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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 180 101
Rank change year-on-year +39 -79 -51
Permanent jobs citing Git 272 122 276
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 1.27% 2.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.83% 22.02% 29.65%
Number of salaries quoted 184 89 165
10th Percentile £33,250 - £35,000
25th Percentile £46,813 £28,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,985 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,000 £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 804 554 931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.35% 5.78% 7.04%
Number of salaries quoted 501 308 526
10th Percentile £38,750 £28,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,250
90th Percentile £91,269 £78,750 £73,943
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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +31 129 £60,000 +20.00% 124
North East -9 73 £62,500 +38.89% 37
Yorkshire 0 70 £61,250 +16.67% 93
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 20 (7.35%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (4.78%) Apache Spark
3 10 (3.68%) Apache
4 8 (2.94%) CMS
4 8 (2.94%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.94%) WordPress
5 6 (2.21%) IIS
5 6 (2.21%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (1.47%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.10%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.10%) nginx
7 3 (1.10%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (1.10%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.74%) Confluence
8 2 (0.74%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.37%) JBoss
9 1 (0.37%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.37%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Shopify
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.74%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 171 (62.87%) AWS
2 130 (47.79%) Azure
3 81 (29.78%) GitHub
4 47 (17.28%) GCP
4 47 (17.28%) Serverless
5 39 (14.34%) AWS Lambda
5 39 (14.34%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (13.60%) Amazon S3
6 37 (13.60%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (11.03%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (9.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 21 (7.72%) Power Platform
10 20 (7.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 19 (6.99%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (6.25%) Datadog
13 15 (5.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 14 (5.15%) Cloud Computing
15 11 (4.04%) dbt
16 10 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
16 10 (3.68%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.41%) Internet
2 4 (1.47%) DNS
3 3 (1.10%) DHCP
3 3 (1.10%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.10%) LAN
3 3 (1.10%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.10%) VSAN
3 3 (1.10%) WAN
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
4 2 (0.74%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.87%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.13%) PostgreSQL
3 32 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 30 (11.03%) NoSQL
5 22 (8.09%) Amazon Athena
6 20 (7.35%) MySQL
7 19 (6.99%) DynamoDB
7 19 (6.99%) MongoDB
7 19 (6.99%) Power BI
8 13 (4.78%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
9 11 (4.04%) Amazon Redshift
10 10 (3.68%) BigQuery
11 8 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (2.94%) Redis
12 7 (2.57%) Metadata
13 6 (2.21%) Data Lake
14 5 (1.84%) Chroma
14 5 (1.84%) DocumentDB
14 5 (1.84%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 52 (19.12%) GitLab
2 51 (18.75%) Jenkins
3 19 (6.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (3.68%) JUnit
5 8 (2.94%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.94%) JIRA
6 7 (2.57%) Selenium
7 6 (2.21%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.21%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.84%) Maven
9 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.47%) Spock
10 3 (1.10%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.10%) Mockito
10 3 (1.10%) Postman
10 3 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.74%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.74%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 115 (42.28%) Social Skills
2 51 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 51 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 34 (12.50%) Finance
4 22 (8.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 18 (6.62%) Marketing
6 9 (3.31%) Manufacturing
7 7 (2.57%) Tech for Good
8 5 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (1.84%) Retail
9 3 (1.10%) Banking
10 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.74%) Legal
10 2 (0.74%) Local Government
10 2 (0.74%) Publishing
11 1 (0.37%) Back Office
11 1 (0.37%) Games
11 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.37%) Law
11 1 (0.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 120 (44.12%) Developer
2 40 (14.71%) DevOps Engineer
3 38 (13.97%) Senior
4 34 (12.50%) Data Engineer
5 29 (10.66%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (9.93%) Software Engineer
7 22 (8.09%) Java Developer
7 22 (8.09%) Software Developer
8 21 (7.72%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.99%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 19 (6.99%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (5.88%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.78%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.41%) Trainee
13 10 (3.68%) Lead
13 10 (3.68%) Python Developer
14 8 (2.94%) Junior
15 7 (2.57%) .NET Developer
15 7 (2.57%) Angular Developer
15 7 (2.57%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (24.26%) Terraform
2 62 (22.79%) React
3 57 (20.96%) REST
4 54 (19.85%) Node.js
5 45 (16.54%) CSS
6 42 (15.44%) .NET
7 36 (13.24%) HTML
8 34 (12.50%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.56%) Spring
10 21 (7.72%) RESTful
11 19 (6.99%) Spring Boot
12 17 (6.25%) Kafka
13 16 (5.88%) .NET Core
14 14 (5.15%) ASP.NET
15 12 (4.41%) .NET Framework
15 12 (4.41%) Entity Framework
15 12 (4.41%) Flask
15 12 (4.41%) Vue
16 11 (4.04%) Middleware
17 10 (3.68%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.28%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.99%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.51%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.57%) Social Media
8 6 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.84%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.47%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.10%) Learning Management System
11 3 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 49 (18.01%) Linux
2 22 (8.09%) CentOS
2 22 (8.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.94%) Windows
4 7 (2.57%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.47%) VMS
6 3 (1.10%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.74%) Android
7 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 206 (75.74%) CI/CD
2 140 (51.47%) DevOps
3 90 (33.09%) Agile
4 83 (30.51%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (28.68%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (26.84%) Mentoring
7 66 (24.26%) Software Engineering
8 62 (22.79%) Problem-Solving
9 59 (21.69%) Microservices
10 54 (19.85%) Containerisation
11 52 (19.12%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (18.01%) Test Automation
14 48 (17.65%) AI
15 35 (12.87%) Collaborative Culture
15 35 (12.87%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 34 (12.50%) Data Modelling
16 34 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
16 34 (12.50%) SDLC
16 34 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 101 (37.13%) SQL
2 99 (36.40%) Python
3 93 (34.19%) JavaScript
4 78 (28.68%) TypeScript
5 66 (24.26%) Java
6 48 (17.65%) C#
7 21 (7.72%) PHP
8 20 (7.35%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.51%) Bash
10 14 (5.15%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.31%) C++
11 9 (3.31%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.57%) Go
12 7 (2.57%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.84%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.47%) Groovy
15 3 (1.10%) C
15 3 (1.10%) Scala
15 3 (1.10%) SOQL
15 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 39 (14.34%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.19%) Degree
4 23 (8.46%) DV Cleared
5 9 (3.31%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.47%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.74%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.50%) QA
2 27 (9.93%) Data Quality
3 16 (5.88%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.84%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 130 (47.79%) Docker
2 9 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.10%) Ceph
3 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 64 (23.53%) Kubernetes
2 35 (12.87%) Ansible
3 8 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.57%) Istio
5 6 (2.21%) Grafana
5 6 (2.21%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.21%) Puppet
6 4 (1.47%) Argo
6 4 (1.47%) linkerd
7 3 (1.10%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.10%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.10%) Podman
7 3 (1.10%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.74%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.37%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Nagios
Vendors
1 45 (16.54%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.46%) Google
3 11 (4.04%) Splunk
4 10 (3.68%) Databricks
5 9 (3.31%) Dynatrace
6 7 (2.57%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 5 (1.84%) Confluent
8 5 (1.84%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.47%) Mistral
10 3 (1.10%) Cisco
10 3 (1.10%) Dell
10 3 (1.10%) Foundry
10 3 (1.10%) IBM
10 3 (1.10%) McAfee
10 3 (1.10%) Palantir
10 3 (1.10%) SnapLogic
10 3 (1.10%) VMware
11 2 (0.74%) HP