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 18 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	64	72	92
Rank change year-on-year	+8	+20	-2
Contract jobs citing GitHub	94	54	43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	3.97%	2.87%	1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category	9.41%	7.13%	4.61%
Number of daily rates quoted	66	32	24
10^th Percentile	£397	£366	£433
25^th Percentile	£463	£450	£512
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£536	£525	£606
Median % change year-on-year	+2.14%	-13.40%	-3.39%
75^th Percentile	£666	£675	£706
90^th Percentile	£726	£841	£762
London median daily rate	£550	£550	£550
% change year-on-year	-	-	-8.33%

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.

	6 months to 18 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	999	757	932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London	42.19%	40.20%	39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted	699	548	617
10^th Percentile	£334	£330	£388
25^th Percentile	£456	£434	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£563
Median % change year-on-year	-	-2.22%	+2.27%
75^th Percentile	£659	£663	£675
90^th Percentile	£763	£753	£750
London median daily rate	£550	£525	£550
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	10	4
10^th Percentile	£19.28	£18.63	£29.40
25^th Percentile	£21.75	£24.50	£33.00
Median hourly rate	£27.00	£34.00	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	-20.59%	-2.86%	+68.67%
75^th Percentile	£46.88	£55.60	£49.38
90^th Percentile	£64.88	£67.89	£75.25
London median hourly rate	£28.40	£26.30	£32.50
% change year-on-year	+7.97%	-19.08%	-19.75%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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 18 October 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.

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 18 October 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	+11	86	£525	-2.33%	61
West End of London	-7	5	£600	+26.32%	2
City of Westminster	-7	4	£600	+26.32%	11
Southwark	-	1	£700	-	1
GitHub London

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 18 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	83.0%	78
2	Azure	57.4%	54
2	DevOps	57.4%	54
2	GitHub Actions	57.4%	54
5	Terraform	53.2%	50
6	Infrastructure as Code	50.0%	47
7	AWS	45.7%	43
8	Python	43.6%	41
9	Kubernetes	38.3%	36
10	Security Cleared	37.2%	35
11	SC Cleared	36.2%	34
12	Agile	33.0%	31
13	Docker	30.9%	29
13	Test Automation	30.9%	29
15	SQL	29.8%	28
16	Azure DevOps	27.7%	26
16	Continuous Improvement	27.7%	26
18	Java	26.6%	25
19	Containerisation	25.5%	24
20	Event-Driven	24.5%	23
20	Microservices	24.5%	23
22	AI	23.4%	22
22	Jenkins	23.4%	22
22	Microsoft	23.4%	22
25	Observability	22.3%	21
26	Serverless	21.3%	20
27	C#	20.2%	19
27	Data Modelling	20.2%	19
29	Git	19.1%	18
29	GitLab	19.1%	18

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	57.4%	54
1	GitHub Actions	57.4%	54
3	AWS	45.7%	43
4	Azure DevOps	27.7%	26
5	Serverless	21.3%	20
6	GCP	18.1%	17
7	AWS Lambda	13.8%	13
7	Azure AKS	13.8%	13
9	Amazon S3	12.8%	12
10	GitHub Copilot	11.7%	11
11	Amazon CloudWatch	10.6%	10
11	Amazon EC2	10.6%	10
11	Amazon EKS	10.6%	10
14	Power Platform	9.6%	9
15	AWS CloudFormation	8.5%	8
16	Amazon EventBridge	7.4%	7
16	Azure Functions	7.4%	7
16	Azure Monitor	7.4%	7
19	Amazon Kinesis	6.4%	6
19	AWS Step Functions	6.4%	6