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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 116 145
Rank change year-on-year -27 +29 +18
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 36 79 32
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.94% 2.00% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.04% 6.27% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 22
10th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £47,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £53,688 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £80,625 £66,250 £74,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,650 £115,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%

All Cloud 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 1,183 1,260 1,068
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 30.97% 31.87% 32.65%
Number of salaries quoted 584 660 874
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,600 £83,750
South East median annual salary £49,000 £58,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -16.24% +11.43% -8.70%

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 13 December 2025.

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 13 December 2025. 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 -30 16 £42,500 -29.17% 80
Buckinghamshire -1 12 £75,000 +24.48% 44
Oxfordshire +34 8 £78,750 -28.41% 15
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:

Applications
1 7 (19.44%) MadCap Flare
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (83.33%) Azure
2 18 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 14 (38.89%) AWS
4 13 (36.11%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (25.00%) SaaS
6 7 (19.44%) GCP
6 7 (19.44%) Google Analytics
6 7 (19.44%) Google Docs
7 6 (16.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 6 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 6 (16.67%) Entra ID
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon S3
8 5 (13.89%) Amazon SQS
8 5 (13.89%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (13.89%) Azure Service Bus
8 5 (13.89%) Serverless
9 3 (8.33%) Amazon SageMaker
10 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (5.56%) Google Data Studio
10 2 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (16.67%) DynamoDB
2 6 (16.67%) MySQL
2 6 (16.67%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 2 (5.56%) Looker
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.56%) Tableau
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.78%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) Git
2 8 (22.22%) JIRA
3 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
4 5 (13.89%) git-flow
5 2 (5.56%) GitLab
6 1 (2.78%) Burp Suite
General
1 7 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (5.56%) Finance
2 2 (5.56%) Marketing
2 2 (5.56%) Multimedia
2 2 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.78%) Automotive
3 1 (2.78%) Aviation
3 1 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Platform Engineer
2 10 (27.78%) Lead
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
3 9 (25.00%) Developer
4 7 (19.44%) Author
4 7 (19.44%) Technical Author
5 6 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Trainee
8 2 (5.56%) Trainee Developer
8 2 (5.56%) Trainee Software Developer
9 1 (2.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) CSS
2 6 (16.67%) .NET
2 6 (16.67%) ARM Templates
2 6 (16.67%) HTML
2 6 (16.67%) Kafka
3 5 (13.89%) AWS CDK
3 5 (13.89%) Material-UI
3 5 (13.89%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (13.89%) React
4 2 (5.56%) Hugging Face
4 2 (5.56%) NumPy
4 2 (5.56%) Pandas
4 2 (5.56%) RESTful
4 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.78%) LangGraph
5 1 (2.78%) ModSecurity
5 1 (2.78%) Spring
5 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Cloud Native
1 10 (27.78%) Onboarding
2 6 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (13.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) AI Agents
4 1 (2.78%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) CI/CD
2 21 (58.33%) DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) Agile
4 13 (36.11%) Containerisation
5 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 12 (33.33%) Observability
6 11 (30.56%) Platform Engineering
7 10 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
7 10 (27.78%) Resource Management
8 9 (25.00%) Analytics
9 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
9 7 (19.44%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven
10 6 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
10 6 (16.67%) Matrix Management
10 6 (16.67%) Microservices
10 6 (16.67%) RBAC
10 6 (16.67%) Servant Leadership
10 6 (16.67%) Task Automation
10 6 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 15 (41.67%) Python
2 11 (30.56%) Bash
2 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 6 (16.67%) C#
4 6 (16.67%) SQL
4 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 3 (8.33%) Java
6 2 (5.56%) C++
6 2 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (2.78%) Go
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Degree
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) ECSS
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (41.67%) Docker
2 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 13 (36.11%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Argo
3 1 (2.78%) Grafana
3 1 (2.78%) Kubeflow
3 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.00%) Google
3 2 (5.56%) Alteryx
3 2 (5.56%) HubSpot
3 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
3 2 (5.56%) Oracle
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Talend
3 2 (5.56%) Zoho