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 citing GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	95	53	77
Rank change year-on-year	-42	+24	-23
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	54	31	13
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East	1.41%	2.88%	1.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category	7.66%	12.35%	3.50%
Number of salaries quoted	45	28	2
10^th Percentile	£42,500	-	-
25^th Percentile	£48,250	£28,250	£44,738
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£51,000	£49,274
Median % change year-on-year	+27.45%	+3.50%	-17.88%
75^th Percentile	£90,000	£55,000	£53,811
90^th Percentile	£101,250	£74,875	-
England median annual salary	£67,500	£60,000	£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 citing cloud computing skills in the North East.

	6 months to 10 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies citing cloud computing skills	705	251	371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East	18.43%	23.28%	28.67%
Number of salaries quoted	528	189	197
10^th Percentile	£36,250	£28,250	£33,650
25^th Percentile	£45,000	£29,750	£42,238
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£60,000	£50,000	£53,500
Median % change year-on-year	+20.00%	-6.54%	-2.73%
75^th Percentile	£75,664	£68,750	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£90,000	£78,832	£84,964
England median annual salary	£63,000	£57,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+9.57%	-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 10 November 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 10 November 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	Job Ads Past 6 Months	Median Salary Past 6 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Jobs
Tyne and Wear	-44	51	£67,500	+32.35%	31
Durham	-10	3	£31,000	-43.84%	1
GitHub England

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 10 November 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North East region citing GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Docker	72.2%	39
2	CI/CD	66.7%	36
3	AWS	63.0%	34
4	Azure	59.3%	32
5	Kubernetes	57.4%	31
6	DevOps	51.9%	28
7	Agile	50.0%	27
7	Infrastructure as Code	50.0%	27
9	TypeScript	44.4%	24
10	GitHub Actions	42.6%	23
11	Jenkins	38.9%	21
11	Microservices	38.9%	21
13	.NET	37.0%	20
13	Full-Stack Development	37.0%	20
15	C#	35.2%	19
15	Git	35.2%	19
15	Terraform	35.2%	19
18	Containerisation	31.5%	17
18	SQL	31.5%	17
20	GitHub Copilot	29.6%	16
20	React	29.6%	16
22	Clean Code	27.8%	15
22	GitLab	27.8%	15
22	TDD	27.8%	15
25	Azure SQL Database	25.9%	14
25	MongoDB	25.9%	14
25	Platform Engineering	25.9%	14
25	SC Cleared	25.9%	14
25	Security Cleared	25.9%	14
30	ASP.NET	24.1%	13

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	AWS	63.0%	34
2	Azure	59.3%	32
3	GitHub Actions	42.6%	23
4	GitHub Copilot	29.6%	16
5	Serverless	18.5%	10
6	Amazon ECS	16.7%	9
6	Amazon S3	16.7%	9
8	AWS Lambda	14.8%	8
9	Azure DevOps	13.0%	7
10	AWS CloudFormation	11.1%	6
11	Amazon CloudWatch	9.3%	5
12	Amazon SQS	7.4%	4
12	AWS KMS	7.4%	4
14	Amazon EC2	5.6%	3
14	AWS CodeBuild	5.6%	3
14	AWS CodePipeline	5.6%	3
14	Azure Key Vault	5.6%	3
14	Azure Monitor	5.6%	3
14	ChatGPT	5.6%	3
14	Entra ID	5.6%	3