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 15 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 174 103
Rank change year-on-year +45 -71 -52
Permanent jobs citing Git 280 130 260
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.17% 1.38% 2.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.36% 23.47% 28.54%
Number of salaries quoted 191 95 153
10th Percentile £35,000 - £34,000
25th Percentile £47,000 £28,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,985 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%

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 815 554 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.40% 5.88% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 504 314 502
10th Percentile £38,750 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,438 £66,500
90th Percentile £92,131 £78,750 £74,900
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 15 October 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 15 October 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 +28 132 £62,500 +25.00% 126
North East -9 75 £62,500 +31.58% 33
Yorkshire -6 73 £62,500 +29.53% 86
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 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 15 (5.36%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.93%) Apache
4 8 (2.86%) CMS
4 8 (2.86%) SharePoint
5 7 (2.50%) WordPress
6 6 (2.14%) IIS
6 6 (2.14%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (1.43%) OpenStack
8 3 (1.07%) Jupyter
8 3 (1.07%) nginx
8 3 (1.07%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (1.07%) Tomcat
8 3 (1.07%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.71%) Confluence
9 2 (0.71%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.36%) JBoss
10 1 (0.36%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.07%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.07%) Shopify
2 2 (0.71%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 177 (63.21%) AWS
2 134 (47.86%) Azure
3 86 (30.71%) GitHub
4 49 (17.50%) Serverless
5 47 (16.79%) GCP
6 41 (14.64%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (13.93%) Amazon S3
8 38 (13.57%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (13.57%) GitHub Actions
9 30 (10.71%) Amazon ECS
10 29 (10.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (8.21%) Power Platform
12 21 (7.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 21 (7.50%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (6.07%) Datadog
14 15 (5.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
16 12 (4.29%) dbt
17 10 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (3.57%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.29%) Internet
2 4 (1.43%) DNS
3 3 (1.07%) DHCP
3 3 (1.07%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.07%) LAN
3 3 (1.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.07%) VSAN
3 3 (1.07%) WAN
4 2 (0.71%) Firewall
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (13.21%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 35 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 33 (11.79%) NoSQL
4 23 (8.21%) Amazon Athena
5 22 (7.86%) MongoDB
6 21 (7.50%) Power BI
7 20 (7.14%) DynamoDB
7 20 (7.14%) MySQL
8 15 (5.36%) Data Warehouse
9 14 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
10 12 (4.29%) Amazon Redshift
11 10 (3.57%) BigQuery
12 8 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.86%) Metadata
12 8 (2.86%) Redis
13 6 (2.14%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.79%) Chroma
14 5 (1.79%) DocumentDB
14 5 (1.79%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 59 (21.07%) GitLab
2 57 (20.36%) Jenkins
3 22 (7.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (3.57%) JUnit
5 7 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.50%) JIRA
5 7 (2.50%) Selenium
6 6 (2.14%) Cypress.io
6 6 (2.14%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.79%) Maven
8 4 (1.43%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.43%) Spock
8 4 (1.43%) Visual Studio
9 3 (1.07%) Eclipse
9 3 (1.07%) Mockito
9 3 (1.07%) Postman
9 3 (1.07%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.71%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.71%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.71%) Vite
General
1 123 (43.93%) Social Skills
2 55 (19.64%) Public Sector
3 52 (18.57%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.50%) Finance
5 23 (8.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.43%) Marketing
7 9 (3.21%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (1.43%) Retail
11 3 (1.07%) Banking
12 2 (0.71%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.71%) Games
12 2 (0.71%) Legal
12 2 (0.71%) Local Government
12 2 (0.71%) Publishing
13 1 (0.36%) Back Office
13 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Law
13 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (42.86%) Developer
2 43 (15.36%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (13.93%) Senior
4 37 (13.21%) Data Engineer
5 28 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (9.64%) Software Engineer
7 23 (8.21%) Software Developer
8 22 (7.86%) Java Developer
8 22 (7.86%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 22 (7.86%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (7.14%) Senior Developer
