GitHub Job Trends in the East of England

GitHub
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 116 185
Rank change year-on-year -41 +69 -14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 28 40 47
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.46% 1.55% 0.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.71% 4.77% 2.73%
Number of salaries quoted 25 21 35
10th Percentile - - £37,500
25th Percentile £27,500 £43,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £71,250 £52,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,500 £72,500 -
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -6.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,636 838 1,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 26.86% 32.47% 28.79%
Number of salaries quoted 698 633 1,473
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,250 £25,500
25th Percentile £33,500 £32,533 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +14.44% -18.18%
75th Percentile £70,938 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,188 £85,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the East of England

GitHub
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the East of England

GitHub
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 April 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire -15 9 £37,500 -14.29% 13
Essex -26 7 £30,000 -65.71% 8
Hertfordshire -20 6 £61,250 -9.26% 14
Suffolk - 5 £72,500 - 2
Bedfordshire -8 1 £37,500 -21.05% 6
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 11 (39.29%) WordPress
2 1 (3.57%) Apache
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 21 (75.00%) AWS
1 21 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (17.86%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (14.29%) GitHub Copilot
3 4 (14.29%) Serverless
4 3 (10.71%) GCP
5 2 (7.14%) Apigee
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) Azure AI
5 2 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 2 (7.14%) Datadog
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 14 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (3.57%) AMQP
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) MQTT
2 1 (3.57%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
3 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Big Data
4 1 (3.57%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (3.57%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (3.57%) InfluxDB
4 1 (3.57%) MySQL
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Git
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.57%) CircleCI
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 14 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
3 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Billing
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Games
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Trainee
2 11 (39.29%) Administrator
2 11 (39.29%) Trainee Administrator
2 11 (39.29%) Web Administrator
3 8 (28.57%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Lead
4 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Trainee Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Trainee Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead Software Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Senior
6 2 (7.14%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.57%) Associate Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Azure Software Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
7 1 (3.57%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (57.14%) CSS
1 16 (57.14%) HTML
2 5 (17.86%) .NET
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Core
4 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
4 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Core
4 3 (10.71%) Django
4 3 (10.71%) Node.js
4 3 (10.71%) REST
5 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
5 2 (7.14%) Flask
5 2 (7.14%) ML.NET
5 2 (7.14%) RESTful
6 1 (3.57%) A2A Protocol
6 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
6 1 (3.57%) Model Context Protocol
6 1 (3.57%) React
6 1 (3.57%) Semantic Kernel
6 1 (3.57%) TensorFlow
6 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (7.14%) Digital TV
3 1 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.57%) IoT
3 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 11 (39.29%) Web Development
3 9 (32.14%) DevOps
4 7 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 5 (17.86%) Mentoring
7 4 (14.29%) AI
7 4 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (14.29%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.71%) API Design
8 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (10.71%) Machine Learning
8 3 (10.71%) Microservices
8 3 (10.71%) Observability
8 3 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.71%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) Python
2 18 (64.29%) JavaScript
3 11 (39.29%) R
4 7 (25.00%) SQL
5 4 (14.29%) C#
6 3 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 2 (7.14%) Bash
8 1 (3.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 14 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 14 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.57%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) EU AI Act
1 1 (3.57%) NIST
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (3.57%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) Kubernetes
1 6 (21.43%) Terraform
2 3 (10.71%) Grafana
Vendors
1 19 (67.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.14%) Google
2 2 (7.14%) Pega
3 1 (3.57%) Databricks
3 1 (3.57%) Foundry
3 1 (3.57%) New Relic
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle