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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 96 128
Rank change year-on-year -6 +32 +6
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 26 38 43
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 1.03% 2.35% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.20% 4.87% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 21 32 19
10th Percentile £47,500 £61,625 £55,000
25th Percentile £67,500 £72,188 £65,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £77,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -8.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £100,000 £94,063 £107,500
90th Percentile £116,250 £110,000 £133,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £77,500 £81,250
% change year-on-year +3.23% -4.62% -9.72%

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 812 780 1,403
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 32.11% 48.24% 50.04%
Number of salaries quoted 626 654 953
10th Percentile £47,500 £40,747 £44,200
25th Percentile £62,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £117,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £79,200 £75,000 £74,000
% change year-on-year +5.60% +1.35% +2.07%

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 13 October 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 (3.85%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 13 (50.00%) AWS
3 10 (38.46%) GitHub Actions
4 8 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (11.54%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (11.54%) Serverless
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (7.69%) Amazon S3
6 2 (7.69%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (7.69%) Datadog
6 2 (7.69%) GCP
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (7.69%) LangSmith
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) ChatGPT
7 1 (3.85%) CloudFront
7 1 (3.85%) Google Gemini
7 1 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.69%) Chroma
3 2 (7.69%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.69%) Delta Lake
3 2 (7.69%) Pinecone
3 2 (7.69%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
4 1 (3.85%) DynamoDB
4 1 (3.85%) Metadata
4 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
4 1 (3.85%) Stardog
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Git
2 9 (34.62%) Jenkins
3 7 (26.92%) GitLab
4 4 (15.38%) Maven
5 3 (11.54%) JUnit
5 3 (11.54%) Mockito
5 3 (11.54%) Spock
6 2 (7.69%) Burp Suite
6 2 (7.69%) JIRA
6 2 (7.69%) Snyk
6 2 (7.69%) Vite
7 1 (3.85%) Appium
7 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
7 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.69%) Banking
4 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Data Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
4 3 (11.54%) Senior Java Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Server Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Server Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Serverless Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (34.62%) Terraform
2 5 (19.23%) React
3 4 (15.38%) CrewAI
3 4 (15.38%) FastAPI
3 4 (15.38%) LangChain
3 4 (15.38%) LangGraph
4 3 (11.54%) Next.js
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
4 3 (11.54%) Spring
4 3 (11.54%) Spring Boot
5 2 (7.69%) .NET
5 2 (7.69%) CSS
5 2 (7.69%) Django
5 2 (7.69%) Express.js
5 2 (7.69%) Node.js
5 2 (7.69%) OpenID
5 2 (7.69%) pgvector
5 2 (7.69%) PySpark
5 2 (7.69%) REST
6 1 (3.85%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.54%) AI Agents
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Hackathon
4 1 (3.85%) Linked Data
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.85%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 17 (65.38%) DevOps
3 11 (42.31%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (30.77%) Microservices
6 7 (26.92%) AI
7 6 (23.08%) Test Automation
8 5 (19.23%) Application Security
8 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
8 5 (19.23%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
8 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (19.23%) Secrets Management
8 5 (19.23%) Static Application Security Testing
8 5 (19.23%) TDD
8 5 (19.23%) Threat Modelling
9 4 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
9 4 (15.38%) Generative AI
9 4 (15.38%) LLM
9 4 (15.38%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
2 6 (23.08%) TypeScript
3 5 (19.23%) Java
4 3 (11.54%) Bash
5 1 (3.85%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.85%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) Dublin Core
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) PSD2
2 1 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (34.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (11.54%) Argo
3 2 (7.69%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (15.38%) OpenAI
2 3 (11.54%) Mistral
3 2 (7.69%) Checkmarx
3 2 (7.69%) Databricks
3 2 (7.69%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Veracode
4 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.85%) VMware