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

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 80 92
Rank change year-on-year +20 +12 -22
Contract jobs citing GitHub 95 56 43
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.65% 2.71% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.17% 6.59% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 30 25
10th Percentile £408 £371 £425
25th Percentile £483 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £513 £551
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -6.90% -11.21%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £656
90th Percentile £710 £669 £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 1,036 850 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.78% 41.08% 41.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 713 549 669
10th Percentile £350 £358 £375
25th Percentile £460 £449 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £651 £664 £656
90th Percentile £750 £763 £751
London median daily rate £537 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +0.37% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 3
10th Percentile £20.10 £24.30 -
25th Percentile £23.16 £26.45 -
Median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £76.40 £93.25 £79.40
London median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
% change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -45.85%

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 3 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 3 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 +20 84 £535 +1.90% 48
West End of London -1 8 £650 +36.84% 2
City of Westminster -1 8 £650 +36.84% 2
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 (4.21%) Confluence
1 4 (4.21%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.05%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.05%) nginx
3 1 (1.05%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 52 (54.74%) GitHub Actions
2 49 (51.58%) Azure
3 48 (50.53%) AWS
4 22 (23.16%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (15.79%) Amazon S3
5 15 (15.79%) GitHub Copilot
5 15 (15.79%) Serverless
6 12 (12.63%) Azure AKS
6 12 (12.63%) Power Platform
7 11 (11.58%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (11.58%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (10.53%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (8.42%) GCP
10 7 (7.37%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (6.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (6.32%) Power Automate
11 6 (6.32%) PowerApps
12 5 (5.26%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.26%) Network Security
2 4 (4.21%) DNS
2 4 (4.21%) VPN
3 3 (3.16%) Firewall
4 1 (1.05%) DHCP
4 1 (1.05%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.05%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.05%) SSH
4 1 (1.05%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (15.79%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.63%) Amazon Athena
3 11 (11.58%) Amazon RDS
3 11 (11.58%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (10.53%) DynamoDB
5 9 (9.47%) MongoDB
5 9 (9.47%) Power BI
6 6 (6.32%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.21%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.21%) Db2
8 2 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.05%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.05%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (1.05%) Metadata
9 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (24.21%) Git
2 18 (18.95%) Jenkins
3 17 (17.89%) GitLab
4 11 (11.58%) JUnit
5 10 (10.53%) JIRA
6 9 (9.47%) Mockito
7 6 (6.32%) Cypress.io
8 5 (5.26%) Cucumber
9 4 (4.21%) Bitbucket
9 4 (4.21%) Postman
9 4 (4.21%) Selenium
10 3 (3.16%) Gradle
10 3 (3.16%) Maven
10 3 (3.16%) REST Assured
11 2 (2.11%) Appium
11 2 (2.11%) CircleCI
11 2 (2.11%) Claude Code
11 2 (2.11%) Mocha
11 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (2.11%) webpack
General
1 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Finance
3 11 (11.58%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 9 (9.47%) Banking
6 8 (8.42%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.21%) Law
8 3 (3.16%) Back Office
8 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.16%) Police
8 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Advertising
9 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Front Office
10 1 (1.05%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (23.16%) Developer
2 17 (17.89%) Senior
3 14 (14.74%) Architect
4 11 (11.58%) Senior Developer
5 10 (10.53%) Java Developer
6 8 (8.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Technical Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Junior
10 4 (4.21%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (23.16%) Spring
2 20 (21.05%) Spring Boot
3 17 (17.89%) REST
4 16 (16.84%) Kafka
5 15 (15.79%) RESTful
6 13 (13.68%) React
7 10 (10.53%) .NET
8 8 (8.42%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.42%) Playwright
9 7 (7.37%) Node.js
9 7 (7.37%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (5.26%) Gherkin
10 5 (5.26%) SOAP
10 5 (5.26%) YAML
11 4 (4.21%) GraphQL
11 4 (4.21%) Jest
11 4 (4.21%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (4.21%) WireMock
12 3 (3.16%) Lambda Expressions
12 3 (3.16%) Spring Cloud
Miscellaneous
1 32 (33.68%) Cloud Native
2 20 (21.05%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.21%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.16%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.16%) NHS
4 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.11%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.11%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.05%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.05%) Equities
6 1 (1.05%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.05%) Genomics
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) IoT
6 1 (1.05%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Windows
2 5 (5.26%) Linux
3 4 (4.21%) Android
3 4 (4.21%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (77.89%) CI/CD
2 52 (54.74%) DevOps
3 46 (48.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 39 (41.05%) Agile
5 30 (31.58%) Containerisation
5 30 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 28 (29.47%) Microservices
7 27 (28.42%) Observability
8 25 (26.32%) Event-Driven
9 24 (25.26%) AI
10 23 (24.21%) Software Engineering
11 16 (16.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 16 (16.84%) Platform Engineering
12 15 (15.79%) Data Modelling
13 14 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 13 (13.68%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 12 (12.63%) Scrum
15 12 (12.63%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 11 (11.58%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 31 (32.63%) Java
2 30 (31.58%) Python
3 23 (24.21%) SQL
4 18 (18.95%) C#
5 14 (14.74%) JavaScript
6 13 (13.68%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.32%) Bicep
9 5 (5.26%) Ruby
10 2 (2.11%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.11%) Bash
10 2 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.11%) Go
11 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (35.79%) SC Cleared
1 34 (35.79%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.42%) Degree
3 4 (4.21%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.16%) PhD
5 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.05%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.05%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.79%) QA
2 5 (5.26%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.11%) WCAG
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (31.58%) Docker
2 5 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (45.26%) Terraform
2 38 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.47%) Grafana
4 7 (7.37%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.32%) Ansible
6 1 (1.05%) Bosun
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.05%) SCCM
6 1 (1.05%) SELinux
6 1 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.37%) Oracle
3 4 (4.21%) Splunk
4 3 (3.16%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.16%) Databricks
4 3 (3.16%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.16%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.16%) VMware
5 2 (2.11%) IBM
5 2 (2.11%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.05%) Foundry
6 1 (1.05%) Google
6 1 (1.05%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.05%) New Relic
6 1 (1.05%) Palantir
6 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.05%) SAP
6 1 (1.05%) Sybase
6 1 (1.05%) Zscaler