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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 86 90
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 91 48 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.64% 2.42% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.82% 6.11% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 25 27
10th Percentile £450 £349 £441
25th Percentile £481 £400 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £495 £565
Median % change year-on-year +9.90% -12.39% -12.74%
75th Percentile £669 £656 £683
90th Percentile £725 £710 £757
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 1,032 786 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.30% 39.66% 40.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 530 641
10th Percentile £349 £331 £396
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £753
London median daily rate £540 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +1.89% -3.64% -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% +15.70%
75th Percentile £64.06 £54.46 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.48 £69.50
London median hourly rate £33.68 £31.00 £30.30
% change year-on-year +8.63% +2.33% -31.15%

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 11 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 11 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 +18 83 £530 +3.41% 38
West End of London -4 5 £600 +26.32% 4
City of Westminster -5 5 £600 +26.32% 12
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 5 (5.49%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.04%) GitHub Actions
2 49 (53.85%) Azure
3 44 (48.35%) AWS
4 22 (24.18%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (15.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (15.38%) Serverless
6 13 (14.29%) Azure AKS
7 12 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
7 12 (13.19%) GCP
8 11 (12.09%) Amazon S3
9 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 10 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (9.89%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (9.89%) Power Platform
11 7 (7.69%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (7.69%) dbt
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (6.59%) Power Automate
12 6 (6.59%) PowerApps
12 6 (6.59%) Snowflake
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 10 (10.99%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) Power BI
4 7 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (7.69%) DynamoDB
5 6 (6.59%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (5.49%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.30%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (2.20%) Big Data
8 2 (2.20%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.10%) Metadata
9 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Git
1 20 (21.98%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.68%) GitLab
3 9 (9.89%) JIRA
3 9 (9.89%) JUnit
4 7 (7.69%) Mockito
5 6 (6.59%) Bitbucket
6 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
6 5 (5.49%) Postman
6 5 (5.49%) Selenium
7 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.30%) Claude Code
8 3 (3.30%) Gradle
8 3 (3.30%) Maven
9 2 (2.20%) Appium
9 2 (2.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.20%) JMeter
9 2 (2.20%) Newman
9 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 36 (39.56%) Social Skills
2 30 (32.97%) Finance
3 12 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.19%) Banking
4 11 (12.09%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.79%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.40%) Back Office
6 4 (4.40%) Law
7 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.30%) Police
8 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.20%) Front Office
8 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Advertising
9 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Senior
2 21 (23.08%) Developer
3 15 (16.48%) Architect
4 10 (10.99%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
5 8 (8.79%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) AWS Data Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (47.25%) Terraform
2 20 (21.98%) Spring
2 20 (21.98%) Spring Boot
3 16 (17.58%) Kafka
3 16 (17.58%) RESTful
4 15 (16.48%) REST
5 9 (9.89%) .NET
6 8 (8.79%) RabbitMQ
6 8 (8.79%) React
7 6 (6.59%) HTML
7 6 (6.59%) Node.js
8 5 (5.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.49%) Playwright
8 5 (5.49%) SOAP
8 5 (5.49%) YAML
9 4 (4.40%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.40%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.40%) Gherkin
9 4 (4.40%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (3.30%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 31 (34.07%) Cloud Native
2 19 (20.88%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (7.69%) AI Agents
4 5 (5.49%) 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%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.10%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.10%) Equities
7 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.10%) Media Streaming
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.79%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Linux
2 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Android
4 1 (1.10%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) CentOS
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (84.62%) CI/CD
2 54 (59.34%) DevOps
3 45 (49.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (38.46%) Agile
4 35 (38.46%) Test Automation
5 30 (32.97%) Containerisation
6 27 (29.67%) Microservices
7 26 (28.57%) Event-Driven
8 24 (26.37%) Observability
9 23 (25.27%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (24.18%) Software Engineering
11 20 (21.98%) AI
12 18 (19.78%) Data Modelling
13 15 (16.48%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (16.48%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 14 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 12 (13.19%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (12.09%) Analytics
16 11 (12.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (37.36%) Python
2 32 (35.16%) Java
3 23 (25.27%) SQL
4 17 (18.68%) C#
5 12 (13.19%) PowerShell
5 12 (13.19%) TypeScript
6 11 (12.09%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.49%) Bicep
7 5 (5.49%) Ruby
8 3 (3.30%) Bash
9 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.10%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (37.36%) Security Cleared
2 33 (36.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) Degree
4 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.30%) Azure Certification
6 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.20%) PMP
6 2 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.10%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.58%) QA
2 7 (7.69%) 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 10 (10.99%) Grafana
3 9 (9.89%) 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 8 (8.79%) Oracle
3 5 (5.49%) Google
4 4 (4.40%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.40%) VMware
5 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.30%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.30%) Splunk
6 2 (2.20%) Databricks
6 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.20%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) FIS
7 1 (1.10%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.10%) Murex
7 1 (1.10%) New Relic
7 1 (1.10%) Temenos
7 1 (1.10%) Zscaler