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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 112 138
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 -38
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 32 55 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.45% 2.06% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 3.92% 2.09%
Number of salaries quoted 27 29 24
10th Percentile - £54,350 £64,125
25th Percentile £52,500 £62,500 £80,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £97,500
Median % change year-on-year - -23.08% +21.88%
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £113,125
90th Percentile £113,500 £119,250 £119,250
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £105,000
% change year-on-year - -28.57% +35.48%

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 851 1,404 1,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 38.59% 52.53% 51.05%
Number of salaries quoted 672 973 1,331
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,625 £57,500
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 £114,875 £115,000 £112,500
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £75,000 £75,000

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 7 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 (3.13%) Apache
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 18 (56.25%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (40.63%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (18.75%) Serverless
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon S3
6 4 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (12.50%) GCP
6 4 (12.50%) Power Platform
7 3 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (9.38%) Snowflake
8 2 (6.25%) Alation
8 2 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (6.25%) Apigee
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
8 2 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (6.25%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (6.25%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DynamoDB
1 4 (12.50%) Power BI
2 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
3 2 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 2 (6.25%) DataStage
3 2 (6.25%) Metadata
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) QlikView
3 2 (6.25%) Tableau
4 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Hudi
4 1 (3.13%) Apache Iceberg
4 1 (3.13%) Delta Lake
4 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Git
2 5 (15.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.50%) GitLab
4 2 (6.25%) ER Studio
4 2 (6.25%) ERwin
4 2 (6.25%) JIRA
4 2 (6.25%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (3.13%) CircleCI
5 1 (3.13%) Deequ
General
1 11 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 10 (31.25%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (15.63%) Banking
5 4 (12.50%) Advertising
5 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Retail
6 2 (6.25%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.13%) International Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 9 (28.13%) Senior
4 6 (18.75%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Lead
4 6 (18.75%) React Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Lead Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Lead Python Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Python Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior React Developer
6 4 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Architect
7 3 (9.38%) Data Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.25%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (21.88%) React
2 6 (18.75%) Django
2 6 (18.75%) FastAPI
2 6 (18.75%) Flask
3 4 (12.50%) Node.js
4 2 (6.25%) .NET
4 2 (6.25%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.25%) AWS CDK
4 2 (6.25%) JWT
4 2 (6.25%) OAuth
4 2 (6.25%) Universal Windows Platform
4 2 (6.25%) WinUI
4 2 (6.25%) WPF
5 1 (3.13%) DPDK
5 1 (3.13%) Great Expectations
5 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (3.13%) pytest
5 1 (3.13%) Quarkus
5 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Cloud Native
3 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) CI/CD
2 21 (65.63%) DevOps
3 13 (40.63%) Agile
4 12 (37.50%) Containerisation
5 11 (34.38%) Observability
5 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (31.25%) Analytics
7 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
8 8 (25.00%) AI
8 8 (25.00%) Computer Science
8 8 (25.00%) Microservices
8 8 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (21.88%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (18.75%) Customer Experience
11 5 (15.63%) Clean Code
11 5 (15.63%) Data Modelling
11 5 (15.63%) ETL
12 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 22 (68.75%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) SQL
3 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.25%) Bash
4 2 (6.25%) Java
4 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.25%) Ruby
5 1 (3.13%) C
5 1 (3.13%) C#
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Rust
5 1 (3.13%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) Degree
2 7 (21.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Azure Certification
3 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.13%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 14 (43.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 7 (21.88%) Kubernetes
3 6 (18.75%) Ansible
4 5 (15.63%) Grafana
5 4 (12.50%) Prometheus
6 3 (9.38%) Argo
7 2 (6.25%) Progress Chef
8 1 (3.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.38%) Splunk
3 2 (6.25%) Databricks
3 2 (6.25%) Google
3 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 2 (6.25%) Informatica
3 2 (6.25%) Syncfusion
3 2 (6.25%) Telerik
4 1 (3.13%) AppDynamics
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.13%) Solarflare