Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 19 May 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

GitHub
UK > Work from Home
6 months to
19 May 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 78 161 185
Rank change year-on-year +83 +24 +4
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 3,002 662 151
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.26% 2.14% 1.61%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.83% 4.49% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 941 491 107
10th Percentile £38,000 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £44,625 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £74,375
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,250
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for cloud computing skills.

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33,995 14,756 4,104
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 48.22% 47.75% 43.79%
Number of salaries quoted 19,743 12,450 3,551
10th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £36,075
25th Percentile £46,250 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -8.00%
75th Percentile £82,500 £75,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -

GitHub
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

GitHub trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing GitHub.

GitHub salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing GitHub over the 6 months to 19 May 2022.

GitHub salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

For the 6 months to 19 May 2022, GitHub job roles required the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with a WFH option and a requirement for GitHub.

1 1,451 (48.33%) Agile
2 1,323 (44.07%) AWS
3 1,320 (43.97%) JavaScript
4 1,169 (38.94%) CI/CD
5 1,122 (37.38%) Git (software)
6 1,101 (36.68%) React
7 1,066 (35.51%) Software Engineering
8 1,043 (34.74%) Docker
9 946 (31.51%) DevOps
10 922 (30.71%) Kubernetes
11 914 (30.45%) Node.js
12 895 (29.81%) Python
13 827 (27.55%) TypeScript
14 784 (26.12%) SQL
15 754 (25.12%) Full Stack Development
16 720 (23.98%) PostgreSQL
17 659 (21.95%) Azure
18 625 (20.82%) Terraform
19 604 (20.12%) GitHub Actions
20 598 (19.92%) Jenkins
21 597 (19.89%) Java
22 582 (19.39%) Microservices
23 574 (19.12%) Social Skills
24 553 (18.42%) Scrum
25 525 (17.49%) Test Automation
26 511 (17.02%) Linux
27 505 (16.82%) GCP
28 504 (16.79%) CSS
29 492 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
30 477 (15.89%) Finance

