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

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 69 84
Rank change year-on-year +14 +15 +28
Contract jobs citing GitHub 75 50 45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.99% 2.70% 1.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.69% 6.64% 4.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 24 28
10th Percentile £356 £479 £396
25th Percentile £413 £519 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £588 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.51% -2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £669 £671 £676
90th Percentile £844 £726 £771
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £576
% change year-on-year -4.35% -0.09% -11.46%
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 774 753 921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.15% 40.59% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 471 659
10th Percentile £339 £400 £363
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 £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £744
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 12
10th Percentile £27.83 - £13.18
25th Percentile £35.88 £46.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.78 £47.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.15% +128.92% -17.00%
75th Percentile £49.83 £48.75 £40.69
90th Percentile £55.19 - £50.10
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% -17.00%

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 7 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 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.33%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.33%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 42 (56.00%) Azure
2 37 (49.33%) GitHub Actions
3 29 (38.67%) AWS
4 17 (22.67%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (20.00%) GCP
5 15 (20.00%) Serverless
6 10 (13.33%) Amazon ECS
6 10 (13.33%) Amazon S3
6 10 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (12.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 8 (10.67%) Azure AKS
9 7 (9.33%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (9.33%) Cloud Run
10 6 (8.00%) Power Platform
11 5 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (6.67%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (6.67%) Azure Functions
11 5 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (6.67%) Entra ID
12 4 (5.33%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Firewall
2 3 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.67%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.33%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (4.00%) MySQL
4 3 (4.00%) Redis
4 3 (4.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (4.00%) Tick Data
5 2 (2.67%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.67%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.67%) Power BI
6 1 (1.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.33%) CouchDB
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 18 (24.00%) Git
2 16 (21.33%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.33%) Bitbucket
3 7 (9.33%) JIRA
4 4 (5.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (4.00%) GitLab
5 3 (4.00%) Maven
6 2 (2.67%) Cucumber
6 2 (2.67%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.67%) Gatling
6 2 (2.67%) JUnit
6 2 (2.67%) Mockito
6 2 (2.67%) Postman
6 2 (2.67%) Snyk
7 1 (1.33%) gulp
7 1 (1.33%) Terragrunt
7 1 (1.33%) TestRail
7 1 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (1.33%) webpack
General
1 16 (21.33%) Finance
2 12 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.67%) Banking
4 5 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.33%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Legal
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Developer
2 14 (18.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (16.00%) Java Developer
4 10 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (10.67%) Senior
6 5 (6.67%) Angular Developer
6 5 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (5.33%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Site Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Architect
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Fidessa Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.67%) React
2 12 (16.00%) OAuth
3 10 (13.33%) REST
3 10 (13.33%) Spring Boot
4 9 (12.00%) Spring
5 8 (10.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (9.33%) FastAPI
6 7 (9.33%) Node.js
7 6 (8.00%) JWT
8 5 (6.67%) .NET
8 5 (6.67%) LangChain
8 5 (6.67%) Next.js
9 4 (5.33%) CSS
9 4 (5.33%) HTML
9 4 (5.33%) Kafka
9 4 (5.33%) LangGraph
9 4 (5.33%) OAuth2
10 3 (4.00%) HTML5
10 3 (4.00%) JSON
10 3 (4.00%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.33%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.33%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (4.00%) Equities
5 3 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.67%) Life Science
6 2 (2.67%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.67%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.67%) Replication
6 2 (2.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Blog
7 1 (1.33%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Genomics
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.67%) Android
2 2 (2.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (61.33%) CI/CD
2 41 (54.67%) DevOps
3 27 (36.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (32.00%) AI
5 19 (25.33%) Agile
6 17 (22.67%) Test Automation
7 15 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 15 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
8 14 (18.67%) Microservices
8 14 (18.67%) Migration
9 13 (17.33%) Observability
10 11 (14.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 10 (13.33%) Analytics
11 10 (13.33%) DevSecOps
11 10 (13.33%) Generative AI
11 10 (13.33%) LLM
11 10 (13.33%) TDD
12 9 (12.00%) Machine Learning
13 7 (9.33%) Performance Tuning
13 7 (9.33%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 37 (49.33%) Python
2 23 (30.67%) Java
3 18 (24.00%) SQL
4 12 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.67%) C#
7 3 (4.00%) Bash
7 3 (4.00%) Bicep
8 2 (2.67%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.33%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.33%) C
9 1 (1.33%) C++
9 1 (1.33%) PHP
9 1 (1.33%) ProC
9 1 (1.33%) Ruby
9 1 (1.33%) Scala
9 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.33%) VB
9 1 (1.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (28.00%) SC Cleared
1 21 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (1.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CCSP
4 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.33%) CISSP
4 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.33%) OSCP
4 1 (1.33%) PhD
4 1 (1.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.00%) GDPR
2 4 (5.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.33%) NIST
3 3 (4.00%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.67%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.67%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.67%) PSD2
4 2 (2.67%) QA
4 2 (2.67%) SEPA
5 1 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.33%) GRC
5 1 (1.33%) MiFID
5 1 (1.33%) NCSC
5 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.33%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 23 (30.67%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (46.67%) Terraform
2 19 (25.33%) Kubernetes
3 9 (12.00%) Ansible
4 4 (5.33%) Grafana
4 4 (5.33%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.00%) Argo
6 2 (2.67%) Istio
7 1 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (18.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) Google
3 7 (9.33%) OpenAI
3 7 (9.33%) Oracle
4 6 (8.00%) Databricks
5 3 (4.00%) Solace
6 2 (2.67%) Confluent
6 2 (2.67%) Foundry
6 2 (2.67%) Palantir
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.33%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.33%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.33%) IBM
7 1 (1.33%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.33%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.33%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.33%) Workday