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 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 69 80
Rank change year-on-year +18 +11 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 94 53 46
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.26% 3.04% 2.03%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.32% 7.00% 5.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 27 25
10th Percentile £356 £420 £387
25th Percentile £413 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £551
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.36% -15.23%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £678
90th Percentile £695 £693 £733
Central London median daily rate £550 £573 £551
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.00% -11.92%
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 911 757 870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.26% 43.48% 38.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 495 607
10th Percentile £350 £390 £360
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £661
90th Percentile £750 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £540
% change year-on-year - +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £27.15 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £41.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.56% +82.56% -72.73%
75th Percentile £55.94 £87.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £143.75 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.88% +54.00% -57.14%

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 7 April 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 (3.19%) Confluence
1 3 (3.19%) Palantir Foundry
1 3 (3.19%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.06%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Fidessa
1 2 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 55 (58.51%) Azure
2 43 (45.74%) AWS
3 42 (44.68%) GitHub Actions
4 23 (24.47%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (21.28%) Serverless
6 14 (14.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (13.83%) GCP
8 12 (12.77%) Amazon S3
9 11 (11.70%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (10.64%) Azure AKS
10 10 (10.64%) Power Platform
11 9 (9.57%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (7.45%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (6.38%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (6.38%) AWS Fargate
13 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
13 6 (6.38%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) Firewall
2 2 (2.13%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.89%) NoSQL
2 12 (12.77%) DynamoDB
3 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (8.51%) MongoDB
5 7 (7.45%) SQL Server
6 6 (6.38%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
7 5 (5.32%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (5.32%) Power BI
8 4 (4.26%) DB2
9 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
10 2 (2.13%) Hazelcast
10 2 (2.13%) Metadata
10 2 (2.13%) MySQL
10 2 (2.13%) Redis
10 2 (2.13%) Tick Data
11 1 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
11 1 (1.06%) BigQuery
11 1 (1.06%) Data Hub
11 1 (1.06%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 27 (28.72%) Git
2 19 (20.21%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.51%) GitLab
3 8 (8.51%) JIRA
4 6 (6.38%) JUnit
5 5 (5.32%) Cypress.io
5 5 (5.32%) Maven
5 5 (5.32%) Mockito
6 4 (4.26%) Bitbucket
6 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
6 4 (4.26%) Postman
7 3 (3.19%) Gradle
7 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (3.19%) webpack
8 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
8 2 (2.13%) Claude Code
8 2 (2.13%) Gatling
8 2 (2.13%) Mocha
8 2 (2.13%) Selenium
8 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (19.15%) Finance
2 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Banking
4 6 (6.38%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Advertising
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (25.53%) Developer
2 14 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (14.89%) Senior
3 12 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 9 (9.57%) Architect
5 7 (7.45%) Senior Developer
6 6 (6.38%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.26%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.26%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.19%) Angular Developer
9 3 (3.19%) Azure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (18.09%) Spring
2 16 (17.02%) React
3 15 (15.96%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.77%) REST
5 11 (11.70%) Kafka
6 10 (10.64%) Node.js
6 10 (10.64%) OAuth
7 9 (9.57%) AngularJS
8 8 (8.51%) .NET
9 6 (6.38%) OpenTelemetry
9 6 (6.38%) Playwright
9 6 (6.38%) RESTful
10 5 (5.32%) Next.js
11 4 (4.26%) FastAPI
11 4 (4.26%) Jest
11 4 (4.26%) JWT
11 4 (4.26%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.26%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.19%) PySpark
12 3 (3.19%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.66%) Cloud Native
2 12 (12.77%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) NHS
4 3 (3.19%) Equities
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.06%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) IoT
6 1 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.64%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Android
2 3 (3.19%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
3 2 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (65.96%) CI/CD
2 52 (55.32%) DevOps
3 36 (38.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.85%) Agile
5 27 (28.72%) AI
6 26 (27.66%) Test Automation
7 24 (25.53%) Observability
8 23 (24.47%) Containerisation
9 22 (23.40%) Microservices
10 17 (18.09%) Migration
11 15 (15.96%) Full-Stack Development
12 14 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 14 (14.89%) Software Engineering
13 13 (13.83%) Analytics
13 13 (13.83%) Performance Tuning
13 13 (13.83%) TDD
14 12 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
15 11 (11.70%) Event-Driven
16 9 (9.57%) LLM
16 9 (9.57%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 44 (46.81%) Python
2 31 (32.98%) Java
3 25 (26.60%) SQL
4 12 (12.77%) TypeScript
5 11 (11.70%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.64%) C#
7 4 (4.26%) Bicep
8 3 (3.19%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.19%) Ruby
9 2 (2.13%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.13%) Bash
9 2 (2.13%) Go
9 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.06%) C
10 1 (1.06%) C++
10 1 (1.06%) ProC
10 1 (1.06%) Scala
10 1 (1.06%) VB
10 1 (1.06%) XPath
Qualifications
1 26 (27.66%) SC Cleared
1 26 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.45%) BPSS Clearance
2 7 (7.45%) Degree
3 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.19%) PhD
5 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.06%) CCSP
6 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.06%) CISSP
6 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.06%) OSCP
6 1 (1.06%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.45%) QA
2 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.13%) GDPR
3 2 (2.13%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.13%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) PSD2
3 2 (2.13%) SEPA
3 2 (2.13%) WCAG
4 1 (1.06%) GRC
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (30.85%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (42.55%) Terraform
2 32 (34.04%) Kubernetes
3 7 (7.45%) Ansible
3 7 (7.45%) Grafana
4 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.19%) Argo
6 2 (2.13%) Istio
7 1 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.06%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.64%) Oracle
3 8 (8.51%) Databricks
4 6 (6.38%) Google
5 4 (4.26%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.19%) Foundry
6 3 (3.19%) OpenAI
6 3 (3.19%) Palantir
7 2 (2.13%) Confluent
7 2 (2.13%) IBM
7 2 (2.13%) SAP
7 2 (2.13%) Solace
8 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.06%) OutSystems
8 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.06%) Splunk
8 1 (1.06%) Sybase
8 1 (1.06%) Workday