GitHub
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 257 193 99
Rank change year-on-year -64 -94 +116
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,124 1,978 5,490
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.13% 1.95% 3.49%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.17% 4.55% 7.22%
Number of salaries quoted 870 1,091 1,565
10th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £82,548 £89,852 £80,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £109,865 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% +4.76%

All Cloud Skills
UK

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 requirement for cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 35,426 43,437 76,087
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.72% 42.77% 48.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26,744 28,539 41,573
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £102,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub.

Salary trend for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the UK

GitHub
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the UK over the 6 months to 8 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -69 947 £65,000 -6.40% 433
UK excluding London -96 677 £60,000 +4.35% 267
Work from Home -29 516 £65,000 -6.40% 168
London -30 364 £85,000 +9.68% 193
North of England -66 190 £62,500 +8.70% 87
South East -81 144 £52,500 -25.00% 41
North West -6 120 £60,000 +1.91% 42
Midlands +5 103 £61,500 +6.96% 41
Scotland -79 90 £75,000 +30.43% 20
South West +7 82 £57,500 -7.82% 39
West Midlands +8 81 £61,500 +6.96% 26
Yorkshire -56 56 £68,000 +14.24% 36
East of England -14 45 £50,000 - 20
Wales +1 22 £62,500 +22.30% 12
East Midlands -11 21 £55,000 +4.76% 15
North East -17 14 £71,500 +24.35% 10
Northern Ireland -17 1 £47,500 -17.39% 11

