GitHub Job Trends in Somerset

GitHub
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 43
Rank change year-on-year - - +19
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 11 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 1.99% - 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.59% - 1.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile - - £33,375
25th Percentile £42,500 - £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 - £43,750
Median % change year-on-year - - -32.69%
75th Percentile £57,500 - £51,563
90th Percentile - - £55,125
South West median annual salary £47,500 £65,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% -16.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 167 98 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 30.25% 22.12% 33.51%
Number of salaries quoted 74 47 114
10th Percentile £27,825 £28,650 £27,650
25th Percentile £31,250 £37,503 £32,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,928 £50,000 £45,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.15% +9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £55,625 £58,125 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £68,000 £67,125
South West median annual salary £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% +4.76%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Somerset

GitHub
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing GitHub

GitHub
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 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
Taunton - 4 £55,000 -
GitHub
South West

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
1 11 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 11 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (81.82%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) Bicep
System Software
1 11 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (100.00%) Kubernetes