GitHub Jobs with Work from Home Options

GitHub
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 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 214 190 82
Rank change year-on-year -24 -108 +87
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 506 771 3,040
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.50% 1.90% 4.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.45% 3.93% 8.05%
Number of salaries quoted 435 521 948
10th Percentile £42,286 £45,000 £37,850
25th Percentile £50,000 £56,052 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,218 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.97% +6.84% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,715 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,865 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,653 19,603 37,748
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.34% 48.31% 52.97%
Number of salaries quoted 11,910 14,302 21,927
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £49,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +11.12%
75th Percentile £79,500 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

GitHub
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub.

GitHub salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

GitHub salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 29 (5.73%) Confluence
2 17 (3.36%) nginx
3 11 (2.17%) Apache
3 11 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.58%) CMS
4 8 (1.58%) WordPress
5 6 (1.19%) IIS
5 6 (1.19%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.99%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.99%) Umbraco
7 3 (0.59%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.20%) Drupal
8 1 (0.20%) JBoss
8 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 19 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.38%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.40%) Notion
4 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
3 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.20%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 236 (46.64%) AWS
2 209 (41.30%) Azure
3 111 (21.94%) GitHub Actions
4 101 (19.96%) GCP
5 96 (18.97%) Serverless
6 86 (17.00%) AWS Lambda
7 72 (14.23%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (11.46%) SaaS
9 42 (8.30%) PaaS
10 39 (7.71%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (7.71%) Amazon S3
11 38 (7.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (6.32%) Azure AKS
13 29 (5.73%) Amazon ECS
14 27 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
15 26 (5.14%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (4.35%) IaaS
17 20 (3.95%) Power Platform
17 20 (3.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.75%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.34%) Firewall
2 21 (4.15%) DNS
3 20 (3.95%) VPN
4 11 (2.17%) RS-232
5 10 (1.98%) 5G
5 10 (1.98%) DHCP
5 10 (1.98%) TCP/IP
6 9 (1.78%) Internet
7 6 (1.19%) WAN
8 5 (0.99%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.99%) MQTT
8 5 (0.99%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.99%) RS-485
8 5 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (0.99%) Wireless
8 5 (0.99%) ZigBee
9 3 (0.59%) SMS
10 2 (0.40%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.40%) LAN
10 2 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.45%) MySQL
2 52 (10.28%) PostgreSQL
3 50 (9.88%) SQL Server
4 38 (7.51%) Redis
5 30 (5.93%) Amazon RDS
6 22 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
7 20 (3.95%) Power BI
8 19 (3.75%) DynamoDB
9 18 (3.56%) Relational Database
10 17 (3.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 13 (2.57%) MongoDB
12 12 (2.37%) BigQuery
12 12 (2.37%) NoSQL
12 12 (2.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (1.98%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.78%) Data Lake
16 8 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 7 (1.38%) Data Mining
17 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 133 (26.28%) Git
2 124 (24.51%) Jenkins
3 71 (14.03%) JIRA
4 44 (8.70%) GitLab
5 34 (6.72%) Visual Studio
6 26 (5.14%) Bitbucket
7 21 (4.15%) CircleCI
8 19 (3.75%) Visual Studio Code
9 16 (3.16%) Subversion
10 15 (2.96%) Maven
11 14 (2.77%) SonarQube
12 12 (2.37%) Selenium
12 12 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
12 12 (2.37%) Spinnaker
13 11 (2.17%) Octopus Deploy
13 11 (2.17%) TeamCity
14 10 (1.98%) Trac
15 9 (1.78%) Cypress.io
15 9 (1.78%) Zephyr
16 7 (1.38%) SoapUI
General
1 154 (30.43%) Finance
2 100 (19.76%) Social Skills
3 54 (10.67%) Banking
4 27 (5.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (4.94%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.35%) Games
7 21 (4.15%) Marketing
8 20 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
8 20 (3.95%) Automotive
9 16 (3.16%) Electronics
9 16 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 13 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.17%) Aviation
12 9 (1.78%) Retail
13 8 (1.58%) Law
14 7 (1.38%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.38%) Investment Banking
14 7 (1.38%) Multimedia
15 5 (0.99%) Publishing
15 5 (0.99%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 184 (36.36%) Developer
2 107 (21.15%) Senior
3 70 (13.83%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.25%) DevOps Engineer
5 60 (11.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 45 (8.89%) Lead
