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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 262 195 100
Rank change year-on-year -67 -95 +112
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,123 1,967 5,477
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.94% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 4.53% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 869 1,087 1,560
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £38,675
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +6.12%
75th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,919 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +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 35,381 43,379 75,835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.70% 42.80% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,736 28,530 41,309
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,784 £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 £96,250 £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 9 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 9 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 -61 947 £65,000 -6.40% 410
UK excluding London -84 677 £60,000 +4.35% 259
Work from Home -28 513 £65,000 -6.40% 158
London -33 364 £85,000 +9.68% 178
North of England -52 191 £63,750 +10.87% 81
South East -90 144 £52,500 -25.00% 38
North West -2 120 £60,000 -0.41% 41
Midlands -7 103 £61,500 +6.96% 40
Scotland -86 90 £75,000 +30.43% 20
South West +11 81 £57,500 -7.63% 42
West Midlands +9 81 £61,500 +6.96% 24
Yorkshire -47 57 £68,000 +14.24% 31
East of England -6 45 £50,000 - 20
Wales -3 22 £62,500 +11.01% 12
East Midlands -14 21 £55,000 +4.76% 16
North East -19 14 £71,500 +24.35% 10
Northern Ireland -17 1 £47,500 -17.39% 11

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 (6.50%) FileNet
2 59 (5.25%) 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 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
14 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
15 2 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 45 (4.01%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Trello
4 7 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.45%) 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 (0.45%) 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
1 470 (41.85%) AWS
2 467 (41.59%) Azure
3 250 (22.26%) GitHub Actions
4 221 (19.68%) GCP
5 156 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
6 135 (12.02%) Serverless
7 122 (10.86%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (9.53%) Amazon S3
9 81 (7.21%) SaaS
10 69 (6.14%) AWS CloudFormation
11 57 (5.08%) PaaS
12 47 (4.19%) 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 39 (3.47%) 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 (1.34%) 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 (0.45%) Bluetooth
10 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.45%) RS-485
10 5 (0.45%) Wireless
10 5 (0.45%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.27%) Network Security
11 3 (0.27%) SMS
11 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (10.42%) MySQL
2 107 (9.53%) SQL Server
3 98 (8.73%) NoSQL
4 83 (7.39%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 45 (4.01%) Redis
9 41 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (3.12%) Power BI
11 34 (3.03%) DynamoDB
12 30 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (2.67%) MongoDB
13 27 (2.40%) Big Data
14 26 (2.32%) Relational Database
15 25 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
15 25 (2.23%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (2.05%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.96%) BigQuery
18 19 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 301 (26.80%) Git
2 243 (21.64%) Jenkins
3 195 (17.36%) JIRA
4 134 (11.93%) GitLab
5 61 (5.43%) CircleCI
6 59 (5.25%) Bitbucket
7 52 (4.63%) JUnit
8 49 (4.36%) Jasmine
9 45 (4.01%) Mockito
9 45 (4.01%) Visual Studio
10 34 (3.03%) Visual Studio Code
11 33 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
12 25 (2.23%) Selenium
12 25 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
13 22 (1.96%) Maven
13 22 (1.96%) SonarQube
14 21 (1.87%) PHPUnit
15 19 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
15 19 (1.69%) Subversion
16 18 (1.60%) Artifactory
General
1 306 (27.25%) Finance
2 249 (22.17%) Social Skills
3 119 (10.60%) Banking
4 97 (8.64%) 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 (4.19%) Retail
10 46 (4.10%) Legal
11 31 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.40%) Automotive
12 27 (2.40%) Electronics
13 25 (2.23%) Games
14 23 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
