GitHub
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 275 192
Rank change year-on-year -23 -83 -94
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 586 1,074 1,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.04% 1.00% 1.92%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.78% 2.94% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 402 801 996
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £45,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £48,750 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £85,000 £79,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £105,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.70% - +4.55%

All Cloud Skills
UK

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 15,504 36,490 40,418
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.47% 33.82% 43.13%
Number of salaries quoted 10,224 27,172 27,178
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,250 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.16% +2.40%
75th Percentile £82,500 £77,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £96,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 June 2025.

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 June 2025. 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 -30 506 £72,500 +11.54% 1,437
UK excluding London -37 296 £62,500 +8.70% 946
Work from Home +8 276 £70,000 +12.00% 1,076
London +59 253 £82,500 -2.94% 756
North of England -22 104 £70,000 +21.74% 279
South East +11 52 £70,000 +33.33% 376
Yorkshire +47 50 £70,000 +22.24% 77
Scotland +79 46 £56,250 -19.64% 44
South West +69 42 £55,000 -4.35% 57
North West -69 42 £70,000 +27.27% 178
Midlands +8 39 £65,000 +8.33% 74
West Midlands +6 26 £70,000 +13.82% 42
East Midlands +30 13 £35,000 -36.36% 27
North East +45 12 £55,000 -23.08% 24
Wales +36 11 £60,000 -4.00% 20
East of England -7 7 £65,000 +30.00% 38
Isle of Man - 1 £52,500 -

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 46 (7.85%) Confluence
2 24 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 21 (3.58%) CMS
4 16 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
5 15 (2.56%) IIS
6 12 (2.05%) WordPress
7 11 (1.88%) Apache Spark
7 11 (1.88%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.88%) nginx
8 8 (1.37%) Apache
9 3 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.51%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.51%) Headless CMS
9 3 (0.51%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.51%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.34%) JBoss
10 2 (0.34%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.34%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.17%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (0.85%) Trello
2 4 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (2.05%) Sage 200
1 12 (2.05%) Sage 50
2 11 (1.88%) Shopify
3 9 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.17%) Endur
5 1 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 284 (48.46%) Azure
2 216 (36.86%) AWS
3 205 (34.98%) GitHub Actions
4 139 (23.72%) Azure DevOps
5 80 (13.65%) Serverless
6 73 (12.46%) GCP
7 63 (10.75%) SaaS
8 42 (7.17%) Power Platform
9 39 (6.66%) PaaS
10 33 (5.63%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (4.27%) Azure Logic Apps
12 24 (4.10%) Amazon S3
13 22 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
14 21 (3.58%) Amazon ECS
14 21 (3.58%) AWS CloudFormation
14 21 (3.58%) Azure Functions
14 21 (3.58%) Azure Monitor
14 21 (3.58%) npm
14 21 (3.58%) PowerApps
15 20 (3.41%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.41%) WAN
2 19 (3.24%) Firewall
3 17 (2.90%) VPN
4 15 (2.56%) DNS
5 13 (2.22%) SD-WAN
6 12 (2.05%) 5G
7 7 (1.19%) LAN
8 6 (1.02%) Broadband
8 6 (1.02%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.85%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (0.68%) MQTT
10 4 (0.68%) SAN
10 4 (0.68%) SMS
11 2 (0.34%) Cisco Nexus
11 2 (0.34%) DHCP
11 2 (0.34%) FCoE
11 2 (0.34%) Internet
11 2 (0.34%) iSCSI
11 2 (0.34%) Multicast
