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 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 83 93
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 +22
Contract jobs citing GitHub 71 45 56
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.63% 1.92% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.82% 4.89% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 24 39
10th Percentile £343 £425 £399
25th Percentile £413 £498 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% +4.24%
75th Percentile £669 £728 £675
90th Percentile £766 £762 £724
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%

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 805 921 1,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.20% 39.29% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 601 832
10th Percentile £342 £400 £350
25th Percentile £425 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 4 10
10th Percentile £18.65 £29.40 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £49.83 £49.38 £46.06
90th Percentile £62.04 £75.25 £54.63
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £38.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -9.68% +49.93%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +17 67 £550 -9.28% 191
City of Westminster +3 2 £475 - 7
West End of London +9 1 £475 - 10
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 6 (8.45%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.41%) Apache
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.41%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.41%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.70%) GitHub Actions
2 31 (43.66%) Azure
3 29 (40.85%) AWS
4 15 (21.13%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (18.31%) GCP
6 11 (15.49%) Amazon S3
7 10 (14.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (14.08%) Amazon ECS
7 10 (14.08%) Serverless
8 9 (12.68%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (11.27%) Power Platform
10 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (8.45%) Apigee
10 6 (8.45%) Azure AKS
10 6 (8.45%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (8.45%) Cloud Run
11 5 (7.04%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (7.04%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (7.04%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (5.63%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.23%) Firewall
2 2 (2.82%) DNS
3 1 (1.41%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.41%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.04%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.63%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.63%) MySQL
2 4 (5.63%) Power BI
3 3 (4.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (4.23%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.82%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.82%) Redis
4 2 (2.82%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.82%) Tick Data
5 1 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.41%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.41%) DataStage
5 1 (1.41%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Git
2 10 (14.08%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.68%) Bitbucket
4 8 (11.27%) JIRA
5 7 (9.86%) GitLab
6 4 (5.63%) Maven
7 3 (4.23%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.23%) Gradle
7 3 (4.23%) Snyk
7 3 (4.23%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.82%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.41%) Ant
9 1 (1.41%) gulp
9 1 (1.41%) JUnit
9 1 (1.41%) Mocha
9 1 (1.41%) Mockito
9 1 (1.41%) Storybook
9 1 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.41%) webpack
9 1 (1.41%) Xcode
General
1 18 (25.35%) Finance
2 8 (11.27%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.45%) Banking
4 5 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.23%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.23%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.82%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.41%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.41%) Legal
7 1 (1.41%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (15.49%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.68%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (9.86%) Angular Developer
5 7 (9.86%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (8.45%) Senior
6 6 (8.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.04%) Site Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.63%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.23%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Developer
10 2 (2.82%) DevOps Administrator
10 2 (2.82%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.82%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (19.72%) REST
2 13 (18.31%) React
3 11 (15.49%) OAuth
4 10 (14.08%) Node.js
5 8 (11.27%) AngularJS
5 8 (11.27%) Spring Boot
6 7 (9.86%) GraphQL
7 6 (8.45%) JWT
8 5 (7.04%) FastAPI
9 4 (5.63%) .NET
9 4 (5.63%) CSS
9 4 (5.63%) HTML
9 4 (5.63%) LangGraph
9 4 (5.63%) Spring
10 3 (4.23%) HTML5
10 3 (4.23%) LangChain
10 3 (4.23%) Next.js
10 3 (4.23%) OAuth2
10 3 (4.23%) RESTful
11 2 (2.82%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.04%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.63%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.82%) Equities
4 2 (2.82%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) IVR
4 2 (2.82%) Life Science
4 2 (2.82%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.82%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Replication
4 2 (2.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.41%) Genomics
5 1 (1.41%) PKI
5 1 (1.41%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.41%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Android
1 2 (2.82%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.41%) Linux
2 1 (1.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (64.79%) CI/CD
2 41 (57.75%) DevOps
3 23 (32.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 19 (26.76%) AI
5 18 (25.35%) Agile
6 17 (23.94%) Containerisation
6 17 (23.94%) Microservices
7 15 (21.13%) Full-Stack Development
8 13 (18.31%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.08%) DevSecOps
9 10 (14.08%) High Availability
10 9 (12.68%) Generative AI
10 9 (12.68%) Migration
10 9 (12.68%) TDD
11 8 (11.27%) Analytics
11 8 (11.27%) Observability
11 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (11.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 7 (9.86%) LLM
12 7 (9.86%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (46.48%) Python
2 15 (21.13%) Java
3 14 (19.72%) TypeScript
4 12 (16.90%) SQL
5 7 (9.86%) Bash
5 7 (9.86%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.45%) C#
7 4 (5.63%) Go
8 3 (4.23%) Bicep
8 3 (4.23%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.82%) PromQL
10 1 (1.41%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.41%) PHP
10 1 (1.41%) Scala
10 1 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (19.72%) SC Cleared
1 14 (19.72%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.82%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.41%) CCSP
3 1 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.41%) CISSP
3 1 (1.41%) Degree
3 1 (1.41%) MCP
3 1 (1.41%) OSCP
3 1 (1.41%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.45%) GDPR
2 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.63%) NIST
3 3 (4.23%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.23%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.82%) PCI DSS
4 2 (2.82%) QA
5 1 (1.41%) GRC
5 1 (1.41%) MiFID
5 1 (1.41%) NCSC
5 1 (1.41%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (30.99%) Docker
2 2 (2.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 32 (45.07%) Terraform
2 18 (25.35%) Kubernetes
3 11 (15.49%) Ansible
4 7 (9.86%) Grafana
5 5 (7.04%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.04%) Puppet
6 4 (5.63%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (18.31%) Google
1 13 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.04%) OpenAI
2 5 (7.04%) Splunk
3 4 (5.63%) Databricks
4 2 (2.82%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.82%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.82%) Oracle
4 2 (2.82%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.82%) Solace
5 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.41%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.41%) Rapid7
5 1 (1.41%) Sonatype
5 1 (1.41%) Tenable