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

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 263 185 99
Rank change year-on-year -78 -86 +105
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,117 2,006 5,713
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 2.02% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 4.68% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 861 1,068 1,546
10th Percentile £42,286 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +3.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £89,889 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £112,500 £92,500
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 35,439 42,907 78,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.11% 48.41%
Number of salaries quoted 26,676 28,199 41,290
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,000 £34,000
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 £96,000 £102,500 £98,750
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 19 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 19 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 -70 943 £65,000 -6.40% 356
UK excluding London -99 680 £60,000 +4.35% 225
Work from Home -32 509 £65,000 -6.40% 181
London -44 357 £85,000 +13.33% 170
North of England -66 192 £60,000 +4.35% 69
South East -96 143 £52,500 -25.00% 63
North West -17 119 £60,000 +1.91% 33
Midlands +1 104 £61,500 +6.96% 21
Scotland -102 90 £75,000 +30.43% 13
South West +19 83 £57,500 -7.63% 31
West Midlands +17 82 £61,500 +6.96% 13
Yorkshire -57 59 £61,013 +2.50% 29
East of England -26 45 £50,000 - 11
Wales -10 22 £62,500 +1.63% 9
East Midlands -16 21 £55,000 +4.76% 8
North East -17 14 £71,500 +24.35% 8
Northern Ireland -27 1 £47,500 -17.39% 13

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 66 (5.91%) FileNet
2 60 (5.37%) Confluence
3 33 (2.95%) Apache
4 30 (2.69%) CMS
5 29 (2.60%) Apache Spark
6 24 (2.15%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (1.88%) Captiva
7 21 (1.88%) nginx
7 21 (1.88%) WebSphere
8 17 (1.52%) Drupal
9 14 (1.25%) WordPress
10 10 (0.90%) IIS
10 10 (0.90%) SharePoint
11 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
12 6 (0.54%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.45%) Tomcat
13 5 (0.45%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
16 2 (0.18%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.72%) Trello
4 7 (0.63%) GNU Octave
5 5 (0.45%) Doxygen
6 3 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.18%) Notion
7 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.090%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.090%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.36%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.27%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.18%) Shopify
5 1 (0.090%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.090%) Magento
5 1 (0.090%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.090%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.090%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.090%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.090%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 471 (42.17%) AWS
2 460 (41.18%) Azure
3 253 (22.65%) GitHub Actions
4 218 (19.52%) GCP
5 153 (13.70%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (11.82%) Serverless
7 119 (10.65%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (9.58%) Amazon S3
9 76 (6.80%) SaaS
10 70 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (5.37%) PaaS
12 45 (4.03%) Amazon EKS
13 43 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
14 41 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
14 41 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
14 41 (3.67%) Power Platform
15 40 (3.58%) Azure AKS
16 33 (2.95%) IaaS
17 24 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
17 24 (2.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.30%) Firewall
2 43 (3.85%) DNS
3 21 (1.88%) VPN
4 15 (1.34%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.25%) WAN
6 13 (1.16%) Internet
7 11 (0.98%) DHCP
7 11 (0.98%) RS-232
8 10 (0.90%) 5G
9 9 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 6 (0.54%) MQTT
10 6 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.45%) Bluetooth
11 5 (0.45%) Reverse Proxy
11 5 (0.45%) RS-485
11 5 (0.45%) Wireless
11 5 (0.45%) ZigBee
12 3 (0.27%) Network Security
12 3 (0.27%) SMS
12 3 (0.27%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 119 (10.65%) MySQL
2 109 (9.76%) SQL Server
3 99 (8.86%) NoSQL
4 83 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (5.46%) Elasticsearch
6 51 (4.57%) Data Warehouse
7 49 (4.39%) Apache Cassandra
8 48 (4.30%) Redis
9 40 (3.58%) Amazon RDS
10 34 (3.04%) MongoDB
10 34 (3.04%) Power BI
11 33 (2.95%) DynamoDB
12 32 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
13 27 (2.42%) Big Data
13 27 (2.42%) Relational Database
14 25 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 23 (2.06%) Amazon Aurora
15 23 (2.06%) Data Lake
16 22 (1.97%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 293 (26.23%) Git
2 238 (21.31%) Jenkins
3 183 (16.38%) JIRA
4 135 (12.09%) GitLab
5 62 (5.55%) CircleCI
6 55 (4.92%) Bitbucket
7 51 (4.57%) JUnit
8 48 (4.30%) Jasmine
9 45 (4.03%) Mockito
10 44 (3.94%) Visual Studio
11 33 (2.95%) Visual Studio Code
12 28 (2.51%) Oracle Forms
13 24 (2.15%) SonarQube
13 24 (2.15%) Sonatype Nexus
14 22 (1.97%) Octopus Deploy
14 22 (1.97%) Selenium
15 21 (1.88%) PHPUnit
16 20 (1.79%) Maven
17 19 (1.70%) Subversion
18 17 (1.52%) Artifactory
General
1 297 (26.59%) Finance
2 254 (22.74%) Social Skills
3 112 (10.03%) Banking
4 97 (8.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 78 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.46%) Marketing
8 58 (5.19%) Law
9 47 (4.21%) Retail
10 46 (4.12%) Legal
11 31 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.42%) Automotive
12 27 (2.42%) Electronics
13 26 (2.33%) Games
14 24 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
15 23 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 22 (1.97%) Manufacturing
17 19 (1.70%) Retail Banking
18 12 (1.07%) Aviation
19 11 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 420 (37.60%) Developer