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 73 (6.49%) FileNet
2 61 (5.43%) Confluence
3 34 (3.02%) Apache
4 29 (2.58%) Apache Spark
4 29 (2.58%) CMS
5 28 (2.49%) Captiva
5 28 (2.49%) WebSphere
6 24 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
7 22 (1.96%) nginx
8 18 (1.60%) Drupal
9 15 (1.33%) WordPress
10 10 (0.89%) IIS
10 10 (0.89%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Exchange
12 7 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 6 (0.53%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.53%) Tomcat
14 5 (0.44%) Umbraco
15 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.18%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 45 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.71%) Trello
4 7 (0.62%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.44%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.18%) Notion
7 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.18%) Magento
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.089%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.089%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.089%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.089%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.089%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.089%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 470 (41.81%) AWS
2 468 (41.64%) Azure
3 249 (22.15%) GitHub Actions
4 222 (19.75%) GCP
5 157 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
6 136 (12.10%) Serverless
7 123 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (9.52%) Amazon S3
9 81 (7.21%) SaaS
10 70 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 57 (5.07%) PaaS
12 47 (4.18%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
14 42 (3.74%) Amazon SQS
14 42 (3.74%) Power Platform
15 41 (3.65%) Amazon EC2
16 39 (3.47%) Azure AKS
17 33 (2.94%) IaaS
18 24 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
18 24 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.27%) Firewall
2 43 (3.83%) DNS
3 21 (1.87%) VPN
4 15 (1.33%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.25%) Internet
5 14 (1.25%) WAN
6 11 (0.98%) DHCP
6 11 (0.98%) RS-232
7 10 (0.89%) 5G
8 9 (0.80%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.53%) MQTT
9 6 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.44%) Bluetooth
10 5 (0.44%) Reverse Proxy
10 5 (0.44%) RS-485
10 5 (0.44%) Wireless
10 5 (0.44%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.27%) Network Security
11 3 (0.27%) SMS
11 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (10.41%) MySQL
2 107 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 98 (8.72%) NoSQL
4 83 (7.38%) PostgreSQL
5 60 (5.34%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (4.54%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (4.36%) Apache Cassandra
8 45 (4.00%) Redis
9 41 (3.65%) Amazon RDS
10 35 (3.11%) Power BI
11 34 (3.02%) DynamoDB
12 30 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
12 30 (2.67%) MongoDB
13 27 (2.40%) Big Data
14 26 (2.31%) Relational Database
15 25 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
15 25 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
16 23 (2.05%) Data Lake
17 22 (1.96%) BigQuery
18 19 (1.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 304 (27.05%) Git
2 243 (21.62%) Jenkins
3 197 (17.53%) JIRA
4 135 (12.01%) GitLab
5 59 (5.25%) Bitbucket
5 59 (5.25%) CircleCI
6 52 (4.63%) JUnit
7 49 (4.36%) Jasmine
8 45 (4.00%) Mockito
8 45 (4.00%) Visual Studio
9 34 (3.02%) Visual Studio Code
10 33 (2.94%) Oracle Forms
11 25 (2.22%) Selenium
11 25 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
12 22 (1.96%) Maven
12 22 (1.96%) SonarQube
13 21 (1.87%) PHPUnit
14 19 (1.69%) Octopus Deploy
14 19 (1.69%) Subversion
15 18 (1.60%) Artifactory
General
1 308 (27.40%) Finance
2 248 (22.06%) Social Skills
3 121 (10.77%) Banking
4 97 (8.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 79 (7.03%) Analytical Skills
6 69 (6.14%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.43%) Marketing
8 59 (5.25%) Law
9 47 (4.18%) Retail
10 46 (4.09%) Legal
11 31 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.40%) Automotive
12 27 (2.40%) Electronics
13 25 (2.22%) Games
14 23 (2.05%) Telecoms
15 22 (1.96%) Manufacturing
16 21 (1.87%) Organisational Skills
16 21 (1.87%) Retail Banking
17 14 (1.25%) Investment Banking
18 12 (1.07%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 419 (37.28%) Developer
2 222 (19.75%) Senior
3 176 (15.66%) Software Engineer
4 136 (12.10%) DevOps Engineer
5 116 (10.32%) Lead
6 86 (7.65%) Senior Developer
7 74 (6.58%) Cloud Engineer
8 73 (6.49%) Full Stack Developer
9 72 (6.41%) AWS Engineer
10 71 (6.32%) Software Developer
11 60 (5.34%) .NET Developer
12 57 (5.07%) Data Engineer
13 48 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
14 45 (4.00%) C# Developer
15 43 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 41 (3.65%) AWS DevOps
16 41 (3.65%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (3.29%) Java Engineer
18 35 (3.11%) Senior DevOps
18 35 (3.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (19.13%) React
2 190 (16.90%) .NET
3 147 (13.08%) HTML
4 143 (12.72%) CSS
5 133 (11.83%) AngularJS
6 109 (9.70%) Node.js
7 98 (8.72%) RESTful
8 90 (8.01%) Kafka
9 86 (7.65%) Spring
10 84 (7.47%) GraphQL
10 84 (7.47%) HTML5
