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 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 86 91
Rank change year-on-year +32 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing GitHub 83 44 52
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.11% 1.91% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% 4.83% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 18 35
10th Percentile £343 £461 £413
25th Percentile £413 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -1.42% -5.38%
75th Percentile £669 £697 £663
90th Percentile £800 £741 £709
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -8.00%

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 830 911 1,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.13% 39.49% 39.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 597 779
10th Percentile £325 £383 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £746
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £18.83 £28.13 -
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £38.00
90th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £53.75
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.42 £36.57
% change year-on-year -16.30% -14.06% +26.09%

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 28 December 2025.

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 28 December 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 +30 79 £550 -9.28% 153
City of Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
West End of London - 1 £475 - 6
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 5 (6.02%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.41%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.01%) GitHub Actions
2 43 (51.81%) Azure
3 33 (39.76%) AWS
4 21 (25.30%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (18.07%) GCP
6 14 (16.87%) Serverless
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
7 12 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (9.64%) Azure AKS
9 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
10 7 (8.43%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.43%) Cloud Run
11 6 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.02%) Apigee
12 5 (6.02%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (6.02%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (6.02%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (6.02%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
2 4 (4.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.20%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.20%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.02%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.82%) MySQL
3 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.61%) Power BI
4 3 (3.61%) Redis
4 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Tick Data
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.20%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.20%) DataStage
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Exadata
6 1 (1.20%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) Git
2 16 (19.28%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.84%) Bitbucket
4 8 (9.64%) JIRA
5 7 (8.43%) GitLab
6 4 (4.82%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.61%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.61%) Maven
7 3 (3.61%) Snyk
7 3 (3.61%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.41%) Gradle
9 1 (1.20%) Ant
9 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.20%) Mocha
9 1 (1.20%) Mockito
9 1 (1.20%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.20%) Selenium
9 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.20%) Xcode
9 1 (1.20%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (22.89%) Finance
2 10 (12.05%) Social Skills
3 6 (7.23%) Banking
4 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (26.51%) Developer
2 18 (21.69%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (14.46%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Senior
5 7 (8.43%) Angular Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (4.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.41%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) React
2 14 (16.87%) REST
3 12 (14.46%) OAuth
4 10 (12.05%) Node.js
4 10 (12.05%) Spring Boot
5 9 (10.84%) AngularJS
6 6 (7.23%) FastAPI
6 6 (7.23%) GraphQL
6 6 (7.23%) JWT
6 6 (7.23%) Spring
7 5 (6.02%) .NET
7 5 (6.02%) LangChain
8 4 (4.82%) CSS
8 4 (4.82%) HTML
8 4 (4.82%) LangGraph
8 4 (4.82%) Next.js
8 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.61%) HTML5
9 3 (3.61%) OpenID
9 3 (3.61%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.23%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.41%) Equities
5 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.41%) Life Science
5 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.41%) Replication
5 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.20%) Genomics
6 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Android
2 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (66.27%) CI/CD
2 51 (61.45%) DevOps
3 31 (37.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (27.71%) Agile
4 23 (27.71%) AI
5 20 (24.10%) Containerisation
6 18 (21.69%) Microservices
7 17 (20.48%) Full-Stack Development
7 17 (20.48%) Test Automation
8 15 (18.07%) Migration
9 13 (15.66%) Observability
9 13 (15.66%) TDD
10 12 (14.46%) DevSecOps
10 12 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (13.25%) Generative AI
12 8 (9.64%) Analytics
12 8 (9.64%) LLM
13 7 (8.43%) Data Governance
13 7 (8.43%) Kanban
13 7 (8.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 23 (27.71%) Java
3 16 (19.28%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.02%) C#
7 4 (4.82%) Bash
8 3 (3.61%) Bicep
9 2 (2.41%) Go
9 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.20%) C
10 1 (1.20%) C++
10 1 (1.20%) PHP
10 1 (1.20%) ProC
10 1 (1.20%) Ruby
10 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.20%) VB
10 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (27.71%) SC Cleared
1 23 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CCSP
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CISSP
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) MCP
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) OSCP
4 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) GDPR
2 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.82%) NIST
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) EU AI Act
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.20%) GRC
5 1 (1.20%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.20%) ISO 8583
5 1 (1.20%) MiFID
5 1 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.20%) PSD2
5 1 (1.20%) SEPA
5 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (33.73%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (48.19%) Terraform
2 22 (26.51%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.46%) Ansible
4 6 (7.23%) Grafana
5 4 (4.82%) Istio
5 4 (4.82%) Prometheus
6 3 (3.61%) Puppet
7 2 (2.41%) Argo
8 1 (1.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Google
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
4 6 (7.23%) OpenAI
5 4 (4.82%) Databricks
6 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.41%) Solace
6 2 (2.41%) Splunk
7 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.20%) Confluent
7 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.20%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.20%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.20%) SAP
7 1 (1.20%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.20%) Tenable
7 1 (1.20%) Workday