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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 79 90
Rank change year-on-year +22 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 88 49 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.44% 2.57% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.03% 5.98% 4.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 25 22
10th Percentile £377 £400 £425
25th Percentile £453 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -5.91% -13.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £680
90th Percentile £689 £666 £736
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 - - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -27.81%

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 975 819 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.12% 42.90% 40.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 525 686
10th Percentile £350 £363 £353
25th Percentile £463 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% -8.90%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £751 £744
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.79 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.70% +27.93% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £96.63 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 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 9 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 +20 79 £538 -2.27% 46
West End of London +4 7 £650 +52.94%
City of Westminster +3 7 £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 (3.41%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.14%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 49 (55.68%) Azure
2 47 (53.41%) GitHub Actions
3 45 (51.14%) AWS
4 21 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (17.05%) Serverless
6 13 (14.77%) Azure AKS
6 13 (14.77%) Power Platform
7 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.64%) GitHub Copilot
8 11 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (11.36%) GCP
10 9 (10.23%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (7.95%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (7.95%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (7.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (7.95%) Entra ID
12 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (6.82%) Azure Functions
13 5 (5.68%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) Network Security
2 3 (3.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.27%) Firewall
3 2 (2.27%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 10 (11.36%) DynamoDB
2 10 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (10.23%) Amazon Athena
3 9 (10.23%) Power BI
4 7 (7.95%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (7.95%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.95%) SQL Server
5 4 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (4.55%) Db2
6 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.27%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.27%) Metadata
7 2 (2.27%) Redis
8 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.14%) Big Data
8 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.14%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.14%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (25.00%) Git
2 20 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 14 (15.91%) GitLab
4 9 (10.23%) JIRA
5 8 (9.09%) JUnit
6 7 (7.95%) Mockito
7 5 (5.68%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.55%) Maven
8 4 (4.55%) Postman
9 3 (3.41%) Gatling
9 3 (3.41%) Gradle
10 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.27%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.27%) Mocha
10 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.27%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.27%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.27%) webpack
11 1 (1.14%) git-flow
General
1 25 (28.41%) Social Skills
2 24 (27.27%) Finance
3 12 (13.64%) Banking
4 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.41%) Law
8 2 (2.27%) Advertising
8 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.27%) Police
8 2 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Front Office
9 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Developer
2 13 (14.77%) Senior
3 11 (12.50%) Architect
4 10 (11.36%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Java Developer
6 8 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Automation Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.68%) Technical Architect
10 4 (4.55%) Junior
10 4 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
10 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.41%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
11 3 (3.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.86%) Spring
2 18 (20.45%) Spring Boot
3 15 (17.05%) Kafka
3 15 (17.05%) React
4 12 (13.64%) REST
5 11 (12.50%) RESTful
6 9 (10.23%) .NET
7 8 (9.09%) Node.js
8 6 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.82%) Playwright
9 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.68%) Gherkin
9 5 (5.68%) PySpark
9 5 (5.68%) YAML
10 4 (4.55%) AWS CDK
10 4 (4.55%) Next.js
10 4 (4.55%) PyTorch
10 4 (4.55%) SOAP
10 4 (4.55%) TensorFlow
10 4 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.77%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.82%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.55%) NHS
5 2 (2.27%) Equities
5 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.14%) Blog
6 1 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.14%) Genomics
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) IoT
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Life Science
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.95%) Linux
2 6 (6.82%) Windows
3 3 (3.41%) Android
3 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (71.59%) CI/CD
2 46 (52.27%) DevOps
3 40 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (32.95%) Observability
5 28 (31.82%) Agile
6 27 (30.68%) Containerisation
7 24 (27.27%) Test Automation
8 22 (25.00%) AI
9 20 (22.73%) Microservices
10 19 (21.59%) Event-Driven
11 18 (20.45%) Software Engineering
12 14 (15.91%) Full-Stack Development
13 13 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
14 12 (13.64%) Migration
14 12 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 11 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
16 10 (11.36%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 10 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (10.23%) Analytics
17 9 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.36%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) Java
3 22 (25.00%) SQL
4 17 (19.32%) JavaScript
5 14 (15.91%) C#
6 13 (14.77%) TypeScript
7 8 (9.09%) Bicep
8 6 (6.82%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.41%) Ruby
10 2 (2.27%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.27%) Bash
10 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.27%) Go
11 1 (1.14%) C++
11 1 (1.14%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.14%) Scala
11 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 28 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 7 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) PhD
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) QA
2 3 (3.41%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.27%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.27%) PSD2
3 2 (2.27%) SEPA
3 2 (2.27%) WCAG
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (34.09%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (46.59%) Terraform
2 38 (43.18%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.23%) Grafana
3 9 (10.23%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.82%) Ansible
5 3 (3.41%) Argo
6 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.14%) Istio
6 1 (1.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Oracle
3 6 (6.82%) Databricks
4 4 (4.55%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.41%) Foundry
5 3 (3.41%) Palantir
5 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.41%) Splunk
6 2 (2.27%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.27%) Confluent
6 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.27%) Google
6 2 (2.27%) IBM
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.14%) SAP
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.14%) Solace
7 1 (1.14%) Sybase