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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 82 88
Rank change year-on-year +15 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing GitHub 91 52 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.49% 2.54% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.84% 6.12% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 27 27
10th Percentile £408 £358 £425
25th Percentile £482 £438 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -4.63% -10.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £673
90th Percentile £693 £666 £757
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
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 £45.00 - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -30.00%

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 1,029 849 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.43% 41.41% 41.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 549 694
10th Percentile £337 £359 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £652 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
London median daily rate £535 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 5
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 £18.45
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 -
Median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £50.25
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £75.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.99
% change year-on-year +22.12% +7.73% -49.80%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 80 £530 -3.64% 32
West End of London 0 8 £650 +36.84% 2
City of Westminster -2 8 £650 +36.84% 4
Southwark - 1 £700 -
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 4 (4.40%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.10%) nginx
4 1 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 53 (58.24%) GitHub Actions
2 46 (50.55%) AWS
2 46 (50.55%) Azure
3 20 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (16.48%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 13 (14.29%) Serverless
7 12 (13.19%) Azure AKS
8 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.99%) Azure Monitor
10 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (8.79%) GCP
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (6.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 5 (5.49%) AWS CodePipeline
13 5 (5.49%) Power Automate
13 5 (5.49%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Network Security
2 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 3 (3.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.10%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.10%) SSH
4 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.09%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (10.99%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (10.99%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.99%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.79%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.79%) Power BI
5 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.40%) Db2
7 2 (2.20%) Metadata
7 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.10%) Big Data
8 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (26.37%) Git
2 18 (19.78%) Jenkins
3 16 (17.58%) GitLab
4 11 (12.09%) JUnit
5 10 (10.99%) JIRA
6 9 (9.89%) Mockito
7 6 (6.59%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.40%) Postman
9 4 (4.40%) Selenium
10 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
10 3 (3.30%) Gradle
10 3 (3.30%) Maven
10 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.20%) Appium
11 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.20%) Claude Code
11 2 (2.20%) Mocha
11 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.20%) webpack
General
1 29 (31.87%) Social Skills
2 27 (29.67%) Finance
3 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.89%) Banking
4 9 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.30%) Police
8 2 (2.20%) Advertising
8 2 (2.20%) Back Office
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Front Office
9 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (21.98%) Developer
2 15 (16.48%) Senior
3 13 (14.29%) Architect
4 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.59%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Junior
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) Spring
2 19 (20.88%) Spring Boot
3 15 (16.48%) Kafka
3 15 (16.48%) REST
4 14 (15.38%) RESTful
5 13 (14.29%) React
6 10 (10.99%) .NET
7 8 (8.79%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.79%) Playwright
8 7 (7.69%) Node.js
9 6 (6.59%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.49%) Gherkin
10 5 (5.49%) YAML
11 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.40%) Jest
11 4 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (4.40%) SOAP
11 4 (4.40%) WireMock
12 3 (3.30%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (3.30%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.97%) Cloud Native
2 19 (20.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.30%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.30%) NHS
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.10%) IoT
5 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.10%) Life Science
5 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Android
3 4 (4.40%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (79.12%) CI/CD
2 49 (53.85%) DevOps
3 45 (49.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (39.56%) Agile
5 30 (32.97%) Test Automation
6 29 (31.87%) Containerisation
7 27 (29.67%) Microservices
8 26 (28.57%) Observability
9 23 (25.27%) Software Engineering
10 22 (24.18%) Event-Driven
11 21 (23.08%) AI
12 16 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (17.58%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (13.19%) Data Modelling
15 12 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (12.09%) API Design
16 11 (12.09%) Migration
16 11 (12.09%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 30 (32.97%) Java
2 29 (31.87%) Python
3 21 (23.08%) SQL
4 18 (19.78%) C#
5 14 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 13 (14.29%) TypeScript
7 7 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.59%) Bicep
9 5 (5.49%) Ruby
10 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.20%) Bash
10 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.20%) Go
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 33 (36.26%) SC Cleared
1 33 (36.26%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.79%) Degree
3 4 (4.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.30%) PhD
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.38%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (31.87%) Docker
2 5 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (45.05%) Terraform
2 38 (41.76%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.89%) Grafana
4 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
5 5 (5.49%) Ansible
6 1 (1.10%) SELinux
6 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (16.48%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) Splunk
4 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.30%) Databricks
4 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.20%) IBM
5 2 (2.20%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.20%) VMware
6 1 (1.10%) Foundry
6 1 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.10%) Palantir
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase
6 1 (1.10%) Zscaler