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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 248 190
Rank change year-on-year +15 -58 -90
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 672 1,143 2,100
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.16% 2.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.44% 3.24% 4.64%
Number of salaries quoted 474 879 1,153
10th Percentile £33,328 £42,457 £45,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +4.90%
75th Percentile £85,938 £82,548 £89,852
90th Percentile £102,500 £101,500 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +4.17% +0.80% +8.23%

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 15,136 35,317 45,229
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.16% 35.97% 43.16%
Number of salaries quoted 11,080 26,764 29,536
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,644 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.21% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £83,750 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £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 27 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 27 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 +15 585 £70,000 +7.69% 1,139
UK excluding London +39 386 £62,500 +4.17% 429
Work from Home +57 344 £70,000 +7.69% 713
London +9 252 £85,000 - 806
North of England +13 117 £70,000 +7.69% 120
South East +61 96 £62,750 +19.52% 124
Yorkshire +83 66 £68,000 - 44
Scotland +95 55 £51,750 -31.00% 40
Midlands +23 51 £57,500 -6.50% 41
South West +77 50 £61,250 +14.49% 51
North West -40 44 £72,500 +20.83% 66
West Midlands -4 27 £67,500 +9.76% 30
East Midlands +52 24 £35,000 -36.36% 8
East of England +42 19 £47,500 -5.00% 35
Wales +23 8 £65,000 +4.00% 10
North East +41 7 £57,500 -19.58% 11
Northern Ireland +38 2 - - 16

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 46 (6.85%) Confluence
2 29 (4.32%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.72%) CMS
4 19 (2.83%) WordPress
5 17 (2.53%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.19%) Apache
6 8 (1.19%) Apache Spark
6 8 (1.19%) nginx
7 7 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
8 6 (0.89%) IIS
9 3 (0.45%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.45%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.30%) Drupal
10 2 (0.30%) Headless CMS
10 2 (0.30%) Solana
10 2 (0.30%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.30%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.15%) JBoss
11 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
Applications
1 6 (0.89%) Trello
2 5 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.60%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.15%) Adobe XD
4 1 (0.15%) InVision
4 1 (0.15%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 18 (2.68%) Sage 200
1 18 (2.68%) Sage 50
2 17 (2.53%) Shopify
3 6 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.15%) Endur
6 1 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 312 (46.43%) Azure
2 250 (37.20%) AWS
3 203 (30.21%) GitHub Actions
4 161 (23.96%) Azure DevOps
5 91 (13.54%) Serverless
6 84 (12.50%) GCP
7 79 (11.76%) SaaS
8 48 (7.14%) Power Platform
9 47 (6.99%) AWS Lambda
10 42 (6.25%) Amazon S3
11 41 (6.10%) PaaS
12 33 (4.91%) Amazon SQS
13 30 (4.46%) Amazon Kinesis
14 27 (4.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 25 (3.72%) Azure Logic Apps
16 23 (3.42%) Azure Monitor
17 22 (3.27%) Azure Data Factory
18 20 (2.98%) Azure Functions
19 19 (2.83%) IaaS
19 19 (2.83%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.72%) VPN
2 19 (2.83%) Firewall
3 17 (2.53%) WAN
4 14 (2.08%) DNS
5 13 (1.93%) TCP/IP
6 12 (1.79%) 5G
7 9 (1.34%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.19%) LAN
9 7 (1.04%) Network Security
10 6 (0.89%) Bluetooth
10 6 (0.89%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.74%) HTTP
11 5 (0.74%) MQTT
11 5 (0.74%) SMS
12 4 (0.60%) Broadband
12 4 (0.60%) Multicast
12 4 (0.60%) SAN
13 2 (0.30%) DHCP
13 2 (0.30%) Internet
