GitHub Job Trends in Surrey

GitHub
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 84 99
Rank change year-on-year -8 +15 -7
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 32 10 31
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.34% 0.87% 1.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.03% 2.93% 6.03%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 30
10th Percentile £36,500 - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £27,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £35,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +90.14% -32.38% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £43,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 -
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -26.67%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 636 341 514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 26.61% 29.60% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 498 254 346
10th Percentile £30,675 £27,825 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £49,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -14.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £90,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Surrey

GitHub
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Surrey over the 6 months to 15 September 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in Surrey

GitHub
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Guildford - 11 £65,000 - 5
Staines - 6 £70,000 - 1
Woking -21 4 £70,000 - 7
Reigate - 2 - - 6
GitHub
South East

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (9.38%) Apache
1 3 (9.38%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (9.38%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 19 (59.38%) AWS
2 18 (56.25%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) GitHub Actions
4 10 (31.25%) GitHub Copilot
5 8 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (21.88%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (15.63%) GCP
8 3 (9.38%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (9.38%) ChatGPT
8 3 (9.38%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (9.38%) Google Gemini
8 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (6.25%) Figma
9 2 (6.25%) SaaS
10 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (25.00%) Firewall
1 8 (25.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (31.25%) MongoDB
2 6 (18.75%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (15.63%) MySQL
4 4 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (12.50%) NoSQL
5 3 (9.38%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (9.38%) Relational Database
6 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
6 2 (6.25%) Pinecone
6 2 (6.25%) Redis
7 1 (3.13%) Spatial Data
7 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 2 (6.25%) GitLab
2 2 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.13%) JIRA
3 1 (3.13%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
1 7 (21.88%) Retail
2 5 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (43.75%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) Senior
3 8 (25.00%) Administrator
3 8 (25.00%) DevOps Administrator
3 8 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 7 (21.88%) Senior DevOps
4 7 (21.88%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 5 (15.63%) Backend Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Data Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Lead
7 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (6.25%) Front-End Web Developer (Client-Side Web Developer)
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Senior Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Web Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (46.88%) Terraform
2 9 (28.13%) Node.js
3 8 (25.00%) .NET
4 7 (21.88%) .NET Core
5 6 (18.75%) AngularJS
6 5 (15.63%) ASP.NET
6 5 (15.63%) Kafka
6 5 (15.63%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (15.63%) REST
6 5 (15.63%) Spring
6 5 (15.63%) Spring Boot
7 4 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (12.50%) RESTful
7 4 (12.50%) Vue
8 3 (9.38%) Hibernate
8 3 (9.38%) Jest
8 3 (9.38%) JPA
9 2 (6.25%) HTML
9 2 (6.25%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 7 (21.88%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (9.38%) AI Agents
3 3 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.25%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.13%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (3.13%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (3.13%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) AI
1 21 (65.63%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) DevOps
3 12 (37.50%) Agile
4 11 (34.38%) Analytics
4 11 (34.38%) Microservices
5 9 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (28.13%) Observability
6 8 (25.00%) Cloud Security
6 8 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 7 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (18.75%) Customer Experience
8 6 (18.75%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 5 (15.63%) Data Engineering
9 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (15.63%) LLM
9 5 (15.63%) Secure Coding
10 4 (12.50%) Fintech
10 4 (12.50%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) C#
3 9 (28.13%) Go
3 9 (28.13%) SQL
4 8 (25.00%) Bash
5 7 (21.88%) TypeScript
6 5 (15.63%) Java
7 2 (6.25%) Bicep
7 2 (6.25%) C++
8 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (9.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (40.63%) Docker
2 1 (3.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (56.25%) Kubernetes
2 9 (28.13%) Ansible
2 9 (28.13%) Grafana
2 9 (28.13%) Prometheus
3 7 (21.88%) Proxmox
4 1 (3.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) VMware
3 5 (15.63%) Google
3 5 (15.63%) OpenAI
4 2 (6.25%) Databricks
5 1 (3.13%) EMC
5 1 (3.13%) New Relic