GitHub Job Trends in the Thames Valley

GitHub
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 167 135
Rank change year-on-year +17 -32 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 59 32 64
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.78% 0.84% 1.39%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.76% 2.98% 4.94%
Number of salaries quoted 46 25 20
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £60,000 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year -5.42% +0.73% -14.91%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £65,313
90th Percentile £75,563 £85,000 £72,763
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -21.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,571 1,074 1,296
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 20.84% 28.09% 28.06%
Number of salaries quoted 1,176 483 648
10th Percentile £32,625 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -12.84% -0.95%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,840 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £47,500 £56,000
% change year-on-year +21.05% -15.18% +1.82%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

GitHub
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the Thames Valley

GitHub
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 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
Berkshire +21 27 £62,500 +47.06% 28
Oxfordshire -12 26 £54,000 -24.21% 20
Buckinghamshire -7 6 £62,500 -16.67% 25
GitHub
South East

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.39%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 29 (49.15%) Azure
2 25 (42.37%) AWS
3 19 (32.20%) GitHub Copilot
4 17 (28.81%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (13.56%) Azure AI
6 6 (10.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 6 (10.17%) GCP
7 5 (8.47%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (6.78%) Anthropic Claude
8 4 (6.78%) Azure Machine Learning
8 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.08%) Azure Cognitive Services
10 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.39%) SaaS
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon S3
11 1 (1.69%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.47%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (15.25%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (15.25%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.47%) Relational Database
3 4 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (6.78%) MySQL
3 4 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 18 (30.51%) Git
2 5 (8.47%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.78%) Cucumber
3 4 (6.78%) Postman
4 3 (5.08%) GitLab
5 2 (3.39%) Claude Code
6 1 (1.69%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.69%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.69%) JIRA
6 1 (1.69%) JUnit
6 1 (1.69%) MLflow
6 1 (1.69%) Storybook
General
1 17 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.17%) Manufacturing
3 6 (10.17%) Retail
4 4 (6.78%) Automotive
4 4 (6.78%) Banking
4 4 (6.78%) Electronics
5 3 (5.08%) Legal
6 2 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.69%) Marketing
7 1 (1.69%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 15 (25.42%) Senior
3 12 (20.34%) Software Engineer
4 9 (15.25%) .NET Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Senior Developer
5 6 (10.17%) Software Developer
6 5 (8.47%) Lead
7 4 (6.78%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 4 (6.78%) C# Software Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Graduate
7 4 (6.78%) Quality Engineer
7 4 (6.78%) Security Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) DevSecOps Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Developer
8 3 (5.08%) Senior Software Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Engineer
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Support
8 3 (5.08%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (37.29%) .NET
2 18 (30.51%) React
3 11 (18.64%) .NET Core
3 11 (18.64%) Node.js
4 9 (15.25%) ASP.NET
4 9 (15.25%) ASP.NET Core
4 9 (15.25%) CSS
4 9 (15.25%) HTML
4 9 (15.25%) Terraform
5 6 (10.17%) REST
6 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
6 5 (8.47%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (8.47%) ML.NET
6 5 (8.47%) Playwright
6 5 (8.47%) Vue
7 4 (6.78%) .NET Framework
7 4 (6.78%) Gherkin
7 4 (6.78%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (6.78%) Spring Boot
7 4 (6.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.17%) Robotics
3 5 (8.47%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (6.78%) AI Agents
5 3 (5.08%) Clustering
6 2 (3.39%) Autonomous Agent
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.69%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.69%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Debian
3 3 (5.08%) Gentoo
3 3 (5.08%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (59.32%) AI
2 29 (49.15%) Software Engineering
3 26 (44.07%) CI/CD
4 23 (38.98%) Agile
5 18 (30.51%) Full-Stack Development
6 17 (28.81%) DevOps
7 13 (22.03%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (22.03%) Test Automation
8 12 (20.34%) Microservices
9 10 (16.95%) Code Quality
10 9 (15.25%) Machine Learning
10 9 (15.25%) Mentoring
11 8 (13.56%) BDD
11 8 (13.56%) Computer Science
11 8 (13.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
11 8 (13.56%) Observability
11 8 (13.56%) TDD
12 7 (11.86%) Data Modelling
12 7 (11.86%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) Python
2 27 (45.76%) C#
3 18 (30.51%) SQL
3 18 (30.51%) TypeScript
4 11 (18.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.25%) Bash
6 5 (8.47%) Apex Code
7 4 (6.78%) C
7 4 (6.78%) Java
7 4 (6.78%) Ruby
8 3 (5.08%) Go
9 2 (3.39%) C++
10 1 (1.69%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (23.73%) Degree
2 8 (13.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
4 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.69%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.95%) QA
System Software
1 23 (38.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Ansible
2 3 (5.08%) Podman
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.17%) New Relic
3 5 (8.47%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.08%) NVIDIA
4 3 (5.08%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) Splunk