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

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	92	94	122
Rank change year-on-year	+2	+28	+14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	26	37	42
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London	1.06%	2.32%	1.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category	3.27%	4.79%	3.01%
Number of salaries quoted	21	31	19
10^th Percentile	£47,500	£61,250	£55,000
25^th Percentile	£67,500	£71,875	£66,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£80,000	£77,500	£85,000
Median % change year-on-year	+3.23%	-8.82%	-5.56%
75^th Percentile	£116,250	£94,375	£107,500
90^th Percentile	£121,250	£110,000	£133,000
Central London median annual salary	£80,000	£77,500	£77,721
% change year-on-year	+3.23%	-0.28%	-13.64%

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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	794	772	1,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London	32.42%	48.43%	50.22%
Number of salaries quoted	617	656	955
10^th Percentile	£47,500	£41,250	£45,000
25^th Percentile	£62,500	£57,500	£56,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£80,000	£76,000	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	+1.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£97,500	£97,500	£95,000
90^th Percentile	£111,750	£117,500	£110,000
Central London median annual salary	£79,400	£75,000	£73,000
% change year-on-year	+5.87%	+2.74%	+0.69%

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 Salary Trend in the City of London

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 October 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the City of London

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the City of London region with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	76.9%	20
2	DevOps	65.4%	17
3	Azure	53.8%	14
4	AWS	50.0%	13
5	Infrastructure as Code	42.3%	11
6	Agile	38.5%	10
6	Docker	38.5%	10
6	Git	38.5%	10
6	GitHub Actions	38.5%	10
6	Kubernetes	38.5%	10
6	Python	38.5%	10
12	Jenkins	34.6%	9
12	Terraform	34.6%	9
14	Azure DevOps	30.8%	8
14	Microservices	30.8%	8
16	AI	26.9%	7
16	GitLab	26.9%	7
18	Containerisation	23.1%	6
18	JavaScript	23.1%	6
18	Test Automation	23.1%	6
18	TypeScript	23.1%	6
22	Application Security	19.2%	5
22	Dynamic Application Security Testing	19.2%	5
22	Java	19.2%	5
22	Mentoring	19.2%	5
22	PostgreSQL	19.2%	5
22	Problem-Solving	19.2%	5
22	React	19.2%	5
22	Secrets Management	19.2%	5
22	SQL	19.2%	5

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	53.8%	14
2	AWS	50.0%	13
3	GitHub Actions	38.5%	10
4	Azure DevOps	30.8%	8
5	AWS Lambda	11.5%	3
5	Azure AKS	11.5%	3
5	SaaS	11.5%	3
5	Serverless	11.5%	3
9	Amazon Cognito	7.7%	2
9	Amazon S3	7.7%	2
9	Azure Sentinel	7.7%	2
9	Datadog	7.7%	2
9	GCP	7.7%	2
9	GitHub Copilot	7.7%	2
9	LangSmith	7.7%	2
16	Amazon ECS	3.8%	1
16	Amazon EKS	3.8%	1
16	AWS CloudFormation	3.8%	1
16	Azure API Management	3.8%	1
16	Azure Data Factory	3.8%	1