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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 74 93
Rank change year-on-year +7 +19 -2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 93 56 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.87% 2.94% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.18% 7.28% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 33 23
10th Percentile £397 £365 £430
25th Percentile £463 £413 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -12.50% -4.38%
75th Percentile £666 £675 £713
90th Percentile £726 £832 £764
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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,013 769 938
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 42.19% 40.33% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 559 623
10th Percentile £332 £338 £389
25th Percentile £456 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £660 £666 £675
90th Percentile £763 £765 £757
London median daily rate £550 £529 £550
% change year-on-year +3.97% -3.82% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 5
10th Percentile £19.28 £18.63 -
25th Percentile £21.75 £24.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +55.56%
75th Percentile £46.88 £55.60 -
90th Percentile £64.88 £67.89 £69.50
London median hourly rate £30.00 £26.40 £31.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% -16.19% -28.41%

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 15 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.

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 15 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 +15 85 £525 -2.33% 59
West End of London -5 5 £600 +26.32% 2
City of Westminster -7 4 £600 +26.32% 9
Southwark - 1 £700 -
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 (5.38%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.30%) Confluence
3 3 (3.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.08%) IIS
4 1 (1.08%) MQSeries
4 1 (1.08%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 54 (58.06%) Azure
2 53 (56.99%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (45.16%) AWS
4 26 (27.96%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (21.51%) Serverless
6 17 (18.28%) GCP
7 13 (13.98%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (13.98%) Azure AKS
8 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
9 11 (11.83%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (10.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (10.75%) Amazon EKS
11 9 (9.68%) Power Platform
12 8 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
13 7 (7.53%) Amazon EventBridge
13 7 (7.53%) Azure Functions
13 7 (7.53%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (6.45%) dbt
14 6 (6.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.45%) DNS
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 3 (3.23%) DHCP
3 3 (3.23%) Firewall
4 2 (2.15%) Network Security
5 1 (1.08%) BGP
5 1 (1.08%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.08%) INAP
5 1 (1.08%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.08%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.08%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.08%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.08%) RTP
5 1 (1.08%) SSH
5 1 (1.08%) TACACS
5 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.08%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.08%) VoIP
5 1 (1.08%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (9.68%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (8.60%) Power BI
4 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
4 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (4.30%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.23%) BigQuery
6 3 (3.23%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.15%) Redis
7 2 (2.15%) Tableau
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.08%) Big Data
8 1 (1.08%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.08%) Parquet
8 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (23.66%) Jenkins
2 18 (19.35%) GitLab
3 17 (18.28%) Git
4 10 (10.75%) JIRA
5 8 (8.60%) Bitbucket
6 7 (7.53%) JUnit
7 6 (6.45%) Selenium
8 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
8 5 (5.38%) Mockito
8 5 (5.38%) Postman
9 3 (3.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (3.23%) Claude Code
9 3 (3.23%) JMeter
10 2 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
10 2 (2.15%) Newman
10 2 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.15%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.15%) TeamCity
General
1 33 (35.48%) Finance
2 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Banking
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Back Office
5 6 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Law
6 3 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.15%) Front Office
7 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Police
8 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (23.66%) Senior
2 17 (18.28%) Developer
3 11 (11.83%) Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Data Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.53%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Java Developer
7 6 (6.45%) Platform Engineer
7 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) GCP Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (53.76%) Terraform
2 18 (19.35%) REST
3 15 (16.13%) Kafka
3 15 (16.13%) Spring
3 15 (16.13%) Spring Boot
4 14 (15.05%) RESTful
5 11 (11.83%) .NET
6 9 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
7 7 (7.53%) HTML
8 6 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (6.45%) AngularJS
8 6 (6.45%) Middleware
8 6 (6.45%) Node.js
8 6 (6.45%) React
9 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.30%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.30%) Playwright
9 4 (4.30%) PySpark
9 4 (4.30%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.03%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.60%) AI Agents
3 8 (8.60%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.23%) Distributed Applications
6 3 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.23%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.15%) PropTech
7 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.08%) Genomics
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.08%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (11.83%) Windows
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
2 6 (6.45%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.15%) Android
3 2 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) CentOS
4 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (82.80%) CI/CD
2 54 (58.06%) DevOps
3 46 (49.46%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (33.33%) Agile
5 28 (30.11%) Test Automation
6 26 (27.96%) Continuous Improvement
7 24 (25.81%) Containerisation
8 23 (24.73%) Event-Driven
8 23 (24.73%) Microservices
9 22 (23.66%) AI
10 21 (22.58%) Observability
11 19 (20.43%) Data Modelling
12 18 (19.35%) Software Engineering
13 17 (18.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 17 (18.28%) Stakeholder Management
14 15 (16.13%) Platform Engineering
15 14 (15.05%) Analytics
15 14 (15.05%) Problem-Solving
16 13 (13.98%) Data Engineering
16 13 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (43.01%) Python
2 27 (29.03%) SQL
3 25 (26.88%) Java
4 19 (20.43%) C#
5 16 (17.20%) PowerShell
6 11 (11.83%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.75%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.38%) Bash
9 4 (4.30%) Bicep
10 3 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.23%) Ruby
11 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
12 1 (1.08%) C
12 1 (1.08%) CodeQL
12 1 (1.08%) Korn
12 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
12 1 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 34 (36.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (35.48%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.38%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.23%) Degree
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.15%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.15%) PMP
5 2 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.08%) CISA
6 1 (1.08%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) GSEC
6 1 (1.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.08%) MOS
6 1 (1.08%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) QA
2 10 (10.75%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.15%) GDPR
5 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.08%) PSD2
5 1 (1.08%) SEPA
5 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 29 (31.18%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 36 (38.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.75%) Ansible
3 9 (9.68%) Grafana
4 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.15%) SCCM
6 1 (1.08%) Bosun
6 1 (1.08%) Packer
6 1 (1.08%) SELinux
6 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (23.66%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.53%) Google
3 6 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.38%) Databricks
4 5 (5.38%) Dynatrace
4 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Splunk
4 5 (5.38%) VMware
5 4 (4.30%) IBM
5 4 (4.30%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.23%) AppDynamics
7 2 (2.15%) New Relic
7 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.08%) Cisco
8 1 (1.08%) Dialogic
8 1 (1.08%) Foundry
8 1 (1.08%) Guidewire
8 1 (1.08%) Murex
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) SAP