GitHub Contract Job Trends in the City of London

GitHub
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 75 89
Rank change year-on-year +25 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing GitHub 79 42 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.30% 2.22% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.41% 5.64% 5.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 19 31
10th Percentile £356 £457 £405
25th Percentile £413 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £673 £681 £675
90th Percentile £825 £740 £724
Central London median daily rate £563 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -4.26% -2.08% -

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 759 745 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.27% 39.33% 38.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 470 682
10th Percentile £342 £406 £364
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £657 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 9
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.50%
75th Percentile £41.94 - £38.00
90th Percentile £45.28 - £53.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +9.76%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the City of London

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (7.59%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (54.43%) Azure
2 41 (51.90%) GitHub Actions
3 31 (39.24%) AWS
4 20 (25.32%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (18.99%) GCP
5 15 (18.99%) Serverless
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
6 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
6 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.39%) Azure AKS
9 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (8.86%) Cloud Run
10 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
10 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
11 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (6.33%) Apigee
11 5 (6.33%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (6.33%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (6.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) DNS
3 1 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
1 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.80%) MySQL
3 3 (3.80%) Redis
3 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.80%) Tick Data
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.53%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.53%) Power BI
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.27%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.27%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 19 (24.05%) Git
2 16 (20.25%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.39%) Bitbucket
4 7 (8.86%) JIRA
5 5 (6.33%) GitLab
6 4 (5.06%) Maven
6 4 (5.06%) SonarQube
6 4 (5.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.80%) Snyk
8 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.53%) Gatling
8 2 (2.53%) Gradle
9 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.27%) Mockito
9 1 (1.27%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (1.27%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (1.27%) Selenium
9 1 (1.27%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.27%) Xcode
9 1 (1.27%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (22.78%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Banking
4 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.06%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Developer
2 14 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (17.72%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 9 (11.39%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Angular Developer
5 6 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.06%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Fidessa Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) React
2 14 (17.72%) REST
3 12 (15.19%) OAuth
4 11 (13.92%) Spring Boot
5 9 (11.39%) AngularJS
5 9 (11.39%) Node.js
6 8 (10.13%) Spring
7 7 (8.86%) FastAPI
8 6 (7.59%) JWT
9 5 (6.33%) .NET
9 5 (6.33%) GraphQL
9 5 (6.33%) LangChain
9 5 (6.33%) Next.js
10 4 (5.06%) CSS
10 4 (5.06%) HTML
10 4 (5.06%) LangGraph
10 4 (5.06%) OAuth2
11 3 (3.80%) HTML5
11 3 (3.80%) Kafka
11 3 (3.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.80%) Equities
5 3 (3.80%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.53%) Life Science
6 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.53%) Replication
6 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.27%) Blog
7 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.27%) Genomics
7 1 (1.27%) IVR
7 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.27%) NHS
7 1 (1.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Android
2 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (62.03%) CI/CD
2 45 (56.96%) DevOps
3 29 (36.71%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (30.38%) AI
5 21 (26.58%) Agile
6 19 (24.05%) Containerisation
7 18 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (22.78%) Microservices
7 18 (22.78%) Test Automation
8 14 (17.72%) Migration
8 14 (17.72%) Observability
9 13 (16.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (15.19%) TDD
11 11 (13.92%) Generative AI
12 10 (12.66%) DevSecOps
13 9 (11.39%) Analytics
13 9 (11.39%) LLM
14 7 (8.86%) Data Governance
14 7 (8.86%) Machine Learning
14 7 (8.86%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 38 (48.10%) Python
2 25 (31.65%) Java
3 18 (22.78%) SQL
4 16 (20.25%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.06%) C#
7 3 (3.80%) Bash
7 3 (3.80%) Bicep
8 2 (2.53%) Go
8 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.27%) C
9 1 (1.27%) C++
9 1 (1.27%) PHP
9 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.27%) ProC
9 1 (1.27%) Ruby
9 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.27%) VB
9 1 (1.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (27.85%) SC Cleared
1 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.53%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) MCP
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.27%) OSCP
4 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.06%) NIST
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.53%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.53%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.53%) PSD2
4 2 (2.53%) SEPA
5 1 (1.27%) GRC
5 1 (1.27%) MiFID
5 1 (1.27%) NCSC
5 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (48.10%) Terraform
2 21 (26.58%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.92%) Ansible
4 5 (6.33%) Grafana
4 5 (6.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.06%) Istio
6 3 (3.80%) Argo
7 2 (2.53%) Puppet
8 1 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Google
3 7 (8.86%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
4 5 (6.33%) Databricks
5 3 (3.80%) Solace
6 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.53%) Confluent
7 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.27%) Foundry
7 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.27%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.27%) Palantir
7 1 (1.27%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.27%) SAP
7 1 (1.27%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.27%) Splunk
7 1 (1.27%) Workday