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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 79 70
Rank change year-on-year +34 -9 -1
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 34 10 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 3.30% 1.08% 0.40%
As % of the Cloud Services category 12.50% 3.45% 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 33 2 3
10th Percentile - £61,375 £55,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £61,563 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £68,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -55.64% +5.77% +13.04%
75th Percentile £52,500 £79,688 £69,125
90th Percentile £65,000 £82,125 £71,600
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -10.34% +4.40%

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 272 290 292
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 26.41% 31.18% 39.09%
Number of salaries quoted 202 152 251
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,050 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,119 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,979 £89,750 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +30 33 £30,500 -55.64% 30
Durham - 1 £55,200 -
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 32 (94.12%) Azure
2 27 (79.41%) AWS
3 5 (14.71%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (11.76%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (8.82%) IaaS
5 3 (8.82%) PaaS
5 3 (8.82%) SaaS
6 2 (5.88%) GCP
6 2 (5.88%) Slack
7 1 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.94%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (2.94%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 22 (64.71%) Internet
2 2 (5.88%) DNS
2 2 (5.88%) Firewall
2 2 (5.88%) HTTP
2 2 (5.88%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) MongoDB
2 3 (8.82%) MySQL
2 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 23 (67.65%) Git
2 5 (14.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.82%) Bitbucket
3 3 (8.82%) GitLab
4 1 (2.94%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.94%) JUnit
4 1 (2.94%) Selenium
General
1 22 (64.71%) Multimedia
2 4 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 3 (8.82%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (2.94%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 22 (64.71%) Trainee
2 15 (44.12%) Developer
3 14 (41.18%) Software Developer
4 13 (38.24%) Trainee Developer
4 13 (38.24%) Trainee Software Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior
6 3 (8.82%) DBA
6 3 (8.82%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) SQL DBA
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) DevOps Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Platform Manager
7 2 (5.88%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
8 1 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 1 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (2.94%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (2.94%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (67.65%) CSS
1 23 (67.65%) HTML
2 3 (8.82%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.94%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.94%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.94%) CSS3
3 1 (2.94%) Django
3 1 (2.94%) Express.js
3 1 (2.94%) Flask
3 1 (2.94%) hapi
3 1 (2.94%) HTML5
3 1 (2.94%) HTML5 Boilerplate
3 1 (2.94%) NestJS
3 1 (2.94%) Node.js
3 1 (2.94%) pytest
3 1 (2.94%) React
3 1 (2.94%) Spring
3 1 (2.94%) Spring Boot
3 1 (2.94%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Clustering
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (76.47%) Mentoring
2 22 (64.71%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (23.53%) DevOps
4 6 (17.65%) Containerisation
4 6 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (14.71%) CI/CD
5 5 (14.71%) High Availability
6 3 (8.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (8.82%) ETL
6 3 (8.82%) FinOps
6 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.82%) Roadmaps
7 2 (5.88%) ChatOps
7 2 (5.88%) Cloud Operations
7 2 (5.88%) Cost Management
7 2 (5.88%) DevSecOps
7 2 (5.88%) Incident Response
7 2 (5.88%) Project Delivery
7 2 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (5.88%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (73.53%) Python
2 23 (67.65%) JavaScript
3 9 (26.47%) R
4 5 (14.71%) SQL
5 3 (8.82%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.88%) Bash
6 2 (5.88%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) Delphi
7 1 (2.94%) Java
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (67.65%) Azure Certification
2 22 (64.71%) AWS Certification
2 22 (64.71%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 22 (64.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
3 1 (2.94%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.94%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (20.59%) Terraform
2 5 (14.71%) Ansible
2 5 (14.71%) Grafana
3 4 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 4 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.82%) Informatica
2 3 (8.82%) RedGate
2 3 (8.82%) Talend
3 1 (2.94%) Oracle