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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 107 60
Rank change year-on-year +32 -47 +13
Permanent jobs citing Git 273 196 435
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.40% 2.17% 4.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.23% 27.45% 39.69%
Number of salaries quoted 216 90 347
10th Percentile - £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,813 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.26% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,438 £75,000
90th Percentile £73,125 £90,250 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 566 714 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.98% 7.92% 10.46%
Number of salaries quoted 409 389 923
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,900 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% 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 24 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 24 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
North West +33 119 £31,500 -41.40% 115
Yorkshire +10 119 £30,500 -43.26% 107
North East +12 35 £30,500 -43.26% 37
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 5 (1.83%) nginx
4 4 (1.47%) CMS
5 3 (1.10%) Apache
5 3 (1.10%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.73%) Confluence
6 2 (0.73%) Drupal
6 2 (0.73%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.73%) JBoss
7 1 (0.37%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 199 (72.89%) AWS
2 198 (72.53%) Azure
3 156 (57.14%) GitHub
4 41 (15.02%) Serverless
5 29 (10.62%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (8.79%) AWS Lambda
7 23 (8.42%) Amazon ECS
7 23 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
8 22 (8.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (7.69%) AWS Step Functions
10 20 (7.33%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (6.96%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (6.59%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.13%) Amazon EventBridge
14 8 (2.93%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 8 (2.93%) GCP
15 6 (2.20%) Datadog
15 6 (2.20%) OpenShift
16 5 (1.83%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 137 (50.18%) Internet
2 9 (3.30%) DNS
3 4 (1.47%) HTTP
4 3 (1.10%) SSH
5 2 (0.73%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.37%) DHCP
6 1 (0.37%) LAN
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
6 1 (0.37%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.37%) VSAN
6 1 (0.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (12.45%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.52%) DynamoDB
3 26 (9.52%) SQL Server
4 16 (5.86%) MongoDB
4 16 (5.86%) Relational Database
5 14 (5.13%) MySQL
6 8 (2.93%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.10%) Metadata
9 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.37%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.37%) Power BI
10 1 (0.37%) Redis
10 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (8.42%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.49%) GitLab
2 15 (5.49%) JIRA
3 11 (4.03%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.56%) JUnit
5 3 (1.10%) Maven
5 3 (1.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.73%) Grunt
6 2 (0.73%) gulp
6 2 (0.73%) Selenium
6 2 (0.73%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.73%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.73%) webpack
7 1 (0.37%) Ant
7 1 (0.37%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (0.37%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.37%) git-flow
7 1 (0.37%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.37%) Subversion
General
1 130 (47.62%) Multimedia
2 58 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.23%) Finance
4 9 (3.30%) Retail
5 6 (2.20%) Advertising
5 6 (2.20%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (1.83%) Marketing
7 3 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.73%) Electronics
8 2 (0.73%) Games
9 1 (0.37%) Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.37%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.37%) Publishing
9 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 149 (54.58%) Developer
2 130 (47.62%) Trainee
3 70 (25.64%) Software Developer
4 63 (23.08%) Trainee Developer
4 63 (23.08%) Trainee Software Developer
5 29 (10.62%) Senior
6 24 (8.79%) Java Developer
7 23 (8.42%) Senior Developer
8 20 (7.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (5.86%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.40%) Lead
12 11 (4.03%) Administrator
12 11 (4.03%) Trainee Administrator
12 11 (4.03%) Web Administrator
13 10 (3.66%) AWS Developer
13 10 (3.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (3.66%) Software Engineer
14 8 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 167 (61.17%) CSS
1 167 (61.17%) HTML
2 42 (15.38%) React
3 36 (13.19%) Node.js
4 30 (10.99%) RESTful
5 29 (10.62%) .NET
6 28 (10.26%) AngularJS
7 23 (8.42%) Spring
7 23 (8.42%) Spring Boot
8 22 (8.06%) REST
9 19 (6.96%) Web Services
10 17 (6.23%) .NET Core
11 16 (5.86%) ASP.NET
12 15 (5.49%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (5.13%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (4.76%) AWS CDK
14 13 (4.76%) Blazor
15 12 (4.40%) Kafka
16 7 (2.56%) Mustache
16 7 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.59%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.86%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.47%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.10%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.73%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.37%) IoT
8 1 (0.37%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.37%) Life Science
8 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 29 (10.62%) Linux
2 12 (4.40%) Windows
3 3 (1.10%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.37%) CentOS
5 1 (0.37%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.37%) Unix
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (54.21%) Mentoring
2 119 (43.59%) Cybersecurity
3 69 (25.27%) Agile
4 68 (24.91%) CI/CD
5 63 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
6 58 (21.25%) DevOps
7 43 (15.75%) Microservices
8 42 (15.38%) Containerisation
9 30 (10.99%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (7.69%) TDD
13 20 (7.33%) Web Development
14 17 (6.23%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (6.23%) Front End Development
14 17 (6.23%) Scrum
15 16 (5.86%) AI
15 16 (5.86%) Software Engineering
16 15 (5.49%) Root Cause Analysis
17 14 (5.13%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 203 (74.36%) JavaScript
2 161 (58.97%) Python
3 69 (25.27%) R
4 42 (15.38%) SQL
5 36 (13.19%) Java
6 31 (11.36%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.76%) C#
8 12 (4.40%) Go
9 11 (4.03%) PHP
10 9 (3.30%) C
11 8 (2.93%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.83%) Bash
13 4 (1.47%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.73%) Bicep
15 1 (0.37%) Delphi
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (51.65%) AWS Certification
2 132 (48.35%) Azure Certification
3 130 (47.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 130 (47.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.03%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (3.66%) Degree
6 6 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.83%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.47%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.30%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.73%) QA
3 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.37%) GDPR
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 53 (19.41%) Docker
2 3 (1.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (15.38%) Terraform
2 41 (15.02%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.79%) Ansible
4 11 (4.03%) Grafana
5 9 (3.30%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.56%) Control-M
7 3 (1.10%) cPanel
7 3 (1.10%) Plesk
7 3 (1.10%) Rancher
8 2 (0.73%) Argo
8 2 (0.73%) Nagios
9 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.37%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.37%) Podman
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 140 (51.28%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.03%) Oracle
3 4 (1.47%) Pega
3 4 (1.47%) WSO2
4 2 (0.73%) Adobe
4 2 (0.73%) Red Hat
4 2 (0.73%) Splunk
5 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.37%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.37%) IBM
5 1 (0.37%) McAfee
5 1 (0.37%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.37%) New Relic
5 1 (0.37%) Salesforce