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 4 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 692 580 467
Rank change year-on-year -112 -113 -28
Permanent jobs citing Tech for Good 120 90 339
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.18% 0.46%
As % of the General category 0.22% 0.26% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 108 83 284
10th Percentile £49,975 £45,000 £37,688
25th Percentile £60,000 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £64,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £69,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,000 £98,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +2.08% -4.00% +4.17%

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 54,641 34,039 42,777
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.23% 68.43% 57.66%
Number of salaries quoted 33,355 17,632 21,316
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,178 £34,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £78,500
90th Percentile £96,000 £96,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £43,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.94% -13.00% -1.38%

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 4 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Top 13 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 4 October 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 -108 97 £70,000 +9.38% 64
UK excluding London -116 61 £61,250 +2.08% 37
Work from Home -53 51 £69,000 +7.81% 38
London -54 40 £90,000 +40.63% 31
East of England -19 18 £75,000 +25.00% 6
North of England -56 16 £52,500 -12.50% 20
South West -72 11 £60,000 -2.04% 2
North East - 10 £52,500 -
Yorkshire -43 6 £55,000 -8.33% 3
Midlands - 6 £43,250 -
West Midlands - 6 £43,250 -
Scotland -1 5 £55,500 -9.39% 5
South East -52 5 £63,750 -8.93% 4

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 1 (0.83%) Apache
1 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Trello
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 48 (40.00%) AWS
2 17 (14.17%) SaaS
3 11 (9.17%) Azure
4 7 (5.83%) Power Platform
5 6 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 6 (5.00%) Serverless
6 4 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.33%) GitHub
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon Bedrock
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (1.67%) Figma
7 2 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (1.67%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.67%) LangSmith
8 1 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.83%) BlazeMeter
8 1 (0.83%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.83%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.00%) AMQP
1 12 (10.00%) SMS
2 2 (1.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.00%) DynamoDB
2 6 (5.00%) MySQL
3 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.67%) Big Data
4 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.67%) GIS
4 2 (1.67%) Redis
5 1 (0.83%) Airbyte
5 1 (0.83%) Metadata
5 1 (0.83%) Power BI
5 1 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.83%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (1.67%) Claude Code
2 2 (1.67%) JIRA
2 2 (1.67%) RSpec
3 1 (0.83%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.83%) JMeter
3 1 (0.83%) Selenium
3 1 (0.83%) SonarQube
General
1 37 (30.83%) Health Technology
2 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.17%) Social Housing
4 4 (3.33%) Publishing
5 3 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.67%) Finance
6 2 (1.67%) Local Government
6 2 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Banking
7 1 (0.83%) Legal
7 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.83%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 41 (34.17%) Developer
2 36 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 30 (25.00%) Senior
4 22 (18.33%) Senior Developer
5 16 (13.33%) Java Developer
6 15 (12.50%) Python Developer
7 14 (11.67%) C++ Software Engineer
7 14 (11.67%) Robotics Software Engineer
8 12 (10.00%) Java Engineer
8 12 (10.00%) Senior Java Developer
9 11 (9.17%) Java Software Engineer
10 10 (8.33%) AWS Developer
10 10 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 10 (8.33%) React Developer
10 10 (8.33%) Senior Python Developer
10 10 (8.33%) Senior React Developer
11 7 (5.83%) Angular Developer
12 6 (5.00%) Applications Development Manager
12 6 (5.00%) Applications Manager
12 6 (5.00%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (14.17%) Spring Boot
2 16 (13.33%) Spring
3 13 (10.83%) AngularJS
4 12 (10.00%) JPA
4 12 (10.00%) OAuth
4 12 (10.00%) OAuth2
4 12 (10.00%) OpenID
4 12 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
4 12 (10.00%) React
4 12 (10.00%) Spring Security
4 12 (10.00%) Terraform
4 12 (10.00%) Thymeleaf
5 8 (6.67%) .NET
6 7 (5.83%) CSS
6 7 (5.83%) HTML
7 6 (5.00%) Next.js
8 4 (3.33%) Flask
8 4 (3.33%) Node.js
8 4 (3.33%) REST
8 4 (3.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.67%) Robotics
2 10 (8.33%) NHS
3 8 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 6 (5.00%) Educational Technology
5 5 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (4.17%) IoT
5 5 (4.17%) Smart Home
6 4 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.83%) Clustering
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.33%) Linux
2 4 (3.33%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (37.50%) Software Engineering
2 27 (22.50%) Full-Stack Development
3 18 (15.00%) AI
4 15 (12.50%) Agile
4 15 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 13 (10.83%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (10.00%) Architectural Design
6 12 (10.00%) Clean Code
6 12 (10.00%) MVC
7 11 (9.17%) Decision-Making
8 8 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 8 (6.67%) Roadmaps
9 7 (5.83%) Analytics
9 7 (5.83%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (5.83%) Workflow
10 6 (5.00%) DevOps
10 6 (5.00%) Microservices
10 6 (5.00%) Pair Programming
10 6 (5.00%) TDD
10 6 (5.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.83%) Java
2 25 (20.83%) Python
3 22 (18.33%) JavaScript
4 18 (15.00%) C++
5 17 (14.17%) SQL
5 17 (14.17%) TypeScript
6 8 (6.67%) Kotlin
7 7 (5.83%) Ruby
8 3 (2.50%) C#
8 3 (2.50%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.83%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.17%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.67%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (1.67%) WCAG
4 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (15.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (11.67%) Ansible
2 2 (1.67%) Bugsnag
2 2 (1.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.67%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (1.67%) Google
1 2 (1.67%) New Relic
2 1 (0.83%) Dataiku
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.83%) Salesforce