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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 72 88
Rank change year-on-year +26 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 94 50 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.44% 2.85% 1.88%
As % of the Cloud Services category 10.68% 6.69% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 25 23
10th Percentile £354 £418 £381
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 £638 £683
90th Percentile £701 £681 £735
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 880 747 902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.61% 42.61% 38.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 486 634
10th Percentile £343 £397 £358
25th Percentile £448 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.68% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £669 £660
90th Percentile £750 £738 £749
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £539
% change year-on-year - +2.04% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 9
10th Percentile £31.88 £27.65 £12.75
25th Percentile £39.44 £32.13 £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 £83.44 £48.75
90th Percentile £66.53 £145.88 £54.95
Central London median hourly rate £40.50 £34.83 £22.50
% change year-on-year +16.30% +54.78% -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 24 March 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 6 (6.38%) Confluence
2 3 (3.19%) Palantir Foundry
3 2 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.06%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.06%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 51 (54.26%) Azure
2 43 (45.74%) AWS
3 41 (43.62%) GitHub Actions
4 21 (22.34%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (21.28%) Serverless
6 14 (14.89%) GCP
7 13 (13.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 13 (13.83%) Amazon S3
7 13 (13.83%) AWS Lambda
8 11 (11.70%) Amazon ECS
9 9 (9.57%) Azure AKS
9 9 (9.57%) GitHub Copilot
10 8 (8.51%) Power Platform
11 7 (7.45%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (6.38%) Amazon EKS
12 6 (6.38%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (6.38%) AWS Fargate
12 6 (6.38%) Azure Functions
13 5 (5.32%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (5.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.19%) DNS
1 3 (3.19%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.77%) NoSQL
2 10 (10.64%) DynamoDB
2 10 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (7.45%) Amazon RDS
3 7 (7.45%) SQL Server
4 6 (6.38%) MongoDB
5 5 (5.32%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (4.26%) DB2
6 4 (4.26%) Power BI
7 3 (3.19%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (3.19%) MySQL
7 3 (3.19%) Redis
7 3 (3.19%) Relational Database
7 3 (3.19%) Tick Data
8 2 (2.13%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (2.13%) Hazelcast
9 1 (1.06%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (1.06%) CouchDB
9 1 (1.06%) Metadata
9 1 (1.06%) Oracle Exadata
Development Applications
1 26 (27.66%) Git
2 22 (23.40%) Jenkins
3 11 (11.70%) JIRA
4 8 (8.51%) GitLab
5 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
5 6 (6.38%) Cypress.io
5 6 (6.38%) JUnit
6 5 (5.32%) Mockito
7 4 (4.26%) Cucumber
7 4 (4.26%) Maven
7 4 (4.26%) Postman
7 4 (4.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (3.19%) SonarQube
8 3 (3.19%) webpack
9 2 (2.13%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.13%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.13%) Gatling
9 2 (2.13%) Mocha
9 2 (2.13%) Selenium
10 1 (1.06%) SpecFlow
General
1 18 (19.15%) Finance
2 17 (18.09%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.57%) Banking
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.45%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.19%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Investment Banking
5 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (3.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.13%) Advertising
6 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.06%) Front Office
7 1 (1.06%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.06%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Developer
2 14 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
3 12 (12.77%) Java Developer
3 12 (12.77%) Senior
4 8 (8.51%) Architect
5 6 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) AWS Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.32%) Senior Developer
6 5 (5.32%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Angular Developer
7 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Python Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Site Engineer
7 4 (4.26%) Technical Architect
8 3 (3.19%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (19.15%) React
2 16 (17.02%) Spring
3 14 (14.89%) Spring Boot
4 12 (12.77%) REST
5 10 (10.64%) AngularJS
5 10 (10.64%) Node.js
5 10 (10.64%) OAuth
6 9 (9.57%) Kafka
7 8 (8.51%) .NET
8 7 (7.45%) Playwright
9 6 (6.38%) FastAPI
10 5 (5.32%) Next.js
11 4 (4.26%) Jest
11 4 (4.26%) JWT
11 4 (4.26%) LangGraph
11 4 (4.26%) OpenTelemetry
11 4 (4.26%) PyTorch
11 4 (4.26%) RESTful
11 4 (4.26%) TensorFlow
12 3 (3.19%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 23 (24.47%) Cloud Native
2 10 (10.64%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (4.26%) AI Agents
3 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.26%) Equities
3 4 (4.26%) NHS
4 3 (3.19%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.13%) Life Science
5 2 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.13%) Replication
6 1 (1.06%) Blog
6 1 (1.06%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.06%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.06%) Genomics
6 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.06%) PKI
6 1 (1.06%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.57%) Linux
2 3 (3.19%) Android
2 3 (3.19%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.19%) Windows
3 1 (1.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (61.70%) CI/CD
2 50 (53.19%) DevOps
3 35 (37.23%) Infrastructure as Code
4 29 (30.85%) Agile
5 28 (29.79%) AI
6 25 (26.60%) Test Automation
7 21 (22.34%) Containerisation
7 21 (22.34%) Microservices
7 21 (22.34%) Observability
8 18 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 16 (17.02%) Migration
10 14 (14.89%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 14 (14.89%) TDD
11 13 (13.83%) Software Engineering
12 12 (12.77%) Analytics
12 12 (12.77%) Platform Engineering
13 11 (11.70%) Performance Tuning
14 10 (10.64%) LLM
14 10 (10.64%) Machine Learning
15 9 (9.57%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 46 (48.94%) Python
2 31 (32.98%) Java
3 25 (26.60%) SQL
4 14 (14.89%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.77%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.64%) C#
7 3 (3.19%) Bicep
7 3 (3.19%) Ruby
8 2 (2.13%) Bash
8 2 (2.13%) Go
8 2 (2.13%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.13%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.06%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.06%) C
9 1 (1.06%) C++
9 1 (1.06%) PHP
9 1 (1.06%) ProC
9 1 (1.06%) Scala
9 1 (1.06%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.06%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (26.60%) SC Cleared
1 25 (26.60%) Security Cleared
2 8 (8.51%) Degree
3 7 (7.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.19%) PhD
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%) Azure Certification
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 5 (5.32%) 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%) MiFID
4 1 (1.06%) NCSC
4 1 (1.06%) NIST
4 1 (1.06%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (29.79%) Docker
2 4 (4.26%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 40 (42.55%) Terraform
2 28 (29.79%) Kubernetes
3 9 (9.57%) Ansible
4 4 (4.26%) Grafana
4 4 (4.26%) 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 7 (7.45%) Databricks
3 7 (7.45%) Google
4 3 (3.19%) Foundry
4 3 (3.19%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.19%) Palantir
4 3 (3.19%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.19%) Solace
5 2 (2.13%) Confluent
5 2 (2.13%) IBM
5 2 (2.13%) SAP
6 1 (1.06%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.06%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.06%) OutSystems
6 1 (1.06%) Rapid7
6 1 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.06%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.06%) Sybase
6 1 (1.06%) Workday