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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 77 60
Rank change year-on-year +31 -17 +12
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 36 12 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.51% 1.23% 0.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.24% 3.92% 1.69%
Number of salaries quoted 33 4 4
10th Percentile - - £54,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,738 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £57,137 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% -8.58% +25.42%
75th Percentile £53,750 £71,563 £67,063
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,875 £70,775
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -13.33% +8.00%

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 272 306 237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 26.51% 31.29% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 199 166 203
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,250 £30,100
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,313 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,802 £64,375
90th Percentile £81,250 £88,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 +30 35 £30,500 -46.62% 13
Durham - 1 £55,200 -
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 32 (88.89%) Azure
2 26 (72.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (13.89%) SaaS
4 4 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.33%) IaaS
5 3 (8.33%) PaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (5.56%) GCP
6 2 (5.56%) Slack
7 1 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.78%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 21 (58.33%) Internet
2 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) HTTP
2 2 (5.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 4 (11.11%) MySQL
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
4 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (61.11%) Git
2 5 (13.89%) Jenkins
3 4 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 3 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
5 1 (2.78%) JUnit
5 1 (2.78%) Selenium
General
1 21 (58.33%) Multimedia
2 4 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.56%) Advertising
3 2 (5.56%) Back Office
3 2 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (5.56%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (58.33%) Trainee
2 16 (44.44%) Developer
3 13 (36.11%) Software Developer
4 12 (33.33%) Trainee Developer
4 12 (33.33%) Trainee Software Developer
5 4 (11.11%) DBA
5 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 4 (11.11%) SQL DBA
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (5.56%) Dynamics NAV Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Platform Manager
7 2 (5.56%) SaaS Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.78%) JavaScript Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Lead
8 1 (2.78%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (61.11%) CSS
1 22 (61.11%) HTML
2 3 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (5.56%) XML
4 1 (2.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.78%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.78%) CSS3
4 1 (2.78%) Django
4 1 (2.78%) Express.js
4 1 (2.78%) Flask
4 1 (2.78%) hapi
4 1 (2.78%) HTML5
4 1 (2.78%) HTML5 Boilerplate
4 1 (2.78%) NestJS
4 1 (2.78%) Node.js
4 1 (2.78%) pytest
4 1 (2.78%) React
4 1 (2.78%) Spring
4 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.78%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Clustering
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 21 (58.33%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (27.78%) DevOps
4 6 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 6 (16.67%) High Availability
4 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
6 4 (11.11%) Data Integration
6 4 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (11.11%) ETL
7 3 (8.33%) FinOps
7 3 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.33%) Test Automation
8 2 (5.56%) DevSecOps
8 2 (5.56%) Inventory Management
8 2 (5.56%) Observability
8 2 (5.56%) Project Delivery
8 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 2 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 22 (61.11%) JavaScript
3 9 (25.00%) R
4 6 (16.67%) SQL
5 4 (11.11%) T-SQL
6 3 (8.33%) Java
7 2 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (5.56%) C
7 2 (5.56%) C#
7 2 (5.56%) Go
8 1 (2.78%) Delphi
8 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (61.11%) Azure Certification
2 21 (58.33%) AWS Certification
2 21 (58.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 21 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.56%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO 9001
1 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Terraform
2 5 (13.89%) Ansible
2 5 (13.89%) Grafana
3 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Informatica
2 4 (11.11%) RedGate
2 4 (11.11%) Talend
3 1 (2.78%) Oracle