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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 280 196 96
Rank change year-on-year -84 -100 +97
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 1,072 1,778 6,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.99% 1.91% 3.68%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.94% 4.44% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 798 989 1,566
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £53,750 £46,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £79,438 £87,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +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 36,452 40,083 83,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.61% 43.06% 48.60%
Number of salaries quoted 27,130 27,066 41,503
10th Percentile £30,140 £34,182 £33,916
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% +2.40% +6.33%
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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -79 910 £65,000 -3.70% 290
UK excluding London -110 670 £57,500 - 193
Work from Home -35 474 £62,500 -7.41% 143
London -54 328 £85,000 +13.33% 112
North of England -73 191 £57,500 - 59
South East -74 145 £52,500 -25.00% 42
North West -21 114 £55,000 -4.35% 32
Midlands -28 101 £60,750 +5.65% 24
Scotland -81 83 £70,000 +21.74% 11
South West -2 81 £57,500 -2.86% 30
West Midlands -1 79 £61,500 +6.96% 16
Yorkshire -41 63 £55,000 -4.35% 21
East of England -40 46 £50,000 - 15
Wales -5 22 £62,500 -6.36% 7
East Midlands -39 21 £55,000 +7.32% 8
North East -30 14 £71,500 +24.35% 6
Northern Ireland -29 1 £47,500 -17.39% 5

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 54 (5.04%) Confluence
2 49 (4.57%) FileNet
3 31 (2.89%) Apache
4 28 (2.61%) CMS
5 26 (2.43%) Apache Spark
6 21 (1.96%) nginx
7 20 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (1.40%) Drupal
9 11 (1.03%) IIS
10 10 (0.93%) WordPress
11 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
11 8 (0.75%) SharePoint
12 6 (0.56%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.47%) Umbraco
14 4 (0.37%) Captiva
14 4 (0.37%) WebSphere
15 3 (0.28%) Cloud Foundry
15 3 (0.28%) Tomcat
16 2 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 2 (0.19%) JBoss
Applications
1 40 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.65%) GNU Octave
3 7 (0.65%) Trello
4 5 (0.47%) Doxygen
5 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.19%) Notion
6 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.093%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.093%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.28%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.19%) Shopify
5 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.093%) Magento
5 1 (0.093%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.093%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.093%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.093%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.093%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 464 (43.28%) AWS
2 424 (39.55%) Azure
3 261 (24.35%) GitHub Actions
4 184 (17.16%) GCP
5 145 (13.53%) Azure DevOps
6 116 (10.82%) Serverless
7 103 (9.61%) AWS Lambda
8 102 (9.51%) Amazon S3
9 73 (6.81%) SaaS
10 65 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 48 (4.48%) PaaS
12 42 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
12 42 (3.92%) Power Platform
13 40 (3.73%) Amazon EKS
14 37 (3.45%) Azure AKS
15 35 (3.26%) Amazon SQS
16 33 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
16 33 (3.08%) IaaS
17 25 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
18 23 (2.15%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.01%) Firewall
2 41 (3.82%) DNS
3 21 (1.96%) VPN
4 14 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 14 (1.31%) WAN
5 11 (1.03%) DHCP
5 11 (1.03%) RS-232
6 10 (0.93%) 5G
6 10 (0.93%) Internet
7 9 (0.84%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.56%) MQTT
8 6 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.47%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.47%) Reverse Proxy
