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 5 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 81 93
Rank change year-on-year +23 +12 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 75 49 54
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.77% 2.02% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.11% 5.11% 4.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 25 40
10th Percentile £344 £456 £374
25th Percentile £413 £513 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -5.20%
75th Percentile £655 £725 £675
90th Percentile £695 £761 £724
London median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.18% -8.17%

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 823 958 1,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.32% 39.57% 41.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 631 830
10th Percentile £331 £388 £356
25th Percentile £425 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £740 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £20.85 £31.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 - £17.48
Median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £51.00 - £34.44
90th Percentile £62.93 £63.75 £51.25
London median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year -25.71% -7.28% +23.77%

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 5 December 2025.

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 5 December 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 +27 71 £550 -10.20% 39
City of Westminster +2 2 £475 - 3
West End of London +11 1 £475 - 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 6 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 40 (53.33%) GitHub Actions
2 35 (46.67%) Azure
3 30 (40.00%) AWS
4 16 (21.33%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (17.33%) GCP
6 11 (14.67%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (14.67%) Amazon S3
6 11 (14.67%) Serverless
7 10 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
8 7 (9.33%) Azure AKS
8 7 (9.33%) Power Platform
9 6 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (8.00%) Cloud Run
10 5 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (6.67%) Apigee
10 5 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.67%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.33%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.33%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (5.33%) MySQL
3 3 (4.00%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.00%) Power BI
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.67%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.67%) Redis
4 2 (2.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) Tick Data
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.33%) DataStage
5 1 (1.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (26.67%) Git
2 12 (16.00%) Jenkins
3 9 (12.00%) Bitbucket
4 8 (10.67%) JIRA
5 6 (8.00%) GitLab
6 3 (4.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (4.00%) Maven
6 3 (4.00%) Snyk
6 3 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.67%) Gradle
7 2 (2.67%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.33%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.33%) gulp
8 1 (1.33%) Mocha
8 1 (1.33%) Mockito
8 1 (1.33%) Postman
8 1 (1.33%) Selenium
8 1 (1.33%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.33%) webpack
General
1 17 (22.67%) Finance
2 8 (10.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Banking
4 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.67%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.33%) Legal
7 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Developer
2 15 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Java Developer
4 9 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Senior
6 7 (9.33%) Angular Developer
6 7 (9.33%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (9.33%) Site Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) JIRA Administrator
11 2 (2.67%) JIRA Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) REST
2 13 (17.33%) React
3 11 (14.67%) OAuth
4 9 (12.00%) Node.js
5 8 (10.67%) AngularJS
5 8 (10.67%) Spring Boot
6 6 (8.00%) GraphQL
6 6 (8.00%) JWT
7 5 (6.67%) FastAPI
8 4 (5.33%) CSS
8 4 (5.33%) HTML
8 4 (5.33%) LangGraph
8 4 (5.33%) Spring
9 3 (4.00%) HTML5
9 3 (4.00%) LangChain
9 3 (4.00%) Next.js
9 3 (4.00%) OAuth2
9 3 (4.00%) Playwright
9 3 (4.00%) RESTful
10 2 (2.67%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.33%) AI Agents
3 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Equities
5 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.67%) Life Science
5 2 (2.67%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.67%) Replication
5 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.33%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.33%) IVR
6 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) PKI
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Android
1 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.67%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 44 (58.67%) DevOps
3 25 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (30.67%) Agile
5 19 (25.33%) AI
6 17 (22.67%) Containerisation
7 15 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (20.00%) Microservices
8 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
9 13 (17.33%) Migration
10 12 (16.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (13.33%) DevSecOps
12 9 (12.00%) Generative AI
12 9 (12.00%) High Availability
12 9 (12.00%) TDD
13 8 (10.67%) Analytics
13 8 (10.67%) Observability
13 8 (10.67%) Problem-Solving
14 7 (9.33%) LLM
14 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) Python
2 16 (21.33%) Java
3 14 (18.67%) TypeScript
4 11 (14.67%) SQL
5 6 (8.00%) Bash
5 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.67%) C#
7 4 (5.33%) Go
8 2 (2.67%) Bicep
8 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.67%) PromQL
9 1 (1.33%) CodeQL
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (24.00%) SC Cleared
1 18 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.33%) CCSP
3 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.33%) CISSP
3 1 (1.33%) Degree
3 1 (1.33%) MCP
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.33%) OSCP
3 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) GDPR
2 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.33%) NIST
3 3 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.00%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.67%) QA
5 1 (1.33%) GRC
5 1 (1.33%) MiFID
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
5 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (28.00%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (45.33%) Terraform
2 18 (24.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.33%) Ansible
4 6 (8.00%) Grafana
5 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.33%) Puppet
6 3 (4.00%) Istio
Vendors
1 15 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (17.33%) Google
3 5 (6.67%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.33%) Databricks
4 4 (5.33%) Splunk
5 3 (4.00%) Oracle
6 2 (2.67%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.67%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.67%) Solace
7 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.33%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.33%) Tenable
7 1 (1.33%) Workday