GitHub Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GitHub
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 183 271
Rank change year-on-year +18 +88 -85
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 670 431 688
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.06% 1.62% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.58% 5.07% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 509 315 546
10th Percentile - £32,500 £38,125
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £46,604
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,743 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.80% +1.24% +0.80%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £82,548
UK median annual salary £57,593 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.72% +7.69% -3.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 18,690 8,502 22,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.68% 32.02% 33.57%
Number of salaries quoted 8,838 6,306 17,460
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £39,000 £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
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GitHub
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the UK excluding London

GitHub
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +30 266 £36,250 -48.21% 115
Yorkshire -6 123 £40,000 -41.18% 43
Scotland +19 119 £35,000 -33.33% 29
North West +33 105 £37,500 -48.28% 58
South East -72 95 £50,000 -17.36% 95
South West -27 75 £55,000 -15.38% 43
Midlands -19 74 £32,000 -41.82% 37
West Midlands +1 53 £31,500 -53.33% 15
North East -1 38 £30,500 -46.96% 14
East of England -39 28 £37,500 -21.05% 42
East Midlands -61 21 £57,600 +64.57% 22
Wales -24 11 £52,000 -20.00% 12
Northern Ireland -38 2 £62,500 - 4
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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 59 (8.81%) WordPress
2 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 6 (0.90%) nginx
5 5 (0.75%) CMS
6 4 (0.60%) Apache
6 4 (0.60%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.60%) Confluence
7 2 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.15%) Drupal
8 1 (0.15%) IIS
8 1 (0.15%) WildFly
Applications
1 11 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.75%) Adobe Illustrator
2 5 (0.75%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 16 (2.39%) Oracle ERP
2 6 (0.90%) Shopify
3 2 (0.30%) Magento
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 499 (74.48%) Azure
2 407 (60.75%) AWS
3 207 (30.90%) GitHub Actions
4 199 (29.70%) Azure DevOps
5 77 (11.49%) GitHub Copilot
6 73 (10.90%) Serverless
7 67 (10.00%) GCP
8 51 (7.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 43 (6.42%) Amazon S3
9 43 (6.42%) AWS CloudFormation
10 42 (6.27%) Datadog
11 41 (6.12%) AWS Lambda
12 32 (4.78%) SaaS
13 31 (4.63%) AWS Step Functions
14 29 (4.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 28 (4.18%) Power Platform
16 24 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
17 20 (2.99%) Amazon EKS
18 19 (2.84%) Snowflake
19 18 (2.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 214 (31.94%) Internet
2 35 (5.22%) Firewall
3 23 (3.43%) HTTP
4 21 (3.13%) DNS
5 18 (2.69%) TCP/IP
6 11 (1.64%) VPN
7 8 (1.19%) 5G
7 8 (1.19%) SD-WAN
7 8 (1.19%) WAN
8 5 (0.75%) SAN
9 3 (0.45%) RTP
9 3 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 3 (0.45%) VoIP
9 3 (0.45%) Wireshark
10 2 (0.30%) DHCP
10 2 (0.30%) Network Security
10 2 (0.30%) SSL
11 1 (0.15%) AMQP
11 1 (0.15%) BIG-IP
11 1 (0.15%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.01%) SQL Server
2 41 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 33 (4.93%) DynamoDB
3 33 (4.93%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (4.18%) Power BI
5 21 (3.13%) MongoDB
5 21 (3.13%) MySQL
6 17 (2.54%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (2.39%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (1.79%) Metadata
9 10 (1.49%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.34%) Tableau
11 6 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.90%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (0.75%) Big Data
12 5 (0.75%) Relational Database
13 4 (0.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 310 (46.27%) Git
2 122 (18.21%) Jenkins
3 54 (8.06%) JIRA
4 39 (5.82%) GitLab
5 16 (2.39%) Oracle Forms
6 14 (2.09%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.94%) Selenium
8 11 (1.64%) Crashlytics
8 11 (1.64%) XCTest
9 9 (1.34%) Cucumber
9 9 (1.34%) JUnit
10 8 (1.19%) LabVIEW
11 7 (1.04%) Bitbucket
11 7 (1.04%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 6 (0.90%) Vite
13 5 (0.75%) Cypress.io
14 4 (0.60%) JMeter
14 4 (0.60%) Octopus Deploy
15 3 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 214 (31.94%) Multimedia
2 136 (20.30%) Social Skills
3 123 (18.36%) Finance
4 72 (10.75%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (3.28%) Marketing
5 22 (3.28%) Telecoms
6 21 (3.13%) Retail
7 19 (2.84%) Law
8 18 (2.69%) Public Sector
9 9 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.19%) Electronics
10 8 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.75%) Advertising
12 4 (0.60%) Banking
12 4 (0.60%) Billing
13 3 (0.45%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.30%) Games
14 2 (0.30%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.30%) Retail Banking
15 1 (0.15%) German Language
Job Titles
1 214 (31.94%) Trainee
2 212 (31.64%) Developer
3 121 (18.06%) Senior
