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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 90 123
Rank change year-on-year -13 +33 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 25 43 49
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 0.85% 2.54% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.74% 5.35% 3.30%
Number of salaries quoted 20 35 23
10th Percentile £64,150 £59,000 £55,000
25th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £66,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -13.89% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £90,625 £107,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £104,500 £127,750
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
% change year-on-year +3.23% -8.82% -5.56%

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 911 804 1,483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 30.90% 47.52% 50.79%
Number of salaries quoted 690 670 1,018
10th Percentile £48,625 £40,478 £42,500
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,313 £55,288
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £108,875 £118,750 £107,500
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year +6.67% +3.45% -

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 25 September 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 (4.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) Azure
2 11 (44.00%) AWS
3 9 (36.00%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (32.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (12.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 3 (12.00%) Serverless
6 2 (8.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (8.00%) Datadog
6 2 (8.00%) SaaS
7 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (4.00%) BrowserStack
7 1 (4.00%) CloudFront
7 1 (4.00%) GCP
7 1 (4.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (4.00%) Vercel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (12.00%) Delta Lake
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (12.00%) Spark SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.00%) Chroma
2 1 (4.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (4.00%) Metadata
2 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Pinecone
2 1 (4.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (4.00%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 9 (36.00%) Git
2 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
3 6 (24.00%) GitLab
4 4 (16.00%) Maven
5 3 (12.00%) JUnit
5 3 (12.00%) Mockito
5 3 (12.00%) Spock
6 2 (8.00%) Burp Suite
6 2 (8.00%) JIRA
6 2 (8.00%) Snyk
6 2 (8.00%) Vite
7 1 (4.00%) Appium
7 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (52.00%) Finance
2 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (48.00%) Senior
2 7 (28.00%) Developer
3 6 (24.00%) Senior Developer
4 4 (16.00%) Data Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Java Developer
5 3 (12.00%) Lead
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 3 (12.00%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (8.00%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Architect
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Security Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps
6 2 (8.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Senior Server Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Server Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Terraform
2 3 (12.00%) .NET
2 3 (12.00%) OAuth
2 3 (12.00%) PySpark
2 3 (12.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) Spring
2 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.00%) CrewAI
3 2 (8.00%) Express.js
3 2 (8.00%) FastAPI
3 2 (8.00%) LangChain
3 2 (8.00%) LangGraph
3 2 (8.00%) Next.js
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.00%) OpenID
3 2 (8.00%) REST
4 1 (4.00%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (4.00%) Langfuse
4 1 (4.00%) Ollama
4 1 (4.00%) pgvector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (4.00%) AI Agents
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Hackathon
4 1 (4.00%) Linked Data
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) Reinsurance
4 1 (4.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.00%) Android
2 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (76.00%) CI/CD
2 18 (72.00%) DevOps
3 12 (48.00%) Agile
4 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (28.00%) Microservices
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (20.00%) AI
7 5 (20.00%) Application Security
7 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
7 5 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 5 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
7 5 (20.00%) Threat Modelling
8 4 (16.00%) Data Engineering
8 4 (16.00%) Data Pipeline
8 4 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
8 4 (16.00%) Secrets Management
8 4 (16.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.00%) Java
3 5 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) Bash
5 1 (4.00%) C#
5 1 (4.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) Dublin Core
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) PSD2
2 1 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (4.00%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (28.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Argo
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Databricks
2 2 (8.00%) Checkmarx
2 2 (8.00%) Mistral
2 2 (8.00%) OpenAI
2 2 (8.00%) Veracode
3 1 (4.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.00%) VMware