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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 78 49
Rank change year-on-year +33 -29 +23
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 32 15 5
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.13% 1.32% 0.98%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.40% 4.17% 2.75%
Number of salaries quoted 29 4 5
10th Percentile - - £54,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £44,738 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £57,137 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.62% -4.77% -14.29%
75th Percentile £53,750 £71,563 £62,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £78,875 £64,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £72,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -13.79% +4.40%

All Cloud 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 258 360 182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 25.20% 31.66% 35.83%
Number of salaries quoted 194 200 166
10th Percentile £28,250 £34,975 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,813 £42,250 £37,619
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% -3.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £84,967 £76,563
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% -3.85%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 31 £30,500 -46.62% 19
Durham - 1 £55,200 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.25%) SAS
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 28 (87.50%) Azure
2 22 (68.75%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) SaaS
4 4 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (9.38%) GCP
5 3 (9.38%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (9.38%) IaaS
5 3 (9.38%) PaaS
6 2 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.25%) Slack
7 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (6.25%) PuTTY
3 1 (3.13%) DNS
3 1 (3.13%) Firewall
3 1 (3.13%) HTTP
3 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.88%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (18.75%) MySQL
4 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 4 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (6.25%) Big Data
5 2 (6.25%) BigQuery
5 2 (6.25%) HBase
5 2 (6.25%) Impala
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata
5 2 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (6.25%) Neo4j
5 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
5 2 (6.25%) Power BI
5 2 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (6.25%) QlikView
5 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
5 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
5 2 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (59.38%) Git
2 4 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 4 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 3 (9.38%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 16 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 4 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 2 (6.25%) Advertising
4 2 (6.25%) Back Office
4 2 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Trainee
2 14 (43.75%) Developer
3 11 (34.38%) Software Developer
4 10 (31.25%) Trainee Developer
4 10 (31.25%) Trainee Software Developer
5 4 (12.50%) DBA
5 4 (12.50%) Senior
5 4 (12.50%) SQL DBA
6 2 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) DevOps Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Dynamics NAV Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Platform Manager
6 2 (6.25%) SaaS Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Cloud Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) JavaScript Developer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (53.13%) CSS
1 17 (53.13%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) Apache NiFi
2 2 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) Plotly
2 2 (6.25%) PySpark
2 2 (6.25%) Regular Expression
2 2 (6.25%) Shiny
2 2 (6.25%) XML
3 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.13%) Bootstrap
3 1 (3.13%) Express.js
3 1 (3.13%) Flask
3 1 (3.13%) hapi
3 1 (3.13%) HTML5 Boilerplate
3 1 (3.13%) NestJS
3 1 (3.13%) pytest
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Clustering
2 2 (6.25%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.25%) NHS
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Unix
1 2 (6.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (75.00%) Mentoring
2 16 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (28.13%) DevOps
4 6 (18.75%) ETL
5 5 (15.63%) Containerisation
5 5 (15.63%) High Availability
5 5 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.50%) Data Integration
6 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (9.38%) FinOps
7 3 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (9.38%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.38%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.38%) Test Automation
8 2 (6.25%) ChatOps
8 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (6.25%) Data Development
8 2 (6.25%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (62.50%) Python
2 17 (53.13%) JavaScript
3 8 (25.00%) R
3 8 (25.00%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) Java
5 4 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 3 (9.38%) Bash
7 2 (6.25%) C
7 2 (6.25%) C#
7 2 (6.25%) PROC SQL
8 1 (3.13%) Delphi
8 1 (3.13%) Go
8 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (59.38%) Azure Certification
2 18 (56.25%) AWS Certification
3 16 (50.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 16 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.25%) DBS Check
4 2 (6.25%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 2 (6.25%) ISO 9001
1 2 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.25%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Flume
2 2 (6.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
2 4 (12.50%) Ansible
2 4 (12.50%) Grafana
2 4 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (6.25%) Kibana
4 2 (6.25%) logstash
4 2 (6.25%) Oozie
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) Informatica
3 4 (12.50%) RedGate
3 4 (12.50%) Talend
4 2 (6.25%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle