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 11 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 97 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 -25 0
Permanent jobs citing Git 273 185 494
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.95% 2.68% 3.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.52% 28.29% 36.59%
Number of salaries quoted 221 129 385
10th Percentile - £38,612 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £60,750 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £93,778 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,669 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% +1.12% -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 642 654 1,350
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.58% 9.48% 9.29%
Number of salaries quoted 475 438 1,108
10th Percentile - £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,938 £73,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,593 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.85% +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 11 March 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 11 March 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 +8 121 £30,500 -49.17% 46
North West -8 120 £48,750 -18.75% 56
North East +4 32 £30,500 -44.55% 23
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 13 (4.76%) WordPress
2 11 (4.03%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.10%) Apache
3 3 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.10%) nginx
4 2 (0.73%) CICS
4 2 (0.73%) CMS
4 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 2 (0.73%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) IIS
5 1 (0.37%) PegaRULES
5 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Markit EDM
1 2 (0.73%) Shopify
2 1 (0.37%) Magento
2 1 (0.37%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 198 (72.53%) AWS
2 190 (69.60%) Azure
3 149 (54.58%) GitHub
4 40 (14.65%) Serverless
5 31 (11.36%) Amazon S3
6 25 (9.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (9.16%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (9.16%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (8.79%) AWS Step Functions
8 23 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
9 21 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
11 18 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (5.13%) Amazon EventBridge
12 14 (5.13%) GCP
13 9 (3.30%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (2.93%) Datadog
15 5 (1.83%) Azure AKS
16 4 (1.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 127 (46.52%) Internet
2 9 (3.30%) DNS
3 4 (1.47%) HTTP
4 3 (1.10%) SSH
5 2 (0.73%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.73%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) VSAN
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (13.19%) NoSQL
3 27 (9.89%) SQL Server
4 26 (9.52%) DynamoDB
5 20 (7.33%) MySQL
6 19 (6.96%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.49%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.30%) Amazon Athena
9 6 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.47%) Power BI
11 3 (1.10%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.73%) DB2
12 2 (0.73%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.37%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.37%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (8.79%) Jenkins
2 17 (6.23%) JIRA
3 14 (5.13%) GitLab
4 12 (4.40%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.56%) JUnit
5 7 (2.56%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.10%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.10%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.10%) Selenium
7 2 (0.73%) Subversion
8 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.37%) Maven
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.37%) XCUITest
General
1 120 (43.96%) Multimedia
2 59 (21.61%) Social Skills
3 18 (6.59%) Finance
4 11 (4.03%) Retail
5 8 (2.93%) Advertising
6 6 (2.20%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.83%) Marketing
8 4 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.10%) Banking
9 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Electronics
10 2 (0.73%) Games
10 2 (0.73%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.37%) Publishing
11 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 152 (55.68%) Developer
2 120 (43.96%) Trainee
3 62 (22.71%) Software Developer
4 58 (21.25%) Trainee Developer
4 58 (21.25%) Trainee Software Developer
5 38 (13.92%) Senior
6 31 (11.36%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.99%) Senior Developer
8 24 (8.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 15 (5.49%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.13%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 12 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
12 11 (4.03%) Administrator
12 11 (4.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 11 (4.03%) Lead
12 11 (4.03%) Trainee Administrator
12 11 (4.03%) Web Administrator
13 9 (3.30%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.30%) Senior Java Developer
13 9 (3.30%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (58.97%) CSS
1 161 (58.97%) HTML
2 43 (15.75%) React
3 30 (10.99%) AngularJS
3 30 (10.99%) Node.js
3 30 (10.99%) RESTful
4 26 (9.52%) .NET
5 22 (8.06%) REST
5 22 (8.06%) Spring
5 22 (8.06%) Spring Boot
6 19 (6.96%) Web Services
7 18 (6.59%) .NET Core
8 16 (5.86%) ASP.NET
9 15 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
10 13 (4.76%) AWS CDK
10 13 (4.76%) Blazor
10 13 (4.76%) Kafka
11 12 (4.40%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (4.03%) Vue
13 10 (3.66%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.59%) Cloud Native
1 18 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
2 10 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (1.10%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.73%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.73%) NHS
6 1 (0.37%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.37%) IoT
6 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.37%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.37%) Life Science
6 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.16%) Linux
2 9 (3.30%) Windows
3 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.37%) CentOS
4 1 (0.37%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (50.92%) Mentoring
2 109 (39.93%) Cybersecurity
3 81 (29.67%) Agile
4 74 (27.11%) CI/CD
5 60 (21.98%) DevOps
5 60 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (17.58%) Microservices
7 42 (15.38%) Containerisation
8 36 (13.19%) Full-Stack Development
9 28 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 26 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 24 (8.79%) TDD
12 22 (8.06%) Web Development
13 21 (7.69%) Scrum
14 20 (7.33%) Deployment Automation
15 17 (6.23%) Root Cause Analysis
16 16 (5.86%) AI
16 16 (5.86%) Front End Development
17 14 (5.13%) Coaching
17 14 (5.13%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 199 (72.89%) JavaScript
2 155 (56.78%) Python
3 64 (23.44%) R
4 51 (18.68%) SQL
5 40 (14.65%) Java
6 29 (10.62%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.49%) PHP
8 12 (4.40%) C#
9 11 (4.03%) Go
10 9 (3.30%) C
10 9 (3.30%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.10%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.73%) Bash
12 2 (0.73%) Bicep
12 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.37%) Delphi
13 1 (0.37%) Swift
13 1 (0.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 131 (47.99%) AWS Certification
2 122 (44.69%) Azure Certification
3 120 (43.96%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 120 (43.96%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.66%) Degree
6 8 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.83%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.47%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.56%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.20%) QA
3 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.37%) NIST
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 51 (18.68%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (15.38%) Terraform
2 37 (13.55%) Kubernetes
3 21 (7.69%) Ansible
4 9 (3.30%) Grafana
5 8 (2.93%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.56%) Control-M
7 3 (1.10%) cPanel
7 3 (1.10%) Nagios
7 3 (1.10%) Plesk
7 3 (1.10%) Rancher
8 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) Argo
9 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 131 (47.99%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.76%) Oracle
3 7 (2.56%) Pega
4 4 (1.47%) WSO2
5 3 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.73%) Adobe
6 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.73%) New Relic
6 2 (0.73%) Splunk
7 1 (0.37%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.37%) Google
7 1 (0.37%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.37%) McAfee
7 1 (0.37%) WooCommerce