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

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 71 127
Rank change year-on-year -52 +56 -3
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 32 74 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.81% 3.57% 1.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.63% 7.07% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 29 55 38
10th Percentile £52,250 £63,500 £57,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £65,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £82,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.15% -5.71% +2.94%
75th Percentile £82,500 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,750 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £82,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +5.88%

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 1,215 1,046 1,675
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.88% 50.46% 52.52%
Number of salaries quoted 907 841 1,419
10th Percentile £42,150 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £118,750 £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 4 May 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 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.13%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 25 (78.13%) Azure
2 18 (56.25%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (25.00%) AWS
5 5 (15.63%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (9.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (9.38%) Serverless
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.25%) Apigee
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.25%) GCP
8 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (3.13%) Datadog
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Delta Lake
2 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
2 3 (9.38%) Spark SQL
3 2 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 2 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) Data Vault
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) Appium
3 1 (3.13%) Claude Code
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.13%) Vite
3 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (15.63%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Advertising
3 3 (9.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.25%) Banking
5 1 (3.13%) International Banking
5 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (46.88%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
4 5 (15.63%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (12.50%) Lead
6 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (9.38%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Lead Python Developer
6 3 (9.38%) React Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior Python Developer
6 3 (9.38%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) Node.js
1 6 (18.75%) React
2 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 4 (12.50%) Blazor
2 4 (12.50%) FastAPI
3 3 (9.38%) Django
3 3 (9.38%) Flask
3 3 (9.38%) PySpark
4 2 (6.25%) JWT
4 2 (6.25%) Kafka
4 2 (6.25%) OAuth
4 2 (6.25%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.13%) CSS
5 1 (3.13%) Express.js
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) Next.js
5 1 (3.13%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.13%) Spring
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Animation
5 1 (3.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Android
1 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.13%) Linux
1 1 (3.13%) Windows
1 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) DevOps
2 23 (71.88%) CI/CD
3 17 (53.13%) Agile
4 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 9 (28.13%) Observability
5 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
6 8 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.00%) Customer Experience
7 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (18.75%) AI
8 6 (18.75%) Analytics
8 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
8 6 (18.75%) Microservices
8 6 (18.75%) Roadmaps
9 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
9 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
9 5 (15.63%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (15.63%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Python
2 6 (18.75%) SQL
3 4 (12.50%) C#
4 3 (9.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.13%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.13%) Bash
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) Ruby
6 1 (3.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
1 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 3 (9.38%) Ansible
3 2 (6.25%) Argo
4 1 (3.13%) Grafana
4 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Databricks
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.13%) OpenAI
2 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
2 1 (3.13%) Salesforce