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 25 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 87 87
Rank change year-on-year +16 0 +26
Contract jobs citing GitHub 60 44 63
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.23% 1.88% 2.05%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.91% 4.70% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 38
10th Percentile £384 £433 £401
25th Percentile £425 £512 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £620 £620
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% - +3.33%
75th Percentile £674 £728 £675
90th Percentile £806 £762 £724
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

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 759 937 1,252
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.92% 40.08% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 554 613 863
10th Percentile £334 £389 £334
25th Percentile £434 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.35% -3.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 4 8
10th Percentile £19.36 £29.40 £15.58
25th Percentile £25.04 £33.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%
75th Percentile £53.31 £49.38 £40.69
90th Percentile £64.69 £75.25 £49.88
London median hourly rate £26.30 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -24.86% -13.58% +26.56%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 +22 55 £538 -15.69% 141
City of Westminster 0 2 £475 -7.32% 2
West End of London +7 1 £475 - 4
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 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.67%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 32 (53.33%) GitHub Actions
2 24 (40.00%) Azure
3 21 (35.00%) AWS
4 11 (18.33%) GCP
5 10 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) Power Platform
7 6 (10.00%) Amazon S3
7 6 (10.00%) Cloud Run
8 5 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (8.33%) Serverless
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (6.67%) Azure AKS
9 4 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (6.67%) Entra ID
9 4 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (6.67%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.33%) DNS
1 2 (3.33%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (3.33%) Amazon QuickSight
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) MySQL
3 2 (3.33%) Redis
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.67%) CouchDB
4 1 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.67%) DataStage
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (25.00%) Git
2 8 (13.33%) GitLab
2 8 (13.33%) JIRA
3 7 (11.67%) Bitbucket
3 7 (11.67%) Jenkins
4 4 (6.67%) Gradle
4 4 (6.67%) Maven
5 3 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 3 (5.00%) Snyk
6 2 (3.33%) CircleCI
6 2 (3.33%) SonarQube
6 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (1.67%) Ant
7 1 (1.67%) gulp
7 1 (1.67%) Mocha
7 1 (1.67%) Storybook
7 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.67%) webpack
7 1 (1.67%) Xcode
General
1 16 (26.67%) Finance
2 6 (10.00%) Banking
2 6 (10.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.33%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.67%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.67%) Legal
7 1 (1.67%) Military
7 1 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Developer
2 9 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 8 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Java Developer
5 6 (10.00%) Senior
6 5 (8.33%) Angular Developer
6 5 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Site Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Architect
8 3 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.00%) Lead
8 3 (5.00%) Lead DevOps
9 2 (3.33%) Backend Developer
9 2 (3.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) JIRA Administrator
9 2 (3.33%) JIRA Engineer
9 2 (3.33%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) React
1 10 (16.67%) REST
2 8 (13.33%) GraphQL
2 8 (13.33%) Node.js
3 7 (11.67%) OAuth
4 5 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.33%) FastAPI
4 5 (8.33%) Spring Boot
5 4 (6.67%) LangGraph
6 3 (5.00%) .NET
6 3 (5.00%) CSS
6 3 (5.00%) HTML
6 3 (5.00%) HTML5
6 3 (5.00%) LangChain
6 3 (5.00%) Next.js
6 3 (5.00%) OAuth2
7 2 (3.33%) CSS3
7 2 (3.33%) RESTful
7 2 (3.33%) SQLAlchemy
7 2 (3.33%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) AI Agents
1 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.00%) IVR
2 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.33%) Life Science
3 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.67%) Equities
4 1 (1.67%) Genomics
4 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.67%) Replication
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.33%) Android
1 2 (3.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 36 (60.00%) DevOps
3 18 (30.00%) AI
3 18 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 14 (23.33%) Agile
6 12 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 12 (20.00%) Microservices
7 10 (16.67%) High Availability
7 10 (16.67%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.00%) Generative AI
8 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.33%) DevSecOps
9 8 (13.33%) Observability
10 7 (11.67%) Data Governance
10 7 (11.67%) LLM
10 7 (11.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (11.67%) TDD
11 6 (10.00%) Machine Learning
11 6 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) Python
2 13 (21.67%) TypeScript
3 10 (16.67%) Java
3 10 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (10.00%) Bash
4 6 (10.00%) C#
4 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.67%) Go
6 3 (5.00%) Bicep
7 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
7 2 (3.33%) PromQL
8 1 (1.67%) CodeQL
8 1 (1.67%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.67%) PHP
8 1 (1.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.67%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) MCP
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.00%) EU AI Act
3 3 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.00%) NIST
4 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (3.33%) QA
5 1 (1.67%) MiFID
5 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.67%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) Docker
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (48.33%) Terraform
2 17 (28.33%) Kubernetes
3 8 (13.33%) Ansible
3 8 (13.33%) Grafana
4 6 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 6 (10.00%) Puppet
5 5 (8.33%) Istio
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Google
2 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.00%) Databricks
3 6 (10.00%) Splunk
4 5 (8.33%) OpenAI
5 3 (5.00%) Atlassian
5 3 (5.00%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Oracle
7 1 (1.67%) Solace
7 1 (1.67%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.67%) Tenable