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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 80 88
Rank change year-on-year +18 +8 -9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 88 49 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.67% 2.57% 1.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.85% 6.48% 4.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 27 23
10th Percentile £401 £350 £430
25th Percentile £463 £400 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £495 £600
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -17.50% -5.33%
75th Percentile £675 £672 £738
90th Percentile £727 £721 £768
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%

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 994 756 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.49% 39.73% 39.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 537 611
10th Percentile £331 £330 £396
25th Percentile £456 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £656 £660 £675
90th Percentile £763 £754 £775
London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 11 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £18.87 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.25 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £65.57 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £27.95 £31.00
% change year-on-year +2.15% -9.84% -23.46%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +12 80 £525 +2.94% 60
West End of London -4 5 £600 +26.32% 7
City of Westminster -6 4 £600 +26.32% 15
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 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.55%) Confluence
2 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) IIS
3 1 (1.14%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.14%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (57.95%) Azure
1 51 (57.95%) GitHub Actions
2 40 (45.45%) AWS
3 24 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (21.59%) Serverless
5 15 (17.05%) GCP
6 13 (14.77%) Azure AKS
7 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.64%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.36%) GitHub Copilot
9 9 (10.23%) Power Platform
10 8 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 8 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.95%) Azure Functions
11 7 (7.95%) Azure Monitor
12 6 (6.82%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (6.82%) dbt
12 6 (6.82%) PowerApps
12 6 (6.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.68%) DNS
2 4 (4.55%) VPN
3 3 (3.41%) Firewall
4 2 (2.27%) DHCP
4 2 (2.27%) Network Security
5 1 (1.14%) BGP
5 1 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.14%) INAP
5 1 (1.14%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.14%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.14%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.14%) RTP
5 1 (1.14%) SSH
5 1 (1.14%) TACACS
5 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.14%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.14%) VoIP
5 1 (1.14%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (9.09%) Power BI
2 8 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 6 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.41%) DynamoDB
4 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (2.27%) BigQuery
5 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.27%) Tableau
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
6 1 (1.14%) Chroma
6 1 (1.14%) Parquet
6 1 (1.14%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.14%) Power Query
6 1 (1.14%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 17 (19.32%) GitLab
3 16 (18.18%) Git
4 10 (11.36%) JIRA
5 8 (9.09%) Bitbucket
6 7 (7.95%) JUnit
7 6 (6.82%) Selenium
8 5 (5.68%) Cucumber
8 5 (5.68%) Mockito
8 5 (5.68%) Postman
9 3 (3.41%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.41%) JMeter
10 2 (2.27%) Artifactory
10 2 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.27%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.27%) Gatling
10 2 (2.27%) Newman
10 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.27%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (34.09%) Finance
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Banking
3 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.82%) Back Office
4 6 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (3.41%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Front Office
7 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Police
8 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Senior
2 16 (18.18%) Developer
3 11 (12.50%) Architect
4 10 (11.36%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (11.36%) Data Engineer
5 8 (9.09%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (51.14%) Terraform
2 18 (20.45%) REST
3 15 (17.05%) Spring
3 15 (17.05%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.91%) Kafka
5 13 (14.77%) RESTful
6 9 (10.23%) .NET
6 9 (10.23%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (7.95%) HTML
7 7 (7.95%) React
8 6 (6.82%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (6.82%) Middleware
9 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.68%) FastAPI
9 5 (5.68%) Node.js
9 5 (5.68%) Playwright
10 4 (4.55%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.55%) PySpark
10 4 (4.55%) SOAP
10 4 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (9.09%) AI Agents
3 8 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.55%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.41%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.27%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.27%) Genomics
7 2 (2.27%) Life Science
7 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.27%) PropTech
7 2 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Windows
2 5 (5.68%) Linux
2 5 (5.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.27%) Android
3 2 (2.27%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) CentOS
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 51 (57.95%) DevOps
3 43 (48.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (35.23%) Agile
5 29 (32.95%) Test Automation
6 25 (28.41%) Containerisation
7 24 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (25.00%) AI
8 22 (25.00%) Event-Driven
8 22 (25.00%) Microservices
9 20 (22.73%) Observability
10 18 (20.45%) Data Modelling
10 18 (20.45%) Software Engineering
11 16 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 16 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (14.77%) Analytics
12 13 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (14.77%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
13 12 (13.64%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (42.05%) Python
2 26 (29.55%) SQL
3 25 (28.41%) Java
4 17 (19.32%) C#
5 13 (14.77%) PowerShell
6 11 (12.50%) TypeScript
7 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.55%) Bash
8 4 (4.55%) Bicep
9 3 (3.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.41%) Ruby
10 2 (2.27%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.14%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.14%) C
11 1 (1.14%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.14%) Korn
11 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.14%) Swift
Qualifications
1 32 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 31 (35.23%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.55%) Degree
4 3 (3.41%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.27%) PMP
5 2 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.14%) CISA
6 1 (1.14%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.14%) GSEC
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) MOS
6 1 (1.14%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) QA
2 9 (10.23%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.14%) PSD2
4 1 (1.14%) SEPA
4 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (31.82%) Docker
2 6 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (38.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (10.23%) Ansible
3 7 (7.95%) Grafana
4 5 (5.68%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.14%) Bosun
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) Packer
5 1 (1.14%) SCCM
5 1 (1.14%) SELinux
5 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.82%) Google
3 5 (5.68%) Databricks
3 5 (5.68%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.68%) Oracle
3 5 (5.68%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.55%) IBM
4 4 (4.55%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.55%) Splunk
4 4 (4.55%) VMware
5 3 (3.41%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.27%) New Relic
6 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco
7 1 (1.14%) Dialogic
7 1 (1.14%) Foundry
7 1 (1.14%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.14%) Murex
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.14%) SAP