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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 86 79
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 +38
Contract jobs citing GitHub 48 44 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.46% 1.90% 2.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.21% 4.68% 6.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 48
10th Percentile £358 £438 £401
25th Percentile £431 £516 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £558 £634
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% -11.95% +7.42%
75th Percentile £672 £713 £724
90th Percentile £739 £768 £777
London median daily rate £550 £539 £600
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.21% -

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 773 941 1,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.62% 40.56% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 637 930
10th Percentile £333 £388 £325
25th Percentile £425 £473 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -0.44% -2.17%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £763 £788
London median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.09% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.63
25th Percentile £25.56 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% -37.59%
75th Percentile £54.46 - £34.44
90th Percentile £79.48 £69.50 £45.25
London median hourly rate £31.00 £30.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +0.67% -23.96% +15.71%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +15 44 £513 -15.46% 51
City of Westminster -2 2 £475 -13.64% 3
West End of London +1 1 £475 - 1
GitHub
London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.25%) Confluence
2 2 (4.17%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (58.33%) GitHub Actions
2 23 (47.92%) AWS
3 20 (41.67%) Azure
4 10 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (16.67%) GCP
6 6 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 5 (10.42%) Amazon S3
7 5 (10.42%) AWS CloudFormation
7 5 (10.42%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (10.42%) Serverless
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (8.33%) Azure AKS
8 4 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
8 4 (8.33%) Entra ID
8 4 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 4 (8.33%) Stackdriver
9 3 (6.25%) Cloud Run
9 3 (6.25%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.25%) Firewall
2 2 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) FTP
3 1 (2.08%) HTTP
3 1 (2.08%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (2.08%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (2.08%) SMTP
3 1 (2.08%) SSL
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (6.25%) Power BI
2 2 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.08%) Big Data
3 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.08%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.08%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.08%) DataStage
3 1 (2.08%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) MySQL
3 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Pinecone
3 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.08%) Redis
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (18.75%) GitLab
2 8 (16.67%) Git
3 7 (14.58%) Jenkins
4 4 (8.33%) Bitbucket
4 4 (8.33%) Gradle
4 4 (8.33%) JIRA
5 3 (6.25%) Maven
5 3 (6.25%) Snyk
6 2 (4.17%) CircleCI
6 2 (4.17%) SonarQube
6 2 (4.17%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.08%) Ant
7 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.08%) JMeter
7 1 (2.08%) LoadRunner
7 1 (2.08%) Mocha
7 1 (2.08%) Selenium
7 1 (2.08%) Subversion
7 1 (2.08%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (31.25%) Finance
2 6 (12.50%) Banking
2 6 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) International Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.08%) Legal
7 1 (2.08%) Military
7 1 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Developer
2 8 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 5 (10.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.33%) Senior
4 4 (8.33%) Site Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Angular Developer
5 3 (6.25%) Architect
5 3 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.17%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Architect
7 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (18.75%) GraphQL
2 8 (16.67%) Node.js
2 8 (16.67%) React
3 7 (14.58%) REST
4 4 (8.33%) OAuth
5 3 (6.25%) .NET
5 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.25%) CSS
5 3 (6.25%) HTML
5 3 (6.25%) Next.js
5 3 (6.25%) OAuth2
5 3 (6.25%) Spring Boot
6 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
6 2 (4.17%) Jest
6 2 (4.17%) JWT
6 2 (4.17%) LangChain
6 2 (4.17%) React Native
6 2 (4.17%) Redux
6 2 (4.17%) Tailwind CSS
6 2 (4.17%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 3 (6.25%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.25%) IVR
2 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.08%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.17%) Android
1 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (70.83%) CI/CD
2 31 (64.58%) DevOps
3 17 (35.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (27.08%) Containerisation
5 11 (22.92%) Agile
5 11 (22.92%) Microservices
6 10 (20.83%) Observability
6 10 (20.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.58%) Test Automation
9 6 (12.50%) DevSecOps
9 6 (12.50%) Generative AI
9 6 (12.50%) High Availability
9 6 (12.50%) Task Automation
10 5 (10.42%) Data Governance
10 5 (10.42%) Full-Stack Development
10 5 (10.42%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (10.42%) Secure Coding
10 5 (10.42%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 19 (39.58%) Python
2 11 (22.92%) TypeScript
3 9 (18.75%) SQL
4 7 (14.58%) Bash
4 7 (14.58%) Java
5 6 (12.50%) C#
6 5 (10.42%) Go
6 5 (10.42%) JavaScript
7 4 (8.33%) Bicep
8 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.17%) PromQL
10 1 (2.08%) CodeQL
10 1 (2.08%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.08%) Rust
10 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.42%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.17%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.08%) MCP
3 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) Data Quality
1 5 (10.42%) GDPR
2 4 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.33%) QA
3 3 (6.25%) EU AI Act
3 3 (6.25%) NIST
4 2 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (4.17%) SOC 2
5 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Docker
2 2 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (60.42%) Terraform
2 21 (43.75%) Kubernetes
3 10 (20.83%) Grafana
4 8 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 7 (14.58%) Ansible
6 6 (12.50%) Puppet
7 5 (10.42%) Istio
8 1 (2.08%) Argo
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Google
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Splunk
3 4 (8.33%) OpenAI
4 3 (6.25%) Databricks
4 3 (6.25%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.17%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.08%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.08%) Tenable