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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 72 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 95 54 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.91% 2.68% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.78% 6.25% 4.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 26 24
10th Percentile £356 £394 £384
25th Percentile £453 £468 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £554 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +0.59% -15.31%
75th Percentile £650 £634 £688
90th Percentile £677 £658 £759
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -16.00%
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 £46.00 - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%

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 971 864 961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.94% 42.88% 38.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 558 692
10th Percentile £350 £364 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.56% -6.74%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £749 £738 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 12 10
10th Percentile £19.41 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.31 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -66.67%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -32.90%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +13 89 £525 -6.87% 52
West End of London +7 4 £650 +52.94% 1
City of Westminster +3 4 £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 3 (3.16%) Confluence
1 3 (3.16%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.05%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 57 (60.00%) Azure
2 49 (51.58%) AWS
3 47 (49.47%) GitHub Actions
4 25 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (21.05%) Serverless
6 15 (15.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 15 (15.79%) Amazon S3
7 14 (14.74%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (14.74%) Azure AKS
8 13 (13.68%) GCP
9 12 (12.63%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (11.58%) GitHub Copilot
11 10 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (10.53%) Power Platform
12 8 (8.42%) Amazon ECR
12 8 (8.42%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (7.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (7.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (7.37%) Entra ID
14 6 (6.32%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.21%) Firewall
1 4 (4.21%) Network Security
2 3 (3.16%) DNS
3 1 (1.05%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.74%) NoSQL
2 13 (13.68%) DynamoDB
3 11 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.42%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (8.42%) MongoDB
4 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.32%) Power BI
6 5 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.21%) DB2
8 3 (3.16%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.11%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.11%) Metadata
9 2 (2.11%) MySQL
9 2 (2.11%) Redis
9 2 (2.11%) Tick Data
10 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.05%) Data Hub
10 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Git
2 20 (21.05%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.47%) GitLab
4 8 (8.42%) JIRA
5 7 (7.37%) JUnit
6 6 (6.32%) Mockito
7 5 (5.26%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.26%) Maven
8 4 (4.21%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.21%) Postman
9 3 (3.16%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.16%) Gradle
9 3 (3.16%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.11%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.11%) Gatling
10 2 (2.11%) Mocha
10 2 (2.11%) Selenium
10 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (2.11%) webpack
General
1 20 (21.05%) Finance
1 20 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.42%) Banking
3 6 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.11%) Advertising
5 2 (2.11%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.11%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.05%) Front Office
6 1 (1.05%) Law
6 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.05%) Police
6 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Developer
2 15 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (13.68%) Senior
4 12 (12.63%) Architect
4 12 (12.63%) Java Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.37%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.16%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (20.00%) Spring
2 16 (16.84%) Spring Boot
3 15 (15.79%) React
4 12 (12.63%) Kafka
5 10 (10.53%) Node.js
5 10 (10.53%) REST
6 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
7 7 (7.37%) .NET
7 7 (7.37%) OAuth
7 7 (7.37%) RESTful
8 6 (6.32%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.32%) Playwright
9 4 (4.21%) AWS CDK
9 4 (4.21%) JWT
9 4 (4.21%) Next.js
9 4 (4.21%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.21%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.16%) Hugging Face
10 3 (3.16%) Jest
10 3 (3.16%) Lambda Expressions
Miscellaneous
1 28 (29.47%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.68%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.26%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.21%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.21%) NHS
5 3 (3.16%) Equities
5 3 (3.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.05%) Genomics
7 1 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.05%) IoT
7 1 (1.05%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.53%) Linux
2 5 (5.26%) Windows
3 3 (3.16%) Android
3 3 (3.16%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.11%) Unix
5 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (69.47%) CI/CD
2 55 (57.89%) DevOps
3 43 (45.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.53%) Agile
5 28 (29.47%) Containerisation
6 27 (28.42%) Observability
7 24 (25.26%) Test Automation
8 22 (23.16%) Microservices
9 21 (22.11%) AI
10 16 (16.84%) Migration
11 15 (15.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (14.74%) Analytics
12 14 (14.74%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.68%) Event-Driven
13 13 (13.68%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (13.68%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (12.63%) TDD
15 10 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
16 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (8.42%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 41 (43.16%) Python
2 32 (33.68%) Java
3 24 (25.26%) SQL
4 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.58%) TypeScript
6 10 (10.53%) C#
7 7 (7.37%) Bicep
8 5 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.16%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 2 (2.11%) Go
10 2 (2.11%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.11%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.05%) C
11 1 (1.05%) C++
11 1 (1.05%) ProC
11 1 (1.05%) Scala
11 1 (1.05%) VB
11 1 (1.05%) XPath
Qualifications
1 32 (33.68%) SC Cleared
1 32 (33.68%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) Degree
3 7 (7.37%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.16%) PhD
6 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.05%) CCSP
7 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.05%) CISSP
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) OSCP
7 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.11%) GDPR
2 2 (2.11%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.11%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.11%) PSD2
2 2 (2.11%) SEPA
3 1 (1.05%) GRC
3 1 (1.05%) NCSC
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
3 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (35.79%) Docker
2 6 (6.32%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (50.53%) Terraform
2 39 (41.05%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.47%) Ansible
4 8 (8.42%) Grafana
4 8 (8.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.16%) Argo
6 2 (2.11%) Istio
7 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.05%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (16.84%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.47%) Oracle
3 5 (5.26%) Databricks
3 5 (5.26%) Google
4 4 (4.21%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.16%) Foundry
5 3 (3.16%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.16%) Palantir
6 2 (2.11%) Confluent
6 2 (2.11%) IBM
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) Solace
6 2 (2.11%) Splunk
7 1 (1.05%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.05%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.05%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.05%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Sybase
7 1 (1.05%) VMware