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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 228 198 80
Rank change year-on-year -30 -118 +90
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 489 686 3,296
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.41% 1.78% 4.44%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.29% 3.74% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 417 483 951
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £55,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £69,447 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +6.84% +13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £84,056 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +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 14,883 18,326 39,761
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 42.84% 47.65% 53.53%
Number of salaries quoted 12,042 13,805 21,987
10th Percentile £35,767 £38,220 £37,500
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% - +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,125
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £64,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.85% +3.20% +7.76%

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 1 June 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 27 (5.52%) Confluence
2 17 (3.48%) nginx
3 11 (2.25%) Apache
4 10 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.43%) CMS
5 7 (1.43%) IIS
5 7 (1.43%) WordPress
6 6 (1.23%) OpenStack
7 5 (1.02%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.82%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) JBoss
10 1 (0.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.43%) GNU Octave
3 2 (0.41%) Notion
4 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (0.61%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.41%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Magento
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
1 231 (47.24%) AWS
2 205 (41.92%) Azure
3 111 (22.70%) GitHub Actions
4 88 (18.00%) Serverless
5 86 (17.59%) GCP
6 78 (15.95%) AWS Lambda
7 73 (14.93%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (11.66%) SaaS
9 38 (7.77%) PaaS
10 37 (7.57%) AWS CloudFormation
11 36 (7.36%) Amazon EKS
11 36 (7.36%) Amazon S3
12 30 (6.13%) Azure AKS
13 29 (5.93%) Amazon ECS
14 25 (5.11%) Amazon SQS
15 23 (4.70%) Amazon EC2
15 23 (4.70%) IaaS
16 22 (4.50%) Power Platform
17 19 (3.89%) AWS Fargate
18 18 (3.68%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.91%) Firewall
2 20 (4.09%) VPN
3 19 (3.89%) DNS
4 11 (2.25%) RS-232
5 10 (2.04%) 5G
5 10 (2.04%) DHCP
6 9 (1.84%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.64%) Internet
8 6 (1.23%) WAN
9 5 (1.02%) Bluetooth
9 5 (1.02%) MQTT
9 5 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (1.02%) RS-485
9 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.02%) Wireless
9 5 (1.02%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.61%) SMS
11 2 (0.41%) Ethernet
11 2 (0.41%) LAN
11 2 (0.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (12.27%) MySQL
2 50 (10.22%) PostgreSQL
3 48 (9.82%) SQL Server
4 39 (7.98%) Redis
5 26 (5.32%) Amazon RDS
6 24 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
7 22 (4.50%) Power BI
8 21 (4.29%) Relational Database
9 18 (3.68%) DynamoDB
10 14 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 14 (2.86%) NoSQL
11 13 (2.66%) Azure SQL Database
11 13 (2.66%) MongoDB
12 12 (2.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 11 (2.25%) BigQuery
13 11 (2.25%) Data Lake
14 9 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
14 9 (1.84%) Data Mining
14 9 (1.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.43%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 126 (25.77%) Git
2 104 (21.27%) Jenkins
3 69 (14.11%) JIRA
4 44 (9.00%) GitLab
5 32 (6.54%) Visual Studio
6 24 (4.91%) Bitbucket
7 20 (4.09%) CircleCI
8 17 (3.48%) Visual Studio Code
9 16 (3.27%) Subversion
10 13 (2.66%) SonarQube
11 11 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
11 11 (2.25%) TeamCity
12 10 (2.04%) Maven
12 10 (2.04%) Trac
13 9 (1.84%) Sonatype Nexus
13 9 (1.84%) Zephyr
14 8 (1.64%) Selenium
15 7 (1.43%) CMake
15 7 (1.43%) Cypress.io
15 7 (1.43%) SoapUI
General
1 130 (26.58%) Finance
2 97 (19.84%) Social Skills
3 38 (7.77%) Banking
4 27 (5.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 26 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.29%) Games
6 21 (4.29%) Marketing
7 20 (4.09%) Analytical Skills
7 20 (4.09%) Automotive
8 16 (3.27%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.07%) Electronics
10 13 (2.66%) Manufacturing
11 11 (2.25%) Aviation
12 9 (1.84%) Law
13 8 (1.64%) Retail
14 7 (1.43%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.43%) Multimedia
15 6 (1.23%) Investment Banking
15 6 (1.23%) Wearables
16 5 (1.02%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 182 (37.22%) Developer
2 106 (21.68%) Senior
3 67 (13.70%) Software Engineer
4 58 (11.86%) DevOps Engineer
5 50 (10.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 42 (8.59%) Senior Developer
7 40 (8.18%) AWS Engineer
8 39 (7.98%) Lead
8 39 (7.98%) Software Developer
9 32 (6.54%) .NET Developer
10 30 (6.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (5.11%) AWS DevOps
12 23 (4.70%) Full Stack Developer
