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 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 73 83
Rank change year-on-year +23 +10 +15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 85 43 48
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.34% 2.35% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.51% 5.68% 5.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 22 29
10th Percentile £345 £470 £399
25th Percentile £411 £522 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% -2.08% +6.19%
75th Percentile £651 £668 £675
90th Percentile £775 £734 £760
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £551
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.36% -5.00%
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 809 757 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.30% 41.32% 38.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 593 485 648
10th Percentile £338 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £745
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 11
10th Percentile £30.04 £57.88 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.34 £75.31 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £111.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.45% +485.53% -55.81%
75th Percentile £51.00 £152.81 £36.25
90th Percentile £55.94 £173.63 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -5.76% +84.21% -45.71%

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 21 February 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 5 (5.88%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) Palantir Foundry
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 48 (56.47%) Azure
2 39 (45.88%) GitHub Actions
3 35 (41.18%) AWS
4 18 (21.18%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (20.00%) GCP
6 16 (18.82%) Serverless
7 11 (12.94%) Amazon S3
8 10 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (11.76%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (9.41%) Azure AKS
10 7 (8.24%) Cloud Run
10 7 (8.24%) GitHub Copilot
10 7 (8.24%) Power Platform
11 6 (7.06%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (7.06%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (5.88%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (5.88%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) Firewall
2 3 (3.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.59%) NoSQL
1 9 (10.59%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.06%) DynamoDB
2 6 (7.06%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (4.71%) DB2
4 4 (4.71%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.71%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.53%) MySQL
5 3 (3.53%) Power BI
5 3 (3.53%) Redis
5 3 (3.53%) Tick Data
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (2.35%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.35%) Hazelcast
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.18%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.18%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 20 (23.53%) Git
2 18 (21.18%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.41%) JIRA
4 7 (8.24%) Bitbucket
5 5 (5.88%) GitLab
6 4 (4.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.71%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.71%) Sonatype Nexus
7 3 (3.53%) JUnit
7 3 (3.53%) Maven
8 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
8 2 (2.35%) Gatling
8 2 (2.35%) Mockito
8 2 (2.35%) Postman
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.35%) Snyk
8 2 (2.35%) webpack
9 1 (1.18%) gulp
9 1 (1.18%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.18%) Terragrunt
General
1 16 (18.82%) Finance
2 13 (15.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.24%) Banking
4 5 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.53%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.53%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.18%) Advertising
7 1 (1.18%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Developer
2 14 (16.47%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (15.29%) Java Developer
4 10 (11.76%) Senior
5 8 (9.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Angular Developer
7 5 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Architect
8 4 (4.71%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.53%) Fidessa Developer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps
9 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.00%) React
2 12 (14.12%) OAuth
2 12 (14.12%) REST
3 11 (12.94%) Spring
3 11 (12.94%) Spring Boot
4 10 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 8 (9.41%) Node.js
6 7 (8.24%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.06%) .NET
7 6 (7.06%) JWT
7 6 (7.06%) Next.js
7 6 (7.06%) Playwright
8 5 (5.88%) Kafka
9 4 (4.71%) CSS
9 4 (4.71%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.71%) HTML
9 4 (4.71%) LangGraph
9 4 (4.71%) OAuth2
9 4 (4.71%) PyTorch
9 4 (4.71%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 17 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.06%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.53%) Equities
5 3 (3.53%) NHS
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.35%) Life Science
6 2 (2.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.35%) Replication
6 2 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Blog
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.18%) Genomics
7 1 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Linux
2 3 (3.53%) Android
2 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.53%) Windows
3 1 (1.18%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (57.65%) CI/CD
2 45 (52.94%) DevOps
3 31 (36.47%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (34.12%) AI
5 24 (28.24%) Agile
6 20 (23.53%) Test Automation
7 18 (21.18%) Containerisation
8 16 (18.82%) Full-Stack Development
8 16 (18.82%) Microservices
8 16 (18.82%) Migration
8 16 (18.82%) Observability
9 13 (15.29%) LLM
10 12 (14.12%) Analytics
10 12 (14.12%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 12 (14.12%) TDD
11 10 (11.76%) Generative AI
11 10 (11.76%) Machine Learning
12 9 (10.59%) DevSecOps
12 9 (10.59%) Performance Tuning
12 9 (10.59%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 41 (48.24%) Python
2 26 (30.59%) Java
3 23 (27.06%) SQL
4 14 (16.47%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.76%) JavaScript
6 7 (8.24%) C#
7 2 (2.35%) Bash
7 2 (2.35%) Bicep
7 2 (2.35%) Go
7 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.35%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.18%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.18%) C
8 1 (1.18%) C++
8 1 (1.18%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) ProC
8 1 (1.18%) Ruby
8 1 (1.18%) Scala
8 1 (1.18%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (27.06%) SC Cleared
1 23 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 3 (3.53%) PhD
4 2 (2.35%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.18%) CCSP
5 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.18%) CISSP
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.18%) OSCP
5 1 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.71%) GDPR
1 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.71%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.35%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) PSD2
3 2 (2.35%) SEPA
3 2 (2.35%) WCAG
4 1 (1.18%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.18%) GRC
4 1 (1.18%) MiFID
4 1 (1.18%) NCSC
4 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (30.59%) Docker
2 4 (4.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (45.88%) Terraform
2 24 (28.24%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.59%) Ansible
4 4 (4.71%) Grafana
4 4 (4.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.53%) Argo
6 2 (2.35%) Istio
7 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (11.76%) Google
3 7 (8.24%) Databricks
3 7 (8.24%) Oracle
4 6 (7.06%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.53%) Foundry
5 3 (3.53%) Palantir
5 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.53%) Solace
6 2 (2.35%) Confluent
6 2 (2.35%) IBM
7 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.18%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.18%) SAP
7 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.18%) Sybase
7 1 (1.18%) Workday