (7.37%) Databricks
4 6 (6.32%) Google
5 4 (4.21%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.16%) Foundry
6 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.16%) Palantir
6 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.11%) Confluent
7 2 (2.11%) IBM
7 2 (2.11%) SAP
7 2 (2.11%) Solace
8 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.05%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.05%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.05%) Splunk
8 1 (1.05%) Sybase
8 1 (1.05%) Workday