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

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 250 191 102
Rank change year-on-year -59 -89 +129
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,132 2,086 5,219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.15% 1.99% 3.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.22% 4.62% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 873 1,141 1,559
10th Percentile £42,329 £45,000 £37,900
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £64,350
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +4.90% +2.96%
75th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,000 £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 35,208 45,118 74,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.91% 43.11% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,662 29,500 41,930
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £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 £95,000 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -61 953 £65,000 -6.40% 321
UK excluding London -92 683 £60,000 +1.37% 185
Work from Home -16 534 £65,000 -6.40% 164
London -36 368 £85,000 +9.68% 143
North of England -65 189 £65,000 +13.04% 67
South East -57 145 £52,500 -25.00% 34
North West -3 122 £60,000 +0.80% 36
Midlands +1 106 £61,500 +6.96% 21
Scotland -83 90 £75,000 +26.00% 17
South West +29 84 £53,500 -14.06% 30
West Midlands +13 82 £61,500 +6.96% 11
Yorkshire -56 52 £68,000 +14.24% 26
East of England -13 45 £50,000 -2.44% 12
Wales +6 23 £62,500 +22.30% 5
East Midlands -10 23 £55,000 +4.76% 10
North East -15 15 £71,500 +24.35% 7
Northern Ireland -12 1 £47,500 -17.39% 4

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 72 (6.36%) FileNet
2 60 (5.30%) Confluence
3 42 (3.71%) Apache
4 38 (3.36%) Apache Spark
5 30 (2.65%) CMS
6 28 (2.47%) Captiva
6 28 (2.47%) WebSphere
7 23 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (1.94%) nginx
9 19 (1.68%) Drupal
10 15 (1.33%) 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 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
18 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 46 (4.06%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Trello
4 7 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.27%) 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 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
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
1 469 (41.43%) AWS
2 457 (40.37%) Azure
3 247 (21.82%) GitHub Actions
4 224 (19.79%) GCP
5 161 (14.22%) Azure DevOps
6 134 (11.84%) Serverless
7 120 (10.60%) AWS Lambda
8 104 (9.19%) Amazon S3
9 82 (7.24%) SaaS
10 67 (5.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 55 (4.86%) PaaS
12 52 (4.59%) Power Platform
13 47 (4.15%) Amazon EKS
14 43 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
16 37 (3.27%) Azure AKS
17 36 (3.18%) Amazon SQS
18 34 (3.00%) IaaS
19 26 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
20 24 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.15%) Firewall
2 40 (3.53%) DNS
3 21 (1.86%) VPN
4 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.15%) Internet
6 11 (0.97%) DHCP
6 11 (0.97%) RS-232
6 11 (0.97%) WAN
7 10 (0.88%) 5G
8 7 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) MQTT
9 6 (0.53%) Reverse Proxy
9 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.44%) Bluetooth
10 5 (0.44%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Wireless
10 5 (0.44%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.27%) Network Security
11 3 (0.27%) SMS
11 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 124 (10.95%) MySQL
2 108 (9.54%) SQL Server
3 103 (9.10%) NoSQL
4 90 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
5 59 (5.21%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (4.33%) Apache Cassandra
6 49 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
7 46 (4.06%) Amazon RDS
8 44 (3.89%) Power BI
9 43 (3.80%) Redis
10 36 (3.18%) Big Data
11 34 (3.00%) Relational Database
12 33 (2.92%) DynamoDB
13 29 (2.56%) BigQuery
13 29 (2.56%) Data Lake
14 27 (2.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 27 (2.39%) Tableau
15 26 (2.30%) Amazon Aurora
16 25 (2.21%) MongoDB
17 23 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 312 (27.56%) Git
2 260 (22.97%) Jenkins
3 198 (17.49%) JIRA
4 137 (12.10%) GitLab
5 63 (5.57%) Bitbucket
6 54 (4.77%) CircleCI
7 51 (4.51%) JUnit
8 48 (4.24%) Jasmine
9 45 (3.98%) Visual Studio
10 44 (3.89%) Mockito
11 35 (3.09%) Visual Studio Code
12 30 (2.65%) Oracle Forms
13 28 (2.47%) Selenium
14 26 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
15 24 (2.12%) Maven
16 23 (2.03%) SonarQube
17 21 (1.86%) PHPUnit
18 19 (1.68%) Artifactory
18 19 (1.68%) JMeter
18 19 (1.68%) Spinnaker
General
1 327 (28.89%) Finance
2 242 (21.38%) Social Skills
3 138 (12.19%) Banking
4 93 (8.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 81 (7.16%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (5.83%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.39%) Marketing
8 56 (4.95%) Law
8 56 (4.95%) Retail
9 45 (3.98%) Legal
10 28 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.39%) Electronics
12 25 (2.21%) Automotive
12 25 (2.21%) Games
13 23 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.94%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.86%) Retail Banking
16 18 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 18 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (1.06%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 427 (37.72%) Developer
2 222 (19.61%) Senior
3 170 (15.02%) Software Engineer
4 139 (12.28%) DevOps Engineer
5 116 (10.25%) Lead
