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

6 months to
22 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 71 84
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 86 52 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.02% 3.07% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.47% 7.47% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 32 21
10th Percentile £363 £366 £425
25th Percentile £456 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% +2.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £725 £841 £768
Central London median daily rate £530 £525 £613
% change year-on-year +0.95% -14.29% -1.21%

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.

6 months to
22 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 908 696 843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.45% 41.11% 39.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 509 548
10th Percentile £363 £338 £399
25th Percentile £456 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +3.64%
75th Percentile £662 £669 £675
90th Percentile £770 £752 £764
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 2
10th Percentile £17.40 £21.58 £32.05
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £39.63
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% -39.29% +169.88%
75th Percentile £31.00 £58.96 £76.13
90th Percentile £46.00 £72.53 £85.95
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%

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 22 October 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 table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

RankSkillShareJob Ads
1Azure53.5%46
1GitHub Actions53.5%46
3AWS45.3%39
4Azure DevOps25.6%22
5Serverless22.1%19
6GCP17.4%15
7Amazon S314.0%12
7AWS Lambda14.0%12
9GitHub Copilot12.8%11
10Amazon CloudWatch11.6%10
10Amazon EC211.6%10
10Amazon EKS11.6%10
13Azure AKS10.5%9
13Power Platform10.5%9
15AWS CloudFormation9.3%8
16Amazon EventBridge8.1%7
17Amazon Kinesis7.0%6
17AWS Step Functions7.0%6
17Azure Functions7.0%6
17dbt7.0%6
69 GitHub jobs in the City of London