GitHub Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

GitHub
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 11 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.55% 1.75% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.76% 4.35% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £464 - -
25th Percentile £466 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 -
75th Percentile £484 £488 -
90th Percentile £486 - -
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £615
% change year-on-year -8.33% -2.44% -0.23%

All Cloud Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 17 23 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 38.64% 40.35% 23.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 11
10th Percentile £417 £420 £425
25th Percentile £466 £463 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -12.50% +41.18%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £775
90th Percentile £788 - £850
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £18.54 - -
25th Percentile £18.59 - -
Median hourly rate £18.94 - -
75th Percentile £19.34 - -
90th Percentile £19.44 - -
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +84.21% -7.32%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster 0 1 £475 - 3
Paddington - 1 £475 -
GitHub
Central London

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Site Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Fastify
1 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
1 1 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Application Security
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Blocking Code
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk