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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 191 99
Rank change year-on-year -59 -92 +120
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,133 2,040 5,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.97% 3.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% 4.60% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 874 1,124 1,569
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £38,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £108,750 £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 35,382 44,396 75,527
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.88% 42.78% 48.26%
Number of salaries quoted 26,757 29,121 41,951
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,788 £33,750
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 £96,000 £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 3 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 3 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 -58 956 £65,000 -6.40% 436
UK excluding London -87 683 £60,000 +1.37% 266
Work from Home -21 524 £65,000 -6.40% 150
London -29 368 £85,000 +9.68% 189
North of England -69 192 £65,000 +13.04% 87
South East -77 146 £52,500 -25.00% 45
North West -8 122 £60,000 +0.40% 43
Midlands +11 104 £61,500 +6.96% 40
Scotland -90 90 £75,000 +28.18% 21
South West +9 83 £57,500 -8.00% 44
West Midlands +11 82 £61,500 +6.96% 24
Yorkshire -59 55 £68,000 +14.24% 34
East of England -9 45 £50,000 - 18
Wales -1 22 £62,500 +22.30% 11
East Midlands -3 21 £55,000 +4.76% 16
North East -18 15 £71,500 +24.35% 11
Northern Ireland -14 1 £47,500 -17.39% 5

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 (6.44%) FileNet
2 60 (5.30%) Confluence
3 38 (3.35%) Apache
4 33 (2.91%) Apache Spark
5 29 (2.56%) CMS
6 28 (2.47%) Captiva
6 28 (2.47%) WebSphere
7 24 (2.12%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (1.94%) nginx
9 18 (1.59%) Drupal
10 15 (1.32%) WordPress
11 12 (1.06%) SharePoint
12 10 (0.88%) IIS
13 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
14 7 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
15 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
16 5 (0.44%) Umbraco
17 3 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
18 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 45 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Trello
4 7 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.18%) Notion
7 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.088%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.088%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.088%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.088%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.088%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.088%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.088%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 473 (41.75%) AWS
2 465 (41.04%) Azure
3 255 (22.51%) GitHub Actions
4 224 (19.77%) GCP
5 159 (14.03%) Azure DevOps
6 136 (12.00%) Serverless
7 122 (10.77%) AWS Lambda
8 106 (9.36%) Amazon S3
9 81 (7.15%) SaaS
10 69 (6.09%) AWS CloudFormation
11 55 (4.85%) PaaS
12 48 (4.24%) Power Platform
13 47 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (3.71%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (3.71%) Amazon ECS
15 40 (3.53%) Amazon SQS
16 37 (3.27%) Azure AKS
17 34 (3.00%) IaaS
18 25 (2.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 24 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.15%) Firewall
2 42 (3.71%) DNS
3 21 (1.85%) VPN
4 15 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.24%) Internet
6 13 (1.15%) WAN
7 11 (0.97%) DHCP
7 11 (0.97%) RS-232
8 10 (0.88%) 5G
9 8 (0.71%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.53%) MQTT
10 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.44%) Bluetooth
11 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.44%) RS-485
11 5 (0.44%) Wireless
11 5 (0.44%) ZigBee
12 3 (0.26%) Network Security
12 3 (0.26%) SMS
12 3 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (10.41%) MySQL
2 107 (9.44%) SQL Server
3 102 (9.00%) NoSQL
4 86 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (5.30%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (4.50%) Data Warehouse
7 50 (4.41%) Apache Cassandra
8 43 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
8 43 (3.80%) Redis
9 40 (3.53%) Power BI
10 34 (3.00%) DynamoDB
11 31 (2.74%) Big Data
12 30 (2.65%) Relational Database
13 27 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (2.38%) Data Lake
14 26 (2.29%) Amazon Aurora
14 26 (2.29%) BigQuery
14 26 (2.29%) MongoDB
15 25 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (2.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 309 (27.27%) Git
2 252 (22.24%) Jenkins
3 199 (17.56%) JIRA
4 139 (12.27%) GitLab
5 61 (5.38%) Bitbucket
6 59 (5.21%) CircleCI
7 52 (4.59%) JUnit
8 49 (4.32%) Jasmine
9 45 (3.97%) Mockito
9 45 (3.97%) Visual Studio
10 34 (3.00%) Visual Studio Code
11 31 (2.74%) Oracle Forms
12 27 (2.38%) Selenium
13 26 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (1.94%) Maven
14 22 (1.94%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.85%) PHPUnit
16 20 (1.77%) Subversion
17 19 (1.68%) Artifactory
18 18 (1.59%) Spinnaker
General
1 319 (28.16%) Finance
2 248 (21.89%) Social Skills
3 130 (11.47%) Banking
4 97 (8.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 82 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
6 70 (6.18%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.38%) Marketing
8 59 (5.21%) Law
9 51 (4.50%) Retail
10 47 (4.15%) Legal
11 30 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.38%) Electronics
13 26 (2.29%) Automotive
14 25 (2.21%) Games
15 23 (2.03%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.94%) Manufacturing
17 21 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
17 21 (1.85%) Retail Banking
