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

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 108 114
Rank change year-on-year -25 +6 +27
Contract jobs citing GitHub 330 624 948
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.90% 2.43% 2.45%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.88% 6.27% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 405 626
10th Percentile £375 £438 £425
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 £743 £688
90th Percentile £725 £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 2 11
10th Percentile £48.78 £72.00 £53.50
25th Percentile £51.81 £75.00 £55.00
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 £77.67
90th Percentile £65.33 £88.00 £80.50
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -21.43% +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 9,960 15,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 38.83% 38.83% 41.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 7,316 12,032
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 £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 65 79 78
10th Percentile £16.85 £19.79 £19.76
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.75 £23.49
Median hourly rate £26.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.48% +31.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £38.13 £77.50 £64.00
90th Percentile £56.50 £90.00 £78.98
England median hourly rate £21.37 £34.40 £21.50
% change year-on-year -37.87% +59.99% +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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -12 46 £551 -14.65% 18
West London +4 10 £605 +5.22% 23
South London +12 5 £395 -20.00% 13
East London -4 2 £603 -24.59% 22
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 (5.76%) Confluence
2 14 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 9 (2.73%) WordPress
4 7 (2.12%) Apache
4 7 (2.12%) Apache Spark
4 7 (2.12%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 7 (2.12%) nginx
4 7 (2.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 5 (1.52%) CMS
5 5 (1.52%) IIS
6 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.61%) Drupal
7 2 (0.61%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.30%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.30%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.82%) 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
1 131 (39.70%) Azure
2 126 (38.18%) AWS
3 93 (28.18%) GitHub Actions
4 55 (16.67%) Serverless
5 52 (15.76%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (11.82%) GCP
7 26 (7.88%) Azure Functions
8 24 (7.27%) Power Platform
9 23 (6.97%) AWS CloudFormation
10 22 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (5.15%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
11 17 (5.15%) Power Automate
11 17 (5.15%) PowerApps
12 16 (4.85%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (4.24%) Amazon S3
14 11 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (3.03%) Azure AKS
15 10 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.45%) Firewall
2 8 (2.42%) DNS
3 5 (1.52%) HTTP
3 5 (1.52%) SSL
4 3 (0.91%) DMZ
4 3 (0.91%) Intranet
4 3 (0.91%) Kerberos
4 3 (0.91%) Network Security
4 3 (0.91%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.61%) Internet
5 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.61%) SSH
5 2 (0.61%) WAN
6 1 (0.30%) DHCP
6 1 (0.30%) LAN
6 1 (0.30%) RIP
6 1 (0.30%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.30%) SAN
6 1 (0.30%) VPN
6 1 (0.30%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (13.03%) NoSQL
2 42 (12.73%) SQL Server
3 33 (10.00%) MySQL
3 33 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (7.27%) Power BI
5 17 (5.15%) Oracle Reports
6 15 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 14 (4.24%) BigQuery
8 11 (3.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 11 (3.33%) DynamoDB
9 9 (2.73%) RDBMS
10 8 (2.42%) Big Data
11 7 (2.12%) Amazon Athena
11 7 (2.12%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
13 5 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
14 4 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 4 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 69 (20.91%) Jenkins
2 63 (19.09%) Git
3 49 (14.85%) JIRA
4 40 (12.12%) GitLab
5 25 (7.58%) Cypress.io
6 20 (6.06%) CircleCI
7 17 (5.15%) Selenium
8 13 (3.94%) Postman
8 13 (3.94%) SonarQube
9 11 (3.33%) JMeter
9 11 (3.33%) JUnit
10 10 (3.03%) Gradle
11 9 (2.73%) Appium
12 8 (2.42%) Maven
13 7 (2.12%) Cucumber
13 7 (2.12%) TeamCity
14 6 (1.82%) Subversion
15 5 (1.52%) Burp Suite
15 5 (1.52%) Mercurial
15 5 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 75 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 61 (18.48%) Finance
3 32 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (9.39%) Banking
5 22 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.64%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (2.73%) Financial Institution
7 9 (2.73%) Front Office
7 9 (2.73%) Retail
8 8 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (1.52%) Local Government
9 5 (1.52%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.21%) Investment Banking
11 3 (0.91%) Aviation
11 3 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.91%) Law
11 3 (0.91%) Legal
11 3 (0.91%) Wearables