11 2 (0.34%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (13.14%) SQL Server
2 60 (10.24%) PostgreSQL
3 52 (8.87%) MySQL
4 35 (5.97%) Power BI
5 32 (5.46%) MongoDB
5 32 (5.46%) NoSQL
6 28 (4.78%) Relational Database
7 22 (3.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 20 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
9 18 (3.07%) Tableau
10 17 (2.90%) DynamoDB
11 14 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
12 12 (2.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (1.54%) Amazon Aurora
13 9 (1.54%) Data Hub
13 9 (1.54%) SQL CLR
14 8 (1.37%) Amazon Athena
14 8 (1.37%) Big Data
14 8 (1.37%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.19%) Redis
Development Applications
1 150 (25.60%) Git
2 114 (19.45%) Jenkins
3 78 (13.31%) JIRA
4 41 (7.00%) GitLab
5 36 (6.14%) Visual Studio
6 34 (5.80%) SonarQube
7 30 (5.12%) Selenium
8 25 (4.27%) TeamCity
9 17 (2.90%) Octopus Deploy
10 16 (2.73%) CircleCI
11 14 (2.39%) Postman
12 13 (2.22%) Gradle
13 11 (1.88%) Bitbucket
14 10 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
15 9 (1.54%) Cucumber
15 9 (1.54%) Cypress.io
16 8 (1.37%) Artifactory
16 8 (1.37%) webpack
17 7 (1.19%) Babel
17 7 (1.19%) SpecFlow
General
1 199 (33.96%) Social Skills
2 171 (29.18%) Finance
3 58 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (7.51%) Banking
5 39 (6.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 33 (5.63%) Law
7 31 (5.29%) Public Sector
8 30 (5.12%) Marketing
9 28 (4.78%) Retail
10 26 (4.44%) Manufacturing
11 24 (4.10%) Games
12 20 (3.41%) Back Office
13 14 (2.39%) Front Office
14 10 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (1.37%) Automotive
15 8 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.85%) Advertising
16 5 (0.85%) Legal
16 5 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 182 (31.06%) Developer
2 133 (22.70%) Senior
3 103 (17.58%) Software Engineer
4 86 (14.68%) Lead
5 80 (13.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 40 (6.83%) Full-Stack Developer
7 37 (6.31%) Senior Developer
8 35 (5.97%) Azure Engineer
9 29 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
10 25 (4.27%) Platform Engineer
11 24 (4.10%) Lead Developer
12 23 (3.92%) Architect
13 22 (3.75%) .NET Developer
14 21 (3.58%) Lead Software Engineer
15 20 (3.41%) React Developer
16 19 (3.24%) Full-Stack Engineer
16 19 (3.24%) Senior DevOps
16 19 (3.24%) Software Developer
17 18 (3.07%) Android Developer
17 18 (3.07%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (20.31%) React
2 113 (19.28%) .NET
3 81 (13.82%) CSS
4 76 (12.97%) HTML
5 63 (10.75%) RESTful
6 56 (9.56%) .NET Core
7 49 (8.36%) .NET Framework
8 48 (8.19%) Node.js
9 47 (8.02%) REST
10 44 (7.51%) Kafka
11 34 (5.80%) AngularJS
12 32 (5.46%) GraphQL
13 31 (5.29%) React Native
13 31 (5.29%) Spring
14 30 (5.12%) JSON
15 29 (4.95%) Web Services
16 27 (4.61%) HTML5
16 27 (4.61%) Spring Boot
17 24 (4.10%) YAML
18 21 (3.58%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 88 (15.02%) Cloud Native
2 39 (6.66%) Product Ownership
3 23 (3.92%) Management Information System
4 22 (3.75%) Mobile Games
5 19 (3.24%) Mobile App
6 18 (3.07%) Greenfield Project
7 16 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 15 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
9 12 (2.05%) Distributed Applications
9 12 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 12 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.05%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.71%) Educational Technology
10 10 (1.71%) Private Cloud
11 9 (1.54%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 9 (1.54%) Wiki
12 8 (1.37%) Client/Server
12 8 (1.37%) Self-Driving Car
13 7 (1.19%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 79 (13.48%) Linux
2 34 (5.80%) Windows
3 27 (4.61%) Apple iOS
4 25 (4.27%) Android
5 18 (3.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 17 (2.90%) Windows Server
7 8 (1.37%) Unix
8 5 (0.85%) Robot Operating System
8 5 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.68%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.68%) VMS
