Tech for Good Job Trends

Tech for Good (Tech4Good)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tech for Good in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Tech for Good over the 6 months leading up to 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 492 444 490
Rank change year-on-year -48 +46 +160
Permanent jobs citing Tech for Good 201 208 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.27% 0.48% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.50% 0.68% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 188 191 363
10th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £41,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +8.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +13.64% -4.35%

All General Skills
UK

Tech for Good falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring general skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for general skills 40,157 30,378 51,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 53.81% 70.45% 61.16%
Number of salaries quoted 21,991 15,661 37,500
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,488
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +12.15% -10.83%
75th Percentile £75,000 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% -9.52%

Tech for Good
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Tech for Good relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Tech for Good job vacancy trend in the UK

Tech for Good
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tech for Good.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tech for Good

Tech for Good
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Tech for Good over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tech for Good within the UK over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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 -45 157 £70,000 +3.70% 27
UK excluding London -49 119 £70,000 +12.00% 20
Work from Home -33 69 £69,750 +3.33% 16
London +2 47 £76,000 - 7
North of England -35 33 £70,000 +16.67% 7
South West -47 27 £62,500 +4.17% 5
South East 0 26 £62,500 +13.64% 6
Yorkshire -35 17 £70,000 -6.67% 2
North West -17 16 £70,000 +16.67% 4
Scotland -21 12 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England -4 9 £67,500 -3.57%
West Midlands -12 5 £70,000 -24.32% 2
Midlands -29 5 £70,000 -24.32% 2
Northern Ireland -30 4 £70,000 -26.32%
Wales -16 3 £70,000 +16.67%

Tech for Good
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 13 (6.47%) WordPress
2 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.49%) Apache
5 2 (1.00%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.50%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (31.34%) Power Platform
2 57 (28.36%) Dynamics 365
3 56 (27.86%) AWS
4 23 (11.44%) SaaS
5 16 (7.96%) Amazon S3
5 16 (7.96%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (7.96%) Serverless
6 14 (6.97%) Amazon SQS
6 14 (6.97%) Azure
7 9 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.99%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.99%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.99%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.49%) GitHub
11 1 (0.50%) Amazon SageMaker
11 1 (0.50%) Figma
11 1 (0.50%) GCP
11 1 (0.50%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.50%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.49%) Internet
2 1 (0.50%) SMS
2 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.99%) Power BI
2 4 (1.99%) MySQL
3 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.00%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.00%) Tableau
5 1 (0.50%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.49%) JIRA
2 1 (0.50%) Appium
2 1 (0.50%) Git
2 1 (0.50%) GitLab
2 1 (0.50%) JMeter
2 1 (0.50%) LoadRunner
2 1 (0.50%) Postman
General
1 33 (16.42%) Social Skills
2 28 (13.93%) Health Technology
3 16 (7.96%) Organisational Skills
4 15 (7.46%) Publishing
5 14 (6.97%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.49%) Social Housing
8 4 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.00%) Finance
9 2 (1.00%) Marketing
10 1 (0.50%) Games
10 1 (0.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.50%) Local Government
10 1 (0.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 61 (30.35%) Developer
2 54 (26.87%) Application Development Manager
2 54 (26.87%) Applications Development Manager
2 54 (26.87%) Applications Manager
2 54 (26.87%) Development Manager
3 34 (16.92%) Lead
4 32 (15.92%) Lead Developer
4 32 (15.92%) Software Engineer
5 22 (10.95%) Senior
6 20 (9.95%) Python Developer
7 15 (7.46%) AWS Developer
7 15 (7.46%) Lead Python Developer
7 15 (7.46%) React Developer
8 13 (6.47%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 13 (6.47%) WordPress Developer
9 12 (5.97%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (4.48%) Software Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.98%) Lead Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.96%) React
2 14 (6.97%) RESTful
3 13 (6.47%) .NET
4 11 (5.47%) Laravel
5 10 (4.98%) Node.js
5 10 (4.98%) Spring Boot
6 9 (4.48%) Spring
7 8 (3.98%) React Native
8 4 (1.99%) Django
8 4 (1.99%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (1.00%) AngularJS
9 2 (1.00%) FastAPI
9 2 (1.00%) Flask
9 2 (1.00%) Nuxt
9 2 (1.00%) Vue
10 1 (0.50%) CSS
10 1 (0.50%) NestJS
10 1 (0.50%) Next.js
10 1 (0.50%) REST
10 1 (0.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.46%) IoT
2 11 (5.47%) Mobile App
3 6 (2.99%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.99%) NHS
4 5 (2.49%) Smart Home
5 3 (1.49%) Robotics
6 2 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.50%) Blog
7 1 (0.50%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.50%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.50%) PropTech
7 1 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.97%) Apple iOS
2 11 (5.47%) Android
3 3 (1.49%) Linux
4 1 (0.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (20.90%) Software Engineering
2 33 (16.42%) Agile
2 33 (16.42%) Mentoring
3 32 (15.92%) CI/CD
3 32 (15.92%) Full-Stack Development
4 26 (12.94%) TDD
5 23 (11.44%) DevOps
6 21 (10.45%) Coaching
7 19 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (9.45%) User Stories
8 18 (8.96%) Scrum
9 16 (7.96%) Pair Programming
9 16 (7.96%) Process Improvement
10 15 (7.46%) Code Quality
11 14 (6.97%) Acceptance Criteria
11 14 (6.97%) Continuous Integration
11 14 (6.97%) Extreme Programming
11 14 (6.97%) Operational Stability
11 14 (6.97%) Time Management
12 10 (4.98%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 33 (16.42%) Python
2 17 (8.46%) Java
3 13 (6.47%) PHP
4 12 (5.97%) TypeScript
5 8 (3.98%) SQL
6 6 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.99%) Ruby
8 3 (1.49%) C#
8 3 (1.49%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (4.98%) Degree
2 1 (0.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.95%) QA
2 7 (3.48%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (4.48%) Docker
2 4 (1.99%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (4.98%) Terraform
2 6 (2.99%) Ansible
3 4 (1.99%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (4.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.50%) Facebook
3 1 (0.50%) Instagram