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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 75 87
Rank change year-on-year +22 +12 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 77 44 50
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.22% 2.13% 1.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.17% 5.44% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 18 35
10th Percentile £343 £461 £368
25th Percentile £413 £515 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £606 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +1.04% -7.69%
75th Percentile £670 £697 £650
90th Percentile £838 £741 £688
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

All Cloud 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 757 809 1,030
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.50% 39.16% 40.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 514 744
10th Percentile £328 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £761 £771
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 8
10th Percentile £27.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +1.22%
75th Percentile £44.72 £92.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £51.20 - £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -15.04% +68.67% +1.22%

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 20 December 2025.

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 (6.49%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 42 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
2 38 (49.35%) Azure
3 33 (42.86%) AWS
4 19 (24.68%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) GCP
5 13 (16.88%) Serverless
6 12 (15.58%) Amazon S3
6 12 (15.58%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (14.29%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 7 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (9.09%) Azure AKS
9 7 (9.09%) Cloud Run
10 6 (7.79%) Power Platform
11 5 (6.49%) Amazon EC2
11 5 (6.49%) Amazon ECR
11 5 (6.49%) Apigee
11 5 (6.49%) AWS Fargate
11 5 (6.49%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Firewall
2 3 (3.90%) DNS
3 1 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.30%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.49%) DynamoDB
1 5 (6.49%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.19%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.90%) MySQL
3 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.60%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.60%) Tick Data
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.30%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.30%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.30%) DataStage
5 1 (1.30%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.30%) Redis
5 1 (1.30%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (25.97%) Git
2 14 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.69%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.79%) GitLab
4 6 (7.79%) JIRA
5 4 (5.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.90%) Maven
6 3 (3.90%) Snyk
6 3 (3.90%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.60%) Gradle
8 1 (1.30%) Ant
8 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.30%) JUnit
8 1 (1.30%) Mockito
8 1 (1.30%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.30%) PowerBuilder
8 1 (1.30%) Selenium
8 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.30%) Xcode
General
1 18 (23.38%) Finance
2 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.49%) Banking
3 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (27.27%) Developer
2 14 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 10 (12.99%) Senior
5 9 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 8 (10.39%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 7 (9.09%) Angular Developer
8 6 (7.79%) AWS Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Azure Engineer
8 6 (7.79%) Site Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) AWS DevOps
10 4 (5.19%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 4 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 3 (3.90%) Architect
11 3 (3.90%) Data Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Python Engineer
11 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
12 2 (2.60%) Fidessa Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.18%) React
1 14 (18.18%) REST
2 10 (12.99%) OAuth
3 9 (11.69%) AngularJS
3 9 (11.69%) Node.js
3 9 (11.69%) Spring Boot
4 6 (7.79%) JWT
5 5 (6.49%) .NET
5 5 (6.49%) FastAPI
5 5 (6.49%) GraphQL
5 5 (6.49%) LangChain
5 5 (6.49%) Spring
6 4 (5.19%) CSS
6 4 (5.19%) HTML
6 4 (5.19%) LangGraph
7 3 (3.90%) HTML5
7 3 (3.90%) Next.js
7 3 (3.90%) Playwright
8 2 (2.60%) CSS3
8 2 (2.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.88%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.49%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.49%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.19%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.60%) Equities
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Life Science
4 2 (2.60%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.60%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.60%) Replication
4 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.30%) IVR
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) PKI
5 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Android
2 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (66.23%) CI/CD
2 46 (59.74%) DevOps
3 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (28.57%) Agile
4 22 (28.57%) AI
5 19 (24.68%) Containerisation
6 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
7 16 (20.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 16 (20.78%) Microservices
8 13 (16.88%) Migration
8 13 (16.88%) TDD
9 12 (15.58%) Observability
9 12 (15.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 11 (14.29%) Generative AI
11 10 (12.99%) DevSecOps
12 8 (10.39%) Analytics
12 8 (10.39%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (9.09%) Data Governance
13 7 (9.09%) Kanban
13 7 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (48.05%) Python
2 22 (28.57%) Java
3 15 (19.48%) SQL
4 14 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 6 (7.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.49%) Bash
6 5 (6.49%) C#
7 4 (5.19%) Go
8 2 (2.60%) Bicep
8 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.60%) PromQL
9 1 (1.30%) C
9 1 (1.30%) C++
9 1 (1.30%) PHP
9 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.30%) ProC
9 1 (1.30%) Ruby
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.30%) VB
9 1 (1.30%) XPath
Qualifications
1 21 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 21 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.60%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CCSP
4 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.30%) CISSP
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.30%) MCP
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.30%) OSCP
4 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.79%) GDPR
2 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.19%) NIST
3 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.90%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.60%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.60%) QA
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) MiFID
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
5 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (46.75%) Terraform
2 21 (27.27%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.99%) Ansible
4 5 (6.49%) Grafana
4 5 (6.49%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.19%) Istio
6 2 (2.60%) Puppet
7 1 (1.30%) Argo
7 1 (1.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.29%) Google
3 7 (9.09%) Oracle
4 5 (6.49%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.19%) Databricks
6 3 (3.90%) Splunk
7 2 (2.60%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.60%) Solace
8 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.30%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.30%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.30%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.30%) SAP
8 1 (1.30%) Sonatype
8 1 (1.30%) Tenable
8 1 (1.30%) Workday