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 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 88 123
Rank change year-on-year -18 +35 +19
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 28 47 48
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.91% 2.76% 1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 5.77% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 22 38 24
10th Percentile £66,150 £60,125 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -11.43% -2.78%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,688 £107,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £110,750 £115,375
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £82,500
% change year-on-year +3.23% -6.06% -8.33%

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 954 815 1,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 31.11% 47.83% 50.66%
Number of salaries quoted 718 678 1,031
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,372 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £55,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £118,750 £107,500
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 19 September 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 Spark
1 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 17 (60.71%) Azure
2 12 (42.86%) AWS
3 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (35.71%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (10.71%) Serverless
6 2 (7.14%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.14%) Datadog
6 2 (7.14%) GCP
6 2 (7.14%) SaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.57%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.57%) dbt
7 1 (3.57%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Delta Lake
2 3 (10.71%) Data Lake
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (3.57%) Chroma
3 1 (3.57%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Pinecone
3 1 (3.57%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.57%) Stardog
3 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Git
2 8 (28.57%) Jenkins
3 6 (21.43%) GitLab
4 4 (14.29%) Maven
5 3 (10.71%) JUnit
5 3 (10.71%) Mockito
5 3 (10.71%) Spock
6 2 (7.14%) Burp Suite
6 2 (7.14%) JIRA
6 2 (7.14%) Snyk
6 2 (7.14%) Vite
7 1 (3.57%) Appium
7 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (46.43%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Senior
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 6 (21.43%) Senior Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Architect
5 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Server Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Server Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (28.57%) Terraform
2 4 (14.29%) .NET
3 3 (10.71%) OAuth
3 3 (10.71%) PySpark
3 3 (10.71%) React
3 3 (10.71%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
4 2 (7.14%) Blazor
4 2 (7.14%) CrewAI
4 2 (7.14%) Express.js
4 2 (7.14%) FastAPI
4 2 (7.14%) LangChain
4 2 (7.14%) LangGraph
4 2 (7.14%) Next.js
4 2 (7.14%) Node.js
4 2 (7.14%) OpenID
4 2 (7.14%) REST
5 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.57%) React Native
5 1 (3.57%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.57%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Hackathon
4 1 (3.57%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.57%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 21 (75.00%) DevOps
2 13 (46.43%) Agile
3 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (25.00%) Microservices
5 6 (21.43%) AI
5 6 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.86%) Application Security
6 5 (17.86%) Containerisation
6 5 (17.86%) Data Architecture
6 5 (17.86%) Data Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Data Modelling
6 5 (17.86%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
6 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (17.86%) Static Application Security Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (14.29%) Lakehouse
7 4 (14.29%) Secrets Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (32.14%) Python
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
4 4 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 2 (7.14%) C#
5 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.57%) Bash
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.57%) Scala
6 1 (3.57%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Azure Certification
1 2 (7.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.57%) Dublin Core
2 1 (3.57%) GDPR
2 1 (3.57%) PSD2
2 1 (3.57%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Argo
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Databricks
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.14%) Checkmarx
3 2 (7.14%) Mistral
3 2 (7.14%) OpenAI
3 2 (7.14%) Veracode
4 1 (3.57%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) VMware