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

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 111 56
Rank change year-on-year +35 -55 +13
Permanent jobs citing Git 268 198 404
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.43% 2.18% 4.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.03% 27.97% 40.77%
Number of salaries quoted 212 92 323
10th Percentile - £35,125 £39,112
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £53,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -43.26% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £69,375 £74,375
90th Percentile £72,500 £89,500 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,339 £62,500
% change year-on-year -10.33% -1.86% -3.85%

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 558 708 991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.06% 7.79% 10.85%
Number of salaries quoted 404 385 828
10th Percentile - £37,500 £36,270
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -8.70% +2.68%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,875 £79,500 £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 17 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 17 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 +35 117 £31,000 -43.64% 88
Yorkshire +8 116 £30,500 -41.90% 65
North East +17 35 £30,500 -43.26% 27
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 14 (5.22%) WordPress
2 11 (4.10%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.87%) nginx
4 4 (1.49%) CMS
5 3 (1.12%) Apache
5 3 (1.12%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.75%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.75%) Confluence
6 2 (0.75%) Drupal
6 2 (0.75%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.75%) 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 3 (1.12%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.37%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.37%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 195 (72.76%) Azure
2 194 (72.39%) AWS
3 153 (57.09%) GitHub
4 38 (14.18%) Serverless
5 26 (9.70%) Amazon S3
6 22 (8.21%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (7.84%) AWS CloudFormation
7 21 (7.84%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (7.46%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (7.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 19 (7.09%) Amazon SQS
10 18 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
10 18 (6.72%) AWS Step Functions
10 18 (6.72%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (5.22%) Amazon EventBridge
12 8 (2.99%) GCP
13 6 (2.24%) OpenShift
14 5 (1.87%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 5 (1.87%) Azure AKS
15 4 (1.49%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 137 (51.12%) Internet
2 8 (2.99%) DNS
3 4 (1.49%) HTTP
4 3 (1.12%) SSH
5 2 (0.75%) OpenVPN
6 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (14.55%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (11.57%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.45%) SQL Server
4 23 (8.58%) DynamoDB
5 17 (6.34%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.97%) MongoDB
7 14 (5.22%) MySQL
8 6 (2.24%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (1.87%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (1.12%) Data Warehouse
10 3 (1.12%) Metadata
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
12 1 (0.37%) Data Vault
12 1 (0.37%) Redis
12 1 (0.37%) Semantic Layer
12 1 (0.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 22 (8.21%) Jenkins
2 15 (5.60%) GitLab
2 15 (5.60%) JIRA
3 11 (4.10%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.61%) JUnit
5 3 (1.12%) Maven
5 3 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.75%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.75%) Grunt
6 2 (0.75%) gulp
6 2 (0.75%) Selenium
6 2 (0.75%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.75%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.75%) 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 (48.51%) Multimedia
2 57 (21.27%) Social Skills
3 17 (6.34%) Finance
4 7 (2.61%) Retail
5 6 (2.24%) Advertising
5 6 (2.24%) Public Sector
6 5 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (1.87%) Marketing
7 3 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (0.75%) Electronics
8 2 (0.75%) Games
9 1 (0.37%) Banking
9 1 (0.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.37%) Publishing
9 1 (0.37%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 147 (54.85%) Developer
2 130 (48.51%) Trainee
3 70 (26.12%) Software Developer
4 63 (23.51%) Trainee Developer
4 63 (23.51%) Trainee Software Developer
5 28 (10.45%) Senior
6 22 (8.21%) Senior Developer
7 21 (7.84%) Java Developer
8 20 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (6.34%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 12 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (4.48%) Lead
12 11 (4.10%) Administrator
12 11 (4.10%) Trainee Administrator
12 11 (4.10%) Web Administrator
13 10 (3.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 9 (3.36%) Software Engineer
15 8 (2.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.99%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 169 (63.06%) CSS
1 169 (63.06%) HTML
2 41 (15.30%) React
3 33 (12.31%) Node.js
4 30 (11.19%) .NET
5 29 (10.82%) RESTful
6 26 (9.70%) AngularJS
7 23 (8.58%) Spring
7 23 (8.58%) Spring Boot
8 22 (8.21%) REST
9 18 (6.72%) .NET Core
9 18 (6.72%) ASP.NET
9 18 (6.72%) Web Services
10 16 (5.97%) ASP.NET Core
11 14 (5.22%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (4.85%) AWS CDK
12 13 (4.85%) Blazor
13 12 (4.48%) Kafka
14 7 (2.61%) Mustache
15 6 (2.24%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.97%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.12%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.75%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.75%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.75%) NHS
8 1 (0.37%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.37%) IoT
8 1 (0.37%) Life Science
8 1 (0.37%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.45%) Linux
2 11 (4.10%) Windows
3 2 (0.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (54.85%) Mentoring
2 119 (44.40%) Cybersecurity
3 71 (26.49%) Agile
4 66 (24.63%) CI/CD
5 61 (22.76%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (20.52%) DevOps
7 43 (16.04%) Microservices
8 42 (15.67%) Containerisation
9 30 (11.19%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (10.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 27 (10.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (7.84%) TDD
12 21 (7.84%) Web Development
13 19 (7.09%) Scrum
14 17 (6.34%) Deployment Automation
14 17 (6.34%) Front End Development
15 15 (5.60%) Software Engineering
15 15 (5.60%) User Experience
16 14 (5.22%) Root Cause Analysis
17 13 (4.85%) AI
Programming Languages
1 204 (76.12%) JavaScript
2 158 (58.96%) Python
3 69 (25.75%) R
4 39 (14.55%) SQL
5 33 (12.31%) Java
6 28 (10.45%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.22%) C#
8 12 (4.48%) Go
9 11 (4.10%) PHP
10 9 (3.36%) C
11 5 (1.87%) Kotlin
12 4 (1.49%) Bash
13 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.75%) Bicep
14 2 (0.75%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.37%) Delphi
15 1 (0.37%) Groovy
15 1 (0.37%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 141 (52.61%) AWS Certification
2 132 (49.25%) Azure Certification
3 130 (48.51%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 130 (48.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.10%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.73%) Degree
6 9 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.49%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.49%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.99%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.12%) 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 50 (18.66%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (15.67%) Terraform
2 41 (15.30%) Kubernetes
3 24 (8.96%) Ansible
4 11 (4.10%) Grafana
5 9 (3.36%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.61%) Control-M
7 3 (1.12%) cPanel
7 3 (1.12%) Plesk
7 3 (1.12%) Rancher
8 2 (0.75%) Argo
8 2 (0.75%) Nagios
9 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.37%) Podman
9 1 (0.37%) Puppet
9 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 139 (51.87%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.10%) Oracle
3 4 (1.49%) Pega
3 4 (1.49%) WSO2
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe
5 2 (0.75%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.75%) Splunk
6 1 (0.37%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.37%) Google
6 1 (0.37%) IBM
6 1 (0.37%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.37%) New Relic
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.37%) Salesforce