GitHub Contracts in South London

GitHub
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 38 52
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 -8
Contract jobs citing GitHub 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.08% 1.65% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 3.25% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £316 £472
25th Percentile - £340 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £380 £494
Median % change year-on-year - -23.04% -29.46%
75th Percentile - £440 £505
90th Percentile - £476 £506
London median daily rate £550 £525 £625
% change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +7.78%

All Cloud Skills
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 73 123 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 39.46% 50.83% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 96 125
10th Percentile £380 £206 £277
25th Percentile £463 £407 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.30% -3.75% -2.91%
75th Percentile £544 £540 £649
90th Percentile £700 £630 £725
London median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £20.25
25th Percentile - - £20.63
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -37.50% +1.27%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in South London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in South London

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Croydon +6 1 £380 +11.76%
Bromley - 1 - -
GitHub
London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) PuTTY
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Integration Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Biometrics
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance