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 12 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 80 88
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 -16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 88 47 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.72% 2.52% 1.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.34% 6.10% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 25 21
10th Percentile £406 £356 £425
25th Percentile £463 £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £690
90th Percentile £706 £683 £768
Central London median daily rate £541 £498 £551
% change year-on-year +8.69% -9.71% -11.84%

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 942 771 839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.78% 41.27% 40.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 508 585
10th Percentile £363 £354 £383
25th Percentile £460 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £665 £675
90th Percentile £750 £757 £766
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.93 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.66 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% +28.33% -26.03%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.57 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.35 £97.75 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.33 £27.00
% change year-on-year +5.61% +27.13% -26.03%

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 12 August 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 (4.55%) Confluence
1 4 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.14%) nginx
3 1 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 43 (48.86%) Azure
3 40 (45.45%) AWS
4 20 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (17.05%) Serverless
6 14 (15.91%) GitHub Copilot
7 12 (13.64%) Amazon S3
8 11 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 11 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (12.50%) Power Platform
9 10 (11.36%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (11.36%) Azure AKS
9 10 (11.36%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (7.95%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (6.82%) GCP
11 6 (6.82%) Power Automate
11 6 (6.82%) PowerApps
12 5 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (5.68%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
1 4 (4.55%) VPN
2 3 (3.41%) Firewall
3 2 (2.27%) Network Security
4 1 (1.14%) BGP
4 1 (1.14%) DHCP
4 1 (1.14%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.14%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.14%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.14%) SSH
4 1 (1.14%) TACACS
4 1 (1.14%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (11.36%) DynamoDB
1 10 (11.36%) NoSQL
2 9 (10.23%) Power BI
3 8 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
4 7 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.82%) MongoDB
6 5 (5.68%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.55%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (1.14%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.14%) Big Data
9 1 (1.14%) Db2
9 1 (1.14%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.14%) Metadata
9 1 (1.14%) MySQL
9 1 (1.14%) Redis
9 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (26.14%) Git
2 17 (19.32%) Jenkins
3 16 (18.18%) GitLab
4 9 (10.23%) JIRA
5 8 (9.09%) JUnit
6 6 (6.82%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.82%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.82%) Mockito
6 6 (6.82%) Postman
7 5 (5.68%) Selenium
8 4 (4.55%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.41%) Claude Code
9 3 (3.41%) Gradle
9 3 (3.41%) Maven
10 2 (2.27%) Appium
10 2 (2.27%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.27%) Mocha
10 2 (2.27%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.27%) webpack
11 1 (1.14%) Gatling
General
1 30 (34.09%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.55%) Finance
3 11 (12.50%) Banking
4 10 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.95%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.41%) Back Office
6 3 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Advertising
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.27%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.14%) Front Office
8 1 (1.14%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.14%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.14%) Law
8 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (22.73%) Developer
2 17 (19.32%) Senior
3 15 (17.05%) Architect
4 11 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.95%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (7.95%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.82%) Senior Java Developer
8 5 (5.68%) AWS Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.68%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Junior
9 4 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (19.32%) Spring
2 15 (17.05%) REST
2 15 (17.05%) Spring Boot
3 14 (15.91%) Kafka
4 12 (13.64%) RESTful
5 11 (12.50%) React
6 8 (9.09%) .NET
7 7 (7.95%) Playwright
8 6 (6.82%) YAML
9 5 (5.68%) AngularJS
9 5 (5.68%) Gherkin
9 5 (5.68%) HTML
9 5 (5.68%) Node.js
9 5 (5.68%) SOAP
10 4 (4.55%) FastAPI
10 4 (4.55%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.55%) Jest
10 4 (4.55%) OpenTelemetry
10 4 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 33 (37.50%) Cloud Native
2 17 (19.32%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.68%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.41%) NHS
5 3 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.27%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.27%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.27%) Genomics
6 2 (2.27%) Life Science
6 2 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.14%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) IoT
7 1 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.14%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.68%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.27%) Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Android
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (79.55%) CI/CD
2 49 (55.68%) DevOps
3 42 (47.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (43.18%) Agile
5 34 (38.64%) Test Automation
6 29 (32.95%) Containerisation
6 29 (32.95%) Observability
7 25 (28.41%) Microservices
8 24 (27.27%) AI
8 24 (27.27%) Software Engineering
9 20 (22.73%) Event-Driven
10 17 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (19.32%) Platform Engineering
11 16 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (17.05%) Data Modelling
13 13 (14.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 12 (13.64%) Mentoring
14 12 (13.64%) Migration
15 11 (12.50%) API Design
15 11 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (36.36%) Python
2 29 (32.95%) Java
3 20 (22.73%) SQL
4 17 (19.32%) C#
5 14 (15.91%) TypeScript
6 12 (13.64%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.09%) PowerShell
8 6 (6.82%) Bicep
9 5 (5.68%) Ruby
10 2 (2.27%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.27%) Bash
10 2 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.14%) Go
11 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (30.68%) Security Cleared
2 26 (29.55%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.82%) Degree
4 5 (5.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.27%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) QA
2 5 (5.68%) Accessibility
2 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.27%) WCAG
4 1 (1.14%) GDPR
4 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 29 (32.95%) Docker
2 5 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.68%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (44.32%) Terraform
2 33 (37.50%) Kubernetes
3 10 (11.36%) Grafana
4 8 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.55%) Ansible
6 1 (1.14%) Bosun
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.14%) Packer
6 1 (1.14%) SCCM
6 1 (1.14%) SELinux
6 1 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.95%) Oracle
3 4 (4.55%) Google
3 4 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.55%) Splunk
3 4 (4.55%) VMware
4 3 (3.41%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.41%) Databricks
4 3 (3.41%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.41%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.27%) IBM
5 2 (2.27%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.14%) Cisco
6 1 (1.14%) Foundry
6 1 (1.14%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.14%) Palantir
6 1 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (1.14%) Sybase
6 1 (1.14%) Zscaler