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 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 57 88
Rank change year-on-year -21 +31 -20
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 46 17 9
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.69% 1.96% 0.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.52% 8.17% 1.73%
Number of salaries quoted 43 14 5
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 -
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £44,738
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,750 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -10.42% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £61,250 £68,950
England median annual salary £65,000 £73,685 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.79% +22.81% -11.11%

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 612 208 520
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 22.45% 23.94% 31.16%
Number of salaries quoted 410 141 394
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £27,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,000 £34,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £74,987 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £88,148 £80,000 £76,632
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 27 July 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 27 July 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 -25 44 £50,000 -6.98% 15
Durham - 2 £31,000 - 2
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 (4.35%) WordPress
2 1 (2.17%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 35 (76.09%) Azure
2 26 (56.52%) AWS
3 17 (36.96%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (34.78%) GitHub Copilot
5 13 (28.26%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (17.39%) GCP
7 7 (15.22%) Serverless
8 6 (13.04%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (10.87%) Firebase
9 5 (10.87%) Google Play
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
11 1 (2.17%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (2.17%) AWS CodeBuild
11 1 (2.17%) AWS CodePipeline
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (17.39%) HTTP
2 7 (15.22%) DNS
2 7 (15.22%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.35%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (30.43%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (21.74%) MongoDB
3 6 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (10.87%) DynamoDB
4 5 (10.87%) MySQL
5 4 (8.70%) Relational Database
6 3 (6.52%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (6.52%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (4.35%) Redis
7 2 (4.35%) SQL Server
8 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
8 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (43.48%) Jenkins
2 16 (34.78%) Git
3 7 (15.22%) GitLab
4 5 (10.87%) Android Studio
4 5 (10.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (10.87%) Crashlytics
4 5 (10.87%) fastlane
4 5 (10.87%) Gradle
5 2 (4.35%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.17%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.17%) Gatling
6 1 (2.17%) JIRA
6 1 (2.17%) JMeter
6 1 (2.17%) Maven
6 1 (2.17%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (23.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.22%) Aerospace
3 7 (15.22%) Law
3 7 (15.22%) Telecoms
4 5 (10.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.52%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Finance
6 2 (4.35%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 24 (52.17%) Developer
2 14 (30.43%) .NET Developer
2 14 (30.43%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Senior
3 8 (17.39%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Android Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Principal DevOps Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Principal Engineer
6 3 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Junior
7 2 (4.35%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) PHP Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Trainee
7 2 (4.35%) Trainee Administrator
7 2 (4.35%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (39.13%) .NET
2 15 (32.61%) ASP.NET
2 15 (32.61%) ASP.NET Core
2 15 (32.61%) React
3 9 (19.57%) Vue
4 8 (17.39%) .NET Core
4 8 (17.39%) AngularJS
4 8 (17.39%) REST
4 8 (17.39%) RESTful
5 7 (15.22%) CSS
5 7 (15.22%) Elastic Stack
5 7 (15.22%) Node.js
5 7 (15.22%) SubSonic
6 5 (10.87%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (10.87%) Android SDK
6 5 (10.87%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (10.87%) Retrofit
7 4 (8.70%) HTML
8 3 (6.52%) Swagger
8 3 (6.52%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 5 (10.87%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.35%) Algorithms
4 2 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.17%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (2.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 5 (10.87%) Android
2 5 (10.87%) CentOS
2 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (56.52%) CI/CD
2 22 (47.83%) DevOps
2 22 (47.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (43.48%) Full-Stack Development
3 20 (43.48%) Microservices
4 19 (41.30%) Agile
5 13 (28.26%) Containerisation
5 13 (28.26%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 12 (26.09%) Analytics
7 11 (23.91%) Continuous Delivery
7 11 (23.91%) TDD
8 9 (19.57%) Scrum
9 8 (17.39%) Clean Code
9 8 (17.39%) High Availability
10 7 (15.22%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (15.22%) Data Analytics
10 7 (15.22%) DevSecOps
10 7 (15.22%) Static Code Analysis
10 7 (15.22%) Test Automation
10 7 (15.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 19 (41.30%) TypeScript
2 17 (36.96%) C#
2 17 (36.96%) SQL
3 10 (21.74%) Python
4 7 (15.22%) Bash
4 7 (15.22%) Go
4 7 (15.22%) Java
5 6 (13.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.87%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.35%) PHP
7 2 (4.35%) R
8 1 (2.17%) C
8 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) DV Cleared
1 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 2 (4.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 2 (4.35%) Azure Certification
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.17%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) Accessibility
1 6 (13.04%) WCAG
2 1 (2.17%) GDPR
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 27 (58.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (41.30%) Kubernetes
2 16 (34.78%) Terraform
3 12 (26.09%) Ansible
4 8 (17.39%) Grafana
5 7 (15.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (23.91%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Dynatrace
2 5 (10.87%) Google
3 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.17%) Sage