13 2 (0.30%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.69%) SQL Server
2 83 (12.35%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (12.05%) MySQL
4 42 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 39 (5.80%) Power BI
6 34 (5.06%) NoSQL
7 32 (4.76%) DynamoDB
8 30 (4.46%) Redis
9 28 (4.17%) MongoDB
10 24 (3.57%) Tableau
11 22 (3.27%) Relational Database
12 17 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
13 15 (2.23%) SQLite
14 14 (2.08%) Data Lake
15 11 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.19%) Big Data
17 7 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
17 7 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
17 7 (1.04%) BigQuery
17 7 (1.04%) Looker
Development Applications
1 167 (24.85%) Git
2 160 (23.81%) Jenkins
3 94 (13.99%) JIRA
4 50 (7.44%) Visual Studio
5 47 (6.99%) GitLab
6 35 (5.21%) SonarQube
7 24 (3.57%) Gradle
7 24 (3.57%) TeamCity
8 23 (3.42%) Selenium
9 22 (3.27%) CircleCI
10 17 (2.53%) Visual Studio Code
11 16 (2.38%) Artifactory
11 16 (2.38%) Bitbucket
12 12 (1.79%) Postman
13 11 (1.64%) IBM UrbanCode
13 11 (1.64%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.49%) Cucumber
14 10 (1.49%) git-flow
15 9 (1.34%) Maven
16 8 (1.19%) Cypress.io
General
1 226 (33.63%) Social Skills
2 172 (25.60%) Finance
3 75 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.42%) Banking
5 45 (6.70%) Public Sector
6 38 (5.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 37 (5.51%) Marketing
8 33 (4.91%) Manufacturing
9 32 (4.76%) Games
9 32 (4.76%) Retail
10 20 (2.98%) Advertising
11 18 (2.68%) Pharmaceutical
12 13 (1.93%) Automotive
13 12 (1.79%) Back Office
13 12 (1.79%) Front Office
14 11 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
14 11 (1.64%) Retail Banking
15 10 (1.49%) Law
15 10 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 228 (33.93%) Developer
2 167 (24.85%) Senior
3 116 (17.26%) Software Engineer
4 77 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 77 (11.46%) Lead
5 62 (9.23%) Senior Developer
6 48 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
7 32 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 32 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
8 29 (4.32%) Platform Engineer
9 27 (4.02%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (3.72%) Software Developer
11 22 (3.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 22 (3.27%) Data Engineer
12 21 (3.13%) Android Developer
13 20 (2.98%) Lead Developer
13 20 (2.98%) Principal Engineer
14 19 (2.83%) Architect
15 18 (2.68%) .NET Software Developer
15 18 (2.68%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 134 (19.94%) React
2 132 (19.64%) .NET
3 109 (16.22%) HTML
4 106 (15.77%) CSS
5 66 (9.82%) Node.js
6 64 (9.52%) .NET Framework
7 59 (8.78%) AngularJS
8 58 (8.63%) .NET Core
9 54 (8.04%) RESTful
10 48 (7.14%) REST
11 40 (5.95%) React Native
12 36 (5.36%) Laravel
13 35 (5.21%) HTML5
14 33 (4.91%) Django
14 33 (4.91%) GraphQL
15 32 (4.76%) Kafka
16 31 (4.61%) Tailwind CSS
17 28 (4.17%) JSON
17 28 (4.17%) Vue
18 25 (3.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 73 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 38 (5.65%) Product Ownership
3 32 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 27 (4.02%) Mobile App
5 24 (3.57%) Mobile Games
6 23 (3.42%) Blog
6 23 (3.42%) Greenfield Project
7 21 (3.13%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.98%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
8 20 (2.98%) Onboarding
9 18 (2.68%) Digital Media
10 14 (2.08%) IoT
11 13 (1.93%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
12 12 (1.79%) Robotics
13 11 (1.64%) Virtual Team
14 10 (1.49%) Educational Technology
15 8 (1.19%) Self-Driving Car
15 8 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 89 (13.24%) Linux
2 32 (4.76%) Windows
3 31 (4.61%) Apple iOS
4 30 (4.46%) Android
5 19 (2.83%) Unix
6 10 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.34%) Ubuntu
8 8 (1.19%) VMS
8 8 (1.19%) Windows Server
9 5 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