14 23 (2.05%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.96%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.69%) Retail Banking
17 14 (1.25%) Investment Banking
18 12 (1.07%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 419 (37.31%) Developer
2 222 (19.77%) Senior
3 175 (15.58%) Software Engineer
4 136 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 119 (10.60%) Lead
6 86 (7.66%) Senior Developer
7 73 (6.50%) Cloud Engineer
7 73 (6.50%) Full Stack Developer
8 72 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
9 71 (6.32%) Software Developer
10 60 (5.34%) .NET Developer
11 57 (5.08%) Data Engineer
12 48 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
13 45 (4.01%) C# Developer
14 43 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 41 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
15 41 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
16 37 (3.29%) Java Engineer
17 35 (3.12%) Senior DevOps
17 35 (3.12%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 216 (19.23%) React
2 191 (17.01%) .NET
3 147 (13.09%) HTML
4 143 (12.73%) CSS
5 134 (11.93%) AngularJS
6 109 (9.71%) Node.js
7 99 (8.82%) RESTful
8 90 (8.01%) Kafka
9 86 (7.66%) Spring
10 84 (7.48%) GraphQL
10 84 (7.48%) HTML5
11 77 (6.86%) REST
12 64 (5.70%) Vue
13 62 (5.52%) .NET Core
14 58 (5.16%) Laravel
15 51 (4.54%) jQuery
16 49 (4.36%) J2EE
17 46 (4.10%) Web Services
18 45 (4.01%) Hibernate
18 45 (4.01%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 77 (6.86%) Public Cloud
2 71 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 51 (4.54%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (4.19%) Private Cloud
6 45 (4.01%) IoT
7 37 (3.29%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.49%) DataPower
10 25 (2.23%) 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 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
19 12 (1.07%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 188 (16.74%) Linux
2 108 (9.62%) Windows
3 52 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.01%) Unix
5 33 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 24 (2.14%) Android
7 15 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.45%) VMS
10 5 (0.45%) 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
1 464 (41.32%) Agile
2 460 (40.96%) DevOps
3 413 (36.78%) CI/CD
4 298 (26.54%) Software Engineering
5 211 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (18.34%) Infrastructure as Code
7 179 (15.94%) Full Stack Development
8 160 (14.25%) Microservices
9 159 (14.16%) Computer Science
10 147 (13.09%) Containerisation
11 145 (12.91%) Test Automation
12 131 (11.67%) Machine Learning
12 131 (11.67%) SDLC
13 120 (10.69%) Unit Testing
14 109 (9.71%) Mentoring
15 96 (8.55%) Continuous Integration
16 92 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 92 (8.19%) Scrum
17 80 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 79 (7.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 350 (31.17%) Python
2 311 (27.69%) SQL
3 302 (26.89%) JavaScript
4 245 (21.82%) Java
5 171 (15.23%) C#
6 143 (12.73%) TypeScript
7 103 (9.17%) PowerShell
8 90 (8.01%) PHP
9 89 (7.93%) Bash
10 74 (6.59%) Go
11 49 (4.36%) 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%) Perl
15 18 (1.60%) Scala
16 16 (1.42%) Objective-C
17 14 (1.25%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (16.65%) Degree
2 93 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.90%) Master's Degree
5 44 (3.92%) 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 (0.45%) 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 (3.92%) 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 (0.45%) 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 (30.28%) Docker
2 41 (3.65%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.34%) 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
1 309 (27.52%) Kubernetes
2 301 (26.80%) Terraform
3 121 (10.77%) Ansible
4 38 (3.38%) Grafana
5 30 (2.67%) Progress Chef
5 30 (2.67%) Puppet
6 16 (1.42%) Packer
7 15 (1.34%) Istio
8 14 (1.25%) Argo
8 14 (1.25%) ZABBIX
9 13 (1.16%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 10 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
10 10 (0.89%) SCDPM
11 8 (0.71%) Kibana
11 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
12 7 (0.62%) Foglight
12 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (0.62%) Nagios
12 7 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 151 (13.45%) Microsoft
2 110 (9.80%) Oracle
3 81 (7.21%) 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 18 (1.60%) Atlassian
13 16 (1.42%) ForgeRock
13 16 (1.42%) McAfee
13 16 (1.42%) Sitecore
14 15 (1.34%) Red Hat
15 13 (1.16%) Dynatrace
15 13 (1.16%) HP
16 11 (0.98%) Juniper