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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 187 82
Rank change year-on-year +55 -105 -16
Permanent jobs citing Git 269 123 338
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.15% 1.31% 2.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.21% 22.28% 33.70%
Number of salaries quoted 193 83 223
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,250 £37,300
25th Percentile £43,750 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,250 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £86,850 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.31% +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 810 552 1,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.45% 5.87% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 538 314 630
10th Percentile £34,000 £35,000 £37,957
25th Percentile £45,250 £42,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,381 £82,751 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -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 September 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 September 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 +24 133 £57,500 +4.55% 84
Yorkshire -11 70 £55,000 -21.43% 57
North East -2 66 £62,500 +38.89% 34
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%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.23%) IIS
4 6 (2.23%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.86%) Apache
5 5 (1.86%) OpenStack
5 5 (1.86%) SharePoint
6 3 (1.12%) Confluence
6 3 (1.12%) nginx
7 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.37%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.74%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 165 (61.34%) AWS
2 135 (50.19%) Azure
3 92 (34.20%) GitHub
4 48 (17.84%) Serverless
5 41 (15.24%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (13.75%) AWS Lambda
6 37 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
7 33 (12.27%) Amazon S3
8 31 (11.52%) GCP
9 29 (10.78%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (7.43%) 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 14 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
15 13 (4.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (3.35%) dbt
18 8 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.32%) Internet
2 4 (1.49%) DNS
3 3 (1.12%) DHCP
3 3 (1.12%) HTTP
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 33 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
1 33 (12.27%) SQL Server
2 31 (11.52%) NoSQL
2 31 (11.52%) Relational Database
3 21 (7.81%) MySQL
4 18 (6.69%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.32%) Power BI
6 16 (5.95%) DynamoDB
7 14 (5.20%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (3.72%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.97%) Redis
12 5 (1.86%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.49%) Flink
13 4 (1.49%) GIS
13 4 (1.49%) Metadata
13 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (19.70%) Jenkins
2 43 (15.99%) GitLab
3 16 (5.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (5.95%) JIRA
4 11 (4.09%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.35%) JUnit
6 8 (2.97%) Selenium
7 6 (2.23%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.86%) Maven
8 5 (1.86%) Postman
9 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.49%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.49%) Spock
10 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.74%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.74%) NUnit
General
1 106 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 40 (14.87%) Finance
3 39 (14.50%) Public Sector
4 33 (12.27%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.69%) Marketing
6 17 (6.32%) Multimedia
7 15 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.60%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.86%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
12 2 (0.74%) Publishing
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 118 (43.87%) Developer
2 38 (14.13%) Senior
3 33 (12.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (11.15%) Data Engineer
5 27 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
5 27 (10.04%) Java Developer
6 26 (9.67%) Software Engineer
7 21 (7.81%) Administrator
7 21 (7.81%) Software Developer
8 20 (7.43%) Senior Developer
9 17 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 17 (6.32%) Trainee
10 16 (5.95%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 16 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
11 15 (5.58%) Trainee Administrator
11 15 (5.58%) Web Administrator
12 12 (4.46%) Lead
13 11 (4.09%) AWS Developer
14 8 (2.97%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 8 (2.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (23.42%) CSS
2 60 (22.30%) React
2 60 (22.30%) Terraform
3 59 (21.93%) REST
4 54 (20.07%) HTML
5 49 (18.22%) Node.js
6 44 (16.36%) .NET
7 41 (15.24%) AngularJS
8 30 (11.15%) Spring
9 26 (9.67%) RESTful
10 24 (8.92%) Spring Boot
11 17 (6.32%) Vue
12 16 (5.95%) .NET Core
12 16 (5.95%) ASP.NET
13 14 (5.20%) .NET Framework
13 14 (5.20%) Entity Framework
14 13 (4.83%) JSON
15 12 (4.46%) Kafka
16 10 (3.72%) Flask
17 9 (3.35%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 41 (15.24%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.32%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (2.97%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.60%) Social Media
7 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.86%) Low-Code
7 5 (1.86%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.49%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.12%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.12%) Replication
10 2 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (13.01%) Linux
2 19 (7.06%) CentOS
2 19 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.60%) Windows
4 6 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.49%) VMS
6 3 (1.12%) 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
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (68.77%) CI/CD
2 127 (47.21%) DevOps
3 94 (34.94%) Agile
4 82 (30.48%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (24.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (23.42%) Software Engineering
7 61 (22.68%) Microservices
8 59 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
9 58 (21.56%) Mentoring
10 50 (18.59%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (15.99%) AI
12 42 (15.61%) Test Automation
13 40 (14.87%) Containerisation
14 36 (13.38%) Platform Engineering
14 36 (13.38%) Web Development
15 34 (12.64%) Collaborative Culture
16 33 (12.27%) Clean Code
17 30 (11.15%) Workflow
18 29 (10.78%) Data Modelling
18 29 (10.78%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 112 (41.64%) JavaScript
2 110 (40.89%) Python
3 99 (36.80%) SQL
4 72 (26.77%) Java
5 71 (26.39%) TypeScript
6 47 (17.47%) C#
7 21 (7.81%) PHP
8 18 (6.69%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.58%) R
10 14 (5.20%) Bash
11 9 (3.35%) C++
11 9 (3.35%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.60%) Groovy
12 7 (2.60%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.23%) Go
14 5 (1.86%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.86%) Bicep
15 3 (1.12%) Scala
15 3 (1.12%) SOQL
15 3 (1.12%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 44 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 35 (13.01%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.81%) AWS Certification
3 21 (7.81%) Degree
4 20 (7.43%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (7.06%) Azure Certification
6 17 (6.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.01%) QA
2 23 (8.55%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.20%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 108 (40.15%) Docker
2 7 (2.60%) 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 61 (22.68%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.75%) Ansible
3 7 (2.60%) Istio
3 7 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.86%) Grafana
4 5 (1.86%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.86%) Puppet
5 4 (1.49%) Argo
5 4 (1.49%) linkerd
6 3 (1.12%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.12%) Kibana
6 3 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.12%) Packer
6 3 (1.12%) Podman
6 3 (1.12%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 51 (18.96%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.09%) Google
2 11 (4.09%) Splunk
3 10 (3.72%) Databricks
4 9 (3.35%) AppDynamics
5 7 (2.60%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.60%) IBM
5 7 (2.60%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.12%) Confluent
7 3 (1.12%) Dell
7 3 (1.12%) McAfee
7 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 3 (1.12%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.74%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.74%) Apple
8 2 (0.74%) Mistral
8 2 (0.74%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.74%) WSO2