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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 158 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 -79 -11
Permanent jobs citing Git 217 167 513
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 1.82% 2.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.00% 24.70% 35.28%
Number of salaries quoted 171 122 403
10th Percentile £29,000 £42,500 £31,350
25th Percentile £41,875 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +13.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,751 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £84,500
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +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 775 676 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.76% 7.36% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 576 402 1,104
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,825 £35,075
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +4.65% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £76,250 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -10.82%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +2 114 £61,418 +6.81% 66
Yorkshire -6 69 £50,000 -28.57% 29
North East -21 34 £52,000 +4.00% 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 21 (9.68%) WordPress
2 11 (5.07%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.76%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (2.30%) CMS
4 5 (2.30%) IIS
5 3 (1.38%) Confluence
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
6 2 (0.92%) CICS
6 2 (0.92%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Shopify
2 3 (1.38%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.92%) Magento
4 1 (0.46%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 128 (58.99%) AWS
2 109 (50.23%) Azure
3 81 (37.33%) GitHub
4 41 (18.89%) Serverless
5 39 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (13.36%) GitHub Actions
8 26 (11.98%) Amazon S3
9 24 (11.06%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (8.76%) GCP
11 17 (7.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (7.37%) AWS Step Functions
13 15 (6.91%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (6.91%) Power Platform
14 14 (6.45%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 14 (6.45%) Datadog
15 10 (4.61%) Amazon EKS
16 8 (3.69%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (3.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 8 (3.69%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 20 (9.22%) Internet
2 4 (1.84%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.92%) Firewall
5 1 (0.46%) DHCP
5 1 (0.46%) DNS
5 1 (0.46%) LAN
5 1 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
5 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.46%) VSAN
5 1 (0.46%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 28 (12.90%) MySQL
3 27 (12.44%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (11.98%) Relational Database
5 21 (9.68%) SQL Server
6 17 (7.83%) Amazon Athena
6 17 (7.83%) DynamoDB
7 15 (6.91%) Power BI
8 8 (3.69%) MongoDB
9 7 (3.23%) BigQuery
10 6 (2.76%) Amazon RDS
10 6 (2.76%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (2.30%) Redis
12 4 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.38%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.38%) Tableau
14 2 (0.92%) Metadata
14 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 40 (18.43%) Jenkins
2 28 (12.90%) GitLab
3 19 (8.76%) JIRA
4 8 (3.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 8 (3.69%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.76%) PHPUnit
5 6 (2.76%) Postman
5 6 (2.76%) Selenium
6 4 (1.84%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.38%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.38%) JUnit
7 3 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.92%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.92%) NUnit
8 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.92%) Vite
8 2 (0.92%) XCUITest
General
1 73 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 25 (11.52%) Finance
3 24 (11.06%) Public Sector
4 19 (8.76%) Multimedia
5 14 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.53%) Marketing
6 12 (5.53%) Retail
7 9 (4.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.76%) Banking
8 6 (2.76%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.30%) Advertising
9 5 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.30%) Tech for Good
10 2 (0.92%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 109 (50.23%) Developer
2 48 (22.12%) Senior
3 33 (15.21%) Java Developer
4 28 (12.90%) Senior Developer
5 27 (12.44%) Full-Stack Developer
6 21 (9.68%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.76%) Trainee
8 15 (6.91%) Administrator
8 15 (6.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 15 (6.91%) Software Developer
8 15 (6.91%) Trainee Administrator
8 15 (6.91%) Web Administrator
9 13 (5.99%) Data Engineer
10 12 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (5.07%) AWS Developer
11 11 (5.07%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 8 (3.69%) Lead
12 8 (3.69%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 8 (3.69%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (29.49%) CSS
2 58 (26.73%) HTML
3 53 (24.42%) React
4 43 (19.82%) REST
5 42 (19.35%) AngularJS
6 41 (18.89%) Node.js
7 36 (16.59%) .NET
8 27 (12.44%) RESTful
8 27 (12.44%) Vue
9 24 (11.06%) Spring
10 23 (10.60%) Spring Boot
11 16 (7.37%) Laravel
12 14 (6.45%) .NET Core
13 12 (5.53%) .NET Framework
14 11 (5.07%) ASP.NET
14 11 (5.07%) Entity Framework
14 11 (5.07%) HTML5
15 10 (4.61%) JSON
16 9 (4.15%) Middleware
17 8 (3.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 17 (7.83%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.69%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.76%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.84%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.38%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.38%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.38%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.92%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.92%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.92%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 18 (8.29%) Linux
2 9 (4.15%) CentOS
2 9 (4.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.92%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (61.29%) CI/CD
2 98 (45.16%) DevOps
3 80 (36.87%) Agile
4 65 (29.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (23.04%) Mentoring
6 48 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
7 44 (20.28%) Microservices
8 40 (18.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 36 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (16.13%) Software Engineering
11 34 (15.67%) AI
12 32 (14.75%) Containerisation
12 32 (14.75%) Web Development
13 26 (11.98%) Clean Code
14 24 (11.06%) Platform Engineering
14 24 (11.06%) Test Automation
14 24 (11.06%) Workflow
15 23 (10.60%) Front End Development
15 23 (10.60%) Performance Optimisation
16 21 (9.68%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 100 (46.08%) JavaScript
2 87 (40.09%) SQL
3 86 (39.63%) Python
4 58 (26.73%) Java
5 54 (24.88%) TypeScript
6 38 (17.51%) C#
7 27 (12.44%) PHP
8 17 (7.83%) Kotlin
9 15 (6.91%) R
10 8 (3.69%) Bash
11 6 (2.76%) C++
11 6 (2.76%) VB.NET
12 5 (2.30%) Bicep
12 5 (2.30%) Go
12 5 (2.30%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.84%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.84%) Groovy
13 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.38%) Scala
Qualifications
1 22 (10.14%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.68%) AWS Certification
2 21 (9.68%) Azure Certification
3 20 (9.22%) Degree
3 20 (9.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 19 (8.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 18 (8.29%) SC Cleared
6 10 (4.61%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.84%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.29%) QA
2 8 (3.69%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.76%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.92%) GDPR
4 2 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 68 (31.34%) Docker
2 3 (1.38%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 40 (18.43%) Terraform
2 36 (16.59%) Kubernetes
3 24 (11.06%) Ansible
4 4 (1.84%) Grafana
5 3 (1.38%) Istio
5 3 (1.38%) linkerd
5 3 (1.38%) Packer
5 3 (1.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.92%) Kibana
6 2 (0.92%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.92%) Puppet
7 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.46%) Argo
7 1 (0.46%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.46%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.46%) Nagios
7 1 (0.46%) Rancher
7 1 (0.46%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 49 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.69%) Splunk
3 6 (2.76%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.30%) Databricks
4 5 (2.30%) Google
4 5 (2.30%) IBM
4 5 (2.30%) Oracle
4 5 (2.30%) Pega
4 5 (2.30%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.38%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.38%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.38%) SnapLogic
5 3 (1.38%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.92%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.92%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.92%) WSO2
7 1 (0.46%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.46%) Infor
7 1 (0.46%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.46%) McAfee