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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 70 81
Rank change year-on-year +17 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing GitHub 89 52 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.92% 2.92% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.86% 6.84% 5.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 24 23
10th Percentile £356 £416 £381
25th Percentile £414 £503 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.31% -15.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £689
90th Percentile £687 £659 £762
Central London median daily rate £544 £554 £551
% change year-on-year -1.81% +0.59% -15.31%
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 - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £48.50

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 903 760 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.81% 42.72% 38.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 489 609
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £670
90th Percentile £750 £740 £750
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 8
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.78 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.05% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.35 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -66.67%

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 25 April 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 3 (3.37%) Confluence
1 3 (3.37%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.25%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.12%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 54 (60.67%) Azure
2 44 (49.44%) AWS
3 41 (46.07%) GitHub Actions
4 24 (26.97%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (21.35%) Serverless
6 14 (15.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (14.61%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (14.61%) Azure AKS
8 12 (13.48%) Amazon S3
8 12 (13.48%) GCP
9 11 (12.36%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (11.24%) Power Platform
11 9 (10.11%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (8.99%) Azure Monitor
13 7 (7.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (6.74%) Amazon EC2
14 6 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (6.74%) AWS Fargate
14 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
15 5 (5.62%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.37%) DNS
3 1 (1.12%) Network Security
3 1 (1.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.73%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.48%) DynamoDB
3 11 (12.36%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.99%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.87%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.74%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (6.74%) Power BI
7 5 (5.62%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (4.49%) DB2
9 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.25%) Hazelcast
10 2 (2.25%) Metadata
10 2 (2.25%) MySQL
10 2 (2.25%) Redis
10 2 (2.25%) Tick Data
11 1 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
11 1 (1.12%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
11 1 (1.12%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 23 (25.84%) Git
2 19 (21.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.99%) GitLab
3 8 (8.99%) JIRA
4 6 (6.74%) JUnit
5 5 (5.62%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.62%) Maven
5 5 (5.62%) Mockito
6 4 (4.49%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.49%) Postman
7 3 (3.37%) Bitbucket
7 3 (3.37%) Gradle
7 3 (3.37%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.25%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.25%) Gatling
8 2 (2.25%) Mocha
8 2 (2.25%) Selenium
8 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.25%) webpack
General
1 20 (22.47%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Finance
3 8 (8.99%) Banking
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.25%) Advertising
7 2 (2.25%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.25%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Front Office
8 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.12%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (22.47%) Developer
2 15 (16.85%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (14.61%) Senior
4 12 (13.48%) Architect
5 11 (12.36%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.87%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.74%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.62%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.37%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (20.22%) Spring
2 15 (16.85%) React
2 15 (16.85%) Spring Boot
3 11 (12.36%) Kafka
4 10 (11.24%) REST
5 9 (10.11%) Node.js
6 8 (8.99%) AngularJS
7 7 (7.87%) .NET
7 7 (7.87%) OAuth
8 6 (6.74%) OpenTelemetry
8 6 (6.74%) Playwright
8 6 (6.74%) RESTful
9 4 (4.49%) JWT
9 4 (4.49%) Next.js
9 4 (4.49%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.49%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.37%) Bootstrap
10 3 (3.37%) Keras
10 3 (3.37%) PySpark
10 3 (3.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.34%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.48%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.62%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.49%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.49%) NHS
5 3 (3.37%) Equities
5 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.12%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.12%) IoT
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.12%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Linux
2 4 (4.49%) Windows
3 3 (3.37%) Android
3 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.25%) Unix
5 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (67.42%) CI/CD
2 53 (59.55%) DevOps
3 38 (42.70%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (31.46%) Agile
5 27 (30.34%) Containerisation
6 26 (29.21%) Observability
7 24 (26.97%) Test Automation
8 21 (23.60%) AI
8 21 (23.60%) Microservices
9 16 (17.98%) Migration
10 15 (16.85%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (15.73%) Analytics
11 14 (15.73%) Software Engineering
12 13 (14.61%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (14.61%) Performance Tuning
13 12 (13.48%) TDD
14 11 (12.36%) Event-Driven
15 10 (11.24%) Platform Engineering
16 8 (8.99%) Machine Learning
17 7 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 41 (46.07%) Python
2 31 (34.83%) Java
3 23 (25.84%) SQL
4 11 (12.36%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.36%) TypeScript
5 9 (10.11%) C#
6 6 (6.74%) Bicep
7 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.37%) Ruby
9 2 (2.25%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.25%) Bash
9 2 (2.25%) Go
9 2 (2.25%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.12%) C
10 1 (1.12%) C++
10 1 (1.12%) ProC
10 1 (1.12%) Scala
10 1 (1.12%) VB
10 1 (1.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 27 (30.34%) SC Cleared
1 27 (30.34%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.99%) Degree
3 7 (7.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.37%) PhD
6 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.12%) CCSP
7 1 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.12%) CISSP
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.12%) OSCP
7 1 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
2 2 (2.25%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.25%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.25%) PSD2
2 2 (2.25%) SEPA
3 1 (1.12%) GRC
3 1 (1.12%) NCSC
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
3 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.12%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (35.96%) Docker
2 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.49%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 43 (48.31%) Terraform
2 36 (40.45%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.99%) Ansible
3 8 (8.99%) Grafana
4 7 (7.87%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.37%) Argo
6 2 (2.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.12%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (17.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.11%) Oracle
3 5 (5.62%) Databricks
3 5 (5.62%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Foundry
5 3 (3.37%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.37%) Palantir
6 2 (2.25%) Confluent
6 2 (2.25%) IBM
6 2 (2.25%) SAP
6 2 (2.25%) Solace
6 2 (2.25%) Splunk
7 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.12%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.12%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.12%) Sybase
7 1 (1.12%) VMware
7 1 (1.12%) Workday