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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 78 84
Rank change year-on-year +17 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 80 45 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.42% 2.68% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.88% 6.23% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 20
10th Percentile £361 £414 £424
25th Percentile £451 £480 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £595
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -7.56% -7.75%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £688
90th Percentile £698 £669 £741
Central London median daily rate £544 £538 £558
% change year-on-year +1.21% -3.67% -12.13%
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 901 722 862
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.54% 42.93% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 626 462 597
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £453 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £656
90th Percentile £750 £751 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £535
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £23.03 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £51.44 £31.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.91% +40.33% -72.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.50 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £108.75 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +80.49% +26.67% -66.67%

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 3 June 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 (3.75%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.50%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.25%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (55.00%) Azure
2 40 (50.00%) AWS
3 37 (46.25%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (26.25%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (17.50%) Serverless
6 12 (15.00%) GitHub Copilot
6 12 (15.00%) Power Platform
7 10 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 9 (11.25%) Amazon S3
8 9 (11.25%) Azure AKS
9 8 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (10.00%) GCP
10 7 (8.75%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (8.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (8.75%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.25%) Azure Functions
13 4 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
13 4 (5.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.00%) NoSQL
1 12 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (11.25%) DynamoDB
3 8 (10.00%) Power BI
4 7 (8.75%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (8.75%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.50%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (7.50%) SQL Server
6 4 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.00%) DB2
7 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.50%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.50%) Metadata
8 2 (2.50%) Redis
9 1 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
9 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.25%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.25%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 20 (25.00%) Git
2 19 (23.75%) Jenkins
3 12 (15.00%) GitLab
4 10 (12.50%) JIRA
5 6 (7.50%) JUnit
6 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 5 (6.25%) Mockito
6 5 (6.25%) Postman
7 4 (5.00%) Maven
8 3 (3.75%) Gatling
8 3 (3.75%) Gradle
8 3 (3.75%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.50%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.50%) Mocha
9 2 (2.50%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.50%) Selenium
9 2 (2.50%) webpack
10 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
General
1 23 (28.75%) Finance
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Banking
3 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.50%) Advertising
5 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Front Office
6 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.25%) Law
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (25.00%) Developer
2 13 (16.25%) Senior
3 12 (15.00%) Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Azure Architect
7 5 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Junior
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.75%) Python Engineer
10 2 (2.50%) React Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) Spring
2 14 (17.50%) Kafka
2 14 (17.50%) React
2 14 (17.50%) Spring Boot
3 10 (12.50%) REST
4 9 (11.25%) .NET
5 7 (8.75%) Playwright
5 7 (8.75%) RESTful
6 6 (7.50%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
7 5 (6.25%) Gherkin
7 5 (6.25%) Node.js
7 5 (6.25%) PySpark
7 5 (6.25%) YAML
8 4 (5.00%) Next.js
8 4 (5.00%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.00%) SOAP
8 4 (5.00%) TensorFlow
8 4 (5.00%) WireMock
9 3 (3.75%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (30.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.75%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (7.50%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.00%) NHS
5 2 (2.50%) Equities
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.25%) Blog
6 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.25%) Genomics
6 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.25%) IoT
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.00%) Windows
3 3 (3.75%) Android
3 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (66.25%) CI/CD
2 43 (53.75%) DevOps
3 33 (41.25%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (35.00%) Observability
5 26 (32.50%) Agile
5 26 (32.50%) Test Automation
6 25 (31.25%) Containerisation
7 23 (28.75%) AI
8 17 (21.25%) Microservices
9 16 (20.00%) Software Engineering
10 14 (17.50%) Event-Driven
10 14 (17.50%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (16.25%) Migration
11 13 (16.25%) Performance Tuning
12 11 (13.75%) Platform Engineering
12 11 (13.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 10 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (12.50%) TDD
14 9 (11.25%) Analytics
15 8 (10.00%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 34 (42.50%) Python
2 28 (35.00%) Java
3 23 (28.75%) SQL
4 13 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 12 (15.00%) C#
6 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
7 7 (8.75%) Bicep
8 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.75%) Ruby
10 2 (2.50%) Apex Code
10 2 (2.50%) Bash
10 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (2.50%) Go
10 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.25%) C
11 1 (1.25%) C++
11 1 (1.25%) ProC
11 1 (1.25%) Scala
11 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (23.75%) SC Cleared
1 19 (23.75%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) Degree
3 7 (8.75%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) PhD
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.00%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.50%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.50%) PSD2
3 2 (2.50%) SEPA
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (33.75%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (42.50%) Terraform
2 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.00%) Grafana
4 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.00%) Ansible
6 3 (3.75%) Argo
7 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.50%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 4 (5.00%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 3 (3.75%) Palantir
6 2 (2.50%) Confluent
6 2 (2.50%) Google
6 2 (2.50%) IBM
6 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 2 (2.50%) Splunk
7 1 (1.25%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.25%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.25%) Solace
7 1 (1.25%) Sybase
7 1 (1.25%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) Workday