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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 161 77
Rank change year-on-year +30 -84 -1
Permanent jobs citing Git 269 153 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.21% 1.58% 2.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.29% 23.68% 34.05%
Number of salaries quoted 197 108 285
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £38,450
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +8.86% -6.78%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £89,889 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 833 646 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.76% 6.69% 7.41%
Number of salaries quoted 577 385 784
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,450 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +28 135 £57,593 +0.16% 69
Yorkshire -7 74 £51,250 -26.79% 40
North East -8 60 £62,500 +31.58% 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 22 (8.18%) WordPress
2 16 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.60%) CMS
4 6 (2.23%) IIS
4 6 (2.23%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.86%) Apache
5 5 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.86%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.12%) Confluence
6 3 (1.12%) nginx
6 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.74%) CICS
7 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) JBoss
8 1 (0.37%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.74%) Magento
3 2 (0.74%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.37%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 163 (60.59%) AWS
2 131 (48.70%) Azure
3 92 (34.20%) GitHub
4 45 (16.73%) Serverless
5 43 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (12.64%) GCP
8 31 (11.52%) Amazon S3
9 28 (10.41%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (7.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (7.06%) Power Platform
12 16 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (5.58%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (5.58%) Datadog
14 13 (4.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 12 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.72%) dbt
17 8 (2.97%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.32%) Internet
2 4 (1.49%) DNS
2 4 (1.49%) HTTP
3 3 (1.12%) DHCP
3 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.12%) LAN
3 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.12%) VSAN
3 3 (1.12%) WAN
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.01%) SQL Server
2 34 (12.64%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (11.90%) NoSQL
3 32 (11.90%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.67%) MySQL
5 17 (6.32%) Power BI
6 16 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 13 (4.83%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.09%) BigQuery
8 11 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.60%) Redis
12 4 (1.49%) GIS
12 4 (1.49%) Metadata
12 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.12%) DuckDB
13 3 (1.12%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 53 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 37 (13.75%) GitLab
3 18 (6.69%) JIRA
4 13 (4.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.72%) Bitbucket
6 8 (2.97%) JUnit
6 8 (2.97%) Selenium
7 6 (2.23%) Postman
7 6 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.86%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.86%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.86%) IntelliJ
8 5 (1.86%) PHPUnit
9 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.74%) Mockito
10 2 (0.74%) Spock
General
1 101 (37.55%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.24%) Finance
3 34 (12.64%) Public Sector
4 31 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.69%) Marketing
6 17 (6.32%) Multimedia
7 13 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.97%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.60%) Retail
9 7 (2.60%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.86%) Banking
10 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.49%) Advertising
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
12 2 (0.74%) Publishing
12 2 (0.74%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 126 (46.84%) Developer
2 47 (17.47%) Senior
3 36 (13.38%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (11.52%) Java Developer
5 28 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 27 (10.04%) Senior Developer
7 24 (8.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 24 (8.92%) Software Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Administrator
9 19 (7.06%) Software Developer
10 17 (6.32%) Trainee
11 15 (5.58%) Trainee Administrator
11 15 (5.58%) Web Administrator
12 14 (5.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (4.83%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 13 (4.83%) Principal Engineer
14 11 (4.09%) AWS Developer
14 11 (4.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 11 (4.09%) Lead
15 8 (2.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (26.02%) CSS
2 63 (23.42%) React
3 62 (23.05%) HTML
4 57 (21.19%) REST
5 47 (17.47%) Node.js
6 43 (15.99%) .NET
7 42 (15.61%) AngularJS
8 28 (10.41%) RESTful
8 28 (10.41%) Spring
9 24 (8.92%) Spring Boot
10 23 (8.55%) Vue
11 17 (6.32%) .NET Core
12 15 (5.58%) .NET Framework
12 15 (5.58%) ASP.NET
13 14 (5.20%) Entity Framework
13 14 (5.20%) HTML5
13 14 (5.20%) Laravel
14 12 (4.46%) Kafka
15 11 (4.09%) CSS3
15 11 (4.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.01%) Cloud Native
2 23 (8.55%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.20%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.97%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.60%) Social Media
7 5 (1.86%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.49%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
9 3 (1.12%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.12%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.15%) Linux
2 16 (5.95%) CentOS
2 16 (5.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (2.23%) Windows
4 5 (1.86%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.49%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.12%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.74%) Android
7 2 (0.74%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (67.29%) CI/CD
2 123 (45.72%) DevOps
3 102 (37.92%) Agile
4 82 (30.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 58 (21.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 57 (21.19%) Microservices
7 56 (20.82%) Mentoring
8 55 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (20.07%) Software Engineering
10 48 (17.84%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (15.61%) Containerisation
12 41 (15.24%) AI
13 38 (14.13%) Web Development
14 35 (13.01%) Clean Code
14 35 (13.01%) Test Automation
15 33 (12.27%) Collaborative Culture
15 33 (12.27%) Platform Engineering
16 31 (11.52%) Data Modelling
16 31 (11.52%) Workflow
17 29 (10.78%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 117 (43.49%) JavaScript
2 107 (39.78%) Python
3 100 (37.17%) SQL
4 69 (25.65%) Java
5 64 (23.79%) TypeScript
6 46 (17.10%) C#
7 26 (9.67%) PHP
8 18 (6.69%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.58%) R
10 13 (4.83%) Bash
11 8 (2.97%) C++
11 8 (2.97%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.60%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.23%) Go
14 5 (1.86%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.86%) Bicep
14 5 (1.86%) Groovy
14 5 (1.86%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.49%) Swift
15 4 (1.49%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 29 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.55%) Degree
4 21 (7.81%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.06%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.06%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 17 (6.32%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.01%) QA
2 20 (7.43%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.09%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) GDPR
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 101 (37.55%) Docker
2 6 (2.23%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.12%) Ceph
4 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 55 (20.45%) Terraform
2 54 (20.07%) Kubernetes
3 32 (11.90%) Ansible
4 7 (2.60%) Istio
4 7 (2.60%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.86%) Grafana
6 4 (1.49%) Argo
6 4 (1.49%) linkerd
6 4 (1.49%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.49%) Puppet
7 3 (1.12%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.12%) Kibana
7 3 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.12%) Packer
7 3 (1.12%) Podman
7 3 (1.12%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 48 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.46%) Google
3 9 (3.35%) Databricks
3 9 (3.35%) Splunk
4 7 (2.60%) AppDynamics
4 7 (2.60%) IBM
4 7 (2.60%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.23%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.23%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.86%) Pega
7 4 (1.49%) Oracle
8 3 (1.12%) Dell
8 3 (1.12%) McAfee
8 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.12%) SnapLogic
8 3 (1.12%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.74%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.74%) Confluent
9 2 (0.74%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.74%) WSO2