GitHub Job Trends in the West Midlands

GitHub
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 150 155
Rank change year-on-year -5 +5 +18
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 42 30 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.87% 1.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.08% 2.60% 3.84%
Number of salaries quoted 33 24 44
10th Percentile £30,050 £44,100 £54,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £63,750 £59,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,563 £65,250
90th Percentile £73,500 £96,750 £79,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -10.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
West Midlands

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 2,020 1,153 1,772
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 23.62% 33.34% 27.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,442 926 1,397
10th Percentile £32,751 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,688 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -4.98% +7.62%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,625 £84,978
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

GitHub
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the West Midlands

GitHub
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
Birmingham -33 17 £62,500 -19.35% 17
Coventry -14 8 £60,000 - 5
Worcestershire -17 7 £55,000 +4.76% 1
Shropshire - 4 £40,750 - 3
Dudley - 4 £39,000 -
Warwickshire -9 1 £85,000 +25.93% 2
Wolverhampton - 1 £32,500 -
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (9.52%) CICS
1 4 (9.52%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 35 (83.33%) Azure
2 18 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (35.71%) AWS
4 14 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 12 (28.57%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (11.90%) Azure AI
7 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
8 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (7.14%) Azure Functions
8 3 (7.14%) IaaS
8 3 (7.14%) PaaS
8 3 (7.14%) Serverless
9 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (2.38%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (2.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (14.29%) Internet
2 2 (4.76%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) Azure SQL Database
1 10 (23.81%) MongoDB
2 5 (11.90%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (11.90%) Relational Database
3 4 (9.52%) Db2
4 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.38%) Metadata
5 1 (2.38%) Power BI
5 1 (2.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (28.57%) Git
2 11 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.76%) JIRA
5 1 (2.38%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.38%) Gradle
5 1 (2.38%) JMeter
5 1 (2.38%) JUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Maven
5 1 (2.38%) NUnit
5 1 (2.38%) Postman
5 1 (2.38%) REST Assured
5 1 (2.38%) Selenium
5 1 (2.38%) TestNG
5 1 (2.38%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.38%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (21.43%) Finance
2 6 (14.29%) Multimedia
2 6 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 6 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Advertising
3 5 (11.90%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Marketing
4 1 (2.38%) Banking
4 1 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (45.24%) Developer
2 13 (30.95%) .NET Developer
3 8 (19.05%) Applications Consultant
3 8 (19.05%) Consultant
3 8 (19.05%) Mainframe Consultant
4 6 (14.29%) Trainee
5 4 (9.52%) Administrator
5 4 (9.52%) COBOL Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Java Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Lead
5 4 (9.52%) Trainee Administrator
5 4 (9.52%) Web Administrator
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior
7 2 (4.76%) Trainee Developer
7 2 (4.76%) Trainee Software Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (52.38%) .NET
2 12 (28.57%) CSS
2 12 (28.57%) HTML
3 11 (26.19%) .NET Core
4 10 (23.81%) ASP.NET
4 10 (23.81%) ASP.NET Core
5 9 (21.43%) Spring
5 9 (21.43%) Spring Boot
6 8 (19.05%) ISPF
7 6 (14.29%) AngularJS
8 5 (11.90%) Blazor
8 5 (11.90%) ML.NET
8 5 (11.90%) Node.js
8 5 (11.90%) Vue
9 4 (9.52%) RESTful
10 3 (7.14%) .NET Framework
10 3 (7.14%) Entity Framework
11 2 (4.76%) EDI
11 2 (4.76%) REST
11 2 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (19.05%) Cloud Native
2 8 (19.05%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (19.05%) Mainframe
3 3 (7.14%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (59.52%) CI/CD
2 23 (54.76%) DevOps
3 11 (26.19%) Continuous Improvement
3 11 (26.19%) Full-Stack Development
3 11 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (23.81%) Collaborative Culture
5 9 (21.43%) AI
6 8 (19.05%) Agile
6 8 (19.05%) Batch Processing
6 8 (19.05%) Microservices
6 8 (19.05%) Re-Platforming
6 8 (19.05%) Roadmaps
6 8 (19.05%) TDD
6 8 (19.05%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (16.67%) BDD
8 6 (14.29%) Machine Learning
8 6 (14.29%) Scrum
8 6 (14.29%) Test Automation
9 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (11.90%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 14 (33.33%) C#
3 11 (26.19%) Java
4 10 (23.81%) Python
5 8 (19.05%) COBOL
5 8 (19.05%) JCL
6 7 (16.67%) JavaScript
7 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
8 4 (9.52%) R
9 2 (4.76%) Bash
9 2 (4.76%) T-SQL
10 1 (2.38%) C
10 1 (2.38%) C++
10 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 6 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 6 (14.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 6 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 2 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (2.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (35.71%) Kubernetes
2 6 (14.29%) Terraform
3 3 (7.14%) Argo
4 2 (4.76%) Grafana
4 2 (4.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (52.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Facebook
3 4 (9.52%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.38%) Cognos