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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 84 81
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 +29
Contract jobs citing GitHub 45 43 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.66% 1.99% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.18% 4.99% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 41
10th Percentile £414 £424 £451
25th Percentile £480 £491 £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £595 £645
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -7.75% +12.17%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £731
90th Percentile £669 £741 £825
Central London median daily rate £538 £558 £635
% change year-on-year -3.67% -12.13% +9.25%
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 728 862 1,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.98% 39.98% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 597 879
10th Percentile £363 £363 £313
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £669 £656 £700
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £535 £580
% change year-on-year +2.80% -7.76% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 9
10th Percentile £23.03 £12.75 £30.45
25th Percentile £24.66 £14.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £31.58 £22.50 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.33% -72.73% +211.32%
75th Percentile £47.50 £26.19 £88.30
90th Percentile £108.75 £38.63 -
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +26.67% -66.67% +98.53%

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 2 June 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 3 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (4.44%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 25 (55.56%) Azure
2 20 (44.44%) AWS
3 19 (42.22%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) GCP
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (11.11%) Serverless
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (8.89%) Entra ID
7 4 (8.89%) SaaS
8 3 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 3 (6.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 2 (4.44%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
9 2 (4.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.78%) DNS
2 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.67%) HTTP
3 3 (6.67%) SMTP
4 2 (4.44%) DHCP
4 2 (4.44%) Firewall
4 2 (4.44%) FTP
4 2 (4.44%) Kerberos
4 2 (4.44%) SSL
4 2 (4.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 3 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.67%) Power BI
3 2 (4.44%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (4.44%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.22%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.22%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.22%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.22%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.22%) Metadata
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database 12c
4 1 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.22%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 9 (20.00%) JIRA
3 5 (11.11%) GitLab
4 4 (8.89%) TeamCity
5 3 (6.67%) Git
5 3 (6.67%) Postman
5 3 (6.67%) Selenium
5 3 (6.67%) Subversion
6 2 (4.44%) Artifactory
6 2 (4.44%) Gradle
6 2 (4.44%) JMeter
6 2 (4.44%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.44%) Maven
6 2 (4.44%) REST Assured
6 2 (4.44%) Terragrunt
7 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (2.22%) CircleCI
7 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
7 1 (2.22%) Travis CI
7 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (17.78%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Retail
5 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.22%) Advertising
6 1 (2.22%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.22%) International Banking
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Military
6 1 (2.22%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Developer
1 8 (17.78%) Senior
2 7 (15.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (11.11%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Lead
5 3 (6.67%) Architect
5 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Principal Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (17.78%) Node.js
2 6 (13.33%) .NET
3 5 (11.11%) Pandas
3 5 (11.11%) REST
4 4 (8.89%) GraphQL
4 4 (8.89%) NumPy
4 4 (8.89%) React
5 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (6.67%) Kafka
5 3 (6.67%) OAuth
5 3 (6.67%) OpenID
5 3 (6.67%) OpenTelemetry
6 2 (4.44%) ADO
6 2 (4.44%) FastAPI
6 2 (4.44%) Jest
6 2 (4.44%) LDAP
6 2 (4.44%) OAuth2
6 2 (4.44%) PySpark
6 2 (4.44%) pytest
7 1 (2.22%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (4.44%) Clustering
2 2 (4.44%) IVR
2 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.22%) CUDA
3 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.22%) Educational Technology
3 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.22%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (2.22%) Replication
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
5 2 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (4.44%) Solaris
6 1 (2.22%) VMS
6 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) CI/CD
2 25 (55.56%) DevOps
3 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (31.11%) Agile
5 11 (24.44%) Software Engineering
6 10 (22.22%) Test Automation
7 9 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 8 (17.78%) Microservices
8 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.56%) Observability
9 7 (15.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 5 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 5 (11.11%) Performance Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Analytics
11 4 (8.89%) API Integration
11 4 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (8.89%) Code Quality
11 4 (8.89%) Configuration Management
12 3 (6.67%) Platform Engineering
12 3 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 26 (57.78%) Python
2 9 (20.00%) Bash
2 9 (20.00%) C#
3 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
3 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
4 7 (15.56%) SQL
5 6 (13.33%) Java
6 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
7 4 (8.89%) Perl
8 3 (6.67%) C++
8 3 (6.67%) Go
8 3 (6.67%) Rust
9 2 (4.44%) Bicep
9 2 (4.44%) Ruby
9 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
9 2 (4.44%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.22%) Apex Code
10 1 (2.22%) Kotlin
10 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.22%) Lustre
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas File System
4 1 (2.22%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 24 (53.33%) Terraform
2 20 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 10 (22.22%) Ansible
4 7 (15.56%) Grafana
5 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
6 3 (6.67%) Istio
6 3 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 3 (6.67%) Puppet
7 2 (4.44%) Control-M
7 2 (4.44%) QRadar
7 2 (4.44%) Tivoli
8 1 (2.22%) Argo
8 1 (2.22%) Data Guard
8 1 (2.22%) EMC NetWorker
8 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
8 1 (2.22%) Karpenter
8 1 (2.22%) Netcool
8 1 (2.22%) Podman
8 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (2.22%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Databricks
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.11%) Splunk
2 5 (11.11%) VMware
3 4 (8.89%) Google
3 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
4 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) SAP
4 3 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.44%) BMC
5 2 (4.44%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.44%) IBM
5 2 (4.44%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.44%) Qualys
6 1 (2.22%) NETGEAR
6 1 (2.22%) Serena
6 1 (2.22%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.22%) TOWER Software
6 1 (2.22%) TP-LINK