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 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 197 100
Rank change year-on-year -59 -97 +64
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 965 1,476 6,166
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.07% 1.84% 3.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.28% 4.38% 7.35%
Number of salaries quoted 671 898 1,658
10th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £39,562
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £66,103 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +1.70% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £85,000 £80,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £112,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.60% +3.52% +9.52%

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 29,454 33,734 83,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.62% 42.04% 47.97%
Number of salaries quoted 21,229 25,113 42,013
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £98,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

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 July 2024.

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 July 2024. 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 -59 817 £60,000 -11.95% 120
UK excluding London -54 645 £55,000 -7.60% 103
Work from Home -46 359 £60,000 -7.69% 74
London -48 267 £80,000 +6.67% 40
North of England -43 181 £55,000 -4.35% 22
South East -44 140 £52,500 -30.00% 32
Midlands +17 100 £60,000 +4.35% 15
Yorkshire +3 88 £49,500 -13.91% 11
North West -25 84 £55,000 -4.35% 10
South West +26 83 £56,250 -4.97% 7
Scotland -54 83 £60,000 +0.80% 6
West Midlands +17 66 £60,000 +4.35% 10
East Midlands -22 32 £50,000 -2.44% 5
East of England -39 29 £50,000 - 9
Wales +22 28 £62,500 +4.17% 3
North East -17 9 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 11

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 45 (4.66%) FileNet
2 31 (3.21%) Confluence
3 28 (2.90%) Apache Spark
3 28 (2.90%) CMS
4 25 (2.59%) Apache
5 19 (1.97%) SharePoint
6 17 (1.76%) nginx
7 16 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
8 11 (1.14%) Drupal
8 11 (1.14%) WordPress
9 9 (0.93%) IIS
10 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
11 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
11 6 (0.62%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.21%) JBoss
12 2 (0.21%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 1 (0.10%) ArcGIS
13 1 (0.10%) Headless CMS
13 1 (0.10%) Tornado
Applications
1 36 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (0.93%) Trello
4 7 (0.73%) GNU Octave
5 3 (0.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.31%) Notion
6 2 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.10%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.10%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.73%) Shopify
2 6 (0.62%) Sage 200
2 6 (0.62%) Sage 50
3 4 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Magento
5 1 (0.10%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 408 (42.28%) AWS
2 381 (39.48%) Azure
3 253 (26.22%) GitHub Actions
4 162 (16.79%) GCP
5 138 (14.30%) Azure DevOps
6 104 (10.78%) Amazon S3
7 90 (9.33%) Serverless
8 76 (7.88%) SaaS
9 69 (7.15%) AWS Lambda
10 56 (5.80%) PaaS
11 48 (4.97%) AWS CloudFormation
12 40 (4.15%) Power Platform
13 37 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
14 34 (3.52%) IaaS
15 32 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
15 32 (3.32%) Amazon SQS
15 32 (3.32%) Azure AKS
16 26 (2.69%) Amazon EC2
16 26 (2.69%) Entra ID
17 25 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.73%) DNS
2 35 (3.63%) Firewall
3 21 (2.18%) VPN
4 16 (1.66%) WAN
5 13 (1.35%) 5G
5 13 (1.35%) MQTT
6 12 (1.24%) SD-WAN
7 10 (1.04%) DHCP
8 5 (0.52%) Internet
8 5 (0.52%) Reverse Proxy
8 5 (0.52%) SMS
9 3 (0.31%) LAN
9 3 (0.31%) TCP/IP
10 2 (0.21%) Wireshark
11 1 (0.10%) Network Security
11 1 (0.10%) SSL
