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 5 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 686 560 484
Rank change year-on-year -126 -76 -30
Permanent jobs citing Tech for Good 107 112 324
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.096% 0.23% 0.41%
As % of the General category 0.21% 0.33% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 95 105 288
10th Percentile £48,750 £46,000 £38,375
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £69,000 £64,000 £66,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.81% -3.03% +1.54%
75th Percentile £81,250 £68,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £77,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

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 50,922 33,643 44,635
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 45.83% 68.21% 56.59%
Number of salaries quoted 31,354 17,605 24,492
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £76,013
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.69%

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 5 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Top 14 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 5 September 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 -121 90 £69,000 +7.81% 33
UK excluding London -105 57 £55,000 -8.33% 16
Work from Home -71 44 £67,000 +4.69% 22
London -57 34 £90,000 +40.63% 22
North of England -55 17 £52,500 -12.50% 3
East of England -28 13 £75,000 +25.00% 2
South West -82 13 £58,750 -2.08% 5
North East - 10 £52,500 - 1
West Midlands -32 7 £50,000 -4.76% 1
Midlands -38 7 £50,000 -18.37% 1
Yorkshire -48 6 £55,000 -8.33% 1
South East -42 5 £60,000 -14.29% 3
Scotland -1 2 £51,000 -18.40% 3
North West -13 1 £45,000 -18.18% 1

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 (0.93%) Apache
1 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Trello
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.58%) AWS
2 13 (12.15%) SaaS
3 11 (10.28%) Azure
4 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (5.61%) Serverless
7 4 (3.74%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (3.74%) GitHub
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.87%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.87%) GitHub Copilot
9 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.93%) dbt
9 1 (0.93%) Figma
9 1 (0.93%) Google Gemini
9 1 (0.93%) LangSmith
9 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) AMQP
1 9 (8.41%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.89%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.61%) DynamoDB
2 6 (5.61%) MySQL
3 4 (3.74%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.87%) Big Data
4 2 (1.87%) BigQuery
4 2 (1.87%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.87%) GIS
4 2 (1.87%) Redis
4 2 (1.87%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) Airbyte
5 1 (0.93%) Power BI
5 1 (0.93%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (8.41%) Git
2 2 (1.87%) Claude Code
2 2 (1.87%) JIRA
2 2 (1.87%) RSpec
3 1 (0.93%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.93%) JMeter
3 1 (0.93%) Selenium
3 1 (0.93%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (28.04%) Health Technology
1 30 (28.04%) Social Skills
2 5 (4.67%) Social Housing
3 4 (3.74%) Publishing
4 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (1.87%) Local Government
5 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (0.93%) Finance
6 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 38 (35.51%) Developer
2 28 (26.17%) Senior
3 24 (22.43%) Software Engineer
4 19 (17.76%) Senior Developer
5 15 (14.02%) Python Developer
6 13 (12.15%) Java Developer
7 11 (10.28%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 10 (9.35%) AWS Developer
8 10 (9.35%) Java Engineer
8 10 (9.35%) React Developer
8 10 (9.35%) Senior Python Developer
8 10 (9.35%) Senior React Developer
9 9 (8.41%) Java Software Engineer
9 9 (8.41%) Senior Java Developer
10 8 (7.48%) C++ Software Engineer
10 8 (7.48%) Robotics Software Engineer
11 6 (5.61%) Application Development Manager
11 6 (5.61%) Applications Development Manager
11 6 (5.61%) Applications Manager
11 6 (5.61%) Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.21%) Spring Boot
2 11 (10.28%) Spring
3 10 (9.35%) React
4 9 (8.41%) .NET
4 9 (8.41%) JPA
4 9 (8.41%) OAuth
4 9 (8.41%) OAuth2
4 9 (8.41%) OpenID
4 9 (8.41%) RabbitMQ
4 9 (8.41%) Spring Security
4 9 (8.41%) Terraform
4 9 (8.41%) Thymeleaf
5 8 (7.48%) AngularJS
6 6 (5.61%) CSS
6 6 (5.61%) HTML
6 6 (5.61%) Next.js
7 4 (3.74%) Flask
7 4 (3.74%) Node.js
7 4 (3.74%) RESTful
7 4 (3.74%) Ruby on Rails
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Robotics
2 6 (5.61%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (4.67%) Educational Technology
3 5 (4.67%) IoT
3 5 (4.67%) NHS
3 5 (4.67%) Smart Home
4 4 (3.74%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.74%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.87%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.93%) Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.93%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.35%) Linux
2 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
3 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.91%) Software Engineering
2 24 (22.43%) Full-Stack Development
3 15 (14.02%) AI
4 14 (13.08%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (12.15%) Agile
6 12 (11.21%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.41%) Architectural Design
7 9 (8.41%) Clean Code
7 9 (8.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.41%) Decision-Making
7 9 (8.41%) MVC
8 8 (7.48%) Mentoring
9 7 (6.54%) DevOps
10 6 (5.61%) Analytics
10 6 (5.61%) Continuous Delivery
10 6 (5.61%) Pair Programming
10 6 (5.61%) Workflow
11 5 (4.67%) Scrum
11 5 (4.67%) Software Testing
11 5 (4.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 26 (24.30%) Java
1 26 (24.30%) Python
2 15 (14.02%) TypeScript
3 13 (12.15%) C++
4 12 (11.21%) JavaScript
5 10 (9.35%) SQL
6 8 (7.48%) Kotlin
7 7 (6.54%) Ruby
8 5 (4.67%) C#
9 3 (2.80%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.87%) PHP
11 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (7.48%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.08%) QA
2 5 (4.67%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) Good Clinical Practice
3 2 (1.87%) WCAG
4 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (13.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Ansible
2 2 (1.87%) Bugsnag
2 2 (1.87%) Packer
3 1 (0.93%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (1.87%) Microsoft
1 2 (1.87%) New Relic
2 1 (0.93%) Dataiku
2 1 (0.93%) Google
2 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
2 1 (0.93%) Talend