Hybrid/Remote GitHub Job Trends

GitHub
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 93 175
Rank change year-on-year -11 +82 +3
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 417 449 563
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.41% 3.45% 1.78%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.24% 7.50% 4.05%
Number of salaries quoted 244 274 473
10th Percentile £47,028 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,400 £50,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -6.40%
75th Percentile £82,813 £79,688 £80,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,778 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -17.86% +7.69% -3.70%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 6,685 5,989 13,909
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 38.57% 46.03% 43.91%
Number of salaries quoted 4,507 4,691 12,050
10th Percentile £33,750 £33,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,375 £46,368 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

GitHub job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

GitHub
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing GitHub over the 6 months to 11 April 2026.

GitHub salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 14 (3.36%) Confluence
2 8 (1.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 5 (1.20%) CMS
3 5 (1.20%) nginx
4 4 (0.96%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) Apache
5 2 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
5 2 (0.48%) WordPress
6 1 (0.24%) Drupal
6 1 (0.24%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.24%) IIS
6 1 (0.24%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (0.96%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (0.96%) Photoshop
2 3 (0.72%) Trello
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (3.84%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.20%) Shopify
3 1 (0.24%) Actimize
3 1 (0.24%) Magento
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 254 (60.91%) Azure
2 198 (47.48%) AWS
3 172 (41.25%) GitHub Actions
4 160 (38.37%) Azure DevOps
5 93 (22.30%) GitHub Copilot
6 69 (16.55%) Serverless
7 52 (12.47%) SaaS
8 44 (10.55%) GCP
9 43 (10.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 39 (9.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 38 (9.11%) Amazon S3
12 36 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 35 (8.39%) AWS Lambda
14 31 (7.43%) Entra ID
15 27 (6.47%) Power Platform
16 26 (6.24%) Amazon EKS
17 25 (6.00%) Amazon EC2
18 24 (5.76%) PaaS
19 22 (5.28%) Datadog
20 21 (5.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.32%) HTTP
2 17 (4.08%) Firewall
3 10 (2.40%) VPN
4 4 (0.96%) DNS
4 4 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
4 4 (0.96%) Network Security
5 3 (0.72%) RTP
5 3 (0.72%) Unified Communications
5 3 (0.72%) VoIP
5 3 (0.72%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.48%) DSL
6 2 (0.48%) Internet
6 2 (0.48%) SSL
7 1 (0.24%) AMQP
7 1 (0.24%) Broadband
7 1 (0.24%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (11.99%) NoSQL
2 40 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 31 (7.43%) MongoDB
4 24 (5.76%) PostgreSQL
5 22 (5.28%) Power BI
6 20 (4.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 19 (4.56%) Data Lake
8 17 (4.08%) DynamoDB
9 16 (3.84%) Data Warehouse
10 15 (3.60%) MySQL
11 14 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (2.88%) Metadata
12 12 (2.88%) Redis
13 11 (2.64%) Relational Database
14 10 (2.40%) Flink
14 10 (2.40%) Tableau
15 9 (2.16%) Amazon Athena
15 9 (2.16%) Delta Lake
16 6 (1.44%) Snowflake Schema
17 4 (0.96%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 92 (22.06%) Git
2 70 (16.79%) Jenkins
3 44 (10.55%) JIRA
4 39 (9.35%) GitLab
5 16 (3.84%) Oracle Forms
6 12 (2.88%) Bitbucket
6 12 (2.88%) Selenium
6 12 (2.88%) Visual Studio
7 10 (2.40%) Crashlytics
7 10 (2.40%) Subversion
7 10 (2.40%) XCTest
8 9 (2.16%) Cucumber
8 9 (2.16%) Cypress.io
9 8 (1.92%) JUnit
10 7 (1.68%) Storybook
10 7 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
11 6 (1.44%) JMeter
11 6 (1.44%) Vite
12 5 (1.20%) git-flow
12 5 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 152 (36.45%) Finance
2 144 (34.53%) Social Skills
3 69 (16.55%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (7.43%) Banking
5 27 (6.47%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.80%) Marketing
6 20 (4.80%) Telecoms
7 18 (4.32%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.12%) Retail
9 11 (2.64%) Manufacturing
10 10 (2.40%) Front Office
11 9 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.20%) Advertising
12 5 (1.20%) Back Office
13 4 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 4 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.96%) Military
13 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Health Technology
14 3 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (29.50%) Developer
2 110 (26.38%) Senior
3 43 (10.31%) Lead
4 41 (9.83%) DevOps Engineer
5 39 (9.35%) Cloud Engineer
6 36 (8.63%) Platform Engineer
6 36 (8.63%) Software Engineer
7 27 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 26 (6.24%) .NET Developer
