GitHub Job Trends in the North East

GitHub
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 61 87
Rank change year-on-year -19 +26 -17
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 51 15 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.65% 1.63% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.81% 7.08% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 45 13 4
10th Percentile £36,500 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £54,637
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -3.91% -4.98%
75th Percentile £82,500 £60,000 £60,625
90th Percentile £101,250 £61,250 £61,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.34% +16.00% -10.36%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North East

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 in the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 653 212 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.15% 23.04% 30.58%
Number of salaries quoted 457 144 314
10th Percentile £36,250 £25,810 £31,000
25th Percentile £42,750 £32,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,527 £78,858
England median annual salary £64,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -7.69%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the North East

GitHub
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the North East over the 6 months to 24 August 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the North East

GitHub
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the North East region over the 6 months to 24 August 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -29 49 £57,500 +9.52% 15
Durham - 2 £31,000 - 3
GitHub
England

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.92%) WordPress
2 1 (1.96%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 36 (70.59%) Azure
2 29 (56.86%) AWS
3 20 (39.22%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 9 (17.65%) Serverless
6 8 (15.69%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (13.73%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (9.80%) Firebase
8 5 (9.80%) Google Play
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (7.84%) Amazon S3
10 3 (5.88%) Azure Key Vault
10 3 (5.88%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (5.88%) ChatGPT
10 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
10 3 (5.88%) GCP
10 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (5.88%) Power Platform
11 2 (3.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (3.92%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (3.92%) DNS
2 2 (3.92%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) Internet
2 2 (3.92%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (27.45%) Azure SQL Database
2 12 (23.53%) MongoDB
3 9 (17.65%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (13.73%) MySQL
4 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
5 5 (9.80%) DynamoDB
6 4 (7.84%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.88%) Power BI
8 2 (3.92%) Redis
8 2 (3.92%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.96%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (41.18%) Git
2 17 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (15.69%) GitLab
4 6 (11.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (9.80%) Android Studio
5 5 (9.80%) Crashlytics
5 5 (9.80%) fastlane
5 5 (9.80%) Gradle
6 2 (3.92%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.96%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.96%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.96%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.96%) Gatling
7 1 (1.96%) JIRA
7 1 (1.96%) JMeter
7 1 (1.96%) Maven
7 1 (1.96%) REST Assured
General
1 17 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.73%) Aerospace
3 7 (13.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 6 (11.76%) Finance
4 6 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.92%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.92%) Law
5 2 (3.92%) Multimedia
5 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Developer
2 14 (27.45%) .NET Developer
3 13 (25.49%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (15.69%) Senior
4 8 (15.69%) Senior Developer
4 8 (15.69%) Software Engineer
5 7 (13.73%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Android Developer
8 2 (3.92%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Full-Stack Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Lead C# Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) PHP Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Scala Software Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Trainee
8 2 (3.92%) Trainee Administrator
8 2 (3.92%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (39.22%) .NET
2 18 (35.29%) React
3 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET
3 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET Core
3 15 (29.41%) Terraform
4 11 (21.57%) REST
5 10 (19.61%) .NET Core
5 10 (19.61%) CSS
5 10 (19.61%) Node.js
6 9 (17.65%) Vue
7 8 (15.69%) AngularJS
7 8 (15.69%) RESTful
8 7 (13.73%) SubSonic
9 6 (11.76%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (9.80%) Android Jetpack
10 5 (9.80%) Android SDK
10 5 (9.80%) Jetpack Compose
10 5 (9.80%) Retrofit
11 4 (7.84%) HTML
12 3 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.80%) Mobile App
4 3 (5.88%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (5.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.92%) Blog
5 2 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Linux
2 6 (11.76%) CentOS
2 6 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (9.80%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (58.82%) CI/CD
2 25 (49.02%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (45.10%) Full-Stack Development
4 22 (43.14%) DevOps
5 21 (41.18%) Agile
5 21 (41.18%) Microservices
6 13 (25.49%) Containerisation
6 13 (25.49%) TDD
7 12 (23.53%) Analytics
7 12 (23.53%) Clean Code
8 11 (21.57%) Scrum
9 10 (19.61%) AI
9 10 (19.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 9 (17.65%) Observability
11 8 (15.69%) Data Modelling
11 8 (15.69%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
11 8 (15.69%) Software Engineering
12 7 (13.73%) Kanban
12 7 (13.73%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (43.14%) TypeScript
2 17 (33.33%) C#
2 17 (33.33%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) Java
4 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.76%) Python
5 5 (9.80%) Kotlin
6 2 (3.92%) Bash
6 2 (3.92%) Go
6 2 (3.92%) PHP
6 2 (3.92%) R
6 2 (3.92%) Scala
6 2 (3.92%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.96%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) DV Cleared
1 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 6 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.92%) AWS Certification
2 2 (3.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (3.92%) Azure Certification
2 2 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Degree
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Accessibility
2 6 (11.76%) WCAG
3 1 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 32 (62.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (43.14%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.69%) Ansible
3 5 (9.80%) Grafana
4 2 (3.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.80%) Dynatrace
2 5 (9.80%) Google
3 3 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.92%) Sage
4 2 (3.92%) Splunk