9 5 (0.47%) RS-485
9 5 (0.47%) Wireless
9 5 (0.47%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.28%) SMS
10 3 (0.28%) SSL
11 2 (0.19%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (10.91%) MySQL
2 104 (9.70%) SQL Server
3 101 (9.42%) NoSQL
4 81 (7.56%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (5.78%) Elasticsearch
6 52 (4.85%) Data Warehouse
7 51 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
8 48 (4.48%) Redis
9 36 (3.36%) MongoDB
9 36 (3.36%) Power BI
10 35 (3.26%) Azure SQL Database
11 33 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
12 31 (2.89%) DynamoDB
13 30 (2.80%) Relational Database
14 25 (2.33%) Data Lake
15 24 (2.24%) Amazon Redshift
15 24 (2.24%) Big Data
16 20 (1.87%) BigQuery
17 19 (1.77%) Tableau
18 18 (1.68%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 279 (26.03%) Git
2 198 (18.47%) Jenkins
3 153 (14.27%) JIRA
4 142 (13.25%) GitLab
5 68 (6.34%) CircleCI
6 51 (4.76%) Bitbucket
6 51 (4.76%) JUnit
7 46 (4.29%) Jasmine
8 45 (4.20%) Mockito
9 40 (3.73%) Visual Studio
10 29 (2.71%) Visual Studio Code
11 21 (1.96%) PHPUnit
11 21 (1.96%) SonarQube
12 20 (1.87%) Octopus Deploy
13 17 (1.59%) Subversion
14 16 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
14 16 (1.49%) Trac
15 14 (1.31%) Artifactory
15 14 (1.31%) NUnit
15 14 (1.31%) Selenium
General
1 249 (23.23%) Social Skills
2 239 (22.29%) Finance
3 94 (8.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 80 (7.46%) Public Sector
5 74 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
6 64 (5.97%) Banking
7 61 (5.69%) Marketing
8 59 (5.50%) Law
9 47 (4.38%) Legal
10 45 (4.20%) Retail
11 30 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (2.43%) Automotive
13 26 (2.43%) Electronics
14 24 (2.24%) Games
15 21 (1.96%) Manufacturing
15 21 (1.96%) Telecoms
16 18 (1.68%) Retail Banking
17 12 (1.12%) Aviation
18 10 (0.93%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 420 (39.18%) Developer
2 233 (21.74%) Senior
3 165 (15.39%) Software Engineer
4 128 (11.94%) DevOps Engineer
5 110 (10.26%) Lead
6 90 (8.40%) Senior Developer
7 76 (7.09%) Software Developer
8 71 (6.62%) Full Stack Developer
9 60 (5.60%) AWS Engineer
10 58 (5.41%) .NET Developer
11 53 (4.94%) Data Engineer
12 50 (4.66%) Azure Engineer
12 50 (4.66%) Cloud Engineer
13 44 (4.10%) C# Developer
14 40 (3.73%) Platform Engineer
15 38 (3.54%) Java Engineer
15 38 (3.54%) Senior DevOps
15 38 (3.54%) Senior DevOps Engineer
15 38 (3.54%) Senior Software Engineer
16 34 (3.17%) AWS DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 219 (20.43%) React
2 189 (17.63%) .NET
3 148 (13.81%) HTML
4 147 (13.71%) CSS
5 140 (13.06%) AngularJS
6 109 (10.17%) Node.js
7 98 (9.14%) RESTful
8 97 (9.05%) GraphQL
9 90 (8.40%) REST
10 86 (8.02%) Spring
11 82 (7.65%) HTML5
12 78 (7.28%) Kafka
13 66 (6.16%) .NET Core
14 65 (6.06%) Vue
15 59 (5.50%) Laravel
16 54 (5.04%) Web Services
17 49 (4.57%) J2EE
17 49 (4.57%) jQuery
18 46 (4.29%) Hibernate
19 45 (4.20%) Spring Integration
Miscellaneous
1 73 (6.81%) Public Cloud
2 64 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 58 (5.41%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.29%) IoT
5 42 (3.92%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (3.26%) Mobile App
8 32 (2.99%) Data Structures
9 24 (2.24%) Management Information System
10 23 (2.15%) Private Cloud
11 22 (2.05%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.96%) Client/Server
13 19 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
14 17 (1.59%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.12%) Algorithms
16 12 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
16 12 (1.12%) Life Science
16 12 (1.12%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 158 (14.74%) Linux
2 97 (9.05%) Windows
3 46 (4.29%) Windows Server
4 34 (3.17%) Apple iOS
5 26 (2.43%) Android
6 21 (1.96%) Unix
7 9 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.65%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
9 6 (0.56%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.47%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.37%) VMS
