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 6 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 78 91
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 89 49 45
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.49% 2.58% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.15% 6.00% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 25 22
10th Percentile £377 £400 £425
25th Percentile £453 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £547 £525 £558
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -5.91% -13.49%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £680
90th Percentile £689 £666 £736
London median daily rate £550 £550 £544
% change year-on-year - +1.15% -13.00%
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 - - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -27.81%

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 973 816 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.19% 42.97% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 524 684
10th Percentile £350 £363 £358
25th Percentile £463 £450 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year - +2.80% -9.32%
75th Percentile £650 £665 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £21.75 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £89.75 £38.63
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 6 June 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 6 June 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 +17 80 £525 -4.55% 54
West End of London +4 7 £650 +52.94% 4
City of Westminster +2 7 £650 +52.94% 1
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 3 (3.37%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.12%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 50 (56.18%) Azure
2 46 (51.69%) AWS
2 46 (51.69%) GitHub Actions
3 23 (25.84%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (16.85%) Serverless
5 13 (14.61%) Power Platform
6 12 (13.48%) Amazon S3
6 12 (13.48%) Azure AKS
6 12 (13.48%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (12.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (11.24%) GCP
9 9 (10.11%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.11%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (7.87%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (7.87%) AWS CodePipeline
10 7 (7.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (7.87%) Entra ID
11 6 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (6.74%) Azure Functions
12 5 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) Network Security
2 3 (3.37%) DNS
3 2 (2.25%) Firewall
3 2 (2.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.48%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.24%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.11%) Amazon Athena
4 9 (10.11%) Power BI
5 7 (7.87%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (7.87%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.49%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.49%) Db2
7 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.25%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.25%) Metadata
8 2 (2.25%) Redis
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.12%) Big Data
9 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.12%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (24.72%) Git
2 20 (22.47%) Jenkins
3 14 (15.73%) GitLab
4 9 (10.11%) JIRA
5 8 (8.99%) JUnit
6 7 (7.87%) Mockito
7 5 (5.62%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.49%) Maven
8 4 (4.49%) Postman
9 3 (3.37%) Gatling
9 3 (3.37%) Gradle
9 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.25%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.25%) Mocha
10 2 (2.25%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.25%) webpack
11 1 (1.12%) Terragrunt
General
1 24 (26.97%) Finance
1 24 (26.97%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.48%) Banking
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Advertising
7 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Police
7 2 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Front Office
8 1 (1.12%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (24.72%) Developer
2 13 (14.61%) Senior
3 12 (13.48%) Architect
4 10 (11.24%) Senior Developer
5 9 (10.11%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.74%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Automation Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.49%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Junior
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Data Scientist
10 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.60%) Spring
2 18 (20.22%) Spring Boot
3 16 (17.98%) Kafka
4 15 (16.85%) React
5 12 (13.48%) REST
6 11 (12.36%) RESTful
7 10 (11.24%) .NET
8 8 (8.99%) Node.js
9 6 (6.74%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (6.74%) Playwright
10 5 (5.62%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.62%) Gherkin
10 5 (5.62%) PySpark
10 5 (5.62%) YAML
11 4 (4.49%) AWS CDK
11 4 (4.49%) Next.js
11 4 (4.49%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.49%) SOAP
11 4 (4.49%) TensorFlow
11 4 (4.49%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.09%) Cloud Native
2 13 (14.61%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (6.74%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.49%) NHS
5 2 (2.25%) Equities
5 2 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Blog
6 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.12%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.12%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.12%) Genomics
6 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.12%) IoT
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.99%) Linux
2 5 (5.62%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Android
3 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) CI/CD
2 48 (53.93%) DevOps
3 40 (44.94%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (33.71%) Observability
5 28 (31.46%) Agile
5 28 (31.46%) Containerisation
6 25 (28.09%) Test Automation
7 23 (25.84%) AI
8 21 (23.60%) Microservices
9 19 (21.35%) Event-Driven
10 18 (20.22%) Software Engineering
11 15 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (14.61%) Migration
12 13 (14.61%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (13.48%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 11 (12.36%) Platform Engineering
14 11 (12.36%) Stakeholder Management
15 10 (11.24%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 10 (11.24%) TDD
16 9 (10.11%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 33 (37.08%) Python
2 31 (34.83%) Java
3 24 (26.97%) SQL
4 17 (19.10%) JavaScript
5 13 (14.61%) C#
5 13 (14.61%) TypeScript
6 8 (8.99%) Bicep
7 5 (5.62%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.37%) Ruby
9 2 (2.25%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.25%) Bash
9 2 (2.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.25%) Go
9 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) C++
10 1 (1.12%) ProC
10 1 (1.12%) Scala
10 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (31.46%) SC Cleared
1 28 (31.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) Degree
3 7 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.37%) PhD
6 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.25%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.25%) PSD2
3 2 (2.25%) SEPA
3 2 (2.25%) WCAG
4 1 (1.12%) GDPR
4 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (35.96%) Docker
2 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (46.07%) Terraform
2 39 (43.82%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.11%) Grafana
3 9 (10.11%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.74%) Ansible
5 3 (3.37%) Argo
6 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.12%) Istio
6 1 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 11 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) Oracle
3 6 (6.74%) Databricks
4 4 (4.49%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Foundry
5 3 (3.37%) Palantir
5 3 (3.37%) Splunk
6 2 (2.25%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.25%) Confluent
6 2 (2.25%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.25%) Google
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.12%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.12%) SAP
7 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Solace
7 1 (1.12%) Sybase
7 1 (1.12%) VMware