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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 72 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 +14 -4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 77 50 42
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.33% 2.88% 1.94%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.62% 6.70% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 23 21
10th Percentile £378 £433 £375
25th Percentile £458 £485 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £558 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -1.33% -12.74%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £685 £659 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.18% -14.57%
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 893 746 857
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.62% 42.97% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 471 601
10th Percentile £350 £370 £363
25th Percentile £450 £459 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% -9.24%
75th Percentile £650 £664 £665
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £20.51 £24.39 £12.75
25th Percentile £23.16 £24.66 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.50 £38.58 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% +71.44% -72.99%
75th Percentile £59.72 £61.56 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.35 £126.25 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -72.73%

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 20 May 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 (3.90%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.60%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.30%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.30%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 45 (58.44%) Azure
2 38 (49.35%) AWS
2 38 (49.35%) GitHub Actions
3 20 (25.97%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (18.18%) Serverless
5 12 (15.58%) Power Platform
6 11 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
7 10 (12.99%) Azure AKS
8 9 (11.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (10.39%) Amazon S3
9 8 (10.39%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (10.39%) GCP
10 7 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 7 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
11 6 (7.79%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (7.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
12 5 (6.49%) Azure Functions
13 4 (5.19%) AWS CodePipeline
13 4 (5.19%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) NoSQL
1 12 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.39%) DynamoDB
2 8 (10.39%) Power BI
3 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 6 (7.79%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
5 5 (6.49%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (5.19%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.19%) DB2
7 2 (2.60%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.60%) Metadata
7 2 (2.60%) Redis
7 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.30%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.30%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.30%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.30%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 19 (24.68%) Git
2 18 (23.38%) Jenkins
3 11 (14.29%) GitLab
4 9 (11.69%) JIRA
5 5 (6.49%) Cypress.io
5 5 (6.49%) JUnit
6 4 (5.19%) Cucumber
6 4 (5.19%) Maven
6 4 (5.19%) Mockito
6 4 (5.19%) Postman
7 3 (3.90%) Gatling
7 3 (3.90%) Gradle
7 3 (3.90%) SonarQube
8 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.60%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.60%) Mocha
8 2 (2.60%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.60%) Selenium
8 2 (2.60%) webpack
9 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (25.97%) Finance
1 20 (25.97%) Social Skills
2 11 (14.29%) Banking
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.90%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.60%) Advertising
6 2 (2.60%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Front Office
7 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Developer
2 14 (18.18%) Senior
3 11 (14.29%) Architect
4 10 (12.99%) Senior Developer
5 7 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (9.09%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.49%) Azure Architect
6 5 (6.49%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Senior Java Developer
7 4 (5.19%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.90%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Data Scientist
8 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Python Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps
8 3 (3.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (20.78%) Spring
2 14 (18.18%) React
3 13 (16.88%) Kafka
3 13 (16.88%) Spring Boot
4 9 (11.69%) REST
5 8 (10.39%) .NET
6 7 (9.09%) Playwright
6 7 (9.09%) RESTful
7 6 (7.79%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (6.49%) AngularJS
8 5 (6.49%) Node.js
8 5 (6.49%) PySpark
9 4 (5.19%) Gherkin
9 4 (5.19%) Next.js
9 4 (5.19%) PyTorch
9 4 (5.19%) TensorFlow
10 3 (3.90%) FastAPI
10 3 (3.90%) Hugging Face
10 3 (3.90%) Jest
10 3 (3.90%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Cloud Native
2 10 (12.99%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (6.49%) AI Agents
4 4 (5.19%) NHS
5 2 (2.60%) Equities
5 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.30%) Blog
6 1 (1.30%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.30%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.30%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.30%) Genomics
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) IoT
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Life Science
6 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
3 3 (3.90%) Android
3 3 (3.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.30%) Unix
4 1 (1.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (67.53%) CI/CD
2 44 (57.14%) DevOps
3 32 (41.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (36.36%) Observability
5 26 (33.77%) Agile
6 25 (32.47%) Containerisation
7 24 (31.17%) Test Automation
8 20 (25.97%) AI
9 16 (20.78%) Microservices
10 14 (18.18%) Migration
10 14 (18.18%) Software Engineering
11 13 (16.88%) Event-Driven
11 13 (16.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (16.88%) Performance Tuning
12 12 (15.58%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 9 (11.69%) Platform Engineering
13 9 (11.69%) TDD
14 8 (10.39%) Analytics
14 8 (10.39%) Machine Learning
14 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.86%) Python
2 26 (33.77%) Java
3 22 (28.57%) SQL
4 13 (16.88%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.29%) C#
5 11 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.79%) Bicep
7 3 (3.90%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.90%) Ruby
8 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.60%) Go
8 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.30%) Bash
9 1 (1.30%) C
9 1 (1.30%) C++
9 1 (1.30%) ProC
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
9 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 20 (25.97%) SC Cleared
1 20 (25.97%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.39%) Degree
3 7 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.19%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.90%) PhD
6 2 (2.60%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.30%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.30%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) QA
2 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.60%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.60%) PSD2
3 2 (2.60%) SEPA
3 2 (2.60%) WCAG
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (33.77%) Docker
2 4 (5.19%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.19%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 35 (45.45%) Terraform
2 32 (41.56%) Kubernetes
3 8 (10.39%) Grafana
4 7 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 4 (5.19%) Ansible
6 3 (3.90%) Argo
7 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.30%) Istio
7 1 (1.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 9 (11.69%) Oracle
3 5 (6.49%) Databricks
4 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.90%) Foundry
5 3 (3.90%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.90%) Palantir
6 2 (2.60%) Confluent
6 2 (2.60%) Google
6 2 (2.60%) IBM
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.30%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Solace
7 1 (1.30%) Sybase
7 1 (1.30%) VMware
7 1 (1.30%) Workday