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 13 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 55 83
Rank change year-on-year -34 +28 -27
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 57 21 13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.58% 2.15% 0.97%
As % of the Cloud Services category 8.36% 9.50% 3.33%
Number of salaries quoted 50 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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 682 221 390
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 18.95% 22.60% 29.24%
Number of salaries quoted 528 151 217
10th Percentile £36,250 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,600 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £78,790 £84,964
England median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.69% +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 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 13 October 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 13 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 -36 54 £65,000 +23.81% 21
Durham - 3 £31,000 - 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 36 (63.16%) Azure
2 35 (61.40%) AWS
3 26 (45.61%) GitHub Actions
4 17 (29.82%) GitHub Copilot
5 10 (17.54%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (15.79%) Amazon ECS
6 9 (15.79%) Serverless
7 8 (14.04%) Amazon S3
8 7 (12.28%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (10.53%) AWS CloudFormation
10 5 (8.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (8.77%) Firebase
10 5 (8.77%) Google Play
11 4 (7.02%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (7.02%) AWS KMS
12 3 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
12 3 (5.26%) AWS CodePipeline
12 3 (5.26%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (5.26%) ChatGPT
12 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (28.07%) MongoDB
2 14 (24.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 9 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (12.28%) MySQL
4 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.77%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (8.77%) DynamoDB
6 4 (7.02%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (5.26%) Power BI
7 3 (5.26%) Redis
8 2 (3.51%) SQL Server
9 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 24 (42.11%) Jenkins
2 21 (36.84%) Git
3 16 (28.07%) GitLab
4 8 (14.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 5 (8.77%) Android Studio
5 5 (8.77%) Crashlytics
5 5 (8.77%) fastlane
5 5 (8.77%) Gradle
6 4 (7.02%) Cucumber
6 4 (7.02%) Gatling
7 2 (3.51%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (36.84%) Public Sector
1 21 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (12.28%) Aerospace
4 6 (10.53%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 28 (49.12%) Developer
2 17 (29.82%) DevOps Engineer
3 14 (24.56%) .NET Developer
4 10 (17.54%) Senior
5 9 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 8 (14.04%) Principal DevOps Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
7 7 (12.28%) Senior .NET Developer
8 5 (8.77%) Android Developer
9 4 (7.02%) Java Developer
9 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared Java Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) CloudOps Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Full-Stack PHP Developer
10 2 (3.51%) Graduate Cloud Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Lead
10 2 (3.51%) Scala Engineer
10 2 (3.51%) Scala Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (36.84%) .NET
2 20 (35.09%) Terraform
3 18 (31.58%) React
4 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET
4 15 (26.32%) ASP.NET Core
5 13 (22.81%) Node.js
6 11 (19.30%) REST
7 10 (17.54%) .NET Core
8 9 (15.79%) Vue
9 8 (14.04%) AngularJS
9 8 (14.04%) CSS
9 8 (14.04%) RESTful
10 7 (12.28%) SubSonic
11 6 (10.53%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (8.77%) Android Jetpack
12 5 (8.77%) Android SDK
12 5 (8.77%) AWS CDK
12 5 (8.77%) Jetpack Compose
12 5 (8.77%) Retrofit
13 4 (7.02%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.07%) Cloud Native
2 5 (8.77%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 3 (5.26%) Culture of Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Blog
4 2 (3.51%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (21.05%) Linux
2 8 (14.04%) CentOS
2 8 (14.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (8.77%) Android
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (68.42%) CI/CD
2 30 (52.63%) DevOps
3 29 (50.88%) Agile
3 29 (50.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 23 (40.35%) Full-Stack Development
4 23 (40.35%) Microservices
5 18 (31.58%) Containerisation
6 17 (29.82%) Clean Code
7 16 (28.07%) TDD
8 14 (24.56%) Platform Engineering
8 14 (24.56%) Scrum
9 13 (22.81%) Observability
10 12 (21.05%) Analytics
10 12 (21.05%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 11 (19.30%) Deployment Automation
11 11 (19.30%) Kanban
11 11 (19.30%) Technical Leadership
11 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
11 11 (19.30%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 10 (17.54%) AI
Programming Languages
1 25 (43.86%) TypeScript
2 19 (33.33%) C#
3 16 (28.07%) SQL
4 11 (19.30%) Java
5 6 (10.53%) Python
6 5 (8.77%) Kotlin
7 3 (5.26%) Bash
7 3 (5.26%) Bicep
7 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.51%) PHP
8 2 (3.51%) Scala
8 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.75%) Go
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) SC Cleared
1 13 (22.81%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.51%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.77%) WCAG
3 1 (1.75%) QA
System Software
1 42 (73.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 32 (56.14%) Kubernetes
2 9 (15.79%) Ansible
3 6 (10.53%) Grafana
4 4 (7.02%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.75%) logstash
Vendors
1 10 (17.54%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.77%) Dynatrace
2 5 (8.77%) Google
2 5 (8.77%) Splunk
3 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.51%) Sage