GitHub
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 242 253 190
Rank change year-on-year +11 -63 -92
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 650 1,132 2,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.25% 1.15% 1.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.31% 3.20% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 470 875 1,125
10th Percentile £32,611 £42,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,634
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.89% +4.05%
75th Percentile £86,250 £82,548 £89,852
90th Percentile £102,500 £100,750 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £59,191
% change year-on-year +4.17% +1.37% +7.62%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,077 35,358 44,765
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.91% 35.95% 43.04%
Number of salaries quoted 11,032 26,774 29,301
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,750 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,125 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,725 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Salary trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +19 564 £70,000 +7.69% 651
UK excluding London +19 372 £62,500 +4.17% 310
Work from Home +54 325 £70,000 +7.69% 474
London +13 244 £85,000 - 378
North of England +15 116 £70,000 +7.69% 116
South East +55 87 £62,750 +19.52% 57
Yorkshire +82 66 £70,000 +2.94% 38
Scotland +91 54 £51,000 -32.00% 22
South West +85 50 £61,250 +14.49% 32
Midlands +7 50 £55,000 -10.57% 38
North West -44 43 £72,500 +20.83% 65
West Midlands -4 26 £67,500 +9.76% 28
East Midlands +50 24 £35,000 -36.36% 9
East of England +29 17 £47,500 -5.00% 25
Wales +25 8 £65,000 +4.00% 14
North East +44 7 £57,500 -19.58% 14
Northern Ireland +37 2 - - 10

GitHub
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:

Application Platforms
1 48 (7.38%) Confluence
2 30 (4.62%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.85%) CMS
4 19 (2.92%) WordPress
5 17 (2.62%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.23%) Apache
6 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.23%) nginx
7 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.92%) IIS
9 3 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.31%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.31%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.31%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
11 1 (0.15%) Solana
Applications
1 6 (0.92%) Trello
2 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.15%) InVision
3 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.77%) Sage 200
1 18 (2.77%) Sage 50
2 17 (2.62%) Shopify
3 7 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.46%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) Endur
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 311 (47.85%) Azure
2 230 (35.38%) AWS
3 200 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
4 160 (24.62%) Azure DevOps
5 83 (12.77%) GCP
6 78 (12.00%) SaaS
7 74 (11.38%) Serverless
8 49 (7.54%) Power Platform
9 40 (6.15%) PaaS
10 31 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
11 29 (4.46%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
13 24 (3.69%) Amazon S3
14 23 (3.54%) Azure Monitor
15 22 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
16 20 (3.08%) Azure Functions
16 20 (3.08%) PowerApps
17 19 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 19 (2.92%) Power Automate
18 18 (2.77%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.85%) VPN
2 20 (3.08%) Firewall
3 18 (2.77%) WAN
4 15 (2.31%) DNS
5 13 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.85%) 5G
7 10 (1.54%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.23%) LAN
9 7 (1.08%) Network Security
10 6 (0.92%) Bluetooth
10 6 (0.92%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.77%) HTTP
11 5 (0.77%) MQTT
11 5 (0.77%) SMS
12 4 (0.62%) Broadband
12 4 (0.62%) Multicast
12 4 (0.62%) SAN
13 2 (0.31%) DHCP
13 2 (0.31%) IPv6
13 2 (0.31%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 80 (12.31%) MySQL
3 64 (9.85%) PostgreSQL
4 42 (6.46%) Azure SQL Database
5 40 (6.15%) Power BI
6 34 (5.23%) NoSQL
7 28 (4.31%) MongoDB
8 24 (3.69%) Tableau
9 22 (3.38%) Relational Database
10 17 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
11 15 (2.31%) SQLite
12 14 (2.15%) Data Lake
13 13 (2.00%) DynamoDB
14 12 (1.85%) Redis
15 11 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.23%) Big Data
17 7 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
17 7 (1.08%) Looker
Development Applications
1 166 (25.54%) Git
2 141 (21.69%) Jenkins
3 96 (14.77%) JIRA
4 50 (7.69%) Visual Studio
5 48 (7.38%) GitLab
6 35 (5.38%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.69%) Gradle
8 23 (3.54%) Selenium
8 23 (3.54%) TeamCity
9 20 (3.08%) CircleCI
10 17 (2.62%) Visual Studio Code
11 16 (2.46%) Artifactory
11 16 (2.46%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.85%) Postman
13 11 (1.69%) IBM UrbanCode
13 11 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.54%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.54%) git-flow
15 9 (1.38%) Maven
16 8 (1.23%) Cypress.io
General
1 229 (35.23%) Social Skills
2 170 (26.15%) Finance
3 74 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.77%) Banking
5 42 (6.46%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.08%) Manufacturing
7 32 (4.92%) Games
7 32 (4.92%) Retail
8 20 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (2.92%) Marketing
10 17 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
11 13 (2.00%) Automotive
12 12 (1.85%) Back Office
12 12 (1.85%) Front Office
13 11 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (1.69%) Retail Banking
14 10 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.38%) Law
16 7 (1.08%) Electronics
16 7 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 229 (35.23%) Developer
2 166 (25.54%) Senior
3 95 (14.62%) Software Engineer
4 76 (11.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 76 (11.69%) Lead
5 63 (9.69%) Senior Developer
