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 29 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 69 82
Rank change year-on-year +16 +13 +6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 85 49 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.73% 2.79% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.42% 6.49% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 21 23
10th Percentile £357 £425 £381
25th Percentile £453 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £570 £551
Median % change year-on-year -6.80% +3.45% -15.23%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £689
90th Percentile £693 £660 £762
Central London median daily rate £550 £558 £551
% change year-on-year -1.35% +1.27% -14.98%
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 902 755 858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.54% 42.92% 38.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 483 606
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £675
90th Percentile £750 £748 £763
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.37% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 8
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £17.39
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £32.81
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £57.30
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.68% +54.78% -72.73%

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 29 April 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 (3.53%) Confluence
1 3 (3.53%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.35%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.35%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.00%) Azure
2 42 (49.41%) AWS
3 39 (45.88%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (24.71%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (20.00%) Serverless
6 13 (15.29%) Azure AKS
7 12 (14.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 12 (14.12%) GCP
8 11 (12.94%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (12.94%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (11.76%) Amazon S3
9 10 (11.76%) Power Platform
10 7 (8.24%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (8.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (8.24%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (7.06%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (7.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (7.06%) Entra ID
12 5 (5.88%) Azure Functions
13 4 (4.71%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.71%) Firewall
2 3 (3.53%) DNS
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
3 1 (1.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (16.47%) NoSQL
2 11 (12.94%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (11.76%) DynamoDB
4 8 (9.41%) MongoDB
5 7 (8.24%) SQL Server
6 6 (7.06%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (7.06%) Power BI
7 5 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
8 4 (4.71%) DB2
9 3 (3.53%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.35%) Hazelcast
10 2 (2.35%) Metadata
10 2 (2.35%) MySQL
10 2 (2.35%) Redis
10 2 (2.35%) Tick Data
11 1 (1.18%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.18%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 22 (25.88%) Git
2 19 (22.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.41%) GitLab
3 8 (9.41%) JIRA
4 6 (7.06%) JUnit
5 5 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.88%) Maven
5 5 (5.88%) Mockito
6 4 (4.71%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.71%) Postman
7 3 (3.53%) Gradle
7 3 (3.53%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.35%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.35%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.35%) Gatling
8 2 (2.35%) Mocha
8 2 (2.35%) Selenium
8 2 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.35%) webpack
General
1 20 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 18 (21.18%) Finance
3 8 (9.41%) Banking
4 6 (7.06%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Advertising
7 2 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.35%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.35%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.18%) Front Office
8 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (22.35%) Developer
2 13 (15.29%) Senior
3 12 (14.12%) Architect
3 12 (14.12%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.76%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.24%) Senior Developer
6 6 (7.06%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.06%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.71%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.53%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) AWS Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.53%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.53%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.18%) Spring
2 14 (16.47%) React
2 14 (16.47%) Spring Boot
3 11 (12.94%) Kafka
4 9 (10.59%) REST
5 7 (8.24%) .NET
5 7 (8.24%) AngularJS
5 7 (8.24%) Node.js
6 6 (7.06%) OpenTelemetry
6 6 (7.06%) Playwright
6 6 (7.06%) RESTful
7 5 (5.88%) OAuth
8 4 (4.71%) Next.js
8 4 (4.71%) PyTorch
8 4 (4.71%) TensorFlow
9 3 (3.53%) FastAPI
9 3 (3.53%) Jest
9 3 (3.53%) Keras
9 3 (3.53%) PySpark
9 3 (3.53%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (30.59%) Cloud Native
2 10 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.88%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.71%) NHS
5 3 (3.53%) Equities
5 3 (3.53%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.18%) Blog
7 1 (1.18%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.18%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.18%) Genomics
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.18%) Life Science
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) PKI
7 1 (1.18%) Replication
7 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.76%) Linux
2 4 (4.71%) Windows
3 3 (3.53%) Android
3 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.35%) Unix
5 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) CI/CD
2 50 (58.82%) DevOps
3 36 (42.35%) Infrastructure as Code
4 27 (31.76%) Agile
5 26 (30.59%) Containerisation
5 26 (30.59%) Observability
6 23 (27.06%) Test Automation
7 21 (24.71%) AI
8 19 (22.35%) Microservices
9 16 (18.82%) Migration
10 15 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (16.47%) Software Engineering
12 12 (14.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 12 (14.12%) Performance Tuning
13 11 (12.94%) Analytics
13 11 (12.94%) Event-Driven
13 11 (12.94%) TDD
14 10 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
15 8 (9.41%) Machine Learning
16 7 (8.24%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 38 (44.71%) Python
2 30 (35.29%) Java
3 23 (27.06%) SQL
4 11 (12.94%) JavaScript
5 10 (11.76%) TypeScript
6 9 (10.59%) C#
7 6 (7.06%) Bicep
8 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.53%) Ruby
9 2 (2.35%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.35%) Bash
9 2 (2.35%) Go
9 2 (2.35%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.18%) C
10 1 (1.18%) C++
10 1 (1.18%) ProC
10 1 (1.18%) Scala
10 1 (1.18%) VB
10 1 (1.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 25 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.41%) Degree
3 7 (8.24%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.53%) PhD
6 1 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.18%) CCSP
6 1 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.18%) CISSP
6 1 (1.18%) OSCP
6 1 (1.18%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.24%) QA
2 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
2 2 (2.35%) ISO 20022
2 2 (2.35%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.35%) PSD2
2 2 (2.35%) SEPA
3 1 (1.18%) GRC
3 1 (1.18%) NCSC
3 1 (1.18%) NIST
3 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 30 (35.29%) Docker
2 5 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (47.06%) Terraform
2 36 (42.35%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.41%) Grafana
4 7 (8.24%) Prometheus
5 6 (7.06%) Ansible
6 3 (3.53%) Argo
7 2 (2.35%) Istio
8 1 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.18%) Kibana
Vendors
1 15 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) Oracle
3 5 (5.88%) Databricks
3 5 (5.88%) Google
4 4 (4.71%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.53%) Foundry
5 3 (3.53%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.53%) Palantir
6 2 (2.35%) Confluent
6 2 (2.35%) IBM
6 2 (2.35%) SAP
6 2 (2.35%) Solace
6 2 (2.35%) Splunk
7 1 (1.18%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.18%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.18%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.18%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.18%) Sybase
7 1 (1.18%) VMware