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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 84 87
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 +24
Contract jobs citing GitHub 83 41 53
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.12% 1.84% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.92% 4.66% 5.12%
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 £558 £573
% change year-on-year -1.35% -2.71% -8.32%

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 837 880 1,036
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.58% 39.50% 39.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 575 762
10th Percentile £340 £380 £353
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 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £18.83 £28.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.98 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £40.19 - £34.44
90th Percentile £42.50 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.30 £31.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -15.16% -12.99% +31.96%

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 January 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 January 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 +24 79 £550 -9.28% 69
City of Westminster - 2 £475 - 1
West End of London - 1 £475 - 5
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 45 (54.22%) Azure
2 44 (53.01%) GitHub Actions
3 32 (38.55%) AWS
4 22 (26.51%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (19.28%) GCP
6 14 (16.87%) Serverless
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.25%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (10.84%) 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
11 6 (7.23%) Azure Key Vault
12 5 (6.02%) Apigee
12 5 (6.02%) AWS Fargate
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
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.02%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.02%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) MySQL
3 4 (4.82%) Redis
4 3 (3.61%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.61%) Power BI
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%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.41%) Tick Data
6 1 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
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 17 (20.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.84%) Bitbucket
4 8 (9.64%) JIRA
5 6 (7.23%) 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%) Gatling
8 2 (2.41%) Gradle
9 1 (1.20%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.20%) gulp
9 1 (1.20%) Postman
9 1 (1.20%) Storybook
9 1 (1.20%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.20%) TestRail
9 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 19 (22.89%) Finance
2 10 (12.05%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.43%) 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 23 (27.71%) Developer
2 16 (19.28%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (15.66%) 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%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Python Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.61%) Architect
9 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.28%) React
2 14 (16.87%) REST
3 13 (15.66%) OAuth
4 11 (13.25%) Spring Boot
5 10 (12.05%) Node.js
6 9 (10.84%) AngularJS
7 7 (8.43%) FastAPI
7 7 (8.43%) Spring
8 6 (7.23%) GraphQL
8 6 (7.23%) JWT
9 5 (6.02%) .NET
9 5 (6.02%) LangChain
9 5 (6.02%) Next.js
9 5 (6.02%) OAuth2
10 4 (4.82%) CSS
10 4 (4.82%) HTML
10 4 (4.82%) LangGraph
10 4 (4.82%) OpenID
11 3 (3.61%) HTML5
11 3 (3.61%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.07%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) 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 50 (60.24%) DevOps
3 32 (38.55%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (28.92%) AI
5 22 (26.51%) Agile
6 21 (25.30%) Containerisation
7 19 (22.89%) Microservices
8 18 (21.69%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (21.69%) Test Automation
9 15 (18.07%) Migration
9 15 (18.07%) Observability
10 13 (15.66%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (15.66%) TDD
11 12 (14.46%) DevSecOps
12 11 (13.25%) Generative AI
13 9 (10.84%) LLM
14 8 (9.64%) Analytics
15 7 (8.43%) Data Governance
15 7 (8.43%) Kanban
15 7 (8.43%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 39 (46.99%) Python
2 24 (28.92%) Java
3 18 (21.69%) SQL
4 16 (19.28%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.84%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.02%) C#
7 4 (4.82%) Bash
7 4 (4.82%) Bicep
8 2 (2.41%) Go
8 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.20%) C
9 1 (1.20%) C++
9 1 (1.20%) PHP
9 1 (1.20%) ProC
9 1 (1.20%) Ruby
9 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.20%) VB
9 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
1 22 (26.51%) 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
2 4 (4.82%) QA
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.41%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.41%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.41%) PSD2
4 2 (2.41%) SEPA
5 1 (1.20%) GRC
5 1 (1.20%) MiFID
5 1 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (34.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (48.19%) Terraform
2 23 (27.71%) Kubernetes
3 12 (14.46%) Ansible
4 7 (8.43%) Grafana
5 5 (6.02%) Prometheus
6 4 (4.82%) Istio
7 3 (3.61%) Argo
7 3 (3.61%) Puppet
8 1 (1.20%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 12 (14.46%) Google
3 7 (8.43%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
4 4 (4.82%) Databricks
5 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.41%) Confluent
5 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.41%) Solace
5 2 (2.41%) Splunk
6 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.20%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.20%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.20%) Tenable
6 1 (1.20%) Workday