4 95 (14.18%) Software Developer
5 81 (12.09%) Trainee Developer
5 81 (12.09%) Trainee Software Developer
6 67 (10.00%) Administrator
7 58 (8.66%) Trainee Administrator
7 58 (8.66%) Web Administrator
8 53 (7.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 41 (6.12%) Applications Engineer
10 39 (5.82%) Senior Developer
11 37 (5.52%) Cloud Engineer
12 34 (5.07%) Lead
13 28 (4.18%) .NET Developer
14 25 (3.73%) Software Engineer
15 20 (2.99%) Java Developer
16 18 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (2.69%) Salesforce Engineer
16 18 (2.69%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 269 (40.15%) HTML
2 267 (39.85%) CSS
3 91 (13.58%) .NET
4 69 (10.30%) React
5 54 (8.06%) RESTful
6 47 (7.01%) REST
7 37 (5.52%) OAuth
8 36 (5.37%) SOAP
9 35 (5.22%) Node.js
10 33 (4.93%) AngularJS
11 31 (4.63%) ASP.NET
12 30 (4.48%) .NET Core
12 30 (4.48%) JSON
13 29 (4.33%) Elastic Stack
14 27 (4.03%) Blazor
14 27 (4.03%) OAuth2
15 26 (3.88%) Django
15 26 (3.88%) Flask
15 26 (3.88%) Vue
16 22 (3.28%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 87 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 55 (8.21%) Product Ownership
3 33 (4.93%) Mobile App
4 24 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 16 (2.39%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (2.09%) Data Structures
9 13 (1.94%) Private Cloud
10 12 (1.79%) Onboarding
11 11 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
13 9 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 8 (1.19%) Self-Driving Car
15 7 (1.04%) Low-Code
16 6 (0.90%) Public Cloud
17 5 (0.75%) AI Agents
17 5 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
18 4 (0.60%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 40 (5.97%) Linux
2 18 (2.69%) Windows
3 14 (2.09%) Apple iOS
4 8 (1.19%) Unix
5 5 (0.75%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.45%) VMS
6 3 (0.45%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.30%) Android
7 2 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (51.04%) CI/CD
2 325 (48.51%) DevOps
3 234 (34.93%) Mentoring
4 188 (28.06%) Agile
5 166 (24.78%) Cybersecurity
6 165 (24.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 134 (20.00%) Test Automation
8 123 (18.36%) Containerisation
9 113 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
10 112 (16.72%) Observability
11 107 (15.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (15.07%) AI
13 87 (12.99%) Coaching
14 80 (11.94%) Asset Management
15 75 (11.19%) Clean Code
16 72 (10.75%) Web Development
17 65 (9.70%) Analytics
18 57 (8.51%) Software Engineering
19 51 (7.61%) Deployment Automation
20 50 (7.46%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 415 (61.94%) Python
2 280 (41.79%) JavaScript
3 156 (23.28%) SQL
4 133 (19.85%) R
5 86 (12.84%) Bash
6 57 (8.51%) Java
7 55 (8.21%) PowerShell
8 46 (6.87%) TypeScript
9 43 (6.42%) C#
10 34 (5.07%) Bicep
11 31 (4.63%) Go
12 28 (4.18%) Kotlin
13 18 (2.69%) Apex Code
14 16 (2.39%) PL/SQL
14 16 (2.39%) Shell Script
15 13 (1.94%) PHP
15 13 (1.94%) Swift
16 12 (1.79%) T-SQL
17 9 (1.34%) C++
18 8 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 240 (35.82%) AWS Certification
2 228 (34.03%) Azure Certification
3 220 (32.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 214 (31.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 33 (4.93%) Degree
6 22 (3.28%) Security Cleared
7 14 (2.09%) CISSP
7 14 (2.09%) CREST Certified
7 14 (2.09%) SANS
7 14 (2.09%) SC Cleared
8 11 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
8 11 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 8 (1.19%) HND
10 6 (0.90%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 2 (0.30%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.15%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (5.52%) QA
2 28 (4.18%) Accessibility
3 14 (2.09%) GDPR
4 11 (1.64%) WCAG
5 9 (1.34%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.34%) TickIT
6 7 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.60%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.45%) NCSC
8 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
9 2 (0.30%) ECSS
9 2 (0.30%) NIST
9 2 (0.30%) SLA
10 1 (0.15%) EU AI Act
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS
10 1 (0.15%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.15%) Solvency II
System Software
1 145 (21.64%) Docker
2 17 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.45%) Kamailio
4 3 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 181 (27.01%) Terraform
2 103 (15.37%) Kubernetes
3 72 (10.75%) Grafana
4 55 (8.21%) Prometheus
5 45 (6.72%) Ansible
6 18 (2.69%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (1.19%) Proxmox
8 7 (1.04%) Argo
9 3 (0.45%) Istio
9 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.45%) Puppet
10 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.30%) Packer
11 1 (0.15%) Consul
11 1 (0.15%) Kibana
11 1 (0.15%) Nagios
11 1 (0.15%) Plesk
Vendors
1 289 (43.13%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.18%) Oracle
3 19 (2.84%) Google
4 18 (2.69%) Salesforce
5 14 (2.09%) VMware
6 13 (1.94%) Databricks
7 10 (1.49%) Ab Initio
7 10 (1.49%) Amplitude
7 10 (1.49%) Braze
7 10 (1.49%) Dynatrace
8 9 (1.34%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.19%) Okta
10 5 (0.75%) Pega
11 4 (0.60%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (0.60%) Splunk
12 3 (0.45%) BT
12 3 (0.45%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.45%) Mitel
12 3 (0.45%) SolarWinds
13 2 (0.30%) Telerik