GitHub Job Trends in the South West

GitHub
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 127 146
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 +14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 105 43 78
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.00% 1.19% 1.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.31% 4.56% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 80 34 44
10th Percentile £46,250 £28,250 £45,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -21.15% +30.00%
75th Percentile £86,563 £65,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £90,000 £79,925
England median annual salary £67,500 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +12.50% -14.29%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,978 944 1,732
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 18.85% 26.21% 25.84%
Number of salaries quoted 1,372 685 1,061
10th Percentile £30,500 £28,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £39,000 £32,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £46,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -15.45% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,250 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +3.17%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in the South West

GitHub
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the South West over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the South West

GitHub
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Bristol -22 41 £82,500 +53.49% 12
Gloucestershire -46 22 £73,750 -11.94% 18
Devon -16 15 £55,000 +4.76% 6
Somerset -17 14 £55,000 +22.22% 18
Wiltshire -19 13 £60,000 +19.67% 6
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 12 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.86%) Apache
2 3 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.81%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 65 (61.90%) Azure
2 34 (32.38%) AWS
3 31 (29.52%) GitHub Copilot
4 24 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (19.05%) Azure AI
6 19 (18.10%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (15.24%) Serverless
8 13 (12.38%) Azure Monitor
9 12 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (11.43%) Azure Functions
9 12 (11.43%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (11.43%) IaaS
9 12 (11.43%) PaaS
10 9 (8.57%) Amazon S3
11 6 (5.71%) GCP
12 5 (4.76%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
12 5 (4.76%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.81%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.43%) VPN
2 6 (5.71%) Internet
3 4 (3.81%) 5G
3 4 (3.81%) SD-WAN
3 4 (3.81%) WAN
4 2 (1.90%) DNS
4 2 (1.90%) Firewall
4 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.95%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (36.19%) Azure SQL Database
2 28 (26.67%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.57%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.71%) Big Data
4 6 (5.71%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
5 4 (3.81%) Flink
5 4 (3.81%) Redis
6 3 (2.86%) ZAP BI
7 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.90%) Delta Lake
7 2 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.90%) Metadata
7 2 (1.90%) MySQL
7 2 (1.90%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.90%) Power BI
8 1 (0.95%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 26 (24.76%) Git
2 18 (17.14%) GitLab
3 9 (8.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.81%) LabVIEW
4 4 (3.81%) NUnit
4 4 (3.81%) Postman
4 4 (3.81%) Selenium
5 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.86%) JIRA
5 3 (2.86%) JUnit
5 3 (2.86%) Snyk
5 3 (2.86%) SonarQube
6 2 (1.90%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.90%) MLflow
6 2 (1.90%) MSI
7 1 (0.95%) MSTest
7 1 (0.95%) Newman
7 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.95%) Vite
General
1 39 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 14 (13.33%) Law
4 11 (10.48%) Public Sector
5 9 (8.57%) Advertising
5 9 (8.57%) Finance
5 9 (8.57%) Marketing
6 7 (6.67%) Military
7 6 (5.71%) Games
8 4 (3.81%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.81%) Electronics
8 4 (3.81%) Environmental Health
9 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.95%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 43 (40.95%) Developer
2 26 (24.76%) .NET Developer
3 15 (14.29%) Lead
3 15 (14.29%) Senior
4 12 (11.43%) Analyst
4 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Developer
6 9 (8.57%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.67%) Platform Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) Applications Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Configuration and Release Manager
10 4 (3.81%) Electronics Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Product Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Product Test Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Security Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (36.19%) .NET
2 37 (35.24%) Terraform
3 31 (29.52%) .NET Core
4 27 (25.71%) ASP.NET
4 27 (25.71%) CSS
5 26 (24.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 26 (24.76%) HTML
6 20 (19.05%) ML.NET
6 20 (19.05%) Node.js
6 20 (19.05%) React
7 18 (17.14%) AngularJS
8 14 (13.33%) Vue
9 12 (11.43%) RESTful
10 9 (8.57%) Blazor
10 9 (8.57%) Kafka
11 7 (6.67%) pytest
12 5 (4.76%) CSS3
12 5 (4.76%) HTML5
12 5 (4.76%) LangChain
12 5 (4.76%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (23.81%) Cloud Native
2 15 (14.29%) Public Cloud
3 12 (11.43%) Podcast
3 12 (11.43%) Security Posture
4 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.76%) Digital TV
5 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) Self-Driving Car
7 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.90%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.95%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.14%) Windows
2 12 (11.43%) VMS
3 10 (9.52%) Linux
4 4 (3.81%) Unix
5 2 (1.90%) Debian
5 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (74.29%) CI/CD
2 56 (53.33%) AI
3 47 (44.76%) DevOps
3 47 (44.76%) Full-Stack Development
4 46 (43.81%) Agile
5 40 (38.10%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (24.76%) Software Engineering
7 24 (22.86%) DevSecOps
7 24 (22.86%) Machine Learning
8 22 (20.95%) Observability
9 21 (20.00%) Containerisation
9 21 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 20 (19.05%) Analytics
11 19 (18.10%) Cloud Security
11 19 (18.10%) Generative AI
11 19 (18.10%) Microservices
12 17 (16.19%) Performance Tuning
13 16 (15.24%) Computer Science
13 16 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (15.24%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 45 (42.86%) SQL
2 29 (27.62%) C#
3 22 (20.95%) Bash
3 22 (20.95%) Python
4 18 (17.14%) Bicep
4 18 (17.14%) TypeScript
5 14 (13.33%) PowerShell
6 12 (11.43%) JavaScript
6 12 (11.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 11 (10.48%) Java
8 7 (6.67%) Go
9 5 (4.76%) Rust
10 4 (3.81%) Kotlin
10 4 (3.81%) MATLAB
10 4 (3.81%) PHP
10 4 (3.81%) Scala
11 2 (1.90%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 15 (14.29%) Degree
4 13 (12.38%) Azure Certification
5 12 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.81%) HND
6 4 (3.81%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.81%) PMP
7 3 (2.86%) OCP
7 3 (2.86%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) Accessibility
2 7 (6.67%) QA
2 7 (6.67%) WCAG
3 4 (3.81%) Def Stans
3 4 (3.81%) ISO 9000
3 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
4 3 (2.86%) NIST
5 2 (1.90%) IFRS
5 2 (1.90%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.90%) NCSC
5 2 (1.90%) Solvency II
System Software
1 48 (45.71%) Docker
2 14 (13.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 12 (11.43%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (11.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 52 (49.52%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.62%) Ansible
3 4 (3.81%) Grafana
4 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.90%) Plesk
6 1 (0.95%) Argo
Vendors
1 55 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.19%) VMware
3 12 (11.43%) ScienceLogic
4 10 (9.52%) Google
5 9 (8.57%) Facebook
6 8 (7.62%) Atlassian
6 8 (7.62%) OpenAI
7 4 (3.81%) OneLogin
8 3 (2.86%) Databricks
8 3 (2.86%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.95%) Infor
9 1 (0.95%) Mistral
9 1 (0.95%) Oracle