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 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 75 87
Rank change year-on-year +24 +12 +18
Contract jobs citing GitHub 79 41 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.32% 2.09% 2.09%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.37% 5.37% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 18 33
10th Percentile £343 £461 £409
25th Percentile £413 £515 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £606 £615
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% -1.42% -5.38%
75th Percentile £669 £697 £675
90th Percentile £825 £741 £717
Central London median daily rate £550 £606 £615
% change year-on-year -9.28% -1.42% -5.38%

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 762 764 969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.66% 38.88% 39.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 570 487 704
10th Percentile £331 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £755 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 8
10th Percentile £25.49 - -
25th Percentile £32.50 £77.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.50 £85.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.35% +309.64% +3.75%
75th Percentile £41.94 £92.50 £40.69
90th Percentile £45.28 - £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -27.23% +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 4 January 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 5 (6.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.27%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.70%) Azure
2 43 (54.43%) GitHub Actions
3 31 (39.24%) AWS
4 21 (26.58%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (18.99%) GCP
6 14 (17.72%) Serverless
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon ECS
7 11 (13.92%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.92%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (12.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (11.39%) Azure AKS
10 7 (8.86%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (8.86%) Cloud Run
11 6 (7.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (7.59%) Azure Key Vault
11 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
12 5 (6.33%) Amazon ECR
12 5 (6.33%) Apigee
12 5 (6.33%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (6.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) DNS
3 1 (1.27%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.33%) DynamoDB
1 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.06%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (3.80%) MySQL
3 3 (3.80%) Redis
3 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.53%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.53%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.53%) Tick Data
5 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.27%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.27%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.27%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (22.78%) Git
2 16 (20.25%) Jenkins
3 9 (11.39%) Bitbucket
4 6 (7.59%) JIRA
5 5 (6.33%) GitLab
6 4 (5.06%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.80%) Maven
7 3 (3.80%) Snyk
7 3 (3.80%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (2.53%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.53%) Gatling
8 2 (2.53%) Gradle
9 1 (1.27%) CircleCI
9 1 (1.27%) gulp
9 1 (1.27%) Postman
9 1 (1.27%) Storybook
9 1 (1.27%) Terragrunt
9 1 (1.27%) TestRail
9 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 19 (24.05%) Finance
2 10 (12.66%) Social Skills
3 7 (8.86%) Banking
4 5 (6.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.80%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.27%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Retail
7 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Developer
2 14 (17.72%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.46%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Angular Developer
6 6 (7.59%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.06%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Architect
9 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.25%) React
2 14 (17.72%) REST
3 12 (15.19%) OAuth
4 11 (13.92%) Spring Boot
5 9 (11.39%) AngularJS
5 9 (11.39%) Node.js
6 7 (8.86%) FastAPI
6 7 (8.86%) Spring
7 6 (7.59%) JWT
8 5 (6.33%) .NET
8 5 (6.33%) GraphQL
8 5 (6.33%) LangChain
8 5 (6.33%) Next.js
9 4 (5.06%) CSS
9 4 (5.06%) HTML
9 4 (5.06%) LangGraph
9 4 (5.06%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.80%) HTML5
10 3 (3.80%) Kafka
10 3 (3.80%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.86%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.53%) Equities
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.53%) Life Science
5 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.53%) Replication
5 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.27%) Genomics
6 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.59%) Linux
2 2 (2.53%) Android
2 2 (2.53%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (64.56%) CI/CD
2 46 (58.23%) DevOps
3 31 (39.24%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (30.38%) AI
5 21 (26.58%) Agile
6 19 (24.05%) Containerisation
7 18 (22.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 18 (22.78%) Microservices
7 18 (22.78%) Test Automation
8 15 (18.99%) Migration
9 14 (17.72%) Observability
10 13 (16.46%) TDD
11 12 (15.19%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (13.92%) Generative AI
13 10 (12.66%) DevSecOps
14 9 (11.39%) LLM
15 8 (10.13%) Analytics
16 7 (8.86%) Data Governance
16 7 (8.86%) Kanban
16 7 (8.86%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (46.84%) Python
2 24 (30.38%) Java
3 17 (21.52%) SQL
4 16 (20.25%) TypeScript
5 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.33%) C#
7 4 (5.06%) Bicep
8 3 (3.80%) Bash
9 2 (2.53%) Go
9 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.27%) C
10 1 (1.27%) C++
10 1 (1.27%) PHP
10 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.27%) ProC
10 1 (1.27%) Ruby
10 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.27%) VB
10 1 (1.27%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (27.85%) SC Cleared
1 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.80%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.53%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CCSP
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) CISSP
4 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.27%) MCP
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.27%) OSCP
4 1 (1.27%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.06%) NIST
2 4 (5.06%) QA
3 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.80%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.53%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.53%) PSD2
4 2 (2.53%) SEPA
5 1 (1.27%) GRC
5 1 (1.27%) MiFID
5 1 (1.27%) NCSC
5 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.27%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (34.18%) Docker
2 2 (2.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (48.10%) Terraform
2 21 (26.58%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.92%) Ansible
4 5 (6.33%) Grafana
4 5 (6.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.06%) Istio
6 3 (3.80%) Argo
7 2 (2.53%) Puppet
8 1 (1.27%) Kibana
Vendors
1 17 (21.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Google
3 7 (8.86%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Databricks
5 2 (2.53%) Atlassian
5 2 (2.53%) Confluent
5 2 (2.53%) Solace
6 1 (1.27%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.27%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.27%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.27%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.27%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.27%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.27%) Splunk
6 1 (1.27%) Tenable
6 1 (1.27%) Workday