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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 56 106
Rank change year-on-year -21 +50 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 32 12 14
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.38% 1.81% 0.67%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.50% 6.82% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 31 11 12
10th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £57,750
25th Percentile £30,375 £50,625 £67,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £55,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.55% -23.08% +24.35%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,625 £73,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 -
England median annual salary £66,500 £72,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.28% +11.54% -3.70%

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 492 176 774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.23% 26.51% 36.95%
Number of salaries quoted 304 123 616
10th Percentile £32,500 £26,350 £27,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £32,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £69,543 £67,500 £66,165
90th Percentile £79,625 £77,452 £76,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -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 8 June 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 8 June 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 32 £47,000 -14.55% 15
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 (6.25%) WordPress
2 1 (3.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 31 (96.88%) Azure
2 23 (71.88%) AWS
3 18 (56.25%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (34.38%) GCP
6 5 (15.63%) Firebase
6 5 (15.63%) Google Play
7 4 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 11 (34.38%) HTTP
2 10 (31.25%) DNS
2 10 (31.25%) Firewall
2 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 8 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 4 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 3 (9.38%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (53.13%) Jenkins
2 12 (37.50%) Git
3 5 (15.63%) Android Studio
3 5 (15.63%) Crashlytics
3 5 (15.63%) fastlane
3 5 (15.63%) Gradle
4 2 (6.25%) GitLab
5 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.13%) Eclipse
5 1 (3.13%) Gatling
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) JMeter
5 1 (3.13%) Maven
5 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
General
1 10 (31.25%) Law
1 10 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 8 (25.00%) Multimedia
3 5 (15.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (15.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Aerospace
5 3 (9.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (37.50%) Developer
2 10 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (25.00%) Trainee
4 5 (15.63%) Android Developer
5 3 (9.38%) .NET Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Trainee Developer
5 3 (9.38%) Trainee Software Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Junior
6 2 (6.25%) Junior DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Junior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Linux DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (6.25%) Trainee Administrator
6 2 (6.25%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (34.38%) CSS
2 10 (31.25%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (25.00%) HTML
4 5 (15.63%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (15.63%) Android SDK
4 5 (15.63%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (15.63%) RESTful
4 5 (15.63%) Retrofit
5 4 (12.50%) .NET
5 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET
5 4 (12.50%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (12.50%) React
5 4 (12.50%) REST
6 3 (9.38%) .NET Core
6 3 (9.38%) Node.js
6 3 (9.38%) SubSonic
6 3 (9.38%) Tailwind CSS
6 3 (9.38%) Vue
7 1 (3.13%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
2 5 (15.63%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Android
2 2 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (62.50%) CI/CD
2 17 (53.13%) DevOps
3 15 (46.88%) Infrastructure as Code
4 14 (43.75%) Containerisation
5 10 (31.25%) Agile
5 10 (31.25%) Continuous Delivery
5 10 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (31.25%) DevSecOps
5 10 (31.25%) High Availability
5 10 (31.25%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 10 (31.25%) Static Code Analysis
5 10 (31.25%) Vulnerability Scanning
6 8 (25.00%) Analytics
7 7 (21.88%) Full-Stack Development
7 7 (21.88%) Test Automation
8 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (18.75%) Mentoring
8 6 (18.75%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) TDD
9 5 (15.63%) AI
Programming Languages
1 18 (56.25%) Python
2 10 (31.25%) Bash
2 10 (31.25%) Go
2 10 (31.25%) JavaScript
3 7 (21.88%) Java
4 6 (18.75%) TypeScript
5 5 (15.63%) Kotlin
5 5 (15.63%) R
6 4 (12.50%) C#
6 4 (12.50%) SQL
7 1 (3.13%) C
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 8 (25.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 8 (25.00%) Azure Certification
1 8 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) Accessibility
1 6 (18.75%) WCAG
2 1 (3.13%) GDPR
2 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 8 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (34.38%) Grafana
1 11 (34.38%) Terraform
2 10 (31.25%) Ansible
2 10 (31.25%) Prometheus
3 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) Dynatrace
2 5 (15.63%) Google