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

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 73 91
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 85 50 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.05% 2.41% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.70% 5.79% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 24 31
10th Percentile £356 £437 £405
25th Percentile £413 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% -15.23%
75th Percentile £652 £663 £663
90th Percentile £781 £726 £738
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -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 £48.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% +8.25% -30.71%

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 876 863 995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.69% 41.59% 38.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 557 721
10th Percentile £338 £370 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £446
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 £749 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £28.13 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +84.21% -24.00%
75th Percentile £44.72 - £23.75
90th Percentile £52.16 £41.88 £49.95
London median hourly rate £33.25 £31.50 £30.11
% change year-on-year +5.56% +4.62% +2.07%

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 13 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 13 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 +16 81 £538 -6.52% 41
West End of London +9 1 £650 +52.94% 2
City of Westminster +3 1 £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 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) Azure
2 41 (48.24%) GitHub Actions
3 34 (40.00%) AWS
4 20 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (20.00%) GCP
5 17 (20.00%) Serverless
6 11 (12.94%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
6 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (11.76%) Power Platform
8 9 (10.59%) Azure AKS
9 8 (9.41%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.24%) Cloud Run
11 6 (7.06%) Amazon ECR
11 6 (7.06%) Azure Functions
11 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
12 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (5.88%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) Firewall
2 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.06%) DynamoDB
3 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (5.88%) Power BI
5 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
6 3 (3.53%) Amazon Athena
6 3 (3.53%) DB2
6 3 (3.53%) MySQL
6 3 (3.53%) Redis
6 3 (3.53%) Tick Data
7 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.35%) Hazelcast
8 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.18%) CouchDB
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 17 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.76%) JIRA
4 7 (8.24%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
5 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.53%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.53%) GitLab
6 3 (3.53%) Maven
7 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.35%) Gatling
7 2 (2.35%) JUnit
7 2 (2.35%) Mockito
7 2 (2.35%) Postman
7 2 (2.35%) Selenium
7 2 (2.35%) Snyk
8 1 (1.18%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
8 1 (1.18%) Terragrunt
8 1 (1.18%) TestRail
General
1 17 (20.00%) Finance
2 14 (16.47%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Legal
8 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Developer
2 17 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (14.12%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 9 (10.59%) Senior
6 6 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.53%) Fidessa Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.82%) React
2 12 (14.12%) OAuth
3 11 (12.94%) REST
4 10 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 10 (11.76%) Spring
4 10 (11.76%) Spring Boot
5 8 (9.41%) Node.js
6 7 (8.24%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.06%) .NET
7 6 (7.06%) JWT
8 5 (5.88%) LangChain
8 5 (5.88%) Next.js
8 5 (5.88%) Playwright
9 4 (4.71%) CSS
9 4 (4.71%) HTML
9 4 (4.71%) Kafka
9 4 (4.71%) LangGraph
9 4 (4.71%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.71%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.65%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.24%) AI Agents
3 6 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.53%) Equities
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.35%) Life Science
6 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) NHS
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Android
2 4 (4.71%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.53%) Windows
4 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (63.53%) CI/CD
2 48 (56.47%) DevOps
3 30 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (32.94%) AI
5 21 (24.71%) Agile
6 19 (22.35%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.82%) Containerisation
7 16 (18.82%) Observability
8 15 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (17.65%) Microservices
8 15 (17.65%) Migration
9 13 (15.29%) Analytics
9 13 (15.29%) DevSecOps
10 12 (14.12%) LLM
10 12 (14.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (12.94%) Generative AI
11 11 (12.94%) Machine Learning
12 10 (11.76%) TDD
13 8 (9.41%) Performance Tuning
13 8 (9.41%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.24%) Python
2 25 (29.41%) Java
3 22 (25.88%) SQL
4 12 (14.12%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.24%) C#
7 4 (4.71%) Bicep
8 3 (3.53%) Bash
9 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) Go
10 1 (1.18%) PHP
10 1 (1.18%) ProC
10 1 (1.18%) Ruby
10 1 (1.18%) Scala
10 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.18%) VB
10 1 (1.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
1 23 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 5 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.53%) PhD
5 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.18%) CCSP
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.18%) CISSP
6 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.18%) OSCP
6 1 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.06%) GDPR
2 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.71%) NIST
3 3 (3.53%) EU AI Act
3 3 (3.53%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.35%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.35%) PSD2
4 2 (2.35%) SEPA
5 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.18%) GRC
5 1 (1.18%) MiFID
5 1 (1.18%) NCSC
5 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (29.41%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (45.88%) Terraform
2 23 (27.06%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.59%) Ansible
4 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.71%) Grafana
6 3 (3.53%) Argo
7 2 (2.35%) Istio
8 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Google
3 7 (8.24%) Databricks
3 7 (8.24%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
4 3 (3.53%) Foundry
4 3 (3.53%) Palantir
4 3 (3.53%) Solace
5 2 (2.35%) Confluent
5 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.35%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.18%) IBM
6 1 (1.18%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.18%) SAP
6 1 (1.18%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.18%) Workday