GitHub Job Trends in the City of London

GitHub
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 75 115
Rank change year-on-year -44 +40 +36
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 26 68 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.69% 3.59% 1.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.24% 7.27% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 21 53 32
10th Percentile £47,500 £67,500 £58,225
25th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £80,000 £93,750
Median % change year-on-year - -14.67% +13.64%
75th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £101,250
90th Percentile £116,250 £116,700 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £80,000 £90,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +10.77%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of London

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,160 935 1,376
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.66% 49.37% 49.84%
Number of salaries quoted 863 763 1,107
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £73,750
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £106,250
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the City of London

GitHub
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Azure
2 11 (42.31%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) AWS
4 9 (34.62%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (23.08%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (15.38%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (11.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (11.54%) Serverless
8 2 (7.69%) SaaS
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (3.85%) Anthropic Claude
9 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
9 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
9 1 (3.85%) GCP
9 1 (3.85%) Kong
9 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Delta Lake
2 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
2 3 (11.54%) Spark SQL
3 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) Pinecone
4 1 (3.85%) Power BI
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) Git
2 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
3 4 (15.38%) GitLab
3 4 (15.38%) Maven
4 3 (11.54%) JUnit
4 3 (11.54%) Mockito
4 3 (11.54%) Spock
5 2 (7.69%) Vite
6 1 (3.85%) Appium
6 1 (3.85%) Claude Code
6 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
6 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Senior
2 8 (30.77%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Integration Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Server Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
1 4 (15.38%) Blazor
1 4 (15.38%) Spring
1 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
2 3 (11.54%) Node.js
2 3 (11.54%) PySpark
2 3 (11.54%) REST
3 2 (7.69%) CrewAI
3 2 (7.69%) Express.js
3 2 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 2 (7.69%) LangChain
3 2 (7.69%) LangGraph
3 2 (7.69%) Next.js
3 2 (7.69%) React
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.85%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Product Ownership
2 6 (23.08%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.85%) Hackathon
4 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) DevOps
2 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 15 (57.69%) Agile
4 8 (30.77%) Microservices
5 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
5 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) AI
6 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
6 5 (19.23%) Roadmaps
7 4 (15.38%) Business Strategy
7 4 (15.38%) Change Control
7 4 (15.38%) Containerisation
7 4 (15.38%) Data Engineering
7 4 (15.38%) Master Data Management
7 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (15.38%) Secrets Management
7 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (15.38%) TDD
7 4 (15.38%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
3 4 (15.38%) C#
3 4 (15.38%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.85%) Go
5 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (7.69%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) PSD2
2 1 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (26.92%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
3 2 (7.69%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Argo
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) Databricks
2 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.69%) OpenAI
3 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.85%) VMware