GitHub Contracts in London

GitHub
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 107 117
Rank change year-on-year -22 +10 +13
Contract jobs citing GitHub 336 625 927
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.92% 2.46% 2.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.93% 6.29% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 403 623
10th Percentile £379 £426 £425
25th Percentile £450 £510 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £625 £580
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +7.81% +10.43%
75th Percentile £630 £750 £688
90th Percentile £725 £825 £788
England median daily rate £540 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.35% +13.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 7
10th Percentile £48.78 £72.00 £53.10
25th Percentile £51.81 £75.00 £54.25
Median hourly rate £57.75 £80.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.81% +36.17% -11.65%
75th Percentile £62.81 £85.00 £72.61
90th Percentile £65.33 £88.00 £78.51
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -10.71% +17.65%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,813 9,929 15,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.91% 39.04% 41.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,022 7,303 12,008
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 78 66
10th Percentile £17.16 £19.68 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £23.75 £26.25
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +28.05% +3.80%
75th Percentile £38.13 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £59.50 £90.00 £80.63
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

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 1 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing GitHub in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 June 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
Central London -12 45 £558 -12.13% 6
West London +10 11 £650 +13.04% 8
South London +9 5 £395 -20.00% 2
East London -6 2 £603 -24.59% 4
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 19 (5.65%) Confluence
2 13 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.68%) WordPress
4 8 (2.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 7 (2.08%) Apache Spark
5 7 (2.08%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (1.79%) nginx
7 5 (1.49%) Apache
7 5 (1.49%) CMS
7 5 (1.49%) IIS
8 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.60%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.30%) Drupal
9 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.30%) Aareon QL
3 1 (0.30%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.30%) Magento
3 1 (0.30%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.30%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (0.30%) OPENHousing
3 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 136 (40.48%) AWS
2 128 (38.10%) Azure
3 98 (29.17%) GitHub Actions
4 52 (15.48%) Serverless
5 51 (15.18%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (12.20%) GCP
7 25 (7.44%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (6.85%) Azure Functions
8 23 (6.85%) Power Platform
9 22 (6.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (5.06%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (4.76%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.76%) PowerApps
12 15 (4.46%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (3.87%) Amazon S3
14 10 (2.98%) Azure AKS
14 10 (2.98%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.06%) Firewall
2 9 (2.68%) DNS
3 4 (1.19%) SSL
4 3 (0.89%) DMZ
4 3 (0.89%) HTTP
4 3 (0.89%) Internet
4 3 (0.89%) Intranet
4 3 (0.89%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.89%) Network Security
4 3 (0.89%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.60%) WAN
6 1 (0.30%) BGP
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) EIGRP
6 1 (0.30%) LAN
6 1 (0.30%) MQTT
6 1 (0.30%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.30%) RIP
6 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (12.80%) NoSQL
2 39 (11.61%) SQL Server
3 34 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (9.52%) MySQL
5 23 (6.85%) Power BI
6 19 (5.65%) Relational Database
7 16 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
8 15 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (4.17%) BigQuery
10 10 (2.98%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (2.98%) DynamoDB
11 9 (2.68%) RDBMS
12 8 (2.38%) MongoDB
13 7 (2.08%) Big Data
14 6 (1.79%) Amazon Athena
15 5 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
16 4 (1.19%) Spark SQL
16 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 4 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 72 (21.43%) Jenkins
2 70 (20.83%) Git
3 49 (14.58%) JIRA
4 42 (12.50%) GitLab
5 23 (6.85%) Cypress.io
6 18 (5.36%) CircleCI
7 16 (4.76%) Selenium
8 13 (3.87%) SonarQube
9 12 (3.57%) JUnit
10 11 (3.27%) JMeter
10 11 (3.27%) Postman
11 10 (2.98%) Gradle
12 8 (2.38%) Maven
12 8 (2.38%) TeamCity
13 7 (2.08%) Appium
13 7 (2.08%) Cucumber
14 6 (1.79%) Subversion
15 5 (1.49%) Burp Suite
15 5 (1.49%) Mercurial
15 5 (1.49%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 62 (18.45%) Finance
3 35 (10.42%) Banking
4 30 (8.93%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.68%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.68%) Front Office
7 9 (2.68%) Retail
8 7 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.49%) Local Government
9 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.49%) Wearables
10 4 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.89%) Aviation
11 3 (0.89%) Legal
