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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +31 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 101 52 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.37% 2.64% 1.81%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.48% 6.12% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 27 25
10th Percentile £356 £413 £387
25th Percentile £413 £494 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +3.64% -12.00%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £678
90th Percentile £695 £677 £733
London median daily rate £538 £565 £525
% change year-on-year -4.87% +7.62% -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 964 850 986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.70% 43.15% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 685 555 695
10th Percentile £350 £375 £346
25th Percentile £453 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.43%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £650
90th Percentile £749 £728 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 11
10th Percentile £20.82 £24.32 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.47 £25.11 £17.97
Median hourly rate £40.50 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.12% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £49.83 £35.00 £36.25
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.63 £50.25
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -25.71%

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 2 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 2 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 +18 94 £525 -8.30% 63
West End of London +11 4 £650 +52.94% 2
City of Westminster +4 4 £650 +52.94% 3
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 (2.97%) Confluence
1 3 (2.97%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Fidessa
1 2 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.99%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 56 (55.45%) Azure
2 48 (47.52%) AWS
2 48 (47.52%) GitHub Actions
3 24 (23.76%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (20.79%) Serverless
5 15 (14.85%) Amazon S3
5 15 (14.85%) GCP
6 14 (13.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 14 (13.86%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (12.87%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (10.89%) Power Platform
9 10 (9.90%) Azure AKS
9 10 (9.90%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (7.92%) Amazon ECR
10 8 (7.92%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 7 (6.93%) Azure Functions
12 6 (5.94%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (5.94%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (5.94%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) Firewall
1 3 (2.97%) Network Security
2 2 (1.98%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.87%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.88%) DynamoDB
3 10 (9.90%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (7.92%) Amazon Athena
5 7 (6.93%) MongoDB
5 7 (6.93%) SQL Server
6 6 (5.94%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (5.94%) Power BI
7 4 (3.96%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (3.96%) DB2
8 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
9 2 (1.98%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.98%) Metadata
9 2 (1.98%) MySQL
9 2 (1.98%) Redis
9 2 (1.98%) Tick Data
10 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.99%) Big Data
10 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.99%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 27 (26.73%) Git
2 20 (19.80%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.90%) JIRA
4 9 (8.91%) GitLab
5 7 (6.93%) JUnit
6 6 (5.94%) Cypress.io
6 6 (5.94%) Mockito
7 4 (3.96%) Bitbucket
7 4 (3.96%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.96%) Maven
7 4 (3.96%) Postman
8 3 (2.97%) SonarQube
8 3 (2.97%) webpack
9 2 (1.98%) CircleCI
9 2 (1.98%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.98%) Gatling
9 2 (1.98%) Gradle
9 2 (1.98%) Mocha
9 2 (1.98%) Selenium
9 2 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (16.83%) Finance
2 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.91%) Banking
4 8 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.97%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.97%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.98%) Advertising
7 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.99%) Front Office
8 1 (0.99%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.99%) Law
8 1 (0.99%) Police
8 1 (0.99%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (23.76%) Developer
2 16 (15.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (12.87%) Senior
4 12 (11.88%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.91%) Architect
5 9 (8.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (5.94%) Senior Developer
7 5 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (3.96%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Python Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Site Engineer
8 4 (3.96%) Technical Architect
9 3 (2.97%) Data Scientist
9 3 (2.97%) Lead
9 3 (2.97%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (16.83%) React
1 17 (16.83%) Spring
2 15 (14.85%) Spring Boot
3 11 (10.89%) Kafka
3 11 (10.89%) Node.js
3 11 (10.89%) REST
4 10 (9.90%) OAuth
5 9 (8.91%) AngularJS
6 8 (7.92%) .NET
7 7 (6.93%) Playwright
8 6 (5.94%) RESTful
9 5 (4.95%) FastAPI
9 5 (4.95%) Next.js
9 5 (4.95%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (3.96%) AWS CDK
10 4 (3.96%) Jest
10 4 (3.96%) JWT
10 4 (3.96%) LangGraph
10 4 (3.96%) PyTorch
10 4 (3.96%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.74%) Cloud Native
2 12 (11.88%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.96%) AI Agents
3 4 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.96%) NHS
4 3 (2.97%) Equities
4 3 (2.97%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.98%) Life Science
5 2 (1.98%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.99%) Blog
6 1 (0.99%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (0.99%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.99%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.99%) Genomics
6 1 (0.99%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.99%) PKI
6 1 (0.99%) Replication
6 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.90%) Linux
2 3 (2.97%) Android
2 3 (2.97%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.97%) Windows
3 2 (1.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (67.33%) CI/CD
2 56 (55.45%) DevOps
3 41 (40.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (29.70%) Agile
5 28 (27.72%) AI
6 26 (25.74%) Test Automation
7 25 (24.75%) Containerisation
8 24 (23.76%) Observability
9 22 (21.78%) Microservices
10 17 (16.83%) Migration
11 16 (15.84%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (13.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 13 (12.87%) Analytics
13 13 (12.87%) Software Engineering
13 13 (12.87%) TDD
14 12 (11.88%) Event-Driven
14 12 (11.88%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (11.88%) Platform Engineering
15 10 (9.90%) DevSecOps
15 10 (9.90%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 45 (44.55%) Python
2 31 (30.69%) Java
3 25 (24.75%) SQL
4 15 (14.85%) JavaScript
5 13 (12.87%) TypeScript
6 10 (9.90%) C#
7 5 (4.95%) Bicep
8 3 (2.97%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.97%) Ruby
9 2 (1.98%) Apex Code
9 2 (1.98%) Bash
9 2 (1.98%) Go
9 2 (1.98%) PL/SQL
9 2 (1.98%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.99%) C
10 1 (0.99%) C++
10 1 (0.99%) ProC
10 1 (0.99%) Scala
10 1 (0.99%) VB
10 1 (0.99%) XPath
Qualifications
1 30 (29.70%) SC Cleared
1 30 (29.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.92%) Degree
3 7 (6.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.97%) PhD
6 2 (1.98%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.99%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.99%) CCSP
7 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.99%) CISSP
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.99%) OSCP
7 1 (0.99%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
2 3 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.98%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.98%) GDPR
3 2 (1.98%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.98%) ISO 8583
3 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.98%) PSD2
3 2 (1.98%) SEPA
3 2 (1.98%) WCAG
4 1 (0.99%) GRC
4 1 (0.99%) MiFID
4 1 (0.99%) NCSC
4 1 (0.99%) NIST
4 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (31.68%) Docker
2 4 (3.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (44.55%) Terraform
2 33 (32.67%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.92%) Ansible
4 6 (5.94%) Grafana
4 6 (5.94%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.97%) Argo
6 2 (1.98%) Istio
7 1 (0.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.99%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (15.84%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.90%) Oracle
3 8 (7.92%) Databricks
4 7 (6.93%) Google
5 4 (3.96%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.97%) Foundry
6 3 (2.97%) OpenAI
6 3 (2.97%) Palantir
6 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.98%) Confluent
7 2 (1.98%) IBM
7 2 (1.98%) SAP
7 2 (1.98%) Solace
8 1 (0.99%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.99%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.99%) OutSystems
8 1 (0.99%) Rapid7
8 1 (0.99%) Splunk
8 1 (0.99%) Sybase
8 1 (0.99%) Workday