GitHub Contract Job Trends in London

GitHub
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 89 119
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -12
Contract jobs citing GitHub 803 424 348
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.98% 3.13% 2.15%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.59% 7.25% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 275 253
10th Percentile £411 £377 £310
25th Percentile £456 £436 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £638
90th Percentile £713 £783 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 £100.00 -
Median hourly rate £45.00 £105.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% - -
75th Percentile £47.50 £110.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.68 £105.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -37.45% +50.00% -9.68%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 8,372 5,846 6,590
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.46% 43.10% 40.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,700 4,002 4,772
10th Percentile £363 £337 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.12% -2.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 90 50
10th Percentile £18.90 £22.95 £20.45
25th Percentile £23.14 £24.83 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £27.75
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +4.76% -49.55%
75th Percentile £57.50 £46.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £76.93 £72.68 £58.35
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.15 £23.98
% change year-on-year +35.76% +9.07% -25.80%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in London

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in London over the 6 months to 16 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in London

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the London region over the 6 months to 16 August 2026. 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
Central London +29 99 £538 +8.04% 41
West London -2 22 £560 +34.94% 23
South London +8 15 £495 +10.00% 7
East London 0 1 £432 +20.00% 15
North London - 1 £650 - 2
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 46 (5.73%) Confluence
2 42 (5.23%) Apache Airflow
3 18 (2.24%) Apache Spark
3 18 (2.24%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.74%) Apache
5 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.62%) nginx
7 4 (0.50%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.25%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.25%) CMS
8 2 (0.25%) Mendix
9 1 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) IIS
9 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
9 1 (0.12%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.75%) Chatbot
3 5 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.50%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.50%) Trello
5 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Notion
Business Applications
1 6 (0.75%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.62%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.37%) Findur
3 3 (0.37%) SAP BPC
3 3 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.25%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.12%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.12%) Sage X3
5 1 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.12%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 445 (55.42%) Azure
2 438 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
3 361 (44.96%) AWS
4 266 (33.13%) Azure DevOps
5 103 (12.83%) GCP
6 93 (11.58%) Serverless
7 89 (11.08%) Amazon S3
8 83 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
9 76 (9.46%) Azure Monitor
10 68 (8.47%) AWS Lambda
11 65 (8.09%) Amazon EKS
12 60 (7.47%) Azure AKS
13 59 (7.35%) Entra ID
14 55 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 54 (6.72%) Power Platform
16 53 (6.60%) Snowflake
17 48 (5.98%) Amazon EC2
18 46 (5.73%) AWS CloudFormation
19 40 (4.98%) Amazon ECS
20 38 (4.73%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.73%) VPN
2 37 (4.61%) Firewall
3 28 (3.49%) DNS
4 22 (2.74%) Network Security
5 12 (1.49%) BGP
6 8 (1.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.00%) Wireless
7 7 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 7 (0.87%) IPsec
7 7 (0.87%) OSPF
7 7 (0.87%) VLAN
8 6 (0.75%) SSL
8 6 (0.75%) WAN
9 5 (0.62%) Ethernet VPN
9 5 (0.62%) Internet
9 5 (0.62%) NX-OS
9 5 (0.62%) SSH
9 5 (0.62%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.50%) OpenVPN
10 4 (0.50%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (7.35%) PostgreSQL
2 47 (5.85%) Data Lake
2 47 (5.85%) NoSQL
2 47 (5.85%) SQL Server
3 43 (5.35%) Power BI
4 40 (4.98%) MongoDB
5 31 (3.86%) Azure SQL Database
6 30 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
7 26 (3.24%) Delta Lake
7 26 (3.24%) Redis
8 23 (2.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 23 (2.86%) DynamoDB
8 23 (2.86%) Metadata
9 22 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
10 20 (2.49%) Relational Database
11 19 (2.37%) Amazon Athena
12 14 (1.74%) BigQuery
13 13 (1.62%) Big Data
14 12 (1.49%) Snowflake Schema
15 11 (1.37%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 202 (25.16%) Jenkins
2 162 (20.17%) GitLab
3 143 (17.81%) Git
4 68 (8.47%) JIRA
5 35 (4.36%) JUnit
6 33 (4.11%) Selenium
7 30 (3.74%) Cypress.io
8 26 (3.24%) CircleCI
9 25 (3.11%) SonarQube
10 21 (2.62%) Bitbucket
10 21 (2.62%) Cucumber
11 19 (2.37%) JMeter
12 18 (2.24%) Postman
13 17 (2.12%) Gradle
14 16 (1.99%) Mockito
14 16 (1.99%) REST Assured
15 15 (1.87%) Maven
16 14 (1.74%) Claude Code
17 13 (1.62%) Snyk
18 12 (1.49%) MLflow
General
1 197 (24.53%) Finance
2 196 (24.41%) Social Skills
3 89 (11.08%) Public Sector
4 71 (8.84%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (7.22%) Banking
6 24 (2.99%) Retail
7 15 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
8 14 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 13 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (1.49%) Law
11 10 (1.25%) Legal
12 8 (1.00%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.75%) Back Office
14 6 (0.75%) Front Office
14 6 (0.75%) Local Government