13 22 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.09%) Azure Engineer
14 20 (4.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
14 20 (4.09%) Data Engineer
15 19 (3.89%) Senior Cloud Engineer
16 18 (3.68%) Senior Software Developer
16 18 (3.68%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 90 (18.40%) .NET
2 67 (13.70%) HTML
2 67 (13.70%) Node.js
3 63 (12.88%) CSS
3 63 (12.88%) React
4 53 (10.84%) RESTful
5 46 (9.41%) HTML5
6 35 (7.16%) GraphQL
7 31 (6.34%) AngularJS
8 29 (5.93%) Vue
9 28 (5.73%) jQuery
10 25 (5.11%) Laravel
11 24 (4.91%) .NET Core
12 23 (4.70%) Spring
13 21 (4.29%) Web Services
14 19 (3.89%) Blazor
14 19 (3.89%) Kafka
15 18 (3.68%) JSON
15 18 (3.68%) REST
15 18 (3.68%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.93%) Mobile App
2 27 (5.52%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.91%) Product Ownership
3 24 (4.91%) Public Cloud
4 21 (4.29%) Client/Server
4 21 (4.29%) IoT
4 21 (4.29%) Management Information System
5 19 (3.89%) Onboarding
6 17 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
7 16 (3.27%) Private Cloud
8 13 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
8 13 (2.66%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (2.45%) Online Games
10 11 (2.25%) Life Science
11 9 (1.84%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.84%) Cloud Native
12 8 (1.64%) Clustering
12 8 (1.64%) Virtual Reality
13 7 (1.43%) Augmented Reality
Operating Systems
1 90 (18.40%) Linux
2 78 (15.95%) Windows
3 38 (7.77%) Windows Server
4 30 (6.13%) Apple iOS
5 21 (4.29%) Android
6 8 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.43%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.02%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (1.02%) Unix
9 4 (0.82%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.82%) VMS
10 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.41%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.41%) Debian
12 1 (0.20%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (39.88%) DevOps
2 158 (32.31%) Agile
3 154 (31.49%) CI/CD
4 116 (23.72%) Software Engineering
5 87 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 80 (16.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 78 (15.95%) Test Automation
8 68 (13.91%) Containerisation
9 66 (13.50%) Microservices
10 58 (11.86%) Computer Science
11 50 (10.22%) Continuous Integration
11 50 (10.22%) Mentoring
12 44 (9.00%) Software Testing
13 42 (8.59%) Full Stack Development
14 37 (7.57%) Unit Testing
15 35 (7.16%) DevSecOps
15 35 (7.16%) MVC
16 34 (6.95%) Clean Code
17 33 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
18 32 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 147 (30.06%) Python
2 145 (29.65%) JavaScript
3 121 (24.74%) SQL
4 96 (19.63%) Java
5 90 (18.40%) TypeScript
6 77 (15.75%) C#
7 52 (10.63%) PowerShell
8 51 (10.43%) Bash
8 51 (10.43%) Go
9 36 (7.36%) PHP
10 25 (5.11%) C
11 17 (3.48%) Ruby
12 15 (3.07%) T-SQL
13 12 (2.45%) Objective-C
13 12 (2.45%) Swift
14 10 (2.04%) Perl
15 8 (1.64%) R
15 8 (1.64%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.43%) MATLAB
16 7 (1.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (13.91%) Degree
2 42 (8.59%) Security Cleared
3 23 (4.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 23 (4.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (4.70%) SC Cleared
4 8 (1.64%) Master's Degree
5 3 (0.61%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.61%) DBS Check
5 3 (0.61%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
6 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.20%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.32%) QA
2 14 (2.86%) NCSC
3 6 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.02%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.02%) MISRA
5 4 (0.82%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.61%) NIST
7 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.20%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (35.58%) Docker
2 28 (5.73%) Virtual Machines
3 26 (5.32%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 10 (2.04%) NFS
5 10 (2.04%) pfSense
6 9 (1.84%) Firmware
7 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
8 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 139 (28.43%) Terraform
2 109 (22.29%) Kubernetes
3 73 (14.93%) Ansible
4 29 (5.93%) Grafana
5 15 (3.07%) Puppet
6 13 (2.66%) Progress Chef
7 12 (2.45%) Packer
7 12 (2.45%) ZABBIX
8 10 (2.04%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 10 (2.04%) SCDPM
9 8 (1.64%) Microsoft Clustering
10 7 (1.43%) Foglight
10 7 (1.43%) Nagios
11 6 (1.23%) Kibana
11 6 (1.23%) Prometheus
12 5 (1.02%) HP Quality Center
12 5 (1.02%) Red Hat Satellite
13 4 (0.82%) Argo
13 4 (0.82%) Consul
14 3 (0.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 71 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 34 (6.95%) Google
3 18 (3.68%) Oracle
4 17 (3.48%) VMware
5 16 (3.27%) ForgeRock
5 16 (3.27%) Sitecore
6 14 (2.86%) McAfee
7 12 (2.45%) HP
8 11 (2.25%) Databricks
8 11 (2.25%) Fortinet
8 11 (2.25%) Juniper
8 11 (2.25%) Veeam
9 10 (2.04%) Splunk
10 9 (1.84%) Dynatrace
11 8 (1.64%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.43%) ArcSight
12 7 (1.43%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.43%) ServiceNow
13 6 (1.23%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.23%) SAP