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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 79 85
Rank change year-on-year +19 +6 -14
Contract jobs citing GitHub 83 47 40
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.48% 2.51% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.83% 6.00% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 24 22
10th Percentile £404 £352 £425
25th Percentile £461 £450 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £583
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -9.87% -8.27%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £716
90th Percentile £689 £673 £766
Central London median daily rate £555 £500 £551
% change year-on-year +10.90% -9.21% -11.88%

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 940 783 855
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.40% 41.74% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 647 512 595
10th Percentile £350 £363 £375
25th Percentile £463 £455 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £654 £670 £673
90th Percentile £750 £763 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 3
10th Percentile £19.48 £24.02 -
25th Percentile £22.67 £25.18 -
Median hourly rate £33.75 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.51% +42.87% -36.47%
75th Percentile £63.68 £63.37 £59.75
90th Percentile £75.18 £96.63 £79.40
Central London median hourly rate £37.50 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% +28.33% -22.86%

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 29 July 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 (4.82%) Confluence
1 4 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
3 1 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.20%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 41 (49.40%) AWS
1 41 (49.40%) Azure
2 40 (48.19%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (22.89%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (18.07%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (16.87%) Serverless
6 12 (14.46%) Power Platform
7 11 (13.25%) Amazon S3
8 10 (12.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 10 (12.05%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (10.84%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (9.64%) Azure AKS
10 8 (9.64%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (7.23%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (7.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 6 (7.23%) Power Automate
11 6 (7.23%) PowerApps
12 5 (6.02%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (6.02%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.02%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.82%) DNS
1 4 (4.82%) VPN
2 3 (3.61%) Firewall
3 2 (2.41%) Network Security
4 1 (1.20%) DHCP
4 1 (1.20%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.20%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.20%) SSH
4 1 (1.20%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.66%) NoSQL
2 11 (13.25%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.05%) Amazon RDS
3 10 (12.05%) DynamoDB
4 9 (10.84%) MongoDB
4 9 (10.84%) Power BI
5 8 (9.64%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.82%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.82%) Db2
6 4 (4.82%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.20%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.20%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.20%) Metadata
8 1 (1.20%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (25.30%) Git
2 15 (18.07%) Jenkins
3 13 (15.66%) GitLab
4 10 (12.05%) JIRA
5 8 (9.64%) JUnit
6 6 (7.23%) Cypress.io
6 6 (7.23%) Mockito
7 5 (6.02%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.82%) Postman
8 4 (4.82%) Selenium
9 3 (3.61%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.61%) Gradle
9 3 (3.61%) Maven
9 3 (3.61%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.41%) Appium
10 2 (2.41%) CircleCI
10 2 (2.41%) Claude Code
10 2 (2.41%) Mocha
10 2 (2.41%) webpack
11 1 (1.20%) Gatling
General
1 30 (36.14%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.12%) Finance
3 11 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.84%) Banking
5 8 (9.64%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.61%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Advertising
8 2 (2.41%) Back Office
8 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Front Office
9 1 (1.20%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.20%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.20%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (22.89%) Developer
2 16 (19.28%) Senior
3 14 (16.87%) Architect
4 11 (13.25%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Java Developer
5 7 (8.43%) Technical Architect
6 6 (7.23%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (7.23%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Azure Architect
7 5 (6.02%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Junior
8 4 (4.82%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.82%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Power Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (20.48%) Spring
2 15 (18.07%) REST
2 15 (18.07%) Spring Boot
3 13 (15.66%) Kafka
4 12 (14.46%) React
5 10 (12.05%) RESTful
6 9 (10.84%) .NET
7 8 (9.64%) AngularJS
7 8 (9.64%) Playwright
8 5 (6.02%) Gherkin
8 5 (6.02%) Node.js
8 5 (6.02%) SOAP
8 5 (6.02%) YAML
9 4 (4.82%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.82%) Jest
9 4 (4.82%) OpenTelemetry
9 4 (4.82%) WireMock
10 3 (3.61%) Keras
10 3 (3.61%) PySpark
10 3 (3.61%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.14%) Cloud Native
2 17 (20.48%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.82%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.61%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.61%) NHS
4 3 (3.61%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (2.41%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.20%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Equities
6 1 (1.20%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.20%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.20%) Genomics
6 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) IoT
6 1 (1.20%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.23%) Windows
2 5 (6.02%) Linux
3 4 (4.82%) Android
3 4 (4.82%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.61%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (74.70%) CI/CD
2 46 (55.42%) DevOps
3 36 (43.37%) Agile
3 36 (43.37%) Infrastructure as Code
4 30 (36.14%) Test Automation
5 27 (32.53%) Containerisation
5 27 (32.53%) Observability
6 24 (28.92%) AI
7 23 (27.71%) Microservices
8 21 (25.30%) Software Engineering
9 19 (22.89%) Event-Driven
10 15 (18.07%) Full-Stack Development
10 15 (18.07%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (16.87%) Data Modelling
11 14 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (14.46%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 11 (13.25%) API Design
13 11 (13.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (13.25%) Migration
13 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 29 (34.94%) Python
2 26 (31.33%) Java
3 20 (24.10%) SQL
4 15 (18.07%) C#
5 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.05%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.23%) Bicep
7 6 (7.23%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.02%) Ruby
9 2 (2.41%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.41%) Bash
9 2 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.41%) Go
10 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (27.71%) SC Cleared
1 23 (27.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.64%) Degree
3 4 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (4.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.61%) PhD
5 2 (2.41%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (15.66%) QA
2 5 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.41%) WCAG
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (30.12%) Docker
2 5 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 34 (40.96%) Terraform
2 31 (37.35%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.84%) Grafana
4 7 (8.43%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.61%) Ansible
6 1 (1.20%) Bosun
6 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.20%) SCCM
6 1 (1.20%) SELinux
6 1 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (19.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.43%) Oracle
3 4 (4.82%) Splunk
4 3 (3.61%) AppDynamics
4 3 (3.61%) Databricks
4 3 (3.61%) Dynatrace
4 3 (3.61%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.61%) VMware
5 2 (2.41%) IBM
5 2 (2.41%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.20%) Foundry
6 1 (1.20%) Google
6 1 (1.20%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.20%) New Relic
6 1 (1.20%) Palantir
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.20%) SAP
6 1 (1.20%) Sybase
6 1 (1.20%) Zscaler