GitHub Job Trends in London

GitHub
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 174 233
Rank change year-on-year +57 +59 -42
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 381 253 331
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.80% 2.09% 1.37%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.12% 4.71% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 282 154 223
10th Percentile £42,750 £50,150 £55,028
25th Percentile £65,000 £66,563 £63,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year - -2.94% +13.33%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £100,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £119,625 £121,750
England median annual salary £66,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.28% +11.54% -5.51%

All Cloud Computing Skills
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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 7,438 5,375 10,400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 35.07% 44.43% 43.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4,964 3,815 8,155
10th Percentile £41,250 £42,479 £41,250
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £111,250 £120,000 £118,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -11.54%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in London

GitHub
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in London over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in London

GitHub
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the London region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Central London -48 35 £80,000 -1.54% 61
West London -23 7 £32,500 +8.33% 14
East London -5 4 £30,500 -69.50% 16
South London - 3 £30,000 - 3
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 11 (2.89%) WordPress
2 6 (1.57%) Confluence
3 4 (1.05%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.79%) Apache
4 3 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.79%) CMS
5 2 (0.52%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.52%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.52%) Moodle
5 2 (0.52%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Chatbot
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.26%) Notion
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.79%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 189 (49.61%) Azure
2 186 (48.82%) AWS
3 146 (38.32%) GitHub Actions
4 77 (20.21%) Azure DevOps
5 57 (14.96%) GitHub Copilot
6 51 (13.39%) GCP
7 49 (12.86%) Serverless
8 41 (10.76%) AWS Lambda
9 33 (8.66%) AWS CloudFormation
10 29 (7.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 24 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
12 23 (6.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 22 (5.77%) Amazon S3
14 21 (5.51%) Anthropic Claude
15 18 (4.72%) Datadog
16 17 (4.46%) AWS Step Functions
17 16 (4.20%) Azure Key Vault
18 15 (3.94%) Azure AKS
18 15 (3.94%) Pulumi
19 13 (3.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.77%) Internet
2 20 (5.25%) Firewall
3 18 (4.72%) Network Security
4 13 (3.41%) DSL
4 13 (3.41%) Multicast
5 12 (3.15%) HTTP
6 11 (2.89%) VPN
7 8 (2.10%) WAN
8 7 (1.84%) DMARC
8 7 (1.84%) DNS
9 4 (1.05%) HTTPS
9 4 (1.05%) TCP/IP
10 1 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.04%) MongoDB
2 18 (4.72%) NoSQL
3 16 (4.20%) Data Lake
3 16 (4.20%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.67%) BigQuery
5 13 (3.41%) Delta Lake
6 10 (2.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 10 (2.62%) DynamoDB
6 10 (2.62%) Power BI
7 9 (2.36%) Tableau
8 7 (1.84%) SQL Server
9 6 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.57%) MySQL
9 6 (1.57%) Pinecone
10 5 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.31%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.05%) Redis
12 3 (0.79%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (0.79%) Spark SQL
12 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 127 (33.33%) Git
2 79 (20.73%) Jenkins
3 48 (12.60%) GitLab
4 23 (6.04%) Claude Code
5 22 (5.77%) JIRA
6 14 (3.67%) TeamCity
7 11 (2.89%) Bitbucket
8 8 (2.10%) Cypress.io
8 8 (2.10%) Selenium
8 8 (2.10%) Vite
9 7 (1.84%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (1.05%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.05%) Maven
10 4 (1.05%) Postman
10 4 (1.05%) REST Assured
10 4 (1.05%) SonarQube
10 4 (1.05%) XCUITest
11 3 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.79%) JUnit
General
1 107 (28.08%) Finance
2 81 (21.26%) Social Skills
3 52 (13.65%) Banking
4 28 (7.35%) Marketing
5 24 (6.30%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (5.77%) Multimedia
7 17 (4.46%) Retail
8 15 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (2.36%) Law
11 7 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.57%) Public Sector
13 5 (1.31%) Advertising
13 5 (1.31%) Legal
14 3 (0.79%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.79%) Front Office
14 3 (0.79%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.79%) Military
14 3 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
15 2 (0.52%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 118 (30.97%) Senior
2 103 (27.03%) Developer
3 46 (12.07%) Senior Developer
