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

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +24 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing GitHub 76 44 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.15% 2.13% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.00% 5.46% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 18 35
10th Percentile £343 £461 £368
25th Percentile £413 £515 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £606 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% -1.42% -5.38%
75th Percentile £670 £697 £663
90th Percentile £831 £741 £709
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%

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 760 806 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.48% 38.97% 40.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 513 728
10th Percentile £325 £400 £361
25th Percentile £420 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £662 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £762 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 7
10th Percentile £27.53 - -
25th Percentile £32.25 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +347.37% -7.32%
75th Percentile £44.72 £92.50 £43.38
90th Percentile £51.20 - £58.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.74 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -15.04% +84.21% -7.32%

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 December 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 (6.58%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.32%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.32%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (53.95%) GitHub Actions
2 39 (51.32%) Azure
3 31 (40.79%) AWS
4 19 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (17.11%) GCP
5 13 (17.11%) Serverless
6 12 (15.79%) Amazon S3
6 12 (15.79%) AWS Lambda
7 11 (14.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (14.47%) Amazon ECS
8 7 (9.21%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (9.21%) Azure AKS
8 7 (9.21%) Cloud Run
9 6 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.89%) Power Platform
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (6.58%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (6.58%) Apigee
10 5 (6.58%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (6.58%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) Firewall
2 3 (3.95%) DNS
3 1 (1.32%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.32%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) DynamoDB
1 5 (6.58%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.95%) MySQL
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Tick Data
5 1 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.32%) CouchDB
5 1 (1.32%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.32%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.32%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.32%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.32%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.32%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (23.68%) Git
2 14 (18.42%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.84%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.89%) GitLab
4 6 (7.89%) JIRA
5 4 (5.26%) SonarQube
6 3 (3.95%) Maven
6 3 (3.95%) Snyk
6 3 (3.95%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.63%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.63%) Gradle
8 1 (1.32%) Ant
8 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.32%) JUnit
8 1 (1.32%) Mockito
8 1 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (1.32%) Selenium
8 1 (1.32%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.32%) Xcode
8 1 (1.32%) Zephyr
General
1 18 (23.68%) Finance
2 10 (13.16%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Banking
3 5 (6.58%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
4 3 (3.95%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.32%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.32%) Legal
6 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.32%) Retail
6 1 (1.32%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (27.63%) Developer
2 15 (19.74%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (14.47%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.84%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (11.84%) Senior
5 7 (9.21%) Angular Developer
6 6 (7.89%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.58%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps
8 4 (5.26%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.26%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.95%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.63%) Fidessa Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (18.42%) React
1 14 (18.42%) REST
2 10 (13.16%) OAuth
3 9 (11.84%) AngularJS
3 9 (11.84%) Node.js
3 9 (11.84%) Spring Boot
4 6 (7.89%) JWT
5 5 (6.58%) .NET
5 5 (6.58%) FastAPI
5 5 (6.58%) GraphQL
5 5 (6.58%) LangChain
5 5 (6.58%) Spring
6 4 (5.26%) CSS
6 4 (5.26%) HTML
6 4 (5.26%) LangGraph
7 3 (3.95%) HTML5
7 3 (3.95%) Next.js
7 3 (3.95%) Playwright
8 2 (2.63%) CSS3
8 2 (2.63%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.58%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.63%) Equities
4 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.63%) Life Science
4 2 (2.63%) Low-Code
4 2 (2.63%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.63%) Replication
4 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.32%) Genomics
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.89%) Linux
2 2 (2.63%) Android
2 2 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (64.47%) CI/CD
2 45 (59.21%) DevOps
3 27 (35.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (28.95%) Agile
4 22 (28.95%) AI
5 17 (22.37%) Containerisation
6 16 (21.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 16 (21.05%) Microservices
6 16 (21.05%) Test Automation
7 14 (18.42%) Migration
8 13 (17.11%) TDD
9 11 (14.47%) Generative AI
10 10 (13.16%) DevSecOps
10 10 (13.16%) Observability
10 10 (13.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (10.53%) Analytics
12 7 (9.21%) BDD
12 7 (9.21%) Data Governance
12 7 (9.21%) Kanban
12 7 (9.21%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.05%) Python
2 22 (28.95%) Java
3 14 (18.42%) TypeScript
4 13 (17.11%) SQL
5 6 (7.89%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.58%) C#
7 3 (3.95%) Bash
8 2 (2.63%) Bicep
8 2 (2.63%) Go
8 2 (2.63%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.32%) C
9 1 (1.32%) C++
9 1 (1.32%) PHP
9 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.32%) ProC
9 1 (1.32%) Ruby
9 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.32%) VB
9 1 (1.32%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (28.95%) SC Cleared
1 22 (28.95%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.95%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.63%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.32%) CCSP
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.32%) CISSP
4 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.32%) MCP
4 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.32%) OSCP
4 1 (1.32%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.89%) GDPR
2 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.26%) NIST
3 3 (3.95%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.95%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.63%) QA
5 1 (1.32%) GRC
5 1 (1.32%) MiFID
5 1 (1.32%) NCSC
5 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.32%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (32.89%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (46.05%) Terraform
2 19 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 10 (13.16%) Ansible
4 4 (5.26%) Istio
5 3 (3.95%) Grafana
5 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.63%) Puppet
7 1 (1.32%) Argo
7 1 (1.32%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.47%) Google
3 7 (9.21%) Oracle
4 5 (6.58%) OpenAI
5 4 (5.26%) Databricks
6 2 (2.63%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.63%) Solace
7 1 (1.32%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.32%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.32%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.32%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.32%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.32%) SAP
7 1 (1.32%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.32%) Splunk
7 1 (1.32%) Tenable
7 1 (1.32%) Workday