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

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 161 193
Rank change year-on-year -23 +32 +20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 75 57 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.64% 1.17% 0.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.97% 3.42% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 60 53 101
10th Percentile - - £41,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,000 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.82% -12.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £67,625 £75,000 £87,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -6.40%

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 3,816 1,667 3,798
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.39% 34.28% 34.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1,734 1,303 3,247
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 April 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 April 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 +16 54 £31,500 -53.33% 17
East Midlands -55 21 £57,600 +64.57% 28
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 8 (10.67%) WordPress
2 5 (6.67%) CMS
2 5 (6.67%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (6.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) Shopify
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 62 (82.67%) AWS
2 43 (57.33%) Azure
3 22 (29.33%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (14.67%) Serverless
5 10 (13.33%) Firebase
5 10 (13.33%) SaaS
5 10 (13.33%) Stripe
5 10 (13.33%) TestFlight
6 9 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (12.00%) GitHub Copilot
7 8 (10.67%) Figma
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (5.33%) Datadog
10 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (4.00%) Azure AKS
10 3 (4.00%) OpenShift
11 2 (2.67%) Amazon EC2
11 2 (2.67%) IaaS
11 2 (2.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (42.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.67%) MySQL
2 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.33%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.33%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Redis
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 42 (56.00%) Git
2 10 (13.33%) Crashlytics
2 10 (13.33%) XCTest
3 8 (10.67%) Visual Studio
4 6 (8.00%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.67%) GitLab
5 5 (6.67%) Vite
6 4 (5.33%) Selenium
7 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
7 3 (4.00%) JUnit
8 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.33%) Snyk
General
1 32 (42.67%) Multimedia
2 17 (22.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.67%) Finance
4 2 (2.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.33%) Advertising
5 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 32 (42.67%) Trainee
2 21 (28.00%) Developer
3 16 (21.33%) Software Developer
4 13 (17.33%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (17.33%) Trainee Software Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Mobile Engineer
6 8 (10.67%) Administrator
6 8 (10.67%) Trainee Administrator
6 8 (10.67%) Web Administrator
7 6 (8.00%) Designer
7 6 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) Senior
7 6 (8.00%) UX Designer
8 5 (6.67%) Product Owner
9 4 (5.33%) Lead
10 2 (2.67%) AWS DevOps
10 2 (2.67%) AWS DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) DataOps Engineer
10 2 (2.67%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (52.00%) CSS
1 39 (52.00%) HTML
2 14 (18.67%) .NET
3 10 (13.33%) SwiftUI
3 10 (13.33%) UIKit
4 9 (12.00%) Blazor
5 8 (10.67%) Material Design
5 8 (10.67%) WebAssembly
6 5 (6.67%) Laravel
6 5 (6.67%) LEMP Stack
6 5 (6.67%) Tailwind CSS
6 5 (6.67%) Vue
6 5 (6.67%) YAML
7 4 (5.33%) ARM Templates
8 3 (4.00%) Django
8 3 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (4.00%) Flask
8 3 (4.00%) pytest
8 3 (4.00%) RESTful
8 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.33%) Product Ownership
2 11 (14.67%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 29 (38.67%) CI/CD
3 25 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 23 (30.67%) User Experience
5 17 (22.67%) DevOps
6 15 (20.00%) Product Vision
7 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
8 12 (16.00%) Process Improvement
9 11 (14.67%) AI
9 11 (14.67%) Community of Practice
10 10 (13.33%) Analytics
10 10 (13.33%) Clean Code
10 10 (13.33%) Code Quality
10 10 (13.33%) Cross-Platform Development
10 10 (13.33%) Deployment Automation
10 10 (13.33%) iOS Development
10 10 (13.33%) Push Notifications
10 10 (13.33%) Re-Platforming
10 10 (13.33%) Server-Driven UI
10 10 (13.33%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 42 (56.00%) Python
2 39 (52.00%) JavaScript
3 19 (25.33%) R
4 12 (16.00%) C#
5 10 (13.33%) Kotlin
5 10 (13.33%) Swift
6 9 (12.00%) Bash
7 5 (6.67%) Bicep
7 5 (6.67%) PHP
8 4 (5.33%) Java
8 4 (5.33%) SQL
9 3 (4.00%) Delphi
9 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.67%) Scala
10 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
11 1 (1.33%) C
11 1 (1.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 35 (46.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 34 (45.33%) AWS Certification
2 34 (45.33%) Azure Certification
3 32 (42.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.67%) Accessibility
1 8 (10.67%) WCAG
2 7 (9.33%) QA
System Software
1 14 (18.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (12.00%) Terraform
2 7 (9.33%) Kubernetes
3 5 (6.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Ansible
5 1 (1.33%) Argo
5 1 (1.33%) Nagios
5 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 38 (50.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.33%) Amplitude
2 10 (13.33%) Braze
3 4 (5.33%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (4.00%) Oracle
4 3 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.33%) Facebook
5 1 (1.33%) HubSpot