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 26 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 74 83
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 82 49 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.53% 2.72% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.81% 6.61% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 26 21
10th Percentile £452 £362 £425
25th Percentile £481 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -10.42% -6.98%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £690
90th Percentile £725 £706 £768
Central London median daily rate £541 £500 £551
% change year-on-year +8.15% -9.26% -14.57%

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 931 741 835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.13% 41.08% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 495 573
10th Percentile £371 £336 £383
25th Percentile £460 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year - -0.09% -4.26%
75th Percentile £656 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £759 £767
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 12 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £23.84 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £26.23 -
Median hourly rate £27.00 £34.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.34% +27.13% -10.74%
75th Percentile £59.06 £58.96 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £86.43 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £35.00 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +2.94% +25.93% -10.74%

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 26 August 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
1 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.22%) Apache Spark
2 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 42 (51.22%) GitHub Actions
2 40 (48.78%) Azure
3 38 (46.34%) AWS
4 21 (25.61%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.07%) Serverless
6 13 (15.85%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (13.41%) Amazon S3
8 10 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (12.20%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (12.20%) Power Platform
9 9 (10.98%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (10.98%) Azure AKS
10 8 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.76%) GCP
11 7 (8.54%) dbt
11 7 (8.54%) Power Automate
11 7 (8.54%) PowerApps
12 6 (7.32%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (7.32%) Snowflake
13 5 (6.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) DNS
1 4 (4.88%) VPN
2 3 (3.66%) Firewall
3 2 (2.44%) Network Security
4 1 (1.22%) BGP
4 1 (1.22%) DHCP
4 1 (1.22%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.22%) NX-OS
4 1 (1.22%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.22%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.22%) SSH
4 1 (1.22%) TACACS
4 1 (1.22%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.22%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) Amazon RDS
1 9 (10.98%) Power BI
2 8 (9.76%) DynamoDB
2 8 (9.76%) NoSQL
3 7 (8.54%) Amazon Athena
3 7 (8.54%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (7.32%) MongoDB
5 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.88%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
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%) Metadata
8 1 (1.22%) Redis
8 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 20 (24.39%) Git
2 16 (19.51%) Jenkins
3 13 (15.85%) GitLab
4 9 (10.98%) JIRA
5 7 (8.54%) JUnit
6 5 (6.10%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.10%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.10%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.10%) Mockito
6 5 (6.10%) Postman
6 5 (6.10%) Selenium
7 3 (3.66%) Gradle
7 3 (3.66%) Maven
8 2 (2.44%) Appium
8 2 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.44%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.44%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.22%) git-flow
9 1 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
9 1 (1.22%) webpack
General
1 33 (40.24%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.49%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.54%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Back Office
7 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.22%) Advertising
9 1 (1.22%) Front Office
9 1 (1.22%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.22%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.22%) Law
9 1 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Developer
2 17 (20.73%) Senior
3 14 (17.07%) Architect
4 10 (12.20%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.76%) Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Automation Engineer
6 7 (8.54%) Java Developer
7 6 (7.32%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Data Engineer
7 6 (7.32%) Technical Architect
8 5 (6.10%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.10%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.10%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) AWS Data Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Azure Architect
9 4 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Junior
9 4 (4.88%) Power Platform Engineer
9 4 (4.88%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (43.90%) Terraform
2 15 (18.29%) Spring
3 14 (17.07%) Spring Boot
4 13 (15.85%) REST
5 12 (14.63%) Kafka
6 11 (13.41%) RESTful
7 9 (10.98%) React
8 7 (8.54%) .NET
9 6 (7.32%) AngularJS
9 6 (7.32%) HTML
10 5 (6.10%) Playwright
10 5 (6.10%) YAML
11 4 (4.88%) FastAPI
11 4 (4.88%) Gherkin
11 4 (4.88%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (4.88%) SOAP
12 3 (3.66%) ActiveMQ
12 3 (3.66%) CSS
12 3 (3.66%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (35.37%) 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%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.22%) Equities
6 1 (1.22%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.22%) NHS
6 1 (1.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 3 (3.66%) Linux
2 3 (3.66%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.44%) Unix
4 1 (1.22%) Android
4 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (81.71%) CI/CD
2 48 (58.54%) DevOps
3 39 (47.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 36 (43.90%) Agile
5 35 (42.68%) Test Automation
6 26 (31.71%) Containerisation
6 26 (31.71%) Observability
7 22 (26.83%) Microservices
8 21 (25.61%) Software Engineering
9 20 (24.39%) AI
10 18 (21.95%) Event-Driven
11 17 (20.73%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (20.73%) Data Modelling
12 16 (19.51%) Platform Engineering
13 15 (18.29%) Full-Stack Development
14 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
15 12 (14.63%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (13.41%) API Design
16 11 (13.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
17 10 (12.20%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.02%) Python
2 27 (32.93%) Java
3 21 (25.61%) SQL
4 14 (17.07%) C#
5 12 (14.63%) TypeScript
6 11 (13.41%) JavaScript
7 8 (9.76%) PowerShell
8 6 (7.32%) Bicep
9 5 (6.10%) Ruby
10 3 (3.66%) Bash
11 2 (2.44%) Apex Code
11 2 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (1.22%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (32.93%) Security Cleared
2 26 (31.71%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.10%) Degree
4 4 (4.88%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.85%) QA
2 6 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (30.49%) Docker
2 5 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (34.15%) 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 19 (23.17%) 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%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.22%) IBM
6 1 (1.22%) New Relic
6 1 (1.22%) SAP
6 1 (1.22%) Zscaler