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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 183 84
Rank change year-on-year +40 -99 -21
Permanent jobs citing Git 248 120 335
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 1.28% 2.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.84% 21.94% 33.60%
Number of salaries quoted 172 81 218
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,250 £37,425
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -11.76%
75th Percentile £74,985 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £83,750 £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 779 547 997
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.32% 5.83% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 508 308 624
10th Percentile £38,984 £34,625 £37,702
25th Percentile £46,813 £43,250 £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 £75,063 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,269 £82,751 £78,375
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 14 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 14 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 +27 120 £60,000 +9.09% 159
Yorkshire +2 66 £56,250 -19.64% 91
North East -9 62 £65,000 +44.44% 48
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 15 (6.05%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.82%) CMS
2 7 (2.82%) WordPress
3 6 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.42%) IIS
3 6 (2.42%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (2.02%) Apache
4 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.61%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.21%) Confluence
6 3 (1.21%) nginx
7 2 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Shopify
2 3 (1.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.81%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 148 (59.68%) AWS
2 114 (45.97%) Azure
3 76 (30.65%) GitHub
4 49 (19.76%) Serverless
5 40 (16.13%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (15.73%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (14.11%) Amazon S3
8 32 (12.90%) GCP
9 30 (12.10%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (9.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (7.26%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (7.26%) Power Platform
12 17 (6.85%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (6.85%) Datadog
13 15 (6.05%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.24%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.84%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (3.63%) dbt
17 8 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.61%) DNS
2 3 (1.21%) DHCP
2 3 (1.21%) HTTP
2 3 (1.21%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.21%) LAN
2 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.21%) VSAN
2 3 (1.21%) WAN
3 2 (0.81%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.90%) NoSQL
1 32 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
1 32 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 30 (12.10%) Relational Database
3 21 (8.47%) MySQL
4 20 (8.06%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (7.66%) DynamoDB
6 16 (6.45%) Power BI
7 14 (5.65%) MongoDB
8 11 (4.44%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (4.03%) BigQuery
10 9 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (3.23%) Redis
12 5 (2.02%) Data Lake
13 4 (1.61%) Flink
13 4 (1.61%) GIS
13 4 (1.61%) Metadata
13 4 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 51 (20.56%) Jenkins
2 43 (17.34%) GitLab
3 16 (6.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 15 (6.05%) JIRA
5 10 (4.03%) Bitbucket
6 9 (3.63%) JUnit
7 7 (2.82%) Selenium
8 6 (2.42%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (2.02%) Cypress.io
9 5 (2.02%) Maven
10 4 (1.61%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.61%) IntelliJ
10 4 (1.61%) Postman
10 4 (1.61%) Spock
11 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.21%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.21%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.81%) Eclipse
12 2 (0.81%) Mockito
General
1 107 (43.15%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.73%) Public Sector
3 37 (14.92%) Finance
4 32 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.26%) Marketing
6 16 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.63%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.82%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.02%) Retail
10 3 (1.21%) Advertising
10 3 (1.21%) Banking
11 2 (0.81%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.81%) Legal
11 2 (0.81%) Local Government
11 2 (0.81%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 115 (46.37%) Developer
2 37 (14.92%) Senior
3 31 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (11.69%) Data Engineer
5 28 (11.29%) Java Developer
6 27 (10.89%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (10.48%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.26%) Software Developer
10 16 (6.45%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (6.45%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.45%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.24%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.44%) Lead
13 8 (3.23%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 7 (2.82%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (2.82%) Junior
14 7 (2.82%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.19%) Terraform
2 59 (23.79%) React
3 57 (22.98%) REST
4 49 (19.76%) Node.js
5 46 (18.55%) CSS
6 42 (16.94%) .NET
7 40 (16.13%) AngularJS
8 37 (14.92%) HTML
9 28 (11.29%) Spring
10 24 (9.68%) RESTful
11 22 (8.87%) Spring Boot
12 15 (6.05%) .NET Core
12 15 (6.05%) ASP.NET
12 15 (6.05%) Vue
13 13 (5.24%) .NET Framework
13 13 (5.24%) Entity Framework
13 13 (5.24%) JSON
14 12 (4.84%) Kafka
15 10 (4.03%) Flask
16 9 (3.63%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.94%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.68%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 15 (6.05%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.82%) Social Media
7 6 (2.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.02%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.61%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.61%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.61%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.21%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.21%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.21%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.21%) Replication
11 2 (0.81%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.11%) Linux
2 19 (7.66%) CentOS
2 19 (7.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.82%) Windows
4 6 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.61%) VMS
6 3 (1.21%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.81%) Android
7 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (74.19%) CI/CD
2 127 (51.21%) DevOps
3 90 (36.29%) Agile
4 78 (31.45%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (26.21%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (24.60%) Software Engineering
7 60 (24.19%) Microservices
8 58 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (22.58%) Mentoring
10 48 (19.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (17.34%) AI
12 40 (16.13%) Test Automation
13 39 (15.73%) Containerisation
14 36 (14.52%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (13.71%) Collaborative Culture
16 30 (12.10%) Clean Code
16 30 (12.10%) Workflow
17 29 (11.69%) Data Modelling
18 28 (11.29%) Data Pipeline
19 27 (10.89%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 98 (39.52%) SQL
2 91 (36.69%) JavaScript
2 91 (36.69%) Python
3 72 (29.03%) TypeScript
4 71 (28.63%) Java
5 45 (18.15%) C#
6 21 (8.47%) PHP
7 20 (8.06%) Kotlin
8 14 (5.65%) Bash
9 9 (3.63%) C++
9 9 (3.63%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.82%) Groovy
10 7 (2.82%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.42%) Go
12 5 (2.02%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.61%) Bicep
14 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.21%) Scala
14 3 (1.21%) SOQL
14 3 (1.21%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 44 (17.74%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.11%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.47%) Degree
4 20 (8.06%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.61%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.61%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.11%) QA
2 23 (9.27%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.65%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.21%) WCAG
5 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (43.95%) Docker
2 7 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.21%) Ceph
4 3 (1.21%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (24.19%) Kubernetes
2 36 (14.52%) Ansible
3 8 (3.23%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.82%) Istio
5 6 (2.42%) Grafana
6 5 (2.02%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.02%) Puppet
7 4 (1.61%) Argo
7 4 (1.61%) linkerd
8 3 (1.21%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.21%) Kibana
8 3 (1.21%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.21%) Packer
8 3 (1.21%) Podman
8 3 (1.21%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 30 (12.10%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.44%) Google
2 11 (4.44%) Splunk
3 10 (4.03%) Databricks
4 9 (3.63%) AppDynamics
5 7 (2.82%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.82%) IBM
5 7 (2.82%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.42%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.21%) Confluent
7 3 (1.21%) Dell
7 3 (1.21%) McAfee
7 3 (1.21%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.21%) Oracle
7 3 (1.21%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.81%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.81%) Apple
8 2 (0.81%) Mistral
8 2 (0.81%) Sage
8 2 (0.81%) WooCommerce