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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 78 90
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing GitHub 59 43 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.47% 2.05% 2.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.33% 5.16% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 24 35
10th Percentile £351 £425 £387
25th Percentile £413 £512 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £620 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.32% -0.80% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £728 £675
90th Percentile £813 £762 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £600 £620
% change year-on-year -12.50% -3.23% +5.08%

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 708 833 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.60% 39.70% 40.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 537 780
10th Percentile £333 £400 £356
25th Percentile £432 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
90th Percentile £750 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 8
10th Percentile £22.30 £32.05 £15.58
25th Percentile £26.75 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -39.29% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £56.75 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £70.21 £85.95 £49.88
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -2.86% +68.67% +1.22%

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 30 October 2025.

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 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 2 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.69%) Apache
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Fidessa
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (1.69%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 32 (54.24%) GitHub Actions
2 26 (44.07%) Azure
3 21 (35.59%) AWS
4 12 (20.34%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (16.95%) GCP
6 8 (13.56%) Amazon S3
7 7 (11.86%) Serverless
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 6 (10.17%) Amazon ECS
8 6 (10.17%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (10.17%) Cloud Run
8 6 (10.17%) Power Platform
9 5 (8.47%) Apigee
9 5 (8.47%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (6.78%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (6.78%) Azure AKS
10 4 (6.78%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
10 4 (6.78%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.69%) DNS
2 1 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.08%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (5.08%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.08%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon QuickSight
2 2 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.69%) Big Data
3 1 (1.69%) CouchDB
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) DataStage
3 1 (1.69%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) Pinecone
3 1 (1.69%) Redis
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.69%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 16 (27.12%) Git
2 7 (11.86%) Bitbucket
2 7 (11.86%) GitLab
3 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
4 5 (8.47%) JIRA
5 4 (6.78%) Gradle
5 4 (6.78%) Maven
6 3 (5.08%) Snyk
7 2 (3.39%) CircleCI
7 2 (3.39%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.39%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.69%) Ant
8 1 (1.69%) gulp
8 1 (1.69%) Storybook
8 1 (1.69%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (1.69%) webpack
8 1 (1.69%) Xcode
General
1 17 (28.81%) Finance
2 6 (10.17%) Banking
3 5 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (8.47%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.08%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.39%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.39%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.69%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.69%) Legal
7 1 (1.69%) Military
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (28.81%) Developer
2 9 (15.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (13.56%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Angular Developer
4 6 (10.17%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Site Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps
7 2 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Backend Developer
7 2 (3.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
7 2 (3.39%) Python Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (18.64%) React
1 11 (18.64%) REST
2 9 (15.25%) Node.js
3 8 (13.56%) OAuth
4 7 (11.86%) GraphQL
5 6 (10.17%) AngularJS
5 6 (10.17%) Spring Boot
6 5 (8.47%) FastAPI
7 4 (6.78%) JWT
7 4 (6.78%) LangGraph
8 3 (5.08%) .NET
8 3 (5.08%) CSS
8 3 (5.08%) HTML
8 3 (5.08%) HTML5
8 3 (5.08%) LangChain
8 3 (5.08%) Next.js
9 2 (3.39%) CSS3
9 2 (3.39%) OAuth2
9 2 (3.39%) SQLAlchemy
9 2 (3.39%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.78%) AI Agents
2 3 (5.08%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (5.08%) IVR
2 3 (5.08%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.39%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.39%) Life Science
3 2 (3.39%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.39%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.69%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.69%) Equities
4 1 (1.69%) Genomics
4 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.69%) Replication
4 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.39%) Android
1 2 (3.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) CI/CD
2 34 (57.63%) DevOps
3 19 (32.20%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (30.51%) AI
5 14 (23.73%) Agile
5 14 (23.73%) Containerisation
6 13 (22.03%) Full-Stack Development
6 13 (22.03%) Microservices
7 11 (18.64%) Test Automation
8 9 (15.25%) Generative AI
8 9 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (13.56%) High Availability
9 8 (13.56%) TDD
10 7 (11.86%) Data Governance
10 7 (11.86%) DevSecOps
10 7 (11.86%) LLM
10 7 (11.86%) Observability
11 6 (10.17%) Infrastructure Automation
11 6 (10.17%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (10.17%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (40.68%) Python
2 14 (23.73%) TypeScript
3 11 (18.64%) Java
4 9 (15.25%) SQL
5 6 (10.17%) C#
6 5 (8.47%) Bash
6 5 (8.47%) JavaScript
7 4 (6.78%) Go
8 3 (5.08%) Bicep
9 2 (3.39%) PowerShell
9 2 (3.39%) PromQL
10 1 (1.69%) CodeQL
10 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.69%) PHP
10 1 (1.69%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) SC Cleared
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.39%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.69%) Degree
3 1 (1.69%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.08%) EU AI Act
3 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.08%) NIST
4 2 (3.39%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (3.39%) QA
5 1 (1.69%) MiFID
5 1 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.69%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (27.12%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (49.15%) Terraform
2 15 (25.42%) Kubernetes
3 9 (15.25%) Ansible
4 6 (10.17%) Grafana
4 6 (10.17%) Prometheus
5 5 (8.47%) Istio
5 5 (8.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.64%) Google
3 6 (10.17%) Databricks
4 5 (8.47%) OpenAI
4 5 (8.47%) Splunk
5 3 (5.08%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.39%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.69%) Oracle
7 1 (1.69%) Solace
7 1 (1.69%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.69%) Tenable