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

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 70 131
Rank change year-on-year -51 +61 -24
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 31 73 41
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.90% 3.48% 1.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.72% 6.96% 2.45%
Number of salaries quoted 28 50 33
10th Percentile - £64,750 £57,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £71,250 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% -2.94% +3.03%
75th Percentile £86,063 £100,000 £101,250
90th Percentile £112,625 £117,750 £106,500
Central London median annual salary £78,750 £82,500 £95,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% -13.16% +15.15%

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 1,139 1,049 1,674
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 33.16% 50.05% 53.04%
Number of salaries quoted 855 846 1,446
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £57,500 £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 £105,000 £117,750 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

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 6 April 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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.23%) Apache Spark
1 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 24 (77.42%) Azure
2 16 (51.61%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (41.94%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (25.81%) AWS
5 5 (16.13%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (12.90%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (12.90%) GCP
6 4 (12.90%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.68%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
8 2 (6.45%) Apigee
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (6.45%) Datadog
8 2 (6.45%) Serverless
9 1 (3.23%) Figma
9 1 (3.23%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.45%) Delta Lake
2 2 (6.45%) DynamoDB
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau
3 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.23%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) DataStage
3 1 (3.23%) Metadata
3 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) QlikView
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Spark SQL
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (29.03%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Claude Code
2 1 (3.23%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.23%) ERwin
2 1 (3.23%) GitLab
2 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
2 1 (3.23%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (3.23%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (9.68%) Advertising
3 3 (9.68%) Banking
4 1 (3.23%) International Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Retail
4 1 (3.23%) Retail Banking
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (51.61%) Developer
2 13 (41.94%) Python Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Full-Stack Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Lead
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Lead Python Developer
4 4 (12.90%) React Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior Python Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior React Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Architect
5 3 (9.68%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Integration Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) React
2 5 (16.13%) Node.js
3 4 (12.90%) .NET
3 4 (12.90%) Blazor
3 4 (12.90%) Django
3 4 (12.90%) FastAPI
3 4 (12.90%) Flask
4 2 (6.45%) JWT
4 2 (6.45%) Kafka
4 2 (6.45%) OAuth
4 2 (6.45%) REST
5 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.23%) CSS
5 1 (3.23%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.23%) HTML
5 1 (3.23%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (3.23%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (3.23%) Spring
5 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (45.16%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Animation
4 1 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Private Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (74.19%) DevOps
2 21 (67.74%) CI/CD
3 14 (45.16%) Agile
4 12 (38.71%) Containerisation
5 9 (29.03%) Observability
5 9 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (25.81%) Analytics
6 8 (25.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (25.81%) Customer Experience
6 8 (25.81%) Test Automation
7 7 (22.58%) AI
7 7 (22.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
8 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (16.13%) Computer Science
9 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
9 5 (16.13%) Data Pipeline
9 5 (16.13%) Microservices
9 5 (16.13%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (12.90%) Master Data Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (74.19%) Python
2 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) C#
4 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Bash
5 2 (6.45%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) Ruby
6 1 (3.23%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
2 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (48.39%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) Terraform
2 6 (19.35%) Kubernetes
3 4 (12.90%) Ansible
4 2 (6.45%) Argo
4 2 (6.45%) Grafana
4 2 (6.45%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.68%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) IBM
3 1 (3.23%) Informatica
3 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.23%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.23%) Splunk