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

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 185 99
Rank change year-on-year -86 -86 +102
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,086 1,935 6,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.06% 1.99% 3.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.03% 4.60% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 827 1,035 1,549
10th Percentile £41,871 £45,470 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,750 £89,926 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £110,750 £92,500
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 35,821 42,083 81,137
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.91% 43.23% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 26,874 27,585 41,557
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,723 £34,000
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% +7.76%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 28 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 28 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 -78 920 £65,000 -6.40% 471
UK excluding London -100 672 £59,526 +3.52% 285
Work from Home -25 492 £62,500 -10.00% 173
London -39 338 £85,000 +13.33% 212
North of England -62 191 £59,526 +3.52% 87
South East -92 145 £52,500 -25.00% 49
North West -11 114 £57,500 -2.13% 47
Midlands -1 103 £61,500 +6.96% 44
Scotland -87 85 £70,000 +21.74% 18
West Midlands +16 81 £61,500 +6.96% 28
South West -2 81 £57,500 -4.17% 36
Yorkshire -49 63 £59,526 - 34
East of England -31 44 £50,000 - 31
Wales -13 22 £62,500 -3.85% 15
East Midlands -20 21 £55,000 +7.32% 16
North East -22 14 £71,500 +24.35% 8
Northern Ireland -28 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 56 (5.16%) Confluence
2 53 (4.88%) FileNet
3 32 (2.95%) Apache
4 29 (2.67%) CMS
5 25 (2.30%) 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%) Captiva
9 8 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.74%) SharePoint
9 8 (0.74%) WebSphere
10 6 (0.55%) OpenStack
11 5 (0.46%) Umbraco
12 4 (0.37%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
14 2 (0.18%) JBoss
Applications
1 42 (3.87%) 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
1 464 (42.73%) AWS
2 440 (40.52%) Azure
3 255 (23.48%) GitHub Actions
4 202 (18.60%) GCP
5 152 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
6 123 (11.33%) Serverless
7 110 (10.13%) AWS Lambda
8 104 (9.58%) Amazon S3
9 74 (6.81%) SaaS
10 67 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
11 59 (5.43%) PaaS
12 42 (3.87%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.87%) Amazon EKS
13 39 (3.59%) Power Platform
14 38 (3.50%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (3.50%) Azure AKS
15 36 (3.31%) Amazon EC2
16 32 (2.95%) IaaS
17 25 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (2.12%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.14%) Firewall
2 43 (3.96%) 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%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (10.77%) MySQL
2 105 (9.67%) SQL Server
3 99 (9.12%) NoSQL
4 82 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (4.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 49 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (4.51%) Redis
8 36 (3.31%) Amazon RDS
8 36 (3.31%) MongoDB
9 33 (3.04%) Power BI
10 32 (2.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 31 (2.85%) DynamoDB
12 29 (2.67%) Relational Database
13 25 (2.30%) Big Data
14 24 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
15 22 (2.03%) Data Lake
16 20 (1.84%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.75%) Amazon Aurora
17 19 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 281 (25.87%) Git
2 220 (20.26%) Jenkins
3 163 (15.01%) JIRA
4 138 (12.71%) GitLab
5 67 (6.17%) CircleCI
6 54 (4.97%) Bitbucket
7 51 (4.70%) JUnit
8 47 (4.33%) Jasmine
9 45 (4.14%) Mockito
10 42 (3.87%) Visual Studio
11 30 (2.76%) Visual Studio Code
12 21 (1.93%) Octopus Deploy
12 21 (1.93%) PHPUnit
12 21 (1.93%) SonarQube
13 20 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
14 19 (1.75%) Subversion
15 16 (1.47%) Selenium
15 16 (1.47%) Trac
16 15 (1.38%) Artifactory
16 15 (1.38%) Cypress.io
General
1 261 (24.03%) Finance
2 251 (23.11%) Social Skills
3 96 (8.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 87 (8.01%) Banking
5 79 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 74 (6.81%) Analytical Skills
7 62 (5.71%) Marketing
8 59 (5.43%) Law
9 47 (4.33%) Legal
10 45 (4.14%) Retail
11 30 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 29 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (2.49%) Automotive
14 26 (2.39%) Electronics
15 24 (2.21%) Games
16 22 (2.03%) Manufacturing
16 22 (2.03%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.66%) Retail Banking
18 12 (1.10%) Aviation
19 10 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 417 (38.40%) Developer
2 233 (21.45%) Senior
3 170 (15.65%) Software Engineer
4 128 (11.79%) DevOps Engineer
5 111 (10.22%) Lead
