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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 74 83
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 79 46 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.23% 2.61% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.44% 6.13% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 24 22
10th Percentile £390 £404 £419
25th Percentile £453 £472 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £583
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -7.73% -8.27%
75th Percentile £596 £638 £716
90th Percentile £672 £667 £768
Central London median daily rate £538 £525 £551
% change year-on-year +2.38% -4.68% -10.08%
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 936 750 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.22% 42.54% 41.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 482 610
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.58%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £669
90th Percentile £750 £751 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £543
% change year-on-year - +1.38% -5.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 6
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £25.18 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +55.86% -63.33%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £27.00
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £34.65 £24.75
% change year-on-year +57.58% +40.00% -52.86%

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 1 July 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 4 (5.06%) Confluence
2 3 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.80%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.27%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (51.90%) Azure
2 39 (49.37%) AWS
2 39 (49.37%) GitHub Actions
3 17 (21.52%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (18.99%) Serverless
5 13 (16.46%) Power Platform
6 12 (15.19%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
8 9 (11.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.39%) AWS Lambda
8 9 (11.39%) Azure AKS
9 8 (10.13%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (8.86%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (8.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (7.59%) Entra ID
11 6 (7.59%) GCP
12 5 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.33%) Azure Functions
12 5 (6.33%) Power Automate
12 5 (6.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) VPN
2 3 (3.80%) DNS
2 3 (3.80%) Firewall
3 2 (2.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.72%) NoSQL
2 11 (13.92%) DynamoDB
3 10 (12.66%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.66%) Power BI
4 9 (11.39%) Amazon RDS
5 8 (10.13%) MongoDB
6 7 (8.86%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (5.06%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.06%) Db2
7 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.53%) Metadata
8 2 (2.53%) Relational Database
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.27%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.27%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.27%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 24 (30.38%) Git
2 17 (21.52%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.19%) GitLab
3 12 (15.19%) JIRA
4 9 (11.39%) JUnit
5 7 (8.86%) Mockito
6 5 (6.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.33%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.33%) Postman
7 4 (5.06%) Maven
8 3 (3.80%) Gradle
8 3 (3.80%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.53%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.53%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.53%) Gatling
9 2 (2.53%) Mocha
9 2 (2.53%) Selenium
9 2 (2.53%) webpack
10 1 (1.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.27%) TestNG
General
1 27 (34.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.65%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.92%) Banking
4 5 (6.33%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.80%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.53%) Advertising
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Front Office
8 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.27%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Developer
2 13 (16.46%) Senior
3 12 (15.19%) Architect
4 10 (12.66%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.86%) Automation Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Technical Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Azure Architect
8 5 (6.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) Junior
9 4 (5.06%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Cloud Engineer
10 3 (3.80%) Data Scientist
11 2 (2.53%) Data Engineer
11 2 (2.53%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (24.05%) Spring
2 16 (20.25%) Spring Boot
3 14 (17.72%) Kafka
4 13 (16.46%) React
4 13 (16.46%) REST
5 9 (11.39%) RESTful
6 7 (8.86%) .NET
6 7 (8.86%) Playwright
7 6 (7.59%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.59%) Gherkin
7 6 (7.59%) YAML
8 5 (6.33%) Node.js
8 5 (6.33%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.33%) PySpark
8 5 (6.33%) SOAP
8 5 (6.33%) WireMock
9 4 (5.06%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.06%) Jest
10 3 (3.80%) Keras
10 3 (3.80%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.38%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.19%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.06%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.80%) NHS
5 2 (2.53%) Equities
5 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.27%) Genomics
6 1 (1.27%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.27%) IoT
6 1 (1.27%) Life Science
6 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Windows
2 4 (5.06%) Linux
3 3 (3.80%) Android
3 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (72.15%) CI/CD
2 41 (51.90%) DevOps
3 33 (41.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (39.24%) Agile
5 28 (35.44%) Test Automation
6 26 (32.91%) Containerisation
6 26 (32.91%) Observability
7 19 (24.05%) AI
7 19 (24.05%) Microservices
8 18 (22.78%) Software Engineering
9 15 (18.99%) Event-Driven
10 14 (17.72%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (16.46%) Platform Engineering
11 13 (16.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 12 (15.19%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
13 11 (13.92%) Analytics
13 11 (13.92%) Migration
14 10 (12.66%) API Design
15 9 (11.39%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (39.24%) Python
2 25 (31.65%) Java
3 19 (24.05%) SQL
4 14 (17.72%) C#
5 12 (15.19%) TypeScript
6 11 (13.92%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.59%) Bicep
7 6 (7.59%) PowerShell
8 4 (5.06%) Ruby
9 2 (2.53%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.53%) Bash
9 2 (2.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.53%) Go
10 1 (1.27%) Scala
10 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) SC Cleared
1 20 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.13%) Degree
3 5 (6.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.06%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.80%) PhD
6 2 (2.53%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) QA
2 3 (3.80%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.53%) WCAG
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.27%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.27%) PSD2
4 1 (1.27%) SEPA
System Software
1 26 (32.91%) Docker
2 4 (5.06%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (41.77%) Kubernetes
1 33 (41.77%) Terraform
2 10 (12.66%) Grafana
3 8 (10.13%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.53%) Ansible
5 1 (1.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.27%) Argo
Vendors
1 11 (13.92%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.59%) Databricks
2 6 (7.59%) Oracle
3 4 (5.06%) Splunk
4 3 (3.80%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.80%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.80%) Foundry
4 3 (3.80%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.80%) Palantir
4 3 (3.80%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.53%) IBM
5 2 (2.53%) VMware
6 1 (1.27%) Confluent
6 1 (1.27%) Google
6 1 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.27%) Solace
6 1 (1.27%) Sybase
6 1 (1.27%) Zscaler