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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 78 89
Rank change year-on-year +28 +11 +7
Contract jobs citing GitHub 90 45 50
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.22% 2.16% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.14% 5.20% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 23 31
10th Percentile £356 £433 £405
25th Percentile £413 £517 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% -5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £663
90th Percentile £750 £730 £738
London median daily rate £539 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -12.00%
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 £62.50 £52.50 £57.75
% change year-on-year +19.05% -9.09% -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 888 866 981
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.59% 41.61% 37.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 563 704
10th Percentile £328 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 13
10th Percentile £20.59 £29.50 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -36.67%
75th Percentile £46.11 £41.88 £23.75
90th Percentile £52.92 £104.25 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year +2.94% +11.48% -10.29%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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 +26 85 £531 -9.57% 50
West End of London +9 2 £650 +52.94%
City of Westminster +4 2 £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 5 (5.56%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.33%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 49 (54.44%) Azure
2 43 (47.78%) GitHub Actions
3 38 (42.22%) AWS
4 19 (21.11%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (18.89%) GCP
5 17 (18.89%) Serverless
6 13 (14.44%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (12.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (11.11%) Power Platform
10 8 (8.89%) Azure AKS
11 7 (7.78%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (7.78%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.78%) Cloud Run
11 7 (7.78%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (6.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) Firewall
2 3 (3.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 9 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (7.78%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.56%) Power BI
5 4 (4.44%) Amazon Athena
5 4 (4.44%) DB2
5 4 (4.44%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.44%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.33%) MySQL
6 3 (3.33%) Redis
6 3 (3.33%) Tick Data
7 2 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.22%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.11%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.11%) DataStage
8 1 (1.11%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (22.22%) Git
2 18 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.11%) JIRA
4 7 (7.78%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.44%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.44%) GitLab
5 4 (4.44%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.33%) JUnit
6 3 (3.33%) Maven
7 2 (2.22%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.22%) Gatling
7 2 (2.22%) Mockito
7 2 (2.22%) Postman
7 2 (2.22%) Selenium
7 2 (2.22%) Snyk
7 2 (2.22%) webpack
8 1 (1.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (1.11%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.11%) Terragrunt
General
1 17 (18.89%) Finance
2 14 (15.56%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.78%) Banking
4 5 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.11%) Advertising
7 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Legal
7 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Developer
2 16 (17.78%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior
5 9 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.33%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.33%) Fidessa Developer
9 3 (3.33%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.89%) React
2 12 (13.33%) OAuth
2 12 (13.33%) REST
3 11 (12.22%) Spring
3 11 (12.22%) Spring Boot
4 10 (11.11%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.00%) Node.js
6 7 (7.78%) FastAPI
7 6 (6.67%) .NET
7 6 (6.67%) JWT
7 6 (6.67%) Next.js
7 6 (6.67%) Playwright
8 5 (5.56%) Kafka
9 4 (4.44%) CSS
9 4 (4.44%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.44%) HTML
9 4 (4.44%) LangGraph
9 4 (4.44%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.44%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.67%) AI Agents
2 6 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Equities
4 3 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) NHS
5 2 (2.22%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.22%) Replication
5 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Blog
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.11%) Genomics
6 1 (1.11%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Android
2 3 (3.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 47 (52.22%) DevOps
3 33 (36.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (33.33%) AI
5 24 (26.67%) Agile
6 20 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 18 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 17 (18.89%) Observability
9 16 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (17.78%) Microservices
9 16 (17.78%) Migration
10 13 (14.44%) Analytics
10 13 (14.44%) LLM
11 12 (13.33%) DevSecOps
11 12 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 12 (13.33%) TDD
12 11 (12.22%) Generative AI
12 11 (12.22%) Machine Learning
13 9 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (44.44%) Python
2 26 (28.89%) Java
3 23 (25.56%) SQL
4 14 (15.56%) TypeScript
5 12 (13.33%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.78%) C#
7 3 (3.33%) Bicep
8 2 (2.22%) Bash
8 2 (2.22%) Go
8 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.11%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.11%) C
9 1 (1.11%) C++
9 1 (1.11%) PHP
9 1 (1.11%) ProC
9 1 (1.11%) Ruby
9 1 (1.11%) Scala
9 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 24 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.67%) Degree
3 5 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.33%) PhD
5 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CCSP
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.11%) CISSP
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) OSCP
6 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) GDPR
2 4 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.44%) QA
3 3 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.33%) NIST
4 2 (2.22%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.22%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.22%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.22%) PSD2
4 2 (2.22%) SEPA
4 2 (2.22%) WCAG
5 1 (1.11%) GRC
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.11%) MiFID
5 1 (1.11%) NCSC
5 1 (1.11%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.11%) SOC 2
System Software
1 27 (30.00%) Docker
2 4 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (45.56%) Terraform
2 25 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.00%) Ansible
4 5 (5.56%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.44%) Grafana
6 3 (3.33%) Argo
7 2 (2.22%) Istio
8 1 (1.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.11%) Google
3 7 (7.78%) Databricks
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle
4 6 (6.67%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.33%) Foundry
5 3 (3.33%) Palantir
5 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.33%) Solace
6 2 (2.22%) Confluent
6 2 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (1.11%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.11%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.11%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.11%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.11%) SAP
7 1 (1.11%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.11%) Sybase
7 1 (1.11%) Workday