GitHub Jobs with Work from Home Options

GitHub
UK > Work from Home

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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 187 86
Rank change year-on-year -16 -101 +91
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 534 834 2,675
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.58% 1.93% 4.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.65% 4.06% 7.63%
Number of salaries quoted 455 570 931
10th Percentile £42,286 £44,033 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +11.12% +8.70%
75th Percentile £79,125 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £64,350
% change year-on-year -3.70% +4.90% +2.96%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 14,616 20,567 35,076
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.31% 47.67% 52.54%
Number of salaries quoted 11,971 15,067 21,832
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,847 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%

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 27 April 2024.

GitHub salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 32 (5.99%) Confluence
2 20 (3.75%) Apache
2 20 (3.75%) Apache Spark
3 18 (3.37%) nginx
4 10 (1.87%) WordPress
5 9 (1.69%) CMS
6 6 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 6 (1.12%) IIS
6 6 (1.12%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.12%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.94%) Umbraco
8 3 (0.56%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.56%) Drupal
8 3 (0.56%) SharePoint
9 1 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 21 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.31%) GNU Octave
3 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.37%) Notion
5 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.37%) Magento
2 2 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.19%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (46.63%) AWS
2 207 (38.76%) Azure
3 118 (22.10%) GitHub Actions
4 113 (21.16%) GCP
5 104 (19.48%) Serverless
6 91 (17.04%) AWS Lambda
7 76 (14.23%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (11.61%) SaaS
9 42 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
10 39 (7.30%) PaaS
11 37 (6.93%) Amazon S3
11 37 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (5.81%) Azure AKS
13 30 (5.62%) Power Platform
14 28 (5.24%) Amazon EC2
15 26 (4.87%) Amazon ECS
15 26 (4.87%) Amazon SQS
16 23 (4.31%) IaaS
17 19 (3.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 17 (3.18%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.24%) Firewall
2 20 (3.75%) DNS
2 20 (3.75%) VPN
3 11 (2.06%) RS-232
4 10 (1.87%) 5G
4 10 (1.87%) DHCP
4 10 (1.87%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.69%) Internet
6 5 (0.94%) Bluetooth
6 5 (0.94%) MQTT
6 5 (0.94%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.94%) RS-485
6 5 (0.94%) WAN
6 5 (0.94%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (0.94%) Wireless
6 5 (0.94%) ZigBee
7 3 (0.56%) SMS
8 2 (0.37%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.37%) LAN
9 1 (0.19%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (13.30%) MySQL
2 60 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
3 53 (9.93%) SQL Server
4 35 (6.55%) Amazon RDS
5 34 (6.37%) Redis
6 30 (5.62%) Power BI
7 25 (4.68%) Relational Database
8 22 (4.12%) Amazon Aurora
8 22 (4.12%) Data Warehouse
9 21 (3.93%) BigQuery
9 21 (3.93%) NoSQL
10 20 (3.75%) DynamoDB
11 17 (3.18%) Data Lake
12 16 (3.00%) Big Data
12 16 (3.00%) Tableau
13 12 (2.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 10 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 9 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 8 (1.50%) Bigtable
Development Applications
1 149 (27.90%) Jenkins
2 148 (27.72%) Git
3 79 (14.79%) JIRA
4 55 (10.30%) GitLab
5 35 (6.55%) Visual Studio
6 32 (5.99%) Bitbucket
7 23 (4.31%) CircleCI
8 21 (3.93%) Visual Studio Code
9 19 (3.56%) Maven
10 18 (3.37%) Selenium
11 17 (3.18%) Spinnaker
12 14 (2.62%) SonarQube
12 14 (2.62%) Subversion
13 13 (2.43%) TeamCity
14 12 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (2.06%) SoapUI
16 10 (1.87%) Cucumber
16 10 (1.87%) Cypress.io
16 10 (1.87%) JMeter
16 10 (1.87%) Trac
General
1 179 (33.52%) Finance
2 104 (19.48%) Social Skills
3 78 (14.61%) Banking
4 29 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (5.06%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.68%) Analytical Skills
7 22 (4.12%) Marketing
8 21 (3.93%) Games
9 18 (3.37%) Automotive
9 18 (3.37%) Retail
10 16 (3.00%) Electronics
10 16 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 15 (2.81%) Investment Banking
12 13 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 11 (2.06%) Aviation
14 9 (1.69%) Multimedia
15 8 (1.50%) Law
16 7 (1.31%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.94%) Publishing
17 5 (0.94%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 196 (36.70%) Developer
2 111 (20.79%) Senior
3 69 (12.92%) Software Engineer
4 67 (12.55%) DevOps Engineer
5 64 (11.99%) Cloud Engineer
6 50 (9.36%) Lead
7 47 (8.80%) AWS Engineer
8 45 (8.43%) Senior Developer
