GitHub Contract Job Trends in Richmond upon Thames

GitHub
West London > Richmond upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames citing GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	14	-	-
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing GitHub	7	0	0
As % of all contract jobs in Richmond upon Thames	9.72%	-	-
As % of the Cloud Services category	33.33%	-	-
Number of daily rates quoted	7	0	0
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£560	-	-
West London median daily rate	£560	£400	£586
% change year-on-year	+40.00%	-31.74%	+11.62%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Richmond upon Thames

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies citing cloud computing skills in Richmond upon Thames.

	6 months to 1 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing cloud computing skills	21	8	13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Richmond upon Thames	29.17%	44.44%	76.47%
Number of daily rates quoted	21	8	12
10^th Percentile	-	£335	£207
25^th Percentile	£400	£516	£514
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£520	£576	£575
Median % change year-on-year	-9.76%	+0.22%	+6.98%
75^th Percentile	£560	£625	£628
90^th Percentile	-	£629	£649
West London median daily rate	£520	£450	£490
% change year-on-year	+15.56%	-8.16%	-10.91%

GitHub Job Vacancy Trend in Richmond upon Thames

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

GitHub Daily Rate Trend in Richmond upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Richmond upon Thames citing GitHub.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames

For the 6 months to 1 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Richmond upon Thames region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	.NET	100.0%	7
1	AI	100.0%	7
1	AWS	100.0%	7
1	C#	100.0%	7
1	CI/CD	100.0%	7
1	Gatling	100.0%	7
1	Grafana	100.0%	7
1	JMeter	100.0%	7
1	Model Context Protocol	100.0%	7
1	Observability	100.0%	7
1	OpenTelemetry	100.0%	7
1	Prometheus	100.0%	7
13	Kibana	85.7%	6
13	Splunk	85.7%	6
15	Amazon ECS	14.3%	1
15	Amazon EKS	14.3%	1
15	Anomaly Detection	14.3%	1
15	Auto-Scaling	14.3%	1
15	AWS Lambda	14.3%	1
15	Capacity Planning	14.3%	1
15	DynamoDB	14.3%	1
15	GitHub Actions	14.3%	1
15	Kubernetes	14.3%	1
15	Performance Engineering	14.3%	1
15	PostgreSQL	14.3%	1
15	Roadmaps	14.3%	1
15	Serverless	14.3%	1
15	Service-Level Objective	14.3%	1
15	Stress Testing	14.3%	1
15	Test Strategy	14.3%	1

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Richmond upon Thames by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	AWS	100.0%	7
2	Amazon ECS	14.3%	1
2	Amazon EKS	14.3%	1
2	AWS Lambda	14.3%	1
2	GitHub Actions	14.3%	1
2	Serverless	14.3%	1