GitHub Job Trends in Manchester

GitHub
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 122 62
Rank change year-on-year +35 -60 +68
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 43 30 91
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.50% 1.13% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.74% 2.96% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 40 16 75
10th Percentile - £53,750 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £63,438 £56,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £71,250 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -57.19% +2.60% +16.67%
75th Percentile £70,438 £89,688 £82,524
90th Percentile £84,125 £96,112 £84,056
North West median annual salary £30,500 £68,750 £69,447
% change year-on-year -55.64% -1.00% +20.78%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,149 1,015 1,060
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 40.01% 38.16% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 603 574 921
10th Percentile £28,700 £36,250 £34,680
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.58%
75th Percentile £77,500 £74,080 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £85,000 £86,250
North West median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Manchester

GitHub
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in Manchester

GitHub
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 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
Bolton - 2 £31,500 - 1
GitHub
North West

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.65%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 34 (79.07%) Azure
2 31 (72.09%) AWS
3 7 (16.28%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (13.95%) Serverless
5 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.98%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.98%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (4.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (4.65%) Azure AKS
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (4.65%) Azure Storage
7 2 (4.65%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
7 2 (4.65%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (4.65%) SaaS
8 1 (2.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 23 (53.49%) Internet
2 3 (6.98%) SAN
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
3 1 (2.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (2.33%) BigQuery
1 1 (2.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 25 (58.14%) Git
2 4 (9.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) Appium
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) JIRA
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.33%) Selenium
General
1 23 (53.49%) Multimedia
2 4 (9.30%) Social Skills
3 3 (6.98%) Finance
4 2 (4.65%) Retail
5 1 (2.33%) Law
5 1 (2.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (53.49%) Trainee
2 13 (30.23%) Developer
3 11 (25.58%) Software Developer
3 11 (25.58%) Trainee Developer
3 11 (25.58%) Trainee Software Developer
4 7 (16.28%) Senior
5 6 (13.95%) Architect
6 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Lead
8 2 (4.65%) Administrator
8 2 (4.65%) AWS Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) GCP Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (4.65%) Senior Developer
8 2 (4.65%) Trainee Administrator
8 2 (4.65%) Web Administrator
9 1 (2.33%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (55.81%) CSS
1 24 (55.81%) HTML
2 4 (9.30%) ARM Templates
3 3 (6.98%) React
4 2 (4.65%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.65%) Node.js
4 2 (4.65%) Vue
5 1 (2.33%) .NET
5 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET
5 1 (2.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (2.33%) CSS3
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Middleware
5 1 (2.33%) OAuth
5 1 (2.33%) OpenID
5 1 (2.33%) REST
5 1 (2.33%) SAML
5 1 (2.33%) Spring
5 1 (2.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.98%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Mentoring
2 21 (48.84%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (37.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (34.88%) CI/CD
5 10 (23.26%) DevOps
6 8 (18.60%) Agile
7 4 (9.30%) Analytics
7 4 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (9.30%) Observability
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.30%) Test Automation
8 3 (6.98%) Architecture Roadmap
8 3 (6.98%) Code Quality
8 3 (6.98%) Containerisation
8 3 (6.98%) ITIL
8 3 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (6.98%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (6.98%) Roadmaps
8 3 (6.98%) TOGAF
9 2 (4.65%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 31 (72.09%) Python
2 25 (58.14%) JavaScript
3 12 (27.91%) R
4 7 (16.28%) Bicep
4 7 (16.28%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.98%) TypeScript
6 2 (4.65%) Java
7 1 (2.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (65.12%) Azure Certification
2 26 (60.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 23 (53.49%) AWS Certification
3 23 (53.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
4 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (4.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Terraform
2 7 (16.28%) Kubernetes
3 3 (6.98%) Ansible
4 1 (2.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (65.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.30%) VMware
3 1 (2.33%) Google
3 1 (2.33%) Splunk