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 8 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 77 89
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -5
Contract jobs citing GitHub 81 47 38
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.78% 2.73% 1.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.09% 6.80% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 25 20
10th Percentile £385 £344 £425
25th Percentile £460 £400 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £633
Median % change year-on-year - -17.00% -0.20%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £726 £814 £769
Central London median daily rate £535 £495 £606
% change year-on-year +8.08% -18.35% -4.34%

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 891 691 831
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.56% 40.08% 39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 492 541
10th Percentile £350 £341 £396
25th Percentile £455 £448 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £660 £668 £675
90th Percentile £763 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 3
10th Percentile £17.40 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.16 £34.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.88% +25.93% +30.12%
75th Percentile £31.00 £56.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £46.00 £70.21 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £34.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.59% -2.86% +68.67%

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 8 October 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 4 (4.94%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (4.94%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.23%) IIS
3 1 (1.23%) MQSeries
3 1 (1.23%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 45 (55.56%) GitHub Actions
2 44 (54.32%) Azure
3 38 (46.91%) AWS
4 20 (24.69%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (22.22%) Serverless
6 14 (17.28%) GCP
7 12 (14.81%) Amazon S3
8 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (12.35%) Amazon EC2
9 10 (12.35%) GitHub Copilot
10 9 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
10 9 (11.11%) Azure AKS
10 9 (11.11%) Power Platform
11 8 (9.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 6 (7.41%) Amazon EventBridge
12 6 (7.41%) Amazon Kinesis
12 6 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (7.41%) AWS Step Functions
12 6 (7.41%) Azure Functions
12 6 (7.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.17%) DNS
2 4 (4.94%) VPN
3 3 (3.70%) Firewall
4 2 (2.47%) DHCP
4 2 (2.47%) Network Security
5 1 (1.23%) BGP
5 1 (1.23%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (1.23%) INAP
5 1 (1.23%) Intelligent Network
5 1 (1.23%) NX-OS
5 1 (1.23%) OpenVPN
5 1 (1.23%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (1.23%) RTP
5 1 (1.23%) SSH
5 1 (1.23%) TACACS
5 1 (1.23%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.23%) tcpdump
5 1 (1.23%) VoIP
5 1 (1.23%) VXLAN
5 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) Amazon RDS
2 8 (9.88%) Amazon Athena
2 8 (9.88%) Power BI
3 6 (7.41%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.41%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.70%) DynamoDB
5 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.47%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.47%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.47%) Tableau
7 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.23%) Big Data
7 1 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.23%) Parquet
7 1 (1.23%) Power Query
7 1 (1.23%) Redis
7 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 19 (23.46%) Jenkins
2 16 (19.75%) GitLab
3 14 (17.28%) Git
4 10 (12.35%) JIRA
5 8 (9.88%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.41%) Selenium
7 5 (6.17%) Cucumber
7 5 (6.17%) JUnit
7 5 (6.17%) Postman
8 3 (3.70%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.70%) JMeter
8 3 (3.70%) Mockito
9 2 (2.47%) Appium
9 2 (2.47%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.47%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.47%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.47%) Gatling
9 2 (2.47%) Newman
9 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
General
1 30 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 28 (34.57%) Finance
3 13 (16.05%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.05%) Banking
4 6 (7.41%) Back Office
4 6 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Front Office
7 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.23%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Marketing
8 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Senior
2 14 (17.28%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Architect
4 10 (12.35%) Automation Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
5 9 (11.11%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Senior Developer
7 6 (7.41%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) AWS Data Engineer
7 6 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (6.17%) Senior Data Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.94%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Junior
10 3 (3.70%) Security Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Software Engineer
10 3 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (49.38%) Terraform
2 16 (19.75%) REST
3 12 (14.81%) Kafka
4 11 (13.58%) Spring
4 11 (13.58%) Spring Boot
5 9 (11.11%) RESTful
6 8 (9.88%) .NET
7 7 (8.64%) HTML
7 7 (8.64%) RabbitMQ
8 6 (7.41%) ActiveMQ
8 6 (7.41%) Middleware
8 6 (7.41%) React
9 5 (6.17%) AngularJS
9 5 (6.17%) FastAPI
9 5 (6.17%) Playwright
10 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
10 4 (4.94%) SOAP
10 4 (4.94%) YAML
11 3 (3.70%) CSS
11 3 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.86%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.58%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (9.88%) AI Agents
3 8 (9.88%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (4.94%) Product Ownership
6 3 (3.70%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.47%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (2.47%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.47%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.47%) Genomics
7 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.47%) Life Science
7 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.47%) PropTech
7 2 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
8 1 (1.23%) Client/Server
8 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Windows
2 6 (7.41%) Linux
3 5 (6.17%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.47%) Android
4 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.23%) CentOS
5 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (80.25%) CI/CD
2 46 (56.79%) DevOps
3 38 (46.91%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (35.80%) Agile
4 29 (35.80%) Test Automation
5 23 (28.40%) Containerisation
6 22 (27.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (25.93%) AI
8 20 (24.69%) Observability
9 18 (22.22%) Data Modelling
9 18 (22.22%) Event-Driven
9 18 (22.22%) Microservices
10 16 (19.75%) Software Engineering
10 16 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (17.28%) Event-Driven Architecture
11 14 (17.28%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (16.05%) Analytics
12 13 (16.05%) Platform Engineering
13 12 (14.81%) Full-Stack Development
14 11 (13.58%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 37 (45.68%) Python
2 23 (28.40%) SQL
3 21 (25.93%) Java
4 14 (17.28%) C#
5 12 (14.81%) PowerShell
6 9 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.17%) Bash
8 4 (4.94%) Bicep
9 3 (3.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.70%) Ruby
10 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.23%) C
11 1 (1.23%) CodeQL
11 1 (1.23%) Korn
11 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.23%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (30.86%) Security Cleared
2 24 (29.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.94%) AWS Certification
3 4 (4.94%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.47%) PMP
5 2 (2.47%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.23%) CISA
6 1 (1.23%) CompTIA CySA+
6 1 (1.23%) GSEC
6 1 (1.23%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.23%) MOS
6 1 (1.23%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) QA
2 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.23%) GDPR
4 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.23%) PSD2
4 1 (1.23%) SEPA
4 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 25 (30.86%) Docker
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (35.80%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.64%) Ansible
2 7 (8.64%) Grafana
3 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.23%) Bosun
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.23%) Packer
4 1 (1.23%) SCCM
4 1 (1.23%) SELinux
4 1 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 19 (23.46%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.41%) Google
3 5 (6.17%) Dynatrace
3 5 (6.17%) Oracle
3 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.94%) Databricks
4 4 (4.94%) IBM
4 4 (4.94%) OpenAI
4 4 (4.94%) Splunk
4 4 (4.94%) VMware
5 3 (3.70%) AppDynamics
6 2 (2.47%) New Relic
6 2 (2.47%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Dialogic
7 1 (1.23%) Foundry
7 1 (1.23%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.23%) Murex
7 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.23%) SAP