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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 191 97
Rank change year-on-year -87 -94 +102
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,087 1,834 6,257
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.03% 1.93% 3.70%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.01% 4.49% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 819 1,008 1,542
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,375 £88,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,731 £107,875 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.52% +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 36,127 40,865 82,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.32% 43.11% 48.81%
Number of salaries quoted 27,017 27,416 41,323
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,553 £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% +6.85%
75th Percentile £77,000 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -61 922 £65,000 -6.40% 308
UK excluding London -106 675 £59,526 +3.52% 185
Work from Home -44 489 £62,500 -10.00% 135
London -25 336 £85,000 +13.33% 139
North of England -64 193 £59,526 +3.52% 52
South East -105 146 £52,500 -25.00% 45
North West -33 113 £55,000 -4.35% 28
Midlands -6 102 £60,000 +4.35% 21
Scotland -83 85 £75,000 +30.43% 13
South West -5 81 £57,500 -2.86% 22
West Midlands -2 80 £61,500 +6.96% 14
Yorkshire -43 66 £59,526 +3.52% 21
East of England -34 45 £50,000 - 21
Wales -13 22 £62,500 -6.36% 5
East Midlands -21 21 £55,000 +7.32% 7
North East -26 14 £71,500 +24.35% 3
Northern Ireland -27 1 £47,500 -17.39% 7

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 57 (5.24%) Confluence
2 51 (4.69%) FileNet
3 32 (2.94%) Apache
4 29 (2.67%) CMS
5 26 (2.39%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.93%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (1.93%) nginx
7 16 (1.47%) Drupal
8 11 (1.01%) IIS
8 11 (1.01%) WordPress
9 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.74%) SharePoint
10 6 (0.55%) Captiva
10 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
10 6 (0.55%) WebSphere
11 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 41 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.64%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.64%) Trello
4 5 (0.46%) Doxygen
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.18%) Notion
6 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.092%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.092%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.092%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Magento
5 1 (0.092%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.092%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.092%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.092%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.092%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 470 (43.24%) AWS
2 437 (40.20%) Azure
3 263 (24.20%) GitHub Actions
4 197 (18.12%) GCP
5 152 (13.98%) Azure DevOps
6 121 (11.13%) Serverless
7 108 (9.94%) AWS Lambda
8 103 (9.48%) Amazon S3
9 75 (6.90%) SaaS
10 67 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 55 (5.06%) PaaS
12 42 (3.86%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.86%) Amazon EKS
13 41 (3.77%) Power Platform
14 38 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (3.50%) Azure AKS
15 36 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (3.04%) IaaS
17 25 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (2.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.05%) Firewall
2 42 (3.86%) DNS
3 21 (1.93%) VPN
4 14 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.29%) WAN
5 11 (1.01%) DHCP
5 11 (1.01%) Internet
5 11 (1.01%) RS-232
6 10 (0.92%) 5G
7 9 (0.83%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.55%) MQTT
8 6 (0.55%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.46%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.46%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.46%) RS-485
9 5 (0.46%) Wireless
9 5 (0.46%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.28%) SMS
10 3 (0.28%) SSL
11 2 (0.18%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (10.86%) MySQL
2 105 (9.66%) SQL Server
3 100 (9.20%) NoSQL
4 83 (7.64%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (5.70%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (4.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 51 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (4.51%) Redis
8 36 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (3.31%) MongoDB
9 35 (3.22%) Power BI
10 32 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (2.85%) DynamoDB
12 30 (2.76%) Relational Database
13 25 (2.30%) Big Data
14 24 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
14 24 (2.21%) Data Lake
15 20 (1.84%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
16 19 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 284 (26.13%) Git
2 213 (19.60%) Jenkins
3 160 (14.72%) JIRA
4 144 (13.25%) GitLab
5 69 (6.35%) CircleCI
6 52 (4.78%) Bitbucket
7 51 (4.69%) JUnit
8 46 (4.23%) Jasmine
9 45 (4.14%) Mockito
10 41 (3.77%) Visual Studio
11 30 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
12 22 (2.02%) SonarQube
13 21 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
13 21 (1.93%) PHPUnit
14 19 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
14 19 (1.75%) Subversion
15 16 (1.47%) Selenium
15 16 (1.47%) Trac
16 15 (1.38%) Artifactory
17 14 (1.29%) TeamCity
General
1 252 (23.18%) Finance
2 251 (23.09%) Social Skills
3 96 (8.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 82 (7.54%) Public Sector
5 78 (7.18%) Banking
6 74 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
7 62 (5.70%) Marketing
8 59 (5.43%) Law
9 47 (4.32%) Legal
10 45 (4.14%) Retail
11 30 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
11 30 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (2.58%) Automotive
13 26 (2.39%) Electronics
14 24 (2.21%) Games
15 22 (2.02%) Manufacturing
15 22 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.66%) Retail Banking
17 12 (1.10%) Aviation
18 10 (0.92%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 418 (38.45%) Developer
2 234 (21.53%) Senior
3 169 (15.55%) Software Engineer
