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 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 92 92
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 67 46 57
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.50% 1.95% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.49% 4.95% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 25 39
10th Percentile £356 £425 £399
25th Percentile £413 £510 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -0.23%
75th Percentile £670 £725 £675
90th Percentile £777 £761 £724
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% -2.08%

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 789 929 1,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.18% 39.33% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 609 850
10th Percentile £340 £400 £349
25th Percentile £430 £469 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 11
10th Percentile £18.61 £29.40 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%
75th Percentile £51.00 £49.38 £43.38
90th Percentile £62.93 £75.25 £52.50
London median hourly rate £25.74 £35.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year -26.47% -7.89% +49.02%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 +16 63 £550 -10.20% 175
City of Westminster +2 2 £475 - 6
West End of London +8 1 £475 - 8
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 6 (8.96%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.49%) Apache
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.49%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.99%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 35 (52.24%) GitHub Actions
2 28 (41.79%) Azure
3 26 (38.81%) AWS
4 14 (20.90%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (17.91%) GCP
6 10 (14.93%) Amazon S3
7 9 (13.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 9 (13.43%) Serverless
8 8 (11.94%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (11.94%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
9 6 (8.96%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (8.96%) Cloud Run
10 5 (7.46%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (7.46%) Apigee
11 4 (5.97%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (5.97%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (5.97%) Azure AKS
11 4 (5.97%) Azure Key Vault
11 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.99%) DNS
1 2 (2.99%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.49%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.49%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.97%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (5.97%) DynamoDB
1 4 (5.97%) MySQL
1 4 (5.97%) Power BI
2 3 (4.48%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.99%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (2.99%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.99%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.99%) Redis
3 2 (2.99%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) Tick Data
4 1 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.49%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.49%) DataStage
4 1 (1.49%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (26.87%) Git
2 10 (14.93%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.43%) Bitbucket
4 8 (11.94%) JIRA
5 7 (10.45%) GitLab
6 4 (5.97%) Maven
7 3 (4.48%) Cypress.io
7 3 (4.48%) Gradle
7 3 (4.48%) Snyk
7 3 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.99%) SonarQube
9 1 (1.49%) Ant
9 1 (1.49%) gulp
9 1 (1.49%) JUnit
9 1 (1.49%) Mocha
9 1 (1.49%) Mockito
9 1 (1.49%) Storybook
9 1 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.49%) webpack
9 1 (1.49%) Xcode
General
1 18 (26.87%) Finance
2 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Banking
4 5 (7.46%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.48%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.99%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (28.36%) Developer
2 12 (17.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (16.42%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.43%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 7 (10.45%) Angular Developer
6 6 (8.96%) Senior
7 5 (7.46%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (7.46%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (5.97%) Site Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Data Engineer
9 3 (4.48%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.99%) Azure Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Backend Developer
10 2 (2.99%) Lead DevOps
10 2 (2.99%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (19.40%) React
1 13 (19.40%) REST
2 10 (14.93%) OAuth
3 9 (13.43%) Node.js
4 8 (11.94%) AngularJS
4 8 (11.94%) Spring Boot
5 7 (10.45%) GraphQL
6 5 (7.46%) FastAPI
6 5 (7.46%) JWT
7 4 (5.97%) CSS
7 4 (5.97%) HTML
7 4 (5.97%) LangGraph
8 3 (4.48%) .NET
8 3 (4.48%) HTML5
8 3 (4.48%) LangChain
8 3 (4.48%) Next.js
8 3 (4.48%) OAuth2
8 3 (4.48%) RESTful
8 3 (4.48%) Spring
9 2 (2.99%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.96%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.97%) AI Agents
2 4 (5.97%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (4.48%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.99%) Equities
4 2 (2.99%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) IVR
4 2 (2.99%) Life Science
4 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.99%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.99%) Replication
5 1 (1.49%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.49%) Genomics
5 1 (1.49%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.49%) PKI
5 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.99%) Android
1 2 (2.99%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.49%) Linux
2 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (64.18%) CI/CD
2 38 (56.72%) DevOps
3 21 (31.34%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (26.87%) AI
5 17 (25.37%) Agile
6 16 (23.88%) Containerisation
7 15 (22.39%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (22.39%) Microservices
8 12 (17.91%) Test Automation
9 10 (14.93%) High Availability
10 9 (13.43%) DevSecOps
10 9 (13.43%) Generative AI
10 9 (13.43%) TDD
11 8 (11.94%) Migration
11 8 (11.94%) Observability
11 8 (11.94%) Problem-Solving
12 7 (10.45%) Data Governance
12 7 (10.45%) Kanban
12 7 (10.45%) Scrum
12 7 (10.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (46.27%) Python
2 14 (20.90%) Java
2 14 (20.90%) TypeScript
3 12 (17.91%) SQL
4 7 (10.45%) Bash
4 7 (10.45%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.96%) C#
6 4 (5.97%) Go
7 3 (4.48%) Bicep
7 3 (4.48%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.99%) PromQL
9 1 (1.49%) CodeQL
9 1 (1.49%) PHP
9 1 (1.49%) Scala
9 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (16.42%) SC Cleared
1 11 (16.42%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.99%) AWS Certification
2 2 (2.99%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.49%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) GDPR
2 3 (4.48%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.48%) EU AI Act
2 3 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.48%) NIST
3 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 2 (2.99%) QA
4 1 (1.49%) MiFID
4 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.49%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Docker
2 2 (2.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 30 (44.78%) Terraform
2 17 (25.37%) Kubernetes
3 11 (16.42%) Ansible
4 7 (10.45%) Grafana
5 5 (7.46%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.46%) Puppet
6 4 (5.97%) Istio
Vendors
1 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 12 (17.91%) Google
3 5 (7.46%) OpenAI
3 5 (7.46%) Splunk
4 4 (5.97%) Databricks
5 2 (2.99%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.99%) MuleSoft
5 2 (2.99%) Oracle
5 2 (2.99%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.99%) Solace
6 1 (1.49%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.49%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.49%) Tenable