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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 82 94
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 -23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 98 51 42
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.81% 2.48% 1.82%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.52% 6.13% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 28 25
10th Percentile £419 £362 £425
25th Percentile £481 £409 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £498 £551
Median % change year-on-year +8.69% -9.71% -11.84%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £712 £679 £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 1,029 832 931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.01% 40.43% 40.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 543 658
10th Percentile £362 £351 £383
25th Percentile £460 £433 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £661 £668
90th Percentile £750 £759 £751
London median daily rate £538 £534 £550
% change year-on-year +0.66% -2.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 3
10th Percentile £19.80 £24.21 -
25th Percentile £23.00 £26.00 -
Median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -26.03%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £94.38 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £29.25
% change year-on-year +22.12% -0.62% -46.82%

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 12 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 12 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 +24 88 £525 - 39
West End of London -1 7 £625 +31.58% 1
City of Westminster -3 7 £625 +31.58% 3
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 (4.08%) Confluence
1 4 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 54 (55.10%) GitHub Actions
2 51 (52.04%) Azure
3 45 (45.92%) AWS
4 23 (23.47%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (15.31%) Serverless
6 14 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 14 (14.29%) Azure AKS
6 14 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (12.24%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (11.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (11.22%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (11.22%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.20%) Amazon EC2
10 9 (9.18%) GCP
11 7 (7.14%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (6.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 6 (6.12%) Power Automate
12 6 (6.12%) PowerApps
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon ECS
13 5 (5.10%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) DNS
1 4 (4.08%) Network Security
1 4 (4.08%) VPN
2 3 (3.06%) Firewall
3 1 (1.02%) BGP
3 1 (1.02%) DHCP
3 1 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.02%) NX-OS
3 1 (1.02%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.02%) SSH
3 1 (1.02%) TACACS
3 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.02%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.20%) Amazon Athena
2 10 (10.20%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (10.20%) DynamoDB
3 9 (9.18%) Power BI
4 7 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (6.12%) MongoDB
6 4 (4.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.02%) Big Data
8 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.02%) Db2
8 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.02%) MySQL
8 1 (1.02%) Redis
8 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (25.51%) Git
2 20 (20.41%) Jenkins
3 19 (19.39%) GitLab
4 11 (11.22%) JUnit
5 9 (9.18%) JIRA
5 9 (9.18%) Mockito
6 6 (6.12%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.12%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.12%) Postman
7 5 (5.10%) Selenium
8 4 (4.08%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.06%) Claude Code
9 3 (3.06%) Gradle
9 3 (3.06%) Maven
10 2 (2.04%) Appium
10 2 (2.04%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.04%) Mocha
10 2 (2.04%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.04%) webpack
General
1 30 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 28 (28.57%) Finance
3 11 (11.22%) Banking
4 10 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.08%) Law
7 3 (3.06%) Back Office
7 3 (3.06%) Police
7 3 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Advertising
8 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Developer
2 17 (17.35%) Senior
3 15 (15.31%) Architect
4 11 (11.22%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.20%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
6 8 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.12%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.12%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.10%) Junior
10 4 (4.08%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.08%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (22.45%) Spring
2 20 (20.41%) Spring Boot
3 17 (17.35%) Kafka
3 17 (17.35%) REST
3 17 (17.35%) RESTful
4 12 (12.24%) React
5 9 (9.18%) .NET
6 7 (7.14%) Node.js
6 7 (7.14%) Playwright
6 7 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (6.12%) YAML
8 5 (5.10%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.10%) Gherkin
8 5 (5.10%) HTML
8 5 (5.10%) SOAP
9 4 (4.08%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.08%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.08%) Jest
9 4 (4.08%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (4.08%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 34 (34.69%) Cloud Native
2 20 (20.41%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.10%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.06%) NHS
5 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.04%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.04%) Genomics
6 2 (2.04%) Life Science
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.02%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.02%) IoT
7 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Windows
2 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.04%) Linux
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (81.63%) CI/CD
2 55 (56.12%) DevOps
3 50 (51.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 41 (41.84%) Agile
5 34 (34.69%) Test Automation
6 32 (32.65%) Containerisation
7 30 (30.61%) Microservices
8 29 (29.59%) Observability
9 26 (26.53%) Software Engineering
10 25 (25.51%) Event-Driven
11 24 (24.49%) AI
12 20 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 17 (17.35%) Full-Stack Development
13 17 (17.35%) Platform Engineering
14 15 (15.31%) Data Modelling
15 13 (13.27%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 13 (13.27%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 12 (12.24%) Mentoring
16 12 (12.24%) Migration
17 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (34.69%) Java
2 32 (32.65%) Python
3 22 (22.45%) SQL
4 20 (20.41%) C#
5 16 (16.33%) TypeScript
6 15 (15.31%) JavaScript
7 10 (10.20%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.12%) Bicep
9 5 (5.10%) Ruby
10 2 (2.04%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.04%) Bash
10 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.02%) Go
11 1 (1.02%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (37.76%) Security Cleared
2 36 (36.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
4 5 (5.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.04%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.02%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.31%) QA
2 5 (5.10%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) GDPR
4 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 34 (34.69%) Docker
2 7 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (5.10%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.02%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (46.94%) Terraform
2 40 (40.82%) Kubernetes
3 10 (10.20%) Grafana
4 8 (8.16%) Prometheus
5 7 (7.14%) Ansible
6 1 (1.02%) Bosun
6 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.02%) Packer
6 1 (1.02%) SCCM
6 1 (1.02%) SELinux
6 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.14%) Oracle
3 4 (4.08%) Google
3 4 (4.08%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.08%) Splunk
3 4 (4.08%) VMware
4 3 (3.06%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.06%) Databricks
4 3 (3.06%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.06%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.04%) IBM
5 2 (2.04%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.02%) Cisco
6 1 (1.02%) Foundry
6 1 (1.02%) New Relic
6 1 (1.02%) Palantir
6 1 (1.02%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Sybase
6 1 (1.02%) Zscaler