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 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 79 82
Rank change year-on-year +25 +3 -9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 102 52 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.90% 2.51% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.70% 6.21% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 28 26
10th Percentile £412 £362 £425
25th Percentile £481 £409 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £498 £551
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% -9.67% -11.88%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £670
90th Percentile £706 £679 £759
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 1,052 838 937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.24% 40.48% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 549 664
10th Percentile £354 £354 £383
25th Percentile £461 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £757 £750
London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -36.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -48.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 +27 91 £535 +1.90% 41
West End of London -2 8 £650 +36.84%
City of Westminster -2 8 £650 +36.84% 2
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 (3.92%) Confluence
1 4 (3.92%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.98%) nginx
3 1 (0.98%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 57 (55.88%) GitHub Actions
2 54 (52.94%) Azure
3 49 (48.04%) AWS
4 24 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (14.71%) Amazon S3
5 15 (14.71%) GitHub Copilot
5 15 (14.71%) Serverless
6 14 (13.73%) Azure AKS
7 12 (11.76%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (11.76%) Power Platform
8 11 (10.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (10.78%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (10.78%) GCP
9 10 (9.80%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (6.86%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (5.88%) Power Automate
11 6 (5.88%) PowerApps
12 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.90%) Network Security
2 4 (3.92%) DNS
2 4 (3.92%) VPN
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
4 1 (0.98%) BGP
4 1 (0.98%) DHCP
4 1 (0.98%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (0.98%) NX-OS
4 1 (0.98%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.98%) SSH
4 1 (0.98%) TACACS
4 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.73%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.76%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (10.78%) Amazon RDS
4 10 (9.80%) DynamoDB
4 10 (9.80%) PostgreSQL
5 9 (8.82%) Power BI
6 8 (7.84%) MongoDB
6 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.92%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.94%) Db2
9 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.98%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.98%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (24.51%) Git
2 21 (20.59%) Jenkins
3 19 (18.63%) GitLab
4 11 (10.78%) JUnit
5 10 (9.80%) JIRA
6 9 (8.82%) Mockito
7 7 (6.86%) Cypress.io
8 6 (5.88%) Cucumber
8 6 (5.88%) Postman
8 6 (5.88%) Selenium
9 4 (3.92%) Bitbucket
10 3 (2.94%) Claude Code
10 3 (2.94%) Gradle
10 3 (2.94%) Maven
10 3 (2.94%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.96%) Appium
11 2 (1.96%) CircleCI
11 2 (1.96%) Mocha
11 2 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (1.96%) webpack
General
1 32 (31.37%) Social Skills
2 29 (28.43%) Finance
3 11 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.80%) Banking
4 10 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.86%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (3.92%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Back Office
7 3 (2.94%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.94%) Police
7 3 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Advertising
8 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.98%) Front Office
9 1 (0.98%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.98%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (22.55%) Developer
2 18 (17.65%) Senior
3 15 (14.71%) Architect
4 11 (10.78%) Senior Developer
5 10 (9.80%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.82%) Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Platform Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Technical Architect
9 6 (5.88%) Senior Java Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Software Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) AWS Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.90%) Junior
11 4 (3.92%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (21.57%) Spring
2 20 (19.61%) Spring Boot
3 18 (17.65%) REST
4 17 (16.67%) Kafka
4 17 (16.67%) RESTful
5 13 (12.75%) React
6 10 (9.80%) .NET
7 9 (8.82%) Playwright
8 7 (6.86%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.86%) Node.js
8 7 (6.86%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (5.88%) YAML
10 5 (4.90%) Gherkin
10 5 (4.90%) SOAP
11 4 (3.92%) FastAPI
11 4 (3.92%) GraphQL
11 4 (3.92%) HTML
11 4 (3.92%) Jest
11 4 (3.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (3.92%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 35 (34.31%) Cloud Native
2 20 (19.61%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.90%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.94%) NHS
5 3 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (1.96%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.96%) Genomics
6 2 (1.96%) Life Science
6 2 (1.96%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.98%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) IoT
7 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.82%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Linux
3 3 (2.94%) Android
3 3 (2.94%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (80.39%) CI/CD
2 57 (55.88%) DevOps
3 52 (50.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (40.20%) Agile
5 36 (35.29%) Test Automation
6 33 (32.35%) Containerisation
7 30 (29.41%) Microservices
8 29 (28.43%) Observability
9 26 (25.49%) AI
9 26 (25.49%) Software Engineering
10 25 (24.51%) Event-Driven
11 20 (19.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 16 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 15 (14.71%) Data Modelling
15 13 (12.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 13 (12.75%) Mentoring
15 13 (12.75%) Problem-Solving
15 13 (12.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (34.31%) Python
2 34 (33.33%) Java
3 24 (23.53%) SQL
4 22 (21.57%) C#
5 16 (15.69%) JavaScript
6 15 (14.71%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.80%) PowerShell
8 6 (5.88%) Bicep
9 5 (4.90%) Ruby
10 2 (1.96%) Apex Code
10 2 (1.96%) Bash
10 2 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.96%) Go
11 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (38.24%) Security Cleared
2 38 (37.25%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Degree
4 5 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.96%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.96%) PhD
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.98%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.98%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.69%) QA
2 5 (4.90%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.96%) WCAG
4 1 (0.98%) GDPR
4 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 35 (34.31%) Docker
2 7 (6.86%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (4.90%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.98%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 48 (47.06%) Terraform
2 42 (41.18%) Kubernetes
3 10 (9.80%) Grafana
4 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.86%) Ansible
6 1 (0.98%) Bosun
6 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.98%) Packer
6 1 (0.98%) SCCM
6 1 (0.98%) SELinux
6 1 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (18.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.86%) Oracle
3 4 (3.92%) Google
3 4 (3.92%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.92%) Splunk
3 4 (3.92%) VMware
4 3 (2.94%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.94%) Databricks
4 3 (2.94%) Dynatrace
4 3 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.94%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.96%) IBM
5 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.98%) Cisco
6 1 (0.98%) Foundry
6 1 (0.98%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.98%) New Relic
6 1 (0.98%) SAP
6 1 (0.98%) Sybase
6 1 (0.98%) Zscaler