GitHub Contracts in the City of London

GitHub
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 84 80
Rank change year-on-year +9 -4 +26
Contract jobs citing GitHub 45 40 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.56% 1.89% 2.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.00% 4.59% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 46
10th Percentile £404 £419 £394
25th Percentile £472 £447 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £583 £635
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% -8.27% +7.63%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £725
90th Percentile £667 £768 £825
Central London median daily rate £525 £551 £613
% change year-on-year -4.68% -10.08% +2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

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 750 872 1,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.66% 41.17% 40.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 481 610 907
10th Percentile £363 £363 £285
25th Percentile £463 £450 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £700
90th Percentile £751 £768 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +1.38% -5.65% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 10
10th Percentile £24.02 £12.75 £20.35
25th Percentile £25.18 £14.88 £38.13
Median hourly rate £38.58 £24.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.86% -63.33% +35.00%
75th Percentile £63.37 £27.00 £88.30
90th Percentile £96.63 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.65 £24.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.00% -52.86% +26.51%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the City of London

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 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Apache
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 22 (48.89%) AWS
2 21 (46.67%) Azure
3 18 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) GCP
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
8 3 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (6.67%) OpenShift
8 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
8 3 (6.67%) SaaS
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) DNS
2 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.67%) HTTP
3 3 (6.67%) SMTP
4 2 (4.44%) DHCP
4 2 (4.44%) Firewall
4 2 (4.44%) FTP
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) VPN
5 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Big Data
4 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.22%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.22%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.78%) JIRA
3 6 (13.33%) GitLab
4 4 (8.89%) Git
5 3 (6.67%) Postman
5 3 (6.67%) Selenium
5 3 (6.67%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.44%) Gradle
6 2 (4.44%) JMeter
6 2 (4.44%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.44%) Maven
6 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.44%) Subversion
6 2 (4.44%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.22%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (24.44%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Banking
2 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Retail
4 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
4 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.22%) Advertising
5 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (2.22%) International Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Marketing
5 1 (2.22%) Military
5 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Senior
2 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
4 4 (8.89%) Site Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Node.js
2 5 (11.11%) .NET
2 5 (11.11%) REST
3 4 (8.89%) GraphQL
3 4 (8.89%) React
4 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.67%) Kafka
4 3 (6.67%) OAuth
4 3 (6.67%) OpenID
4 3 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
4 3 (6.67%) Pandas
5 2 (4.44%) Jest
5 2 (4.44%) NumPy
5 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.44%) pytest
6 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.22%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (2.22%) Loki
6 1 (2.22%) PySpark
6 1 (2.22%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) IVR
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.22%) Clustering
4 1 (2.22%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.22%) CUDA
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.56%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.22%) Solaris
5 1 (2.22%) VMS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (62.22%) CI/CD
2 27 (60.00%) DevOps
3 16 (35.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (28.89%) Agile
5 10 (22.22%) Containerisation
6 9 (20.00%) Observability
6 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 9 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.78%) Microservices
7 8 (17.78%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.33%) Data Modelling
9 5 (11.11%) Performance Testing
10 4 (8.89%) API Integration
10 4 (8.89%) Artificial Intelligence
10 4 (8.89%) Code Quality
10 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
10 4 (8.89%) High Availability
10 4 (8.89%) Mentoring
11 3 (6.67%) Cloud Security
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Python
2 10 (22.22%) Bash
3 8 (17.78%) C#
3 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (15.56%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.56%) SQL
5 5 (11.11%) Go
5 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.89%) Java
7 3 (6.67%) Perl
8 2 (4.44%) Bicep
8 2 (4.44%) Rust
8 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
9 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.22%) CodeQL
9 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.22%) Ruby
9 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.22%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (24.44%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.44%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.22%) Lustre
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 25 (55.56%) Terraform
2 22 (48.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (22.22%) Ansible
4 9 (20.00%) Grafana
5 8 (17.78%) Prometheus
6 4 (8.89%) Puppet
7 3 (6.67%) Istio
7 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.22%) Argo
8 1 (2.22%) Control-M
8 1 (2.22%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.22%) Netcool
8 1 (2.22%) Podman
8 1 (2.22%) QRadar
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.22%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Google
1 6 (13.33%) Splunk
2 5 (11.11%) Databricks
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) VMware
4 3 (6.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) BMC
6 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.22%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) Juniper
6 1 (2.22%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.22%) NETGEAR
6 1 (2.22%) SaltStack
6 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.22%) Talend