GitHub
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 196 100
Rank change year-on-year -66 -96 +115
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,124 1,957 5,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.94% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 4.52% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 870 1,089 1,563
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,360 £38,150
25th Percentile £51,063 £53,750 £47,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,892 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.37% +7.62% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,402 43,277 76,049
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.68% 42.84% 48.35%
Number of salaries quoted 26,746 28,483 41,379
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,790 £33,779
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Salary trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -52 948 £65,000 -6.40% 288
UK excluding London -95 679 £60,000 +1.37% 178
Work from Home -26 514 £65,000 -6.40% 166
London -32 363 £85,000 +9.68% 127
North of England -56 193 £65,000 +13.04% 55
South East -81 143 £52,500 -25.00% 31
North West -8 122 £60,000 -0.41% 27
Midlands -10 103 £61,500 +6.96% 19
Scotland -77 90 £75,000 +30.43% 16
South West +17 82 £57,500 -7.82% 33
West Midlands 0 81 £61,500 +6.96% 11
Yorkshire -50 57 £68,000 +14.24% 23
East of England -8 45 £50,000 - 10
Wales 0 22 £62,500 +11.01% 10
East Midlands -12 21 £55,000 +4.76% 8
North East -21 14 £71,500 +24.35% 6
Northern Ireland -22 1 £47,500 -17.39% 9

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 73 (6.49%) FileNet
2 58 (5.16%) Confluence
3 33 (2.94%) Apache
4 29 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.58%) CMS
5 28 (2.49%) Captiva
5 28 (2.49%) WebSphere
6 24 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (1.87%) nginx
8 17 (1.51%) Drupal
9 14 (1.25%) WordPress
10 10 (0.89%) IIS
10 10 (0.89%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
12 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.44%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Trello
4 7 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.18%) Notion
7 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.089%) Magento
5 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.089%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.089%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 471 (41.90%) AWS
2 469 (41.73%) Azure
3 250 (22.24%) GitHub Actions
4 221 (19.66%) GCP
5 156 (13.88%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (12.01%) Serverless
7 122 (10.85%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 81 (7.21%) SaaS
10 70 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 58 (5.16%) PaaS
12 47 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
14 42 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (3.74%) Power Platform
15 41 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
16 40 (3.56%) Azure AKS
17 33 (2.94%) IaaS
18 24 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
18 24 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.27%) Firewall
2 43 (3.83%) DNS
3 21 (1.87%) VPN
4 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.25%) Internet
5 14 (1.25%) WAN
6 11 (0.98%) DHCP
6 11 (0.98%) RS-232
7 10 (0.89%) 5G
8 9 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) MQTT
9 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.44%) Bluetooth
10 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.44%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Wireless
10 5 (0.44%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.27%) Network Security
11 3 (0.27%) SMS
11 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (10.50%) MySQL
2 108 (9.61%) SQL Server
3 98 (8.72%) NoSQL
4 83 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 45 (4.00%) Redis
9 41 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (3.11%) Power BI
11 34 (3.02%) DynamoDB
12 32 (2.85%) MongoDB
13 30 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
14 27 (2.40%) Big Data
15 26 (2.31%) Relational Database
16 25 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
17 23 (2.05%) Data Lake
18 22 (1.96%) BigQuery
19 19 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 298 (26.51%) Git
2 243 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 194 (17.26%) JIRA
4 133 (11.83%) GitLab
5 61 (5.43%) CircleCI
6 59 (5.25%) Bitbucket
7 52 (4.63%) JUnit
8 49 (4.36%) Jasmine
9 45 (4.00%) Mockito
9 45 (4.00%) Visual Studio
10 34 (3.02%) Visual Studio Code
11 33 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
12 25 (2.22%) Selenium
12 25 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
13 23 (2.05%) SonarQube
14 22 (1.96%) Maven
15 21 (1.87%) PHPUnit
16 20 (1.78%) Octopus Deploy
17 19 (1.69%) Subversion
18 18 (1.60%) Artifactory
General
1 306 (27.22%) Finance
2 250 (22.24%) Social Skills
3 119 (10.59%) Banking
4 97 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (6.23%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.43%) Marketing
8 59 (5.25%) Law
9 47 (4.18%) Retail
10 46 (4.09%) Legal
11 31 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.40%) Automotive
12 27 (2.40%) Electronics
13 25 (2.22%) Games
14 23 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (2.05%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.96%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.69%) Retail Banking
17 13 (1.16%) Investment Banking
18 12 (1.07%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 419 (37.28%) Developer
2 221 (19.66%) Senior
3 176 (15.66%) Software Engineer
4 136 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 117 (10.41%) Lead
