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 22 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 149 73
Rank change year-on-year +27 -76 +13
Permanent jobs citing Git 262 163 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 2.11% 3.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.79% 24.89% 36.23%
Number of salaries quoted 206 124 410
10th Percentile - £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,751 £72,137
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
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 753 655 1,452
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.89% 8.50% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 560 403 1,169
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.98% +6.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £84,200
England median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +8.33% -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 22 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 22 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 +23 129 £57,687 -4.65% 63
Yorkshire -1 103 £36,250 -48.21% 36
North East -13 30 £30,500 -44.55% 21
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 28 (10.69%) WordPress
2 9 (3.44%) OpenStack
3 8 (3.05%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (1.53%) CMS
5 4 (1.53%) IIS
6 3 (1.15%) Apache
6 3 (1.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.76%) CICS
7 2 (0.76%) JBoss
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.38%) Confluence
8 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Shopify
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.76%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 173 (66.03%) AWS
2 159 (60.69%) Azure
3 118 (45.04%) GitHub
4 43 (16.41%) Serverless
5 37 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (13.36%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.45%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (11.07%) AWS Lambda
9 28 (10.69%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (9.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (9.54%) AWS Step Functions
12 19 (7.25%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (5.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 15 (5.73%) Datadog
14 14 (5.34%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (5.34%) GCP
15 12 (4.58%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.05%) Amazon EventBridge
16 8 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 78 (29.77%) Internet
2 9 (3.44%) DNS
3 5 (1.91%) HTTP
4 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.76%) Firewall
5 2 (0.76%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) VSAN
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (16.41%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (16.03%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.92%) DynamoDB
3 26 (9.92%) Relational Database
4 23 (8.78%) MySQL
5 19 (7.25%) SQL Server
6 16 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (5.73%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.58%) Power BI
9 6 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.29%) BigQuery
10 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
11 2 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.76%) DB2
11 2 (0.76%) GIS
11 2 (0.76%) Hazelcast
11 2 (0.76%) Metadata
11 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (12.21%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.16%) GitLab
3 17 (6.49%) JIRA
4 11 (4.20%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.67%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.29%) JUnit
7 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.15%) Postman
7 3 (1.15%) Selenium
7 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.76%) NUnit
8 2 (0.76%) Subversion
8 2 (0.76%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.38%) gulp
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 71 (27.10%) Multimedia
2 67 (25.57%) Social Skills
3 20 (7.63%) Finance
4 18 (6.87%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.05%) Retail
7 7 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.67%) Marketing
8 6 (2.29%) Banking
9 5 (1.91%) Advertising
9 5 (1.91%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.76%) Games
11 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.76%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 138 (52.67%) Developer
2 71 (27.10%) Trainee
3 51 (19.47%) Senior
4 38 (14.50%) Java Developer
4 38 (14.50%) Software Developer
5 33 (12.60%) Senior Developer
6 30 (11.45%) Full-Stack Developer
7 27 (10.31%) Trainee Developer
7 27 (10.31%) Trainee Software Developer
8 23 (8.78%) Administrator
8 23 (8.78%) Trainee Administrator
8 23 (8.78%) Web Administrator
9 15 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
9 15 (5.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 15 (5.73%) Software Engineer
10 12 (4.58%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.58%) Lead
11 10 (3.82%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.05%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (46.18%) CSS
2 116 (44.27%) HTML
3 51 (19.47%) React
4 44 (16.79%) AngularJS
5 41 (15.65%) Node.js
6 37 (14.12%) REST
7 36 (13.74%) RESTful
8 33 (12.60%) .NET
9 23 (8.78%) Spring
9 23 (8.78%) Spring Boot
10 21 (8.02%) .NET Core
11 19 (7.25%) ASP.NET
12 17 (6.49%) Vue
13 14 (5.34%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (4.96%) Kafka
15 12 (4.58%) Web Services
16 10 (3.82%) Blazor
16 10 (3.82%) HTML5
16 10 (3.82%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.34%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.76%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.49%) Linux
2 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) CentOS
3 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (45.04%) CI/CD
2 94 (35.88%) Mentoring
3 91 (34.73%) Agile
4 86 (32.82%) DevOps
5 61 (23.28%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (19.08%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (17.94%) Microservices
9 39 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (14.50%) Web Development
11 35 (13.36%) Containerisation
12 31 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (9.54%) Scrum
14 23 (8.78%) Coaching
15 22 (8.40%) AI
16 21 (8.02%) Software Engineering
16 21 (8.02%) TDD
17 20 (7.63%) Front End Development
18 19 (7.25%) Clean Code
18 19 (7.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 159 (60.69%) JavaScript
2 125 (47.71%) Python
3 77 (29.39%) SQL
4 61 (23.28%) Java
5 46 (17.56%) TypeScript
6 44 (16.79%) R
7 26 (9.92%) C#
8 20 (7.63%) PHP
9 15 (5.73%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.82%) Go
11 7 (2.67%) C
12 6 (2.29%) C++
13 5 (1.91%) Bash
13 5 (1.91%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.53%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.15%) Bicep
15 3 (1.15%) Groovy
15 3 (1.15%) SOQL
15 3 (1.15%) SOSL
15 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (30.15%) AWS Certification
2 72 (27.48%) Azure Certification
3 71 (27.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 71 (27.10%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.34%) Security Cleared
5 13 (4.96%) Degree
6 11 (4.20%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.29%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.15%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.40%) QA
2 7 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
5 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (23.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (18.32%) Terraform
2 32 (12.21%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.54%) Ansible
4 3 (1.15%) Nagios
4 3 (1.15%) Packer
4 3 (1.15%) Rancher
5 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Kibana
5 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 92 (35.11%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.58%) Oracle
3 5 (1.91%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.91%) IBM
3 5 (1.91%) Pega
3 5 (1.91%) Splunk
4 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.15%) Databricks
5 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.76%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.76%) Google
6 2 (0.76%) New Relic
6 2 (0.76%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.76%) WSO2
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.38%) McAfee
7 1 (0.38%) SnapLogic