6 87 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 77 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
8 74 (6.54%) AWS Engineer
9 72 (6.36%) Full Stack Developer
10 70 (6.18%) Software Developer
11 60 (5.30%) .NET Developer
12 53 (4.68%) Data Engineer
13 46 (4.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 45 (3.98%) C# Developer
15 43 (3.80%) AWS DevOps
15 43 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
16 38 (3.36%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (3.27%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 36 (3.18%) Senior DevOps
18 36 (3.18%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 210 (18.55%) React
2 186 (16.43%) .NET
3 148 (13.07%) HTML
4 143 (12.63%) CSS
5 130 (11.48%) AngularJS
6 107 (9.45%) Node.js
7 103 (9.10%) Kafka
8 97 (8.57%) RESTful
9 85 (7.51%) HTML5
10 84 (7.42%) GraphQL
11 82 (7.24%) REST
12 81 (7.16%) Spring
13 64 (5.65%) Vue
14 60 (5.30%) .NET Core
15 58 (5.12%) Laravel
16 51 (4.51%) jQuery
17 50 (4.42%) J2EE
18 47 (4.15%) Web Services
19 46 (4.06%) Hibernate
20 44 (3.89%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.01%) Cloud Native
2 67 (5.92%) Public Cloud
3 53 (4.68%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.06%) Private Cloud
5 44 (3.89%) Distributed Systems
5 44 (3.89%) IoT
6 36 (3.18%) Mobile App
7 30 (2.65%) Data Structures
8 28 (2.47%) DataPower
9 27 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.30%) Management Information System
10 26 (2.30%) Onboarding
11 24 (2.12%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.86%) Client/Server
13 20 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
14 19 (1.68%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.50%) Algorithms
16 15 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (1.15%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 196 (17.31%) Linux
2 111 (9.81%) Windows
3 53 (4.68%) Windows Server
4 45 (3.98%) Unix
5 33 (2.92%) Apple iOS
6 24 (2.12%) Android
7 18 (1.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.80%) 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 (41.70%) Agile
2 459 (40.55%) DevOps
3 424 (37.46%) CI/CD
4 298 (26.33%) Software Engineering
5 214 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (18.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 175 (15.46%) Full Stack Development
8 162 (14.31%) Computer Science
9 154 (13.60%) Microservices
10 144 (12.72%) Test Automation
11 141 (12.46%) Containerisation
12 138 (12.19%) Machine Learning
13 129 (11.40%) SDLC
14 121 (10.69%) Unit Testing
15 106 (9.36%) Mentoring
16 102 (9.01%) Continuous Integration
17 100 (8.83%) Artificial Intelligence
18 93 (8.22%) Scrum
19 87 (7.69%) Analytics
20 79 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 356 (31.45%) Python
2 310 (27.39%) SQL
3 308 (27.21%) JavaScript
4 248 (21.91%) Java
5 173 (15.28%) C#
6 140 (12.37%) TypeScript
7 104 (9.19%) PowerShell
8 93 (8.22%) Bash
9 92 (8.13%) PHP
10 76 (6.71%) Go
11 54 (4.77%) Ruby
12 43 (3.80%) C
13 23 (2.03%) MATLAB
14 22 (1.94%) C++
15 21 (1.86%) Apex Code
15 21 (1.86%) T-SQL
16 20 (1.77%) Perl
17 17 (1.50%) Scala
18 16 (1.41%) Objective-C
19 15 (1.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 193 (17.05%) Degree
2 98 (8.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 75 (6.63%) Security Cleared
4 56 (4.95%) Master's Degree
5 48 (4.24%) SC Cleared
6 32 (2.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.24%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.06%) 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%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.27%) ISEB
13 3 (0.27%) ISEB Practitioner
13 3 (0.27%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.088%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.80%) GDPR
2 42 (3.71%) QA
3 18 (1.59%) Accessibility
3 18 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 13 (1.15%) NCSC
5 11 (0.97%) MISRA
6 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.53%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.44%) PMO
9 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.18%) NIST
10 2 (0.18%) SLA
11 1 (0.088%) AUTOSAR
11 1 (0.088%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.088%) WCAG
System Software
1 340 (30.04%) Docker
2 42 (3.71%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.33%) 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 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.088%) ACF2
11 1 (0.088%) IAG
11 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.088%) RACF
11 1 (0.088%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.088%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.088%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 309 (27.30%) Kubernetes
2 306 (27.03%) Terraform
3 122 (10.78%) Ansible
4 42 (3.71%) Grafana
5 33 (2.92%) Puppet
6 31 (2.74%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.41%) Packer
8 15 (1.33%) Istio
9 14 (1.24%) Prometheus
9 14 (1.24%) ZABBIX
10 13 (1.15%) Argo
10 13 (1.15%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.88%) SCDPM
12 9 (0.80%) Kibana
13 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 8 (0.71%) Nagios
14 7 (0.62%) Foglight
14 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 152 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 110 (9.72%) Oracle
3 87 (7.69%) Google
4 41 (3.62%) SAP
5 39 (3.45%) IBM
5 39 (3.45%) ServiceNow
6 29 (2.56%) Databricks
7 28 (2.47%) Kofax
7 28 (2.47%) Pega
8 25 (2.21%) Splunk
9 23 (2.03%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.68%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.68%) VMware
11 18 (1.59%) McAfee
11 18 (1.59%) Red Hat
12 14 (1.24%) ForgeRock
12 14 (1.24%) Sitecore
13 13 (1.15%) Dynatrace
13 13 (1.15%) HP
13 13 (1.15%) Sun