GitHub Contracts in London

GitHub
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 133 105
Rank change year-on-year +38 -28 +16
Contract jobs citing GitHub 361 335 605
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.92% 1.90% 2.41%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.77% 4.86% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 221 389
10th Percentile £400 £363 £425
25th Percentile £448 £443 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £623
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -15.66% +7.89%
75th Percentile £671 £625 £738
90th Percentile £799 £700 £825
England median daily rate £525 £525 £598
% change year-on-year - -12.13% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £57.75 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -35.83% +44.00%
England median hourly rate £27.50 £70.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -60.71% +3.70% -6.57%

All Cloud 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 5,329 6,898 9,875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.07% 39.14% 39.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,620 5,076 7,274
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -5.17% +0.87%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £694
90th Percentile £788 £780 £788
England median daily rate £516 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 65 75
10th Percentile £22.50 £16.85 £19.36
25th Percentile £24.66 £22.00 £23.38
Median hourly rate £30.54 £26.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.44% -50.48% +23.53%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.13 £77.50
90th Percentile £69.38 £56.50 £89.32
England median hourly rate £25.01 £21.46 £34.90
% change year-on-year +16.52% -38.51% +62.31%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing GitHub in London.

Daily rate trend for GitHub in London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in London over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in London

GitHub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing GitHub in London.