11 1 (0.10%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (0.10%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.53%) MySQL
2 88 (9.12%) NoSQL
3 71 (7.36%) SQL Server
4 62 (6.42%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (5.91%) Elasticsearch
6 49 (5.08%) Apache Cassandra
7 43 (4.46%) Azure SQL Database
8 41 (4.25%) MongoDB
9 36 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
10 35 (3.63%) Redis
11 31 (3.21%) Power BI
12 28 (2.90%) DynamoDB
13 26 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
14 24 (2.49%) Relational Database
15 23 (2.38%) Big Data
16 22 (2.28%) Data Lake
17 15 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
18 14 (1.45%) BigQuery
19 12 (1.24%) GIS
19 12 (1.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 237 (24.56%) Git
2 155 (16.06%) Jenkins
3 115 (11.92%) GitLab
4 98 (10.16%) JIRA
5 78 (8.08%) CircleCI
6 50 (5.18%) JUnit
7 45 (4.66%) Jasmine
7 45 (4.66%) Mockito
8 31 (3.21%) Visual Studio
8 31 (3.21%) Visual Studio Code
9 23 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
10 21 (2.18%) Bitbucket
10 21 (2.18%) SonarQube
11 14 (1.45%) Snyk
12 13 (1.35%) Artifactory
12 13 (1.35%) LabVIEW
13 12 (1.24%) Cypress.io
14 9 (0.93%) JMeter
14 9 (0.93%) TeamCity
14 9 (0.93%) Trac
General
1 243 (25.18%) Social Skills
2 209 (21.66%) Finance
3 94 (9.74%) Public Sector
4 80 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 78 (8.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 59 (6.11%) Law
7 53 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (5.18%) Banking
8 50 (5.18%) Legal
8 50 (5.18%) Marketing
9 37 (3.83%) Retail
10 35 (3.63%) Multimedia
11 33 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.49%) Automotive
13 16 (1.66%) Electronics
13 16 (1.66%) Retail Banking
13 16 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 14 (1.45%) Manufacturing
15 11 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 371 (38.45%) Developer
2 187 (19.38%) Senior
3 142 (14.72%) Software Engineer
4 115 (11.92%) DevOps Engineer
5 113 (11.71%) Lead
6 66 (6.84%) Senior Developer
7 62 (6.42%) Azure Engineer
7 62 (6.42%) Software Developer
8 60 (6.22%) Full Stack Developer
9 49 (5.08%) Data Engineer
10 43 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
11 41 (4.25%) .NET Developer
12 37 (3.83%) AWS Engineer
12 37 (3.83%) Web Developer
13 36 (3.73%) Senior DevOps
13 36 (3.73%) Senior DevOps Engineer
14 35 (3.63%) Trainee Developer
15 33 (3.42%) C# Developer
15 33 (3.42%) Java Engineer
16 32 (3.32%) Lead DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (20.21%) React
2 173 (17.93%) HTML
3 165 (17.10%) CSS
4 143 (14.82%) .NET
5 127 (13.16%) AngularJS
6 101 (10.47%) HTML5
7 95 (9.84%) GraphQL
8 87 (9.02%) Node.js
8 87 (9.02%) REST
9 80 (8.29%) RESTful
10 74 (7.67%) Spring
11 65 (6.74%) Kafka
12 64 (6.63%) .NET Core
13 55 (5.70%) CSS3
13 55 (5.70%) Web Services
14 49 (5.08%) J2EE
15 48 (4.97%) Hibernate
15 48 (4.97%) Laravel
16 45 (4.66%) Spring Integration
17 39 (4.04%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.12%) Public Cloud
2 69 (7.15%) Distributed Systems
3 63 (6.53%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.66%) IoT
5 39 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (3.63%) Mobile App
7 27 (2.80%) Management Information System
8 25 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 21 (2.18%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.66%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (1.45%) Private Cloud
12 11 (1.14%) Client/Server
12 11 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (1.04%) Algorithms
13 10 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
14 8 (0.83%) Blog
14 8 (0.83%) Cloud Security Posture
14 8 (0.83%) Security Posture
15 7 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 105 (10.88%) Linux
2 64 (6.63%) Windows
3 31 (3.21%) Windows Server
4 28 (2.90%) Android
5 26 (2.69%) Apple iOS
6 16 (1.66%) Unix
7 4 (0.41%) VMS
8 3 (0.31%) Alpine Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Debian