15 5 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.62%) Publishing
16 4 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 150 (18.68%) Senior
2 137 (17.06%) Developer
3 104 (12.95%) DevOps Engineer
4 79 (9.84%) Architect
5 76 (9.46%) Data Engineer
6 69 (8.59%) Lead
7 58 (7.22%) Cloud Engineer
8 52 (6.48%) Azure Engineer
9 51 (6.35%) AWS Engineer
10 43 (5.35%) Platform Engineer
11 37 (4.61%) Senior Developer
12 36 (4.48%) Software Engineer
13 33 (4.11%) Java Developer
14 31 (3.86%) Full-Stack Developer
15 29 (3.61%) Test Engineer
16 28 (3.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (3.36%) Technical Architect
18 24 (2.99%) Python Developer
19 23 (2.86%) Azure DevOps Engineer
20 22 (2.74%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 135 (16.81%) REST
2 92 (11.46%) Kafka
3 91 (11.33%) RESTful
4 76 (9.46%) React
5 73 (9.09%) .NET
6 64 (7.97%) Spring
7 55 (6.85%) Spring Boot
8 41 (5.11%) PySpark
9 38 (4.73%) Playwright
10 31 (3.86%) FastAPI
11 30 (3.74%) AngularJS
11 30 (3.74%) Node.js
11 30 (3.74%) YAML
12 25 (3.11%) OAuth
13 24 (2.99%) .NET Framework
13 24 (2.99%) JSON
14 23 (2.86%) HTML
15 20 (2.49%) OpenTelemetry
16 19 (2.37%) CSS
16 19 (2.37%) Model Context Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 170 (21.17%) Cloud Native
2 77 (9.59%) Distributed Systems
3 35 (4.36%) AI Agents
4 26 (3.24%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.49%) Mobile App
6 17 (2.12%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (1.99%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.87%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.62%) Algorithms
9 13 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
10 12 (1.49%) Security Posture
11 11 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.37%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
12 9 (1.12%) Hedge funds
13 8 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 59 (7.35%) Linux
2 35 (4.36%) Windows
3 24 (2.99%) Unix
4 18 (2.24%) Android
5 13 (1.62%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.49%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (0.62%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.37%) VMS
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.12%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 595 (74.10%) CI/CD
2 475 (59.15%) DevOps
3 311 (38.73%) Infrastructure as Code
4 291 (36.24%) Agile
5 199 (24.78%) AI
6 196 (24.41%) Test Automation
7 180 (22.42%) Containerisation
8 175 (21.79%) Observability
9 153 (19.05%) Microservices
10 136 (16.94%) Software Engineering
11 115 (14.32%) Platform Engineering
12 105 (13.08%) Analytics
13 104 (12.95%) Continuous Improvement
14 95 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
15 93 (11.58%) Data Pipeline
16 92 (11.46%) Event-Driven
17 84 (10.46%) Data Engineering
18 81 (10.09%) Data Modelling
19 80 (9.96%) Mentoring
19 80 (9.96%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 341 (42.47%) Python
2 227 (28.27%) SQL
3 152 (18.93%) Java
4 104 (12.95%) C#
5 98 (12.20%) TypeScript
6 94 (11.71%) Bash
6 94 (11.71%) PowerShell
7 85 (10.59%) JavaScript
8 62 (7.72%) Bicep
9 26 (3.24%) Kotlin
10 24 (2.99%) Shell Script
11 22 (2.74%) Ruby
12 17 (2.12%) Go
13 10 (1.25%) Scala
13 10 (1.25%) Swift
14 7 (0.87%) Objective-C
15 6 (0.75%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.75%) Groovy
16 5 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.62%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 268 (33.37%) Security Cleared
2 247 (30.76%) SC Cleared
3 40 (4.98%) Azure Certification
4 36 (4.48%) Degree
5 21 (2.62%) AWS Certification
6 16 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 13 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 11 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.87%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 6 (0.75%) Master's Degree
12 5 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.50%) CISSP
14 3 (0.37%) GIAC
14 3 (0.37%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
14 3 (0.37%) PMI Certification
14 3 (0.37%) PMP
15 2 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
15 2 (0.25%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (12.83%) QA
2 52 (6.48%) Data Quality
3 31 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 19 (2.37%) GDPR
5 10 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (1.25%) NIST
6 7 (0.87%) WCAG
7 6 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.62%) PSD2
9 4 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.50%) SEPA
10 3 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
10 3 (0.37%) GRC
10 3 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS
12 1 (0.12%) IFRS 9
12 1 (0.12%) SLA
12 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 242 (30.14%) Docker
2 24 (2.99%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.62%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.37%) IAG
6 3 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.37%) vSphere
7 2 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 1 (0.12%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 368 (45.83%) Terraform
2 279 (34.74%) Kubernetes
3 96 (11.96%) Grafana
4 85 (10.59%) Ansible
5 84 (10.46%) Prometheus
6 23 (2.86%) Argo
7 12 (1.49%) Control-M
7 12 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
8 11 (1.37%) Puppet
9 10 (1.25%) Kibana
10 9 (1.12%) Packer
11 8 (1.00%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.62%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.50%) HP Fortify
13 4 (0.50%) Istio
13 4 (0.50%) Karpenter
13 4 (0.50%) SCCM
14 3 (0.37%) Bosun
14 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
14 3 (0.37%) SELinux
Vendors
1 154 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 66 (8.22%) Databricks
3 44 (5.48%) Splunk
4 43 (5.35%) Google
5 33 (4.11%) Oracle
6 28 (3.49%) OpenAI
6 28 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 21 (2.62%) Dynatrace
8 19 (2.37%) Informatica
9 17 (2.12%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.74%) Cisco
10 14 (1.74%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.74%) VMware
11 13 (1.62%) New Relic
12 12 (1.49%) Red Hat
13 11 (1.37%) Zscaler
14 10 (1.25%) AppDynamics
14 10 (1.25%) Foundry
15 9 (1.12%) SAP
16 8 (1.00%) IBM