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 citing GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	100	92	125
Rank change year-on-year	-8	+33	+7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	22	35	43
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London	0.97%	2.20%	1.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category	3.05%	4.66%	3.10%
Number of salaries quoted	18	29	19
10^th Percentile	£59,750	£60,500	£55,000
25^th Percentile	£68,125	£73,750	£66,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£97,500	£77,500	£85,000
Median % change year-on-year	+25.81%	-8.82%	-5.56%
75^th Percentile	£116,250	£95,000	£106,250
90^th Percentile	£121,625	£110,500	£133,000
Central London median annual salary	£95,000	£77,500	£75,221
% change year-on-year	+22.58%	+3.03%	-16.42%

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 citing cloud computing skills in the City of London.

	6 months to 3 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	722	751	1,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London	31.83%	47.26%	50.49%
Number of salaries quoted	564	625	952
10^th Percentile	£46,975	£41,250	£42,500
25^th Percentile	£62,500	£57,500	£56,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£80,000	£77,500	£75,000
Median % change year-on-year	+3.23%	+3.33%	-
75^th Percentile	£96,250	£97,500	£95,000
90^th Percentile	£112,500	£117,500	£111,250
Central London median annual salary	£77,500	£75,000	£74,500
% change year-on-year	+3.33%	+0.67%	+2.05%

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 3 November 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 3 November 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 citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	77.3%	17
2	DevOps	63.6%	14
3	AWS	50.0%	11
3	Azure	50.0%	11
5	Git	45.5%	10
5	Infrastructure as Code	45.5%	10
7	Docker	40.9%	9
7	Kubernetes	40.9%	9
7	Python	40.9%	9
10	Agile	36.4%	8
10	Terraform	36.4%	8
12	GitHub Actions	31.8%	7
12	Jenkins	31.8%	7
12	Microservices	31.8%	7
15	AI	27.3%	6
15	Azure DevOps	27.3%	6
17	Application Security	22.7%	5
17	Containerisation	22.7%	5
17	Dynamic Application Security Testing	22.7%	5
17	GitLab	22.7%	5
17	Java	22.7%	5
17	JavaScript	22.7%	5
17	Mentoring	22.7%	5
17	PostgreSQL	22.7%	5
17	Problem-Solving	22.7%	5
17	Secrets Management	22.7%	5
17	Static Application Security Testing	22.7%	5
17	TDD	22.7%	5
17	Test Automation	22.7%	5
17	Threat Modelling	22.7%	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	AWS	50.0%	11
1	Azure	50.0%	11
3	GitHub Actions	31.8%	7
4	Azure DevOps	27.3%	6
5	Azure AKS	13.6%	3
6	Amazon Cognito	9.1%	2
6	Amazon S3	9.1%	2
6	AWS Lambda	9.1%	2
6	Azure Sentinel	9.1%	2
6	Datadog	9.1%	2
6	GCP	9.1%	2
6	GitHub Copilot	9.1%	2
6	LangSmith	9.1%	2
6	SaaS	9.1%	2
6	Serverless	9.1%	2
16	Amazon ECS	4.5%	1
16	Amazon EKS	4.5%	1
16	AWS CloudFormation	4.5%	1
16	Azure API Management	4.5%	1
16	Azure Logic Apps	4.5%	1