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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 175 86
Rank change year-on-year +35 -89 -26
Permanent jobs citing Git 260 120 329
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.09% 1.27% 2.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.10% 22.18% 32.93%
Number of salaries quoted 180 82 211
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,813 £36,563 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,985 £66,875 £68,125
90th Percentile £101,250 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 810 541 999
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.41% 5.75% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 521 308 610
10th Percentile £38,984 £33,450 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £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 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,269 £82,751 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 18 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 18 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 +32 128 £61,250 +22.37% 140
North East -16 67 £65,000 +48.57% 46
Yorkshire -14 65 £57,500 -14.81% 85
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 16 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.08%) CMS
3 7 (2.69%) Apache Spark
3 7 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.69%) WordPress
4 6 (2.31%) Apache
4 6 (2.31%) IIS
4 6 (2.31%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (1.54%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.15%) Confluence
6 3 (1.15%) nginx
6 3 (1.15%) Tomcat
6 3 (1.15%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.38%) JBoss
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Kentico
7 1 (0.38%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.54%) Shopify
2 3 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.77%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 156 (60.00%) AWS
2 120 (46.15%) Azure
3 79 (30.38%) GitHub
4 50 (19.23%) Serverless
5 41 (15.77%) AWS Lambda
5 41 (15.77%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (15.00%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (13.85%) Amazon S3
8 35 (13.46%) GCP
9 31 (11.92%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (9.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (7.31%) Power Platform
12 18 (6.92%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (6.54%) AWS Step Functions
13 17 (6.54%) Datadog
14 15 (5.77%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 14 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
16 12 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (3.46%) dbt
17 9 (3.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.54%) DNS
2 3 (1.15%) DHCP
2 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.15%) Internet
2 3 (1.15%) LAN
2 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.15%) VSAN
2 3 (1.15%) WAN
3 2 (0.77%) Firewall
3 2 (0.77%) HTTP
4 1 (0.38%) Network Security
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.08%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.69%) NoSQL
2 33 (12.69%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (12.31%) Relational Database
4 22 (8.46%) MySQL
5 20 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (7.31%) DynamoDB
7 17 (6.54%) Power BI
8 15 (5.77%) MongoDB
9 11 (4.23%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (3.85%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.46%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.08%) Redis
13 6 (2.31%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.54%) Flink
14 4 (1.54%) GIS
14 4 (1.54%) Metadata
14 4 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 53 (20.38%) Jenkins
2 46 (17.69%) GitLab
3 18 (6.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 14 (5.38%) JIRA
5 10 (3.85%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.85%) JUnit
6 7 (2.69%) Selenium
6 7 (2.69%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 5 (1.92%) Maven
9 4 (1.54%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.54%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.54%) Spock
10 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.15%) Mockito
10 3 (1.15%) Postman
10 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 112 (43.08%) Social Skills
2 44 (16.92%) Public Sector
3 37 (14.23%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.85%) Finance
5 18 (6.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (6.92%) Marketing
6 9 (3.46%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.69%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.92%) Retail
9 3 (1.15%) Advertising
9 3 (1.15%) Banking
10 2 (0.77%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.77%) Legal
10 2 (0.77%) Local Government
10 2 (0.77%) Publishing
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Games
11 1 (0.38%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.38%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (47.31%) Developer
2 39 (15.00%) Senior
3 32 (12.31%) DevOps Engineer
3 32 (12.31%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (11.15%) Data Engineer
5 28 (10.77%) Java Developer
6 27 (10.38%) Software Engineer
7 21 (8.08%) Senior Developer
7 21 (8.08%) Software Developer
8 18 (6.92%) Principal DevOps Engineer
8 18 (6.92%) Principal Engineer
9 16 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 13 (5.00%) AWS Developer
11 11 (4.23%) Lead
12 8 (3.08%) Junior
12 8 (3.08%) Python Developer
13 7 (2.69%) .NET Developer
13 7 (2.69%) Angular Developer
13 7 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (2.69%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (24.62%) Terraform
2 63 (24.23%) React
3 60 (23.08%) REST
4 52 (20.00%) Node.js
5 47 (18.08%) CSS
6 43 (16.54%) .NET
7 41 (15.77%) AngularJS
8 38 (14.62%) HTML
9 30 (11.54%) Spring
10 26 (10.00%) RESTful
11 23 (8.85%) Spring Boot
12 16 (6.15%) .NET Core
13 15 (5.77%) ASP.NET
13 15 (5.77%) Vue
14 13 (5.00%) .NET Framework
14 13 (5.00%) Entity Framework
14 13 (5.00%) JSON
14 13 (5.00%) Kafka
15 11 (4.23%) Flask
16 10 (3.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 45 (17.31%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 17 (6.54%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.08%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.69%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.69%) Social Media
7 6 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.92%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.54%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.15%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.15%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.15%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 40 (15.38%) Linux
2 21 (8.08%) CentOS
2 21 (8.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.69%) Windows
4 6 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.54%) VMS
6 3 (1.15%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.15%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.77%) Android
7 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (74.62%) CI/CD
2 133 (51.15%) DevOps
3 91 (35.00%) Agile
4 81 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
5 72 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 63 (24.23%) Microservices
6 63 (24.23%) Software Engineering
7 60 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 60 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (18.85%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (16.92%) AI
9 44 (16.92%) Containerisation
10 43 (16.54%) Test Automation
11 41 (15.77%) Platform Engineering
12 35 (13.46%) Collaborative Culture
13 32 (12.31%) Workflow
14 31 (11.92%) Clean Code
15 29 (11.15%) Data Modelling
15 29 (11.15%) Technical Leadership
16 28 (10.77%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 100 (38.46%) SQL
2 94 (36.15%) JavaScript
3 92 (35.38%) Python
4 76 (29.23%) TypeScript
5 73 (28.08%) Java
6 48 (18.46%) C#
7 21 (8.08%) PHP
8 20 (7.69%) Kotlin
9 14 (5.38%) Bash
10 9 (3.46%) C++
10 9 (3.46%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.69%) Groovy
11 7 (2.69%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.31%) Go
13 5 (1.92%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.54%) Bicep
15 3 (1.15%) C
15 3 (1.15%) Scala
15 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (18.46%) Security Cleared
2 39 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 22 (8.46%) DV Cleared
4 21 (8.08%) Degree
5 5 (1.92%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.54%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.77%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (13.46%) QA
2 23 (8.85%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.54%) WCAG
5 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 116 (44.62%) Docker
2 8 (3.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.15%) Ceph
4 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 63 (24.23%) Kubernetes
2 38 (14.62%) Ansible
3 8 (3.08%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.69%) Istio
5 6 (2.31%) Grafana
6 5 (1.92%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.92%) Puppet
7 4 (1.54%) Argo
7 4 (1.54%) linkerd
8 3 (1.15%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.15%) Kibana
8 3 (1.15%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.15%) Packer
8 3 (1.15%) Podman
8 3 (1.15%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.38%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.38%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 35 (13.46%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.38%) Google
3 11 (4.23%) Splunk
4 9 (3.46%) AppDynamics
4 9 (3.46%) Databricks
5 8 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 8 (3.08%) IBM
6 7 (2.69%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.54%) Confluent
9 3 (1.15%) Dell
9 3 (1.15%) McAfee
9 3 (1.15%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.15%) Oracle
9 3 (1.15%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.77%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.77%) Apple
10 2 (0.77%) Cisco
10 2 (0.77%) HP
10 2 (0.77%) Sage