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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 79 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 91 48 44
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 3.48% 2.49% 1.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.03% 5.85% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 26 25
10th Percentile £401 £400 £421
25th Percentile £469 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £525 £551
Median % change year-on-year +3.62% -4.72% -14.57%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £690
90th Percentile £675 £665 £768
London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -14.91%
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 - - -35.83%

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 1,008 820 976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 38.56% 42.62% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 690 524 691
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.23% -6.84%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £650
90th Percentile £749 £750 £763
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 7
10th Percentile £23.16 £22.50 £12.75
25th Percentile £31.38 £24.66 £17.00
Median hourly rate £57.77 £31.86 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +81.31% +41.60% -57.14%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.51 £27.00
90th Percentile £76.75 £94.38 £36.30
London median hourly rate £35.50 £30.54 £26.49
% change year-on-year +16.26% +15.29% -48.32%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +21 80 £525 -2.33% 24
West End of London +2 8 £650 +52.94% 2
City of Westminster +2 8 £650 +52.94% 3
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 (4.40%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.30%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.20%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.10%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (4.40%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.10%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.10%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (56.04%) GitHub Actions
2 50 (54.95%) Azure
3 47 (51.65%) AWS
4 20 (21.98%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (17.58%) Serverless
6 14 (15.38%) Amazon S3
6 14 (15.38%) Azure AKS
7 13 (14.29%) Power Platform
8 12 (13.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 11 (12.09%) Azure Monitor
10 10 (10.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 10 (10.99%) AWS Lambda
10 10 (10.99%) GCP
11 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
12 6 (6.59%) Amazon ECS
12 6 (6.59%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (6.59%) AWS CodePipeline
12 6 (6.59%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Network Security
2 4 (4.40%) VPN
3 3 (3.30%) DNS
3 3 (3.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (16.48%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.19%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.99%) Amazon Athena
3 10 (10.99%) Power BI
4 9 (9.89%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (9.89%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 6 (6.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.40%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (4.40%) Db2
8 2 (2.20%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.20%) Metadata
8 2 (2.20%) Redis
8 2 (2.20%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.10%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.10%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.10%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 25 (27.47%) Git
2 21 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 15 (16.48%) GitLab
4 12 (13.19%) JIRA
5 11 (12.09%) JUnit
6 10 (10.99%) Mockito
7 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.49%) Cypress.io
7 5 (5.49%) Postman
8 4 (4.40%) Maven
9 3 (3.30%) Gatling
9 3 (3.30%) Gradle
9 3 (3.30%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.20%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.20%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.20%) Mocha
10 2 (2.20%) Selenium
10 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (2.20%) webpack
11 1 (1.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 28 (30.77%) Finance
2 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.19%) Banking
4 11 (12.09%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.49%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.40%) Law
8 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.30%) Police
9 2 (2.20%) Advertising
9 2 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.20%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Front Office
10 1 (1.10%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.10%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (24.18%) Developer
2 13 (14.29%) Senior
3 12 (13.19%) Architect
4 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Senior Developer
6 8 (8.79%) Cloud Engineer
7 7 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 6 (6.59%) Technical Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Azure Architect
9 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 5 (5.49%) Software Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.40%) Junior
11 3 (3.30%) Azure Engineer
11 3 (3.30%) Data Scientist
11 3 (3.30%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (25.27%) Spring
2 20 (21.98%) Spring Boot
3 18 (19.78%) Kafka
4 15 (16.48%) React
5 13 (14.29%) REST
5 13 (14.29%) RESTful
6 8 (8.79%) .NET
6 8 (8.79%) Node.js
7 7 (7.69%) Playwright
8 6 (6.59%) Gherkin
8 6 (6.59%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.59%) YAML
9 5 (5.49%) PySpark
9 5 (5.49%) SOAP
9 5 (5.49%) WireMock
10 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.40%) FastAPI
10 4 (4.40%) Jest
10 4 (4.40%) Next.js
10 4 (4.40%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.27%) Cloud Native
2 14 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.49%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.30%) NHS
5 2 (2.20%) Equities
5 2 (2.20%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.10%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.10%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.10%) Genomics
6 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.10%) IoT
6 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.10%) Life Science
6 1 (1.10%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.10%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Linux
3 3 (3.30%) Android
3 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (74.73%) CI/CD
2 47 (51.65%) DevOps
3 43 (47.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 33 (36.26%) Agile
5 29 (31.87%) Containerisation
6 28 (30.77%) Observability
6 28 (30.77%) Test Automation
7 23 (25.27%) Microservices
8 22 (24.18%) Event-Driven
9 20 (21.98%) AI
10 19 (20.88%) Software Engineering
11 14 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
12 13 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (13.19%) Migration
13 12 (13.19%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (12.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 10 (10.99%) Analytics
15 10 (10.99%) API Design
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.16%) Python
2 29 (31.87%) Java
3 22 (24.18%) SQL
4 17 (18.68%) C#
5 16 (17.58%) JavaScript
6 14 (15.38%) TypeScript
7 8 (8.79%) Bicep
7 8 (8.79%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.40%) Ruby
9 2 (2.20%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.20%) Bash
9 2 (2.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.20%) Go
10 1 (1.10%) Scala
10 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (34.07%) SC Cleared
1 31 (34.07%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.69%) Degree
3 5 (5.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.30%) PhD
5 2 (2.20%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.19%) QA
2 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.20%) PSD2
3 2 (2.20%) SEPA
3 2 (2.20%) WCAG
4 1 (1.10%) GDPR
4 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (34.07%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (47.25%) Terraform
2 40 (43.96%) Kubernetes
3 11 (12.09%) Grafana
4 10 (10.99%) Prometheus
5 6 (6.59%) Ansible
6 2 (2.20%) Argo
7 1 (1.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 10 (10.99%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Databricks
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
3 4 (4.40%) OpenAI
3 4 (4.40%) Splunk
4 3 (3.30%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.30%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.30%) Foundry
4 3 (3.30%) Palantir
4 3 (3.30%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.20%) Confluent
5 2 (2.20%) IBM
5 2 (2.20%) VMware
6 1 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (1.10%) SAP
6 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) Solace
6 1 (1.10%) Sybase
6 1 (1.10%) Zscaler