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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 79 94
Rank change year-on-year +25 +15 -14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 92 51 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.76% 2.55% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.44% 5.96% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 23 23
10th Percentile £360 £413 £384
25th Percentile £456 £470 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £551
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +1.18% -14.90%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £689
90th Percentile £683 £659 £762
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 975 855 962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.83% 42.77% 39.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 681 549 690
10th Percentile £350 £373 £350
25th Percentile £450 £459 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £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 £22.58 £26.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -72.73%
75th Percentile £54.05 £45.00 £26.19
90th Percentile £73.47 £94.88 £52.60
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +16.28% -37.50%

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 30 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 30 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 85 £531 -6.80% 52
West End of London +8 5 £650 +52.94%
City of Westminster +6 5 £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 (3.26%) Confluence
1 3 (3.26%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.09%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 55 (59.78%) Azure
2 48 (52.17%) AWS
3 46 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (23.91%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (19.57%) Serverless
6 14 (15.22%) Azure AKS
6 14 (15.22%) GCP
7 13 (14.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (14.13%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 11 (11.96%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (10.87%) Power Platform
11 9 (9.78%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (8.70%) AWS CodePipeline
13 7 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (7.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 7 (7.61%) Entra ID
14 6 (6.52%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (6.52%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) Firewall
1 4 (4.35%) Network Security
2 3 (3.26%) DNS
3 1 (1.09%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 11 (11.96%) DynamoDB
2 11 (11.96%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (8.70%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 8 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (6.52%) Power BI
5 5 (5.43%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.35%) DB2
7 3 (3.26%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.17%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.17%) Metadata
8 2 (2.17%) MySQL
8 2 (2.17%) Redis
8 2 (2.17%) Tick Data
9 1 (1.09%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.09%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.09%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.09%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (23.91%) Git
2 21 (22.83%) Jenkins
3 10 (10.87%) GitLab
4 8 (8.70%) JIRA
4 8 (8.70%) JUnit
5 7 (7.61%) Mockito
6 5 (5.43%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.43%) Maven
7 4 (4.35%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.35%) Postman
8 3 (3.26%) Gradle
8 3 (3.26%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.17%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.17%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.17%) Gatling
9 2 (2.17%) Mocha
9 2 (2.17%) Selenium
9 2 (2.17%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.17%) webpack
General
1 20 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.65%) Finance
3 8 (8.70%) Banking
4 7 (7.61%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Advertising
7 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.17%) Law
7 2 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Police
8 1 (1.09%) Front Office
8 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (22.83%) Developer
2 13 (14.13%) Senior
3 12 (13.04%) Architect
3 12 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.04%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.87%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (7.61%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.52%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.35%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.26%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (21.74%) Spring
2 16 (17.39%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.22%) React
4 13 (14.13%) Kafka
5 9 (9.78%) REST
6 8 (8.70%) Node.js
6 8 (8.70%) RESTful
7 7 (7.61%) .NET
7 7 (7.61%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.52%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.52%) Playwright
9 5 (5.43%) OAuth
10 4 (4.35%) AWS CDK
10 4 (4.35%) Next.js
10 4 (4.35%) PyTorch
10 4 (4.35%) TensorFlow
11 3 (3.26%) Jest
11 3 (3.26%) Keras
11 3 (3.26%) Lambda Expressions
11 3 (3.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.35%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.43%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.35%) NHS
5 3 (3.26%) Equities
5 3 (3.26%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.09%) Blog
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.09%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.09%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.09%) Genomics
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.09%) Life Science
7 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.09%) PKI
7 1 (1.09%) Replication
7 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Windows
3 3 (3.26%) Android
3 3 (3.26%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.17%) Unix
5 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (69.57%) CI/CD
2 53 (57.61%) DevOps
3 42 (45.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (31.52%) Agile
5 28 (30.43%) Containerisation
6 27 (29.35%) Observability
7 23 (25.00%) Test Automation
8 21 (22.83%) AI
8 21 (22.83%) Microservices
9 16 (17.39%) Migration
10 15 (16.30%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (15.22%) Event-Driven
11 14 (15.22%) Software Engineering
12 12 (13.04%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (11.96%) Analytics
13 11 (11.96%) TDD
14 10 (10.87%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (8.70%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 8 (8.70%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 38 (41.30%) Python
2 32 (34.78%) Java
3 24 (26.09%) SQL
4 14 (15.22%) JavaScript
5 10 (10.87%) C#
5 10 (10.87%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.61%) Bicep
7 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.26%) Ruby
9 2 (2.17%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.17%) Bash
9 2 (2.17%) Go
9 2 (2.17%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.09%) C
10 1 (1.09%) C++
10 1 (1.09%) ProC
10 1 (1.09%) Scala
10 1 (1.09%) VB
10 1 (1.09%) XPath
Qualifications
1 31 (33.70%) SC Cleared
1 31 (33.70%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.70%) Degree
3 7 (7.61%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.26%) PhD
6 1 (1.09%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CCSP
6 1 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.09%) CISSP
6 1 (1.09%) OSCP
6 1 (1.09%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.61%) QA
2 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.17%) GDPR
2 2 (2.17%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.17%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.17%) PSD2
2 2 (2.17%) SEPA
3 1 (1.09%) GRC
3 1 (1.09%) NCSC
3 1 (1.09%) NIST
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (35.87%) Docker
2 6 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 46 (50.00%) Terraform
2 40 (43.48%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.70%) Ansible
3 8 (8.70%) Grafana
3 8 (8.70%) Prometheus
4 3 (3.26%) Argo
5 2 (2.17%) Istio
6 1 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) Databricks
3 5 (5.43%) Google
4 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.26%) Foundry
5 3 (3.26%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.26%) Palantir
6 2 (2.17%) Confluent
6 2 (2.17%) IBM
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) Solace
6 2 (2.17%) Splunk
7 1 (1.09%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.09%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.09%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.09%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.09%) Sybase
7 1 (1.09%) VMware