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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 102 115
Rank change year-on-year -29 +13 +29
Contract jobs citing GitHub 328 634 965
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.88% 2.44% 2.48%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.85% 6.25% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 409 634
10th Percentile £375 £436 £426
25th Percentile £450 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 £580
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +7.76% +10.48%
75th Percentile £625 £750 £688
90th Percentile £720 £825 £788
England median daily rate £525 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 11
10th Percentile £48.78 £42.00 £53.50
25th Percentile £51.81 £52.50 £55.00
Median hourly rate £57.75 £70.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +19.15% -11.65%
75th Percentile £62.81 £80.00 £77.67
90th Percentile £65.33 £86.00 £80.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £54.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +28.44% -22.14% +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 6,757 10,139 16,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.66% 38.97% 41.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,439 12,131
10th Percentile £350 £375 £400
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £698 £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 68 80 78
10th Percentile £17.32 £19.89 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.25 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £44.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +10.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £38.28 £75.00 £64.00
90th Percentile £59.88 £88.47 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £32.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -34.04% +50.70% +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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 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
Central London -6 47 £550 -14.69% 20
West London +4 9 £560 -2.61% 22
South London +8 5 £395 -20.00% 13
East London -3 2 £603 -24.59% 45
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 (5.79%) Confluence
2 13 (3.96%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.74%) WordPress
4 7 (2.13%) Apache
4 7 (2.13%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (2.13%) nginx
4 7 (2.13%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.52%) IIS
6 4 (1.22%) CMS
7 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.61%) Drupal
8 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
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 (1.83%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.61%) 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
1 132 (40.24%) Azure
2 125 (38.11%) AWS
3 92 (28.05%) GitHub Actions
4 55 (16.77%) Serverless
5 52 (15.85%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (12.20%) GCP
7 26 (7.93%) Azure Functions
8 23 (7.01%) AWS CloudFormation
8 23 (7.01%) Power Platform
9 21 (6.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 18 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 16 (4.88%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (4.88%) Power Automate
11 16 (4.88%) PowerApps
12 13 (3.96%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (3.96%) Amazon S3
13 10 (3.05%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (3.05%) Azure AKS
13 10 (3.05%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.79%) Firewall
2 9 (2.74%) DNS
3 6 (1.83%) HTTP
4 5 (1.52%) SSL
5 3 (0.91%) DMZ
5 3 (0.91%) Internet
5 3 (0.91%) Intranet
5 3 (0.91%) Network Security
5 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.61%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.61%) SSH
6 2 (0.61%) VPN
7 1 (0.30%) BGP
7 1 (0.30%) DHCP
7 1 (0.30%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.30%) IGRP
7 1 (0.30%) RIP
7 1 (0.30%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.30%) VLAN
7 1 (0.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 41 (12.50%) NoSQL
3 33 (10.06%) MySQL
4 32 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (7.01%) Power BI
6 17 (5.18%) Oracle Reports
7 15 (4.57%) Relational Database
8 14 (4.27%) BigQuery
8 14 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
9 11 (3.35%) DynamoDB
10 9 (2.74%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.44%) Big Data
12 7 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (2.13%) MongoDB
13 6 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
15 4 (1.22%) Amazon QuickSight
15 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 4 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 67 (20.43%) Jenkins
2 62 (18.90%) Git
3 50 (15.24%) JIRA
4 38 (11.59%) GitLab
5 26 (7.93%) Cypress.io
6 21 (6.40%) CircleCI
7 14 (4.27%) Selenium
8 13 (3.96%) Postman
9 11 (3.35%) JMeter
9 11 (3.35%) JUnit
9 11 (3.35%) SonarQube
10 10 (3.05%) Gradle
11 8 (2.44%) Appium
11 8 (2.44%) Maven
12 7 (2.13%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.83%) Cucumber
13 6 (1.83%) Subversion
14 5 (1.52%) Mercurial
14 5 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
14 5 (1.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 74 (22.56%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.60%) Finance
3 31 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (8.23%) Banking
5 23 (7.01%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (3.05%) Retail
8 9 (2.74%) Financial Institution
8 9 (2.74%) Front Office
9 8 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.83%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.52%) Local Government