GitHub
Co-occurring IT Skills with a WFH Option by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 289 (9.63%) Elasticsearch
2 176 (5.86%) Confluence
3 109 (3.63%) Apache
4 92 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
5 87 (2.90%) WordPress
6 73 (2.43%) Ethereum
7 66 (2.20%) Apache Spark
8 58 (1.93%) Jupyter
9 54 (1.80%) CMS
10 47 (1.57%) Cloud Foundry
11 33 (1.10%) IIS
12 32 (1.07%) Apache Solr
13 31 (1.03%) nginx
14 18 (0.60%) Luigi
15 12 (0.40%) IBM Domino
16 10 (0.33%) SAS
17 9 (0.30%) Geth
18 7 (0.23%) Tomcat
19 6 (0.20%) ArcGIS
19 6 (0.20%) MetaMask
Applications
1 35 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
3 14 (0.47%) Sketch
4 13 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 12 (0.40%) Photoshop
5 12 (0.40%) Zeplin
6 8 (0.27%) Campfire
7 7 (0.23%) InVision
7 7 (0.23%) LaTeX
8 6 (0.20%) Maple
9 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe After Effects
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.100%) Adobe XD
10 3 (0.100%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.100%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 36 (1.20%) NetSuite
1 36 (1.20%) SAP Business ByDesign
2 35 (1.17%) Distributed Ledger
3 27 (0.90%) Payment Gateway
4 25 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
5 23 (0.77%) Shopify
6 12 (0.40%) Magento
7 8 (0.27%) SAP Hybris
8 4 (0.13%) Summit
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Cash Management
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle EBS
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle EBS R12
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Financials
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle General Ledger
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Payables
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.100%) Oracle Receivables
10 2 (0.067%) Eloqua
10 2 (0.067%) WebTrends
11 1 (0.033%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1,323 (44.07%) AWS
2 659 (21.95%) Azure
3 604 (20.12%) GitHub Actions
4 505 (16.82%) GCP
5 363 (12.09%) Serverless
6 306 (10.19%) SaaS
7 281 (9.36%) Amazon S3
8 242 (8.06%) AWS Lambda
9 219 (7.30%) Amazon EC2
10 169 (5.63%) Slack
11 158 (5.26%) Heroku
12 127 (4.23%) Amazon ECS
12 127 (4.23%) PaaS
13 111 (3.70%) Amazon EKS
14 110 (3.66%) Datadog
15 108 (3.60%) Google Workspace
16 100 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
17 84 (2.80%) Firebase
18 79 (2.63%) IaaS
19 75 (2.50%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 77 (2.56%) Internet
2 74 (2.47%) HTTP
3 55 (1.83%) Firewall
4 54 (1.80%) DNS
5 24 (0.80%) TCP/IP
6 21 (0.70%) LAN
7 20 (0.67%) DSL
8 17 (0.57%) VPN
9 12 (0.40%) SSL
10 10 (0.33%) Network Security
10 10 (0.33%) Skype
11 8 (0.27%) SSH
12 6 (0.20%) Bluetooth
12 6 (0.20%) Broadband
12 6 (0.20%) Peer-to-Peer Networking
13 5 (0.17%) FTP
13 5 (0.17%) SMTP
13 5 (0.17%) VLAN
14 4 (0.13%) HTTPS
14 4 (0.13%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 720 (23.98%) PostgreSQL
2 436 (14.52%) MySQL
3 386 (12.86%) Redis
4 273 (9.09%) Relational Database
5 219 (7.30%) NoSQL
6 213 (7.10%) SQL Server
7 200 (6.66%) MongoDB
8 150 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 148 (4.93%) Amazon RDS
10 132 (4.40%) Amazon DynamoDB
11 122 (4.06%) Big Data
12 89 (2.96%) RDBMS
13 74 (2.47%) BigQuery
14 54 (1.80%) MariaDB
15 53 (1.77%) Data Lake
16 48 (1.60%) Apache Cassandra
17 45 (1.50%) Power BI
18 31 (1.03%) Hadoop
19 28 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 25 (0.83%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 1,122 (37.38%) Git (software)
2 598 (19.92%) Jenkins
3 443 (14.76%) JIRA
4 296 (9.86%) GitLab
5 287 (9.56%) Cypress.io
6 254 (8.46%) CircleCI
7 240 (7.99%) webpack
8 159 (5.30%) Bitbucket
9 148 (4.93%) RSpec
10 134 (4.46%) Selenium
11 114 (3.80%) Cucumber
12 86 (2.86%) Storybook
13 75 (2.50%) Maven
14 64 (2.13%) JUnit
15 62 (2.07%) SonarQube
16 59 (1.97%) Travis CI
17 56 (1.87%) WebDriver
18 53 (1.77%) git-flow
19 46 (1.53%) JMeter
20 45 (1.50%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 574 (19.12%) Social Skills
2 477 (15.89%) Finance
3 235 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 227 (7.56%) Games
5 220 (7.33%) Marketing
6 189 (6.30%) Retail
7 144 (4.80%) Banking
8 124 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 106 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 93 (3.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 72 (2.40%) Legal
12 52 (1.73%) Advertising
13 41 (1.37%) Automotive
13 41 (1.37%) Law
14 37 (1.23%) Tech for Good
15 36 (1.20%) Publishing
16 35 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
17 26 (0.87%) Back Office
18 18 (0.60%) Electronics
19 14 (0.47%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1,238 (41.24%) Developer
2 650 (21.65%) Software Engineer
3 422 (14.06%) Senior Developer
4 305 (10.16%) Full Stack Developer
5 277 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
6 271 (9.03%) Senior Software Engineer
7 170 (5.66%) Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 137 (4.56%) Senior Full Stack Developer
9 124 (4.13%) Data Engineer
10 123 (4.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 105 (3.50%) Software Developer
12 104 (3.46%) PHP Developer
13 103 (3.43%) Java Developer
14 94 (3.13%) Backend Developer
15 78 (2.60%) .NET Developer
16 70 (2.33%) JavaScript Developer
17 69 (2.30%) Web Developer
18 68 (2.27%) React Developer
19 59 (1.97%) Senior DevOps
19 59 (1.97%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1,101 (36.68%) React