4 130 (11.96%) DevOps Engineer
5 110 (10.12%) Lead
6 87 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 76 (6.99%) Software Developer
8 72 (6.62%) Full Stack Developer
9 64 (5.89%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (5.61%) Cloud Engineer
11 60 (5.52%) .NET Developer
12 53 (4.88%) Data Engineer
13 50 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.14%) C# Developer
15 42 (3.86%) Platform Engineer
16 39 (3.59%) Java Engineer
17 37 (3.40%) Senior DevOps
17 37 (3.40%) Senior DevOps Engineer
17 37 (3.40%) Senior Software Engineer
18 36 (3.31%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (20.06%) React
2 191 (17.57%) .NET
3 147 (13.52%) HTML
4 146 (13.43%) CSS
5 140 (12.88%) AngularJS
6 109 (10.03%) Node.js
7 101 (9.29%) RESTful
8 96 (8.83%) GraphQL
9 89 (8.19%) REST
10 88 (8.10%) Spring
11 82 (7.54%) HTML5
12 81 (7.45%) Kafka
13 66 (6.07%) .NET Core
14 65 (5.98%) Vue
15 59 (5.43%) Laravel
16 55 (5.06%) Web Services
17 50 (4.60%) jQuery
18 49 (4.51%) J2EE
19 46 (4.23%) Hibernate
20 45 (4.14%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.36%) Public Cloud
2 66 (6.07%) Cloud Native
3 61 (5.61%) Distributed Systems
4 50 (4.60%) Product Ownership
5 46 (4.23%) IoT
6 36 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 35 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.85%) Data Structures
9 25 (2.30%) Private Cloud
10 24 (2.21%) Management Information System
11 23 (2.12%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.93%) Client/Server
12 21 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
14 18 (1.66%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.29%) Algorithms
15 14 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
17 12 (1.10%) Life Science
17 12 (1.10%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 161 (14.81%) Linux
2 100 (9.20%) Windows
3 47 (4.32%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.39%) Android
6 23 (2.12%) Unix
7 10 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 5 (0.46%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.46%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.37%) VMS
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.18%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.18%) Debian
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 435 (40.02%) Agile
2 423 (38.91%) DevOps
3 405 (37.26%) CI/CD
4 291 (26.77%) Software Engineering
5 225 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (18.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 194 (17.85%) Full Stack Development
8 155 (14.26%) Computer Science
9 154 (14.17%) Microservices
10 152 (13.98%) Containerisation
11 149 (13.71%) Test Automation
12 123 (11.32%) Machine Learning
13 122 (11.22%) SDLC
14 121 (11.13%) Unit Testing
15 116 (10.67%) Mentoring
16 100 (9.20%) Continuous Integration
17 89 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
18 82 (7.54%) Scrum
19 76 (6.99%) Deployment Automation
20 74 (6.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 322 (29.62%) Python
2 290 (26.68%) JavaScript
3 280 (25.76%) SQL
4 218 (20.06%) Java
5 169 (15.55%) C#
6 139 (12.79%) TypeScript
7 104 (9.57%) PowerShell
8 90 (8.28%) PHP
9 80 (7.36%) Bash
10 75 (6.90%) Go
11 42 (3.86%) C
12 40 (3.68%) Ruby
13 28 (2.58%) Scala
14 23 (2.12%) MATLAB
15 22 (2.02%) T-SQL
16 20 (1.84%) Apex Code
17 19 (1.75%) C++
18 16 (1.47%) Kotlin
18 16 (1.47%) Objective-C
19 14 (1.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 180 (16.56%) Degree
2 90 (8.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 58 (5.34%) Security Cleared
4 52 (4.78%) Master's Degree
5 37 (3.40%) SC Cleared
6 28 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.10%) AWS Certification
8 9 (0.83%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.74%) HND
10 7 (0.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.55%) PhD
12 4 (0.37%) ISEB
12 4 (0.37%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.37%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.28%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.092%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 1 (0.092%) MCSA
14 1 (0.092%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.86%) QA
2 21 (1.93%) GDPR
3 19 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.75%) Data Quality
4 14 (1.29%) NCSC
5 9 (0.83%) MISRA
6 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.37%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.37%) NIST
7 4 (0.37%) PMO
7 4 (0.37%) SLA
8 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.092%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.092%) WCAG
System Software
1 345 (31.74%) Docker
2 37 (3.40%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 14 (1.29%) Firmware
5 11 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.01%) NFS
6 10 (0.92%) pfSense
7 7 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.64%) HDFS
8 6 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.092%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.092%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.092%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.092%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 303 (27.87%) Terraform
2 302 (27.78%) Kubernetes
3 115 (10.58%) Ansible
4 38 (3.50%) Grafana
5 24 (2.21%) Progress Chef
6 22 (2.02%) Puppet
7 15 (1.38%) Istio
8 14 (1.29%) ZABBIX
9 13 (1.20%) Argo
9 13 (1.20%) Packer
9 13 (1.20%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.92%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 10 (0.92%) SCDPM
11 9 (0.83%) Kibana
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.64%) Foglight
13 7 (0.64%) Nagios
14 6 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 5 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 147 (13.52%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.82%) Oracle
3 73 (6.72%) Google
4 28 (2.58%) Databricks
5 21 (1.93%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.93%) Splunk
6 20 (1.84%) Atlassian
6 20 (1.84%) VMware
7 19 (1.75%) SAP
8 16 (1.47%) ForgeRock
8 16 (1.47%) ServiceNow
8 16 (1.47%) Sitecore
9 14 (1.29%) IBM
9 14 (1.29%) McAfee
10 13 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.20%) HP
11 11 (1.01%) Fortinet
11 11 (1.01%) Juniper
11 11 (1.01%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.01%) Veeam