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

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 185 84
Rank change year-on-year -31 -101 +85
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 512 786 2,877
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.52% 1.89% 4.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.52% 3.95% 7.93%
Number of salaries quoted 441 532 952
10th Percentile £42,286 £45,050 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,219 £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 £78,750 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £109,504 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +4.00%

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 14,552 19,880 36,267
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 43.25% 47.81% 52.79%
Number of salaries quoted 11,904 14,556 21,788
10th Percentile £35,750 £38,000 £37,491
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 £83,125
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 7 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 32 (6.25%) Confluence
2 18 (3.52%) nginx
3 12 (2.34%) Apache
4 11 (2.15%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.95%) WordPress
6 8 (1.56%) CMS
7 6 (1.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 6 (1.17%) IIS
7 6 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 6 (1.17%) Tomcat
8 5 (0.98%) Umbraco
9 3 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.39%) Drupal
10 2 (0.39%) SharePoint
11 1 (0.20%) JBoss
Applications
1 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.37%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.39%) Notion
4 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 3 (0.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.39%) Magento
2 2 (0.39%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.20%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.20%) Sage 50
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 240 (46.88%) AWS
2 208 (40.63%) Azure
3 110 (21.48%) GitHub Actions
4 103 (20.12%) GCP
5 102 (19.92%) Serverless
6 90 (17.58%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (14.26%) Azure DevOps
8 59 (11.52%) SaaS
9 40 (7.81%) Amazon EKS
9 40 (7.81%) PaaS
10 38 (7.42%) Amazon S3
11 37 (7.23%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (6.05%) Azure AKS
13 28 (5.47%) Amazon ECS
13 28 (5.47%) Amazon SQS
14 27 (5.27%) Amazon EC2
15 22 (4.30%) IaaS
16 21 (4.10%) Power Platform
17 20 (3.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 18 (3.52%) AWS Fargate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.27%) Firewall
2 21 (4.10%) DNS
3 20 (3.91%) VPN
4 11 (2.15%) 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 (0.98%) Bluetooth
7 5 (0.98%) MQTT
7 5 (0.98%) Reverse Proxy
7 5 (0.98%) RS-485
7 5 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.98%) Wireless
7 5 (0.98%) ZigBee
8 3 (0.59%) SMS
9 2 (0.39%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.39%) LAN
9 2 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (12.11%) MySQL
2 52 (10.16%) PostgreSQL
2 52 (10.16%) SQL Server
3 35 (6.84%) Redis
4 31 (6.05%) Amazon RDS
5 22 (4.30%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.10%) Power BI
7 20 (3.91%) Amazon Aurora
7 20 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 17 (3.32%) Relational Database
9 13 (2.54%) NoSQL
10 12 (2.34%) BigQuery
10 12 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 10 (1.95%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (1.95%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.76%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.37%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 142 (27.73%) Git
2 127 (24.80%) Jenkins
3 77 (15.04%) JIRA
4 49 (9.57%) GitLab
5 35 (6.84%) Visual Studio
6 29 (5.66%) Bitbucket
7 22 (4.30%) CircleCI
8 20 (3.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 17 (3.32%) Maven
10 16 (3.13%) Subversion
11 14 (2.73%) Selenium
12 13 (2.54%) SonarQube
13 12 (2.34%) Sonatype Nexus
13 12 (2.34%) Spinnaker
13 12 (2.34%) TeamCity
14 10 (1.95%) Cypress.io
14 10 (1.95%) Octopus Deploy
14 10 (1.95%) Trac
15 9 (1.76%) SoapUI
15 9 (1.76%) Zephyr
General
1 158 (30.86%) Finance
2 101 (19.73%) Social Skills
3 60 (11.72%) Banking
4 28 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.10%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (4.10%) Games
6 21 (4.10%) Marketing
7 19 (3.71%) Automotive
8 16 (3.13%) Electronics
8 16 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.54%) Manufacturing
10 11 (2.15%) Aviation
10 11 (2.15%) Investment Banking
11 9 (1.76%) Retail
12 8 (1.56%) Law
12 8 (1.56%) Multimedia
13 7 (1.37%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.98%) Publishing
14 5 (0.98%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 187 (36.52%) Developer
2 106 (20.70%) Senior
3 69 (13.48%) Software Engineer