10 3 (0.45%) Debian
10 3 (0.45%) zOS
11 2 (0.30%) CoreOS
11 2 (0.30%) Solaris
11 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.15%) CentOS
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (48.36%) CI/CD
2 293 (43.60%) DevOps
3 258 (38.39%) Agile
4 207 (30.80%) Software Engineering
5 161 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
6 130 (19.35%) Infrastructure as Code
7 124 (18.45%) Full-Stack Development
7 124 (18.45%) Mentoring
8 94 (13.99%) Test Automation
9 86 (12.80%) Containerisation
10 80 (11.90%) Computer Science
11 79 (11.76%) User Experience
12 77 (11.46%) Microservices
13 63 (9.38%) Analytics
13 63 (9.38%) Continuous Integration
14 61 (9.08%) Platform Engineering
15 58 (8.63%) Deployment Automation
15 58 (8.63%) Project Management
15 58 (8.63%) Scrum
16 57 (8.48%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 275 (40.92%) Python
2 229 (34.08%) SQL
3 157 (23.36%) JavaScript
4 139 (20.68%) C#
5 126 (18.75%) Java
6 110 (16.37%) TypeScript
7 72 (10.71%) PowerShell
8 70 (10.42%) Bash
9 55 (8.18%) PHP
10 30 (4.46%) C++
11 28 (4.17%) C
12 27 (4.02%) Objective-C
13 25 (3.72%) Bicep
13 25 (3.72%) Ruby
14 24 (3.57%) Kotlin
15 23 (3.42%) Swift
16 21 (3.13%) T-SQL
17 17 (2.53%) Go
18 9 (1.34%) Shell Script
19 8 (1.19%) Perl
Qualifications
1 119 (17.71%) Degree
2 51 (7.59%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 20 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 19 (2.83%) SC Cleared
6 18 (2.68%) Azure Certification
7 17 (2.53%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.79%) OCP
8 12 (1.79%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (1.49%) Master's Degree
10 9 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (1.04%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 7 (1.04%) HND
12 5 (0.74%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.74%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 3 (0.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.45%) CCSP
14 3 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.45%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.59%) QA
2 14 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.93%) GDPR
4 12 (1.79%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.34%) NCSC
5 9 (1.34%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.19%) NIST
6 8 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 4 (0.60%) PMO
8 3 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 169 (25.15%) Docker
2 23 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.93%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.93%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (1.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.74%) Firmware
6 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.45%) NFS
7 3 (0.45%) vSphere
8 2 (0.30%) KVM
8 2 (0.30%) SRDF
8 2 (0.30%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (0.30%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.30%) Xen
9 1 (0.15%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 182 (27.08%) Terraform
2 175 (26.04%) Kubernetes
3 91 (13.54%) Ansible
4 43 (6.40%) Prometheus
5 34 (5.06%) Grafana
5 34 (5.06%) Progress Chef
6 25 (3.72%) Puppet
7 20 (2.98%) Argo
8 7 (1.04%) CA Endevor
8 7 (1.04%) Packer
9 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.74%) Istio
11 4 (0.60%) HAProxy
11 4 (0.60%) Oozie
12 3 (0.45%) SCCM
13 2 (0.30%) Consul
13 2 (0.30%) Kustomize
13 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.30%) SCOM
14 1 (0.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 125 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 42 (6.25%) Google
3 39 (5.80%) Databricks
4 28 (4.17%) VMware
5 21 (3.13%) Sage
6 19 (2.83%) Oracle
7 15 (2.23%) Atlassian
7 15 (2.23%) Red Hat
8 14 (2.08%) New Relic
8 14 (2.08%) WooCommerce
9 11 (1.64%) Citrix
9 11 (1.64%) Splunk
10 10 (1.49%) IBM
11 9 (1.34%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.19%) ServiceNow
13 7 (1.04%) Cisco
13 7 (1.04%) Salesforce
13 7 (1.04%) Xamarin
14 6 (0.89%) Adobe
14 6 (0.89%) Siemens