GitHub Job Trends in the Midlands

GitHub
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 113 172
Rank change year-on-year -36 +59 +15
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 66 142 57
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.85% 2.23% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.33% 6.95% 2.70%
Number of salaries quoted 63 79 54
10th Percentile - - £44,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £57,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -12.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £68,450 £75,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -10.34% +4.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,832 2,042 2,112
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 36.40% 32.07% 36.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,386 1,169 1,894
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,755 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,375 £53,300 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +6.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,938 £79,600 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in the Midlands

GitHub
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the Midlands

GitHub
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 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
West Midlands +2 54 £31,500 -51.54% 40
East Midlands -60 12 £54,600 +56.00% 58
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (4.55%) CMS
1 3 (4.55%) nginx
2 2 (3.03%) WordPress
3 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (4.55%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (4.55%) Shopify
2 1 (1.52%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 46 (69.70%) AWS
1 46 (69.70%) Azure
2 13 (19.70%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (16.67%) SaaS
5 6 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 6 (9.09%) Figma
5 6 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (7.58%) Datadog
6 5 (7.58%) Serverless
7 4 (6.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.55%) IaaS
8 3 (4.55%) OpenShift
8 3 (4.55%) PaaS
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (42.42%) Internet
2 1 (1.52%) Firewall
2 1 (1.52%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.58%) MySQL
4 2 (3.03%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.52%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.52%) Looker
5 1 (1.52%) Power BI
5 1 (1.52%) Redis
5 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.52%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 36 (54.55%) Git
2 8 (12.12%) GitLab
3 7 (10.61%) Jenkins
4 6 (9.09%) Visual Studio
5 4 (6.06%) Selenium
6 3 (4.55%) Cucumber
6 3 (4.55%) JUnit
6 3 (4.55%) Vite
7 2 (3.03%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.03%) JIRA
8 1 (1.52%) Postman
8 1 (1.52%) Snyk
General
1 28 (42.42%) Multimedia
2 9 (13.64%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.58%) Finance
4 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.52%) Law
4 1 (1.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (42.42%) Trainee
2 22 (33.33%) Developer
3 18 (27.27%) Software Developer
4 13 (19.70%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (19.70%) Trainee Software Developer
5 7 (10.61%) Senior
6 6 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Architect
7 4 (6.06%) Designer
7 4 (6.06%) UX Designer
8 3 (4.55%) AWS DevOps
8 3 (4.55%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Architect
8 3 (4.55%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.55%) Product Owner
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (50.00%) CSS
1 33 (50.00%) HTML
2 12 (18.18%) .NET
3 6 (9.09%) Blazor
3 6 (9.09%) Material Design
3 6 (9.09%) WebAssembly
4 5 (7.58%) ARM Templates
4 5 (7.58%) JSON
5 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.55%) Django
5 3 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.55%) Laravel
5 3 (4.55%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (4.55%) pytest
5 3 (4.55%) React
5 3 (4.55%) REST
5 3 (4.55%) Spring
5 3 (4.55%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.55%) Vue
5 3 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (13.64%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.52%) AI Agents
3 1 (1.52%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (43.94%) Mentoring
2 26 (39.39%) CI/CD
2 26 (39.39%) Cybersecurity
3 23 (34.85%) DevOps
4 10 (15.15%) CRM
5 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (13.64%) User Experience
6 8 (12.12%) AI
6 8 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (12.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (10.61%) Data Integration
7 7 (10.61%) Front End Development
8 6 (9.09%) Agile
8 6 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 6 (9.09%) Interaction Design
8 6 (9.09%) Responsive Web Design
8 6 (9.09%) Software Engineering
8 6 (9.09%) User Stories
8 6 (9.09%) UX Design
8 6 (9.09%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 40 (60.61%) Python
2 38 (57.58%) JavaScript
3 15 (22.73%) R
4 13 (19.70%) C#
5 8 (12.12%) Bicep
6 7 (10.61%) Bash
7 5 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.06%) Java
8 4 (6.06%) PHP
8 4 (6.06%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.06%) SQL
9 3 (4.55%) Delphi
9 3 (4.55%) Go
10 1 (1.52%) C
10 1 (1.52%) C++
Qualifications
1 32 (48.48%) Azure Certification
1 32 (48.48%) Microsoft Certification
2 29 (43.94%) AWS Certification
3 28 (42.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (3.03%) CCNA
4 2 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Degree
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.64%) QA
2 6 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 6 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (19.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (19.70%) Terraform
2 11 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.06%) Grafana
4 1 (1.52%) Ansible
4 1 (1.52%) Argo
4 1 (1.52%) Nagios
4 1 (1.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (56.06%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.58%) LogicMonitor
2 5 (7.58%) Oracle
3 4 (6.06%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.52%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.52%) OpenAI