6 86 (7.92%) Senior Developer
7 75 (6.91%) Software Developer
8 74 (6.81%) Full Stack Developer
9 68 (6.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 66 (6.08%) AWS Engineer
11 61 (5.62%) .NET Developer
12 52 (4.79%) Data Engineer
13 50 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
14 46 (4.24%) C# Developer
15 43 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
16 38 (3.50%) Java Engineer
17 37 (3.41%) AWS DevOps
18 36 (3.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 36 (3.31%) Senior DevOps
18 36 (3.31%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (19.98%) React
2 191 (17.59%) .NET
3 148 (13.63%) HTML
4 146 (13.44%) CSS
5 140 (12.89%) AngularJS
6 111 (10.22%) Node.js
7 99 (9.12%) RESTful
8 94 (8.66%) GraphQL
9 87 (8.01%) Spring
10 86 (7.92%) REST
11 83 (7.64%) HTML5
12 82 (7.55%) Kafka
13 65 (5.99%) .NET Core
13 65 (5.99%) Vue
14 58 (5.34%) Laravel
15 52 (4.79%) Web Services
16 50 (4.60%) jQuery
17 49 (4.51%) J2EE
18 46 (4.24%) Hibernate
19 45 (4.14%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 83 (7.64%) Public Cloud
2 67 (6.17%) Cloud Native
3 60 (5.52%) Distributed Systems
4 56 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 46 (4.24%) IoT
6 36 (3.31%) Mobile App
7 33 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 27 (2.49%) Private Cloud
10 23 (2.12%) Management Information System
11 22 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.03%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.93%) Client/Server
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
1 158 (14.55%) Linux
2 100 (9.21%) Windows
3 47 (4.33%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.13%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.39%) Android
6 25 (2.30%) Unix
7 10 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.64%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.55%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.46%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.37%) FreeRTOS
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
1 440 (40.52%) Agile
2 423 (38.95%) DevOps
3 406 (37.38%) CI/CD
4 289 (26.61%) Software Engineering
5 220 (20.26%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (19.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 193 (17.77%) Full Stack Development
8 156 (14.36%) Computer Science
9 154 (14.18%) Microservices
10 148 (13.63%) Containerisation
11 144 (13.26%) Test Automation
12 123 (11.33%) SDLC
13 121 (11.14%) Machine Learning
13 121 (11.14%) Unit Testing
14 110 (10.13%) Mentoring
15 97 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
16 87 (8.01%) Artificial Intelligence
17 80 (7.37%) Scrum
18 74 (6.81%) Clean Code
18 74 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 322 (29.65%) Python
2 291 (26.80%) JavaScript
3 282 (25.97%) SQL
4 217 (19.98%) Java
5 169 (15.56%) C#
6 139 (12.80%) TypeScript
7 104 (9.58%) PowerShell
8 89 (8.20%) PHP
9 80 (7.37%) Bash
10 74 (6.81%) Go
11 42 (3.87%) C
12 40 (3.68%) Ruby
13 26 (2.39%) Scala
14 23 (2.12%) MATLAB
15 21 (1.93%) T-SQL
16 20 (1.84%) Apex Code
17 17 (1.57%) C++
18 16 (1.47%) Objective-C
19 14 (1.29%) Kotlin
19 14 (1.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 180 (16.57%) Degree
2 91 (8.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (5.43%) Security Cleared
4 52 (4.79%) Master's Degree
5 38 (3.50%) SC Cleared
6 27 (2.49%) 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
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.96%) QA
2 23 (2.12%) GDPR
3 18 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.66%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.20%) NCSC
5 11 (1.01%) MISRA
6 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.64%) PCI DSS
7 6 (0.55%) MISRA C
8 4 (0.37%) NIST
8 4 (0.37%) PMO
8 4 (0.37%) SLA
9 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.092%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.092%) WCAG
System Software
1 344 (31.68%) Docker
2 37 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.38%) Firmware
5 11 (1.01%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.01%) NFS
6 10 (0.92%) pfSense
7 7 (0.64%) HDFS
8 6 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
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
1 304 (27.99%) Kubernetes
2 301 (27.72%) Terraform
3 113 (10.41%) Ansible
4 38 (3.50%) Grafana
5 24 (2.21%) Progress Chef
6 22 (2.03%) Puppet
7 15 (1.38%) Istio
8 14 (1.29%) Packer
8 14 (1.29%) ZABBIX
9 13 (1.20%) Argo
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 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 86 (7.92%) Oracle
3 77 (7.09%) Google
4 26 (2.39%) Databricks
5 22 (2.03%) Splunk
6 21 (1.93%) Salesforce
6 21 (1.93%) SAP
7 20 (1.84%) Atlassian
7 20 (1.84%) VMware
8 18 (1.66%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.47%) ForgeRock
9 16 (1.47%) IBM
9 16 (1.47%) Sitecore
10 14 (1.29%) McAfee
11 13 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 13 (1.20%) HP
12 11 (1.01%) Fortinet
12 11 (1.01%) Juniper
12 11 (1.01%) Red Hat
12 11 (1.01%) Veeam