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

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 130 149
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 +11
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 53 76 30
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 1.01% 1.76% 0.89%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 5.28% 2.38%
Number of salaries quoted 50 38 27
10th Percentile - £47,750 £39,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £60,000 £52,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,875 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £58,563 £75,000 £85,967
90th Percentile £80,000 - £106,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -13.33% +8.00%

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 2,050 1,440 1,262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.89% 33.40% 37.51%
Number of salaries quoted 889 820 1,135
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% -8.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,250 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 2 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 2 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 +42 36 £30,500 -58.22% 11
Coventry 0 6 £53,850 - 3
Staffordshire -18 4 £51,500 - 4
Herefordshire - 3 £92,500 -
Bilston - 2 £66,500 - 1
Solihull -1 1 £60,000 -9.09% 1
Shropshire - 1 £31,500 - 2
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 2 (3.77%) CMS
1 2 (3.77%) nginx
2 1 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (3.77%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.77%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 38 (71.70%) AWS
1 38 (71.70%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (20.75%) SaaS
4 10 (18.87%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (11.32%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (11.32%) Azure AKS
5 6 (11.32%) Figma
5 6 (11.32%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (11.32%) Serverless
6 5 (9.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (7.55%) Datadog
7 4 (7.55%) IaaS
7 4 (7.55%) PaaS
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Functions
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Key Vault
8 3 (5.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 24 (45.28%) Internet
2 1 (1.89%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.77%) MySQL
2 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.89%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (1.89%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.89%) Looker
3 1 (1.89%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) Redis
3 1 (1.89%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.89%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 30 (56.60%) Git
2 6 (11.32%) Jenkins
2 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio
3 5 (9.43%) GitLab
4 3 (5.66%) Selenium
5 2 (3.77%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.77%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.77%) JUnit
5 2 (3.77%) Vite
6 1 (1.89%) Postman
6 1 (1.89%) Snyk
General
1 24 (45.28%) Multimedia
2 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.77%) Finance
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (1.89%) Law
4 1 (1.89%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 24 (45.28%) Trainee
2 16 (30.19%) Developer
3 13 (24.53%) Software Developer
4 12 (22.64%) Trainee Developer
4 12 (22.64%) Trainee Software Developer
5 5 (9.43%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Architect
6 4 (7.55%) Designer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior
6 4 (7.55%) UX Designer
7 3 (5.66%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.66%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (3.77%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (3.77%) Lead
8 2 (3.77%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.77%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (49.06%) CSS
1 26 (49.06%) HTML
2 9 (16.98%) .NET
3 6 (11.32%) Blazor
3 6 (11.32%) Material Design
3 6 (11.32%) WebAssembly
4 5 (9.43%) ARM Templates
5 2 (3.77%) Django
5 2 (3.77%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (3.77%) Flask
5 2 (3.77%) gRPC
5 2 (3.77%) Laravel
5 2 (3.77%) LEMP Stack
5 2 (3.77%) pytest
5 2 (3.77%) React
5 2 (3.77%) Spring
5 2 (3.77%) Spring Boot
5 2 (3.77%) Tailwind CSS
5 2 (3.77%) Vue
5 2 (3.77%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (47.17%) Mentoring
2 24 (45.28%) Cybersecurity
3 18 (33.96%) CI/CD
3 18 (33.96%) DevOps
4 8 (15.09%) User Experience
5 7 (13.21%) AI
5 7 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (11.32%) CRM
6 6 (11.32%) Data Integration
6 6 (11.32%) Front End Development
6 6 (11.32%) Interaction Design
6 6 (11.32%) Responsive Web Design
6 6 (11.32%) User Stories
6 6 (11.32%) UX Design
6 6 (11.32%) Wireframes
7 5 (9.43%) Agile
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.43%) Software Engineering
7 5 (9.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (7.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 35 (66.04%) Python
2 28 (52.83%) JavaScript
3 12 (22.64%) R
4 7 (13.21%) Bicep
4 7 (13.21%) C#
5 6 (11.32%) Bash
6 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.66%) Go
7 3 (5.66%) Java
7 3 (5.66%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.77%) Delphi
8 2 (3.77%) PHP
9 1 (1.89%) C
9 1 (1.89%) C++
9 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (54.72%) Azure Certification
2 28 (52.83%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (47.17%) AWS Certification
4 24 (45.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 2 (3.77%) CCNA
5 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.89%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.32%) Accessibility
1 6 (11.32%) WCAG
2 5 (9.43%) QA
System Software
1 11 (20.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (24.53%) Terraform
2 10 (18.87%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Ansible
4 1 (1.89%) Argo
4 1 (1.89%) Nagios
4 1 (1.89%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 30 (56.60%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) LogicMonitor
2 4 (7.55%) SolarWinds
3 2 (3.77%) Oracle
4 1 (1.89%) OpenAI