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 citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	69	66	84
Rank change year-on-year	-3	+18	+5
Contract jobs citing GitHub	88	64	46
As % of all contract jobs in Central London	3.81%	3.40%	1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category	8.88%	8.31%	4.94%
Number of daily rates quoted	64	41	27
10^th Percentile	£363	£356	£425
25^th Percentile	£456	£413	£511
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£525	£525	£600
Median % change year-on-year	-	-12.50%	-3.23%
75^th Percentile	£638	£670	£713
90^th Percentile	£725	£788	£757
London median daily rate	£537	£550	£550
% change year-on-year	-2.36%	-	-8.33%

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 citing cloud computing skills in Central London.

	6 months to 30 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	991	770	931
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London	42.94%	40.91%	40.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	704	563	611
10^th Percentile	£336	£328	£388
25^th Percentile	£456	£431	£463
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£565
Median % change year-on-year	-	-2.65%	+2.73%
75^th Percentile	£660	£660	£675
90^th Percentile	£763	£750	£750
London median daily rate	£550	£525	£550
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	-4.55%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	13	4
10^th Percentile	£17.60	£19.85	£29.40
25^th Percentile	£22.50	£25.47	£33.00
Median hourly rate	£30.00	£34.00	£35.00
Median % change year-on-year	-11.76%	-2.86%	+68.67%
75^th Percentile	£63.75	£52.16	£49.38
90^th Percentile	£69.75	£63.81	£75.25
London median hourly rate	£34.23	£26.30	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+30.15%	-24.86%	-9.68%

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 Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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 30 October 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.

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 30 October 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate Past 6 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
City of London	-1	82	£525	-	16
West End of London	-7	4	£600	+26.32%	2
City of Westminster	-6	3	£600	+26.32%	2
Southwark	-	1	£700	-
GitHub London

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 30 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Central London region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	80.7%	71
2	DevOps	55.7%	49
3	Azure	53.4%	47
3	GitHub Actions	53.4%	47
5	Python	47.7%	42
5	Terraform	47.7%	42
7	AWS	45.5%	40
7	Infrastructure as Code	45.5%	40
9	Agile	34.1%	30
9	Kubernetes	34.1%	30
11	Security Cleared	33.0%	29
11	Test Automation	33.0%	29
13	SC Cleared	31.8%	28
14	SQL	30.7%	27
15	Docker	29.5%	26
16	Continuous Improvement	28.4%	25
17	Azure DevOps	26.1%	23
17	Java	26.1%	23
19	Event-Driven	25.0%	22
19	Microservices	25.0%	22
21	AI	23.9%	21
22	Containerisation	22.7%	20
22	Jenkins	22.7%	20
22	Microsoft	22.7%	20
22	Serverless	22.7%	20
26	Data Modelling	21.6%	19
26	Observability	21.6%	19
28	Git	20.5%	18
28	REST	20.5%	18
28	Software Engineering	20.5%	18

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	53.4%	47
1	GitHub Actions	53.4%	47
3	AWS	45.5%	40
4	Azure DevOps	26.1%	23
5	Serverless	22.7%	20
6	GCP	18.2%	16
7	AWS Lambda	14.8%	13
8	Amazon S3	13.6%	12
9	GitHub Copilot	12.5%	11
10	Amazon CloudWatch	11.4%	10
10	Amazon EC2	11.4%	10
10	Amazon EKS	11.4%	10
13	Azure AKS	10.2%	9
14	AWS CloudFormation	9.1%	8
14	Power Platform	9.1%	8
16	Amazon EventBridge	8.0%	7
16	Azure Functions	8.0%	7
18	Amazon Kinesis	6.8%	6
18	AWS Step Functions	6.8%	6
18	dbt	6.8%	6