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 18 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing GitHub 87 46 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.33% 2.40% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.67% 5.61% 4.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 26 22
10th Percentile £401 £400 £419
25th Percentile £482 £434 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.68% -14.61%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £653
90th Percentile £675 £665 £736
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -15.66%
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 - - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -35.83%

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 1,003 820 975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.41% 42.71% 40.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 683 531 691
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £458 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 7
10th Percentile £21.06 £22.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £27.54 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.38% +41.60% -66.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.51 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
% change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -49.55%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +9 76 £531 -1.16% 21
West End of London +3 8 £650 +52.94%
City of Westminster +2 8 £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 4 (4.60%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.45%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) GitHub Actions
2 48 (55.17%) Azure
3 44 (50.57%) AWS
4 19 (21.84%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (17.24%) Serverless
6 14 (16.09%) Azure AKS
7 13 (14.94%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.79%) Power Platform
9 11 (12.64%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (12.64%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (11.49%) GCP
11 9 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 9 (10.34%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (8.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (8.05%) Entra ID
13 6 (6.90%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (6.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (6.90%) AWS CodePipeline
13 6 (6.90%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.75%) Network Security
2 3 (3.45%) VPN
3 2 (2.30%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (17.24%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.64%) DynamoDB
3 9 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.34%) Power BI
4 8 (9.20%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (8.05%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.60%) Db2
8 2 (2.30%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.30%) Metadata
8 2 (2.30%) Redis
8 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.15%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.15%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 23 (26.44%) Git
2 19 (21.84%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.09%) GitLab
4 11 (12.64%) JIRA
5 10 (11.49%) JUnit
6 9 (10.34%) Mockito
7 5 (5.75%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.60%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.60%) Maven
8 4 (4.60%) Postman
9 3 (3.45%) Gatling
9 3 (3.45%) Gradle
10 2 (2.30%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.30%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.30%) Mocha
10 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.30%) webpack
11 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (28.74%) Finance
1 25 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.64%) Banking
3 10 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.60%) Law
6 3 (3.45%) Police
7 2 (2.30%) Advertising
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.15%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Developer
2 12 (13.79%) Senior
3 11 (12.64%) Architect
3 11 (12.64%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.20%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (5.75%) Software Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Junior
9 3 (3.45%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (25.29%) Spring
2 19 (21.84%) Spring Boot
3 17 (19.54%) Kafka
4 15 (17.24%) React
5 13 (14.94%) REST
5 13 (14.94%) RESTful
6 8 (9.20%) Node.js
7 7 (8.05%) .NET
8 6 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.90%) Playwright
9 5 (5.75%) Gherkin
9 5 (5.75%) PySpark
9 5 (5.75%) YAML
10 4 (4.60%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.60%) Jest
10 4 (4.60%) Next.js
10 4 (4.60%) OAuth
10 4 (4.60%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (4.60%) SOAP
10 4 (4.60%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 22 (25.29%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.94%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.75%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.45%) NHS
5 2 (2.30%) Equities
5 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.15%) Genomics
6 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.15%) IoT
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Life Science
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Windows
2 4 (4.60%) Linux
3 3 (3.45%) Android
3 3 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.30%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (72.41%) CI/CD
2 45 (51.72%) DevOps
3 42 (48.28%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (35.63%) Agile
5 27 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 26 (29.89%) Observability
7 25 (28.74%) Test Automation
8 22 (25.29%) Microservices
9 21 (24.14%) Event-Driven
10 19 (21.84%) AI
11 18 (20.69%) Software Engineering
12 14 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (16.09%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (14.94%) Migration
14 12 (13.79%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (12.64%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (12.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (12.64%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (11.49%) Analytics
17 9 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 30 (34.48%) Python
2 27 (31.03%) Java
3 21 (24.14%) SQL
4 16 (18.39%) JavaScript
5 15 (17.24%) C#
6 14 (16.09%) TypeScript
7 8 (9.20%) Bicep
7 8 (9.20%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.45%) Ruby
9 2 (2.30%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.30%) Go
10 1 (1.15%) Scala
10 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 29 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 29 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.05%) Degree
3 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) PhD
5 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.64%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.30%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.30%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.30%) PSD2
3 2 (2.30%) SEPA
3 2 (2.30%) WCAG
4 1 (1.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (33.33%) Docker
2 6 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (49.43%) Terraform
2 37 (42.53%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.49%) Grafana
4 9 (10.34%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.90%) Ansible
6 2 (2.30%) Argo
7 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (11.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.90%) Databricks
3 5 (5.75%) Oracle
4 4 (4.60%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.45%) Foundry
5 3 (3.45%) Palantir
5 3 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.45%) Splunk
6 2 (2.30%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.30%) Confluent
6 2 (2.30%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 2 (2.30%) VMware
7 1 (1.15%) Google
7 1 (1.15%) SAP
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Solace
7 1 (1.15%) Sybase
7 1 (1.15%) Zscaler