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.19%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.19%) Debian
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.093%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 422 (39.37%) Agile
2 407 (37.97%) DevOps
3 396 (36.94%) CI/CD
4 284 (26.49%) Software Engineering
5 225 (20.99%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (18.38%) Infrastructure as Code
7 192 (17.91%) Full Stack Development
8 154 (14.37%) Computer Science
8 154 (14.37%) Microservices
9 150 (13.99%) Containerisation
10 147 (13.71%) Test Automation
11 122 (11.38%) Unit Testing
12 121 (11.29%) Machine Learning
13 120 (11.19%) SDLC
14 117 (10.91%) Mentoring
15 99 (9.24%) Continuous Integration
16 90 (8.40%) Artificial Intelligence
17 82 (7.65%) Scrum
18 75 (7.00%) Deployment Automation
19 73 (6.81%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 312 (29.10%) Python
2 288 (26.87%) JavaScript
3 278 (25.93%) SQL
4 209 (19.50%) Java
5 168 (15.67%) C#
6 142 (13.25%) TypeScript
7 103 (9.61%) PowerShell
8 89 (8.30%) PHP
9 78 (7.28%) Bash
10 74 (6.90%) Go
11 43 (4.01%) C
12 38 (3.54%) Ruby
13 28 (2.61%) Scala
14 23 (2.15%) MATLAB
14 23 (2.15%) T-SQL
15 20 (1.87%) Apex Code
15 20 (1.87%) C++
16 17 (1.59%) Kotlin
17 16 (1.49%) Objective-C
18 14 (1.31%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 179 (16.70%) Degree
2 89 (8.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 56 (5.22%) Security Cleared
4 52 (4.85%) Master's Degree
5 35 (3.26%) SC Cleared
6 27 (2.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.12%) AWS Certification
8 8 (0.75%) Azure Certification
8 8 (0.75%) HND
9 7 (0.65%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.56%) PhD
11 4 (0.37%) ISEB
11 4 (0.37%) ISEB Practitioner
11 4 (0.37%) ISTQB
11 4 (0.37%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.19%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.093%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 1 (0.093%) MCSA
13 1 (0.093%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.92%) QA
2 20 (1.87%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 19 (1.77%) GDPR
4 14 (1.31%) NCSC
5 9 (0.84%) MISRA
6 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (0.65%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.37%) MISRA C
7 4 (0.37%) NIST
7 4 (0.37%) PMO
7 4 (0.37%) SLA
8 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.093%) IEC 62304
10 1 (0.093%) WCAG
System Software
1 332 (30.97%) Docker
2 35 (3.26%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
4 16 (1.49%) Firmware
5 11 (1.03%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.03%) NFS
6 10 (0.93%) pfSense
7 9 (0.84%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.56%) HDFS
8 6 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.093%) Time Sharing Option
11 1 (0.093%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.093%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 293 (27.33%) Terraform
2 289 (26.96%) Kubernetes
3 111 (10.35%) Ansible
4 37 (3.45%) Grafana
5 22 (2.05%) Progress Chef
6 20 (1.87%) Puppet
7 15 (1.40%) Istio
8 14 (1.31%) ZABBIX
9 13 (1.21%) Argo
9 13 (1.21%) Prometheus
10 11 (1.03%) Packer
11 10 (0.93%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 10 (0.93%) SCDPM
12 9 (0.84%) Kibana
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Clustering
13 8 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (0.65%) Foglight
14 7 (0.65%) Nagios
15 6 (0.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (0.47%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 147 (13.71%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.74%) Oracle
3 64 (5.97%) Google
4 29 (2.71%) Databricks
5 21 (1.96%) Salesforce
5 21 (1.96%) Splunk
6 20 (1.87%) VMware
7 19 (1.77%) Atlassian
8 16 (1.49%) ForgeRock
8 16 (1.49%) SAP
8 16 (1.49%) Sitecore
9 14 (1.31%) ServiceNow
10 13 (1.21%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.21%) HP
10 13 (1.21%) McAfee
11 11 (1.03%) Fortinet
11 11 (1.03%) IBM
11 11 (1.03%) Juniper
11 11 (1.03%) Veeam
12 10 (0.93%) Red Hat