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 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 85 91
Rank change year-on-year +34 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing GitHub 91 46 48
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.22% 2.21% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.06% 5.30% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 24 28
10th Percentile £355 £437 £396
25th Percentile £413 £519 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £544
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +8.00% -3.72%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £676
90th Percentile £698 £726 £771
London median daily rate £550 £550 £539
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -13.76%
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 £57.75
% change year-on-year +19.05% -9.09% -17.50%

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 905 868 987
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.96% 41.79% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 563 708
10th Percentile £332 £375 £350
25th Percentile £430 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £738 £745
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 13
10th Percentile £20.82 £23.98 £13.60
25th Percentile £25.47 £29.07 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% +84.21% -45.71%
75th Percentile £49.83 - £23.75
90th Percentile £59.72 £76.50 £49.95
London median hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £29.72
% change year-on-year +11.11% +5.99% -2.56%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 85 £531 -11.46% 45
West End of London +11 3 £650 +52.94% 1
City of Westminster +5 3 £650 +52.94% 2
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%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.10%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 49 (53.85%) Azure
2 42 (46.15%) GitHub Actions
3 40 (43.96%) AWS
4 19 (20.88%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (19.78%) Serverless
6 15 (16.48%) Amazon S3
6 15 (16.48%) GCP
7 13 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 12 (13.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 12 (13.19%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (10.99%) Power Platform
10 8 (8.79%) Amazon ECR
11 7 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (7.69%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (7.69%) Azure AKS
11 7 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (6.59%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (6.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.30%) DNS
1 3 (3.30%) Firewall
1 3 (3.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) NoSQL
1 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (8.79%) DynamoDB
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (6.59%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (6.59%) Power BI
3 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.40%) DB2
4 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.40%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.30%) MySQL
5 3 (3.30%) Redis
5 3 (3.30%) Tick Data
6 2 (2.20%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.20%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.20%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.10%) CouchDB
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 20 (21.98%) Git
2 19 (20.88%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.09%) JIRA
4 6 (6.59%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.59%) GitLab
5 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.40%) JUnit
5 4 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (3.30%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.30%) Maven
6 3 (3.30%) Mockito
6 3 (3.30%) Postman
6 3 (3.30%) SonarQube
7 2 (2.20%) Gatling
7 2 (2.20%) Selenium
7 2 (2.20%) webpack
8 1 (1.10%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.10%) Mocha
8 1 (1.10%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (1.10%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (17.58%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 8 (8.79%) Banking
4 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.30%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.20%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Advertising
7 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.10%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.10%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (23.08%) Developer
2 16 (17.58%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (13.19%) Java Developer
4 10 (10.99%) Senior
5 9 (9.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Angular Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Architect
8 4 (4.40%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.40%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.30%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.30%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.58%) React
2 12 (13.19%) REST
2 12 (13.19%) Spring
3 11 (12.09%) OAuth
3 11 (12.09%) Spring Boot
4 10 (10.99%) Node.js
5 9 (9.89%) AngularJS
6 7 (7.69%) .NET
6 7 (7.69%) Playwright
7 6 (6.59%) FastAPI
7 6 (6.59%) Kafka
7 6 (6.59%) Next.js
8 5 (5.49%) JWT
9 4 (4.40%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.40%) LangGraph
9 4 (4.40%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.40%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.30%) AWS CDK
10 3 (3.30%) Hugging Face
10 3 (3.30%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.78%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.40%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.30%) Equities
4 3 (3.30%) NHS
4 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.20%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.20%) Life Science
5 2 (2.20%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.20%) Replication
6 1 (1.10%) Blog
6 1 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.10%) Genomics
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.10%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.89%) Linux
2 3 (3.30%) Android
2 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (61.54%) CI/CD
2 48 (52.75%) DevOps
3 34 (37.36%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (29.67%) AI
5 25 (27.47%) Agile
6 20 (21.98%) Test Automation
7 18 (19.78%) Containerisation
8 17 (18.68%) Observability
9 16 (17.58%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (17.58%) Microservices
9 16 (17.58%) Migration
10 12 (13.19%) Analytics
10 12 (13.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (12.09%) LLM
11 11 (12.09%) TDD
12 10 (10.99%) DevSecOps
12 10 (10.99%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (9.89%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
13 9 (9.89%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.96%) Python
2 26 (28.57%) Java
3 23 (25.27%) SQL
4 13 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 12 (13.19%) JavaScript
6 9 (9.89%) C#
7 3 (3.30%) Bicep
8 2 (2.20%) Bash
8 2 (2.20%) Go
8 2 (2.20%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.20%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.10%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.10%) C
9 1 (1.10%) C++
9 1 (1.10%) PHP
9 1 (1.10%) ProC
9 1 (1.10%) Ruby
9 1 (1.10%) Scala
9 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.10%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 26 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.59%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (6.59%) Degree
3 3 (3.30%) PhD
4 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.10%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CCSP
5 1 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.10%) CISSP
5 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.10%) OSCP
5 1 (1.10%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.40%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.30%) GDPR
2 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.20%) PSD2
3 2 (2.20%) SEPA
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) GRC
4 1 (1.10%) MiFID
4 1 (1.10%) NCSC
4 1 (1.10%) NIST
4 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (29.67%) Docker
2 4 (4.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 41 (45.05%) Terraform
2 25 (27.47%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.89%) Ansible
4 4 (4.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.30%) Argo
5 3 (3.30%) Grafana
6 2 (2.20%) Istio
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.79%) Google
3 7 (7.69%) Databricks
3 7 (7.69%) Oracle
4 4 (4.40%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.30%) Foundry
5 3 (3.30%) Palantir
5 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.30%) Solace
6 2 (2.20%) Confluent
6 2 (2.20%) IBM
7 1 (1.10%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.10%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.10%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.10%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.10%) SAP
7 1 (1.10%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.10%) Sybase
7 1 (1.10%) Workday