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 4 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 75 90
Rank change year-on-year +18 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 91 50 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.72% 2.50% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 5.75% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 23 23
10th Percentile £360 £413 £384
25th Percentile £461 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £558 £551
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +1.18% -14.57%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £689
90th Percentile £683 £659 £762
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 - - £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 966 869 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.49% 43.41% 39.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 673 563 690
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £458 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year - +3.29% -7.39%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £751
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 8
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.00 £17.39
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £24.56
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £33.98
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.21 £25.00
% change year-on-year +17.52% +20.83% -40.21%

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +18 84 £544 -4.61% 74
West End of London +7 5 £650 +52.94%
City of Westminster +4 5 £650 +52.94%
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 (3.30%) Confluence
1 3 (3.30%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 57 (62.64%) Azure
2 48 (52.75%) AWS
3 47 (51.65%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (26.37%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (18.68%) Serverless
6 14 (15.38%) Azure AKS
6 14 (15.38%) GCP
7 12 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (13.19%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.19%) Power Platform
8 11 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (12.09%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (9.89%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (8.79%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECR
12 6 (6.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.40%) Firewall
1 4 (4.40%) Network Security
2 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 1 (1.10%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.09%) DynamoDB
2 11 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.79%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.79%) Power BI
3 8 (8.79%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.49%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (4.40%) DB2
6 3 (3.30%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.20%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.20%) Metadata
7 2 (2.20%) Redis
7 2 (2.20%) Tick Data
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.10%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Git
2 20 (21.98%) Jenkins
3 12 (13.19%) GitLab
4 8 (8.79%) JIRA
4 8 (8.79%) JUnit
5 7 (7.69%) Mockito
6 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.49%) Maven
7 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.40%) Postman
8 3 (3.30%) Gradle
8 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.20%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.20%) Gatling
9 2 (2.20%) Mocha
9 2 (2.20%) Selenium
9 2 (2.20%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.20%) webpack
10 1 (1.10%) TestRail
General
1 21 (23.08%) Finance
2 19 (20.88%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.99%) Banking
4 8 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Advertising
7 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.20%) Law
7 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.20%) Police
8 1 (1.10%) Front Office
8 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Developer
2 15 (16.48%) Senior
3 12 (13.19%) Architect
4 11 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (9.89%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.30%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.98%) Spring
2 15 (16.48%) Kafka
2 15 (16.48%) React
2 15 (16.48%) Spring Boot
3 10 (10.99%) REST
3 10 (10.99%) RESTful
4 9 (9.89%) .NET
5 8 (8.79%) Node.js
6 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.59%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (6.59%) Playwright
7 5 (5.49%) OAuth
7 5 (5.49%) PySpark
8 4 (4.40%) AWS CDK
8 4 (4.40%) Next.js
8 4 (4.40%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.40%) TensorFlow
9 3 (3.30%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.30%) Jest
9 3 (3.30%) Plotly
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.77%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.49%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.40%) NHS
5 3 (3.30%) Equities
5 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.10%) Blog
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.10%) Genomics
7 1 (1.10%) IoT
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.10%) Life Science
7 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.10%) PKI
7 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Linux
2 5 (5.49%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Android
3 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 54 (59.34%) DevOps
3 41 (45.05%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (32.97%) Agile
5 29 (31.87%) Observability
6 27 (29.67%) Containerisation
7 24 (26.37%) Test Automation
8 22 (24.18%) Microservices
9 21 (23.08%) AI
10 18 (19.78%) Migration
11 16 (17.58%) Event-Driven
12 15 (16.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 14 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (15.38%) Software Engineering
14 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
15 11 (12.09%) Analytics
16 10 (10.99%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 10 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
17 9 (9.89%) TDD
18 8 (8.79%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.76%) Python
2 30 (32.97%) Java
3 23 (25.27%) SQL
4 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
5 12 (13.19%) C#
6 11 (12.09%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.69%) Bicep
8 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.30%) Ruby
10 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.20%) Go
10 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.10%) Bash
11 1 (1.10%) C
11 1 (1.10%) C++
11 1 (1.10%) ProC
11 1 (1.10%) Scala
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
1 31 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Degree
3 7 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) PhD
6 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CCSP
6 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.10%) CISSP
6 1 (1.10%) OSCP
6 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.69%) QA
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.20%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.20%) GDPR
2 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.20%) PSD2
2 2 (2.20%) SEPA
3 1 (1.10%) GRC
3 1 (1.10%) NCSC
3 1 (1.10%) NIST
3 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (35.16%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (49.45%) Terraform
2 40 (43.96%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.79%) Grafana
3 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.69%) Ansible
5 3 (3.30%) Argo
6 2 (2.20%) Istio
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.89%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) Databricks
3 5 (5.49%) Google
4 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.30%) Foundry
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.30%) Palantir
6 2 (2.20%) Confluent
6 2 (2.20%) IBM
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
6 2 (2.20%) Solace
6 2 (2.20%) Splunk
7 1 (1.10%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.10%) Sybase
7 1 (1.10%) VMware