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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 86
Rank change year-on-year +12 +18 0
Contract jobs citing GitHub 88 53 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.93% 3.00% 2.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.82% 6.96% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 25 25
10th Percentile £356 £418 £387
25th Percentile £413 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £551
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.45% -15.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £685 £666 £756
Central London median daily rate £538 £558 £551
% change year-on-year -3.59% +1.18% -15.23%
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 896 762 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.04% 43.20% 38.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 632 491 606
10th Percentile £350 £388 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% +1.33% -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £555 £538
% change year-on-year -3.15% +3.16% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 8
10th Percentile £33.72 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.53 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £48.22 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.46% +88.89% -72.99%
75th Percentile £63.54 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.53 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £40.64 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% +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 21 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 (3.41%) Confluence
1 3 (3.41%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (59.09%) Azure
2 42 (47.73%) AWS
3 39 (44.32%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (23.86%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (21.59%) Serverless
6 14 (15.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (14.77%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (14.77%) GCP
8 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
9 11 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (11.36%) Azure AKS
10 10 (11.36%) Power Platform
11 9 (10.23%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (7.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (6.82%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (6.82%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (6.82%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (6.82%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (6.82%) Entra ID
14 5 (5.68%) Amazon ECR
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.27%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (15.91%) NoSQL
2 12 (13.64%) DynamoDB
3 10 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 6 (6.82%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 5 (5.68%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (5.68%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (5.68%) Power BI
7 4 (4.55%) DB2
8 3 (3.41%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.27%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.27%) Metadata
9 2 (2.27%) MySQL
9 2 (2.27%) Redis
9 2 (2.27%) Tick Data
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.14%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.14%) Data Hub
10 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (28.41%) Git
2 18 (20.45%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.09%) GitLab
3 8 (9.09%) JIRA
4 6 (6.82%) JUnit
5 5 (5.68%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.68%) Maven
5 5 (5.68%) Mockito
6 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.55%) Postman
7 3 (3.41%) Gradle
7 3 (3.41%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.27%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.27%) Gatling
8 2 (2.27%) Mocha
8 2 (2.27%) Selenium
8 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.27%) webpack
General
1 18 (20.45%) Finance
2 17 (19.32%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Banking
4 6 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Advertising
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Developer
2 14 (15.91%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (14.77%) Senior
4 12 (13.64%) Java Developer
5 9 (10.23%) Architect
6 7 (7.95%) Senior Developer
7 6 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Site Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Technical Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Angular Developer
10 3 (3.41%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
10 3 (3.41%) Azure Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) Spring
2 16 (18.18%) React
3 15 (17.05%) Spring Boot
4 11 (12.50%) Kafka
4 11 (12.50%) REST
5 9 (10.23%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.23%) Node.js
5 9 (10.23%) OAuth
6 7 (7.95%) .NET
7 6 (6.82%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (6.82%) Playwright
7 6 (6.82%) RESTful
8 4 (4.55%) FastAPI
8 4 (4.55%) JWT
8 4 (4.55%) Next.js
8 4 (4.55%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.55%) TensorFlow
9 3 (3.41%) Jest
9 3 (3.41%) Keras
9 3 (3.41%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 26 (29.55%) Cloud Native
2 12 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.55%) NHS
5 3 (3.41%) Equities
5 3 (3.41%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.27%) Life Science
6 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.14%) Blog
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.14%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.14%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.14%) IoT
7 1 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) PKI
7 1 (1.14%) Replication
7 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Linux
2 3 (3.41%) Android
2 3 (3.41%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.41%) Windows
3 2 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (65.91%) CI/CD
2 50 (56.82%) DevOps
3 35 (39.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (31.82%) Agile
5 26 (29.55%) Test Automation
6 24 (27.27%) AI
6 24 (27.27%) Containerisation
6 24 (27.27%) Observability
7 22 (25.00%) Microservices
8 15 (17.05%) Migration
8 15 (17.05%) Software Engineering
9 14 (15.91%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 13 (14.77%) Analytics
10 13 (14.77%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (14.77%) Performance Tuning
10 13 (14.77%) TDD
11 11 (12.50%) Event-Driven
11 11 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
12 8 (9.09%) Code Quality
12 8 (9.09%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 42 (47.73%) Python
2 31 (35.23%) Java
3 23 (26.14%) SQL
4 12 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 10 (11.36%) JavaScript
6 9 (10.23%) C#
7 4 (4.55%) Bicep
8 3 (3.41%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.41%) Ruby
9 2 (2.27%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.27%) Bash
9 2 (2.27%) Go
9 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.14%) C
10 1 (1.14%) C++
10 1 (1.14%) ProC
10 1 (1.14%) Scala
10 1 (1.14%) VB
10 1 (1.14%) XPath
Qualifications
1 23 (26.14%) SC Cleared
1 23 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.09%) Degree
3 7 (7.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.41%) PhD
6 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.14%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.14%) CCSP
7 1 (1.14%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.14%) CISSP
7 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.14%) OSCP
7 1 (1.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
2 2 (2.27%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.27%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.27%) PSD2
2 2 (2.27%) SEPA
3 1 (1.14%) GRC
3 1 (1.14%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (34.09%) Docker
2 4 (4.55%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (44.32%) Terraform
2 32 (36.36%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.95%) Ansible
3 7 (7.95%) Grafana
4 6 (6.82%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.41%) Argo
6 2 (2.27%) Istio
7 1 (1.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.05%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.23%) Oracle
3 7 (7.95%) Databricks
4 6 (6.82%) Google
5 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.41%) Foundry
6 3 (3.41%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.41%) Palantir
7 2 (2.27%) Confluent
7 2 (2.27%) IBM
7 2 (2.27%) SAP
7 2 (2.27%) Solace
8 1 (1.14%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.14%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.14%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.14%) Splunk
8 1 (1.14%) Sybase
8 1 (1.14%) Workday