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 6 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 58 102
Rank change year-on-year -20 +44 -30
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 41 15 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.56% 1.92% 0.83%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.31% 7.73% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 40 13 12
10th Percentile £30,500 £46,250 £48,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £59,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £71,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -23.08% +24.35%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £61,250 -
England median annual salary £65,000 £72,500 £61,000
% change year-on-year -10.34% +18.85% -7.51%

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 561 194 734
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 21.37% 24.87% 35.72%
Number of salaries quoted 367 133 581
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,300 £26,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,000 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,525 £67,500 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £79,650 £77,500
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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -21 39 £50,000 -9.09% 13
Durham - 2 £31,000 - 3
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 (4.88%) WordPress
2 1 (2.44%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 34 (82.93%) Azure
2 23 (56.10%) AWS
3 17 (41.46%) GitHub Actions
4 15 (36.59%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (31.71%) GitHub Copilot
6 10 (24.39%) GCP
7 5 (12.20%) Firebase
7 5 (12.20%) Google Play
8 4 (9.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (9.76%) Serverless
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
10 1 (2.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (24.39%) HTTP
2 9 (21.95%) DNS
2 9 (21.95%) Firewall
2 9 (21.95%) TCP/IP
3 3 (7.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (29.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 10 (24.39%) MongoDB
3 6 (14.63%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (9.76%) DynamoDB
4 4 (9.76%) MySQL
4 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (4.88%) Redis
5 2 (4.88%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (43.90%) Jenkins
2 13 (31.71%) Git
3 5 (12.20%) Android Studio
3 5 (12.20%) Crashlytics
3 5 (12.20%) fastlane
3 5 (12.20%) Gradle
4 4 (9.76%) GitLab
5 2 (4.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (4.88%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.44%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.44%) Gatling
6 1 (2.44%) JIRA
6 1 (2.44%) JMeter
6 1 (2.44%) Maven
6 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (21.95%) Law
1 9 (21.95%) Telecoms
2 7 (17.07%) Aerospace
2 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
3 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.32%) Manufacturing
5 3 (7.32%) Multimedia
6 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (56.10%) Developer
2 12 (29.27%) .NET Developer
3 11 (26.83%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Senior
4 6 (14.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Android Developer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.32%) Trainee
7 2 (4.88%) Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Junior
7 2 (4.88%) Lead
7 2 (4.88%) Lead C# Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Lead Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) PHP Developer
7 2 (4.88%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (4.88%) Trainee Administrator
7 2 (4.88%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (36.59%) .NET
2 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET
2 13 (31.71%) ASP.NET Core
2 13 (31.71%) React
3 9 (21.95%) Elastic Stack
3 9 (21.95%) Vue
4 8 (19.51%) AngularJS
4 8 (19.51%) CSS
4 8 (19.51%) REST
5 7 (17.07%) .NET Core
5 7 (17.07%) Node.js
5 7 (17.07%) RESTful
5 7 (17.07%) SubSonic
6 5 (12.20%) Android Jetpack
6 5 (12.20%) Android SDK
6 5 (12.20%) HTML
6 5 (12.20%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (12.20%) Retrofit
7 3 (7.32%) Tailwind CSS
8 2 (4.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 5 (12.20%) Cloud Native
2 5 (12.20%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.88%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Android
2 4 (9.76%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) CentOS
3 2 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (56.10%) CI/CD
2 18 (43.90%) Agile
2 18 (43.90%) DevOps
2 18 (43.90%) Full-Stack Development
2 18 (43.90%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (36.59%) Microservices
4 13 (31.71%) Containerisation
5 12 (29.27%) Analytics
6 11 (26.83%) Continuous Delivery
6 11 (26.83%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 10 (24.39%) TDD
8 9 (21.95%) Continuous Integration
8 9 (21.95%) DevSecOps
8 9 (21.95%) High Availability
8 9 (21.95%) Static Code Analysis
8 9 (21.95%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 8 (19.51%) Scrum
10 7 (17.07%) Clean Code
10 7 (17.07%) Data Analytics
10 7 (17.07%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (41.46%) TypeScript
2 15 (36.59%) C#
2 15 (36.59%) SQL
3 12 (29.27%) Python
4 9 (21.95%) Bash
4 9 (21.95%) Go
5 7 (17.07%) Java
5 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
6 5 (12.20%) Kotlin
7 2 (4.88%) PHP
7 2 (4.88%) R
8 1 (2.44%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (7.32%) AWS Certification
1 3 (7.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
1 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.88%) DV Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Accessibility
1 6 (14.63%) WCAG
2 1 (2.44%) GDPR
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 21 (51.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (34.15%) Kubernetes
1 14 (34.15%) Terraform
2 11 (26.83%) Ansible
3 10 (24.39%) Grafana
4 9 (21.95%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Dynatrace
2 5 (12.20%) Google