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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 78 85
Rank change year-on-year +19 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 87 51 47
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.49% 2.70% 1.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.01% 6.26% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 25 26
10th Percentile £384 £413 £397
25th Percentile £473 £465 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% -13.35%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £653
90th Percentile £675 £659 £731
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 966 815 972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.76% 43.08% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 676 520 696
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £453 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year - +3.77% -7.83%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £20.35 £23.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.58 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £44.47 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.98% +29.20% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.54 £46.25 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.53 £100.00 £36.30
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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +7 78 £538 -3.59% 38
City of Westminster +5 7 £650 +52.94%
West End of London +4 7 £650 +52.94% 2
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 (3.45%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.30%) Confluence
2 2 (2.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.15%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (58.62%) Azure
2 47 (54.02%) GitHub Actions
3 45 (51.72%) AWS
4 23 (26.44%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (18.39%) Serverless
6 13 (14.94%) Azure AKS
7 12 (13.79%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.79%) Power Platform
8 11 (12.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (12.64%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (11.49%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (11.49%) GCP
10 9 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (9.20%) AWS CodePipeline
12 7 (8.05%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (8.05%) AWS CloudFormation
12 7 (8.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (8.05%) Entra ID
13 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
13 6 (6.90%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.60%) Network Security
2 3 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (2.30%) Firewall
4 1 (1.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.09%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.49%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.34%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (9.20%) Power BI
6 7 (8.05%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (8.05%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.05%) 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 QuickSight
9 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.15%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.15%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (25.29%) Git
2 21 (24.14%) Jenkins
3 14 (16.09%) GitLab
4 10 (11.49%) JIRA
5 8 (9.20%) JUnit
6 7 (8.05%) Mockito
7 5 (5.75%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.75%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.75%) Postman
8 4 (4.60%) Maven
9 3 (3.45%) Gatling
9 3 (3.45%) Gradle
9 3 (3.45%) SonarQube
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%) Selenium
10 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.30%) webpack
General
1 22 (25.29%) Finance
2 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Banking
4 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Advertising
7 2 (2.30%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Law
7 2 (2.30%) Police
7 2 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Front Office
8 1 (1.15%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Developer
2 14 (16.09%) Senior
3 11 (12.64%) Architect
4 10 (11.49%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.34%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.75%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.60%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.45%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (3.45%) Python Engineer
10 3 (3.45%) Senior DevOps
10 3 (3.45%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (24.14%) Spring
2 18 (20.69%) Spring Boot
3 16 (18.39%) Kafka
4 15 (17.24%) React
5 11 (12.64%) REST
5 11 (12.64%) RESTful
6 9 (10.34%) .NET
7 8 (9.20%) Node.js
8 7 (8.05%) Playwright
9 6 (6.90%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (5.75%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.75%) Gherkin
10 5 (5.75%) PySpark
11 4 (4.60%) AWS CDK
11 4 (4.60%) Next.js
11 4 (4.60%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.60%) SOAP
11 4 (4.60%) TensorFlow
11 4 (4.60%) WireMock
11 4 (4.60%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.59%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.75%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.60%) NHS
5 2 (2.30%) Equities
5 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.15%) Blog
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 Applications
6 1 (1.15%) Life Science
6 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.34%) Linux
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 3 (3.45%) Android
3 3 (3.45%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (71.26%) CI/CD
2 49 (56.32%) DevOps
3 38 (43.68%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (33.33%) Agile
4 29 (33.33%) Observability
5 27 (31.03%) Containerisation
6 25 (28.74%) Test Automation
7 20 (22.99%) AI
7 20 (22.99%) Microservices
8 18 (20.69%) Event-Driven
9 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
10 14 (16.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (16.09%) Migration
11 13 (14.94%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (11.49%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 9 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
14 9 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (10.34%) TDD
15 8 (9.20%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.93%) Python
2 31 (35.63%) Java
3 23 (26.44%) SQL
4 17 (19.54%) JavaScript
5 14 (16.09%) C#
6 13 (14.94%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.05%) Bicep
8 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.45%) Ruby
10 2 (2.30%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.30%) Go
10 2 (2.30%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.15%) Bash
11 1 (1.15%) C
11 1 (1.15%) C++
11 1 (1.15%) ProC
11 1 (1.15%) Scala
11 1 (1.15%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (32.18%) SC Cleared
1 28 (32.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.20%) Degree
3 7 (8.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.45%) PhD
6 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.15%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) 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 32 (36.78%) Docker
2 5 (5.75%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (47.13%) Terraform
2 39 (44.83%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.20%) Grafana
3 8 (9.20%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.90%) Ansible
5 3 (3.45%) Argo
6 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.15%) Istio
6 1 (1.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) Oracle
3 5 (5.75%) Databricks
4 4 (4.60%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.45%) Foundry
5 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.45%) Palantir
6 2 (2.30%) Confluent
6 2 (2.30%) Google
6 2 (2.30%) IBM
6 2 (2.30%) SAP
6 2 (2.30%) Splunk
7 1 (1.15%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.15%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.15%) Solace
7 1 (1.15%) Sybase
7 1 (1.15%) VMware
7 1 (1.15%) Workday