10 2 (0.34%) Debian
10 2 (0.34%) Solaris
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
11 1 (0.17%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (59.04%) CI/CD
2 284 (48.46%) DevOps
3 251 (42.83%) Agile
4 194 (33.11%) Software Engineering
5 148 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
6 129 (22.01%) Infrastructure as Code
7 103 (17.58%) Mentoring
8 94 (16.04%) Test Automation
9 92 (15.70%) Containerisation
9 92 (15.70%) Full-Stack Development
9 92 (15.70%) Microservices
10 62 (10.58%) Computer Science
10 62 (10.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
12 56 (9.56%) User Experience
13 52 (8.87%) Migration
13 52 (8.87%) Release Management
14 51 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
14 51 (8.70%) SDLC
15 49 (8.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 238 (40.61%) Python
2 192 (32.76%) SQL
3 138 (23.55%) JavaScript
4 125 (21.33%) Java
5 111 (18.94%) C#
6 79 (13.48%) TypeScript
7 67 (11.43%) PowerShell
8 53 (9.04%) Bash
9 31 (5.29%) Kotlin
10 26 (4.44%) PHP
11 23 (3.92%) Swift
12 19 (3.24%) Bicep
12 19 (3.24%) Objective-C
13 17 (2.90%) Go
14 16 (2.73%) Ruby
15 14 (2.39%) T-SQL
16 13 (2.22%) C++
17 10 (1.71%) C
17 10 (1.71%) R
18 8 (1.37%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 97 (16.55%) Degree
2 40 (6.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (4.61%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.41%) Azure Certification
5 18 (3.07%) SC Cleared
6 14 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.88%) AWS Certification
8 10 (1.71%) Master's Degree
9 9 (1.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 7 (1.19%) DBS Check
10 7 (1.19%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 5 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.68%) HND
14 3 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.51%) CCSP
14 3 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
14 3 (0.51%) CISSP
14 3 (0.51%) OCP
14 3 (0.51%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (7.34%) QA
2 20 (3.41%) GDPR
3 18 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.22%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.54%) SOC 2
6 8 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 8 (1.37%) NIST
6 8 (1.37%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.02%) NCSC
8 4 (0.68%) PMO
8 4 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.34%) GxP
10 1 (0.17%) SLA
10 1 (0.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 142 (24.23%) Docker
2 40 (6.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.56%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 9 (1.54%) NFS
7 7 (1.19%) vSphere
8 4 (0.68%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.34%) KVM
10 2 (0.34%) SRDF
10 2 (0.34%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 2 (0.34%) Xen
11 1 (0.17%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.17%) HDFS
11 1 (0.17%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 191 (32.59%) Terraform
2 162 (27.65%) Kubernetes
3 80 (13.65%) Ansible
4 45 (7.68%) Prometheus
5 38 (6.48%) Grafana
6 29 (4.95%) Progress Chef
7 20 (3.41%) Puppet
8 19 (3.24%) Argo
9 6 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.85%) Packer
11 4 (0.68%) HAProxy
12 3 (0.51%) Istio
12 3 (0.51%) SCOM
13 2 (0.34%) Consul
13 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Clustering
13 2 (0.34%) Oozie
13 2 (0.34%) SCCM
14 1 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
14 1 (0.17%) logstash
14 1 (0.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 126 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 41 (7.00%) VMware
3 39 (6.66%) Databricks
4 37 (6.31%) Google
5 17 (2.90%) Red Hat
6 16 (2.73%) Cisco
6 16 (2.73%) Oracle
7 15 (2.56%) Sage
7 15 (2.56%) Splunk
8 12 (2.05%) Citrix
8 12 (2.05%) New Relic
9 11 (1.88%) IBM
10 10 (1.71%) Atlassian
10 10 (1.71%) ServiceNow
11 9 (1.54%) Commvault
12 8 (1.37%) Pure Storage
12 8 (1.37%) WooCommerce
13 6 (1.02%) F5
13 6 (1.02%) Salesforce
14 5 (0.85%) SAP
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