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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 76 83
Rank change year-on-year +20 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing GitHub 84 47 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.65% 2.68% 1.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.29% 6.18% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 21 21
10th Percentile £363 £425 £375
25th Percentile £453 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £570 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +0.88% -13.08%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £690
90th Percentile £675 £660 £768
Central London median daily rate £556 £558 £551
% change year-on-year -0.22% +1.18% -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 904 761 854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.30% 43.31% 39.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 488 606
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £674
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £533
% change year-on-year - +3.29% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £20.67 £24.66 £12.75
25th Percentile £25.81 £29.64 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.64 £42.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.38% +88.89% -73.24%
75th Percentile £57.83 £74.38 £26.19
90th Percentile £75.18 £135.00 £38.63
Central London median hourly rate £39.00 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.99% +54.78% -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 6 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 (3.57%) Palantir Foundry
2 2 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.38%) Confluence
2 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.19%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.19%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 52 (61.90%) Azure
2 42 (50.00%) AWS
3 41 (48.81%) GitHub Actions
4 22 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (17.86%) Serverless
6 13 (15.48%) Azure AKS
7 12 (14.29%) GCP
7 12 (14.29%) Power Platform
8 11 (13.10%) GitHub Copilot
9 10 (11.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
11 8 (9.52%) Amazon S3
12 7 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 7 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (7.14%) Entra ID
14 5 (5.95%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (5.95%) Amazon ECS
14 5 (5.95%) Azure Functions
15 4 (4.76%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Firewall
2 3 (3.57%) DNS
3 1 (1.19%) Network Security
3 1 (1.19%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.48%) NoSQL
1 13 (15.48%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (10.71%) DynamoDB
3 8 (9.52%) MongoDB
3 8 (9.52%) Power BI
4 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (5.95%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (4.76%) DB2
7 3 (3.57%) Relational Database
8 2 (2.38%) Hazelcast
8 2 (2.38%) Metadata
8 2 (2.38%) Redis
9 1 (1.19%) Big Data
9 1 (1.19%) BigQuery
9 1 (1.19%) Data Hub
9 1 (1.19%) MySQL
9 1 (1.19%) Oracle Exadata
9 1 (1.19%) Tick Data
Development Applications
1 21 (25.00%) Git
2 19 (22.62%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.90%) GitLab
4 7 (8.33%) JIRA
5 6 (7.14%) JUnit
6 5 (5.95%) Cypress.io
6 5 (5.95%) Mockito
7 4 (4.76%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.76%) Maven
7 4 (4.76%) Postman
8 3 (3.57%) Gatling
8 3 (3.57%) Gradle
8 3 (3.57%) SonarQube
9 2 (2.38%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.38%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.38%) Mocha
9 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.38%) Selenium
9 2 (2.38%) webpack
10 1 (1.19%) Oracle Forms
General
1 21 (25.00%) Finance
2 19 (22.62%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.10%) Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Advertising
7 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Front Office
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (23.81%) Developer
2 16 (19.05%) Senior
3 12 (14.29%) Architect
4 10 (11.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (11.90%) Senior Developer
5 8 (9.52%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Azure Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Site Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Technical Architect
9 3 (3.57%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Python Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (21.43%) Spring
2 15 (17.86%) React
3 14 (16.67%) Spring Boot
4 13 (15.48%) Kafka
5 11 (13.10%) REST
6 9 (10.71%) .NET
7 8 (9.52%) RESTful
8 7 (8.33%) Playwright
9 6 (7.14%) AngularJS
9 6 (7.14%) Node.js
9 6 (7.14%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (5.95%) PySpark
11 4 (4.76%) Gherkin
11 4 (4.76%) Next.js
11 4 (4.76%) OAuth
11 4 (4.76%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.76%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.57%) Django
12 3 (3.57%) jQuery
12 3 (3.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 11 (13.10%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (5.95%) AI Agents
4 4 (4.76%) NHS
5 3 (3.57%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.38%) Equities
6 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.19%) Blog
7 1 (1.19%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.19%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.19%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.19%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.19%) IoT
7 1 (1.19%) Life Science
7 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.19%) PKI
7 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.71%) Linux
2 4 (4.76%) Windows
3 3 (3.57%) Android
3 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.19%) Unix
4 1 (1.19%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) CI/CD
2 50 (59.52%) DevOps
3 35 (41.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (33.33%) Agile
4 28 (33.33%) Observability
5 26 (30.95%) Containerisation
6 25 (29.76%) Test Automation
7 21 (25.00%) AI
8 20 (23.81%) Microservices
9 18 (21.43%) Migration
10 15 (17.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 14 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
11 14 (16.67%) Software Engineering
12 13 (15.48%) Event-Driven
13 10 (11.90%) Analytics
13 10 (11.90%) Platform Engineering
14 9 (10.71%) TDD
15 8 (9.52%) DevSecOps
15 8 (9.52%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 37 (44.05%) Python
2 28 (33.33%) Java
3 22 (26.19%) SQL
4 14 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.10%) C#
5 11 (13.10%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.14%) Bicep
7 3 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.57%) Ruby
8 2 (2.38%) Apex Code
8 2 (2.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.38%) Go
8 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.19%) Bash
9 1 (1.19%) C
9 1 (1.19%) C++
9 1 (1.19%) ProC
9 1 (1.19%) Scala
9 1 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.19%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) SC Cleared
1 25 (29.76%) Security Cleared
2 8 (9.52%) Degree
3 7 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.57%) PhD
6 1 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CCSP
6 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.19%) CISSP
6 1 (1.19%) OSCP
6 1 (1.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.52%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) GDPR
3 2 (2.38%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.38%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.38%) PSD2
3 2 (2.38%) SEPA
3 2 (2.38%) WCAG
4 1 (1.19%) GRC
4 1 (1.19%) NCSC
4 1 (1.19%) NIST
4 1 (1.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (34.52%) Docker
2 5 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (46.43%) Terraform
2 36 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 8 (9.52%) Grafana
4 7 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.76%) Ansible
6 3 (3.57%) Argo
7 2 (2.38%) Istio
8 1 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.19%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.71%) Oracle
3 5 (5.95%) Databricks
3 5 (5.95%) Google
4 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.57%) Foundry
5 3 (3.57%) OpenAI
5 3 (3.57%) Palantir
6 2 (2.38%) Confluent
6 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 2 (2.38%) SAP
6 2 (2.38%) Splunk
7 1 (1.19%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.19%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.19%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.19%) Solace
7 1 (1.19%) Sybase
7 1 (1.19%) VMware