4 40 (10.50%) Lead
5 34 (8.92%) Cloud Engineer
5 34 (8.92%) Software Engineer
6 33 (8.66%) Azure Engineer
6 33 (8.66%) Platform Engineer
7 28 (7.35%) DevOps Engineer
8 27 (7.09%) Senior Software Engineer
9 26 (6.82%) Architect
9 26 (6.82%) Cloud Developer
9 26 (6.82%) Salesforce Developer
10 23 (6.04%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 22 (5.77%) Security Engineer
11 22 (5.77%) Trainee
12 19 (4.99%) Python Engineer
13 17 (4.46%) Automation Engineer
13 17 (4.46%) Data Engineer
14 16 (4.20%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.44%) React
2 52 (13.65%) CSS
2 52 (13.65%) REST
3 50 (13.12%) HTML
4 48 (12.60%) Node.js
5 28 (7.35%) SOAP
6 26 (6.82%) Lightning Web Components
7 22 (5.77%) .NET
7 22 (5.77%) OAuth
8 20 (5.25%) PySpark
9 18 (4.72%) Spring
9 18 (4.72%) Spring Boot
10 17 (4.46%) YAML
11 16 (4.20%) AngularJS
12 15 (3.94%) RESTful
13 14 (3.67%) AWS CDK
13 14 (3.67%) NestJS
13 14 (3.67%) pytest
14 13 (3.41%) Boost C++ Libraries
14 13 (3.41%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.73%) Cloud Native
2 43 (11.29%) Product Ownership
3 19 (4.99%) Public Cloud
4 16 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.41%) Algorithms
5 13 (3.41%) Derivative
5 13 (3.41%) Equities
5 13 (3.41%) Fixed Income
6 12 (3.15%) PKI
7 11 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 10 (2.62%) Onboarding
9 8 (2.10%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.84%) AI Agents
10 7 (1.84%) Private Cloud
11 6 (1.57%) CMDB
12 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 4 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
13 4 (1.05%) Low-Code
14 3 (0.79%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 35 (9.19%) Linux
2 16 (4.20%) Windows
3 9 (2.36%) Apple iOS
4 8 (2.10%) VMS
4 8 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.84%) Android
6 4 (1.05%) Unix
7 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (70.08%) CI/CD
2 155 (40.68%) DevOps
3 130 (34.12%) Agile
4 129 (33.86%) Infrastructure as Code
5 98 (25.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 93 (24.41%) AI
7 81 (21.26%) Software Engineering
8 80 (21.00%) Mentoring
9 69 (18.11%) Microservices
10 63 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
11 60 (15.75%) Clean Code
11 60 (15.75%) Full-Stack Development
12 54 (14.17%) Analytics
13 53 (13.91%) Cloud Security
14 52 (13.65%) Containerisation
15 50 (13.12%) Platform Engineering
16 48 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
17 44 (11.55%) Incident Response
18 43 (11.29%) Roadmaps
18 43 (11.29%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 186 (48.82%) Python
2 76 (19.95%) JavaScript
3 65 (17.06%) TypeScript
4 60 (15.75%) SQL
5 46 (12.07%) Java
6 39 (10.24%) PowerShell
7 31 (8.14%) Bash
8 29 (7.61%) Apex Code
9 27 (7.09%) Go
10 26 (6.82%) SOQL
11 22 (5.77%) C#
12 17 (4.46%) R
13 16 (4.20%) C++
14 14 (3.67%) Rust
15 12 (3.15%) Scala
16 11 (2.89%) Bicep
17 8 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
18 5 (1.31%) Kotlin
19 4 (1.05%) Swift
20 3 (0.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (14.70%) Degree
2 36 (9.45%) AWS Certification
2 36 (9.45%) Azure Certification
3 32 (8.40%) Security Cleared
4 29 (7.61%) SC Cleared
5 26 (6.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 23 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (5.25%) OSCP
8 18 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (1.84%) PhD
10 3 (0.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.79%) CCSP
10 3 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (0.79%) CISM
10 3 (0.79%) CISSP
10 3 (0.79%) CompTIA CySA+
10 3 (0.79%) GCIA
10 3 (0.79%) GCIH
11 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.71%) QA
2 23 (6.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (6.04%) SOC 2
3 18 (4.72%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.67%) Accessibility
5 12 (3.15%) GRC
6 10 (2.62%) GDPR
7 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (1.05%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.79%) NIST
8 3 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.52%) WCAG
10 1 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 62 (16.27%) Docker
2 19 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 11 (2.89%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.26%) Xen
Systems Management
1 142 (37.27%) Terraform
2 86 (22.57%) Kubernetes
3 37 (9.71%) Ansible
4 12 (3.15%) Cilium
5 9 (2.36%) Grafana
5 9 (2.36%) Prometheus
6 6 (1.57%) Packer
7 5 (1.31%) Argo
8 4 (1.05%) HP Fortify
9 3 (0.79%) Control-M
10 2 (0.52%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.26%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) logstash
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 73 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 38 (9.97%) Salesforce
3 23 (6.04%) Databricks
4 14 (3.67%) Palo Alto
5 13 (3.41%) OpenAI
6 12 (3.15%) Google
7 9 (2.36%) SendGrid
7 9 (2.36%) VMware
8 8 (2.10%) Zscaler
9 7 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.57%) Cisco
10 6 (1.57%) EMC
10 6 (1.57%) F5
11 4 (1.05%) Oracle
11 4 (1.05%) TOWER Software
12 3 (0.79%) Foundry
12 3 (0.79%) Informatica
12 3 (0.79%) Intel
12 3 (0.79%) Palantir
12 3 (0.79%) Varonis