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 citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	63	60	80
Rank change year-on-year	-3	+20	+14
Contract jobs citing GitHub	80	64	45
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London	3.95%	3.72%	2.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category	9.06%	8.96%	5.43%
Number of daily rates quoted	57	41	24
10^th Percentile	£358	£356	£425
25^th Percentile	£456	£413	£512
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£510	£525	£620
Median % change year-on-year	-2.86%	-15.32%	-
75^th Percentile	£602	£675	£728
90^th Percentile	£725	£788	£762
Central London median daily rate	£525	£525	£606
% change year-on-year	-	-13.40%	-1.42%

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 citing cloud computing skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 5 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	883	714	829
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London	43.58%	41.49%	39.31%
Number of daily rates quoted	633	527	535
10^th Percentile	£359	£347	£400
25^th Percentile	£456	£425	£466
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£550	£550	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	+4.55%
75^th Percentile	£670	£664	£675
90^th Percentile	£775	£750	£756
Central London median daily rate	£550	£550	£575
% change year-on-year	-	-4.35%	+4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted	6	9	2
10^th Percentile	£14.75	£22.30	£32.05
25^th Percentile	£20.25	£26.75	£39.63
Median hourly rate	£23.25	£34.00	£56.00
Median % change year-on-year	-31.62%	-39.29%	+169.88%
75^th Percentile	£29.25	£56.75	£76.13
90^th Percentile	£48.00	£70.21	£85.95
Central London median hourly rate	£30.00	£34.00	£35.00
% change year-on-year	-11.76%	-2.86%	+68.67%

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 Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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 5 November 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.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	77.5%	62
2	DevOps	53.8%	43
3	Azure	51.3%	41
4	Python	48.8%	39
5	GitHub Actions	47.5%	38
5	Terraform	47.5%	38
7	AWS	45.0%	36
7	Infrastructure as Code	45.0%	36
9	Agile	33.8%	27
10	Kubernetes	32.5%	26
10	SQL	32.5%	26
10	Test Automation	32.5%	26
13	Continuous Improvement	28.8%	23
13	Docker	28.8%	23
13	Security Cleared	28.8%	23
16	SC Cleared	27.5%	22
17	AI	26.3%	21
18	Serverless	25.0%	20
19	Java	23.8%	19
19	Microsoft	23.8%	19
21	Azure DevOps	22.5%	18
21	Containerisation	22.5%	18
21	Event-Driven	22.5%	18
21	Microservices	22.5%	18
25	Data Modelling	21.3%	17
25	Git	21.3%	17
25	Jenkins	21.3%	17
25	Observability	21.3%	17
29	Stakeholder Management	20.0%	16
30	GCP	18.8%	15

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	51.3%	41
2	GitHub Actions	47.5%	38
3	AWS	45.0%	36
4	Serverless	25.0%	20
5	Azure DevOps	22.5%	18
6	GCP	18.8%	15
7	AWS Lambda	16.3%	13
8	Amazon S3	15.0%	12
8	GitHub Copilot	15.0%	12
10	Amazon CloudWatch	13.8%	11
10	Amazon EKS	13.8%	11
12	Amazon EC2	12.5%	10
13	AWS CloudFormation	11.3%	9
14	Amazon EventBridge	10.0%	8
15	Amazon Kinesis	7.5%	6
15	AWS Step Functions	7.5%	6
15	Azure AKS	7.5%	6
15	Azure Functions	7.5%	6
15	dbt	7.5%	6
15	Power Platform	7.5%	6