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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 185 84
Rank change year-on-year -29 -101 +85
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 516 786 2,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.89% 4.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 3.95% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 445 532 952
10th Percentile £42,286 £45,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,504 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +4.00%

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 14,650 19,880 36,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.27% 47.81% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,954 14,556 21,788
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,491
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £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 8 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 32 (6.20%) Confluence
2 18 (3.49%) nginx
3 12 (2.33%) Apache
4 11 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.94%) WordPress
6 8 (1.55%) CMS
7 6 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (1.16%) IIS
7 6 (1.16%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.16%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.97%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.39%) Drupal
10 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.36%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Notion
4 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.39%) Magento
2 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 243 (47.09%) AWS
2 210 (40.70%) Azure
3 111 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
4 103 (19.96%) GCP
4 103 (19.96%) Serverless
5 91 (17.64%) AWS Lambda
6 73 (14.15%) Azure DevOps
7 60 (11.63%) SaaS
8 41 (7.95%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (7.75%) PaaS
10 39 (7.56%) Amazon S3
11 38 (7.36%) AWS CloudFormation
12 32 (6.20%) Azure AKS
13 29 (5.62%) Amazon ECS
13 29 (5.62%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (5.23%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (4.26%) IaaS
16 21 (4.07%) Power Platform
17 20 (3.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 19 (3.68%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.23%) Firewall
2 21 (4.07%) DNS
3 20 (3.88%) VPN
4 11 (2.13%) RS-232
5 10 (1.94%) 5G
5 10 (1.94%) DHCP
5 10 (1.94%) Internet
5 10 (1.94%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.16%) WAN
7 5 (0.97%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.97%) MQTT
7 5 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.97%) RS-485
7 5 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.97%) Wireless
7 5 (0.97%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.58%) SMS
9 2 (0.39%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.39%) LAN
9 2 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (12.21%) MySQL
2 52 (10.08%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (10.08%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.78%) Redis
4 31 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.07%) Power BI
7 20 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (3.88%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.29%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.52%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 11 (2.13%) MongoDB
12 10 (1.94%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.74%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.74%) Data Lake
14 8 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (1.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 143 (27.71%) Git
2 128 (24.81%) Jenkins
3 77 (14.92%) JIRA
4 49 (9.50%) GitLab
5 35 (6.78%) Visual Studio
6 29 (5.62%) Bitbucket
7 22 (4.26%) CircleCI
8 20 (3.88%) Visual Studio Code
9 17 (3.29%) Maven
10 16 (3.10%) Subversion
11 14 (2.71%) Selenium
12 13 (2.52%) SonarQube
13 12 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (2.33%) Spinnaker
13 12 (2.33%) TeamCity
14 10 (1.94%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.94%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.94%) Trac
15 9 (1.74%) SoapUI
15 9 (1.74%) Zephyr
General
1 159 (30.81%) Finance
2 101 (19.57%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.63%) Banking
4 28 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.07%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.07%) Games
6 21 (4.07%) Marketing
7 20 (3.88%) Automotive
8 16 (3.10%) Electronics
8 16 (3.10%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.52%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.13%) Aviation
10 11 (2.13%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.74%) Retail
12 8 (1.55%) Law
12 8 (1.55%) Multimedia
13 7 (1.36%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.97%) Publishing
14 5 (0.97%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 187 (36.24%) Developer
2 106 (20.54%) Senior
3 70 (13.57%) Software Engineer
4 63 (12.21%) DevOps Engineer