6 86 (7.65%) Senior Developer
7 73 (6.49%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (6.49%) Full Stack Developer
8 72 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
8 72 (6.41%) Software Developer
9 60 (5.34%) .NET Developer
10 57 (5.07%) Data Engineer
11 49 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 45 (4.00%) C# Developer
13 42 (3.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 42 (3.74%) Platform Engineer
14 41 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
15 37 (3.29%) Java Engineer
16 35 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
16 35 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (19.22%) React
2 191 (16.99%) .NET
3 148 (13.17%) HTML
4 144 (12.81%) CSS
5 134 (11.92%) AngularJS
6 111 (9.88%) Node.js
7 99 (8.81%) RESTful
8 90 (8.01%) Kafka
9 86 (7.65%) Spring
10 84 (7.47%) GraphQL
10 84 (7.47%) HTML5
11 77 (6.85%) REST
12 64 (5.69%) Vue
13 62 (5.52%) .NET Core
14 58 (5.16%) Laravel
15 51 (4.54%) jQuery
16 49 (4.36%) J2EE
17 46 (4.09%) Web Services
18 45 (4.00%) Hibernate
18 45 (4.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.85%) Public Cloud
2 71 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.89%) Product Ownership
4 51 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
5 48 (4.27%) Private Cloud
6 46 (4.09%) IoT
7 37 (3.29%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.49%) DataPower
10 25 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.14%) Management Information System
12 23 (2.05%) Onboarding
13 22 (1.96%) Virtual Team
14 21 (1.87%) Client/Server
15 20 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
17 16 (1.42%) Algorithms
17 16 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
18 15 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
19 12 (1.07%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 187 (16.64%) Linux
2 107 (9.52%) Windows
3 51 (4.54%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.00%) Unix
5 33 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 25 (2.22%) Android
7 14 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.44%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 466 (41.46%) Agile
2 461 (41.01%) DevOps
3 412 (36.65%) CI/CD
4 299 (26.60%) Software Engineering
5 211 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (18.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 180 (16.01%) Full Stack Development
8 159 (14.15%) Computer Science
8 159 (14.15%) Microservices
9 147 (13.08%) Containerisation
10 145 (12.90%) Test Automation
11 131 (11.65%) Machine Learning
11 131 (11.65%) SDLC
12 120 (10.68%) Unit Testing
13 109 (9.70%) Mentoring
14 96 (8.54%) Continuous Integration
15 92 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
15 92 (8.19%) Scrum
16 80 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (6.94%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 348 (30.96%) Python
2 311 (27.67%) SQL
3 302 (26.87%) JavaScript
4 246 (21.89%) Java
5 172 (15.30%) C#
6 143 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 103 (9.16%) PowerShell
8 91 (8.10%) PHP
9 88 (7.83%) Bash
10 75 (6.67%) Go
11 48 (4.27%) Ruby
12 43 (3.83%) C
13 23 (2.05%) MATLAB
14 20 (1.78%) Apex Code
14 20 (1.78%) C++
14 20 (1.78%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.60%) Scala
16 17 (1.51%) Perl
17 16 (1.42%) Objective-C
18 14 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 186 (16.55%) Degree
2 93 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (6.05%) Security Cleared
4 54 (4.80%) Master's Degree
5 44 (3.91%) SC Cleared
6 29 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.71%) HND
10 7 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.62%) PhD
11 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.089%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.91%) QA
2 43 (3.83%) GDPR
3 20 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.07%) NCSC
6 11 (0.98%) MISRA
7 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.53%) MISRA C
9 5 (0.44%) PMO
10 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) SLA
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.18%) NIST
13 1 (0.089%) AUTOSAR
13 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.089%) WCAG
System Software
1 340 (30.25%) Docker
2 41 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.33%) Firmware
5 11 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.98%) NFS
6 10 (0.89%) pfSense
7 8 (0.71%) HDFS
8 6 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 310 (27.58%) Kubernetes
2 302 (26.87%) Terraform
3 121 (10.77%) Ansible
4 38 (3.38%) Grafana
5 30 (2.67%) Progress Chef
6 29 (2.58%) Puppet
7 16 (1.42%) Packer
8 15 (1.33%) Istio
9 14 (1.25%) Argo
9 14 (1.25%) ZABBIX
10 13 (1.16%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.89%) SCDPM
12 9 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
13 8 (0.71%) Kibana
13 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.62%) Foglight
14 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.62%) Nagios
14 7 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 152 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 110 (9.79%) Oracle
3 83 (7.38%) Google
4 41 (3.65%) SAP
5 39 (3.47%) IBM
6 38 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.58%) Databricks
8 28 (2.49%) Kofax
8 28 (2.49%) Pega
9 23 (2.05%) Splunk
10 21 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.78%) VMware
12 19 (1.69%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.42%) ForgeRock
13 16 (1.42%) McAfee
13 16 (1.42%) Sitecore
14 14 (1.25%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.16%) Dynatrace
15 13 (1.16%) HP
16 11 (0.98%) Juniper