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 6 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 77 91
Rank change year-on-year +19 +14 -18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 96 57 41
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.69% 2.78% 1.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.21% 6.77% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 31 25
10th Percentile £409 £375 £425
25th Percentile £482 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +5.62% -4.63% -11.92%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £656
90th Percentile £708 £675 £761
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%

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 1,042 842 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.06% 41.05% 41.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 547 668
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £460 £436 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £663
90th Percentile £750 £758 £751
London median daily rate £538 £533 £550
% change year-on-year +0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +27.13% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.27% +4.63% -48.37%

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 6 August 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 6 August 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 +22 85 £530 -1.40% 51
City of Westminster -1 8 £650 +36.84% 3
West End of London -2 8 £650 +36.84%
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 (4.17%) Confluence
1 4 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.04%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 53 (55.21%) GitHub Actions
2 50 (52.08%) Azure
3 49 (51.04%) AWS
4 23 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (15.63%) Amazon S3
5 15 (15.63%) GitHub Copilot
5 15 (15.63%) Serverless
6 12 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 12 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 11 (11.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.46%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (10.42%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (10.42%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (9.38%) GCP
10 7 (7.29%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (6.25%) Power Automate
11 6 (6.25%) PowerApps
12 5 (5.21%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.21%) Network Security
2 4 (4.17%) DNS
2 4 (4.17%) VPN
3 3 (3.13%) Firewall
4 1 (1.04%) DHCP
4 1 (1.04%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.04%) SSH
4 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.63%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.50%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (11.46%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (11.46%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (10.42%) DynamoDB
5 9 (9.38%) MongoDB
5 9 (9.38%) Power BI
6 6 (6.25%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.17%) Db2
8 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.04%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.04%) Metadata
9 1 (1.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (23.96%) Git
2 19 (19.79%) Jenkins
3 18 (18.75%) GitLab
4 11 (11.46%) JUnit
5 10 (10.42%) JIRA
6 9 (9.38%) Mockito
7 7 (7.29%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.21%) Cucumber
8 5 (5.21%) Postman
8 5 (5.21%) Selenium
9 4 (4.17%) Bitbucket
10 3 (3.13%) Gradle
10 3 (3.13%) Maven
10 3 (3.13%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.08%) Appium
11 2 (2.08%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.08%) Claude Code
11 2 (2.08%) Mocha
11 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.08%) webpack
General
1 30 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.17%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.42%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.38%) Banking
6 8 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.17%) Law
8 3 (3.13%) Back Office
8 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.13%) Police
8 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Advertising
9 2 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.04%) Front Office
10 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Developer
2 17 (17.71%) Senior
3 14 (14.58%) Architect
4 11 (11.46%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.42%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Automation Engineer
7 7 (7.29%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Junior
10 4 (4.17%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (4.17%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.92%) Spring
2 20 (20.83%) Spring Boot
3 17 (17.71%) REST
4 16 (16.67%) Kafka
5 15 (15.63%) RESTful
6 13 (13.54%) React
7 10 (10.42%) .NET
8 9 (9.38%) Playwright
9 8 (8.33%) AngularJS
10 7 (7.29%) Node.js
10 7 (7.29%) RabbitMQ
11 5 (5.21%) Gherkin
11 5 (5.21%) SOAP
11 5 (5.21%) YAML
12 4 (4.17%) GraphQL
12 4 (4.17%) Jest
12 4 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
12 4 (4.17%) WireMock
13 3 (3.13%) PySpark
13 3 (3.13%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 20 (20.83%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.13%) NHS
4 3 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.04%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.04%) Genomics
6 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.04%) IoT
6 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.33%) Windows
2 5 (5.21%) Linux
3 4 (4.17%) Android
3 4 (4.17%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 53 (55.21%) DevOps
3 46 (47.92%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (40.63%) Agile
5 31 (32.29%) Test Automation
6 30 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 29 (30.21%) Microservices
8 27 (28.13%) Observability
9 25 (26.04%) Event-Driven
10 24 (25.00%) AI
11 23 (23.96%) Software Engineering
12 16 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
12 16 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (15.63%) Data Modelling
14 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (13.54%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 12 (12.50%) Scrum
16 12 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 11 (11.46%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.33%) Java
2 31 (32.29%) Python
3 23 (23.96%) SQL
4 19 (19.79%) C#
5 15 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.25%) Bicep
9 5 (5.21%) Ruby
10 2 (2.08%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.08%) Bash
10 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.08%) Go
11 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (36.46%) SC Cleared
1 35 (36.46%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.33%) Degree
3 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.13%) PhD
5 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.67%) QA
2 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.21%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.04%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (31.25%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (44.79%) Terraform
2 38 (39.58%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.38%) Grafana
4 7 (7.29%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.25%) Ansible
6 1 (1.04%) Bosun
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.04%) SCCM
6 1 (1.04%) SELinux
6 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Oracle
3 4 (4.17%) Splunk
4 3 (3.13%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.13%) Databricks
4 3 (3.13%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.13%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.13%) VMware
5 2 (2.08%) IBM
5 2 (2.08%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.04%) Foundry
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.04%) New Relic
6 1 (1.04%) Palantir
6 1 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.04%) Sybase
6 1 (1.04%) Zscaler