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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 80 138
Rank change year-on-year -41 +58 -32
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 29 69 39
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.97% 3.05% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.76% 5.96% 2.40%
Number of salaries quoted 27 45 34
10th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £57,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £62,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £92,750 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,500 £113,650 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £93,750
% change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% +17.19%

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 1,050 1,158 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 34.97% 51.17% 51.66%
Number of salaries quoted 810 876 1,445
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £97,500
90th Percentile £107,500 £117,500 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 9 March 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 (3.45%) Apache
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 15 (51.72%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (34.48%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (13.79%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (10.34%) Amazon S3
6 3 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (6.90%) Alation
7 2 (6.90%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (6.90%) Apigee
7 2 (6.90%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (6.90%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (6.90%) Datadog
7 2 (6.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.90%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) DataStage
3 2 (6.90%) Metadata
3 2 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) QlikView
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (3.45%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) Git
2 2 (6.90%) ER Studio
2 2 (6.90%) ERwin
2 2 (6.90%) GitLab
2 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.90%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (3.45%) Claude Code
3 1 (3.45%) Deequ
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 12 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Advertising
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Retail
6 2 (6.90%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.45%) International Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 13 (44.83%) Python Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Senior
4 4 (13.79%) AWS Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead Python Developer
4 4 (13.79%) React Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior Python Developer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior React Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.90%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) Node.js
1 6 (20.69%) React
2 4 (13.79%) Django
2 4 (13.79%) FastAPI
2 4 (13.79%) Flask
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) GraphQL
3 2 (6.90%) JWT
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) OAuth
3 2 (6.90%) REST
3 2 (6.90%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) Blazor
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) HTML
4 1 (3.45%) Universal Windows Platform
4 1 (3.45%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Product Ownership
2 5 (17.24%) Cloud Native
3 4 (13.79%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.90%) Reinsurance
5 1 (3.45%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.45%) Animation
5 1 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) CI/CD
2 19 (65.52%) DevOps
3 13 (44.83%) Agile
4 12 (41.38%) Containerisation
5 10 (34.48%) Observability
6 9 (31.03%) Analytics
6 9 (31.03%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (31.03%) Test Automation
7 8 (27.59%) Customer Experience
8 7 (24.14%) AI
8 7 (24.14%) Computer Science
8 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (20.69%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (20.69%) Microservices
10 5 (17.24%) ETL
10 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
11 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (75.86%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) Java
4 2 (6.90%) Bash
4 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
5 1 (3.45%) C#
5 1 (3.45%) Go
5 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.45%) Ruby
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.90%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.90%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (51.72%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Terraform
2 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
4 2 (6.90%) Argo
4 2 (6.90%) Grafana
4 2 (6.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Databricks
2 2 (6.90%) Google
2 2 (6.90%) IBM
2 2 (6.90%) Informatica
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) Syncfusion
3 1 (3.45%) Telerik