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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 77 84
Rank change year-on-year +13 +7 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 84 43 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.75% 2.46% 1.95%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.14% 6.13% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 23 22
10th Percentile £396 £394 £428
25th Percentile £463 £466 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £606
Median % change year-on-year - -13.40% -4.34%
75th Percentile £645 £675 £744
90th Percentile £725 £753 £768
Central London median daily rate £541 £498 £558
% change year-on-year +8.69% -10.84% -11.95%

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 919 701 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.05% 40.13% 40.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 491 552
10th Percentile £360 £340 £388
25th Percentile £456 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year - -2.65% +0.44%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 3
10th Percentile £18.33 £23.75 -
25th Percentile £20.25 £25.71 -
Median hourly rate £23.58 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.65% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £38.69 £61.16 £59.75
90th Percentile £66.00 £88.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.76% -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 24 September 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 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.76%) Confluence
1 4 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.19%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.19%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.57%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 46 (54.76%) Azure
1 46 (54.76%) GitHub Actions
2 40 (47.62%) AWS
3 20 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (20.24%) Serverless
5 13 (15.48%) GCP
6 12 (14.29%) Amazon S3
6 12 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (13.10%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (13.10%) Power Platform
8 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (11.90%) Amazon EC2
8 10 (11.90%) Azure AKS
9 8 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
9 8 (9.52%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (8.33%) PowerApps
11 6 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
11 6 (7.14%) dbt
11 6 (7.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) DNS
2 4 (4.76%) VPN
3 3 (3.57%) Firewall
4 2 (2.38%) DHCP
4 2 (2.38%) Network Security
5 1 (1.19%) BGP
5 1 (1.19%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.19%) INAP
5 1 (1.19%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.19%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.19%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.19%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.19%) RTP
5 1 (1.19%) SSH
5 1 (1.19%) TACACS
5 1 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.19%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.19%) VoIP
5 1 (1.19%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.10%) Amazon RDS
2 9 (10.71%) Power BI
3 8 (9.52%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (7.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (5.95%) DynamoDB
5 5 (5.95%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.95%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (2.38%) Big Data
6 2 (2.38%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.38%) Tableau
7 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
7 1 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.19%) MySQL
7 1 (1.19%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (20.24%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.05%) Git
3 15 (17.86%) GitLab
4 10 (11.90%) JIRA
5 8 (9.52%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.14%) Selenium
7 5 (5.95%) Cucumber
7 5 (5.95%) JUnit
7 5 (5.95%) Postman
8 3 (3.57%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.57%) JMeter
8 3 (3.57%) Mockito
9 2 (2.38%) Appium
9 2 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.38%) Gatling
9 2 (2.38%) Gradle
9 2 (2.38%) Maven
9 2 (2.38%) Newman
9 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.38%) SoapUI
General
1 33 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.33%) Finance
3 13 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (7.14%) Back Office
5 6 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Front Office
7 2 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.19%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Law
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
8 1 (1.19%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (26.19%) Senior
2 16 (19.05%) Developer
3 12 (14.29%) Architect
4 10 (11.90%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 9 (10.71%) Senior Developer
6 8 (9.52%) AWS Engineer
7 7 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) AWS Data Engineer
8 6 (7.14%) Java Developer
9 5 (5.95%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Data Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Python Developer
11 3 (3.57%) Security Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Senior Security Engineer
11 3 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (47.62%) Terraform
2 15 (17.86%) REST
3 14 (16.67%) Kafka
4 13 (15.48%) Spring
4 13 (15.48%) Spring Boot
5 10 (11.90%) RESTful
6 7 (8.33%) .NET
6 7 (8.33%) HTML
6 7 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (7.14%) ActiveMQ
7 6 (7.14%) Middleware
7 6 (7.14%) React
8 5 (5.95%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.95%) FastAPI
8 5 (5.95%) Playwright
9 4 (4.76%) SOAP
9 4 (4.76%) YAML
10 3 (3.57%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.57%) CSS
10 3 (3.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (32.14%) Cloud Native
2 13 (15.48%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (9.52%) AI Agents
4 7 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.57%) Low-Code
8 2 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (2.38%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (2.38%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (2.38%) Genomics
8 2 (2.38%) Life Science
8 2 (2.38%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.38%) PropTech
8 2 (2.38%) SWIFT Messaging Network
9 1 (1.19%) Client/Server
9 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (1.19%) Media Streaming
9 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.33%) Windows
2 5 (5.95%) Linux
3 4 (4.76%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
5 1 (1.19%) Android
5 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.19%) CentOS
5 1 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (80.95%) CI/CD
2 48 (57.14%) DevOps
3 40 (47.62%) Infrastructure as Code
4 32 (38.10%) Test Automation
5 31 (36.90%) Agile
6 27 (32.14%) Containerisation
7 22 (26.19%) AI
7 22 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 22 (26.19%) Observability
8 19 (22.62%) Event-Driven
8 19 (22.62%) Microservices
9 18 (21.43%) Data Modelling
10 17 (20.24%) Software Engineering
11 16 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
13 13 (15.48%) Analytics
13 13 (15.48%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (14.29%) Data Engineering
14 12 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 38 (45.24%) Python
2 23 (27.38%) Java
2 23 (27.38%) SQL
3 13 (15.48%) C#
4 11 (13.10%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.71%) JavaScript
5 9 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.95%) Bicep
7 4 (4.76%) Bash
8 3 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (3.57%) Ruby
9 2 (2.38%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.19%) C
10 1 (1.19%) Korn
10 1 (1.19%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (32.14%) Security Cleared
2 26 (30.95%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 4 (4.76%) Degree
4 3 (3.57%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.38%) PMP
5 2 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) CISA
6 1 (1.19%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.19%) GSEC
6 1 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.19%) MOS
6 1 (1.19%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.48%) QA
2 9 (10.71%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) GDPR
4 1 (1.19%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.19%) PSD2
4 1 (1.19%) SEPA
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (30.95%) Docker
2 4 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.19%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 30 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 10 (11.90%) Grafana
3 7 (8.33%) Ansible
3 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.19%) Bosun
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.19%) Packer
4 1 (1.19%) SCCM
4 1 (1.19%) SELinux
4 1 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) Google
3 5 (5.95%) Databricks
3 5 (5.95%) Oracle
4 4 (4.76%) Dynatrace
4 4 (4.76%) IBM
4 4 (4.76%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.76%) Splunk
4 4 (4.76%) VMware
5 3 (3.57%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.38%) New Relic
6 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.19%) Calypso
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco
7 1 (1.19%) Dialogic
7 1 (1.19%) Murex
7 1 (1.19%) SAP
7 1 (1.19%) Temenos