11 77 (6.85%) REST
12 64 (5.69%) Vue
13 61 (5.43%) .NET Core
14 58 (5.16%) Laravel
15 51 (4.54%) J2EE
15 51 (4.54%) jQuery
16 46 (4.09%) Web Services
17 45 (4.00%) Hibernate
17 45 (4.00%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.58%) Public Cloud
2 71 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 54 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.36%) Distributed Systems
5 47 (4.18%) Private Cloud
6 45 (4.00%) IoT
7 37 (3.29%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.67%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.49%) DataPower
10 25 (2.22%) Management Information System
10 25 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (2.14%) Onboarding
12 23 (2.05%) Virtual Team
13 21 (1.87%) Client/Server
14 20 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
15 19 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
16 16 (1.42%) Algorithms
16 16 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
18 12 (1.07%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 190 (16.90%) Linux
2 108 (9.61%) Windows
3 52 (4.63%) Windows Server
4 45 (4.00%) Unix
5 33 (2.94%) Apple iOS
6 24 (2.14%) Android
7 15 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.62%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.53%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.44%) VMS
10 5 (0.44%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.36%) FreeRTOS
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.089%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 467 (41.55%) Agile
2 462 (41.10%) DevOps
3 412 (36.65%) CI/CD
4 300 (26.69%) Software Engineering
5 213 (18.95%) Problem-Solving
6 205 (18.24%) Infrastructure as Code
7 178 (15.84%) Full Stack Development
8 159 (14.15%) Computer Science
8 159 (14.15%) Microservices
9 145 (12.90%) Containerisation
9 145 (12.90%) Test Automation
10 131 (11.65%) Machine Learning
10 131 (11.65%) SDLC
11 120 (10.68%) Unit Testing
12 110 (9.79%) Mentoring
13 98 (8.72%) Continuous Integration
14 93 (8.27%) Scrum
15 92 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
16 80 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
17 79 (7.03%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 349 (31.05%) Python
2 311 (27.67%) SQL
3 302 (26.87%) JavaScript
4 246 (21.89%) Java
5 170 (15.12%) C#
6 143 (12.72%) TypeScript
7 103 (9.16%) PowerShell
8 91 (8.10%) PHP
9 89 (7.92%) Bash
10 73 (6.49%) Go
11 49 (4.36%) Ruby
12 43 (3.83%) C
13 23 (2.05%) MATLAB
14 20 (1.78%) Apex Code
14 20 (1.78%) C++
14 20 (1.78%) T-SQL
15 18 (1.60%) Perl
15 18 (1.60%) Scala
16 16 (1.42%) Objective-C
17 14 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 187 (16.64%) Degree
2 93 (8.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 70 (6.23%) Security Cleared
4 55 (4.89%) Master's Degree
5 45 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 30 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 13 (1.16%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.89%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.71%) HND
10 7 (0.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.62%) PhD
11 5 (0.44%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB
12 4 (0.36%) ISEB Practitioner
12 4 (0.36%) ISTQB
12 4 (0.36%) PMI Certification
13 1 (0.089%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.089%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.91%) QA
2 43 (3.83%) GDPR
3 20 (1.78%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.16%) NCSC
6 11 (0.98%) MISRA
7 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.53%) MISRA C
9 5 (0.44%) PMO
10 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.27%) SLA
12 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.18%) NIST
13 1 (0.089%) AUTOSAR
13 1 (0.089%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.089%) WCAG
System Software
1 340 (30.25%) Docker
2 42 (3.74%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.58%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.33%) Firmware
5 11 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.98%) NFS
6 10 (0.89%) pfSense
7 8 (0.71%) HDFS
8 6 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.089%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.089%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.089%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 307 (27.31%) Kubernetes
2 301 (26.78%) Terraform
3 121 (10.77%) Ansible
4 38 (3.38%) Grafana
5 30 (2.67%) Progress Chef
6 29 (2.58%) Puppet
7 16 (1.42%) Packer
8 15 (1.33%) Istio
9 14 (1.25%) Argo
9 14 (1.25%) ZABBIX
10 13 (1.16%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.89%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.89%) Red Hat Satellite
11 10 (0.89%) SCDPM
12 8 (0.71%) Kibana
12 8 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.62%) Foglight
13 7 (0.62%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.62%) Nagios
13 7 (0.62%) Salt
Vendors
1 154 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 110 (9.79%) Oracle
3 83 (7.38%) Google
4 41 (3.65%) SAP
5 39 (3.47%) IBM
6 38 (3.38%) ServiceNow
7 29 (2.58%) Databricks
8 28 (2.49%) Kofax
8 28 (2.49%) Pega
9 23 (2.05%) Splunk
10 21 (1.87%) Salesforce
11 20 (1.78%) VMware
12 18 (1.60%) Atlassian
13 17 (1.51%) McAfee
14 16 (1.42%) ForgeRock
14 16 (1.42%) Sitecore
15 15 (1.33%) Red Hat
16 13 (1.16%) Dynatrace
16 13 (1.16%) HP
17 11 (0.98%) Veeam