4 62 (12.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 62 (12.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 47 (9.18%) Lead
6 45 (8.79%) AWS Engineer
7 43 (8.40%) Senior Developer
8 38 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 38 (7.42%) Software Developer
9 34 (6.64%) .NET Developer
10 27 (5.27%) AWS DevOps
11 23 (4.49%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 22 (4.30%) Data Engineer
12 22 (4.30%) Full Stack Developer
13 21 (4.10%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (3.91%) AWS DevOps Engineer
14 20 (3.91%) Cloud Platform Engineer
15 18 (3.52%) Azure Engineer
15 18 (3.52%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (17.58%) .NET
2 69 (13.48%) HTML
3 65 (12.70%) React
4 64 (12.50%) Node.js
5 63 (12.30%) CSS
6 55 (10.74%) RESTful
7 50 (9.77%) HTML5
8 35 (6.84%) GraphQL
9 32 (6.25%) AngularJS
10 29 (5.66%) jQuery
10 29 (5.66%) Vue
11 26 (5.08%) Laravel
12 25 (4.88%) Kafka
13 24 (4.69%) Web Services
14 23 (4.49%) Spring
15 22 (4.30%) .NET Core
16 21 (4.10%) Blazor
17 20 (3.91%) REST
18 19 (3.71%) JSON
19 18 (3.52%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.86%) Product Ownership
2 29 (5.66%) Mobile App
3 28 (5.47%) Public Cloud
4 26 (5.08%) Data Structures
5 22 (4.30%) Management Information System
6 21 (4.10%) Client/Server
7 20 (3.91%) Onboarding
8 19 (3.71%) IoT
9 18 (3.52%) Virtual Team
10 17 (3.32%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.32%) Private Cloud
11 14 (2.73%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (2.34%) Algorithms
13 12 (2.34%) Cloud Native
13 12 (2.34%) Online Games
14 11 (2.15%) Life Science
15 9 (1.76%) Virtual Reality
16 8 (1.56%) Augmented Reality
17 7 (1.37%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 99 (19.34%) Linux
2 86 (16.80%) Windows
3 43 (8.40%) Windows Server
4 30 (5.86%) Apple iOS
5 21 (4.10%) Android
6 13 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.37%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.98%) Unix
8 5 (0.98%) VMS
9 4 (0.78%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.78%) FreeRTOS
10 3 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 210 (41.02%) DevOps
2 174 (33.98%) Agile
3 172 (33.59%) CI/CD
4 120 (23.44%) Software Engineering
5 93 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
6 86 (16.80%) Infrastructure as Code
7 84 (16.41%) Test Automation
8 69 (13.48%) Microservices
9 65 (12.70%) Containerisation
10 57 (11.13%) Computer Science
10 57 (11.13%) Continuous Integration
11 53 (10.35%) Mentoring
12 46 (8.98%) Software Testing
13 42 (8.20%) Full Stack Development
14 38 (7.42%) SDLC
15 37 (7.23%) MVC
15 37 (7.23%) Unit Testing
16 36 (7.03%) DevSecOps
16 36 (7.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 35 (6.84%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 163 (31.84%) Python
2 154 (30.08%) JavaScript
3 124 (24.22%) SQL
4 106 (20.70%) Java
5 93 (18.16%) TypeScript
6 75 (14.65%) C#
7 60 (11.72%) Bash
8 51 (9.96%) Go
8 51 (9.96%) PowerShell
9 37 (7.23%) PHP
10 26 (5.08%) C
11 23 (4.49%) Ruby
12 14 (2.73%) Perl
13 13 (2.54%) T-SQL
14 12 (2.34%) Korn
14 12 (2.34%) Objective-C
14 12 (2.34%) Swift
15 11 (2.15%) Shell Script
16 9 (1.76%) R
17 7 (1.37%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 69 (13.48%) Degree
2 47 (9.18%) Security Cleared
3 28 (5.47%) SC Cleared
4 25 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 5 (0.98%) DBS Check
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.27%) QA
2 13 (2.54%) NCSC
3 6 (1.17%) Data Quality
4 5 (0.98%) MISRA
5 4 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.39%) NIST
6 2 (0.39%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 185 (36.13%) Docker
2 31 (6.05%) Active Directory
3 28 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
4 11 (2.15%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.95%) NFS
5 10 (1.95%) pfSense
6 8 (1.56%) Firmware
7 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 145 (28.32%) Terraform
2 121 (23.63%) Kubernetes
3 78 (15.23%) Ansible
4 30 (5.86%) Grafana
5 23 (4.49%) Puppet
6 17 (3.32%) Progress Chef
7 15 (2.93%) Packer
8 12 (2.34%) ZABBIX
9 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 10 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (1.95%) SCDPM
10 7 (1.37%) Foglight
10 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (1.37%) Nagios
11 6 (1.17%) Argo
11 6 (1.17%) Kibana
11 6 (1.17%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.98%) Consul
12 5 (0.98%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (0.98%) Salt
Vendors
1 77 (15.04%) Microsoft
2 46 (8.98%) Google
3 20 (3.91%) Oracle
4 17 (3.32%) McAfee
5 16 (3.13%) VMware
6 15 (2.93%) ForgeRock
6 15 (2.93%) Sitecore
7 13 (2.54%) Splunk
8 12 (2.34%) HP
9 11 (2.15%) Databricks
9 11 (2.15%) Fortinet
9 11 (2.15%) Juniper
9 11 (2.15%) Red Hat
9 11 (2.15%) Veeam
10 10 (1.95%) Sun
10 10 (1.95%) TOWER Software
11 9 (1.76%) Atlassian
12 8 (1.56%) Dynatrace
13 7 (1.37%) Confluent
13 7 (1.37%) MuleSoft