GitHub Copilot Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 488 492 -
Rank change year-on-year +4 - -
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Copilot 77 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.008% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.41% 0.023% -
Number of salaries quoted 25 2 0
10th Percentile £46,750 £55,500 -
25th Percentile £47,500 £58,125 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,625 -
90th Percentile £74,500 £72,500 -
UK median annual salary £70,000 £72,500 -
% change year-on-year -3.45% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot 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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 19,002 8,531 22,463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.86% 32.07% 33.49%
Number of salaries quoted 8,871 6,336 17,367
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,314 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £66,778
90th Percentile £90,000 £86,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub Copilot relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GitHub Copilot.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub Copilot in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub Copilot in the UK excluding London

GitHub Copilot
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub Copilot within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
Scotland - 53 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands -18 9 £50,000 -31.03% 2
Midlands -24 9 £50,000 -31.03% 3
South East - 5 £47,500 - 22
North of England -58 4 £73,750 +28.26% 11
East of England - 4 £60,000 - 5
North West -29 3 £77,500 +34.78% 7
South West - 2 £53,750 - 7
North East - 1 £55,000 - 1
GitHub Copilot
UK

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (10.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.30%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 77 (100.00%) GitHub
2 59 (76.62%) Azure
3 44 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (23.38%) Snowflake
5 15 (19.48%) Power Platform
6 14 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 11 (14.29%) dbt
8 10 (12.99%) Figma
8 10 (12.99%) SaaS
8 10 (12.99%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 10 (12.99%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 8 (10.39%) OCI
9 8 (10.39%) Salesforce Einstein
10 7 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 7 (9.09%) Power Automate
11 5 (6.49%) Azure AI
12 4 (5.19%) AWS
13 3 (3.90%) ChatGPT
14 1 (1.30%) Azure AKS
14 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.30%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (19.48%) Power BI
2 11 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (10.39%) Tableau
4 7 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
4 7 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 7 (9.09%) Metadata
4 7 (9.09%) MongoDB
5 6 (7.79%) Snowflake Schema
6 3 (3.90%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.60%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) JIRA
2 13 (16.88%) Git
3 10 (12.99%) Jenkins
4 8 (10.39%) Oracle Forms
4 8 (10.39%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.60%) Claude Code
5 2 (2.60%) XCUITest
6 1 (1.30%) Eclipse
6 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 55 (71.43%) Finance
2 32 (41.56%) Social Skills
3 18 (23.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.58%) Marketing
5 3 (3.90%) Advertising
6 1 (1.30%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (23.38%) Developer
1 18 (23.38%) Salesforce Engineer
1 18 (23.38%) Senior
2 15 (19.48%) Applications Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Cloud Engineer
4 7 (9.09%) .NET Developer
5 6 (7.79%) Designer
5 6 (7.79%) UX Designer
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Backend Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Blazor Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (2.60%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (2.60%) iOS Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Senior iOS Developer
7 2 (2.60%) Software Engineer
7 2 (2.60%) UX Developer
8 1 (1.30%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (1.30%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (25.97%) REST
2 18 (23.38%) Lightning Web Components
2 18 (23.38%) SOAP
3 17 (22.08%) .NET
4 11 (14.29%) RESTful
5 10 (12.99%) Blazor
6 8 (10.39%) Material Design
6 8 (10.39%) OAuth
6 8 (10.39%) OAuth2
6 8 (10.39%) SAML
6 8 (10.39%) WebAssembly
7 7 (9.09%) .NET Core
7 7 (9.09%) ASP.NET
7 7 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (6.49%) CSS
8 5 (6.49%) HTML
8 5 (6.49%) ML.NET
9 3 (3.90%) .NET Framework
9 3 (3.90%) JPA
9 3 (3.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (35.06%) Cloud Native
2 26 (33.77%) Product Ownership
3 8 (10.39%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (9.09%) Low-Code
4 7 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.60%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.60%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.60%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (94.81%) AI
2 64 (83.12%) CI/CD
3 61 (79.22%) Agile
4 56 (72.73%) Coaching
5 53 (68.83%) DevOps
6 52 (67.53%) Asset Management
6 52 (67.53%) Test Automation
7 40 (51.95%) Clean Code
8 38 (49.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (46.75%) Data Modelling
10 30 (38.96%) Observability
11 29 (37.66%) Sprint Planning
11 29 (37.66%) Sprint Retrospective
12 28 (36.36%) Analytics
13 27 (35.06%) Data Integration
14 19 (24.68%) Architectural Patterns
15 16 (20.78%) Mentoring
16 15 (19.48%) Business Intelligence
17 13 (16.88%) Migration
18 12 (15.58%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 30 (38.96%) SQL
2 27 (35.06%) Python
3 18 (23.38%) Apex Code
4 15 (19.48%) C#
5 12 (15.58%) Java
6 8 (10.39%) PL/SQL
6 8 (10.39%) Shell Script
7 7 (9.09%) T-SQL
8 5 (6.49%) TypeScript
9 4 (5.19%) JavaScript
10 2 (2.60%) PHP
10 2 (2.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.39%) Accessibility
1 8 (10.39%) WCAG
2 7 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (11.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (10.39%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (10.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Salesforce
2 17 (22.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.39%) Oracle
4 7 (9.09%) Databricks
5 2 (2.60%) Facebook
6 1 (1.30%) Foundry
6 1 (1.30%) Google