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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 113 50
Rank change year-on-year +36 -63 +6
Permanent jobs citing Git 261 198 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.47% 2.11% 5.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.51% 26.76% 41.77%
Number of salaries quoted 207 94 312
10th Percentile - £36,625 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,813 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £53,750 £57,125
Median % change year-on-year -43.26% -5.91% +3.86%
75th Percentile £58,750 £68,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

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 538 740 929
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.10% 7.87% 12.29%
Number of salaries quoted 393 415 772
10th Percentile - £37,500 £39,001
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,105 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -11.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £74,063
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,750 £86,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 2 January 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 2 January 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
Yorkshire +10 114 £30,500 -41.90% 55
North West +44 113 £31,000 -42.33% 77
North East +18 34 £30,500 -43.26% 18
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 14 (5.36%) WordPress
2 11 (4.21%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.92%) CMS
3 5 (1.92%) nginx
4 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 3 (1.15%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.15%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.77%) Confluence
5 2 (0.77%) Drupal
5 2 (0.77%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.77%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.38%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.38%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 191 (73.18%) Azure
2 190 (72.80%) AWS
3 148 (56.70%) GitHub
4 37 (14.18%) Serverless
5 25 (9.58%) Amazon S3
6 23 (8.81%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (7.66%) Amazon ECS
7 20 (7.66%) AWS Lambda
8 19 (7.28%) Amazon SQS
8 19 (7.28%) AWS CloudFormation
9 18 (6.90%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 18 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (6.51%) Amazon EKS
10 17 (6.51%) AWS Step Functions
11 14 (5.36%) Amazon EventBridge
12 7 (2.68%) GCP
13 5 (1.92%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 4 (1.53%) Azure AKS
14 4 (1.53%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 131 (50.19%) Internet
2 8 (3.07%) DNS
3 4 (1.53%) HTTP
4 3 (1.15%) SSH
5 2 (0.77%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.79%) PostgreSQL
2 29 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 29 (11.11%) SQL Server
3 21 (8.05%) DynamoDB
4 17 (6.51%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.36%) MySQL
6 13 (4.98%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
8 4 (1.53%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (1.15%) Metadata
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.38%) Data Vault
11 1 (0.38%) Redis
11 1 (0.38%) Semantic Layer
11 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 21 (8.05%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.75%) JIRA
3 14 (5.36%) GitLab
4 10 (3.83%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.68%) JUnit
6 3 (1.15%) Maven
6 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.15%) webpack
7 2 (0.77%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.77%) Grunt
7 2 (0.77%) gulp
7 2 (0.77%) Selenium
7 2 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.77%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.38%) Ant
8 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.38%) git-flow
8 1 (0.38%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.38%) Storybook
8 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 126 (48.28%) Multimedia
2 56 (21.46%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.51%) Finance
4 6 (2.30%) Advertising
4 6 (2.30%) Public Sector
5 5 (1.92%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (1.92%) Marketing
6 4 (1.53%) Retail
7 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.77%) Electronics
8 2 (0.77%) Games
8 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.38%) Banking
9 1 (0.38%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.38%) Publishing
9 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 144 (55.17%) Developer
2 126 (48.28%) Trainee
3 67 (25.67%) Software Developer
4 60 (22.99%) Trainee Developer
4 60 (22.99%) Trainee Software Developer
5 28 (10.73%) Senior
6 22 (8.43%) Senior Developer
7 20 (7.66%) Java Developer
8 18 (6.90%) .NET Developer
8 18 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (5.75%) Lead
10 13 (4.98%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (4.21%) Administrator
11 11 (4.21%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.21%) Trainee Administrator
11 11 (4.21%) Web Administrator
12 10 (3.83%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (3.45%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 165 (63.22%) CSS
1 165 (63.22%) HTML
2 43 (16.48%) React
3 33 (12.64%) .NET
4 32 (12.26%) Node.js
5 29 (11.11%) RESTful
6 27 (10.34%) AngularJS
7 23 (8.81%) REST
7 23 (8.81%) Spring
7 23 (8.81%) Spring Boot
8 19 (7.28%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.90%) .NET Core
9 18 (6.90%) Web Services
10 16 (6.13%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (4.98%) AWS CDK
12 13 (4.98%) Blazor
13 12 (4.60%) Kafka
14 7 (2.68%) Mustache
15 6 (2.30%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.90%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 8 (3.07%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.53%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.77%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.77%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.77%) NHS
7 2 (0.77%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.38%) Life Science
8 1 (0.38%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 26 (9.96%) Linux
2 12 (4.60%) Windows
3 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (55.94%) Mentoring
2 116 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
3 72 (27.59%) Agile
4 68 (26.05%) CI/CD
5 57 (21.84%) DevOps
5 57 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (16.86%) Microservices
7 42 (16.09%) Containerisation
8 30 (11.49%) Full-Stack Development
9 25 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (8.43%) Web Development
11 21 (8.05%) TDD
12 20 (7.66%) Scrum
13 18 (6.90%) Front End Development
13 18 (6.90%) User Experience
14 16 (6.13%) Deployment Automation
14 16 (6.13%) Software Engineering
15 14 (5.36%) Root Cause Analysis
16 13 (4.98%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 202 (77.39%) JavaScript
2 149 (57.09%) Python
3 68 (26.05%) R
4 38 (14.56%) SQL
5 31 (11.88%) Java
6 27 (10.34%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.28%) C#
8 12 (4.60%) PHP
9 9 (3.45%) Go
10 7 (2.68%) C
11 4 (1.53%) Bash
11 4 (1.53%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.15%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.77%) Bicep
13 2 (0.77%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.38%) Delphi
14 1 (0.38%) Groovy
14 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 137 (52.49%) AWS Certification
2 128 (49.04%) Azure Certification
3 126 (48.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 126 (48.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.21%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.83%) Degree
6 9 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.30%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.53%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.53%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.07%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.38%) GDPR
3 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (19.92%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 39 (14.94%) Terraform
2 38 (14.56%) Kubernetes
3 21 (8.05%) Ansible
4 12 (4.60%) Grafana
5 9 (3.45%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.68%) Control-M
7 3 (1.15%) cPanel
7 3 (1.15%) Plesk
8 2 (0.77%) Argo
8 2 (0.77%) Nagios
8 2 (0.77%) Rancher
9 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.38%) Podman
9 1 (0.38%) Puppet
9 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 133 (50.96%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.45%) Oracle
3 4 (1.53%) Pega
3 4 (1.53%) WSO2
4 3 (1.15%) Adobe
5 2 (0.77%) Google
5 2 (0.77%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.77%) Splunk
6 1 (0.38%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.38%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.38%) IBM
6 1 (0.38%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.38%) New Relic
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.38%) Sage
6 1 (0.38%) Salesforce