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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 74 90
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 93 50 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.78% 2.59% 1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.18% 6.49% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 28 25
10th Percentile £404 £362 £435
25th Percentile £463 £447 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £498 £551
Median % change year-on-year +7.54% -9.71% -12.54%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £725
90th Percentile £726 £736 £768
London median daily rate £550 £550 £531
% change year-on-year - +3.53% -11.46%

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 1,013 771 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 41.15% 39.87% 39.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 544 623
10th Percentile £337 £335 £386
25th Percentile £456 £432 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £774
London median daily rate £550 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +3.29% -3.18% -3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 5
10th Percentile £19.30 £19.36 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.00 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +9.29% +68.67%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.96 -
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.43 £69.50
London median hourly rate £28.55 £28.50 £30.59
% change year-on-year +0.18% -6.83% -23.53%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 +21 85 £525 - 56
West End of London -4 5 £600 +26.32% 5
City of Westminster -7 4 £600 +26.32% 11
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 4 (4.30%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.30%) Confluence
1 4 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) MQSeries
3 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 55 (59.14%) Azure
2 53 (56.99%) GitHub Actions
3 42 (45.16%) AWS
4 25 (26.88%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (20.43%) Serverless
6 15 (16.13%) GCP
7 14 (15.05%) Azure AKS
8 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
8 12 (12.90%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (12.90%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
10 10 (10.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (10.75%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (10.75%) Azure Monitor
11 8 (8.60%) Amazon EKS
11 8 (8.60%) Amazon Kinesis
12 7 (7.53%) Azure Functions
12 7 (7.53%) PowerApps
13 6 (6.45%) AWS Step Functions
13 6 (6.45%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.38%) DNS
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
3 3 (3.23%) Firewall
4 2 (2.15%) DHCP
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%) Power BI
3 8 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
3 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (5.38%) DynamoDB
6 5 (5.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.15%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.15%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.15%) Big Data
7 2 (2.15%) BigQuery
7 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.15%) Tableau
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.08%) MySQL
8 1 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (21.51%) Jenkins
2 17 (18.28%) Git
2 17 (18.28%) GitLab
3 10 (10.75%) JIRA
4 8 (8.60%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.53%) JUnit
6 6 (6.45%) Selenium
7 5 (5.38%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.38%) Mockito
7 5 (5.38%) Postman
8 3 (3.23%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.23%) Gradle
8 3 (3.23%) JMeter
9 2 (2.15%) Appium
9 2 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.15%) Gatling
9 2 (2.15%) Maven
9 2 (2.15%) Newman
9 2 (2.15%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 33 (35.48%) Social Skills
2 31 (33.33%) Finance
3 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Banking
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Back Office
5 6 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.23%) Law
8 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Front Office
8 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Police
8 2 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.08%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (24.73%) Senior
2 18 (19.35%) Developer
3 12 (12.90%) Architect
4 10 (10.75%) Automation Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Data Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Senior Developer
6 8 (8.60%) AWS Engineer
6 8 (8.60%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.53%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.23%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (49.46%) Terraform
2 18 (19.35%) REST
3 17 (18.28%) Spring
3 17 (18.28%) Spring Boot
4 16 (17.20%) Kafka
5 15 (16.13%) RESTful
6 9 (9.68%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (8.60%) .NET
8 7 (7.53%) HTML
8 7 (7.53%) React
9 6 (6.45%) ActiveMQ
9 6 (6.45%) Middleware
10 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.38%) FastAPI
10 5 (5.38%) Node.js
10 5 (5.38%) Playwright
11 4 (4.30%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.30%) PySpark
11 4 (4.30%) SOAP
11 4 (4.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Cloud Native
2 15 (16.13%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (8.60%) AI Agents
4 7 (7.53%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.30%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.23%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.15%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.15%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.15%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.15%) Genomics
8 2 (2.15%) Life Science
8 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.15%) PropTech
8 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.08%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.08%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Windows
2 4 (4.30%) Linux
2 4 (4.30%) 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 55 (59.14%) DevOps
3 45 (48.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (35.48%) Agile
5 32 (34.41%) Test Automation
6 29 (31.18%) Containerisation
7 25 (26.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (25.81%) Event-Driven
8 24 (25.81%) Microservices
9 23 (24.73%) AI
9 23 (24.73%) Observability
10 19 (20.43%) Software Engineering
11 18 (19.35%) Data Modelling
12 16 (17.20%) Event-Driven Architecture
12 16 (17.20%) Stakeholder Management
13 14 (15.05%) Analytics
13 14 (15.05%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (13.98%) Data Engineering
14 13 (13.98%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 38 (40.86%) Python
2 27 (29.03%) Java
3 26 (27.96%) SQL
4 16 (17.20%) C#
5 13 (13.98%) PowerShell
6 11 (11.83%) TypeScript
7 10 (10.75%) JavaScript
8 5 (5.38%) Bicep
9 4 (4.30%) Bash
10 3 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (3.23%) Ruby
11 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
11 2 (2.15%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.08%) C
12 1 (1.08%) Korn
12 1 (1.08%) Swift
Qualifications
1 33 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 32 (34.41%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.30%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.30%) Degree
4 3 (3.23%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.23%) Computer Science 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 Developer
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.08%) CISA
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 15 (16.13%) QA
2 9 (9.68%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.08%) PSD2
4 1 (1.08%) SEPA
4 1 (1.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (32.26%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (39.78%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.75%) Grafana
3 9 (9.68%) Ansible
4 7 (7.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.08%) Bosun
5 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.08%) Packer
5 1 (1.08%) SCCM
5 1 (1.08%) SELinux
5 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (24.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Databricks
2 6 (6.45%) Google
3 5 (5.38%) Dynatrace
3 5 (5.38%) Oracle
4 4 (4.30%) IBM
4 4 (4.30%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.30%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.30%) Splunk
4 4 (4.30%) VMware
5 3 (3.23%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.15%) New Relic
6 2 (2.15%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Calypso
7 1 (1.08%) Cisco
7 1 (1.08%) Foundry
7 1 (1.08%) Murex
7 1 (1.08%) SAP
7 1 (1.08%) Temenos