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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 77 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 90 55 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.57% 2.72% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.86% 6.70% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 29 25
10th Percentile £453 £366 £435
25th Percentile £482 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £500 £551
Median % change year-on-year +8.15% -9.26% -13.57%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £695 £761
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 1,016 821 928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.25% 40.56% 40.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 542 648
10th Percentile £363 £333 £375
25th Percentile £463 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.22%
75th Percentile £656 £659 £675
90th Percentile £750 £760 £750
London median daily rate £540 £531 £550
% change year-on-year +1.77% -3.52% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £21.31 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -10.74%
75th Percentile £67.50 £53.31 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.16 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £28.25
% change year-on-year +22.27% +2.78% -48.64%

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 24 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 24 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 +16 82 £525 -2.33% 49
West End of London -4 5 £600 +26.32%
City of Westminster -5 5 £600 +26.32%
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 (5.56%) Confluence
1 5 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.11%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 50 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
2 47 (52.22%) Azure
3 41 (45.56%) AWS
4 24 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (16.67%) Serverless
6 13 (14.44%) Azure AKS
6 13 (14.44%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (13.33%) Amazon S3
7 12 (13.33%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (12.22%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (11.11%) GCP
9 10 (11.11%) Power Platform
10 9 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
11 7 (7.78%) PowerApps
12 6 (6.67%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (6.67%) dbt
13 5 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) DNS
1 4 (4.44%) VPN
2 3 (3.33%) Firewall
3 2 (2.22%) Network Security
4 1 (1.11%) BGP
4 1 (1.11%) DHCP
4 1 (1.11%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.11%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.11%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.11%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.11%) SSH
4 1 (1.11%) TACACS
4 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.00%) DynamoDB
2 9 (10.00%) Power BI
3 8 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (7.78%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.78%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.67%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.44%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.11%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.11%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.11%) Metadata
9 1 (1.11%) MySQL
9 1 (1.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (25.56%) Git
2 20 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 17 (18.89%) GitLab
4 11 (12.22%) JUnit
5 10 (11.11%) JIRA
6 9 (10.00%) Mockito
7 6 (6.67%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.67%) Postman
8 5 (5.56%) Bitbucket
8 5 (5.56%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.56%) Selenium
9 3 (3.33%) Gradle
9 3 (3.33%) Maven
10 2 (2.22%) Appium
10 2 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.22%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.11%) Gatling
11 1 (1.11%) git-flow
General
1 32 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 28 (31.11%) Finance
3 11 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.22%) Banking
3 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.78%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (4.44%) Law
6 3 (3.33%) Back Office
6 3 (3.33%) Police
6 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.11%) Advertising
8 1 (1.11%) Front Office
8 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Senior
3 14 (15.56%) Architect
4 10 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.89%) Automation Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Software Engineer
6 6 (6.67%) Technical Architect
7 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (45.56%) Terraform
2 21 (23.33%) Spring
3 20 (22.22%) Spring Boot
4 16 (17.78%) Kafka
4 16 (17.78%) RESTful
5 15 (16.67%) REST
6 10 (11.11%) React
7 8 (8.89%) .NET
8 7 (7.78%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (6.67%) AngularJS
9 6 (6.67%) HTML
9 6 (6.67%) YAML
10 5 (5.56%) Gherkin
10 5 (5.56%) Node.js
10 5 (5.56%) Playwright
10 5 (5.56%) SOAP
11 4 (4.44%) FastAPI
11 4 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (4.44%) WireMock
12 3 (3.33%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 30 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 19 (21.11%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 5 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.22%) Genomics
5 2 (2.22%) Life Science
5 2 (2.22%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.11%) Equities
6 1 (1.11%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.11%) NHS
6 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.78%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 54 (60.00%) DevOps
3 45 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (43.33%) Agile
5 36 (40.00%) Test Automation
6 29 (32.22%) Containerisation
7 27 (30.00%) Microservices
8 25 (27.78%) Observability
9 23 (25.56%) Event-Driven
9 23 (25.56%) Software Engineering
10 20 (22.22%) AI
11 19 (21.11%) Continuous Improvement
12 17 (18.89%) Data Modelling
13 16 (17.78%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
14 12 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (12.22%) API Design
15 11 (12.22%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 11 (12.22%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.67%) Java
2 31 (34.44%) Python
3 22 (24.44%) SQL
4 18 (20.00%) C#
5 14 (15.56%) TypeScript
6 12 (13.33%) JavaScript
7 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.67%) Bicep
9 5 (5.56%) Ruby
10 2 (2.22%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.22%) Bash
10 2 (2.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.11%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.11%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 34 (37.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.56%) Degree
4 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.11%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.11%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (34.44%) Docker
2 6 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.56%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.11%) Grafana
3 8 (8.89%) Prometheus
4 7 (7.78%) Ansible
5 1 (1.11%) Bosun
5 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.11%) Packer
5 1 (1.11%) SCCM
5 1 (1.11%) SELinux
5 1 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) Oracle
3 4 (4.44%) Google
3 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.44%) Splunk
3 4 (4.44%) VMware
4 3 (3.33%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.33%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.33%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.22%) Databricks
5 2 (2.22%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.11%) Cisco
6 1 (1.11%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) New Relic
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Zscaler