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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 80 85
Rank change year-on-year +17 +5 -8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 82 44 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.59% 2.46% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.72% 6.09% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 22 22
10th Percentile £440 £337 £428
25th Percentile £463 £416 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £513 £606
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -15.46% -6.37%
75th Percentile £638 £665 £686
90th Percentile £725 £721 £766
Central London median daily rate £547 £495 £558
% change year-on-year +10.51% -11.29% -13.49%

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 940 722 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.12% 40.40% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 487 560
10th Percentile £363 £332 £400
25th Percentile £458 £435 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £658 £668 £675
90th Percentile £750 £758 £768
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £560
% change year-on-year - -1.79% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 3
10th Percentile £19.45 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.08% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £41.25 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -4.41% +9.68% +2.48%

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 9 September 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 (6.10%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (6.10%) Confluence
2 4 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.22%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.10%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 43 (52.44%) GitHub Actions
2 39 (47.56%) AWS
2 39 (47.56%) Azure
3 20 (24.39%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (18.29%) Serverless
5 14 (17.07%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (14.63%) Amazon S3
7 11 (13.41%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (12.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (10.98%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (10.98%) Power Platform
10 8 (9.76%) Azure AKS
10 8 (9.76%) GCP
11 7 (8.54%) Amazon Kinesis
11 7 (8.54%) dbt
12 6 (7.32%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (7.32%) Power Automate
12 6 (7.32%) PowerApps
12 6 (7.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.10%) DNS
2 4 (4.88%) VPN
3 3 (3.66%) Firewall
4 2 (2.44%) DHCP
4 2 (2.44%) Network Security
5 1 (1.22%) BGP
5 1 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.22%) INAP
5 1 (1.22%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.22%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.22%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.22%) RTP
5 1 (1.22%) SSH
5 1 (1.22%) TACACS
5 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.22%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.22%) VoIP
5 1 (1.22%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.22%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.20%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.76%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (9.76%) DynamoDB
2 8 (9.76%) Power BI
3 6 (7.32%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.32%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.10%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 3 (3.66%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (2.44%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (2.44%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.22%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.22%) Metadata
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (23.17%) Git
2 16 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.07%) GitLab
4 10 (12.20%) JIRA
5 6 (7.32%) Bitbucket
5 6 (7.32%) JUnit
6 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.10%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.10%) Postman
6 5 (6.10%) Selenium
7 4 (4.88%) Mockito
8 3 (3.66%) Claude Code
8 3 (3.66%) Gradle
8 3 (3.66%) Maven
9 2 (2.44%) Appium
9 2 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.44%) JMeter
9 2 (2.44%) Newman
9 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
10 1 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 33 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.49%) Finance
3 12 (14.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (13.41%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.54%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Back Office
8 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.44%) Front Office
9 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Advertising
10 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.22%) Law
10 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Retail
10 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Developer
1 19 (23.17%) Senior
2 14 (17.07%) Architect
3 10 (12.20%) Senior Developer
4 8 (9.76%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Data Engineer
5 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.54%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) AWS Data Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
6 5 (6.10%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Azure Architect
8 3 (3.66%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.66%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (45.12%) Terraform
2 14 (17.07%) Spring
2 14 (17.07%) Spring Boot
3 12 (14.63%) Kafka
3 12 (14.63%) REST
4 11 (13.41%) RESTful
5 8 (9.76%) React
6 7 (8.54%) .NET
7 6 (7.32%) HTML
8 5 (6.10%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.10%) Playwright
8 5 (6.10%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (6.10%) YAML
9 4 (4.88%) ActiveMQ
9 4 (4.88%) FastAPI
9 4 (4.88%) Gherkin
9 4 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (4.88%) SOAP
10 3 (3.66%) CSS
10 3 (3.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.59%) Cloud Native
2 16 (19.51%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.10%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.10%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.66%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.44%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.44%) Genomics
5 2 (2.44%) Life Science
5 2 (2.44%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.22%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.22%) Equities
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) Media Streaming
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
6 1 (1.22%) PropTech
6 1 (1.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.32%) Windows
2 4 (4.88%) Linux
2 4 (4.88%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (1.22%) Android
4 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.22%) CentOS
4 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (81.71%) CI/CD
2 48 (58.54%) DevOps
3 40 (48.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (43.90%) Test Automation
5 33 (40.24%) Agile
6 27 (32.93%) Containerisation
7 25 (30.49%) Observability
8 21 (25.61%) Microservices
9 20 (24.39%) Event-Driven
10 19 (23.17%) AI
11 18 (21.95%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (21.95%) Data Modelling
11 18 (21.95%) Software Engineering
12 15 (18.29%) Platform Engineering
13 14 (17.07%) Full-Stack Development
13 14 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (13.41%) Analytics
14 11 (13.41%) API Design
14 11 (13.41%) Problem-Solving
14 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 34 (41.46%) Python
2 26 (31.71%) Java
3 20 (24.39%) SQL
4 14 (17.07%) C#
5 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.41%) TypeScript
6 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
7 6 (7.32%) Bicep
8 5 (6.10%) Ruby
9 3 (3.66%) Bash
10 2 (2.44%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 26 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.88%) Degree
4 3 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.44%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.44%) PMP
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.22%) MOS
6 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) QA
2 7 (8.54%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (30.49%) Docker
2 4 (4.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (32.93%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.20%) Grafana
3 8 (9.76%) Prometheus
4 4 (4.88%) Ansible
5 1 (1.22%) Bosun
5 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.22%) Packer
5 1 (1.22%) SCCM
5 1 (1.22%) SELinux
5 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.54%) Oracle
3 4 (4.88%) Google
3 4 (4.88%) ServiceNow
3 4 (4.88%) Splunk
3 4 (4.88%) VMware
4 3 (3.66%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.66%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.66%) OpenAI
5 2 (2.44%) Databricks
5 2 (2.44%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco
6 1 (1.22%) Dialogic
6 1 (1.22%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) Metaswitch
6 1 (1.22%) New Relic
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Zscaler