GitHub Job Trends in Essex

GitHub
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Essex requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -19 +11 +23
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 5 13 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Essex 0.69% 2.81% 0.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.02% 11.61% 2.11%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,500 £67,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,750 £70,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -56.07% - -
75th Percentile £33,250 £72,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median annual salary £31,000 £47,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year -34.74% -36.67% +3.45%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 247 112 95
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 34.07% 24.19% 23.06%
Number of salaries quoted 92 73 74
10th Percentile £25,000 £21,250 £27,750
25th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £48,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.84% +14.12% -19.05%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £87,500
East of England median annual salary £46,750 £51,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.78% +2.50% -9.09%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Essex

GitHub
Salary Trend in Essex

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing GitHub

GitHub
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Essex region over the 6 months to 1 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
Southend-on-Sea - 4 £30,750 - 2
Braintree - 1 - -
GitHub
East of England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 2 (40.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) AWS
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) InfluxDB
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Git
General
1 4 (80.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Trainee
2 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Trainee Administrator
2 2 (40.00%) Trainee Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Trainee Software Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Web Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) Mid-Level Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) CSS
1 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) Django
2 1 (20.00%) Next.js
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
1 1 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (40.00%) Web Development
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certification
1 4 (80.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 4 (80.00%) Azure Certification
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
1 1 (20.00%) Firmware
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft