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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 72 124
Rank change year-on-year -46 +52 -7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 28 76 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.77% 3.61% 1.47%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.39% 7.16% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 26 54 37
10th Percentile - £63,250 £57,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -2.94% +1.49%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,750 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -6.06% -8.33% +9.09%

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 1,174 1,062 1,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.20% 50.40% 52.87%
Number of salaries quoted 875 852 1,450
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £118,650 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -

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 17 April 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 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 22 (78.57%) Azure
2 16 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (46.43%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (21.43%) AWS
5 5 (17.86%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
8 2 (7.14%) Apigee
8 2 (7.14%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (7.14%) GCP
8 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
8 2 (7.14%) Serverless
9 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.57%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Delta Lake
2 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 2 (7.14%) DynamoDB
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
2 2 (7.14%) Spark SQL
2 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Claude Code
2 1 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Advertising
3 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) International Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Developer
2 12 (42.86%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Senior
4 4 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) React Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Python Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.86%) Node.js
1 5 (17.86%) React
2 4 (14.29%) .NET
2 4 (14.29%) Blazor
3 3 (10.71%) Django
3 3 (10.71%) FastAPI
3 3 (10.71%) Flask
4 2 (7.14%) JWT
4 2 (7.14%) Kafka
4 2 (7.14%) OAuth
4 2 (7.14%) PySpark
4 2 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) CSS
5 1 (3.57%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (3.57%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.57%) Spring
5 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (53.57%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (10.71%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Animation
4 1 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
1 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) DevOps
2 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
3 15 (53.57%) Agile
4 11 (39.29%) Containerisation
5 9 (32.14%) Observability
6 8 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (28.57%) Customer Experience
6 8 (28.57%) Test Automation
7 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (21.43%) Analytics
8 6 (21.43%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 5 (17.86%) AI
9 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (17.86%) Microservices
9 5 (17.86%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (14.29%) Backlog Refinement
10 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
10 4 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
10 4 (14.29%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) SQL
3 4 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (7.14%) Java
4 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.57%) Bash
5 1 (3.57%) Go
5 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) Ruby
5 1 (3.57%) Scala
5 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
2 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 2 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) Kubernetes
1 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) Argo
4 1 (3.57%) Grafana
4 1 (3.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.57%) Salesforce