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 1 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 445 501
Rank change year-on-year -23 +56 +140
Permanent jobs citing Tech for Good 191 274 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.30% 0.53% 0.45%
As % of the General category 0.52% 0.79% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 180 230 309
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £64,750 £56,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +12.50% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £101,250 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -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 36,465 34,897 43,764
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 57.14% 67.28% 61.64%
Number of salaries quoted 19,676 15,625 32,636
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,856
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -11.41%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,100 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year -14.29% +10.39% -9.42%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -27 146 £70,000 +3.70% 34
UK excluding London -43 103 £70,000 +7.69% 20
Work from Home -25 69 £70,000 +3.70% 23
London +22 53 £76,000 - 15
North of England -3 33 £70,000 +16.67%
South East +35 21 £70,000 +12.00% 7
Yorkshire -8 18 £70,000 +33.33%
South West -23 17 £70,000 +21.74% 4
North West +20 15 £70,000 +16.67%
Scotland -14 12 £65,000 -7.14%
East of England +4 8 £70,000 - 6
West Midlands +25 5 £70,000 -24.32%
Midlands +8 5 £70,000 -24.32% 3
Northern Ireland -19 4 £70,000 -15.15%
Wales +4 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 (6.81%) WordPress
2 6 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.09%) Apache
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.57%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 63 (32.98%) AWS
1 63 (32.98%) Power Platform
2 57 (29.84%) Dynamics 365
3 23 (12.04%) AWS Lambda
3 23 (12.04%) Serverless
4 19 (9.95%) SaaS
5 17 (8.90%) Amazon S3
5 17 (8.90%) Azure
6 14 (7.33%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (3.14%) GitHub
8 6 (3.14%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (2.62%) GCP
10 4 (2.09%) Entra ID
10 4 (2.09%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.09%) PowerApps
11 2 (1.05%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.52%) Amazon SageMaker
12 1 (0.52%) Figma
12 1 (0.52%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.05%) Internet
2 1 (0.52%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.14%) DynamoDB
1 6 (3.14%) Elasticsearch
1 6 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.14%) Power BI
2 4 (2.09%) MySQL
3 3 (1.57%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.57%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.57%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.52%) InfluxDB
4 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (2.62%) JIRA
2 4 (2.09%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) GitLab
3 1 (0.52%) JMeter
3 1 (0.52%) LoadRunner
General
1 35 (18.32%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.80%) Health Technology
3 22 (11.52%) Publishing
4 16 (8.38%) Influencing Skills
5 15 (7.85%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (4.71%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.09%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.52%) Finance
8 1 (0.52%) Local Government
8 1 (0.52%) Marketing
8 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (29.84%) Developer
2 54 (28.27%) Application Development Manager
2 54 (28.27%) Applications Development Manager
2 54 (28.27%) Applications Manager
2 54 (28.27%) Development Manager
3 35 (18.32%) Lead
4 31 (16.23%) Lead Developer
4 31 (16.23%) Software Engineer
5 27 (14.14%) Senior
6 21 (10.99%) Python Developer
6 21 (10.99%) React Developer
7 18 (9.42%) AWS Developer
8 15 (7.85%) Lead Python Developer
9 13 (6.81%) WordPress Developer
10 11 (5.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 11 (5.76%) Software Developer
11 9 (4.71%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 9 (4.71%) Senior Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Java Developer
12 8 (4.19%) Lead Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (12.57%) React
2 21 (10.99%) RESTful
3 12 (6.28%) Node.js
4 11 (5.76%) Spring Boot
5 10 (5.24%) .NET
6 9 (4.71%) Spring
7 8 (4.19%) React Native
8 6 (3.14%) Laravel
8 6 (3.14%) Swagger
9 4 (2.09%) Ruby on Rails
10 3 (1.57%) Django
10 3 (1.57%) Kafka
11 2 (1.05%) CSS
11 2 (1.05%) FastAPI
11 2 (1.05%) Flask
11 2 (1.05%) HTML
11 2 (1.05%) Nuxt
11 2 (1.05%) Vue
12 1 (0.52%) Next.js
12 1 (0.52%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) IoT
2 10 (5.24%) Mobile App
3 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.14%) NHS
4 5 (2.62%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.09%) Smart Home
6 3 (1.57%) Robotics
7 2 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.52%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.52%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.76%) Android
1 11 (5.76%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.05%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (22.51%) Agile
2 41 (21.47%) Software Engineering
3 36 (18.85%) Mentoring
4 34 (17.80%) TDD
5 33 (17.28%) CI/CD
6 28 (14.66%) Scrum
7 26 (13.61%) Full-Stack Development
8 22 (11.52%) Coaching
8 22 (11.52%) Pair Programming
9 20 (10.47%) DevOps
9 20 (10.47%) Operational Stability
9 20 (10.47%) User Stories
10 17 (8.90%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (8.38%) Process Improvement
12 14 (7.33%) Acceptance Criteria
12 14 (7.33%) Code Quality
12 14 (7.33%) Extreme Programming
12 14 (7.33%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (7.33%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (16.23%) Python
2 20 (10.47%) TypeScript
3 17 (8.90%) Java
4 9 (4.71%) SQL
5 8 (4.19%) PHP
6 6 (3.14%) JavaScript
7 4 (2.09%) Ruby
8 3 (1.57%) C++
9 2 (1.05%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (5.24%) Degree
2 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (13.09%) QA
2 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (3.66%) Docker
2 4 (2.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (5.24%) Terraform
2 6 (3.14%) Ansible
3 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (5.76%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.05%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.52%) Databricks
3 1 (0.52%) Facebook
3 1 (0.52%) Instagram