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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 146 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 -70 +7
Permanent jobs citing Git 256 171 531
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.28% 2.18% 2.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.20% 25.26% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 202 127 415
10th Percentile - £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,625 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £84,000
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 771 677 1,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.87% 8.63% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 577 413 1,160
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,750 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% +4.65% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,668
England median annual salary £60,715 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +8.33% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +20 128 £60,000 -0.41% 55
Yorkshire -8 99 £42,500 -39.29% 26
North East -23 29 £30,500 -44.55% 17
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 25 (9.77%) WordPress
2 7 (2.73%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.73%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.34%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.56%) CMS
4 4 (1.56%) IIS
4 4 (1.56%) nginx
5 3 (1.17%) Apache
6 2 (0.78%) CICS
6 2 (0.78%) JBoss
7 1 (0.39%) Confluence
7 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.17%) Shopify
2 2 (0.78%) Magento
3 1 (0.39%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 167 (65.23%) AWS
2 151 (58.98%) Azure
3 116 (45.31%) GitHub
4 45 (17.58%) Serverless
5 40 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
6 33 (12.89%) Amazon S3
7 31 (12.11%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (12.11%) GitHub Actions
8 29 (11.33%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 24 (9.38%) AWS CloudFormation
9 24 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
10 16 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
10 16 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 15 (5.86%) Datadog
12 14 (5.47%) GCP
13 13 (5.08%) Power Platform
14 11 (4.30%) Amazon SQS
15 8 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 6 (2.34%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 69 (26.95%) Internet
2 6 (2.34%) DNS
2 6 (2.34%) HTTP
3 3 (1.17%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
4 2 (0.78%) SSL
5 1 (0.39%) DHCP
5 1 (0.39%) LAN
5 1 (0.39%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.39%) VSAN
5 1 (0.39%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (15.23%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.94%) Relational Database
4 24 (9.38%) DynamoDB
5 23 (8.98%) MySQL
6 20 (7.81%) SQL Server
7 18 (7.03%) Amazon Athena
8 13 (5.08%) MongoDB
8 13 (5.08%) Power BI
9 6 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 5 (1.95%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (1.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
13 2 (0.78%) Amazon Redshift
13 2 (0.78%) DB2
13 2 (0.78%) GIS
13 2 (0.78%) Hazelcast
13 2 (0.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (13.67%) Jenkins
2 24 (9.38%) GitLab
3 19 (7.42%) JIRA
4 10 (3.91%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.73%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.56%) JUnit
6 4 (1.56%) Postman
6 4 (1.56%) Selenium
7 3 (1.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.17%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.17%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.17%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.78%) NUnit
8 2 (0.78%) Subversion
8 2 (0.78%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.39%) gulp
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 69 (26.95%) Social Skills
2 62 (24.22%) Multimedia
3 19 (7.42%) Finance
3 19 (7.42%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.30%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.52%) Retail
6 8 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (3.13%) Marketing
7 6 (2.34%) Banking
7 6 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.95%) Advertising
8 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Games
9 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Back Office
10 1 (0.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 135 (52.73%) Developer
2 62 (24.22%) Trainee
3 51 (19.92%) Senior
4 37 (14.45%) Java Developer
5 35 (13.67%) Software Developer
6 33 (12.89%) Senior Developer
7 28 (10.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (8.98%) Trainee Developer
8 23 (8.98%) Trainee Software Developer
9 20 (7.81%) Administrator
9 20 (7.81%) Trainee Administrator
9 20 (7.81%) Web Administrator
10 16 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 12 (4.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 11 (4.30%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.91%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.91%) Lead
14 8 (3.13%) Data Engineer
14 8 (3.13%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (43.75%) CSS
2 106 (41.41%) HTML
3 51 (19.92%) React
4 42 (16.41%) AngularJS
4 42 (16.41%) Node.js
5 38 (14.84%) REST
6 34 (13.28%) RESTful
7 33 (12.89%) .NET
8 22 (8.59%) Spring
8 22 (8.59%) Spring Boot
9 20 (7.81%) Vue
10 19 (7.42%) .NET Core
11 16 (6.25%) ASP.NET
12 12 (4.69%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
13 11 (4.30%) Kafka
13 11 (4.30%) Laravel
13 11 (4.30%) Web Services
14 10 (3.91%) Entity Framework
14 10 (3.91%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (5.86%) Product Ownership
3 14 (5.47%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.78%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.78%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.78%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.78%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.78%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.03%) Linux
2 3 (1.17%) CentOS
2 3 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (46.88%) CI/CD
2 88 (34.38%) DevOps
3 87 (33.98%) Mentoring
4 84 (32.81%) Agile
5 59 (23.05%) Full-Stack Development
6 53 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (17.19%) Cybersecurity
7 44 (17.19%) Microservices
8 39 (15.23%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (13.67%) Web Development
10 33 (12.89%) Containerisation
11 32 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 27 (10.55%) AI
13 26 (10.16%) Scrum
14 23 (8.98%) Software Engineering
15 22 (8.59%) Clean Code
16 21 (8.20%) Coaching
16 21 (8.20%) Front End Development
17 19 (7.42%) TDD
17 19 (7.42%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 150 (58.59%) JavaScript
2 118 (46.09%) Python
3 79 (30.86%) SQL
4 60 (23.44%) Java
5 52 (20.31%) TypeScript
6 39 (15.23%) R
7 30 (11.72%) C#
8 22 (8.59%) PHP
9 17 (6.64%) Kotlin
10 10 (3.91%) Go
11 7 (2.73%) C
12 6 (2.34%) C++
13 5 (1.95%) Bash
13 5 (1.95%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.56%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.56%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.17%) Bicep
15 3 (1.17%) Groovy
15 3 (1.17%) SOQL
15 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 68 (26.56%) AWS Certification
2 63 (24.61%) Azure Certification
3 62 (24.22%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 62 (24.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.64%) Degree
5 15 (5.86%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.69%) SC Cleared
7 4 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
7 4 (1.56%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.17%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.94%) QA
2 7 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.34%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (25.39%) Docker
2 2 (0.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (16.80%) Terraform
2 34 (13.28%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.38%) Ansible
4 3 (1.17%) Packer
5 2 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.78%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Kibana
5 2 (0.78%) Nagios
5 2 (0.78%) Rancher
5 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.39%) Istio
6 1 (0.39%) linkerd
6 1 (0.39%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.39%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.39%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
6 1 (0.39%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 85 (33.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.30%) Oracle
3 6 (2.34%) Splunk
4 5 (1.95%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.95%) IBM
4 5 (1.95%) Pega
5 4 (1.56%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.17%) Databricks
6 3 (1.17%) Google
6 3 (1.17%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.78%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.78%) New Relic
7 2 (0.78%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.78%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.78%) WSO2
8 1 (0.39%) Adobe
8 1 (0.39%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.39%) McAfee