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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 150 78
Rank change year-on-year +4 -72 -3
Permanent jobs citing Git 216 167 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 1.89% 2.75%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.91% 24.85% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 170 123 413
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,000 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £82,500
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 774 672 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 7.59% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 576 401 1,124
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% +8.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £76,250 £69,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 1 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 1 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 +10 116 £61,418 +2.58% 68
Yorkshire -16 68 £50,000 -28.57% 37
North East -30 32 £52,000 +4.00% 18
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 (9.72%) WordPress
2 11 (5.09%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.78%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (2.31%) CMS
4 5 (2.31%) IIS
5 3 (1.39%) Confluence
5 3 (1.39%) nginx
5 3 (1.39%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.93%) CICS
7 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.85%) Shopify
2 3 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.93%) Magento
4 1 (0.46%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 128 (59.26%) AWS
2 111 (51.39%) Azure
3 80 (37.04%) GitHub
4 40 (18.52%) Serverless
5 39 (18.06%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (12.96%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (12.96%) GitHub Actions
7 25 (11.57%) Amazon S3
8 24 (11.11%) Amazon ECS
9 19 (8.80%) GCP
10 16 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (6.94%) AWS Step Functions
12 14 (6.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (6.48%) Power Platform
13 13 (6.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 13 (6.02%) Datadog
14 11 (5.09%) Amazon EKS
15 8 (3.70%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (3.70%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.57%) Internet
2 4 (1.85%) HTTP
3 3 (1.39%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.93%) 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 30 (13.89%) NoSQL
2 29 (13.43%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (12.96%) MySQL
4 27 (12.50%) Relational Database
5 21 (9.72%) SQL Server
6 16 (7.41%) DynamoDB
7 15 (6.94%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (6.48%) Power BI
9 10 (4.63%) MongoDB
10 7 (3.24%) BigQuery
11 6 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (2.31%) Redis
13 3 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (1.39%) Pinecone
13 3 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.93%) Db2
14 2 (0.93%) GIS
14 2 (0.93%) Metadata
14 2 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (17.59%) Jenkins
2 24 (11.11%) GitLab
3 19 (8.80%) JIRA
4 8 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.78%) PHPUnit
5 6 (2.78%) Postman
5 6 (2.78%) Selenium
6 5 (2.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (1.39%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.39%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.39%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.39%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.39%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.93%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.93%) JUnit
8 2 (0.93%) NUnit
8 2 (0.93%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.93%) Vite
8 2 (0.93%) XCUITest
General
1 70 (32.41%) Social Skills
2 24 (11.11%) Finance
3 22 (10.19%) Multimedia
4 21 (9.72%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 12 (5.56%) Marketing
6 12 (5.56%) Retail
7 9 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.78%) Banking
8 6 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.31%) Advertising
9 5 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.39%) Tech for Good
11 2 (0.93%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.46%) Back Office
12 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (50.93%) Developer
2 49 (22.69%) Senior
3 33 (15.28%) Java Developer
4 29 (13.43%) Senior Developer
5 28 (12.96%) Full-Stack Developer
6 22 (10.19%) Trainee
7 20 (9.26%) Software Engineer
8 16 (7.41%) Software Developer
9 15 (6.94%) Administrator
9 15 (6.94%) Trainee Administrator
9 15 (6.94%) Web Administrator
10 13 (6.02%) Data Engineer
11 12 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (5.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 10 (4.63%) AWS Developer
13 10 (4.63%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 8 (3.70%) Lead
15 7 (3.24%) Senior Data Engineer
15 7 (3.24%) Senior Java Developer
16 6 (2.78%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (30.56%) CSS
2 60 (27.78%) HTML
3 54 (25.00%) React
4 44 (20.37%) REST
5 41 (18.98%) Node.js
6 40 (18.52%) AngularJS
7 35 (16.20%) .NET
8 27 (12.50%) RESTful
8 27 (12.50%) Vue
9 23 (10.65%) Spring
9 23 (10.65%) Spring Boot
10 16 (7.41%) Laravel
11 14 (6.48%) .NET Core
12 12 (5.56%) .NET Framework
13 11 (5.09%) ASP.NET
13 11 (5.09%) Entity Framework
13 11 (5.09%) HTML5
14 10 (4.63%) JSON
15 9 (4.17%) Middleware
16 8 (3.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 16 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (6.48%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 7 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.78%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (1.85%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.85%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.39%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.39%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.39%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (0.93%) Distributed Architecture
9 2 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.93%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.93%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.46%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.87%) Linux
2 6 (2.78%) CentOS
2 6 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.93%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) CoreOS
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
1 127 (58.80%) CI/CD
2 92 (42.59%) DevOps
3 79 (36.57%) Agile
4 63 (29.17%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (24.54%) Mentoring
6 49 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
7 40 (18.52%) Microservices
8 39 (18.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 34 (15.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (15.28%) AI
10 33 (15.28%) Software Engineering
11 32 (14.81%) Web Development
12 31 (14.35%) Containerisation
13 26 (12.04%) Clean Code
14 23 (10.65%) Front End Development
14 23 (10.65%) Performance Optimisation
14 23 (10.65%) Workflow
15 22 (10.19%) Test Automation
16 21 (9.72%) Platform Engineering
16 21 (9.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.69%) JavaScript
2 89 (41.20%) Python
3 85 (39.35%) SQL
4 57 (26.39%) Java
5 54 (25.00%) TypeScript
6 37 (17.13%) C#
7 27 (12.50%) PHP
8 17 (7.87%) R
9 16 (7.41%) Kotlin
10 8 (3.70%) Bash
11 7 (3.24%) Go
12 6 (2.78%) C++
13 5 (2.31%) Bicep
13 5 (2.31%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.31%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.85%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.85%) PowerShell
14 4 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.39%) Groovy
15 3 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 24 (11.11%) AWS Certification
1 24 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 23 (10.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (10.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (9.26%) Degree
5 19 (8.80%) Security Cleared
6 15 (6.94%) SC Cleared
7 7 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 5 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.85%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.35%) QA
2 7 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.93%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (29.17%) Docker
2 3 (1.39%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (18.06%) Terraform
2 36 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 23 (10.65%) Ansible
4 4 (1.85%) Grafana
5 3 (1.39%) Istio
5 3 (1.39%) linkerd
5 3 (1.39%) Packer
5 3 (1.39%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.93%) Kibana
6 2 (0.93%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.93%) 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 52 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.24%) Splunk
3 6 (2.78%) Oracle
4 5 (2.31%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.31%) Databricks
4 5 (2.31%) Google
4 5 (2.31%) IBM
4 5 (2.31%) Pega
4 5 (2.31%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 3 (1.39%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.39%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.93%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.93%) SnapLogic
6 2 (0.93%) WSO2
7 1 (0.46%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.46%) Infor
7 1 (0.46%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.46%) McAfee