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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 191 84
Rank change year-on-year -23 -107 +84
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 514 787 2,880
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.91% 4.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 3.99% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 443 533 946
10th Percentile £42,286 £45,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,125 £56,052 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% +6.84% +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,232 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,142 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%

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 14,613 19,720 36,305
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.23% 47.91% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,956 14,442 21,699
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,134 £37,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% - +13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £83,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £103,750 £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 11 May 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 30 (5.84%) Confluence
2 17 (3.31%) nginx
3 11 (2.14%) Apache
3 11 (2.14%) Apache Spark
4 9 (1.75%) WordPress
5 8 (1.56%) CMS
6 6 (1.17%) IIS
6 6 (1.17%) OpenStack
6 6 (1.17%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.97%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.19%) Drupal
11 1 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.36%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Notion
4 1 (0.19%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.58%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.19%) Magento
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
1 243 (47.28%) AWS
2 209 (40.66%) Azure
3 110 (21.40%) GitHub Actions
4 102 (19.84%) Serverless
5 101 (19.65%) GCP
6 90 (17.51%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (14.20%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (11.67%) SaaS
9 41 (7.98%) Amazon EKS
10 40 (7.78%) PaaS
11 39 (7.59%) Amazon S3
12 38 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
13 32 (6.23%) Azure AKS
14 29 (5.64%) Amazon ECS
14 29 (5.64%) Amazon SQS
15 27 (5.25%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (4.28%) IaaS
17 21 (4.09%) Power Platform
18 20 (3.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 19 (3.70%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.25%) Firewall
2 21 (4.09%) DNS
3 20 (3.89%) VPN
4 11 (2.14%) RS-232
5 10 (1.95%) 5G
5 10 (1.95%) DHCP
5 10 (1.95%) Internet
5 10 (1.95%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.17%) WAN
7 5 (0.97%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.97%) MQTT
7 5 (0.97%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.97%) RS-485
7 5 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.97%) Wireless
7 5 (0.97%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.58%) SMS
9 2 (0.39%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.39%) LAN
9 2 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (12.45%) MySQL
2 52 (10.12%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (10.12%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.81%) Redis
4 31 (6.03%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.09%) Power BI
7 20 (3.89%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (3.89%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.31%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.53%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.33%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.33%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.75%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.36%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.36%) GIS
Development Applications
1 139 (27.04%) Git
2 128 (24.90%) Jenkins
3 75 (14.59%) JIRA
4 47 (9.14%) GitLab
5 35 (6.81%) Visual Studio
6 29 (5.64%) Bitbucket
7 22 (4.28%) CircleCI
8 20 (3.89%) Visual Studio Code
9 17 (3.31%) Maven
10 16 (3.11%) Subversion
11 14 (2.72%) Selenium
12 13 (2.53%) SonarQube
13 12 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (2.33%) Spinnaker
13 12 (2.33%) TeamCity
14 10 (1.95%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.95%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.95%) Trac
15 9 (1.75%) SoapUI
15 9 (1.75%) Zephyr
General
1 156 (30.35%) Finance
2 101 (19.65%) Social Skills
3 57 (11.09%) Banking
4 28 (5.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.09%) Games
6 21 (4.09%) Marketing
7 20 (3.89%) Automotive
8 16 (3.11%) Electronics
8 16 (3.11%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.53%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.14%) Aviation
11 10 (1.95%) Investment Banking
12 9 (1.75%) Retail
13 8 (1.56%) Law
13 8 (1.56%) Multimedia
14 7 (1.36%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.97%) Publishing
15 5 (0.97%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 188 (36.58%) Developer
2 106 (20.62%) Senior
