GitHub Job Trends in the South East

GitHub
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 140 248
Rank change year-on-year -55 +108 -74
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 96 115 143
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.68% 1.68% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.44% 5.40% 2.83%
Number of salaries quoted 85 69 118
10th Percentile £28,700 £47,500 £40,125
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +15.24% -25.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £79,200 £78,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -6.40%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 2,131 5,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 27.87% 31.10% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,102 1,409 4,063
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £27,650
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
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 South East

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in the South East

GitHub
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the South East over the 6 months to 20 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the South East

GitHub
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South East region over the 6 months to 20 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
Surrey -8 31 £50,000 -28.57% 7
Thames Valley -3 24 £49,768 -29.66% 33
Hampshire -47 16 £53,750 +7.50% 12
West Sussex -29 11 £50,000 -28.57% 4
Berkshire -10 10 £34,500 -50.71% 10
Buckinghamshire -24 10 £50,000 -29.58% 15
East Sussex - 6 £40,500 - 9
Oxfordshire -5 4 £52,000 -32.90% 8
Kent -50 4 £30,000 +9.09% 7
Isle of Wight - 4 £41,500 -
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (6.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 69 (71.88%) Azure
2 38 (39.58%) AWS
2 38 (39.58%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (34.38%) GitHub Actions
4 11 (11.46%) GCP
5 9 (9.38%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (8.33%) Datadog
6 8 (8.33%) OpenShift
7 7 (7.29%) Figma
8 5 (5.21%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (4.17%) SaaS
10 3 (3.13%) Serverless
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
11 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
11 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
12 1 (1.04%) Azure Functions
12 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.50%) Internet
2 8 (8.33%) Firewall
2 8 (8.33%) VPN
3 3 (3.13%) HTTP
3 3 (3.13%) RTP
3 3 (3.13%) Unified Communications
3 3 (3.13%) VoIP
3 3 (3.13%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.25%) MySQL
2 6 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.21%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.13%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.04%) Couchbase
7 1 (1.04%) Metadata
7 1 (1.04%) Power BI
7 1 (1.04%) Redis
7 1 (1.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 35 (36.46%) Git
2 17 (17.71%) GitLab
3 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 6 (6.25%) JIRA
5 4 (4.17%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.13%) Selenium
7 2 (2.08%) Claude Code
7 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.08%) git-flow
8 1 (1.04%) C++Builder
8 1 (1.04%) JMeter
8 1 (1.04%) Postman
8 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
General
1 29 (30.21%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 12 (12.50%) Multimedia
4 8 (8.33%) Retail
5 4 (4.17%) Finance
6 1 (1.04%) Advertising
6 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.04%) Automotive
6 1 (1.04%) Aviation
6 1 (1.04%) Banking
6 1 (1.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (41.67%) Developer
2 15 (15.63%) Senior
3 14 (14.58%) Administrator
4 12 (12.50%) Trainee
5 11 (11.46%) Applications Developer
6 9 (9.38%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 9 (9.38%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) DevOps Administrator
7 8 (8.33%) Lead
7 8 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (8.33%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 8 (8.33%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 7 (7.29%) Software Developer
9 6 (6.25%) Data Engineer
9 6 (6.25%) Trainee Administrator
9 6 (6.25%) Web Administrator
10 5 (5.21%) Platform Engineer
10 5 (5.21%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (38.54%) HTML
2 34 (35.42%) CSS
3 33 (34.38%) .NET
3 33 (34.38%) React
4 17 (17.71%) Bootstrap
4 17 (17.71%) React Native
5 11 (11.46%) OAuth
6 10 (10.42%) RabbitMQ
7 8 (8.33%) Django
7 8 (8.33%) REST
7 8 (8.33%) SAML
8 5 (5.21%) AngularJS
8 5 (5.21%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.21%) Twisted
8 5 (5.21%) Web Services
8 5 (5.21%) WebSockets
9 4 (4.17%) Kafka
9 4 (4.17%) RESTful
10 3 (3.13%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.13%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.71%) Mobile App
2 8 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 7 (7.29%) Product Ownership
3 7 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (5.21%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.08%) AI Agents
6 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.71%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Ubuntu
3 2 (2.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (56.25%) DevOps
2 44 (45.83%) CI/CD
3 41 (42.71%) Agile
4 27 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
5 26 (27.08%) Infrastructure as Code
6 20 (20.83%) B2B
6 20 (20.83%) Containerisation
7 18 (18.75%) Clean Code
7 18 (18.75%) Front End Development
7 18 (18.75%) Observability
7 18 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (17.71%) AI
8 17 (17.71%) B2C
8 17 (17.71%) Mobile Application Development
8 17 (17.71%) Unit Testing
9 16 (16.67%) API Integration
9 16 (16.67%) Web Development
9 16 (16.67%) Wireframes
10 14 (14.58%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 36 (37.50%) Python
2 32 (33.33%) SQL
3 26 (27.08%) JavaScript
4 17 (17.71%) Bash
5 14 (14.58%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.46%) C#
6 11 (11.46%) Go
7 9 (9.38%) R
8 8 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 7 (7.29%) C++
9 7 (7.29%) Java
10 3 (3.13%) C
10 3 (3.13%) PHP
11 1 (1.04%) Delphi
11 1 (1.04%) Ruby
11 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (21.88%) AWS Certification
2 14 (14.58%) Azure Certification
2 14 (14.58%) Degree
3 12 (12.50%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
6 5 (5.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (3.13%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.63%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.08%) ECSS
4 2 (2.08%) SLA
5 1 (1.04%) GDPR
5 1 (1.04%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (5.21%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.13%) Kamailio
Systems Management
1 24 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 21 (21.88%) Terraform
3 17 (17.71%) Grafana
4 16 (16.67%) Prometheus
5 8 (8.33%) Ansible
5 8 (8.33%) Proxmox
6 4 (4.17%) Argo
7 1 (1.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (26.04%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 8 (8.33%) Red Hat
2 8 (8.33%) VMware
3 3 (3.13%) BT
3 3 (3.13%) Fortinet
3 3 (3.13%) Mitel
4 1 (1.04%) Embarcadero
4 1 (1.04%) Oracle
4 1 (1.04%) Splunk