9 41 (7.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 38 (7.12%) Software Developer
11 35 (6.55%) .NET Developer
12 29 (5.43%) AWS DevOps
13 23 (4.31%) AWS DevOps Engineer
13 23 (4.31%) Data Engineer
14 22 (4.12%) Full Stack Developer
14 22 (4.12%) Senior Cloud Engineer
15 19 (3.56%) Backend Developer
15 19 (3.56%) JavaScript Developer
15 19 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
16 18 (3.37%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (16.85%) .NET
2 70 (13.11%) HTML
3 66 (12.36%) React
4 65 (12.17%) Node.js
5 64 (11.99%) CSS
6 56 (10.49%) RESTful
7 51 (9.55%) HTML5
8 39 (7.30%) Kafka
9 35 (6.55%) GraphQL
10 32 (5.99%) AngularJS
11 29 (5.43%) jQuery
11 29 (5.43%) Vue
12 26 (4.87%) Laravel
13 25 (4.68%) Web Services
14 24 (4.49%) REST
15 22 (4.12%) .NET Core
15 22 (4.12%) Blazor
15 22 (4.12%) Spring
16 19 (3.56%) JSON
17 18 (3.37%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 31 (5.81%) Product Ownership
2 29 (5.43%) Mobile App
3 27 (5.06%) Data Structures
3 27 (5.06%) Public Cloud
4 23 (4.31%) Management Information System
5 21 (3.93%) Client/Server
5 21 (3.93%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.56%) IoT
6 19 (3.56%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.18%) Enterprise Software
8 16 (3.00%) Private Cloud
9 14 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
10 13 (2.43%) Algorithms
10 13 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (2.25%) Cloud Native
11 12 (2.25%) Online Games
12 11 (2.06%) Life Science
13 10 (1.87%) Virtual Reality
14 9 (1.69%) Augmented Reality
15 7 (1.31%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 105 (19.66%) Linux
2 90 (16.85%) Windows
3 46 (8.61%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.62%) Apple iOS
5 21 (3.93%) Android
6 16 (3.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.69%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.12%) VMS
9 5 (0.94%) Unix
10 4 (0.75%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.75%) FreeRTOS
11 3 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (40.82%) DevOps
2 196 (36.70%) CI/CD
3 189 (35.39%) Agile
4 125 (23.41%) Software Engineering
5 98 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (17.79%) Infrastructure as Code
7 87 (16.29%) Test Automation
8 71 (13.30%) Microservices
9 67 (12.55%) Containerisation
10 60 (11.24%) Computer Science
10 60 (11.24%) Continuous Integration
11 52 (9.74%) Mentoring
12 48 (8.99%) Software Testing
13 43 (8.05%) Full Stack Development
14 39 (7.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 39 (7.30%) Unit Testing
15 38 (7.12%) DevSecOps
15 38 (7.12%) MVC
15 38 (7.12%) SDLC
16 35 (6.55%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 174 (32.58%) Python
2 161 (30.15%) JavaScript
3 132 (24.72%) SQL
4 112 (20.97%) Java
5 92 (17.23%) TypeScript
6 78 (14.61%) C#
7 64 (11.99%) Bash
8 52 (9.74%) Go
8 52 (9.74%) PowerShell
9 38 (7.12%) PHP
10 27 (5.06%) Ruby
11 26 (4.87%) C
12 16 (3.00%) Perl
13 15 (2.81%) Korn
14 14 (2.62%) T-SQL
15 12 (2.25%) Objective-C
15 12 (2.25%) Shell Script
15 12 (2.25%) Swift
16 9 (1.69%) R
17 7 (1.31%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 73 (13.67%) Degree
2 51 (9.55%) Security Cleared
3 31 (5.81%) SC Cleared
4 27 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 24 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.50%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.94%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.94%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.56%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.56%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.68%) QA
2 13 (2.43%) NCSC
3 7 (1.31%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.94%) Accessibility
4 5 (0.94%) MISRA
5 2 (0.37%) NIST
5 2 (0.37%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 193 (36.14%) Docker
2 33 (6.18%) Active Directory
3 28 (5.24%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.06%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.87%) NFS
5 10 (1.87%) pfSense
6 8 (1.50%) Firmware
7 3 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 156 (29.21%) Terraform
2 130 (24.34%) Kubernetes
3 81 (15.17%) Ansible
4 33 (6.18%) Grafana
5 27 (5.06%) Puppet
6 17 (3.18%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.81%) Packer
8 13 (2.43%) Red Hat Satellite
9 12 (2.25%) ZABBIX
10 10 (1.87%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 10 (1.87%) SCDPM
11 8 (1.50%) Nagios
12 7 (1.31%) Foglight
12 7 (1.31%) Kibana
12 7 (1.31%) Microsoft Clustering
12 7 (1.31%) Prometheus
13 6 (1.12%) Argo
14 5 (0.94%) Consul
14 5 (0.94%) HP Quality Center
14 5 (0.94%) Salt
Vendors
1 78 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 54 (10.11%) Google
3 22 (4.12%) Oracle
4 18 (3.37%) McAfee
5 16 (3.00%) VMware
6 15 (2.81%) Splunk
7 14 (2.62%) ForgeRock
7 14 (2.62%) Red Hat
7 14 (2.62%) Sitecore
8 13 (2.43%) Sun
8 13 (2.43%) TOWER Software
9 12 (2.25%) Databricks
9 12 (2.25%) HP
10 11 (2.06%) Fortinet
10 11 (2.06%) Juniper
10 11 (2.06%) Veeam
11 9 (1.69%) Atlassian
11 9 (1.69%) Dynatrace
12 8 (1.50%) Confluent
13 7 (1.31%) MuleSoft