GitHub Contracts in the City of London

GitHub
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 83 97
Rank change year-on-year -1 +14 +9
Contract jobs citing GitHub 40 93 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.85% 2.62% 2.31%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.69% 6.90% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 40 71
10th Percentile £375 £456 £450
25th Percentile £425 £522 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £648 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.82% +12.61% +12.20%
75th Percentile £699 £752 £675
90th Percentile £785 £830 £738
Central London median daily rate £551 £635 £575
% change year-on-year -13.31% +10.43% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
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 Skills
City of London

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 853 1,348 1,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 39.36% 37.96% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 902 1,441
10th Percentile £363 £313 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £667 £705 £688
90th Percentile £763 £800 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 12
10th Percentile £12.75 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £14.88 £65.57 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £84.09 £17.22
Median % change year-on-year -73.24% +388.40% -7.43%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £25.50
90th Percentile £38.63 - £47.78
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £82.50 £20.19
% change year-on-year -72.73% +308.72% -13.92%

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 7 May 2024.

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 2 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
2 1 (2.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.50%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (62.50%) Azure
2 20 (50.00%) AWS
3 19 (47.50%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (25.00%) Serverless
5 8 (20.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (17.50%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (17.50%) Azure Functions
7 6 (15.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (15.00%) GCP
8 5 (12.50%) Azure AKS
9 4 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (7.50%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (7.50%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
12 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.50%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (2.50%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (2.50%) Datadog
12 1 (2.50%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.50%) MQTT
3 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.50%) VLAN
3 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) NoSQL
2 6 (15.00%) MySQL
3 5 (12.50%) DynamoDB
3 5 (12.50%) Relational Database
4 3 (7.50%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 2 (5.00%) MongoDB
5 2 (5.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (2.50%) Big Data
6 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.50%) CouchDB
6 1 (2.50%) Data Mart
6 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (2.50%) Power BI
6 1 (2.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (27.50%) Jenkins
2 10 (25.00%) Git
3 9 (22.50%) Cypress.io
4 8 (20.00%) GitLab
5 7 (17.50%) CircleCI
6 5 (12.50%) JIRA
6 5 (12.50%) JMeter
7 4 (10.00%) Mercurial
7 4 (10.00%) Postman
8 3 (7.50%) SonarQube
9 2 (5.00%) Appium
9 2 (5.00%) GoCD
9 2 (5.00%) Gradle
9 2 (5.00%) JUnit
9 2 (5.00%) Maven
9 2 (5.00%) Subversion
10 1 (2.50%) Darcs
10 1 (2.50%) Terragrunt
10 1 (2.50%) TestRail
10 1 (2.50%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (25.00%) Finance
2 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Aviation
5 1 (2.50%) Banking
5 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 6 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Full Stack Developer
4 3 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Python Developer
4 3 (7.50%) QA Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) React
2 7 (17.50%) Kafka
2 7 (17.50%) REST
3 6 (15.00%) Node.js
4 4 (10.00%) HTML
4 4 (10.00%) RESTful
4 4 (10.00%) Web Services
5 3 (7.50%) Django
5 3 (7.50%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (7.50%) pytest
6 2 (5.00%) Behat
6 2 (5.00%) CSS
6 2 (5.00%) NumPy
6 2 (5.00%) Pandas
6 2 (5.00%) React Native
6 2 (5.00%) SciPy
6 2 (5.00%) Svelte
6 2 (5.00%) Vue
6 2 (5.00%) YAML
7 1 (2.50%) Nuxt
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (10.00%) Machine to Machine
1 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.00%) Derivative
2 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.50%) BYOD
3 1 (2.50%) CBDC
3 1 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.50%) Genomics
3 1 (2.50%) Legacy Code
3 1 (2.50%) Life Science
3 1 (2.50%) PKI
3 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (27.50%) Linux
2 5 (12.50%) Windows
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.00%) Android
5 1 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 20 (50.00%) DevOps
3 16 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 8 (20.00%) Open Source
6 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (17.50%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (15.00%) Architectural Design
7 6 (15.00%) Microservices
7 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
8 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (12.50%) TDD
8 5 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
9 4 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
9 4 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
9 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (10.00%) Scrum
9 4 (10.00%) SDLC
9 4 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (55.00%) Python
2 14 (35.00%) SQL
3 6 (15.00%) Java
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 4 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (7.50%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) C++
6 3 (7.50%) PHP
6 3 (7.50%) Rust
6 3 (7.50%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 1 (2.50%) C
8 1 (2.50%) Go
8 1 (2.50%) R
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.00%) SANS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.00%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) NIST
3 2 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.50%) NCSC
4 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Docker
2 3 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.50%) Ceph
4 1 (2.50%) iptables
4 1 (2.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 21 (52.50%) Terraform
2 17 (42.50%) Kubernetes
3 6 (15.00%) Ansible
3 6 (15.00%) Argo
4 4 (10.00%) Progress Chef
4 4 (10.00%) Puppet
5 3 (7.50%) Grafana
5 3 (7.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (5.00%) Graylog
6 2 (5.00%) Kibana
6 2 (5.00%) logstash
6 2 (5.00%) Nagios
7 1 (2.50%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (2.50%) HP Fortify
7 1 (2.50%) Mesos
7 1 (2.50%) Nessus
7 1 (2.50%) Packer
7 1 (2.50%) PingFederate
7 1 (2.50%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (2.50%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.50%) IBM
4 1 (2.50%) New Relic
4 1 (2.50%) Oracle
4 1 (2.50%) Veracode