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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 82 89
Rank change year-on-year +23 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing GitHub 69 47 51
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.84% 2.20% 1.93%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.24% 5.59% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 23 37
10th Percentile £343 £454 £370
25th Percentile £413 £517 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -10.20% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £669 £731 £675
90th Percentile £732 £764 £724
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -6.46%

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 747 841 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.57% 39.37% 41.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 562 544 773
10th Percentile £325 £400 £363
25th Percentile £425 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £749 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 8
10th Percentile £32.35 £32.05 -
25th Percentile £37.56 £39.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £56.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -23.41% +169.88% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.96 £76.13 £40.69
90th Percentile £72.53 £85.95 £56.25
Central London median hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year +6.43% +68.67% +1.22%

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 13 December 2025.

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 (7.25%) Confluence
2 2 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 38 (55.07%) GitHub Actions
2 33 (47.83%) Azure
3 28 (40.58%) AWS
4 15 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (15.94%) Amazon ECS
5 11 (15.94%) Amazon S3
5 11 (15.94%) GCP
5 11 (15.94%) Serverless
6 10 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (13.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 7 (10.14%) Azure AKS
9 6 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
9 6 (8.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (8.70%) Cloud Run
10 5 (7.25%) Amazon ECR
10 5 (7.25%) Apigee
10 5 (7.25%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (7.25%) Power Platform
11 4 (5.80%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (5.80%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
2 2 (2.90%) DNS
3 1 (1.45%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.25%) DynamoDB
2 4 (5.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.35%) MySQL
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon Aurora
4 2 (2.90%) Amazon QuickSight
4 2 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.90%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.90%) Tick Data
5 1 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.45%) Data Hub
5 1 (1.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.45%) DataStage
5 1 (1.45%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.45%) Power BI
5 1 (1.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (28.99%) Git
2 11 (15.94%) Jenkins
3 9 (13.04%) Bitbucket
4 6 (8.70%) JIRA
5 5 (7.25%) GitLab
6 3 (4.35%) Maven
6 3 (4.35%) Snyk
6 3 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (2.90%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.90%) Gradle
7 2 (2.90%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.45%) Ant
8 1 (1.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.45%) gulp
8 1 (1.45%) JUnit
8 1 (1.45%) Mockito
8 1 (1.45%) Selenium
8 1 (1.45%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.45%) webpack
8 1 (1.45%) Xcode
General
1 16 (23.19%) Finance
2 8 (11.59%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.80%) Banking
4 4 (5.80%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.35%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (2.90%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.45%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.45%) Legal
7 1 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (26.09%) Developer
2 13 (18.84%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (15.94%) Java Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 8 (11.59%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Angular Developer
6 7 (10.14%) AWS Engineer
6 7 (10.14%) Senior
7 6 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 6 (8.70%) Site Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (7.25%) Platform Engineer
9 4 (5.80%) AWS DevOps
9 4 (5.80%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Data Engineer
10 3 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
11 2 (2.90%) Azure Developer
11 2 (2.90%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 2 (2.90%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.29%) REST
2 13 (18.84%) React
3 10 (14.49%) OAuth
4 8 (11.59%) AngularJS
4 8 (11.59%) Node.js
4 8 (11.59%) Spring Boot
5 6 (8.70%) JWT
6 5 (7.25%) FastAPI
6 5 (7.25%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.80%) CSS
7 4 (5.80%) HTML
7 4 (5.80%) LangGraph
7 4 (5.80%) Spring
8 3 (4.35%) HTML5
8 3 (4.35%) LangChain
8 3 (4.35%) Next.js
8 3 (4.35%) Playwright
9 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Graph
9 2 (2.90%) pytest
9 2 (2.90%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Cloud Native
2 4 (5.80%) AI Agents
2 4 (5.80%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (5.80%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.90%) Equities
3 2 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.90%) Life Science
3 2 (2.90%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.90%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.90%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.90%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.90%) Replication
3 2 (2.90%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.45%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) IVR
4 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.45%) PKI
4 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Android
1 2 (2.90%) Apple iOS
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (65.22%) CI/CD
2 40 (57.97%) DevOps
3 24 (34.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (31.88%) Agile
5 18 (26.09%) AI
6 15 (21.74%) Containerisation
6 15 (21.74%) Full-Stack Development
7 14 (20.29%) Microservices
7 14 (20.29%) Test Automation
8 13 (18.84%) Migration
9 11 (15.94%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (13.04%) Generative AI
10 9 (13.04%) TDD
11 8 (11.59%) Analytics
11 8 (11.59%) DevSecOps
12 7 (10.14%) BDD
12 7 (10.14%) LLM
12 7 (10.14%) Observability
12 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
12 7 (10.14%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (46.38%) Python
2 16 (23.19%) Java
3 14 (20.29%) TypeScript
4 10 (14.49%) SQL
5 5 (7.25%) Bash
5 5 (7.25%) C#
5 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.80%) Go
7 2 (2.90%) Bicep
7 2 (2.90%) PromQL
8 1 (1.45%) PHP
8 1 (1.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.45%) Ruby
8 1 (1.45%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.45%) XPath
Qualifications
1 18 (26.09%) SC Cleared
1 18 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.45%) CCSP
3 1 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.45%) CISSP
3 1 (1.45%) Degree
3 1 (1.45%) MCP
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.45%) OSCP
3 1 (1.45%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.70%) GDPR
2 4 (5.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.80%) NIST
3 3 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.35%) EU AI Act
4 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 2 (2.90%) QA
5 1 (1.45%) GRC
5 1 (1.45%) MiFID
5 1 (1.45%) NCSC
5 1 (1.45%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.45%) SOC 2
5 1 (1.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (27.54%) Docker
2 2 (2.90%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.90%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (46.38%) Terraform
2 15 (21.74%) Kubernetes
3 9 (13.04%) Ansible
4 4 (5.80%) Grafana
4 4 (5.80%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.35%) Istio
5 3 (4.35%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.49%) Google
3 5 (7.25%) OpenAI
4 4 (5.80%) Databricks
5 3 (4.35%) Oracle
5 3 (4.35%) Splunk
6 2 (2.90%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.90%) Solace
7 1 (1.45%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.45%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.45%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.45%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.45%) Tenable
7 1 (1.45%) Workday