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 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 79 88
Rank change year-on-year +14 +9 -15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 80 46 44
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.29% 2.47% 2.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.47% 5.82% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 23 23
10th Percentile £396 £400 £420
25th Percentile £454 £444 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% -4.00%
75th Percentile £597 £631 £725
90th Percentile £681 £659 £768
Central London median daily rate £538 £513 £551
% change year-on-year +4.88% -6.99% -10.41%
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 944 791 893
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 38.82% 42.48% 41.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 654 514 622
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £456 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 6
10th Percentile £19.50 £24.02 £12.75
25th Percentile £22.83 £25.18 £16.31
Median hourly rate £37.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% +42.87% -60.00%
75th Percentile £62.36 £63.37 £44.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £96.63 £71.38
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £34.65 £27.00
% change year-on-year +48.46% +28.33% -48.57%

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 15 July 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 4 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.75%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.75%) Palantir Foundry
2 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.25%) nginx
Business Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 42 (52.50%) AWS
2 40 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 39 (48.75%) Azure
4 16 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (20.00%) Serverless
5 13 (16.25%) Amazon S3
5 13 (16.25%) Power Platform
6 12 (15.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 11 (13.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 11 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
8 10 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (10.00%) Azure AKS
9 8 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (7.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 6 (7.50%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
11 5 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (6.25%) GCP
11 5 (6.25%) PaaS
11 5 (6.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) VPN
2 3 (3.75%) DNS
2 3 (3.75%) Firewall
3 2 (2.50%) Network Security
4 1 (1.25%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.25%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.25%) SSH
4 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.25%) NoSQL
2 11 (13.75%) Amazon RDS
2 11 (13.75%) DynamoDB
3 10 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (12.50%) Power BI
4 9 (11.25%) Amazon Athena
5 8 (10.00%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.00%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (5.00%) Db2
6 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.50%) Metadata
7 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (32.50%) Git
2 15 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 14 (17.50%) GitLab
4 11 (13.75%) JIRA
5 9 (11.25%) JUnit
6 7 (8.75%) Mockito
7 5 (6.25%) Cucumber
7 5 (6.25%) Cypress.io
7 5 (6.25%) Postman
8 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
8 3 (3.75%) Gradle
8 3 (3.75%) Maven
8 3 (3.75%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.50%) CircleCI
9 2 (2.50%) Claude Code
9 2 (2.50%) Mocha
9 2 (2.50%) Selenium
9 2 (2.50%) webpack
10 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.25%) Jasmine
General
1 27 (33.75%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.50%) Finance
3 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (7.50%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.50%) Advertising
8 2 (2.50%) Back Office
8 2 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Front Office
9 1 (1.25%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Law
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Developer
2 15 (18.75%) Senior
3 13 (16.25%) Architect
4 10 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Technical Architect
6 6 (7.50%) Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Azure Architect
7 5 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Junior
8 4 (5.00%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.75%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (21.25%) Spring
2 15 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 13 (16.25%) Kafka
3 13 (16.25%) REST
4 12 (15.00%) React
5 9 (11.25%) RESTful
6 7 (8.75%) .NET
6 7 (8.75%) Playwright
7 6 (7.50%) AngularJS
7 6 (7.50%) Gherkin
7 6 (7.50%) YAML
8 5 (6.25%) Node.js
8 5 (6.25%) PySpark
8 5 (6.25%) SOAP
8 5 (6.25%) WireMock
9 4 (5.00%) GraphQL
9 4 (5.00%) Jest
9 4 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
10 3 (3.75%) PyTorch
10 3 (3.75%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (33.75%) Cloud Native
2 13 (16.25%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
3 3 (3.75%) NHS
4 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.25%) Equities
5 1 (1.25%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.25%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.25%) Genomics
5 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (1.25%) Life Science
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.25%) Linux
1 5 (6.25%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Android
2 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (72.50%) CI/CD
2 41 (51.25%) DevOps
3 35 (43.75%) Infrastructure as Code
4 31 (38.75%) Agile
5 28 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 26 (32.50%) Containerisation
7 25 (31.25%) Observability
8 19 (23.75%) Microservices
8 19 (23.75%) Software Engineering
9 18 (22.50%) AI
10 17 (21.25%) Event-Driven
11 16 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
12 13 (16.25%) Full-Stack Development
12 13 (16.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
13 12 (15.00%) Data Modelling
13 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (13.75%) Analytics
14 11 (13.75%) API Design
14 11 (13.75%) Migration
14 11 (13.75%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.00%) Python
2 25 (31.25%) Java
3 19 (23.75%) SQL
4 14 (17.50%) C#
5 11 (13.75%) TypeScript
6 10 (12.50%) JavaScript
7 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.25%) Bicep
8 5 (6.25%) Ruby
9 2 (2.50%) Apex Code
9 2 (2.50%) Bash
9 2 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (2.50%) Go
10 1 (1.25%) Scala
10 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (27.50%) SC Cleared
1 22 (27.50%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) Degree
3 5 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.75%) PhD
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.25%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) WCAG
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (31.25%) Docker
2 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (42.50%) Terraform
2 32 (40.00%) Kubernetes
3 9 (11.25%) Grafana
4 7 (8.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.50%) Ansible
6 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.25%) SELinux
6 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.75%) Oracle
3 6 (7.50%) Databricks
4 4 (5.00%) Splunk
5 3 (3.75%) AppDynamics
5 3 (3.75%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.75%) Foundry
5 3 (3.75%) Palantir
5 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.50%) IBM
6 2 (2.50%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.50%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) Google
7 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.25%) SAP
7 1 (1.25%) Sybase
7 1 (1.25%) Zscaler