12 4 (1.22%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.91%) Aviation
13 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (0.91%) Law
13 3 (0.91%) Legal
13 3 (0.91%) Wearables
14 2 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 103 (31.40%) Developer
2 59 (17.99%) DevOps Engineer
3 50 (15.24%) Senior
4 28 (8.54%) Architect
5 21 (6.40%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.79%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (5.79%) Software Engineer
7 18 (5.49%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.18%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.27%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (4.27%) Python Developer
10 13 (3.96%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (3.96%) AWS DevOps Engineer
11 11 (3.35%) Lead
12 10 (3.05%) Quantitative Developer
12 10 (3.05%) Software Developer
13 9 (2.74%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.74%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.74%) SailPoint Engineer
14 8 (2.44%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.16%) React
2 51 (15.55%) HTML
3 43 (13.11%) REST
4 33 (10.06%) Node.js
5 26 (7.93%) CSS
5 26 (7.93%) Web Services
6 25 (7.62%) Kafka
7 24 (7.32%) RESTful
7 24 (7.32%) XML
8 22 (6.71%) .NET
9 20 (6.10%) SOAP
10 18 (5.49%) OAuth
11 17 (5.18%) LDAP
12 16 (4.88%) JSP
12 16 (4.88%) SailPoint
12 16 (4.88%) Servlets
12 16 (4.88%) SPML
13 15 (4.57%) JDBC
14 14 (4.27%) JSON
15 13 (3.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.18%) Onboarding
2 16 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 15 (4.57%) Cloud Native
4 11 (3.35%) Derivative
4 11 (3.35%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.44%) Machine to Machine
5 8 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.13%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.13%) Solar Panel
6 7 (2.13%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.52%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.91%) Data Centre
10 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 57 (17.38%) Linux
2 23 (7.01%) Windows
3 16 (4.88%) Android
4 11 (3.35%) Unix
5 7 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.83%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.61%) CentOS
8 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (46.04%) CI/CD
2 149 (45.43%) DevOps
3 102 (31.10%) Agile
4 66 (20.12%) Test Automation
5 42 (12.80%) Software Engineering
6 35 (10.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 34 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
8 29 (8.84%) Continuous Integration
9 28 (8.54%) Microservices
9 28 (8.54%) Scrum
10 27 (8.23%) Computer Science
10 27 (8.23%) Full Stack Development
11 26 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (7.93%) Containerisation
11 26 (7.93%) TDD
12 25 (7.62%) Open Source
13 22 (6.71%) Front End Development
14 21 (6.40%) SDLC
15 19 (5.79%) Data Pipeline
16 18 (5.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 123 (37.50%) Python
2 86 (26.22%) SQL
3 72 (21.95%) Java
4 58 (17.68%) JavaScript
5 34 (10.37%) PowerShell
6 27 (8.23%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.40%) Bash
8 20 (6.10%) C#
9 19 (5.79%) Kotlin
10 17 (5.18%) Go
11 16 (4.88%) Rust
12 13 (3.96%) C++
13 11 (3.35%) PHP
13 11 (3.35%) Ruby
14 6 (1.83%) Swift
15 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
15 5 (1.52%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.91%) Perl
16 3 (0.91%) R
16 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 39 (11.89%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.28%) Degree
3 36 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.22%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 3 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 2 (0.61%) CEH
8 2 (0.61%) CISM
8 2 (0.61%) CISSP
8 2 (0.61%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.61%) CSSLP
8 2 (0.61%) SANS
9 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.15%) QA
2 14 (4.27%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.44%) NIST
4 6 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.83%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.22%) GDPR
6 3 (0.91%) NCSC
6 3 (0.91%) WCAG
7 2 (0.61%) COBIT
7 2 (0.61%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.61%) SLA
8 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 79 (24.09%) Docker
2 27 (8.23%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.88%) IAG
4 15 (4.57%) ACF2
4 15 (4.57%) RACF
5 8 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.83%) 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
1 118 (35.98%) Terraform
2 82 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 30 (9.15%) Ansible
4 16 (4.88%) Grafana
5 11 (3.35%) Argo
5 11 (3.35%) Kibana
6 10 (3.05%) Puppet
7 8 (2.44%) Prometheus
8 5 (1.52%) Progress Chef
9 4 (1.22%) logstash
9 4 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (0.91%) Nessus
10 3 (0.91%) Packer
11 2 (0.61%) Ambari
11 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
11 2 (0.61%) Graylog
11 2 (0.61%) Nagios
11 2 (0.61%) Oozie
11 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.30%) yum
Vendors
1 52 (15.85%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.50%) Oracle
3 22 (6.71%) Google
4 18 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.88%) Sybase
6 10 (3.05%) Splunk
6 10 (3.05%) VMware
7 6 (1.83%) NEC
8 5 (1.52%) Centrify
8 5 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.52%) New Relic
9 4 (1.22%) Black Duck
9 4 (1.22%) Checkmarx
9 4 (1.22%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.91%) Databricks
10 3 (0.91%) IBM
10 3 (0.91%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.91%) SAP
11 2 (0.61%) Apple
11 2 (0.61%) Cisco