Git Job Trends in the North of England

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 134 71
Rank change year-on-year +13 -63 +18
Permanent jobs citing Git 257 182 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.36% 2.35% 3.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.21% 26.26% 36.50%
Number of salaries quoted 201 141 406
10th Percentile - £41,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -1.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,751 £72,137
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 730 693 1,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.87% 8.93% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 542 441 1,158
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,050 £76,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,300
England median annual salary £61,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Git relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Git job vacancy trend in the North of England

Git
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the North of England over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the North of England

Git
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the North of England region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
North West +22 128 £57,687 -2.64% 70
Yorkshire -13 103 £37,500 -42.31% 45
North East -23 26 £30,500 -44.55% 29
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 27 (10.51%) WordPress
2 9 (3.50%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.95%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.17%) Apache
5 3 (1.17%) CMS
5 3 (1.17%) IIS
5 3 (1.17%) nginx
6 2 (0.78%) CICS
6 2 (0.78%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.39%) Confluence
7 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.78%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.39%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 174 (67.70%) AWS
2 158 (61.48%) Azure
3 118 (45.91%) GitHub
4 42 (16.34%) Serverless
5 34 (13.23%) Amazon S3
6 33 (12.84%) Azure DevOps
7 28 (10.89%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (10.89%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (10.12%) AWS CloudFormation
8 26 (10.12%) GitHub Actions
9 25 (9.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 25 (9.73%) AWS Step Functions
10 19 (7.39%) Amazon EKS
11 15 (5.84%) Amazon SQS
11 15 (5.84%) GCP
12 14 (5.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (5.45%) Datadog
13 10 (3.89%) Power Platform
14 9 (3.50%) Amazon EventBridge
15 7 (2.72%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 81 (31.52%) Internet
2 9 (3.50%) DNS
3 5 (1.95%) HTTP
4 2 (0.78%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) DHCP
5 1 (0.39%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.39%) SSH
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) VSAN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.73%) NoSQL
2 41 (15.95%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (10.12%) DynamoDB
4 23 (8.95%) Relational Database
5 22 (8.56%) MySQL
6 18 (7.00%) SQL Server
7 16 (6.23%) MongoDB
8 14 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (3.89%) Power BI
10 5 (1.95%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.95%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.78%) DB2
11 2 (0.78%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.39%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.39%) Looker
12 1 (0.39%) Redis
12 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (12.45%) Jenkins
2 23 (8.95%) GitLab
3 17 (6.61%) JIRA
4 11 (4.28%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.72%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.33%) JUnit
7 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.17%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.17%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.17%) Postman
7 3 (1.17%) Selenium
7 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) NUnit
8 2 (0.78%) Subversion
8 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.39%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.39%) gulp
9 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 74 (28.79%) Multimedia
2 60 (23.35%) Social Skills
3 20 (7.78%) Finance
4 16 (6.23%) Public Sector
5 10 (3.89%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.50%) Retail
7 7 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.33%) Marketing
9 5 (1.95%) Advertising
9 5 (1.95%) Banking
10 3 (1.17%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Games
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.78%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 135 (52.53%) Developer
2 74 (28.79%) Trainee
3 51 (19.84%) Senior
4 38 (14.79%) Java Developer
5 37 (14.40%) Software Developer
6 34 (13.23%) Senior Developer
7 28 (10.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 28 (10.89%) Trainee Developer
7 28 (10.89%) Trainee Software Developer
8 23 (8.95%) Administrator
8 23 (8.95%) Trainee Administrator
8 23 (8.95%) Web Administrator
9 15 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.84%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 13 (5.06%) .NET Developer
10 13 (5.06%) Lead
10 13 (5.06%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.89%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (47.08%) CSS
2 118 (45.91%) HTML
3 52 (20.23%) React
4 43 (16.73%) AngularJS
5 38 (14.79%) Node.js
6 36 (14.01%) RESTful
7 32 (12.45%) .NET
7 32 (12.45%) REST
8 24 (9.34%) Spring
8 24 (9.34%) Spring Boot
9 20 (7.78%) .NET Core
10 19 (7.39%) ASP.NET
11 17 (6.61%) Vue
12 15 (5.84%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (5.06%) Kafka
14 13 (5.06%) Web Services
15 11 (4.28%) Blazor
15 11 (4.28%) Laravel
16 9 (3.50%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.17%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.45%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.06%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.95%) Legacy Applications
4 5 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.17%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.78%) NHS
7 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.39%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.39%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.00%) Linux
2 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) CentOS
3 1 (0.39%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.39%) Windows
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (43.58%) CI/CD
2 94 (36.58%) Mentoring
3 93 (36.19%) Agile
4 82 (31.91%) DevOps
5 58 (22.57%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (21.40%) Full-Stack Development
7 52 (20.23%) Cybersecurity
8 48 (18.68%) Microservices
9 38 (14.79%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (13.62%) Containerisation
10 35 (13.62%) Web Development
11 31 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (9.73%) Scrum
13 21 (8.17%) AI
13 21 (8.17%) TDD
14 20 (7.78%) Clean Code
14 20 (7.78%) Coaching
15 19 (7.39%) Deployment Automation
15 19 (7.39%) Software Engineering
16 17 (6.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 161 (62.65%) JavaScript
2 124 (48.25%) Python
3 72 (28.02%) SQL
4 59 (22.96%) Java
5 47 (18.29%) R
6 44 (17.12%) TypeScript
7 24 (9.34%) C#
8 19 (7.39%) PHP
9 14 (5.45%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.89%) Go
11 8 (3.11%) C
12 5 (1.95%) Bash
12 5 (1.95%) C++
12 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
13 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.17%) Bicep
13 3 (1.17%) Groovy
14 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 82 (31.91%) AWS Certification
2 75 (29.18%) Azure Certification
3 74 (28.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 74 (28.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.45%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.28%) SC Cleared
6 10 (3.89%) Degree
7 7 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (7.00%) QA
2 6 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.56%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.17%) GDPR
5 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 59 (22.96%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (18.68%) Terraform
2 33 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.73%) Ansible
4 3 (1.17%) Nagios
4 3 (1.17%) Packer
4 3 (1.17%) Rancher
5 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.78%) cPanel
5 2 (0.78%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Kibana
5 2 (0.78%) Plesk
5 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.39%) Argo
6 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.39%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 94 (36.58%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.67%) Oracle
3 5 (1.95%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.95%) IBM
3 5 (1.95%) Pega
4 4 (1.56%) Splunk
5 3 (1.17%) Databricks
5 3 (1.17%) Red Hat
5 3 (1.17%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.78%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.78%) Google
6 2 (0.78%) New Relic
6 2 (0.78%) WSO2
7 1 (0.39%) Adobe
7 1 (0.39%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.39%) McAfee
7 1 (0.39%) Netlify
7 1 (0.39%) WooCommerce