5 62 (12.02%) Cloud Engineer
6 48 (9.30%) Lead
7 45 (8.72%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (8.33%) Senior Developer
9 38 (7.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 38 (7.36%) Software Developer
10 34 (6.59%) .NET Developer
11 28 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
12 23 (4.46%) Senior Cloud Engineer
13 22 (4.26%) Data Engineer
13 22 (4.26%) Full Stack Developer
14 21 (4.07%) Platform Engineer
15 20 (3.88%) AWS DevOps Engineer
15 20 (3.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.49%) Azure Engineer
16 18 (3.49%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (17.64%) .NET
2 69 (13.37%) HTML
3 65 (12.60%) Node.js
3 65 (12.60%) React
4 63 (12.21%) CSS
5 55 (10.66%) RESTful
6 50 (9.69%) HTML5
7 35 (6.78%) GraphQL
8 32 (6.20%) AngularJS
9 29 (5.62%) jQuery
9 29 (5.62%) Vue
10 26 (5.04%) Laravel
11 25 (4.84%) Kafka
12 24 (4.65%) Spring
12 24 (4.65%) Web Services
13 22 (4.26%) .NET Core
14 21 (4.07%) Blazor
15 20 (3.88%) REST
16 19 (3.68%) JSON
17 18 (3.49%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.81%) Mobile App
1 30 (5.81%) Product Ownership
1 30 (5.81%) Public Cloud
2 26 (5.04%) Data Structures
3 22 (4.26%) Management Information System
4 21 (4.07%) Client/Server
5 20 (3.88%) IoT
5 20 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.49%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
7 17 (3.29%) Private Cloud
8 14 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
9 13 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (2.33%) Algorithms
10 12 (2.33%) Cloud Native
10 12 (2.33%) Online Games
11 11 (2.13%) Life Science
12 9 (1.74%) Virtual Reality
13 8 (1.55%) Augmented Reality
14 7 (1.36%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 100 (19.38%) Linux
2 86 (16.67%) Windows
3 43 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.81%) Apple iOS
5 21 (4.07%) Android
6 13 (2.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.97%) Unix
8 5 (0.97%) VMS
9 4 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (41.09%) DevOps
2 175 (33.91%) Agile
3 173 (33.53%) CI/CD
4 121 (23.45%) Software Engineering
5 93 (18.02%) Problem-Solving
6 87 (16.86%) Infrastructure as Code
7 85 (16.47%) Test Automation
8 72 (13.95%) Microservices
9 67 (12.98%) Containerisation
10 57 (11.05%) Computer Science
10 57 (11.05%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (10.27%) Mentoring
12 46 (8.91%) Software Testing
13 42 (8.14%) Full Stack Development
14 38 (7.36%) SDLC
15 37 (7.17%) DevSecOps
15 37 (7.17%) MVC
15 37 (7.17%) Unit Testing
16 36 (6.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 35 (6.78%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 163 (31.59%) Python
2 154 (29.84%) JavaScript
3 125 (24.22%) SQL
4 108 (20.93%) Java
5 93 (18.02%) TypeScript
6 75 (14.53%) C#
7 60 (11.63%) Bash
8 51 (9.88%) Go
8 51 (9.88%) PowerShell
9 38 (7.36%) PHP
10 26 (5.04%) C
11 23 (4.46%) Ruby
12 14 (2.71%) Perl
13 13 (2.52%) T-SQL
14 12 (2.33%) Korn
14 12 (2.33%) Objective-C
14 12 (2.33%) Swift
15 11 (2.13%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.74%) R
17 7 (1.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (13.37%) Degree
2 47 (9.11%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.43%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.07%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.55%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.23%) QA
2 13 (2.52%) NCSC
3 6 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.97%) MISRA
5 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.39%) NIST
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 187 (36.24%) Docker
2 31 (6.01%) Active Directory
3 29 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.13%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.94%) NFS
5 10 (1.94%) pfSense
6 8 (1.55%) Firmware
7 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 146 (28.29%) Terraform
2 123 (23.84%) Kubernetes
3 79 (15.31%) Ansible
4 30 (5.81%) Grafana
5 23 (4.46%) Puppet
6 17 (3.29%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.91%) Packer
8 12 (2.33%) ZABBIX
9 10 (1.94%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (1.94%) SCDPM
10 7 (1.36%) Foglight
10 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (1.36%) Nagios
11 6 (1.16%) Argo
11 6 (1.16%) Kibana
11 6 (1.16%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.97%) Consul
12 5 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.97%) Salt
Vendors
1 77 (14.92%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.91%) Google
3 21 (4.07%) Oracle
4 17 (3.29%) McAfee
4 17 (3.29%) VMware
5 16 (3.10%) ForgeRock
5 16 (3.10%) Sitecore
6 13 (2.52%) Splunk
7 12 (2.33%) HP
8 11 (2.13%) Databricks
8 11 (2.13%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.13%) Juniper
8 11 (2.13%) Red Hat
8 11 (2.13%) Veeam
9 10 (1.94%) Sun
9 10 (1.94%) TOWER Software
10 9 (1.74%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.74%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.36%) ArcSight
11 7 (1.36%) Confluent