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 11 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 58 104
Rank change year-on-year -17 +46 -21
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 33 7 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.66% 1.20% 0.75%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.01% 3.87% 1.91%
Number of salaries quoted 32 6 12
10th Percentile - £50,000 £57,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,938 £67,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £57,500 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% -19.58% +24.35%
75th Percentile £49,688 £65,938 £73,250
90th Percentile £59,750 £75,625 -
England median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -6.40%

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 471 181 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.67% 31.10% 39.46%
Number of salaries quoted 264 134 597
10th Percentile £30,725 £31,355 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,693 £36,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £69,543 £67,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £79,625 £80,875 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +7.83% -11.54%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -6 33 £45,000 -21.74% 17
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 (6.06%) WordPress
2 1 (3.03%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 32 (96.97%) Azure
2 28 (84.85%) AWS
3 15 (45.45%) GitHub Actions
4 14 (42.42%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (36.36%) GCP
6 3 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
7 2 (6.06%) Firebase
7 2 (6.06%) Google Play
8 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (3.03%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 13 (39.39%) Internet
2 12 (36.36%) HTTP
3 11 (33.33%) DNS
3 11 (33.33%) Firewall
3 11 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (48.48%) Jenkins
2 15 (45.45%) Git
3 3 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (6.06%) Android Studio
4 2 (6.06%) Crashlytics
4 2 (6.06%) fastlane
4 2 (6.06%) Gradle
5 1 (3.03%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.03%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.03%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.03%) Gatling
5 1 (3.03%) JIRA
5 1 (3.03%) JMeter
5 1 (3.03%) Maven
5 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
General
1 13 (39.39%) Multimedia
2 12 (36.36%) Telecoms
3 11 (33.33%) Law
4 2 (6.06%) Aerospace
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.06%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (39.39%) Trainee
2 11 (33.33%) Developer
2 11 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 6 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Trainee Developer
3 6 (18.18%) Trainee Software Developer
4 2 (6.06%) .NET Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Android Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Junior
4 2 (6.06%) Junior DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Junior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Linux DevOps Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.06%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (6.06%) Trainee Administrator
4 2 (6.06%) Web Administrator
5 1 (3.03%) SEO Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (42.42%) CSS
2 13 (39.39%) HTML
3 11 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (9.09%) .NET
4 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET
4 3 (9.09%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (6.06%) .NET Core
5 2 (6.06%) Android Jetpack
5 2 (6.06%) Android SDK
5 2 (6.06%) Jetpack Compose
5 2 (6.06%) React
5 2 (6.06%) REST
5 2 (6.06%) RESTful
5 2 (6.06%) Retrofit
5 2 (6.06%) SubSonic
5 2 (6.06%) Vue
6 1 (3.03%) Blazor
6 1 (3.03%) LangChain
6 1 (3.03%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.06%) Android
1 2 (6.06%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (51.52%) CI/CD
2 16 (48.48%) DevOps
3 15 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (39.39%) Containerisation
5 12 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 11 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
6 11 (33.33%) DevSecOps
6 11 (33.33%) High Availability
6 11 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 11 (33.33%) Static Code Analysis
6 11 (33.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 6 (18.18%) Agile
8 4 (12.12%) Analytics
8 4 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
9 3 (9.09%) AI
9 3 (9.09%) Microservices
9 3 (9.09%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 24 (72.73%) Python
2 15 (45.45%) JavaScript
3 11 (33.33%) Bash
3 11 (33.33%) Go
4 7 (21.21%) R
5 4 (12.12%) Java
6 3 (9.09%) C#
6 3 (9.09%) SQL
6 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 2 (6.06%) Kotlin
8 1 (3.03%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (39.39%) AWS Certification
1 13 (39.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 13 (39.39%) Azure Certification
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Accessibility
1 3 (9.09%) WCAG
2 1 (3.03%) GDPR
2 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (39.39%) Grafana
1 13 (39.39%) Terraform
2 12 (36.36%) Prometheus
3 11 (33.33%) Ansible
4 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (48.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.06%) Google