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 28 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 78 87
Rank change year-on-year +30 +9 +23
Contract jobs citing GitHub 81 44 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.30% 2.36% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.44% 5.91% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 20 31
10th Percentile £356 £461 £405
25th Percentile £413 £519 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -1.60%
75th Percentile £669 £678 £675
90th Percentile £813 £739 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
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 776 745 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.17% 39.92% 38.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 578 473 684
10th Percentile £343 £400 £363
25th Percentile £419 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile £26.66 - -
25th Percentile £34.19 - £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.64 - £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.10%
75th Percentile £46.11 - £43.38
90th Percentile £49.83 - £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -27.23% +55.56% +2.27%

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 28 January 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 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.47%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 44 (54.32%) Azure
2 41 (50.62%) GitHub Actions
3 31 (38.27%) AWS
4 20 (24.69%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (19.75%) Serverless
6 15 (18.52%) GCP
7 12 (14.81%) Amazon S3
8 11 (13.58%) Amazon ECS
8 11 (13.58%) AWS Lambda
9 10 (12.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 9 (11.11%) Azure AKS
11 8 (9.88%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (8.64%) Cloud Run
12 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
13 6 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (6.17%) Amazon ECR
14 5 (6.17%) Apigee
14 5 (6.17%) Azure Key Vault
14 5 (6.17%) Entra ID
14 5 (6.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Firewall
2 3 (3.70%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) DynamoDB
2 5 (6.17%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (6.17%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.94%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.70%) MySQL
4 3 (3.70%) Power BI
4 3 (3.70%) Redis
4 3 (3.70%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.70%) Tick Data
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon QuickSight
5 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.47%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.47%) Hazelcast
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.23%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 20 (24.69%) Git
2 17 (20.99%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.88%) Bitbucket
4 7 (8.64%) JIRA
5 5 (6.17%) GitLab
5 5 (6.17%) SonarQube
6 4 (4.94%) Maven
6 4 (4.94%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.47%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.47%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.47%) Gatling
7 2 (2.47%) Gradle
7 2 (2.47%) JUnit
7 2 (2.47%) Mockito
7 2 (2.47%) Postman
7 2 (2.47%) Snyk
8 1 (1.23%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.23%) gulp
8 1 (1.23%) webpack
8 1 (1.23%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (23.46%) Finance
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Banking
4 5 (6.17%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Investment Banking
6 3 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.23%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
7 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (27.16%) Developer
2 15 (18.52%) DevOps Engineer
3 13 (16.05%) Java Developer
4 9 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 9 (11.11%) Senior
5 6 (7.41%) Angular Developer
6 5 (6.17%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (6.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.94%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Site Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (3.70%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Data Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Fidessa Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (18.52%) React
2 13 (16.05%) OAuth
3 11 (13.58%) REST
3 11 (13.58%) Spring Boot
4 9 (11.11%) Node.js
4 9 (11.11%) Spring
5 8 (9.88%) AngularJS
6 7 (8.64%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.41%) JWT
8 5 (6.17%) .NET
8 5 (6.17%) LangChain
8 5 (6.17%) Next.js
9 4 (4.94%) CSS
9 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
9 4 (4.94%) HTML
9 4 (4.94%) Kafka
9 4 (4.94%) LangGraph
9 4 (4.94%) OAuth2
10 3 (3.70%) JSON
10 3 (3.70%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Cloud Native
2 7 (8.64%) AI Agents
3 5 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.94%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (3.70%) Equities
5 3 (3.70%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.47%) Life Science
6 2 (2.47%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.47%) Replication
6 2 (2.47%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.23%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.23%) Genomics
7 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.47%) Android
2 2 (2.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (61.73%) CI/CD
2 46 (56.79%) DevOps
3 28 (34.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 24 (29.63%) AI
5 21 (25.93%) Agile
6 19 (23.46%) Test Automation
7 18 (22.22%) Containerisation
8 17 (20.99%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (19.75%) Microservices
10 14 (17.28%) Migration
10 14 (17.28%) Observability
11 12 (14.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 11 (13.58%) TDD
13 10 (12.35%) Analytics
13 10 (12.35%) DevSecOps
13 10 (12.35%) Generative AI
14 9 (11.11%) LLM
15 8 (9.88%) Machine Learning
16 7 (8.64%) Data Governance
16 7 (8.64%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 38 (46.91%) Python
2 24 (29.63%) Java
3 19 (23.46%) SQL
4 15 (18.52%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.17%) C#
7 3 (3.70%) Bash
7 3 (3.70%) Bicep
8 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.47%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.23%) C
9 1 (1.23%) C++
9 1 (1.23%) PHP
9 1 (1.23%) ProC
9 1 (1.23%) Ruby
9 1 (1.23%) Scala
9 1 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.23%) VB
9 1 (1.23%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (27.16%) SC Cleared
1 22 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (2.47%) Degree
4 1 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.23%) CCSP
4 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.23%) CISSP
4 1 (1.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.23%) MCP
4 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.23%) OSCP
4 1 (1.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) GDPR
2 4 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.94%) NIST
3 3 (3.70%) EU AI Act
3 3 (3.70%) QA
4 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.47%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.47%) ISO 8583
4 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.47%) PSD2
4 2 (2.47%) SEPA
5 1 (1.23%) GRC
5 1 (1.23%) MiFID
5 1 (1.23%) NCSC
5 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.23%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 26 (32.10%) Docker
2 3 (3.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 38 (46.91%) Terraform
2 20 (24.69%) Kubernetes
3 11 (13.58%) Ansible
4 5 (6.17%) Grafana
4 5 (6.17%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.94%) Istio
6 3 (3.70%) Argo
7 2 (2.47%) Puppet
8 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Google
3 7 (8.64%) Databricks
3 7 (8.64%) OpenAI
3 7 (8.64%) Oracle
4 3 (3.70%) Solace
5 2 (2.47%) Confluent
5 2 (2.47%) Foundry
5 2 (2.47%) Palantir
5 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.23%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.23%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.23%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.23%) SAP
6 1 (1.23%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.23%) Splunk
6 1 (1.23%) Tenable
6 1 (1.23%) Workday