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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 80 87
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 93 53 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.77% 2.69% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.63% 6.20% 4.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 25 23
10th Percentile £373 £413 £384
25th Percentile £463 £465 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.18% -11.84%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £689
90th Percentile £675 £659 £762
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -16.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £46.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £50.25
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - - £57.75
% change year-on-year - - -17.50%

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 966 855 957
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.19% 43.38% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 547 683
10th Percentile £350 £361 £350
25th Percentile £453 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £650
90th Percentile £749 £743 £760
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 7
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.93 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 £34.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +54.00% -72.99%
75th Percentile £57.83 £43.75 £25.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £89.75 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year +22.12% +11.81% -50.48%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 +9 84 £538 -3.59% 67
West End of London +5 7 £650 +52.94%
City of Westminster +4 7 £650 +52.94% 1
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 3 (3.23%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.08%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 56 (60.22%) Azure
2 50 (53.76%) GitHub Actions
3 47 (50.54%) AWS
4 25 (26.88%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.20%) Azure AKS
5 16 (17.20%) Serverless
6 12 (12.90%) Amazon S3
6 12 (12.90%) GCP
6 12 (12.90%) Power Platform
7 11 (11.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.83%) GitHub Copilot
8 10 (10.75%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (8.60%) Amazon ECS
10 8 (8.60%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (8.60%) AWS CodePipeline
11 7 (7.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (7.53%) Entra ID
12 6 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (6.45%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Firewall
1 4 (4.30%) Network Security
2 3 (3.23%) DNS
3 1 (1.08%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.05%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (10.75%) DynamoDB
4 8 (8.60%) Amazon Athena
4 8 (8.60%) Power BI
5 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.53%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.45%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (4.30%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.30%) DB2
8 2 (2.15%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.15%) Metadata
8 2 (2.15%) Redis
8 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.08%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.08%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.08%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.08%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 22 (23.66%) Git
2 21 (22.58%) Jenkins
3 13 (13.98%) GitLab
4 9 (9.68%) JIRA
5 7 (7.53%) JUnit
6 6 (6.45%) Mockito
7 5 (5.38%) Cypress.io
8 4 (4.30%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.30%) Maven
8 4 (4.30%) Postman
9 3 (3.23%) Gatling
9 3 (3.23%) Gradle
9 3 (3.23%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.15%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.15%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.15%) Mocha
10 2 (2.15%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.15%) Selenium
10 2 (2.15%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.15%) webpack
General
1 21 (22.58%) Finance
2 20 (21.51%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.83%) Banking
4 8 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Advertising
7 2 (2.15%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.15%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.15%) Law
7 2 (2.15%) Police
8 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Front Office
8 1 (1.08%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (22.58%) Developer
2 15 (16.13%) Senior
3 11 (11.83%) Architect
4 10 (10.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.75%) Senior Developer
5 9 (9.68%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.38%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.30%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Software Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.23%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.23%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (22.58%) Spring
2 17 (18.28%) Spring Boot
3 15 (16.13%) Kafka
3 15 (16.13%) React
4 12 (12.90%) REST
5 11 (11.83%) RESTful
6 10 (10.75%) .NET
7 9 (9.68%) Node.js
8 7 (7.53%) Playwright
9 6 (6.45%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (5.38%) AngularJS
10 5 (5.38%) PySpark
11 4 (4.30%) AWS CDK
11 4 (4.30%) Gherkin
11 4 (4.30%) Next.js
11 4 (4.30%) OAuth
11 4 (4.30%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.30%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.23%) Django
12 3 (3.23%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 29 (31.18%) Cloud Native
2 13 (13.98%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.38%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.30%) NHS
5 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.23%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Equities
6 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.08%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.08%) Blog
7 1 (1.08%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.08%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.08%) Genomics
7 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.08%) IoT
7 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.68%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Windows
3 3 (3.23%) Android
3 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (72.04%) CI/CD
2 54 (58.06%) DevOps
3 42 (45.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (33.33%) Agile
5 29 (31.18%) Observability
6 28 (30.11%) Containerisation
7 25 (26.88%) Test Automation
8 22 (23.66%) Microservices
9 21 (22.58%) AI
10 18 (19.35%) Event-Driven
11 17 (18.28%) Migration
12 16 (17.20%) Software Engineering
13 15 (16.13%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 14 (15.05%) Full-Stack Development
14 14 (15.05%) Performance Tuning
15 10 (10.75%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 9 (9.68%) Analytics
16 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (9.68%) Platform Engineering
16 9 (9.68%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 36 (38.71%) Python
2 31 (33.33%) Java
3 23 (24.73%) SQL
4 17 (18.28%) JavaScript
5 13 (13.98%) C#
5 13 (13.98%) TypeScript
6 7 (7.53%) Bicep
7 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.23%) Ruby
9 2 (2.15%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.15%) Go
9 2 (2.15%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.08%) Bash
10 1 (1.08%) C
10 1 (1.08%) C++
10 1 (1.08%) ProC
10 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.08%) VB
10 1 (1.08%) XPath
Qualifications
1 33 (35.48%) SC Cleared
1 33 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.60%) Degree
3 7 (7.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.23%) PhD
6 2 (2.15%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.08%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.08%) CCSP
7 1 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.08%) CISSP
7 1 (1.08%) OSCP
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
7 1 (1.08%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
3 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.15%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.15%) PSD2
3 2 (2.15%) SEPA
3 2 (2.15%) WCAG
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) NCSC
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (35.48%) Docker
2 6 (6.45%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 45 (48.39%) Terraform
2 40 (43.01%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.60%) Grafana
3 8 (8.60%) Prometheus
4 6 (6.45%) Ansible
5 3 (3.23%) Argo
6 2 (2.15%) Istio
7 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.08%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.68%) Oracle
3 5 (5.38%) Databricks
4 4 (4.30%) Google
4 4 (4.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.23%) Foundry
5 3 (3.23%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.23%) Palantir
6 2 (2.15%) Confluent
6 2 (2.15%) IBM
6 2 (2.15%) SAP
6 2 (2.15%) Splunk
7 1 (1.08%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.08%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.08%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.08%) Solace
7 1 (1.08%) Sybase
7 1 (1.08%) VMware