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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 550 558
Rank change year-on-year +134 +8 -
Permanent jobs citing GitHub Copilot 90 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.003% 0.006%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.67% 0.009% 0.016%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £83,000 - -
UK median annual salary £80,000 £57,500 £86,250
% change year-on-year +39.13% -33.33% -

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 13,510 11,594 12,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.19% 32.24% 36.70%
Number of salaries quoted 6,759 6,302 10,489
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £41,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -7.69%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 - 73 £85,000 - 3
Midlands - 6 £50,000 - 13
South East - 6 £70,000 - 39
West Midlands - 6 £50,000 - 8
North of England +14 3 £76,000 +32.17% 18
North West +35 2 £80,000 +39.13% 10
East of England - 2 £60,000 - 15
North East - 1 £76,000 - 3
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 17 (18.89%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 17 (18.89%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 90 (100.00%) GitHub
2 77 (85.56%) Azure
3 65 (72.22%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (28.89%) Snowflake
5 24 (26.67%) Power Platform
6 19 (21.11%) dbt
7 17 (18.89%) OCI
8 14 (15.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (13.33%) Salesforce Einstein
10 10 (11.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 10 (11.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 7 (7.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 7 (7.78%) Power Automate
11 7 (7.78%) SaaS
12 6 (6.67%) Figma
13 3 (3.33%) ChatGPT
13 3 (3.33%) Serverless
14 2 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 1 (1.11%) Azure Functions
15 1 (1.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (26.67%) Power BI
2 19 (21.11%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (18.89%) Tableau
4 14 (15.56%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (7.78%) Data Lake
5 7 (7.78%) Metadata
6 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
7 2 (2.22%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (1.11%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 36 (40.00%) JIRA
2 19 (21.11%) Git
3 17 (18.89%) Jenkins
3 17 (18.89%) Oracle Forms
4 6 (6.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (80.00%) Finance
2 39 (43.33%) Social Skills
3 26 (28.89%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (11.11%) Marketing
5 2 (2.22%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (36.67%) Senior
2 24 (26.67%) Applications Engineer
3 17 (18.89%) Cloud Engineer
4 10 (11.11%) Developer
5 7 (7.78%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.44%) Designer
6 4 (4.44%) Software Engineer
6 4 (4.44%) UX Designer
7 3 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (2.22%) .NET Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Blazor Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (2.22%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (2.22%) JavaScript Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Senior JavaScript Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Senior Software Developer
8 2 (2.22%) Software Developer
8 2 (2.22%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (30.00%) REST
2 22 (24.44%) Lightning Web Components
2 22 (24.44%) SOAP
3 18 (20.00%) RESTful
4 17 (18.89%) OAuth
4 17 (18.89%) OAuth2
4 17 (18.89%) SAML
5 12 (13.33%) .NET
6 8 (8.89%) Blazor
7 7 (7.78%) React
8 6 (6.67%) Material Design
8 6 (6.67%) WebAssembly
9 5 (5.56%) .NET Framework
9 5 (5.56%) AngularJS
10 4 (4.44%) ASP.NET
10 4 (4.44%) Vue
11 3 (3.33%) CSS
11 3 (3.33%) HTML
12 2 (2.22%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (2.22%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 46 (51.11%) Cloud Native
2 30 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 17 (18.89%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (7.78%) Low-Code
4 7 (7.78%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.22%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.11%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.11%) Digital TV
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (96.67%) AI
2 77 (85.56%) Agile
3 75 (83.33%) CI/CD
4 74 (82.22%) Coaching
5 73 (81.11%) Test Automation
6 72 (80.00%) Asset Management
6 72 (80.00%) DevOps
7 61 (67.78%) Clean Code
8 51 (56.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 48 (53.33%) Data Modelling
10 45 (50.00%) Analytics
11 41 (45.56%) Sprint Planning
11 41 (45.56%) Sprint Retrospective
12 34 (37.78%) Observability
13 32 (35.56%) Mentoring
14 25 (27.78%) Data Integration
15 24 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
16 22 (24.44%) Architectural Patterns
16 22 (24.44%) Migration
17 19 (21.11%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.00%) Python
2 32 (35.56%) SQL
3 22 (24.44%) Apex Code
4 19 (21.11%) Java
5 17 (18.89%) PL/SQL
5 17 (18.89%) Shell Script
6 10 (11.11%) C#
7 8 (8.89%) JavaScript
8 7 (7.78%) T-SQL
9 5 (5.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 6 (6.67%) WCAG
3 2 (2.22%) QA
4 1 (1.11%) EU AI Act
4 1 (1.11%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (4.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 17 (18.89%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (18.89%) Terraform
2 3 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (24.44%) Salesforce
2 19 (21.11%) Microsoft
3 17 (18.89%) Oracle
4 7 (7.78%) Databricks
5 1 (1.11%) Foundry