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 20 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | 92 | 58 | 79 |
| Rank change year-on-year | -34 | +21 | -24 |
| Permanent jobs citing GitHub | 60 | 21 | 13 |
| As % of all permanent jobs in the North East | 1.62% | 2.15% | 0.98% |
| As % of the Cloud Services category | 8.65% | 9.29% | 3.36% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 51 | 19 | 2 |
| 10th Percentile | £42,500 | £28,250 | - |
| 25th Percentile | £47,000 | £34,750 | £44,738 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £65,000 | £52,500 | £49,274 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +23.81% | +6.55% | -17.88% |
| 75th Percentile | £82,500 | £55,000 | £53,811 |
| 90th Percentile | £101,250 | £74,500 | - |
| England median annual salary | £67,500 | £67,500 | £60,000 |
| % change year-on-year | - | +12.50% | -14.29% |
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.
| 6 months to 20 Oct 2026 |
Same period 2025 | Same period 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills | 694 | 226 | 387 |
| As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East | 18.77% | 23.13% | 29.05% |
| Number of salaries quoted | 539 | 156 | 213 |
| 10th Percentile | £36,250 | £28,250 | £31,250 |
| 25th Percentile | £45,000 | £29,750 | £40,988 |
| Median annual salary (50th Percentile) | £55,000 | £50,000 | £52,500 |
| Median % change year-on-year | +10.00% | -4.76% | -4.55% |
| 75th Percentile | £75,000 | £67,813 | £70,000 |
| 90th Percentile | £88,148 | £78,145 | £84,964 |
| England median annual salary | £63,076 | £57,500 | £65,000 |
| % change year-on-year | +9.70% | -11.54% | +4.00% |
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 Salary Trend in the North East
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 20 October 2026.
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 20 October 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 | -40 | 57 | £65,000 | +23.81% | 22 |
| Durham | - | 3 | £31,000 | - | 1 |
| GitHub England |
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GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category
The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.
Cloud Services
| Rank | Skill | Share | Job Ads |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure | 63.3% | 38 |
| 2 | AWS | 60.0% | 36 |
| 3 | GitHub Actions | 43.3% | 26 |
| 4 | GitHub Copilot | 30.0% | 18 |
| 5 | Azure DevOps | 16.7% | 10 |
| 5 | Serverless | 16.7% | 10 |
| 7 | Amazon ECS | 15.0% | 9 |
| 7 | Amazon S3 | 15.0% | 9 |
| 9 | AWS Lambda | 13.3% | 8 |
| 10 | AWS CloudFormation | 10.0% | 6 |
| 11 | Amazon CloudWatch | 8.3% | 5 |
| 11 | Firebase | 8.3% | 5 |
| 11 | Google Play | 8.3% | 5 |
| 14 | Amazon SQS | 6.7% | 4 |
| 14 | AWS KMS | 6.7% | 4 |
| 16 | Amazon EC2 | 5.0% | 3 |
| 16 | AWS CodeBuild | 5.0% | 3 |
| 16 | AWS CodePipeline | 5.0% | 3 |
| 16 | Azure Key Vault | 5.0% | 3 |
| 16 | Azure Monitor | 5.0% | 3 |