GitHub
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 245 185 100
Rank change year-on-year -60 -85 +128
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,149 2,134 5,205
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.18% 2.02% 3.38%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.26% 4.69% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 886 1,178 1,553
10th Percentile £42,393 £44,033 £38,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +4.65% +3.20%
75th Percentile £82,548 £88,633 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £107,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £59,191 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.37% +7.62% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,226 45,481 73,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.05% 43.03% 48.06%
Number of salaries quoted 26,766 29,721 42,057
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £99,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -67 968 £65,000 -6.40% 457
UK excluding London -97 690 £60,000 +1.37% 285
Work from Home -18 549 £65,000 -6.40% 162
London -35 377 £85,000 +9.68% 202
North of England -82 191 £65,000 +13.04% 92
South East -73 148 £52,500 -25.00% 48
North West -12 125 £60,000 +0.80% 51
Midlands +9 105 £61,500 +6.96% 43
Scotland -77 91 £75,000 +25.50% 24
South West +18 85 £53,500 -10.83% 37
West Midlands +12 81 £62,000 +7.83% 26
Yorkshire -59 51 £68,000 +14.24% 32
East of England +7 46 £50,000 -13.04% 26
Wales -7 23 £62,500 +22.30% 13
East Midlands -9 23 £55,000 -2.22% 17
North East -10 15 £71,500 +24.35% 11
Northern Ireland -21 1 £47,500 -17.39% 7

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 71 (6.18%) FileNet
2 60 (5.22%) Confluence
3 45 (3.92%) Apache
4 43 (3.74%) Apache Spark
5 30 (2.61%) CMS
6 28 (2.44%) Captiva
6 28 (2.44%) WebSphere
7 23 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
8 22 (1.91%) nginx
9 20 (1.74%) Drupal
10 16 (1.39%) WordPress
11 13 (1.13%) SharePoint
12 10 (0.87%) IIS
13 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
14 6 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 6 (0.52%) OpenStack
14 6 (0.52%) Tomcat
15 5 (0.44%) Umbraco
16 3 (0.26%) Cloud Foundry
17 2 (0.17%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 48 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.70%) Trello
4 7 (0.61%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.17%) Notion
7 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.087%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.17%) Magento
4 2 (0.17%) Shopify
5 1 (0.087%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.087%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.087%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.087%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.087%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 475 (41.34%) AWS
2 467 (40.64%) Azure
3 250 (21.76%) GitHub Actions
4 229 (19.93%) GCP
5 164 (14.27%) Azure DevOps
6 136 (11.84%) Serverless
7 122 (10.62%) AWS Lambda
8 104 (9.05%) Amazon S3
9 82 (7.14%) SaaS
10 67 (5.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 59 (5.13%) Power Platform
12 52 (4.53%) PaaS
13 48 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
14 44 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
15 39 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
16 37 (3.22%) Azure AKS
17 36 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
18 32 (2.79%) IaaS
19 25 (2.18%) Cloud Computing
20 24 (2.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.18%) Firewall
2 40 (3.48%) DNS
3 21 (1.83%) VPN
4 15 (1.31%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.13%) Internet
6 11 (0.96%) DHCP
6 11 (0.96%) RS-232
6 11 (0.96%) WAN
7 10 (0.87%) 5G
8 8 (0.70%) Reverse Proxy
9 7 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.52%) MQTT
10 6 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.44%) Bluetooth
11 5 (0.44%) RS-485
11 5 (0.44%) Wireless
11 5 (0.44%) ZigBee
12 3 (0.26%) Network Security
12 3 (0.26%) SMS
12 3 (0.26%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 125 (10.88%) MySQL