8 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.10%) FreeRTOS
10 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.10%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 400 (41.45%) CI/CD
2 363 (37.62%) DevOps
3 338 (35.03%) Agile
4 254 (26.32%) Software Engineering
5 213 (22.07%) Full Stack Development
6 210 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
7 194 (20.10%) Infrastructure as Code
8 174 (18.03%) Containerisation
9 161 (16.68%) Microservices
10 142 (14.72%) Test Automation
11 133 (13.78%) Computer Science
12 124 (12.85%) Mentoring
13 113 (11.71%) Machine Learning
14 106 (10.98%) Artificial Intelligence
15 100 (10.36%) Deployment Automation
16 99 (10.26%) SDLC
17 87 (9.02%) Unit Testing
18 81 (8.39%) Decision-Making
19 80 (8.29%) Continuous Integration
20 72 (7.46%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 308 (31.92%) Python
2 266 (27.56%) SQL
3 254 (26.32%) JavaScript
4 168 (17.41%) Java
5 124 (12.85%) C#
6 110 (11.40%) TypeScript
7 92 (9.53%) PowerShell
8 83 (8.60%) PHP
9 71 (7.36%) Bash
10 46 (4.77%) Go
11 28 (2.90%) Scala
12 24 (2.49%) MATLAB
13 22 (2.28%) C
13 22 (2.28%) T-SQL
14 20 (2.07%) Kotlin
14 20 (2.07%) R
15 16 (1.66%) Apex Code
15 16 (1.66%) Ruby
16 15 (1.55%) C++
17 13 (1.35%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 171 (17.72%) Degree
2 93 (9.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 59 (6.11%) Security Cleared
4 54 (5.60%) Master's Degree
5 37 (3.83%) SC Cleared
6 27 (2.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (1.45%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
9 12 (1.24%) HND
10 11 (1.14%) Azure Certification
11 7 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 5 (0.52%) PhD
13 4 (0.41%) ISEB
13 4 (0.41%) ISEB Practitioner
13 4 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.31%) DV Cleared
15 1 (0.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 1 (0.10%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.63%) QA
2 26 (2.69%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.97%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.97%) NCSC
4 7 (0.73%) GDPR
5 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (0.52%) NIST
7 4 (0.41%) MISRA
7 4 (0.41%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.41%) SLA
8 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.21%) WCAG
10 1 (0.10%) IEC 62304
System Software
1 322 (33.37%) Docker
2 26 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
3 25 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.04%) Firmware
4 10 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.93%) NFS
5 9 (0.93%) pfSense
6 8 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.21%) HDFS
8 2 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.21%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.10%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 283 (29.33%) Kubernetes
2 275 (28.50%) Terraform
3 92 (9.53%) Ansible
4 34 (3.52%) Grafana
5 19 (1.97%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.66%) Istio
7 15 (1.55%) Argo
8 11 (1.14%) ZABBIX
9 10 (1.04%) Progress Chef
10 9 (0.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 9 (0.93%) SCDPM
11 8 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 8 (0.83%) Kibana
11 8 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
12 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
13 5 (0.52%) Foglight
13 5 (0.52%) Nagios
13 5 (0.52%) Puppet
14 4 (0.41%) HP Quality Center
15 3 (0.31%) Galera Cluster
Vendors
1 130 (13.47%) Microsoft
2 74 (7.67%) Oracle
3 68 (7.05%) Google
4 32 (3.32%) Databricks
5 18 (1.87%) VMware
6 17 (1.76%) Splunk
7 16 (1.66%) ForgeRock
7 16 (1.66%) Salesforce
7 16 (1.66%) Sitecore
8 14 (1.45%) Atlassian
9 10 (1.04%) HP
10 9 (0.93%) Fortinet
10 9 (0.93%) Juniper
10 9 (0.93%) McAfee
10 9 (0.93%) Veeam
11 8 (0.83%) Dynatrace
11 8 (0.83%) SAP
12 7 (0.73%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.73%) WooCommerce
13 6 (0.62%) Apttus