GitHub CodeQL
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring CodeQL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited CodeQL over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 690 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing CodeQL 1 0 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.006% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Programming Languages
UK

CodeQL falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 15,621 33,263 45,047
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 33.76% 43.30%
Number of salaries quoted 11,531 25,029 28,721
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £45,000 £49,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £86,250
90th Percentile £107,500 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% +2.33%

CodeQL
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CodeQL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CodeQL in the UK

CodeQL
Top 4 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CodeQL within the UK over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 7
UK excluding London - 1 - - 4

CodeQL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (100.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GDB
1 1 (100.00%) IDA Disassembler
1 1 (100.00%) WinDbg
General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) libvirt
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Postgraduate
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Xen