10 18 (6.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.64%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.29%) Trainee
13 10 (3.57%) Lead
13 10 (3.57%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.21%) Junior
15 7 (2.50%) .NET Developer
15 7 (2.50%) Angular Developer
15 7 (2.50%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (26.07%) Terraform
2 64 (22.86%) React
3 62 (22.14%) REST
4 57 (20.36%) Node.js
5 46 (16.43%) CSS
6 42 (15.00%) .NET
7 37 (13.21%) HTML
8 34 (12.14%) AngularJS
9 28 (10.00%) Spring
10 24 (8.57%) RESTful
11 21 (7.50%) Spring Boot
12 18 (6.43%) Kafka
13 14 (5.00%) .NET Core
13 14 (5.00%) ASP.NET
14 13 (4.64%) Flask
15 12 (4.29%) Middleware
16 11 (3.93%) .NET Framework
16 11 (3.93%) HTML5
16 11 (3.93%) Vue
17 10 (3.57%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 52 (18.57%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.79%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.43%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.36%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.29%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.86%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.86%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.86%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.50%) Social Media
8 6 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.79%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.43%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.43%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.07%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.07%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.07%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 53 (18.93%) Linux
2 25 (8.93%) CentOS
2 25 (8.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.86%) Windows
4 7 (2.50%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.43%) VMS
6 3 (1.07%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.71%) Android
7 2 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (76.07%) CI/CD
2 146 (52.14%) DevOps
3 95 (33.93%) Agile
4 89 (31.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 79 (28.21%) Full-Stack Development
6 74 (26.43%) Mentoring
7 69 (24.64%) Software Engineering
8 66 (23.57%) Microservices
9 63 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
10 56 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
11 55 (19.64%) Containerisation
12 53 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (18.21%) Test Automation
14 49 (17.50%) AI
15 38 (13.57%) Collaborative Culture
15 38 (13.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 37 (13.21%) Data Pipeline
16 37 (13.21%) SDLC
17 36 (12.86%) Data Modelling
18 35 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 107 (38.21%) SQL
2 103 (36.79%) Python
3 94 (33.57%) JavaScript
4 80 (28.57%) TypeScript
5 68 (24.29%) Java
6 49 (17.50%) C#
7 22 (7.86%) Kotlin
8 19 (6.79%) PHP
9 15 (5.36%) Bash
9 15 (5.36%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.21%) C++
10 9 (3.21%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.50%) Go
12 6 (2.14%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.79%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.43%) Groovy
15 3 (1.07%) C
15 3 (1.07%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.07%) Scala
15 3 (1.07%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (18.57%) Security Cleared
2 44 (15.71%) SC Cleared
3 26 (9.29%) DV Cleared
4 24 (8.57%) Degree
5 10 (3.57%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.43%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.71%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.14%) QA
2 29 (10.36%) Data Quality
3 17 (6.07%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.79%) WCAG
5 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 136 (48.57%) Docker
2 10 (3.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.07%) Ceph
3 3 (1.07%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 70 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 38 (13.57%) Ansible
3 8 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.50%) Istio
5 6 (2.14%) Grafana
5 6 (2.14%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.14%) Puppet
6 4 (1.43%) Argo
6 4 (1.43%) linkerd
7 3 (1.07%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.07%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.07%) Podman
7 3 (1.07%) SCVMM
7 3 (1.07%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.36%) Kibana
9 1 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 46 (16.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.21%) Google
3 12 (4.29%) Databricks
4 11 (3.93%) Splunk
5 9 (3.21%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.50%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.14%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.79%) Confluent
8 5 (1.79%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.43%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.43%) Mistral
10 3 (1.07%) Cisco
10 3 (1.07%) Dell
10 3 (1.07%) Foundry
10 3 (1.07%) IBM
10 3 (1.07%) McAfee
10 3 (1.07%) Palantir
10 3 (1.07%) SnapLogic
10 3 (1.07%) VMware
11 2 (0.71%) Apple