12 2 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.60%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.60%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (33.63%) Developer
2 58 (17.26%) DevOps Engineer
3 55 (16.37%) Senior
4 29 (8.63%) Architect
5 22 (6.55%) Senior Developer
6 21 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
7 20 (5.95%) Cloud Engineer
7 20 (5.95%) Software Engineer
8 17 (5.06%) Azure Engineer
9 16 (4.76%) Python Developer
10 15 (4.46%) AWS DevOps
10 15 (4.46%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 13 (3.87%) Full Stack Developer
11 13 (3.87%) Software Developer
12 10 (2.98%) Java Engineer
12 10 (2.98%) Lead
12 10 (2.98%) Quantitative Developer
12 10 (2.98%) Senior DevOps
12 10 (2.98%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.68%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (16.96%) React
2 53 (15.77%) HTML
3 44 (13.10%) REST
4 33 (9.82%) Node.js
5 29 (8.63%) CSS
6 28 (8.33%) Kafka
7 27 (8.04%) RESTful
8 26 (7.74%) Web Services
9 23 (6.85%) XML
10 22 (6.55%) .NET
11 20 (5.95%) SOAP
12 18 (5.36%) OAuth
13 17 (5.06%) LDAP
14 16 (4.76%) JSP
14 16 (4.76%) SailPoint
14 16 (4.76%) Servlets
14 16 (4.76%) SPML
15 15 (4.46%) JDBC
15 15 (4.46%) Spring Boot
16 12 (3.57%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.06%) Onboarding
1 17 (5.06%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.87%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.27%) Derivative
4 11 (3.27%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.38%) Machine to Machine
5 8 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.08%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.08%) Solar Panel
6 7 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.79%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.49%) Legacy Code
9 4 (1.19%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.19%) Replication
10 3 (0.89%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 55 (16.37%) Linux
2 23 (6.85%) Windows
3 17 (5.06%) Android
4 12 (3.57%) Unix
5 8 (2.38%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.79%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.60%) CentOS
8 2 (0.60%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 155 (46.13%) DevOps
2 149 (44.35%) CI/CD
3 106 (31.55%) Agile
4 63 (18.75%) Test Automation
5 46 (13.69%) Software Engineering
6 38 (11.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (10.12%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (9.23%) Scrum
9 30 (8.93%) Containerisation
9 30 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
10 29 (8.63%) Microservices
11 28 (8.33%) TDD
12 26 (7.74%) Business Intelligence
12 26 (7.74%) Computer Science
13 25 (7.44%) Open Source
14 24 (7.14%) Front End Development
14 24 (7.14%) Full Stack Development
15 22 (6.55%) SDLC
16 19 (5.65%) User Experience
17 18 (5.36%) Deployment Automation
Programming Languages
1 128 (38.10%) Python
2 85 (25.30%) SQL
3 78 (23.21%) Java
4 59 (17.56%) JavaScript
5 34 (10.12%) PowerShell
6 33 (9.82%) TypeScript
7 20 (5.95%) Go
7 20 (5.95%) Kotlin
8 18 (5.36%) Bash
9 17 (5.06%) C#
10 16 (4.76%) Rust
11 13 (3.87%) C++
12 12 (3.57%) Ruby
13 9 (2.68%) PHP
14 7 (2.08%) Shell Script
15 6 (1.79%) Swift
16 5 (1.49%) Groovy
16 5 (1.49%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.89%) Perl
17 3 (0.89%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (13.69%) Security Cleared
2 41 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 35 (10.42%) Degree
4 16 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.49%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.19%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.19%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.60%) CEH
8 2 (0.60%) CISM
8 2 (0.60%) CISSP
8 2 (0.60%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.60%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.60%) SANS
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.30%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.30%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (8.04%) QA
2 15 (4.46%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.38%) NIST
4 7 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.19%) GDPR
7 3 (0.89%) NCSC
7 3 (0.89%) WCAG
8 2 (0.60%) COBIT
8 2 (0.60%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (24.11%) Docker
2 28 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.76%) IAG
4 15 (4.46%) ACF2
4 15 (4.46%) RACF
5 8 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.30%) Ceph
7 1 (0.30%) Firmware
7 1 (0.30%) iptables
7 1 (0.30%) NFS
7 1 (0.30%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 121 (36.01%) Terraform
2 80 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 35 (10.42%) Ansible
4 17 (5.06%) Grafana
5 12 (3.57%) Argo
6 11 (3.27%) Kibana
7 10 (2.98%) Prometheus
7 10 (2.98%) Puppet
8 5 (1.49%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.19%) logstash
9 4 (1.19%) Packer
9 4 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.89%) Nessus
11 2 (0.60%) Ambari
11 2 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.60%) Graylog
11 2 (0.60%) Nagios
11 2 (0.60%) Oozie
11 2 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) Consul
Vendors
1 50 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 40 (11.90%) Oracle
3 22 (6.55%) Google
4 18 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.76%) Sybase
6 10 (2.98%) Splunk
6 10 (2.98%) VMware
7 6 (1.79%) Checkmarx
7 6 (1.79%) NEC
7 6 (1.79%) New Relic
8 5 (1.49%) Centrify
8 5 (1.49%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.49%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.19%) Black Duck
9 4 (1.19%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.89%) Cisco
10 3 (0.89%) Databricks
10 3 (0.89%) IBM
10 3 (0.89%) Solace
11 2 (0.60%) SAP