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 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 129 149
Rank change year-on-year +5 +20 +6
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 55 76 29
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.04% 1.83% 0.80%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.68% 5.42% 2.21%
Number of salaries quoted 52 38 26
10th Percentile - £47,750 £39,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £60,000 £52,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,125 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -42.88% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £58,188 £75,000 £88,951
90th Percentile £68,600 - £106,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -10.34% +4.40%

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 2,054 1,402 1,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.75% 33.68% 35.99%
Number of salaries quoted 888 789 1,175
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £80,000 £78,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 9 January 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 9 January 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 +38 37 £30,500 -58.22% 10
Coventry 0 6 £53,850 - 4
Staffordshire -16 4 £51,500 - 5
Bilston - 3 £66,500 - 1
Herefordshire - 3 £92,500 -
Solihull 0 1 £60,000 -9.09%
Shropshire - 1 £31,500 - 11
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 3 (5.45%) CMS
1 3 (5.45%) nginx
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Adobe Illustrator
1 3 (5.45%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (74.55%) AWS
2 39 (70.91%) Azure
3 11 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (20.00%) SaaS
4 10 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (10.91%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.91%) Azure AKS
5 6 (10.91%) Figma
5 6 (10.91%) GitHub Copilot
6 5 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
6 5 (9.09%) Serverless
7 4 (7.27%) Datadog
8 3 (5.45%) IaaS
8 3 (5.45%) PaaS
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (3.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 26 (47.27%) Internet
2 1 (1.82%) Firewall
2 1 (1.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.45%) MySQL
3 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.82%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.82%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.82%) Looker
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
4 1 (1.82%) Redis
4 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.82%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 33 (60.00%) Git
2 6 (10.91%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.91%) Visual Studio
3 5 (9.09%) GitLab
4 3 (5.45%) Selenium
4 3 (5.45%) Vite
5 2 (3.64%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.64%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.64%) JUnit
6 1 (1.82%) Postman
6 1 (1.82%) Snyk
General
1 26 (47.27%) Multimedia
2 3 (5.45%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Finance
4 1 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Law
4 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (47.27%) Trainee
2 17 (30.91%) Developer
3 14 (25.45%) Software Developer
4 13 (23.64%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (23.64%) Trainee Software Developer
5 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.27%) Architect
6 4 (7.27%) Designer
6 4 (7.27%) Senior
6 4 (7.27%) UX Designer
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.45%) Product Owner
7 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.64%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.64%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Blazor Developer
8 2 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.64%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (52.73%) CSS
1 29 (52.73%) HTML
2 9 (16.36%) .NET
3 6 (10.91%) Blazor
3 6 (10.91%) Material Design
3 6 (10.91%) WebAssembly
4 5 (9.09%) ARM Templates
5 3 (5.45%) Laravel
5 3 (5.45%) LEMP Stack
5 3 (5.45%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (5.45%) Vue
5 3 (5.45%) YAML
6 2 (3.64%) Django
6 2 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (3.64%) Flask
6 2 (3.64%) gRPC
6 2 (3.64%) pytest
6 2 (3.64%) React
6 2 (3.64%) Spring
6 2 (3.64%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Mentoring
2 26 (47.27%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
4 17 (30.91%) DevOps
5 9 (16.36%) User Experience
6 7 (12.73%) AI
6 7 (12.73%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (10.91%) Agile
7 6 (10.91%) CRM
7 6 (10.91%) Data Integration
7 6 (10.91%) Front End Development
7 6 (10.91%) Interaction Design
7 6 (10.91%) Responsive Web Design
7 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (10.91%) User Stories
7 6 (10.91%) UX Design
7 6 (10.91%) Wireframes
8 5 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 4 (7.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 37 (67.27%) Python
2 31 (56.36%) JavaScript
3 13 (23.64%) R
4 7 (12.73%) Bash
4 7 (12.73%) Bicep
4 7 (12.73%) C#
5 4 (7.27%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.45%) Go
6 3 (5.45%) Java
6 3 (5.45%) PHP
6 3 (5.45%) TypeScript
7 2 (3.64%) Delphi
8 1 (1.82%) C
8 1 (1.82%) C++
8 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (54.55%) Azure Certification
1 30 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (49.09%) AWS Certification
3 26 (47.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (3.64%) CCNA
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.82%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) Accessibility
1 6 (10.91%) QA
1 6 (10.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 12 (21.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Terraform
2 10 (18.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.82%) Ansible
4 1 (1.82%) Argo
4 1 (1.82%) Nagios
4 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (58.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (7.27%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.82%) OpenAI