7 44 (8.70%) AWS Engineer
8 42 (8.30%) Senior Developer
9 39 (7.71%) Software Developer
10 34 (6.72%) .NET Developer
10 34 (6.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (5.34%) AWS DevOps
12 23 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
12 23 (4.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 22 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
13 22 (4.35%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
14 20 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
15 19 (3.75%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 18 (3.56%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (17.79%) .NET
2 67 (13.24%) HTML
3 64 (12.65%) Node.js
4 63 (12.45%) React
5 61 (12.06%) CSS
6 53 (10.47%) RESTful
7 48 (9.49%) HTML5
8 35 (6.92%) GraphQL
9 30 (5.93%) AngularJS
10 29 (5.73%) Vue
11 28 (5.53%) jQuery
12 26 (5.14%) Laravel
13 24 (4.74%) Kafka
14 23 (4.55%) Spring
15 22 (4.35%) .NET Core
15 22 (4.35%) Web Services
16 21 (4.15%) Blazor
17 20 (3.95%) REST
18 18 (3.56%) JSON
19 17 (3.36%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.13%) Public Cloud
2 30 (5.93%) Product Ownership
3 29 (5.73%) Mobile App
4 25 (4.94%) Data Structures
5 21 (4.15%) Client/Server
5 21 (4.15%) IoT
5 21 (4.15%) Management Information System
6 19 (3.75%) Onboarding
7 18 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (3.56%) Private Cloud
8 16 (3.16%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
10 12 (2.37%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.37%) Online Games
11 11 (2.17%) Algorithms
11 11 (2.17%) Life Science
12 8 (1.58%) Clustering
12 8 (1.58%) Virtual Reality
13 7 (1.38%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 93 (18.38%) Linux
2 81 (16.01%) Windows
3 39 (7.71%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.93%) Apple iOS
5 21 (4.15%) Android
6 9 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.38%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.99%) Unix
9 4 (0.79%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.79%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.79%) VMS
10 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Debian
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (40.32%) DevOps
2 169 (33.40%) Agile
3 163 (32.21%) CI/CD
4 119 (23.52%) Software Engineering
5 90 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (17.19%) Infrastructure as Code
7 82 (16.21%) Test Automation
8 70 (13.83%) Microservices
9 67 (13.24%) Containerisation
10 58 (11.46%) Computer Science
11 53 (10.47%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (10.47%) Mentoring
12 44 (8.70%) Software Testing
13 42 (8.30%) Full Stack Development
14 37 (7.31%) MVC
14 37 (7.31%) SDLC
14 37 (7.31%) Unit Testing
15 35 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (6.92%) DevSecOps
15 35 (6.92%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 156 (30.83%) Python
2 149 (29.45%) JavaScript
3 121 (23.91%) SQL
4 103 (20.36%) Java
5 91 (17.98%) TypeScript
6 74 (14.62%) C#
7 56 (11.07%) Bash
8 51 (10.08%) Go
8 51 (10.08%) PowerShell
9 38 (7.51%) PHP
10 26 (5.14%) C
11 18 (3.56%) Ruby
12 14 (2.77%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.37%) Objective-C
13 12 (2.37%) Swift
14 10 (1.98%) Perl
15 9 (1.78%) Shell Script
16 8 (1.58%) Korn
16 8 (1.58%) R
17 7 (1.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (13.64%) Degree
2 42 (8.30%) Security Cleared
3 24 (4.74%) SC Cleared
4 23 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
5 22 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.58%) Master's Degree
7 4 (0.79%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.59%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.14%) QA
2 13 (2.57%) NCSC
3 6 (1.19%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.99%) MISRA
5 4 (0.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.40%) NIST
6 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 186 (36.76%) Docker
2 28 (5.53%) Active Directory
2 28 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
3 11 (2.17%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.98%) NFS
4 10 (1.98%) pfSense
5 8 (1.58%) Firmware
6 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 147 (29.05%) Terraform
2 123 (24.31%) Kubernetes
3 78 (15.42%) Ansible
4 30 (5.93%) Grafana
5 21 (4.15%) Puppet
6 18 (3.56%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.96%) Packer
8 12 (2.37%) ZABBIX
9 10 (1.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (1.98%) SCDPM
10 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (1.38%) Foglight
11 7 (1.38%) Nagios
12 6 (1.19%) Argo
12 6 (1.19%) Kibana
12 6 (1.19%) Prometheus
12 6 (1.19%) Red Hat Satellite
13 5 (0.99%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.99%) Salt
14 4 (0.79%) Consul
Vendors
1 71 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.70%) Google
3 19 (3.75%) Oracle
4 17 (3.36%) VMware
5 16 (3.16%) ForgeRock
5 16 (3.16%) Sitecore
6 15 (2.96%) McAfee
7 12 (2.37%) HP
7 12 (2.37%) Splunk
8 11 (2.17%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.17%) Juniper
8 11 (2.17%) Veeam
9 10 (1.98%) Databricks
10 9 (1.78%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.78%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.38%) ArcSight
11 7 (1.38%) IBM
11 7 (1.38%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.38%) Red Hat
11 7 (1.38%) ServiceNow