6 48 (7.38%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (4.92%) .NET Developer
7 32 (4.92%) Azure Engineer
8 28 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (4.15%) Senior Software Engineer
10 24 (3.69%) Software Developer
11 23 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
12 22 (3.38%) Data Engineer
13 21 (3.23%) Android Developer
14 20 (3.08%) Architect
14 20 (3.08%) Lead Developer
14 20 (3.08%) Principal Engineer
15 18 (2.77%) .NET Software Developer
16 17 (2.62%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (20.15%) .NET
2 115 (17.69%) React
3 109 (16.77%) HTML
4 106 (16.31%) CSS
5 64 (9.85%) .NET Framework
6 57 (8.77%) .NET Core
7 53 (8.15%) RESTful
8 46 (7.08%) Node.js
9 40 (6.15%) AngularJS
9 40 (6.15%) React Native
10 36 (5.54%) Laravel
11 35 (5.38%) HTML5
12 33 (5.08%) Django
12 33 (5.08%) GraphQL
13 32 (4.92%) Kafka
13 32 (4.92%) REST
14 29 (4.46%) JSON
15 28 (4.31%) Vue
16 26 (4.00%) Web Services
17 25 (3.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.54%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.00%) Product Ownership
3 31 (4.77%) Management Information System
4 27 (4.15%) Mobile App
5 24 (3.69%) Mobile Games
6 23 (3.54%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
7 20 (3.08%) Onboarding
8 19 (2.92%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (2.15%) IoT
11 13 (2.00%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.85%) Embedded Systems
12 12 (1.85%) Robotics
13 11 (1.69%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.54%) Educational Technology
15 8 (1.23%) Mainframe
15 8 (1.23%) Self-Driving Car
15 8 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
16 7 (1.08%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.69%) Linux
2 32 (4.92%) Windows
3 31 (4.77%) Apple iOS
4 30 (4.62%) Android
5 19 (2.92%) Unix
6 10 (1.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.38%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.23%) VMS
8 8 (1.23%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.77%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.46%) Debian
10 3 (0.46%) zOS
11 2 (0.31%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.31%) Solaris
11 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.15%) CentOS
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (50.31%) CI/CD
2 294 (45.23%) DevOps
3 245 (37.69%) Agile
4 184 (28.31%) Software Engineering
5 161 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
6 131 (20.15%) Infrastructure as Code
7 120 (18.46%) Mentoring
8 105 (16.15%) Full-Stack Development
9 93 (14.31%) Test Automation
10 84 (12.92%) Containerisation
11 79 (12.15%) Computer Science
12 77 (11.85%) Microservices
13 64 (9.85%) Analytics
14 63 (9.69%) Continuous Integration
15 62 (9.54%) Platform Engineering
16 60 (9.23%) User Experience
17 57 (8.77%) Project Management
18 56 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
18 56 (8.62%) Deployment Automation
19 55 (8.46%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 273 (42.00%) Python
2 228 (35.08%) SQL
3 160 (24.62%) JavaScript
4 138 (21.23%) C#
5 127 (19.54%) Java
6 91 (14.00%) TypeScript
7 73 (11.23%) PowerShell
8 69 (10.62%) Bash
9 55 (8.46%) PHP
10 30 (4.62%) C++
11 28 (4.31%) C
12 27 (4.15%) Objective-C
13 24 (3.69%) Bicep
13 24 (3.69%) Kotlin
14 23 (3.54%) Ruby
14 23 (3.54%) Swift
15 20 (3.08%) T-SQL
16 17 (2.62%) Go
17 9 (1.38%) Shell Script
18 8 (1.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (18.15%) Degree
2 50 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 19 (2.92%) BPSS Clearance
4 19 (2.92%) SC Cleared
5 18 (2.77%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.62%) AWS Certification
7 12 (1.85%) OCP
7 12 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
8 10 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 7 (1.08%) HND
10 5 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 5 (0.77%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 3 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.46%) CCSP
12 3 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
12 3 (0.46%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.00%) QA
2 14 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (2.00%) GDPR
4 12 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.54%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.38%) SOC 2
7 8 (1.23%) NCSC
7 8 (1.23%) NIST
7 8 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.62%) PMO
9 3 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 147 (22.62%) Docker
2 23 (3.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.54%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.77%) Firmware
7 4 (0.62%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.46%) NFS
8 3 (0.46%) vSphere
9 2 (0.31%) KVM
9 2 (0.31%) SRDF
9 2 (0.31%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.31%) Xen
10 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 180 (27.69%) Terraform
2 155 (23.85%) Kubernetes
3 89 (13.69%) Ansible
4 44 (6.77%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.23%) Grafana
6 33 (5.08%) Progress Chef
7 24 (3.69%) Puppet
8 20 (3.08%) Argo
9 7 (1.08%) CA Endevor
9 7 (1.08%) Packer
10 6 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
11 5 (0.77%) Istio
12 4 (0.62%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.62%) Oozie
13 3 (0.46%) SCCM
14 2 (0.31%) Consul
14 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
14 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Clustering
14 2 (0.31%) SCOM
15 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 126 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.46%) Google
3 39 (6.00%) Databricks
4 28 (4.31%) VMware
5 21 (3.23%) Sage
6 18 (2.77%) Oracle
7 15 (2.31%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.31%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.15%) New Relic
8 14 (2.15%) WooCommerce
9 12 (1.85%) Splunk
10 11 (1.69%) Citrix
11 10 (1.54%) IBM
11 10 (1.54%) ServiceNow
12 9 (1.38%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.08%) Cisco
13 7 (1.08%) Xamarin
14 6 (0.92%) Adobe
14 6 (0.92%) F5
14 6 (0.92%) Siemens