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

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 80 94
Rank change year-on-year +24 +14 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 83 46 46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.03% 2.15% 1.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.82% 5.25% 4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 22 31
10th Percentile £356 £429 £405
25th Percentile £413 £515 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £661 £674 £663
90th Percentile £800 £734 £738
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 £62.50 £52.50 £48.50
% change year-on-year +19.05% +8.25% -30.71%

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 845 876 997
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.02% 40.99% 38.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 572 729
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £738
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £18.87 £26.75 -
25th Percentile £23.15 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% -4.26%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £38.00
90th Percentile £47.50 - £49.95
London median hourly rate £30.50 £30.97 £31.50
% change year-on-year -1.51% -1.69% +8.62%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 +25 80 £550 -8.33% 50
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 (6.02%) Confluence
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 45 (54.22%) Azure
2 42 (50.60%) GitHub Actions
3 32 (38.55%) AWS
4 21 (25.30%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (20.48%) Serverless
6 14 (16.87%) GCP
7 12 (14.46%) Amazon S3
7 12 (14.46%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (13.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (13.25%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
9 9 (10.84%) Azure AKS
9 9 (10.84%) Power Platform
10 7 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (8.43%) Cloud Run
11 6 (7.23%) Azure Functions
11 6 (7.23%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.02%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (6.02%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (6.02%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.43%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.02%) Power BI
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.82%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.61%) MySQL
4 3 (3.61%) Redis
4 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.61%) Tick Data
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.41%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.20%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.20%) Metadata
6 1 (1.20%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) Git
2 17 (20.48%) Jenkins
3 9 (10.84%) JIRA
4 8 (9.64%) Bitbucket
5 5 (6.02%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.82%) GitLab
6 4 (4.82%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.61%) Maven
8 2 (2.41%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.41%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.41%) Gatling
8 2 (2.41%) JUnit
8 2 (2.41%) Mockito
8 2 (2.41%) Postman
8 2 (2.41%) Snyk
9 1 (1.20%) gulp
9 1 (1.20%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.20%) TestRail
9 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 19 (22.89%) Finance
2 12 (14.46%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.64%) Banking
4 5 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.61%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.20%) Legal
7 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (25.30%) Developer
2 17 (20.48%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (15.66%) Java Developer
4 9 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) Senior
5 6 (7.23%) Angular Developer
6 5 (6.02%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.82%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.82%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Fidessa Developer
8 3 (3.61%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.07%) React
2 13 (15.66%) OAuth
3 11 (13.25%) REST
3 11 (13.25%) Spring Boot
4 9 (10.84%) Node.js
4 9 (10.84%) Spring
5 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
6 7 (8.43%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.23%) JWT
8 5 (6.02%) .NET
8 5 (6.02%) LangChain
8 5 (6.02%) Next.js
9 4 (4.82%) CSS
9 4 (4.82%) HTML
9 4 (4.82%) Kafka
9 4 (4.82%) LangGraph
9 4 (4.82%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.61%) ARM Templates
10 3 (3.61%) AWS CDK
10 3 (3.61%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.66%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.43%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.61%) Equities
5 3 (3.61%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.41%) Life Science
6 2 (2.41%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.41%) Replication
6 2 (2.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Blog
7 1 (1.20%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.20%) NHS
7 1 (1.20%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Linux
2 2 (2.41%) Android
2 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (63.86%) CI/CD
2 48 (57.83%) DevOps
3 28 (33.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (28.92%) AI
5 21 (25.30%) Agile
6 19 (22.89%) Test Automation
7 17 (20.48%) Containerisation
7 17 (20.48%) Full-Stack Development
8 15 (18.07%) Microservices
8 15 (18.07%) Observability
9 14 (16.87%) Migration
10 12 (14.46%) DevSecOps
10 12 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (13.25%) TDD
12 10 (12.05%) Analytics
12 10 (12.05%) Generative AI
13 9 (10.84%) LLM
14 8 (9.64%) Machine Learning
15 7 (8.43%) BDD
15 7 (8.43%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.78%) Python
2 24 (28.92%) Java
3 19 (22.89%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.02%) C#
7 4 (4.82%) Bicep
8 3 (3.61%) Bash
9 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.20%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.20%) C
10 1 (1.20%) C++
10 1 (1.20%) PHP
10 1 (1.20%) ProC
10 1 (1.20%) Ruby
10 1 (1.20%) Scala
10 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.20%) VB
10 1 (1.20%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (26.51%) SC Cleared
1 22 (26.51%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.61%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.41%) Degree
4 1 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.20%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CCSP
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.20%) CISSP
4 1 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.20%) MCP
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.20%) OSCP
4 1 (1.20%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) GDPR
2 4 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.82%) NIST
3 3 (3.61%) EU AI Act
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 2 (2.41%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.41%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.41%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.41%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.41%) PSD2
4 2 (2.41%) SEPA
5 1 (1.20%) GRC
5 1 (1.20%) MiFID
5 1 (1.20%) NCSC
5 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.20%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (31.33%) Docker
2 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (45.78%) Terraform
2 20 (24.10%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.05%) Ansible
4 6 (7.23%) Prometheus
5 5 (6.02%) Grafana
6 3 (3.61%) Argo
6 3 (3.61%) Istio
7 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.20%) Kibana
7 1 (1.20%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.05%) Google
3 7 (8.43%) Databricks
3 7 (8.43%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.43%) Oracle
4 3 (3.61%) Solace
5 2 (2.41%) Confluent
5 2 (2.41%) Foundry
5 2 (2.41%) Palantir
5 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.20%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.20%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.20%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.20%) Tenable
6 1 (1.20%) Workday