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

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 104 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 -36 +29
Permanent jobs citing Git 285 183 541
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.63% 2.64% 3.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.03% 30.76% 37.49%
Number of salaries quoted 224 139 407
10th Percentile - £41,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.25% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £63,220 £82,751 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £89,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,339 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.33% +2.23% -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 712 595 1,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.08% 8.57% 8.74%
Number of salaries quoted 530 448 1,155
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,600 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,736 £76,880 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,580 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 19 April 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 19 April 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 +4 138 £52,500 -12.50% 57
Yorkshire -6 119 £30,500 -53.08% 54
North East -13 28 £30,500 -44.55% 26
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 29 (10.18%) WordPress
2 9 (3.16%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Shopify
2 2 (0.70%) Magento
3 1 (0.35%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 204 (71.58%) AWS
2 183 (64.21%) Azure
3 155 (54.39%) GitHub
4 48 (16.84%) Serverless
5 37 (12.98%) Amazon S3
6 32 (11.23%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (9.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 28 (9.82%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (9.47%) AWS Step Functions
8 27 (9.47%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (9.12%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (8.77%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (7.02%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (4.91%) Amazon EventBridge
13 14 (4.91%) GCP
14 12 (4.21%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (3.86%) Datadog
16 8 (2.81%) Power Platform
17 6 (2.11%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 122 (42.81%) Internet
2 9 (3.16%) DNS
3 5 (1.75%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.70%) SSH
4 2 (0.70%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) DHCP
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) VSAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.44%) NoSQL
2 41 (14.39%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (10.18%) DynamoDB
4 22 (7.72%) MySQL
5 21 (7.37%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.96%) Relational Database
7 15 (5.26%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.21%) Amazon Athena
9 8 (2.81%) Power BI
10 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.70%) DB2
12 2 (0.70%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
13 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.35%) Redis
13 1 (0.35%) Semantic Layer
13 1 (0.35%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (9.82%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.32%) GitLab
2 18 (6.32%) JIRA
3 11 (3.86%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.46%) JUnit
4 7 (2.46%) PHPUnit
5 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.40%) Selenium
6 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.05%) IntelliJ
6 3 (1.05%) Postman
6 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.70%) NUnit
7 2 (0.70%) Subversion
7 2 (0.70%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 115 (40.35%) Multimedia
2 60 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.67%) Finance
4 11 (3.86%) Retail
5 7 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.11%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.75%) Advertising
7 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.40%) Marketing
9 3 (1.05%) Banking
9 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Games
10 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 155 (54.39%) Developer
2 115 (40.35%) Trainee
3 54 (18.95%) Software Developer
4 48 (16.84%) Trainee Developer
4 48 (16.84%) Trainee Software Developer
5 42 (14.74%) Senior
6 36 (12.63%) Java Developer
7 32 (11.23%) Senior Developer
8 28 (9.82%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (9.12%) Administrator
9 26 (9.12%) Trainee Administrator
9 26 (9.12%) Web Administrator
10 16 (5.61%) .NET Developer
11 15 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 14 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 13 (4.56%) Lead
14 11 (3.86%) AWS Developer
15 8 (2.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
15 8 (2.81%) Lead Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 162 (56.84%) CSS
1 162 (56.84%) HTML
2 54 (18.95%) React
3 40 (14.04%) AngularJS
3 40 (14.04%) RESTful
4 34 (11.93%) Node.js
5 29 (10.18%) .NET
6 25 (8.77%) Spring
6 25 (8.77%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.42%) REST
8 21 (7.37%) .NET Core
9 19 (6.67%) ASP.NET
9 19 (6.67%) Web Services
10 17 (5.96%) ASP.NET Core
10 17 (5.96%) Vue
11 15 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (4.56%) AWS CDK
12 13 (4.56%) Blazor
12 13 (4.56%) Kafka
13 12 (4.21%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 22 (7.72%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 12 (4.21%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
7 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.70%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.70%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.70%) NHS
9 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.35%) IoT
9 1 (0.35%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (7.02%) Linux
2 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.70%) Windows
3 1 (0.35%) CentOS
3 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.35%) Unix
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (42.81%) Mentoring
2 95 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 94 (32.98%) Agile
4 89 (31.23%) Cybersecurity
5 70 (24.56%) DevOps
6 64 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
7 52 (18.25%) Microservices
8 44 (15.44%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (13.68%) Containerisation
10 38 (13.33%) Web Development
11 35 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
12 30 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (9.12%) TDD
14 23 (8.07%) Deployment Automation
14 23 (8.07%) Scrum
15 21 (7.37%) Clean Code
16 18 (6.32%) Continuous Integration
16 18 (6.32%) Front End Development
17 17 (5.96%) Root Cause Analysis
17 17 (5.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 199 (69.82%) JavaScript
2 156 (54.74%) Python
3 68 (23.86%) R
4 61 (21.40%) SQL
5 49 (17.19%) Java
6 40 (14.04%) TypeScript
7 16 (5.61%) PHP
8 15 (5.26%) C#
9 12 (4.21%) Kotlin
10 11 (3.86%) Go
11 9 (3.16%) C
12 5 (1.75%) Bicep
12 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.40%) PowerShell
14 3 (1.05%) Groovy
15 2 (0.70%) Bash
15 2 (0.70%) Swift
15 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 1 (0.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 126 (44.21%) AWS Certification
2 118 (41.40%) Azure Certification
3 115 (40.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 115 (40.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 11 (3.86%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.81%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.11%) Degree
7 2 (0.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.86%) QA
2 8 (2.81%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 55 (19.30%) Docker
2 4 (1.40%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 48 (16.84%) Terraform
2 35 (12.28%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.07%) Ansible
4 3 (1.05%) cPanel
4 3 (1.05%) Grafana
4 3 (1.05%) Nagios
4 3 (1.05%) Packer
4 3 (1.05%) Plesk
4 3 (1.05%) Rancher
5 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.70%) Kibana
5 2 (0.70%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.35%) Argo
6 1 (0.35%) Control-M
6 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 134 (47.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.26%) Oracle
3 5 (1.75%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.75%) IBM
3 5 (1.75%) Pega
4 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.70%) Databricks
5 2 (0.70%) DevExpress
5 2 (0.70%) New Relic
5 2 (0.70%) Splunk
5 2 (0.70%) WSO2
6 1 (0.35%) Adobe
6 1 (0.35%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.35%) Google
6 1 (0.35%) McAfee
6 1 (0.35%) Netlify
6 1 (0.35%) WooCommerce