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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 80 86
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 -11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 91 48 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.65% 2.47% 1.91%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.82% 6.19% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 27 26
10th Percentile £430 £358 £438
25th Percentile £481 £431 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £495 £558
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% -11.29% -12.47%
75th Percentile £675 £672 £713
90th Percentile £727 £739 £768
London median daily rate £550 £550 £539
% change year-on-year - +2.09% -10.21%

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 1,032 776 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.43% 39.86% 40.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 731 533 633
10th Percentile £350 £334 £389
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £656 £664 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
London median daily rate £545 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +1.82% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 5
10th Percentile £19.80 £20.82 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £25.56 £27.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.41% -2.86% +68.67%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £69.50
London median hourly rate £31.25 £31.00 £30.80
% change year-on-year +0.81% +0.67% -23.01%

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +10 83 £530 +3.41% 62
West End of London -6 5 £600 +26.32% 5
City of Westminster -6 5 £600 +26.32% 20
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 5 (5.49%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.40%) Confluence
2 4 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.10%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.10%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 54 (59.34%) GitHub Actions
2 51 (56.04%) Azure
3 43 (47.25%) AWS
4 22 (24.18%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (16.48%) Serverless
6 14 (15.38%) GCP
7 13 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 13 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
8 12 (13.19%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (12.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 11 (12.09%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (10.99%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (9.89%) Amazon Kinesis
11 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
12 8 (8.79%) Amazon EKS
13 7 (7.69%) dbt
14 6 (6.59%) Amazon EventBridge
14 6 (6.59%) AWS Step Functions
14 6 (6.59%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) DNS
2 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 3 (3.30%) Firewall
4 2 (2.20%) DHCP
4 2 (2.20%) Network Security
5 1 (1.10%) BGP
5 1 (1.10%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.10%) INAP
5 1 (1.10%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.10%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.10%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.10%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.10%) RTP
5 1 (1.10%) SSH
5 1 (1.10%) TACACS
5 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.10%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.10%) VoIP
5 1 (1.10%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.09%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (8.79%) Power BI
4 6 (6.59%) DynamoDB
4 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon QuickSight
7 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.20%) Big Data
7 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.20%) Tableau
8 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.10%) Redis
8 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (20.88%) Git
1 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.78%) GitLab
3 8 (8.79%) Bitbucket
3 8 (8.79%) JIRA
3 8 (8.79%) JUnit
4 6 (6.59%) Mockito
5 5 (5.49%) Selenium
6 4 (4.40%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.40%) Postman
7 3 (3.30%) Cypress.io
7 3 (3.30%) Gradle
7 3 (3.30%) JMeter
7 3 (3.30%) Maven
8 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.20%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.20%) Gatling
8 2 (2.20%) Newman
8 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 35 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Finance
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (12.09%) Banking
5 10 (10.99%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (6.59%) Back Office
8 4 (4.40%) Law
8 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.30%) Police
10 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.20%) Front Office
10 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Retail
11 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.27%) Senior
2 20 (21.98%) Developer
3 14 (15.38%) Architect
4 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.89%) Data Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (48.35%) Terraform
2 19 (20.88%) Spring
2 19 (20.88%) Spring Boot
3 16 (17.58%) Kafka
3 16 (17.58%) RESTful
4 15 (16.48%) REST
5 10 (10.99%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (8.79%) .NET
7 7 (7.69%) React
8 6 (6.59%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (6.59%) HTML
9 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.49%) Playwright
10 4 (4.40%) FastAPI
10 4 (4.40%) Middleware
10 4 (4.40%) Node.js
10 4 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (4.40%) SOAP
10 4 (4.40%) YAML
11 3 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (32.97%) Cloud Native
2 18 (19.78%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 7 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.20%) Cyber Defence
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.20%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.20%) Genomics
6 2 (2.20%) Life Science
6 2 (2.20%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.20%) PropTech
6 2 (2.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.10%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Linux
3 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.20%) Unix
5 1 (1.10%) Android
5 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.10%) CentOS
5 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 54 (59.34%) DevOps
3 47 (51.65%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (36.26%) Agile
4 33 (36.26%) Test Automation
5 31 (34.07%) Containerisation
6 26 (28.57%) Event-Driven
6 26 (28.57%) Microservices
7 25 (27.47%) Observability
8 24 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (21.98%) AI
9 20 (21.98%) Software Engineering
10 19 (20.88%) Data Modelling
11 15 (16.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 15 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
11 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
13 12 (13.19%) Analytics
13 12 (13.19%) Data Engineering
13 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 36 (39.56%) Python
2 29 (31.87%) Java
3 24 (26.37%) SQL
4 16 (17.58%) C#
5 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 11 (12.09%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.49%) Bicep
9 4 (4.40%) Bash
9 4 (4.40%) Ruby
10 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.10%) Korn
11 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (37.36%) Security Cleared
2 33 (36.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) Degree
4 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.20%) PMP
5 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.10%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.58%) QA
2 8 (8.79%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.40%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.10%) PSD2
4 1 (1.10%) SEPA
4 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (32.97%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (39.56%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.09%) Grafana
3 10 (10.99%) Ansible
4 8 (8.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.10%) Bosun
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.10%) Packer
5 1 (1.10%) SCCM
5 1 (1.10%) SELinux
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.69%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) Google
4 4 (4.40%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.40%) Splunk
4 4 (4.40%) VMware
5 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.30%) Databricks
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.20%) IBM
6 2 (2.20%) New Relic
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) Calypso
7 1 (1.10%) Cisco
7 1 (1.10%) Dialogic
7 1 (1.10%) Murex
7 1 (1.10%) Temenos