2 107 (9.31%) SQL Server
3 105 (9.14%) NoSQL
4 93 (8.09%) PostgreSQL
5 57 (4.96%) Elasticsearch
6 50 (4.35%) Power BI
7 49 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
8 47 (4.09%) Apache Cassandra
9 46 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
10 43 (3.74%) Redis
11 40 (3.48%) Big Data
12 38 (3.31%) Relational Database
13 34 (2.96%) DynamoDB
14 33 (2.87%) BigQuery
14 33 (2.87%) Data Lake
15 30 (2.61%) Tableau
16 26 (2.26%) Amazon Aurora
16 26 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
17 25 (2.18%) MongoDB
18 23 (2.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 315 (27.42%) Git
2 268 (23.32%) Jenkins
3 203 (17.67%) JIRA
4 142 (12.36%) GitLab
5 64 (5.57%) Bitbucket
6 54 (4.70%) CircleCI
7 49 (4.26%) JUnit
8 47 (4.09%) Jasmine
8 47 (4.09%) Visual Studio
9 43 (3.74%) Mockito
10 37 (3.22%) Visual Studio Code
11 30 (2.61%) Oracle Forms
12 29 (2.52%) Selenium
13 27 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
14 24 (2.09%) Maven
14 24 (2.09%) SonarQube
15 21 (1.83%) PHPUnit
15 21 (1.83%) Spinnaker
16 20 (1.74%) Artifactory
17 19 (1.65%) JMeter
General
1 340 (29.59%) Finance
2 244 (21.24%) Social Skills
3 146 (12.71%) Banking
4 91 (7.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 86 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
6 66 (5.74%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.31%) Marketing
7 61 (5.31%) Retail
8 58 (5.05%) Law
9 44 (3.83%) Legal
10 28 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.35%) Electronics
12 25 (2.18%) Automotive
12 25 (2.18%) Games
13 24 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 22 (1.91%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.83%) Retail Banking
16 19 (1.65%) Investment Banking
17 17 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
18 12 (1.04%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 433 (37.68%) Developer
2 227 (19.76%) Senior
3 169 (14.71%) Software Engineer
4 142 (12.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 122 (10.62%) Lead
6 89 (7.75%) Senior Developer
7 80 (6.96%) Cloud Engineer
8 76 (6.61%) AWS Engineer
9 73 (6.35%) Full Stack Developer
10 70 (6.09%) Software Developer
11 61 (5.31%) .NET Developer
12 53 (4.61%) Data Engineer
13 48 (4.18%) C# Developer
14 47 (4.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 45 (3.92%) AWS DevOps
16 42 (3.66%) Azure Engineer
17 39 (3.39%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 37 (3.22%) Platform Engineer
18 37 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
18 37 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (18.02%) React
2 192 (16.71%) .NET
3 153 (13.32%) HTML
4 146 (12.71%) CSS
5 128 (11.14%) AngularJS
6 109 (9.49%) Node.js
7 107 (9.31%) Kafka
8 99 (8.62%) RESTful
9 86 (7.48%) HTML5
10 84 (7.31%) REST
11 82 (7.14%) GraphQL
12 80 (6.96%) Spring
13 64 (5.57%) Vue
14 60 (5.22%) .NET Core
15 54 (4.70%) Laravel
16 50 (4.35%) jQuery
17 49 (4.26%) J2EE
18 48 (4.18%) Web Services
19 46 (4.00%) Hibernate
20 43 (3.74%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.92%) Cloud Native
2 65 (5.66%) Public Cloud
3 54 (4.70%) Product Ownership
4 46 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 44 (3.83%) IoT
6 41 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
7 37 (3.22%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.44%) DataPower
9 28 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 26 (2.26%) Management Information System
10 26 (2.26%) Onboarding
11 23 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.83%) Client/Server
12 21 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.74%) Renewable Energy
14 19 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
15 17 (1.48%) Algorithms
16 14 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (1.13%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 199 (17.32%) Linux
2 112 (9.75%) Windows
3 54 (4.70%) Windows Server
4 45 (3.92%) Unix
5 33 (2.87%) Apple iOS
6 24 (2.09%) Android
