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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 153 76
Rank change year-on-year +2 -77 -3
Permanent jobs citing Git 214 169 525
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 1.88% 2.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.65% 25.00% 35.57%
Number of salaries quoted 169 124 412
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £70,313
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £82,500
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 774 676 1,476
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 7.52% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 576 404 1,121
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,975 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £58,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.29% +5.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £76,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 +3 115 £61,418 +3.88% 65
Yorkshire -13 67 £50,000 -28.57% 26
North East -26 32 £52,000 +4.00% 16
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 (9.81%) WordPress
2 11 (5.14%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.80%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (2.34%) CMS
4 5 (2.34%) IIS
5 3 (1.40%) Confluence
5 3 (1.40%) nginx
6 2 (0.93%) CICS
6 2 (0.93%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.47%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.47%) Apache
7 1 (0.47%) JBoss
7 1 (0.47%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.87%) Shopify
2 3 (1.40%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.93%) Magento
4 1 (0.47%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 126 (58.88%) AWS
2 110 (51.40%) Azure
3 79 (36.92%) GitHub
4 40 (18.69%) Serverless
5 39 (18.22%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (13.55%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (13.08%) GitHub Actions
8 25 (11.68%) Amazon S3
9 23 (10.75%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (8.88%) GCP
11 16 (7.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (7.01%) AWS Step Functions
12 15 (7.01%) Power Platform
13 14 (6.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (6.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (6.07%) Datadog
15 10 (4.67%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.74%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (3.74%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 23 (10.75%) Internet
2 4 (1.87%) HTTP
3 3 (1.40%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) Firewall
5 1 (0.47%) DHCP
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) LAN
5 1 (0.47%) Network Security
5 1 (0.47%) SSL
5 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) VSAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.02%) NoSQL
2 28 (13.08%) MySQL
3 27 (12.62%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (12.15%) Relational Database
5 21 (9.81%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.48%) Amazon Athena
6 16 (7.48%) DynamoDB
7 15 (7.01%) Power BI
8 9 (4.21%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.27%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.80%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.80%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.34%) Redis
12 4 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.40%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.40%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.40%) Tableau
14 2 (0.93%) GIS
14 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 37 (17.29%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.21%) GitLab
3 19 (8.88%) JIRA
4 8 (3.74%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.80%) PHPUnit
5 6 (2.80%) Postman
5 6 (2.80%) Selenium
6 5 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.40%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.40%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.40%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.40%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.40%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.40%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.93%) JUnit
8 2 (0.93%) NUnit
8 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) Vite
8 2 (0.93%) XCUITest
General
1 70 (32.71%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.21%) Finance
3 21 (9.81%) Multimedia
3 21 (9.81%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.54%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.61%) Marketing
5 12 (5.61%) Retail
6 9 (4.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.80%) Banking
7 6 (2.80%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.34%) Advertising
8 5 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.40%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.47%) Back Office
11 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (50.93%) Developer
2 48 (22.43%) Senior
3 32 (14.95%) Java Developer
4 28 (13.08%) Full-Stack Developer
4 28 (13.08%) Senior Developer
5 21 (9.81%) Trainee
6 20 (9.35%) Software Engineer
7 16 (7.48%) Software Developer
8 15 (7.01%) Administrator
8 15 (7.01%) Trainee Administrator
8 15 (7.01%) Web Administrator
9 13 (6.07%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.61%) DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.14%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.67%) AWS Developer
12 10 (4.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 8 (3.74%) Lead
14 7 (3.27%) Senior Data Engineer
15 6 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
15 6 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (30.37%) CSS
2 59 (27.57%) HTML
3 53 (24.77%) React
4 43 (20.09%) REST
5 40 (18.69%) AngularJS
5 40 (18.69%) Node.js
6 35 (16.36%) .NET
7 27 (12.62%) RESTful
7 27 (12.62%) Vue
8 22 (10.28%) Spring
8 22 (10.28%) Spring Boot
9 16 (7.48%) Laravel
10 14 (6.54%) .NET Core
11 12 (5.61%) .NET Framework
12 11 (5.14%) ASP.NET
12 11 (5.14%) Entity Framework
12 11 (5.14%) HTML5
13 10 (4.67%) JSON
14 9 (4.21%) Middleware
15 8 (3.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.41%) Cloud Native
2 15 (7.01%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.74%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.80%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.87%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.87%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.40%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.40%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.40%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.47%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.48%) Linux
2 6 (2.80%) CentOS
2 6 (2.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.47%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.47%) Windows
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (58.88%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.99%) DevOps
3 78 (36.45%) Agile
4 63 (29.44%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (24.30%) Mentoring
6 49 (22.90%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (18.22%) Microservices
8 38 (17.76%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (15.42%) AI
10 33 (15.42%) Software Engineering
11 32 (14.95%) Web Development
12 31 (14.49%) Containerisation
13 26 (12.15%) Clean Code
14 23 (10.75%) Front End Development
14 23 (10.75%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (10.75%) Workflow
15 22 (10.28%) Test Automation
16 21 (9.81%) Platform Engineering
17 20 (9.35%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 101 (47.20%) JavaScript
2 88 (41.12%) Python
3 86 (40.19%) SQL
4 56 (26.17%) Java
5 53 (24.77%) TypeScript
6 37 (17.29%) C#
7 27 (12.62%) PHP
8 16 (7.48%) Kotlin
8 16 (7.48%) R
9 8 (3.74%) Bash
10 6 (2.80%) C++
10 6 (2.80%) Go
11 5 (2.34%) Bicep
11 5 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.34%) VB.NET
12 4 (1.87%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.87%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.87%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.40%) Groovy
13 3 (1.40%) Scala
Qualifications
1 23 (10.75%) AWS Certification
1 23 (10.75%) Azure Certification
2 22 (10.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (9.81%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (9.35%) Degree
5 19 (8.88%) Security Cleared
6 15 (7.01%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.27%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.87%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.49%) QA
2 8 (3.74%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.80%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 62 (28.97%) Docker
2 3 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 38 (17.76%) Terraform
2 34 (15.89%) Kubernetes
3 22 (10.28%) Ansible
4 4 (1.87%) Grafana
5 3 (1.40%) Istio
5 3 (1.40%) linkerd
5 3 (1.40%) Packer
5 3 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.93%) Kibana
6 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.93%) Puppet
7 1 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.47%) Argo
7 1 (0.47%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.47%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.47%) Nagios
7 1 (0.47%) Rancher
7 1 (0.47%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 51 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.27%) Splunk
3 6 (2.80%) Oracle
4 5 (2.34%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.34%) Databricks
4 5 (2.34%) Google
4 5 (2.34%) IBM
4 5 (2.34%) Pega
4 5 (2.34%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.40%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.40%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.40%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.40%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.93%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.93%) WSO2
7 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.47%) Infor
7 1 (0.47%) McAfee
7 1 (0.47%) New Relic