18 17 (1.50%) Investment Banking
19 12 (1.06%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 423 (37.33%) Developer
2 222 (19.59%) Senior
3 174 (15.36%) Software Engineer
4 137 (12.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 119 (10.50%) Lead
6 86 (7.59%) Senior Developer
7 74 (6.53%) AWS Engineer
7 74 (6.53%) Cloud Engineer
8 72 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
9 71 (6.27%) Software Developer
10 60 (5.30%) .NET Developer
11 56 (4.94%) Data Engineer
12 45 (3.97%) C# Developer
12 45 (3.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 44 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
14 42 (3.71%) AWS DevOps
15 38 (3.35%) Platform Engineer
16 36 (3.18%) Java Engineer
17 35 (3.09%) Senior DevOps
17 35 (3.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 212 (18.71%) React
2 190 (16.77%) .NET
3 145 (12.80%) HTML
4 141 (12.44%) CSS
5 131 (11.56%) AngularJS
6 107 (9.44%) Node.js
7 99 (8.74%) RESTful
8 98 (8.65%) Kafka
9 86 (7.59%) Spring
10 85 (7.50%) GraphQL
11 84 (7.41%) HTML5
12 82 (7.24%) REST
13 62 (5.47%) .NET Core
13 62 (5.47%) Vue
14 58 (5.12%) Laravel
15 51 (4.50%) jQuery
16 50 (4.41%) J2EE
17 47 (4.15%) Web Services
18 46 (4.06%) Hibernate
19 45 (3.97%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.35%) Public Cloud
2 71 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 52 (4.59%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (4.06%) Private Cloud
6 44 (3.88%) IoT
7 37 (3.27%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.65%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.47%) DataPower
10 25 (2.21%) Management Information System
10 25 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.12%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.03%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.85%) Client/Server
14 20 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
15 17 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
16 16 (1.41%) Algorithms
17 15 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
18 13 (1.15%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 194 (17.12%) Linux
2 110 (9.71%) Windows
3 53 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 45 (3.97%) Unix
5 33 (2.91%) Apple iOS
6 24 (2.12%) Android
7 17 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.53%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.088%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (41.66%) Agile
2 460 (40.60%) DevOps
3 423 (37.33%) CI/CD
4 302 (26.65%) Software Engineering
5 214 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
6 207 (18.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 177 (15.62%) Full Stack Development
8 161 (14.21%) Computer Science
9 159 (14.03%) Microservices
10 149 (13.15%) Test Automation
11 144 (12.71%) Containerisation
12 135 (11.92%) Machine Learning
13 131 (11.56%) SDLC
14 122 (10.77%) Unit Testing
15 112 (9.89%) Mentoring
16 101 (8.91%) Continuous Integration
17 97 (8.56%) Artificial Intelligence
18 94 (8.30%) Scrum
19 84 (7.41%) Analytics
20 80 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 357 (31.51%) Python
2 308 (27.18%) SQL
3 305 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 251 (22.15%) Java
5 174 (15.36%) C#
6 141 (12.44%) TypeScript
7 102 (9.00%) PowerShell
8 91 (8.03%) PHP
9 88 (7.77%) Bash
10 76 (6.71%) Go
11 53 (4.68%) Ruby
12 43 (3.80%) C
13 23 (2.03%) MATLAB
14 21 (1.85%) C++
14 21 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.77%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.77%) Perl
16 19 (1.68%) Scala
17 16 (1.41%) Objective-C
18 14 (1.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 191 (16.86%) Degree
2 95 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 72 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 56 (4.94%) Master's Degree
5 46 (4.06%) SC Cleared
6 31 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.88%) 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 (0.35%) ISEB
12 4 (0.35%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.35%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.088%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.088%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.80%) GDPR
1 43 (3.80%) QA
2 19 (1.68%) Accessibility
2 19 (1.68%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.15%) NCSC
4 11 (0.97%) MISRA
5 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.53%) MISRA C
7 5 (0.44%) PMO
8 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.26%) SLA
10 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
11 1 (0.088%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.088%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 340 (30.01%) Docker
2 40 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.32%) Firmware
5 11 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.97%) NFS
6 10 (0.88%) pfSense
7 8 (0.71%) HDFS
8 6 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 310 (27.36%) Kubernetes
2 304 (26.83%) Terraform
3 120 (10.59%) Ansible
4 39 (3.44%) Grafana
5 31 (2.74%) Progress Chef
5 31 (2.74%) Puppet
6 16 (1.41%) Packer
7 15 (1.32%) Istio
8 14 (1.24%) Argo
8 14 (1.24%) ZABBIX
9 13 (1.15%) Prometheus
10 12 (1.06%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.88%) SCDPM
12 8 (0.71%) Kibana
12 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.62%) Foglight
13 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.62%) Nagios
13 7 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 154 (13.59%) Microsoft
2 110 (9.71%) Oracle
3 85 (7.50%) Google
4 41 (3.62%) SAP
5 39 (3.44%) IBM
6 38 (3.35%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.56%) Databricks
8 28 (2.47%) Kofax
8 28 (2.47%) Pega
9 23 (2.03%) Splunk
10 21 (1.85%) Salesforce
11 19 (1.68%) Atlassian
11 19 (1.68%) VMware
12 17 (1.50%) McAfee
12 17 (1.50%) Red Hat
13 15 (1.32%) ForgeRock
13 15 (1.32%) Sitecore
14 13 (1.15%) HP
15 12 (1.06%) Sun
15 12 (1.06%) TOWER Software