9 25 (6.00%) Development Engineer
10 24 (5.76%) Applications Engineer
11 23 (5.52%) Senior Development Engineer
11 23 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
12 22 (5.28%) Lead Developer
12 22 (5.28%) Python Developer
13 20 (4.80%) Data Engineer
13 20 (4.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 20 (4.80%) Senior DevOps
14 18 (4.32%) Salesforce Engineer
15 16 (3.84%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (19.18%) .NET
1 80 (19.18%) React
2 61 (14.63%) CSS
3 55 (13.19%) HTML
4 50 (11.99%) REST
5 48 (11.51%) RESTful
6 45 (10.79%) Node.js
7 28 (6.71%) AngularJS
8 27 (6.47%) OAuth
9 26 (6.24%) JSON
9 26 (6.24%) SOAP
9 26 (6.24%) Vue
10 25 (6.00%) OAuth2
11 24 (5.76%) Django
11 24 (5.76%) Flask
11 24 (5.76%) Kafka
12 23 (5.52%) React Native
13 20 (4.80%) .NET Core
13 20 (4.80%) .NET Framework
14 19 (4.56%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 77 (18.47%) Cloud Native
2 58 (13.91%) Product Ownership
3 32 (7.67%) Mobile App
4 21 (5.04%) Public Cloud
5 20 (4.80%) Greenfield Project
6 17 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
7 15 (3.60%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.60%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.60%) Private Cloud
8 14 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (3.12%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (2.16%) Low-Code
12 7 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
13 6 (1.44%) Fixed Income
14 5 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.96%) Blog
15 4 (0.96%) CMDB
15 4 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 47 (11.27%) Linux
2 18 (4.32%) Windows
3 13 (3.12%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.68%) Unix
4 7 (1.68%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.96%) Android
5 4 (0.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (77.70%) CI/CD
2 282 (67.63%) DevOps
3 181 (43.41%) Agile
4 140 (33.57%) AI
5 132 (31.65%) Test Automation
6 122 (29.26%) Infrastructure as Code
7 101 (24.22%) Mentoring
8 97 (23.26%) Observability
8 97 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
9 92 (22.06%) Containerisation
10 91 (21.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 81 (19.42%) Coaching
12 80 (19.18%) Asset Management
13 76 (18.23%) Software Engineering
14 75 (17.99%) Clean Code
15 73 (17.51%) Analytics
16 69 (16.55%) Full-Stack Development
17 65 (15.59%) Platform Engineering
18 62 (14.87%) Microservices
19 57 (13.67%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 184 (44.12%) Python
2 137 (32.85%) SQL
3 78 (18.71%) Java
4 58 (13.91%) JavaScript
4 58 (13.91%) TypeScript
5 42 (10.07%) Bash
6 36 (8.63%) C#
7 30 (7.19%) PowerShell
8 27 (6.47%) Bicep
9 21 (5.04%) Kotlin
10 20 (4.80%) Apex Code
10 20 (4.80%) Go
11 19 (4.56%) Shell Script
12 16 (3.84%) PL/SQL
13 14 (3.36%) PHP
14 11 (2.64%) Scala
14 11 (2.64%) Swift
15 8 (1.92%) Delphi
15 8 (1.92%) T-SQL
16 6 (1.44%) C++
Qualifications
1 48 (11.51%) Degree
2 28 (6.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (4.56%) Security Cleared
4 18 (4.32%) AWS Certification
5 17 (4.08%) Azure Certification
6 15 (3.60%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.64%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Developer
10 2 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.48%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 1 (0.24%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.24%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.03%) QA
2 21 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 14 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 14 (3.36%) GDPR
3 14 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.64%) WCAG
5 8 (1.92%) SOC 2
6 7 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.96%) GRC
8 3 (0.72%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.48%) ECSS
10 1 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 129 (30.94%) Docker
2 32 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.72%) Kamailio
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Xen
Systems Management
1 154 (36.93%) Terraform
2 110 (26.38%) Kubernetes
3 43 (10.31%) Grafana
4 37 (8.87%) Ansible
5 31 (7.43%) Prometheus
6 26 (6.24%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (4.56%) Argo
8 7 (1.68%) Packer
8 7 (1.68%) Proxmox
9 4 (0.96%) Cilium
9 4 (0.96%) logstash
9 4 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 4 (0.96%) Puppet
10 2 (0.48%) Kibana
11 1 (0.24%) Consul
11 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.24%) Icinga
11 1 (0.24%) Nagios
11 1 (0.24%) Plesk
11 1 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 73 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 28 (6.71%) Oracle
3 24 (5.76%) Salesforce
4 20 (4.80%) Databricks
5 15 (3.60%) Google
5 15 (3.60%) VMware
6 10 (2.40%) Ab Initio
6 10 (2.40%) Amplitude
6 10 (2.40%) Braze
7 8 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 8 (1.92%) Okta
8 7 (1.68%) Splunk
9 5 (1.20%) Foundry
9 5 (1.20%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.96%) Cisco
10 4 (0.96%) EMC
10 4 (0.96%) F5
10 4 (0.96%) Mercator
10 4 (0.96%) Palo Alto
11 3 (0.72%) OpenAI