Hourly rate trend for GitHub in London

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 17 June 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
Central London +10 47 £525 -4.68% 495
West London +11 7 £565 -13.08% 107
East London +14 3 - - 101
South London -1 1 - - 31
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 27 (7.48%) Confluence
2 21 (5.82%) Apache Airflow
3 8 (2.22%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.66%) Apache
4 6 (1.66%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.39%) CMS
6 4 (1.11%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.83%) nginx
7 3 (0.83%) WordPress
8 2 (0.55%) IIS
9 1 (0.28%) Drupal
9 1 (0.28%) JBoss
9 1 (0.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Trello
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) SAP BPC
1 2 (0.55%) Shopify
2 1 (0.28%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.28%) Endur
2 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 189 (52.35%) AWS
2 162 (44.88%) Azure
3 140 (38.78%) GitHub Actions
4 59 (16.34%) Azure DevOps
5 56 (15.51%) GCP
6 47 (13.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 38 (10.53%) Serverless
8 33 (9.14%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (7.76%) dbt
10 26 (7.20%) Amazon S3
11 22 (6.09%) Entra ID
12 21 (5.82%) SaaS
13 19 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (5.26%) Power Platform
14 15 (4.16%) Snowflake
15 14 (3.88%) Amazon EKS
16 13 (3.60%) Azure AKS
17 12 (3.32%) OpenShift
18 11 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
18 11 (3.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.14%) DNS
2 19 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 15 (4.16%) Firewall
4 13 (3.60%) HTTP
5 11 (3.05%) VPN
6 8 (2.22%) DHCP
6 8 (2.22%) SMTP
7 6 (1.66%) Network Security
8 5 (1.39%) SSL
9 4 (1.11%) FTP
9 4 (1.11%) LAN
9 4 (1.11%) WAN
10 3 (0.83%) BGP
10 3 (0.83%) IPsec
10 3 (0.83%) Multicast
10 3 (0.83%) OSPF
10 3 (0.83%) VLAN
11 2 (0.55%) Ethernet VPN
11 2 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
11 2 (0.55%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
3 22 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 16 (4.43%) NoSQL
5 15 (4.16%) Power BI
6 11 (3.05%) DynamoDB
7 10 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (2.49%) Big Data
8 9 (2.49%) Metadata
9 8 (2.22%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.22%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.94%) Amazon Athena
10 7 (1.94%) Data Vault
10 7 (1.94%) Snowflake Schema
11 6 (1.66%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.39%) MySQL
12 5 (1.39%) Redis
13 4 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (1.11%) HPCC
14 3 (0.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 89 (24.65%) Jenkins
2 64 (17.73%) Git
3 50 (13.85%) GitLab
4 45 (12.47%) JIRA
5 20 (5.54%) Bitbucket
6 19 (5.26%) CircleCI
7 18 (4.99%) Artifactory
8 16 (4.43%) Subversion
9 14 (3.88%) Gradle
9 14 (3.88%) SonarQube
10 12 (3.32%) TeamCity
11 10 (2.77%) Cypress.io
12 9 (2.49%) Burp Suite
12 9 (2.49%) Cucumber
12 9 (2.49%) Metasploit
12 9 (2.49%) Postman
13 8 (2.22%) Terragrunt
13 8 (2.22%) Visual Studio Code
14 7 (1.94%) git-flow
14 7 (1.94%) Selenium
General
1 105 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 85 (23.55%) Finance
3 46 (12.74%) Public Sector
4 33 (9.14%) Banking
5 29 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (3.32%) Investment Banking
6 12 (3.32%) Marketing
7 8 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (1.94%) Retail
9 6 (1.66%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.66%) Front Office
9 6 (1.66%) Military
10 4 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.83%) Legal
11 3 (0.83%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.55%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.28%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 84 (23.27%) Developer
2 55 (15.24%) Senior
3 48 (13.30%) Architect
4 31 (8.59%) Lead
5 30 (8.31%) Azure Engineer
6 29 (8.03%) DevOps Engineer
7 27 (7.48%) AWS Engineer
7 27 (7.48%) Cloud Engineer
8 26 (7.20%) Data Engineer
9 24 (6.65%) Software Engineer
10 15 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
10 15 (4.16%) Python Developer
11 12 (3.32%) AWS DevOps
11 12 (3.32%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.32%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.05%) AWS DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.05%) Consultant
12 11 (3.05%) Python Engineer
12 11 (3.05%) Senior Architect
12 11 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (13.85%) REST
2 38 (10.53%) Node.js
3 33 (9.14%) React
4 27 (7.48%) HTML
5 23 (6.37%) CSS
6 22 (6.09%) RESTful
7 21 (5.82%) Kafka
8 18 (4.99%) .NET
8 18 (4.99%) OAuth
9 16 (4.43%) JSON
9 16 (4.43%) Pandas
9 16 (4.43%) pytest
9 16 (4.43%) Spring
10 15 (4.16%) Jest
10 15 (4.16%) NumPy
11 14 (3.88%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (3.60%) GraphQL
12 13 (3.60%) Jinja
12 13 (3.60%) OAuth2
12 13 (3.60%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 28 (7.76%) Public Cloud
2 17 (4.71%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.05%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (3.05%) Greenfield Project
4 10 (2.77%) Clustering
4 10 (2.77%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.22%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.94%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.94%) Mobile App
7 6 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.39%) Replication
8 5 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 3 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.83%) Product Ownership
9 3 (0.83%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.83%) Vector Graphics
9 3 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (11.91%) Linux
2 20 (5.54%) Windows
3 12 (3.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.49%) Android
4 9 (2.49%) Unix
5 6 (1.66%) Solaris
6 5 (1.39%) VMS
7 3 (0.83%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.83%) CentOS
7 3 (0.83%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.55%) SUSE
9 1 (0.28%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (58.45%) CI/CD
2 150 (41.55%) DevOps
3 129 (35.73%) Agile
4 101 (27.98%) Infrastructure as Code
5 56 (15.51%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (14.40%) Analytics
7 49 (13.57%) Test Automation
8 48 (13.30%) Software Engineering
9 45 (12.47%) Containerisation
9 45 (12.47%) Microservices
10 41 (11.36%) Scrum
11 38 (10.53%) Data Modelling
12 33 (9.14%) Artificial Intelligence
13 29 (8.03%) Continuous Integration
13 29 (8.03%) Migration
14 28 (7.76%) Observability
14 28 (7.76%) SDLC
15 27 (7.48%) Data Pipeline
15 27 (7.48%) Data Science
15 27 (7.48%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 165 (45.71%) Python
2 74 (20.50%) SQL
3 62 (17.17%) Java
4 60 (16.62%) JavaScript
5 44 (12.19%) Bash
6 42 (11.63%) TypeScript
7 36 (9.97%) PowerShell
8 32 (8.86%) C#
9 22 (6.09%) Kotlin
10 17 (4.71%) Go
11 13 (3.60%) C++
12 12 (3.32%) Groovy
12 12 (3.32%) Scala
13 11 (3.05%) Perl
14 8 (2.22%) Bicep
15 6 (1.66%) Rust
15 6 (1.66%) Shell Script
16 5 (1.39%) C
16 5 (1.39%) PHP
17 4 (1.11%) CodeQL
Qualifications
1 81 (22.44%) Security Cleared
2 73 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 26 (7.20%) Degree
4 16 (4.43%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.49%) CREST Certified
6 9 (2.49%) OSCP
7 8 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.22%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.22%) Tigerscheme
8 7 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 6 (1.66%) CHECK Team Member
9 6 (1.66%) DV Cleared
10 3 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.83%) CISSP
10 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (0.83%) OCP
10 3 (0.83%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.55%) CISM
11 2 (0.55%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (8.59%) QA
2 13 (3.60%) Data Quality
2 13 (3.60%) GDPR
3 12 (3.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 10 (2.77%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.49%) NCSC
5 9 (2.49%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.39%) HIPAA
7 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.55%) WCAG
9 1 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) HL7
9 1 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.28%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (21.88%) Docker
2 18 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (2.22%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.83%) Lustre
7 2 (0.55%) Firmware
7 2 (0.55%) NFS
7 2 (0.55%) Veritas File System
7 2 (0.55%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 2 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.55%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.28%) iptables
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 149 (41.27%) Terraform
2 114 (31.58%) Kubernetes
3 57 (15.79%) Ansible
4 29 (8.03%) Grafana
5 23 (6.37%) Prometheus
6 17 (4.71%) Puppet
7 9 (2.49%) Nmap
7 9 (2.49%) Progress Chef
8 8 (2.22%) Red Hat Satellite
9 6 (1.66%) Argo
9 6 (1.66%) QRadar
9 6 (1.66%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (1.39%) Tivoli
11 4 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (1.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (0.83%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.83%) Istio
12 3 (0.83%) Karpenter
12 3 (0.83%) Nessus
12 3 (0.83%) Podman
Vendors
1 32 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.59%) Google
3 17 (4.71%) Databricks
3 17 (4.71%) VMware
4 14 (3.88%) Oracle
4 14 (3.88%) Red Hat
4 14 (3.88%) Splunk
5 10 (2.77%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.49%) Qualys
6 9 (2.49%) Veracode
7 8 (2.22%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.94%) CyberArk
8 7 (1.94%) IBM
8 7 (1.94%) SaltStack
9 6 (1.66%) Adobe
9 6 (1.66%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.66%) SAP
10 5 (1.39%) Cisco
10 5 (1.39%) MicroStrategy
10 5 (1.39%) Virgin Media