2 226 (20.23%) Senior
3 176 (15.76%) Software Engineer
4 134 (12.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 114 (10.21%) Lead
6 86 (7.70%) Senior Developer
7 73 (6.54%) Full Stack Developer
7 73 (6.54%) Software Developer
8 72 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 71 (6.36%) AWS Engineer
10 61 (5.46%) .NET Developer
11 57 (5.10%) Data Engineer
12 49 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
13 46 (4.12%) C# Developer
14 44 (3.94%) Platform Engineer
15 40 (3.58%) AWS DevOps
15 40 (3.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 37 (3.31%) Java Engineer
17 36 (3.22%) Senior DevOps
17 36 (3.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (19.25%) React
2 192 (17.19%) .NET
3 146 (13.07%) HTML
4 143 (12.80%) CSS
5 135 (12.09%) AngularJS
6 109 (9.76%) Node.js
7 97 (8.68%) RESTful
8 89 (7.97%) Kafka
9 87 (7.79%) GraphQL
10 86 (7.70%) Spring
11 82 (7.34%) HTML5
12 81 (7.25%) REST
13 65 (5.82%) Vue
14 63 (5.64%) .NET Core
15 60 (5.37%) Laravel
16 50 (4.48%) jQuery
17 49 (4.39%) J2EE
18 47 (4.21%) Web Services
19 45 (4.03%) Hibernate
19 45 (4.03%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.07%) Public Cloud
2 70 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 57 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 53 (4.74%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (4.12%) IoT
6 42 (3.76%) Private Cloud
7 38 (3.40%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.69%) Data Structures
9 28 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (2.06%) Management Information System
11 22 (1.97%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.88%) Client/Server
12 21 (1.88%) DataPower
12 21 (1.88%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (1.88%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
14 16 (1.43%) Algorithms
15 15 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
16 14 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
17 12 (1.07%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 177 (15.85%) Linux
2 105 (9.40%) Windows
3 49 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 38 (3.40%) Unix
5 34 (3.04%) Apple iOS
6 26 (2.33%) Android
7 12 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.63%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.45%) VMS
10 5 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) Alpine Linux
13 1 (0.090%) Debian
13 1 (0.090%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (41.36%) Agile
2 450 (40.29%) DevOps
3 409 (36.62%) CI/CD
4 298 (26.68%) Software Engineering
5 218 (19.52%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (18.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 185 (16.56%) Full Stack Development
8 160 (14.32%) Computer Science
9 156 (13.97%) Microservices
10 146 (13.07%) Containerisation
11 144 (12.89%) Test Automation
12 129 (11.55%) Machine Learning
12 129 (11.55%) SDLC
13 120 (10.74%) Unit Testing
14 112 (10.03%) Mentoring
15 98 (8.77%) Continuous Integration
16 91 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
17 88 (7.88%) Scrum
18 81 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
19 79 (7.07%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 340 (30.44%) Python
2 301 (26.95%) SQL
3 299 (26.77%) JavaScript
4 237 (21.22%) Java
5 170 (15.22%) C#
6 141 (12.62%) TypeScript
7 105 (9.40%) PowerShell
8 93 (8.33%) PHP
9 87 (7.79%) Bash
10 74 (6.62%) Go
11 45 (4.03%) Ruby
12 43 (3.85%) C
13 23 (2.06%) MATLAB
14 21 (1.88%) Scala
14 21 (1.88%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.79%) Apex Code
16 19 (1.70%) C++
17 16 (1.43%) Objective-C
18 15 (1.34%) Perl
18 15 (1.34%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 187 (16.74%) Degree
2 94 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (5.55%) Security Cleared
4 54 (4.83%) Master's Degree
5 40 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 28 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.07%) AWS Certification
8 10 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 8 (0.72%) HND
10 7 (0.63%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 7 (0.63%) PhD
11 5 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.090%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.85%) QA
2 36 (3.22%) GDPR
3 20 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.07%) NCSC
6 11 (0.98%) MISRA
7 8 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.54%) MISRA C
9 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.36%) PMO
10 3 (0.27%) SLA
11 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.18%) NIST
12 1 (0.090%) AUTOSAR
12 1 (0.090%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.090%) WCAG
System Software
1 345 (30.89%) Docker
2 40 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.34%) Firmware
5 11 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.98%) NFS
6 10 (0.90%) pfSense
7 8 (0.72%) HDFS
8 6 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.090%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.090%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.090%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 311 (27.84%) Kubernetes
2 304 (27.22%) Terraform
3 120 (10.74%) Ansible
4 38 (3.40%) Grafana
5 30 (2.69%) Progress Chef
6 28 (2.51%) Puppet
7 16 (1.43%) Packer
8 15 (1.34%) Argo
8 15 (1.34%) Istio
9 14 (1.25%) ZABBIX
10 13 (1.16%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.90%) SCDPM
12 8 (0.72%) Kibana
12 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Clustering
12 8 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
13 7 (0.63%) Foglight
13 7 (0.63%) Nagios
13 7 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
13 7 (0.63%) Salt
Vendors
1 154 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.22%) Oracle
3 83 (7.43%) Google
4 34 (3.04%) SAP
5 32 (2.86%) IBM
6 31 (2.78%) ServiceNow
7 28 (2.51%) Databricks
8 22 (1.97%) Splunk
9 21 (1.88%) Kofax
9 21 (1.88%) Pega
9 21 (1.88%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.79%) VMware
11 19 (1.70%) Atlassian
12 16 (1.43%) ForgeRock
12 16 (1.43%) Sitecore
13 15 (1.34%) McAfee
14 13 (1.16%) Dynatrace
14 13 (1.16%) HP
15 12 (1.07%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.98%) Juniper