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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 74 116
Rank change year-on-year -57 +42 +67
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 21 116 22
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.50% 3.31% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.75% 10.85% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 12
10th Percentile - - £65,000
25th Percentile £27,500 £43,750 £68,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £47,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.74% -36.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £60,625 £52,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,125 £54,750 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £73,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -10.96% +5.12%

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 1,197 1,069 721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 28.76% 30.47% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 619 577 618
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £51,000 £51,609
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.18% -6.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year -7.69% +7.89% -7.31%

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 6 January 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 6 January 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 +5 7 £43,750 +9.38% 16
Essex -17 5 £30,750 -56.07% 16
Hertfordshire -13 3 £67,500 -5.26% 13
Bedfordshire -15 3 £30,500 -35.79% 12
Suffolk - 3 £53,750 - 11
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 6 (28.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (90.48%) AWS
2 17 (80.95%) Azure
3 7 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) SaaS
5 3 (14.29%) Serverless
6 2 (9.52%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.76%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure API Management
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.76%) dbt
7 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (4.76%) Fivetran
7 1 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (4.76%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) HTTP
2 1 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.76%) BigQuery
1 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.76%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.76%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.76%) Looker
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) Power BI
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Git
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 2 (9.52%) JIRA
3 2 (9.52%) MSTest
3 2 (9.52%) NUnit
3 2 (9.52%) SpecFlow
3 2 (9.52%) TestNG
4 1 (4.76%) CircleCI
General
1 11 (52.38%) Multimedia
2 2 (9.52%) Games
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Billing
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Trainee
2 6 (28.57%) Administrator
2 6 (28.57%) Trainee Administrator
2 6 (28.57%) Web Administrator
3 5 (23.81%) Developer
3 5 (23.81%) Software Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Trainee Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Trainee Software Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Associate Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) CSS
1 11 (52.38%) HTML
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) Playwright
4 2 (9.52%) React
4 2 (9.52%) REST
5 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
5 1 (4.76%) Django
5 1 (4.76%) Hugging Face
5 1 (4.76%) Next.js
5 1 (4.76%) Node.js
5 1 (4.76%) NumPy
5 1 (4.76%) Pandas
5 1 (4.76%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.76%) RESTful
5 1 (4.76%) scikit-learn
5 1 (4.76%) Semantic Kernel
5 1 (4.76%) TensorFlow
5 1 (4.76%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) CI/CD
2 6 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 6 (28.57%) Web Development
3 5 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (23.81%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Test Automation
4 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
4 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) AI
6 2 (9.52%) BDD
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (9.52%) ETL
6 2 (9.52%) Machine Learning
6 2 (9.52%) Microservices
6 2 (9.52%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (85.71%) Python
2 14 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 7 (33.33%) R
4 4 (19.05%) C#
5 3 (14.29%) SQL
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
6 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (57.14%) AWS Certification
2 11 (52.38%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 11 (52.38%) Azure Certification
2 11 (52.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.76%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) EU AI Act
1 1 (4.76%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Grafana
1 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 2 (9.52%) Control-M
2 2 (9.52%) Prometheus
2 2 (9.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) AppDynamics
3 1 (4.76%) Alteryx
3 1 (4.76%) Databricks
3 1 (4.76%) Foundry
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) HubSpot
3 1 (4.76%) OpenAI
3 1 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.76%) Talend
3 1 (4.76%) Zoho