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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 77 82
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 77 44 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.18% 2.55% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 5.92% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 24 20
10th Percentile £377 £404 £414
25th Percentile £453 £472 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £558
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -3.67% -14.15%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £665
90th Percentile £659 £667 £741
Central London median daily rate £547 £525 £551
% change year-on-year +4.19% -4.68% -14.61%
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 924 743 874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.20% 43.05% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 480 613
10th Percentile £350 £365 £363
25th Percentile £453 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year - +1.38% -9.58%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £653
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £538
% change year-on-year - +2.33% -7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £23.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £24.62 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £44.47 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.28% +71.44% -72.73%
75th Percentile £63.68 £71.37 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £98.88 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £54.60 £31.86 £22.50
% change year-on-year +71.38% +41.60% -66.67%

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 17 June 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 3 (3.90%) Confluence
1 3 (3.90%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.90%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.25%) Azure
2 38 (49.35%) GitHub Actions
3 37 (48.05%) AWS
4 17 (22.08%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
5 13 (16.88%) Serverless
6 11 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (12.99%) Azure AKS
8 9 (11.69%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (10.39%) Azure Monitor
10 7 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (9.09%) GCP
11 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.49%) Azure Functions
13 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (5.19%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) VPN
2 2 (2.60%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) NoSQL
2 10 (12.99%) DynamoDB
2 10 (12.99%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (11.69%) Power BI
4 7 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.79%) Amazon Athena
6 5 (6.49%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (5.19%) Db2
8 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.60%) Hazelcast
9 2 (2.60%) Metadata
9 2 (2.60%) Redis
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
10 1 (1.30%) Big Data
10 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
10 1 (1.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Git
2 17 (22.08%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.58%) GitLab
4 10 (12.99%) JIRA
5 7 (9.09%) JUnit
6 6 (7.79%) Mockito
7 5 (6.49%) Cypress.io
8 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
8 4 (5.19%) Maven
8 4 (5.19%) Postman
9 3 (3.90%) Gatling
9 3 (3.90%) Gradle
10 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.60%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.60%) Mocha
10 2 (2.60%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.60%) webpack
11 1 (1.30%) git-flow
11 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.30%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 24 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.57%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Banking
4 9 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.60%) Advertising
6 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Front Office
7 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.30%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Developer
2 13 (16.88%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Architect
4 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
5 8 (10.39%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.79%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Azure Architect
7 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.19%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.19%) Junior
9 3 (3.90%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.90%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.90%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 2 (2.60%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (23.38%) Spring
2 15 (19.48%) React
2 15 (19.48%) Spring Boot
3 14 (18.18%) Kafka
4 11 (14.29%) REST
5 8 (10.39%) RESTful
6 7 (9.09%) .NET
6 7 (9.09%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (7.79%) Node.js
7 6 (7.79%) Playwright
8 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.49%) Gherkin
8 5 (6.49%) PySpark
8 5 (6.49%) YAML
9 4 (5.19%) Jest
9 4 (5.19%) Next.js
9 4 (5.19%) OAuth
9 4 (5.19%) SOAP
9 4 (5.19%) WireMock
10 3 (3.90%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 22 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.49%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.90%) NHS
5 2 (2.60%) Equities
5 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.30%) Genomics
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Linux
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 3 (3.90%) Android
2 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (68.83%) CI/CD
2 40 (51.95%) DevOps
3 34 (44.16%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (35.06%) Agile
4 27 (35.06%) Observability
5 26 (33.77%) Containerisation
6 25 (32.47%) Test Automation
7 21 (27.27%) AI
8 18 (23.38%) Microservices
9 17 (22.08%) Software Engineering
10 15 (19.48%) Event-Driven
11 13 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (16.88%) Migration
11 13 (16.88%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (15.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (11.69%) Analytics
15 9 (11.69%) API Design
16 8 (10.39%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) Python
2 23 (29.87%) Java
3 19 (24.68%) SQL
4 12 (15.58%) C#
4 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
4 12 (15.58%) TypeScript
5 7 (9.09%) Bicep
6 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.90%) Ruby
8 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.60%) Bash
8 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.60%) Go
9 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (24.68%) SC Cleared
1 19 (24.68%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.09%) Degree
3 5 (6.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.90%) PhD
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.60%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.60%) PSD2
3 2 (2.60%) SEPA
3 2 (2.60%) WCAG
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (32.47%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (45.45%) Terraform
2 31 (40.26%) Kubernetes
3 10 (12.99%) Grafana
4 8 (10.39%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.90%) Ansible
5 3 (3.90%) Argo
6 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.30%) Istio
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.79%) Databricks
2 6 (7.79%) Oracle
3 4 (5.19%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.90%) Foundry
4 3 (3.90%) Palantir
4 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.90%) Splunk
5 2 (2.60%) AppDynamics
5 2 (2.60%) Confluent
5 2 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.60%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) IBM
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) SAP
6 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Solace
6 1 (1.30%) Sybase
6 1 (1.30%) Zscaler