GitHub Contracts in Central London

GitHub
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 80 107
Rank change year-on-year -12 +27 +4
Contract jobs citing GitHub 45 103 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.88% 2.79% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.68% 7.16% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 45 66
10th Percentile £425 £456 £446
25th Percentile £516 £531 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £645 £575
Median % change year-on-year -13.49% +12.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £725 £706
90th Percentile £736 £825 £738
London median daily rate £538 £625 £575
% change year-on-year -14.00% +8.70% +9.52%
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 - - -
London median hourly rate £57.75 £80.00 £57.88
% change year-on-year -27.81% +38.23% -12.97%

All Cloud Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 962 1,439 1,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 40.20% 39.00% 43.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 952 1,554
10th Percentile £356 £289 £363
25th Percentile £436 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £580 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +0.87% +7.48%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 10 9
10th Percentile £12.75 £23.73 £13.88
25th Percentile £14.88 £38.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.67% +154.72% +17.78%
75th Percentile £26.19 £88.30 £50.00
90th Percentile £38.63 - £74.50
London median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -50.48% +29.63% +0.62%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Central London

GitHub
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
City of London -7 43 £595 -8.11% 7
City of Westminster - 2 £550 -
GitHub
London

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (4.44%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (2.22%) Confluence
2 1 (2.22%) IIS
2 1 (2.22%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.22%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) Azure
2 26 (57.78%) AWS
3 22 (48.89%) GitHub Actions
4 9 (20.00%) GCP
4 9 (20.00%) Serverless
5 8 (17.78%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (15.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 7 (15.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
8 5 (11.11%) Azure AKS
9 4 (8.89%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (4.44%) Datadog
11 2 (4.44%) Entra ID
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon Kinesis
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon S3
12 1 (2.22%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (4.44%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.22%) DHCP
3 1 (2.22%) Firewall
3 1 (2.22%) HTTP
3 1 (2.22%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.22%) MQTT
3 1 (2.22%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.22%) VLAN
3 1 (2.22%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 7 (15.56%) MySQL
3 6 (13.33%) Relational Database
4 5 (11.11%) DynamoDB
5 3 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
5 3 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (4.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (4.44%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (4.44%) RDBMS
7 1 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (2.22%) Big Data
7 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (2.22%) CouchDB
7 1 (2.22%) Data Mart
7 1 (2.22%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (2.22%) Redis
7 1 (2.22%) Triplestore
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) GitLab
2 10 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 8 (17.78%) Cypress.io
4 7 (15.56%) CircleCI
5 5 (11.11%) JMeter
6 4 (8.89%) JIRA
6 4 (8.89%) Mercurial
7 3 (6.67%) Gradle
7 3 (6.67%) JUnit
7 3 (6.67%) Maven
7 3 (6.67%) Postman
7 3 (6.67%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
8 2 (4.44%) GoCD
8 2 (4.44%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (4.44%) Subversion
9 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.22%) Mocha
9 1 (2.22%) Mockito
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Finance
3 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.44%) Retail
5 1 (2.22%) Aviation
5 1 (2.22%) Banking
5 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.22%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Senior
4 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Full Stack Developer
6 3 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps
6 3 (6.67%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Full Stack PHP Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Lead
7 2 (4.44%) PHP Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Senior Quantitative Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (26.67%) React
2 9 (20.00%) Kafka
3 7 (15.56%) REST
4 6 (13.33%) HTML
4 6 (13.33%) Node.js
5 4 (8.89%) CSS
5 4 (8.89%) RESTful
5 4 (8.89%) Web Services
6 3 (6.67%) Django
6 3 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (6.67%) pytest
6 3 (6.67%) Vue
7 2 (4.44%) AngularJS
7 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
7 2 (4.44%) Laravel
7 2 (4.44%) NumPy
7 2 (4.44%) Pandas
7 2 (4.44%) SciPy
7 2 (4.44%) Svelte
7 2 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.33%) Public Cloud
2 4 (8.89%) Machine to Machine
3 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.44%) Derivative
4 2 (4.44%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.44%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 1 (2.22%) CBDC
5 1 (2.22%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.22%) Digital Currency
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Code
5 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.22%) Life Science
5 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (2.22%) PKI
5 1 (2.22%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Linux
2 6 (13.33%) Windows
3 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.44%) Android
5 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.22%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.22%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 25 (55.56%) DevOps
3 15 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 14 (31.11%) Agile
5 11 (24.44%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
6 8 (17.78%) Open Source
6 8 (17.78%) Platform Engineering
7 6 (13.33%) Architectural Design
7 6 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (13.33%) Microservices
7 6 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 6 (13.33%) TDD
8 5 (11.11%) Full Stack Development
8 5 (11.11%) Scrum
8 5 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
8 5 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 4 (8.89%) Analytics
9 4 (8.89%) Project Management
9 4 (8.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 24 (53.33%) Python
2 13 (28.89%) SQL
3 7 (15.56%) Java
4 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
5 5 (11.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.89%) Bash
6 4 (8.89%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.67%) C++
7 3 (6.67%) Rust
8 2 (4.44%) C#
8 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
8 2 (4.44%) PHP
9 1 (2.22%) C
9 1 (2.22%) Go
9 1 (2.22%) R
9 1 (2.22%) Scala
9 1 (2.22%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.44%) SANS
4 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) ISO 20022
4 1 (2.22%) NCSC
4 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 21 (46.67%) Docker
2 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.44%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.22%) Ceph
4 1 (2.22%) iptables
4 1 (2.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 25 (55.56%) Terraform
2 20 (44.44%) Kubernetes
3 6 (13.33%) Ansible
3 6 (13.33%) Prometheus
4 5 (11.11%) Argo
4 5 (11.11%) Grafana
4 5 (11.11%) Progress Chef
4 5 (11.11%) Puppet
5 2 (4.44%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (4.44%) Graylog
5 2 (4.44%) Kibana
5 2 (4.44%) logstash
5 2 (4.44%) Nagios
6 1 (2.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.22%) Consul
6 1 (2.22%) Mesos
6 1 (2.22%) Nessus
6 1 (2.22%) PingFederate
6 1 (2.22%) Rancher
6 1 (2.22%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 10 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.67%) Splunk
3 2 (4.44%) Google
3 2 (4.44%) New Relic
4 1 (2.22%) Black Duck
4 1 (2.22%) Checkmarx
4 1 (2.22%) Confluent
4 1 (2.22%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.22%) IBM
4 1 (2.22%) Oracle
4 1 (2.22%) Veracode
4 1 (2.22%) VMware