12 2 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 106 (32.12%) Developer
2 60 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
3 48 (14.55%) Senior
4 29 (8.79%) Architect
5 20 (6.06%) Senior Developer
6 19 (5.76%) AWS Engineer
6 19 (5.76%) Software Engineer
7 18 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
8 17 (5.15%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (4.24%) Full Stack Developer
10 13 (3.94%) AWS DevOps
10 13 (3.94%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 13 (3.94%) Python Developer
11 11 (3.33%) Lead
11 11 (3.33%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.03%) Quantitative Developer
13 9 (2.73%) Applications Developer
13 9 (2.73%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 9 (2.73%) Data Engineer
13 9 (2.73%) SailPoint Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (16.06%) React
2 51 (15.45%) HTML
3 43 (13.03%) REST
4 35 (10.61%) Node.js
5 27 (8.18%) CSS
5 27 (8.18%) RESTful
6 26 (7.88%) Kafka
6 26 (7.88%) Web Services
7 24 (7.27%) XML
8 22 (6.67%) .NET
9 20 (6.06%) SOAP
10 18 (5.45%) OAuth
11 17 (5.15%) LDAP
12 16 (4.85%) JSP
12 16 (4.85%) SailPoint
12 16 (4.85%) Servlets
12 16 (4.85%) SPML
13 15 (4.55%) JDBC
14 14 (4.24%) Spring Boot
15 13 (3.94%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.15%) Onboarding
1 17 (5.15%) Product Ownership
2 16 (4.85%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.94%) Mobile App
4 11 (3.33%) Derivative
4 11 (3.33%) Public Cloud
5 8 (2.42%) Machine to Machine
5 8 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.12%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.12%) Solar Panel
6 7 (2.12%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.82%) Distributed Architecture
7 6 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.52%) Legacy Code
8 5 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.21%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
9 4 (1.21%) Replication
10 3 (0.91%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (16.97%) Linux
2 23 (6.97%) Windows
3 17 (5.15%) Android
4 12 (3.64%) Unix
5 8 (2.42%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.82%) Windows Server
7 4 (1.21%) 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
1 153 (46.36%) DevOps
2 151 (45.76%) CI/CD
3 104 (31.52%) Agile
4 66 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 44 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 35 (10.61%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
7 30 (9.09%) Scrum
8 29 (8.79%) Continuous Integration
8 29 (8.79%) Microservices
9 27 (8.18%) Business Intelligence
9 27 (8.18%) Computer Science
10 26 (7.88%) Containerisation
10 26 (7.88%) Full Stack Development
10 26 (7.88%) TDD
11 25 (7.58%) Open Source
12 22 (6.67%) Front End Development
13 21 (6.36%) SDLC
14 19 (5.76%) Data Pipeline
15 18 (5.45%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 123 (37.27%) Python
2 85 (25.76%) SQL
3 74 (22.42%) Java
4 57 (17.27%) JavaScript
5 35 (10.61%) PowerShell
6 27 (8.18%) TypeScript
7 21 (6.36%) Kotlin
8 20 (6.06%) Bash
9 19 (5.76%) C#
10 18 (5.45%) Go
11 16 (4.85%) Rust
12 13 (3.94%) C++
13 11 (3.33%) Ruby
14 10 (3.03%) PHP
15 7 (2.12%) Swift
16 6 (1.82%) Shell Script
17 5 (1.52%) PL/SQL
18 3 (0.91%) Perl
18 3 (0.91%) R
18 3 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (11.52%) Security Cleared
2 37 (11.21%) Degree
3 35 (10.61%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (1.52%) Azure Certification
5 5 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (1.21%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.21%) Master's Degree
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%) CCIE
9 1 (0.30%) CCNP
9 1 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.30%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (8.79%) QA
2 14 (4.24%) Accessibility
3 8 (2.42%) NIST
4 7 (2.12%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.21%) GDPR
7 3 (0.91%) NCSC
7 3 (0.91%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) COBIT
8 2 (0.61%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.61%) SLA
9 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 80 (24.24%) Docker
2 28 (8.48%) Active Directory
3 16 (4.85%) IAG
4 15 (4.55%) ACF2
4 15 (4.55%) RACF
5 8 (2.42%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (1.82%) 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
1 120 (36.36%) Terraform
2 82 (24.85%) Kubernetes
3 33 (10.00%) Ansible
4 17 (5.15%) Grafana
5 12 (3.64%) Argo
6 11 (3.33%) Kibana
7 10 (3.03%) Puppet
8 9 (2.73%) Prometheus
9 5 (1.52%) Progress Chef
10 4 (1.21%) logstash
10 4 (1.21%) Packer
10 4 (1.21%) Red Hat Satellite
11 3 (0.91%) Nessus
12 2 (0.61%) Ambari
12 2 (0.61%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.61%) Graylog
12 2 (0.61%) Nagios
12 2 (0.61%) Oozie
12 2 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.30%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 52 (15.76%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.73%) Oracle
3 22 (6.67%) Google
4 18 (5.45%) ServiceNow
5 16 (4.85%) Sybase
6 10 (3.03%) Splunk
6 10 (3.03%) VMware
7 6 (1.82%) Checkmarx
7 6 (1.82%) NEC
8 5 (1.52%) Centrify
8 5 (1.52%) CyberArk
8 5 (1.52%) New Relic
8 5 (1.52%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.21%) Black Duck
10 3 (0.91%) Cisco
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