2 914 (30.45%) Node.js
3 504 (16.79%) CSS
4 464 (15.46%) HTML
5 368 (12.26%) .NET
6 352 (11.73%) REST
7 350 (11.66%) Jest
8 345 (11.49%) Vue.js
9 330 (10.99%) AngularJS
10 289 (9.63%) GraphQL
11 273 (9.09%) RESTful
12 258 (8.59%) Ruby on Rails
13 238 (7.93%) Kafka
14 207 (6.90%) Spring
15 196 (6.53%) Sass
16 167 (5.56%) Next.js
17 166 (5.53%) Django
18 162 (5.40%) .NET Core
19 155 (5.16%) jQuery
20 152 (5.06%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 458 (15.26%) User Experience
2 208 (6.93%) Blog
3 205 (6.83%) Blockchain
4 198 (6.60%) Virtual Team
5 175 (5.83%) Self-Motivation
6 166 (5.53%) Cloud Native
7 159 (5.30%) Mobile App
8 138 (4.60%) Algorithms
9 103 (3.43%) Public Cloud
10 96 (3.20%) NHS
11 79 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
12 70 (2.33%) Data Structures
13 67 (2.23%) Web3
14 63 (2.10%) FMCG
15 55 (1.83%) Data Centre
16 51 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
16 51 (1.70%) Social Media
17 50 (1.67%) Management Information System
18 49 (1.63%) Cardano
18 49 (1.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 511 (17.02%) Linux
2 295 (9.83%) Windows
3 186 (6.20%) Android
4 150 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 148 (4.93%) Unix
6 37 (1.23%) Windows Server
7 33 (1.10%) Mac OS X
8 26 (0.87%) Ubuntu
9 21 (0.70%) AIX
9 21 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 19 (0.63%) Mac OS
11 15 (0.50%) Debian
12 14 (0.47%) CentOS
13 10 (0.33%) VMS
14 8 (0.27%) Windows Embedded Compact
15 6 (0.20%) Alpine Linux
16 4 (0.13%) SUSE
17 3 (0.100%) Amazon Linux
17 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2012
17 3 (0.100%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,451 (48.33%) Agile
2 1,169 (38.94%) CI/CD
3 1,066 (35.51%) Software Engineering
4 946 (31.51%) DevOps
5 754 (25.12%) Full Stack Development
6 582 (19.39%) Microservices
7 553 (18.42%) Scrum
8 525 (17.49%) Test Automation
9 492 (16.39%) Continuous Integration
10 413 (13.76%) Problem-Solving
11 398 (13.26%) Computer Science
12 392 (13.06%) TDD
13 389 (12.96%) Mentoring
14 385 (12.82%) Open Source
15 363 (12.09%) Analytics
16 323 (10.76%) Infrastructure as Code
17 306 (10.19%) Machine Learning
18 300 (9.99%) OO
19 283 (9.43%) SDLC
20 271 (9.03%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 1,320 (43.97%) JavaScript
2 895 (29.81%) Python
3 827 (27.55%) TypeScript
4 784 (26.12%) SQL
5 597 (19.89%) Java
6 402 (13.39%) Ruby
7 373 (12.43%) PHP
8 309 (10.29%) C#
9 202 (6.73%) Go
10 180 (6.00%) Bash
11 178 (5.93%) ES6
12 173 (5.76%) Kotlin
13 118 (3.93%) C++
14 117 (3.90%) C
15 97 (3.23%) Rust
16 89 (2.96%) Scala
17 81 (2.70%) PowerShell
18 61 (2.03%) Shell Script
19 55 (1.83%) Solidity
20 42 (1.40%) Haskell
Qualifications
1 362 (12.06%) Degree
2 111 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 35 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
4 33 (1.10%) Security Cleared
5 32 (1.07%) SC Cleared
6 29 (0.97%) AWS Certification
7 27 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 23 (0.77%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 23 (0.77%) CESG Certified Professional
8 23 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 20 (0.67%) PMI Certification
10 10 (0.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (0.23%) MCAD
12 6 (0.20%) DBS Check
13 4 (0.13%) PhD
14 2 (0.067%) ISEB
14 2 (0.067%) ISTQB
14 2 (0.067%) MCSE
14 2 (0.067%) RHCE
15 1 (0.033%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 388 (12.92%) QA
2 154 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 26 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 23 (0.77%) IASME
4 23 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 23 (0.77%) NIST
5 20 (0.67%) GDPR
6 15 (0.50%) WAI
7 14 (0.47%) SEPA
8 7 (0.23%) HL7
8 7 (0.23%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.13%) SLA
11 3 (0.100%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.067%) PMO
13 1 (0.033%) WCAG
System Software
1 1,043 (34.74%) Docker
2 69 (2.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 17 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
4 10 (0.33%) Firmware
5 8 (0.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.17%) Active Directory
6 5 (0.17%) Ceph
6 5 (0.17%) Varnish
7 4 (0.13%) iptables
7 4 (0.13%) KVM
8 3 (0.100%) NFS
8 3 (0.100%) vSphere
9 2 (0.067%) flannel
9 2 (0.067%) Gluster
9 2 (0.067%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.033%) Apache Flume
10 1 (0.033%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.033%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 922 (30.71%) Kubernetes
2 625 (20.82%) Terraform
3 184 (6.13%) Ansible
4 129 (4.30%) Prometheus
5 86 (2.86%) Grafana
6 74 (2.47%) Puppet
7 60 (2.00%) Opscode Chef
8 55 (1.83%) Kibana
9 39 (1.30%) Packer
10 37 (1.23%) Docker Swarm
11 27 (0.90%) Rancher
12 24 (0.80%) Graphite
13 23 (0.77%) CASB
14 22 (0.73%) HP Quality Center
15 20 (0.67%) StatsD
16 16 (0.53%) Consul
17 15 (0.50%) Argo
17 15 (0.50%) Podman
18 14 (0.47%) Bugsnag
19 12 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 414 (13.79%) Google
2 242 (8.06%) Microsoft
3 84 (2.80%) SAP
4 72 (2.40%) Apple
5 64 (2.13%) Netlify
6 63 (2.10%) Oracle
7 54 (1.80%) New Relic
8 53 (1.77%) WooCommerce
9 50 (1.67%) Xamarin
10 49 (1.63%) Spotify
11 48 (1.60%) Brandwatch
12 43 (1.43%) Salesforce.com
13 42 (1.40%) Atlassian
14 41 (1.37%) accuRx
15 29 (0.97%) PagerDuty
16 26 (0.87%) Databricks
16 26 (0.87%) Red Hat
17 24 (0.80%) Adobe
17 24 (0.80%) LexisNexis
18 21 (0.70%) SolarWinds