7 19 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (0.78%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.52%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.52%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.35%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.087%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (42.38%) Agile
2 465 (40.47%) DevOps
3 433 (37.68%) CI/CD
4 301 (26.20%) Software Engineering
5 215 (18.71%) Problem-Solving
6 214 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 174 (15.14%) Full Stack Development
8 160 (13.93%) Computer Science
9 159 (13.84%) Microservices
10 145 (12.62%) Containerisation
11 143 (12.45%) Machine Learning
12 140 (12.18%) Test Automation
13 131 (11.40%) SDLC
14 119 (10.36%) Unit Testing
15 107 (9.31%) Continuous Integration
16 105 (9.14%) Artificial Intelligence
17 104 (9.05%) Mentoring
18 96 (8.36%) Scrum
19 92 (8.01%) Analytics
20 77 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 364 (31.68%) Python
2 314 (27.33%) JavaScript
3 313 (27.24%) SQL
4 252 (21.93%) Java
5 179 (15.58%) C#
6 142 (12.36%) TypeScript
7 109 (9.49%) PowerShell
8 98 (8.53%) Bash
9 91 (7.92%) PHP
10 75 (6.53%) Go
11 56 (4.87%) Ruby
12 43 (3.74%) C
13 23 (2.00%) MATLAB
14 22 (1.91%) C++
15 21 (1.83%) Apex Code
15 21 (1.83%) Perl
15 21 (1.83%) T-SQL
16 17 (1.48%) Scala
17 16 (1.39%) Korn
17 16 (1.39%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 194 (16.88%) Degree
2 98 (8.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (6.70%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.79%) Master's Degree
5 51 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 32 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.04%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.70%) HND
10 7 (0.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.61%) PhD
11 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.35%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 2 (0.17%) ISEB
13 2 (0.17%) ISEB Practitioner
13 2 (0.17%) ISTQB
14 1 (0.087%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.087%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.74%) GDPR
1 43 (3.74%) QA
2 19 (1.65%) Data Quality
3 18 (1.57%) Accessibility
4 12 (1.04%) NCSC
5 11 (0.96%) MISRA
6 9 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.52%) MISRA C
7 6 (0.52%) PMO
8 4 (0.35%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.17%) NIST
9 2 (0.17%) SLA
10 1 (0.087%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.087%) WCAG
System Software
1 345 (30.03%) Docker
2 45 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.31%) Firmware
5 11 (0.96%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.96%) NFS
6 10 (0.87%) pfSense
7 8 (0.70%) HDFS
8 6 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.52%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.087%) ACF2
11 1 (0.087%) IAG
11 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.087%) RACF
11 1 (0.087%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.087%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.087%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 316 (27.50%) Kubernetes
2 313 (27.24%) Terraform
3 125 (10.88%) Ansible
4 44 (3.83%) Grafana
5 35 (3.05%) Puppet
6 33 (2.87%) Progress Chef
7 16 (1.39%) Packer
8 15 (1.31%) Istio
8 15 (1.31%) Prometheus
9 14 (1.22%) Red Hat Satellite
9 14 (1.22%) ZABBIX
10 13 (1.13%) Argo
11 10 (0.87%) Kibana
11 10 (0.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.87%) SCDPM
12 9 (0.78%) Nagios
13 8 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.61%) Foglight
14 7 (0.61%) Microsoft Clustering
14 7 (0.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 154 (13.40%) Microsoft
2 108 (9.40%) Oracle
3 92 (8.01%) Google
4 41 (3.57%) SAP
5 40 (3.48%) ServiceNow
6 39 (3.39%) IBM
7 29 (2.52%) Databricks
8 28 (2.44%) Kofax
8 28 (2.44%) Pega
8 28 (2.44%) Splunk
9 24 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 19 (1.65%) Atlassian
10 19 (1.65%) McAfee
10 19 (1.65%) VMware
11 18 (1.57%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.31%) Dynatrace
13 14 (1.22%) ForgeRock
13 14 (1.22%) Sitecore
13 14 (1.22%) Sun
13 14 (1.22%) TOWER Software