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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 189 99
Rank change year-on-year -79 -90 +107
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,116 1,990 5,688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.12% 2.01% 3.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.15% 4.66% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 861 1,062 1,546
10th Percentile £42,286 £45,045 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £46,375
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 £89,963 £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 35,421 42,712 77,813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.46% 43.07% 48.42%
Number of salaries quoted 26,675 28,032 41,298
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 18 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 18 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 -70 942 £65,000 -6.40% 341
UK excluding London -99 680 £60,000 +4.35% 210
Work from Home -28 509 £65,000 -6.40% 175
London -31 356 £85,000 +9.68% 164
North of England -58 192 £60,000 +4.35% 68
South East -89 143 £52,500 -25.00% 57
North West -13 119 £60,000 +1.91% 34
Midlands -6 104 £61,500 +6.96% 18
Scotland -96 90 £75,000 +28.18% 12
South West +3 83 £57,500 -7.63% 30
West Midlands +15 82 £61,500 +6.96% 11
Yorkshire -53 59 £61,013 +2.50% 27
East of England -22 45 £50,000 - 13
Wales -7 22 £62,500 +1.63% 9
East Midlands -12 21 £55,000 +4.76% 7
North East -21 14 £71,500 +24.35% 8
Northern Ireland -29 1 £47,500 -17.39% 8

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 (5.38%) Confluence
3 33 (2.96%) 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%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 44 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.08%) 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
1 470 (42.11%) AWS
2 460 (41.22%) Azure
3 253 (22.67%) GitHub Actions
4 217 (19.44%) GCP
5 153 (13.71%) Azure DevOps
6 132 (11.83%) Serverless
7 119 (10.66%) AWS Lambda
8 107 (9.59%) Amazon S3
9 76 (6.81%) SaaS
10 70 (6.27%) AWS CloudFormation
11 60 (5.38%) 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 (2.96%) 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 (0.99%) DHCP
7 11 (0.99%) 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 (10.66%) MySQL
2 109 (9.77%) SQL Server
3 99 (8.87%) NoSQL
4 83 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (5.47%) 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 (3.05%) MongoDB
10 34 (3.05%) Power BI
11 33 (2.96%) DynamoDB
12 32 (2.87%) 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 (26.25%) Git
2 238 (21.33%) Jenkins
3 183 (16.40%) JIRA
4 134 (12.01%) GitLab
5 62 (5.56%) CircleCI
6 55 (4.93%) Bitbucket
7 51 (4.57%) JUnit
8 48 (4.30%) Jasmine
9 45 (4.03%) Mockito
10 44 (3.94%) Visual Studio
11 33 (2.96%) 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 (26.61%) Finance
2 254 (22.76%) Social Skills
3 112 (10.04%) Banking
4 97 (8.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 78 (6.99%) Analytical Skills
6 71 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 61 (5.47%) Marketing
8 58 (5.20%) 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 (1.08%) Aviation
19 11 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 420 (37.63%) Developer
2 225 (20.16%) Senior
3 175 (15.68%) Software Engineer
4 134 (12.01%) DevOps Engineer
5 114 (10.22%) Lead
6 86 (7.71%) 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 (5.47%) .NET Developer
11 57 (5.11%) 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 (3.32%) Java Engineer
17 36 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
17 36 (3.23%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 215 (19.27%) React
2 192 (17.20%) .NET
3 146 (13.08%) HTML
4 143 (12.81%) CSS
5 135 (12.10%) AngularJS
6 109 (9.77%) Node.js
7 97 (8.69%) RESTful
8 89 (7.97%) Kafka
9 86 (7.71%) GraphQL
9 86 (7.71%) Spring
10 82 (7.35%) HTML5
11 80 (7.17%) REST
12 65 (5.82%) Vue
13 63 (5.65%) .NET Core
14 60 (5.38%) Laravel
15 50 (4.48%) jQuery
16 49 (4.39%) J2EE
17 46 (4.12%) Web Services
18 45 (4.03%) Hibernate
18 45 (4.03%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 79 (7.08%) Public Cloud
2 70 (6.27%) Cloud Native
3 57 (5.11%) Product Ownership
4 53 (4.75%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (4.12%) IoT
6 42 (3.76%) Private Cloud
7 38 (3.41%) Mobile App
8 30 (2.69%) Data Structures
9 27 (2.42%) 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 (1.08%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 177 (15.86%) Linux
2 105 (9.41%) Windows
3 49 (4.39%) Windows Server
4 38 (3.41%) Unix
5 34 (3.05%) Apple iOS
6 26 (2.33%) Android
7 12 (1.08%) 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
1 461 (41.31%) Agile
2 450 (40.32%) DevOps
3 408 (36.56%) CI/CD
4 297 (26.61%) Software Engineering
5 217 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 208 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
7 184 (16.49%) Full Stack Development
8 160 (14.34%) Computer Science
9 156 (13.98%) Microservices
10 146 (13.08%) Containerisation
11 143 (12.81%) Test Automation
12 129 (11.56%) Machine Learning
12 129 (11.56%) SDLC
13 120 (10.75%) Unit Testing
14 112 (10.04%) Mentoring
15 97 (8.69%) Continuous Integration
16 91 (8.15%) Artificial Intelligence
17 88 (7.89%) Scrum
18 81 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
19 79 (7.08%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 340 (30.47%) Python
2 301 (26.97%) SQL
3 299 (26.79%) JavaScript
4 236 (21.15%) Java
5 170 (15.23%) C#
6 141 (12.63%) TypeScript
7 105 (9.41%) PowerShell
8 93 (8.33%) PHP
9 87 (7.80%) Bash
10 74 (6.63%) Go
11 45 (4.03%) Ruby
12 43 (3.85%) C
13 23 (2.06%) MATLAB
14 21 (1.88%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.79%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.79%) Scala
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 (16.76%) Degree
2 94 (8.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 62 (5.56%) Security Cleared
4 54 (4.84%) Master's Degree
5 40 (3.58%) SC Cleared
6 28 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.08%) 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 (3.23%) GDPR
3 20 (1.79%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.61%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.08%) NCSC
6 11 (0.99%) 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
1 344 (30.82%) Docker
2 40 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 29 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.34%) Firmware
5 11 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.99%) 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 (27.87%) Kubernetes
2 304 (27.24%) Terraform
3 120 (10.75%) Ansible
4 38 (3.41%) 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 (13.80%) Microsoft
2 103 (9.23%) Oracle
3 83 (7.44%) Google
4 34 (3.05%) SAP
5 32 (2.87%) 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 (1.08%) Red Hat
16 11 (0.99%) Juniper