3 68 (13.23%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.06%) DevOps Engineer
5 61 (11.87%) Cloud Engineer
6 48 (9.34%) Lead
7 45 (8.75%) AWS Engineer
8 43 (8.37%) Senior Developer
9 39 (7.59%) Software Developer
10 37 (7.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 34 (6.61%) .NET Developer
12 28 (5.45%) AWS DevOps
13 23 (4.47%) Senior Cloud Engineer
14 22 (4.28%) Data Engineer
14 22 (4.28%) Full Stack Developer
15 21 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
16 20 (3.89%) AWS DevOps Engineer
16 20 (3.89%) Cloud Platform Engineer
17 18 (3.50%) Azure Engineer
17 18 (3.50%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (17.70%) .NET
2 69 (13.42%) HTML
3 66 (12.84%) Node.js
4 65 (12.65%) React
5 63 (12.26%) CSS
6 55 (10.70%) RESTful
7 50 (9.73%) HTML5
8 35 (6.81%) GraphQL
9 32 (6.23%) AngularJS
10 29 (5.64%) jQuery
10 29 (5.64%) Vue
11 26 (5.06%) Laravel
12 25 (4.86%) Kafka
13 24 (4.67%) Spring
13 24 (4.67%) Web Services
14 22 (4.28%) .NET Core
15 21 (4.09%) Blazor
16 20 (3.89%) REST
17 19 (3.70%) JSON
18 18 (3.50%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 31 (6.03%) Public Cloud
2 30 (5.84%) Mobile App
2 30 (5.84%) Product Ownership
3 26 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.09%) Client/Server
4 21 (4.09%) IoT
4 21 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.70%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
6 17 (3.31%) Private Cloud
6 17 (3.31%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.33%) Algorithms
9 12 (2.33%) Cloud Native
9 12 (2.33%) Online Games
10 11 (2.14%) Life Science
11 9 (1.75%) Virtual Reality
12 8 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
13 7 (1.36%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 97 (18.87%) Linux
2 85 (16.54%) Windows
3 42 (8.17%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.84%) Apple iOS
5 21 (4.09%) Android
6 12 (2.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.36%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.97%) Unix
8 5 (0.97%) VMS
9 4 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.19%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 209 (40.66%) DevOps
2 173 (33.66%) Agile
3 171 (33.27%) CI/CD
4 118 (22.96%) Software Engineering
5 91 (17.70%) Problem-Solving
6 88 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 85 (16.54%) Test Automation
8 73 (14.20%) Microservices
9 67 (13.04%) Containerisation
10 57 (11.09%) Computer Science
11 55 (10.70%) Continuous Integration
12 52 (10.12%) Mentoring
13 46 (8.95%) Software Testing
14 42 (8.17%) Full Stack Development
15 38 (7.39%) SDLC
16 37 (7.20%) MVC
16 37 (7.20%) Unit Testing
17 36 (7.00%) DevSecOps
18 35 (6.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
18 35 (6.81%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 163 (31.71%) Python
2 154 (29.96%) JavaScript
3 125 (24.32%) SQL
4 107 (20.82%) Java
5 93 (18.09%) TypeScript
6 75 (14.59%) C#
7 59 (11.48%) Bash
8 52 (10.12%) Go
9 51 (9.92%) PowerShell
10 38 (7.39%) PHP
11 26 (5.06%) C
12 22 (4.28%) Ruby
13 13 (2.53%) Perl
13 13 (2.53%) T-SQL
14 12 (2.33%) Objective-C
14 12 (2.33%) Swift
15 11 (2.14%) Korn
16 10 (1.95%) Shell Script
17 9 (1.75%) R
18 7 (1.36%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (13.42%) Degree
2 45 (8.75%) Security Cleared
3 27 (5.25%) SC Cleared
4 24 (4.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.09%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.97%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.58%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.25%) QA
2 12 (2.33%) NCSC
3 6 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.97%) MISRA
5 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.39%) NIST
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (35.99%) Docker
2 30 (5.84%) Active Directory
3 29 (5.64%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.14%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.95%) NFS
5 10 (1.95%) pfSense
6 8 (1.56%) Firmware
7 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 146 (28.40%) Terraform
2 123 (23.93%) Kubernetes
3 78 (15.18%) Ansible
4 30 (5.84%) Grafana
5 23 (4.47%) Puppet
6 17 (3.31%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.92%) Packer
8 12 (2.33%) ZABBIX
9 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (1.95%) SCDPM
10 9 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (1.36%) Foglight
11 7 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
11 7 (1.36%) Nagios
12 6 (1.17%) Argo
12 6 (1.17%) Kibana
12 6 (1.17%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.97%) Consul
13 5 (0.97%) HP Quality Center
13 5 (0.97%) Salt
Vendors
1 74 (14.40%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.75%) Google
3 21 (4.09%) Oracle
4 17 (3.31%) VMware
5 16 (3.11%) ForgeRock
5 16 (3.11%) McAfee
5 16 (3.11%) Sitecore
6 13 (2.53%) Splunk
7 12 (2.33%) HP
8 11 (2.14%) Databricks
8 11 (2.14%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.14%) Juniper
8 11 (2.14%) Veeam
9 10 (1.95%) Red Hat
10 9 (1.75%) Atlassian
10 9 (1.75%) Dynatrace
10 9 (1.75%) Sun
10 9 (1.75%) TOWER Software
11 7 (1.36%) Confluent
11 7 (1.36%) MuleSoft