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 24 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 104 137
Rank change year-on-year +2 +33 -43
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 33 59 33
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.33% 2.25% 1.10%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.54% 4.35% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 28 33 28
10th Percentile £52,125 £55,000 £63,375
25th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £72,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,250 £75,000 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £97,813 £97,500 £112,500
90th Percentile £112,625 £104,500 £120,000
Central London median annual salary £71,250 £75,000 £95,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% -21.05% +18.75%

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 931 1,357 1,525
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 37.65% 51.70% 50.94%
Number of salaries quoted 735 923 1,414
10th Percentile £42,500 £41,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,750 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +1.00% - -

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 24 January 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 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.03%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 20 (60.61%) Azure
2 16 (48.48%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (42.42%) GitHub Actions
4 12 (36.36%) AWS
5 5 (15.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (15.15%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (15.15%) Serverless
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.12%) GCP
6 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
8 2 (6.06%) Alation
8 2 (6.06%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.06%) Apigee
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.06%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (6.06%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (6.06%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.06%) DataStage
3 2 (6.06%) Metadata
3 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.06%) QlikView
3 2 (6.06%) Tableau
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (3.03%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (6.06%) ER Studio
4 2 (6.06%) ERwin
4 2 (6.06%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (3.03%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.03%) Deequ
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
General
1 12 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.12%) Advertising
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Banking
5 2 (6.06%) Retail
5 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.03%) International Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (51.52%) Developer
2 15 (45.45%) Python Developer
3 9 (27.27%) Senior
4 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 7 (21.21%) Lead
4 7 (21.21%) React Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Lead Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Lead Python Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior Python Developer
5 6 (18.18%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (12.12%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Architect
7 3 (9.09%) Data Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (24.24%) React
2 7 (21.21%) Django
2 7 (21.21%) FastAPI
2 7 (21.21%) Flask
3 4 (12.12%) Node.js
4 2 (6.06%) .NET
4 2 (6.06%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.06%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.06%) JWT
4 2 (6.06%) OAuth
4 2 (6.06%) Universal Windows Platform
4 2 (6.06%) WinUI
4 2 (6.06%) WPF
5 1 (3.03%) DPDK
5 1 (3.03%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.03%) pytest
5 1 (3.03%) Quarkus
5 1 (3.03%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (24.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.12%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Linux
3 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) CI/CD
2 21 (63.64%) DevOps
3 13 (39.39%) Agile
3 13 (39.39%) Containerisation
4 12 (36.36%) Observability
5 11 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (30.30%) Analytics
6 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
7 9 (27.27%) AI
7 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
8 8 (24.24%) Customer Experience
8 8 (24.24%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (21.21%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (21.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (21.21%) Microservices
10 5 (15.15%) Clean Code
10 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
10 5 (15.15%) ETL
11 4 (12.12%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) Python
2 5 (15.15%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) Bash
3 2 (6.06%) Java
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) C
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
4 1 (3.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 7 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.09%) Azure Certification
4 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.06%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.03%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.03%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 15 (45.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Terraform
2 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.12%) Ansible
4 3 (9.09%) Grafana
4 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
5 2 (6.06%) Argo
6 1 (3.03%) Progress Chef
6 1 (3.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Google
2 2 (6.06%) IBM
2 2 (6.06%) Informatica
2 2 (6.06%) Splunk
2 2 (6.06%) Syncfusion
2 2 (6.06%) Telerik
3 1 (3.03%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.03%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.03%) Solarflare