GitHub Contracts in the City of London

GitHub
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 85 88
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 +11
Contract jobs citing GitHub 47 42 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.68% 1.91% 2.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.20% 4.92% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 44
10th Percentile £425 £379 £456
25th Percentile £513 £425 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £558 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -14.15% +13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £689 £736
90th Percentile £660 £765 £825
Central London median daily rate £558 £551 £648
% change year-on-year +1.27% -14.98% +12.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £48.50 -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 -

All Cloud 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 758 853 1,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.17% 38.83% 38.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 606 942
10th Percentile £375 £363 £313
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £669 £669 £713
90th Percentile £743 £763 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £575
% change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 7
10th Percentile £24.66 £12.75 £44.75
25th Percentile £29.64 £14.88 £65.57
Median hourly rate £42.50 £22.50 £84.09
Median % change year-on-year +88.89% -73.24% +388.40%
75th Percentile £74.38 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £135.00 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.83 £22.50 £82.50
% change year-on-year +54.78% -72.73% +379.16%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.51%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.38%) Apache
2 3 (6.38%) Confluence
2 3 (6.38%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (55.32%) Azure
2 20 (42.55%) GitHub Actions
3 19 (40.43%) AWS
4 11 (23.40%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (10.64%) Amazon EKS
5 5 (10.64%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (10.64%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.64%) Serverless
6 4 (8.51%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (8.51%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) Power Platform
6 4 (8.51%) Snowflake
7 3 (6.38%) Azure AKS
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (6.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (6.38%) dbt
7 3 (6.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) DNS
2 5 (10.64%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.38%) HTTP
3 3 (6.38%) SMTP
4 2 (4.26%) DHCP
4 2 (4.26%) Firewall
4 2 (4.26%) FTP
4 2 (4.26%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.26%) SSL
4 2 (4.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (8.51%) DynamoDB
3 4 (8.51%) Power BI
4 3 (6.38%) Apache Iceberg
5 2 (4.26%) Amazon Aurora
5 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.26%) Data Vault
5 2 (4.26%) Flink
5 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (2.13%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (2.13%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.13%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (2.13%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.13%) Star Schema
6 1 (2.13%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 12 (25.53%) Jenkins
2 8 (17.02%) JIRA
3 5 (10.64%) Git
4 4 (8.51%) Postman
4 4 (8.51%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.38%) GitLab
5 3 (6.38%) Selenium
5 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.38%) Subversion
6 2 (4.26%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.26%) JMeter
6 2 (4.26%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.26%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.13%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.13%) Jaeger
7 1 (2.13%) Serena SBM
7 1 (2.13%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (25.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Banking
4 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.38%) Retail
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Advertising
7 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.13%) International Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Developer
2 7 (14.89%) Lead
2 7 (14.89%) Senior
3 6 (12.77%) Software Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Data Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Architect
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) QA Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Product Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Products Support Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Security Architect
7 2 (4.26%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) Kafka
1 6 (12.77%) Pandas
1 6 (12.77%) REST
2 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) Node.js
2 5 (10.64%) NumPy
2 5 (10.64%) OAuth
3 4 (8.51%) OpenID
3 4 (8.51%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (8.51%) React
4 3 (6.38%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (6.38%) OAuth2
5 2 (4.26%) FastAPI
5 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
5 2 (4.26%) Jest
5 2 (4.26%) LDAP
5 2 (4.26%) PySpark
5 2 (4.26%) pytest
5 2 (4.26%) RESTful
6 1 (2.13%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.38%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.26%) Clustering
3 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.13%) CUDA
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.13%) Replication
3 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Windows
3 5 (10.64%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.38%) Unix
5 2 (4.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.26%) Solaris
6 1 (2.13%) VMS
6 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (59.57%) CI/CD
2 21 (44.68%) DevOps
3 15 (31.91%) Agile
4 14 (29.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (25.53%) Software Engineering
6 11 (23.40%) Test Automation
7 8 (17.02%) Data Modelling
8 7 (14.89%) Containerisation
8 7 (14.89%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.77%) Analytics
9 6 (12.77%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (12.77%) Observability
9 6 (12.77%) Performance Testing
9 6 (12.77%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (10.64%) API Integration
10 5 (10.64%) ETL
11 4 (8.51%) Code Quality
11 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
11 4 (8.51%) Microservices
11 4 (8.51%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Python
2 9 (19.15%) C#
2 9 (19.15%) SQL
3 8 (17.02%) Bash
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
3 8 (17.02%) PowerShell
4 5 (10.64%) Java
5 4 (8.51%) Perl
5 4 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 3 (6.38%) C++
6 3 (6.38%) Go
6 3 (6.38%) Rust
7 2 (4.26%) Bicep
7 2 (4.26%) Ruby
7 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
8 1 (2.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
1 4 (8.51%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.26%) Degree
3 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) QA
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (6.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (23.40%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.13%) Lustre
4 1 (2.13%) NFS
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.13%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.13%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 21 (44.68%) Terraform
2 17 (36.17%) Kubernetes
3 8 (17.02%) Ansible
4 5 (10.64%) Grafana
5 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.38%) Progress Chef
7 2 (4.26%) Control-M
7 2 (4.26%) QRadar
7 2 (4.26%) Tivoli
8 1 (2.13%) Argo
8 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.13%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (2.13%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.13%) Netcool
8 1 (2.13%) Podman
8 1 (2.13%) Puppet
8 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.64%) VMware
2 4 (8.51%) Databricks
2 4 (8.51%) IBM
2 4 (8.51%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.38%) Confluent
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
3 3 (6.38%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.38%) Splunk
4 2 (4.26%) BMC
4 2 (4.26%) CyberArk
4 2 (4.26%) Google
4 2 (4.26%) Qualys
5 1 (2.13%) GoldenSource
5 1 (2.13%) Informatica
5 1 (2.13%) Juniper
5 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (2.13%) Serena
5 1 (2.13%) TOWER Software