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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 150 78
Rank change year-on-year +15 -72 +5
Permanent jobs citing Git 230 175 540
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 2.18% 2.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.30% 25.77% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 184 130 420
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £31,063 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £82,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -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 759 679 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.85% 8.46% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 572 413 1,160
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,900 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,625
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 12 June 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 12 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
North West +25 121 £61,418 +1.52% 63
Yorkshire -14 80 £50,000 -28.57% 33
North East -19 29 £48,000 -8.57% 13
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 21 (9.13%) WordPress
2 8 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.61%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.74%) CMS
4 4 (1.74%) IIS
4 4 (1.74%) nginx
4 4 (1.74%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.87%) Apache
5 2 (0.87%) CICS
5 2 (0.87%) JBoss
6 1 (0.43%) Confluence
6 1 (0.43%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.30%) Shopify
2 2 (0.87%) Magento
3 1 (0.43%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 144 (62.61%) AWS
2 128 (55.65%) Azure
3 97 (42.17%) GitHub
4 41 (17.83%) Serverless
5 37 (16.09%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (12.61%) Amazon S3
6 29 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (12.17%) Amazon ECS
7 28 (12.17%) GitHub Actions
8 21 (9.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (9.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 21 (9.13%) AWS Step Functions
9 17 (7.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 16 (6.96%) Datadog
11 13 (5.65%) Amazon EKS
11 13 (5.65%) GCP
11 13 (5.65%) Power Platform
12 8 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (2.61%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.30%) Internet
2 5 (2.17%) DNS
2 5 (2.17%) HTTP
3 3 (1.30%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) SSL
5 1 (0.43%) DHCP
5 1 (0.43%) LAN
5 1 (0.43%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.43%) VSAN
5 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (15.65%) NoSQL
1 36 (15.65%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (11.30%) Relational Database
3 25 (10.87%) MySQL
4 22 (9.57%) DynamoDB
5 19 (8.26%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (7.39%) SQL Server
7 15 (6.52%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.65%) Power BI
9 6 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (2.17%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (1.30%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.87%) Db2
12 2 (0.87%) GIS
12 2 (0.87%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.87%) Redis
12 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (14.78%) Jenkins
2 25 (10.87%) GitLab
3 18 (7.83%) JIRA
4 10 (4.35%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.61%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.74%) Postman
6 4 (1.74%) Selenium
7 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.30%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.30%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.30%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.30%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.30%) JUnit
7 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.87%) NUnit
8 2 (0.87%) Subversion
8 2 (0.87%) Vite
8 2 (0.87%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 64 (27.83%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.26%) Multimedia
3 19 (8.26%) Finance
4 18 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.22%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.35%) Marketing
7 9 (3.91%) Retail
8 8 (3.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.61%) Banking
9 6 (2.61%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.17%) Advertising
10 5 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.30%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.87%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.43%) Back Office
13 1 (0.43%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (51.30%) Developer
2 49 (21.30%) Senior
3 42 (18.26%) Trainee
4 35 (15.22%) Java Developer
5 31 (13.48%) Senior Developer
6 26 (11.30%) Software Developer
7 24 (10.43%) Full-Stack Developer
8 20 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.52%) Administrator
9 15 (6.52%) Trainee Administrator
9 15 (6.52%) Trainee Developer
9 15 (6.52%) Trainee Software Developer
9 15 (6.52%) Web Administrator
10 11 (4.78%) AWS Developer
11 10 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
11 10 (4.35%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (4.35%) Lead
12 9 (3.91%) Data Engineer
12 9 (3.91%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.48%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (38.26%) CSS
2 82 (35.65%) HTML
3 51 (22.17%) React
4 42 (18.26%) Node.js
5 41 (17.83%) AngularJS
6 39 (16.96%) REST
7 32 (13.91%) .NET
8 27 (11.74%) RESTful
9 23 (10.00%) Vue
10 20 (8.70%) Spring
10 20 (8.70%) Spring Boot
11 14 (6.09%) .NET Core
12 13 (5.65%) Laravel
13 11 (4.78%) ASP.NET
13 11 (4.78%) HTML5
14 10 (4.35%) .NET Framework
14 10 (4.35%) Entity Framework
15 9 (3.91%) CSS3
15 9 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
16 8 (3.48%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (6.09%) Cloud Native
2 14 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.04%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.30%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.30%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.30%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.87%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.87%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.87%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.87%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.43%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.39%) Linux
2 3 (1.30%) CentOS
2 3 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.43%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.43%) Windows
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (51.30%) CI/CD
2 87 (37.83%) DevOps
3 77 (33.48%) Agile
4 72 (31.30%) Mentoring
5 57 (24.78%) Full-Stack Development
6 48 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (17.39%) Microservices
8 38 (16.52%) Infrastructure as Code
9 30 (13.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (13.04%) Web Development
10 29 (12.61%) AI
10 29 (12.61%) Containerisation
10 29 (12.61%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (12.17%) Software Engineering
12 23 (10.00%) Clean Code
12 23 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
13 22 (9.57%) Front End Development
13 22 (9.57%) Scrum
13 22 (9.57%) Test Automation
14 21 (9.13%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 122 (53.04%) JavaScript
2 103 (44.78%) Python
3 81 (35.22%) SQL
4 58 (25.22%) Java
5 55 (23.91%) TypeScript
6 33 (14.35%) C#
7 27 (11.74%) R
8 24 (10.43%) PHP
9 18 (7.83%) Kotlin
10 10 (4.35%) Go
11 7 (3.04%) C
12 6 (2.61%) C++
13 5 (2.17%) Bash
13 5 (2.17%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.17%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.74%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.74%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.30%) Bicep
15 3 (1.30%) Groovy
15 3 (1.30%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (19.57%) AWS Certification
2 43 (18.70%) Azure Certification
3 42 (18.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 42 (18.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (7.83%) Degree
5 17 (7.39%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.09%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.74%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.30%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.87%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.43%) AWS Certified Developer
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (12.17%) QA
2 6 (2.61%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.87%) GDPR
3 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 59 (25.65%) Docker
2 2 (0.87%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (17.83%) Terraform
2 33 (14.35%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.00%) Ansible
4 3 (1.30%) Packer
5 2 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.87%) Grafana
5 2 (0.87%) Kibana
5 2 (0.87%) Nagios
5 2 (0.87%) Rancher
5 2 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.43%) Istio
6 1 (0.43%) linkerd
6 1 (0.43%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.43%) Puppet
6 1 (0.43%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 66 (28.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.04%) Oracle
3 6 (2.61%) Splunk
4 5 (2.17%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.17%) IBM
4 5 (2.17%) Pega
5 4 (1.74%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.30%) Databricks
6 3 (1.30%) Google
6 3 (1.30%) Red Hat
6 3 (1.30%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.87%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.87%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.87%) New Relic
7 2 (0.87%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.87%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.87%) WSO2
8 1 (0.43%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.43%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.43%) McAfee