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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 161 78
Rank change year-on-year +8 -83 -12
Permanent jobs citing Git 219 166 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 1.76% 2.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.48% 25.30% 34.91%
Number of salaries quoted 172 124 359
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £44,688 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.65% +13.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,751 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £80,000
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 769 656 1,312
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.65% 6.96% 7.79%
Number of salaries quoted 574 392 977
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 22 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 22 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 +1 110 £58,843 +2.34% 60
Yorkshire -18 68 £50,000 -28.57% 35
North East -20 41 £52,000 +4.00% 29
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 (9.59%) WordPress
2 12 (5.48%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.20%) CMS
3 7 (3.20%) IIS
4 6 (2.74%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.37%) Confluence
5 3 (1.37%) nginx
6 2 (0.91%) Apache
6 2 (0.91%) CICS
6 2 (0.91%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.46%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.74%) Shopify
2 3 (1.37%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.91%) Magento
4 1 (0.46%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 132 (60.27%) AWS
2 106 (48.40%) Azure
3 80 (36.53%) GitHub
4 40 (18.26%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (17.81%) Serverless
6 29 (13.24%) GitHub Actions
7 28 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
8 24 (10.96%) Amazon S3
9 22 (10.05%) Amazon ECS
10 21 (9.59%) GCP
11 16 (7.31%) Power Platform
12 15 (6.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (5.94%) AWS Step Functions
13 13 (5.94%) Datadog
14 12 (5.48%) AWS CloudFormation
15 11 (5.02%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 9 (4.11%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (4.11%) Amazon EKS
17 8 (3.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 8 (3.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.76%) Internet
2 4 (1.83%) HTTP
3 3 (1.37%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.91%) Firewall
5 1 (0.46%) Network Security
5 1 (0.46%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.79%) NoSQL
2 27 (12.33%) MySQL
2 27 (12.33%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.33%) Relational Database
3 25 (11.42%) SQL Server
4 16 (7.31%) Power BI
5 14 (6.39%) Amazon Athena
6 13 (5.94%) DynamoDB
7 9 (4.11%) MongoDB
8 8 (3.65%) BigQuery
9 7 (3.20%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (3.20%) Redis
10 5 (2.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (1.37%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.37%) Tableau
12 2 (0.91%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 44 (20.09%) Jenkins
2 31 (14.16%) GitLab
3 19 (8.68%) JIRA
4 11 (5.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 8 (3.65%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.74%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.74%) Postman
6 6 (2.74%) Selenium
7 4 (1.83%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.37%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.37%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.37%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.37%) JUnit
8 3 (1.37%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.37%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.91%) NUnit
9 2 (0.91%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.91%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.91%) Vite
General
1 78 (35.62%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.79%) Finance
2 28 (12.79%) Public Sector
3 17 (7.76%) Multimedia
4 15 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.94%) Marketing
6 7 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.20%) Retail
6 7 (3.20%) Tech for Good
7 6 (2.74%) Banking
7 6 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.28%) Advertising
9 4 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Back Office
11 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.46%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 111 (50.68%) Developer
2 48 (21.92%) Senior
3 32 (14.61%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (13.70%) Java Developer
5 28 (12.79%) Senior Developer
6 20 (9.13%) DevOps Engineer
6 20 (9.13%) Software Engineer
7 17 (7.76%) Trainee
8 15 (6.85%) Administrator
8 15 (6.85%) Data Engineer
8 15 (6.85%) Trainee Administrator
8 15 (6.85%) Web Administrator
9 13 (5.94%) Software Developer
10 12 (5.48%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 12 (5.48%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (5.02%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 11 (5.02%) Principal Engineer
12 9 (4.11%) AWS Developer
13 8 (3.65%) Lead
14 7 (3.20%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (30.14%) CSS
2 60 (27.40%) HTML
3 57 (26.03%) React
4 47 (21.46%) REST
5 41 (18.72%) Node.js
6 39 (17.81%) .NET
7 38 (17.35%) AngularJS
8 27 (12.33%) RESTful
9 26 (11.87%) Vue
10 24 (10.96%) Spring
11 23 (10.50%) Spring Boot
12 16 (7.31%) Laravel
13 14 (6.39%) .NET Core
13 14 (6.39%) .NET Framework
14 13 (5.94%) ASP.NET
14 13 (5.94%) Entity Framework
15 12 (5.48%) HTML5
16 10 (4.57%) JSON
17 9 (4.11%) CSS3
17 9 (4.11%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.87%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.68%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 9 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.65%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.83%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.37%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.37%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.37%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.91%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.46%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.13%) Linux
2 11 (5.02%) CentOS
2 11 (5.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.46%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) VMS
4 1 (0.46%) Windows
4 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (64.84%) CI/CD
2 101 (46.12%) DevOps
3 83 (37.90%) Agile
4 72 (32.88%) Full-Stack Development
5 49 (22.37%) Mentoring
6 47 (21.46%) Microservices
7 44 (20.09%) Infrastructure as Code
8 42 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (16.89%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (16.44%) Containerisation
11 35 (15.98%) Software Engineering
12 33 (15.07%) Web Development
13 31 (14.16%) AI
14 30 (13.70%) Clean Code
14 30 (13.70%) Platform Engineering
15 26 (11.87%) Workflow
16 25 (11.42%) Test Automation
17 24 (10.96%) Performance Optimisation
17 24 (10.96%) Scrum
18 23 (10.50%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 103 (47.03%) JavaScript
2 87 (39.73%) SQL
3 84 (38.36%) Python
4 56 (25.57%) Java
5 53 (24.20%) TypeScript
6 41 (18.72%) C#
7 27 (12.33%) PHP
8 15 (6.85%) Kotlin
8 15 (6.85%) R
9 9 (4.11%) Bash
10 6 (2.74%) C++
10 6 (2.74%) VB.NET
11 5 (2.28%) Bicep
11 5 (2.28%) Go
11 5 (2.28%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.83%) Apex Code
12 4 (1.83%) Groovy
12 4 (1.83%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.83%) T-SQL
13 3 (1.37%) Scala
Qualifications
1 26 (11.87%) Security Cleared
2 22 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.13%) Degree
4 19 (8.68%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.68%) Azure Certification
4 19 (8.68%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (7.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (6.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.83%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.91%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.16%) QA
2 9 (4.11%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.65%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.91%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (34.25%) Docker
2 3 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 45 (20.55%) Terraform
2 42 (19.18%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.33%) Ansible
4 5 (2.28%) Grafana
5 4 (1.83%) Istio
5 4 (1.83%) linkerd
5 4 (1.83%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.83%) Puppet
6 3 (1.37%) Packer
7 2 (0.91%) Kibana
8 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.46%) Argo
8 1 (0.46%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.46%) Nagios
8 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 44 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.65%) Splunk
3 7 (3.20%) Google
4 6 (2.74%) AppDynamics
5 5 (2.28%) Databricks
5 5 (2.28%) IBM
5 5 (2.28%) Pega
5 5 (2.28%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle
7 3 (1.37%) Dynatrace
7 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.37%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.37%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.91%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.91%) WSO2
9 1 (0.46%) Apple
9 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.46%) Infor
9 1 (0.46%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat