GitHub Contracts in Central London

GitHub
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 90 76
Rank change year-on-year +10 -14 +32
Contract jobs citing GitHub 50 46 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.51% 1.94% 2.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.99% 4.69% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 50
10th Percentile £400 £422 £409
25th Percentile £434 £475 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £551 £613
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -10.08% +2.08%
75th Percentile £634 £682 £725
90th Percentile £665 £768 £825
London median daily rate £550 £516 £610
% change year-on-year +6.54% -15.37% +3.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
London median hourly rate - £57.75 £82.50
% change year-on-year - -30.00% +32.00%

All Cloud 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 835 981 1,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.98% 41.43% 40.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 696 995
10th Percentile £363 £363 £275
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £650 £700
90th Percentile £751 £763 £800
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 11
10th Percentile £24.30 £12.75 £21.25
25th Percentile £26.45 £14.88 £30.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%
75th Percentile £56.75 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £93.25 £38.63 -
London median hourly rate £31.50 £26.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +21.15% -53.78% +32.35%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Central London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Central London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Central London

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 3 July 2025. 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 +15 47 £538 -7.73% 166
West End of London +2 1 £425 -10.53% 21
City of Westminster -1 1 £425 -22.73% 14
GitHub
London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (4.00%) Apache
2 2 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (52.00%) AWS
2 22 (44.00%) GitHub Actions
3 21 (42.00%) Azure
4 9 (18.00%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.00%) GCP
6 6 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
6 6 (12.00%) Serverless
7 5 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
9 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
9 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (6.00%) Azure AKS
9 3 (6.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (6.00%) OpenShift
9 3 (6.00%) Power Platform
9 3 (6.00%) SaaS
10 2 (4.00%) Datadog
10 2 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 2 (4.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) DNS
2 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.00%) HTTP
3 3 (6.00%) SMTP
3 3 (6.00%) VPN
4 2 (4.00%) DHCP
4 2 (4.00%) Firewall
4 2 (4.00%) FTP
4 2 (4.00%) SSL
5 1 (2.00%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.00%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.00%) Power BI
2 3 (6.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.00%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.00%) Big Data
4 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.00%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (22.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (18.00%) JIRA
3 7 (14.00%) GitLab
4 4 (8.00%) Git
5 3 (6.00%) Postman
5 3 (6.00%) Selenium
5 3 (6.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.00%) Gradle
6 2 (4.00%) JMeter
6 2 (4.00%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.00%) Maven
6 2 (4.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.00%) Subversion
6 2 (4.00%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.00%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.00%) Snyk
7 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.00%) Travis CI
General
1 12 (24.00%) Finance
2 10 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
4 3 (6.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Retail
5 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Advertising
6 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.00%) International Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.00%) Military
6 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Senior
3 5 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Developer
3 5 (10.00%) Lead
3 5 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Node.js
2 5 (10.00%) .NET
2 5 (10.00%) React
2 5 (10.00%) REST
3 4 (8.00%) GraphQL
4 3 (6.00%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.00%) Kafka
4 3 (6.00%) OAuth
4 3 (6.00%) OpenID
4 3 (6.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.00%) Pandas
5 2 (4.00%) CSS
5 2 (4.00%) HTML
5 2 (4.00%) Jest
5 2 (4.00%) NumPy
5 2 (4.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.00%) pytest
6 1 (2.00%) Next.js
6 1 (2.00%) React Native
6 1 (2.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) IVR
4 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Clustering
4 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.00%) CUDA
4 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.00%) Linux
2 5 (10.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.00%) Unix
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.00%) Solaris
5 1 (2.00%) VMS
5 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) CI/CD
2 31 (62.00%) DevOps
3 18 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (30.00%) Agile
5 11 (22.00%) Containerisation
6 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.00%) Observability
7 9 (18.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 9 (18.00%) Test Automation
8 8 (16.00%) Microservices
8 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Data Modelling
10 5 (10.00%) Code Quality
10 5 (10.00%) High Availability
10 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 5 (10.00%) Performance Testing
11 4 (8.00%) API Integration
11 4 (8.00%) Cloud Security
11 4 (8.00%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (50.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Bash
3 8 (16.00%) C#
3 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (14.00%) PowerShell
4 7 (14.00%) SQL
5 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.00%) Go
7 4 (8.00%) Java
8 3 (6.00%) Perl
9 2 (4.00%) Bicep
9 2 (4.00%) Rust
9 2 (4.00%) Shell Script
10 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
10 1 (2.00%) CodeQL
10 1 (2.00%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.00%) Ruby
10 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (24.00%) Docker
2 3 (6.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.00%) Lustre
4 1 (2.00%) NFS
4 1 (2.00%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.00%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 29 (58.00%) Terraform
2 23 (46.00%) Kubernetes
3 11 (22.00%) Ansible
4 9 (18.00%) Grafana
5 8 (16.00%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.00%) Puppet
7 3 (6.00%) Istio
7 3 (6.00%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.00%) Argo
8 1 (2.00%) Control-M
8 1 (2.00%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.00%) Netcool
8 1 (2.00%) Podman
8 1 (2.00%) QRadar
8 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Google
2 6 (12.00%) Splunk
3 5 (10.00%) Databricks
4 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.00%) VMware
5 3 (6.00%) Red Hat
5 3 (6.00%) Salesforce
6 2 (4.00%) MuleSoft
6 2 (4.00%) Oracle
6 2 (4.00%) SAP
6 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.00%) Confluent
7 1 (2.00%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.00%) IBM
7 1 (2.00%) NETGEAR
7 1 (2.00%) New Relic
7 1 (2.00%) SaltStack
7 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.00%) Talend
7 1 (2.00%) TP-LINK