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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 153 79
Rank change year-on-year +33 -74 +4
Permanent jobs citing Git 262 162 521
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.33% 2.10% 2.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.07% 24.85% 36.18%
Number of salaries quoted 206 123 408
10th Percentile - £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.54% +18.18% -1.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,375 £93,778 £85,000
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 769 652 1,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.91% 8.43% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 574 394 1,153
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,900 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +8.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,375 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,375 £83,510
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +17 128 £58,843 -2.74% 61
Yorkshire +3 105 £37,500 -46.43% 31
North East -17 29 £30,500 -44.55% 20
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 26 (9.92%) WordPress
2 9 (3.44%) OpenStack
3 7 (2.67%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (1.53%) CMS
5 4 (1.53%) IIS
6 3 (1.15%) Apache
6 3 (1.15%) nginx
7 2 (0.76%) CICS
7 2 (0.76%) JBoss
8 1 (0.38%) Confluence
8 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Shopify
2 2 (0.76%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.76%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 171 (65.27%) AWS
2 159 (60.69%) Azure
3 120 (45.80%) GitHub
4 44 (16.79%) Serverless
5 40 (15.27%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (13.36%) Amazon S3
7 32 (12.21%) GitHub Actions
8 30 (11.45%) AWS Lambda
9 29 (11.07%) Amazon ECS
10 26 (9.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 25 (9.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (9.54%) AWS Step Functions
12 18 (6.87%) Amazon EKS
13 15 (5.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 15 (5.73%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (5.73%) GCP
14 14 (5.34%) Datadog
15 12 (4.58%) Power Platform
16 8 (3.05%) Amazon EventBridge
16 8 (3.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 73 (27.86%) Internet
2 9 (3.44%) DNS
3 6 (2.29%) HTTP
4 3 (1.15%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.76%) Firewall
5 2 (0.76%) SSL
6 1 (0.38%) DHCP
6 1 (0.38%) LAN
6 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.38%) VSAN
6 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (16.79%) PostgreSQL
2 40 (15.27%) NoSQL
3 28 (10.69%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.92%) DynamoDB
5 22 (8.40%) MySQL
6 21 (8.02%) SQL Server
7 16 (6.11%) Amazon Athena
8 14 (5.34%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.58%) Power BI
10 6 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (1.91%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.76%) DB2
12 2 (0.76%) GIS
12 2 (0.76%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (13.74%) Jenkins
2 28 (10.69%) GitLab
3 18 (6.87%) JIRA
4 11 (4.20%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.67%) PHPUnit
6 5 (1.91%) JUnit
7 4 (1.53%) Postman
7 4 (1.53%) Selenium
8 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.76%) NUnit
9 2 (0.76%) Subversion
9 2 (0.76%) XCUITest
10 1 (0.38%) gulp
10 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 70 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 66 (25.19%) Multimedia
3 20 (7.63%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.25%) Finance
5 12 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (3.44%) Retail
7 8 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.05%) Marketing
8 6 (2.29%) Banking
8 6 (2.29%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.91%) Advertising
9 5 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.76%) Games
10 2 (0.76%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.38%) Back Office
11 1 (0.38%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 136 (51.91%) Developer
2 66 (25.19%) Trainee
3 51 (19.47%) Senior
4 38 (14.50%) Java Developer
5 36 (13.74%) Software Developer
6 33 (12.60%) Senior Developer
7 29 (11.07%) Full-Stack Developer
8 24 (9.16%) Trainee Developer
8 24 (9.16%) Trainee Software Developer
9 21 (8.02%) Administrator
9 21 (8.02%) Trainee Administrator
9 21 (8.02%) Web Administrator
10 16 (6.11%) Software Engineer
11 15 (5.73%) Cloud Engineer
12 14 (5.34%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 13 (4.96%) Lead
14 12 (4.58%) .NET Developer
15 10 (3.82%) AWS Developer
16 8 (3.05%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 8 (3.05%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (44.27%) CSS
2 110 (41.98%) HTML
3 53 (20.23%) React
4 41 (15.65%) AngularJS
4 41 (15.65%) Node.js
5 37 (14.12%) REST
5 37 (14.12%) RESTful
6 34 (12.98%) .NET
7 22 (8.40%) Spring
7 22 (8.40%) Spring Boot
8 21 (8.02%) .NET Core
9 19 (7.25%) Vue
10 18 (6.87%) ASP.NET
11 14 (5.34%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (4.96%) ASP.NET Core
12 13 (4.96%) Kafka
13 12 (4.58%) Web Services
14 11 (4.20%) Blazor
15 10 (3.82%) Entity Framework
15 10 (3.82%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 19 (7.25%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (5.73%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.34%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.15%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.76%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.76%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.76%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.76%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.38%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (6.87%) Linux
2 3 (1.15%) CentOS
2 3 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.38%) Windows
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (46.56%) CI/CD
2 92 (35.11%) Mentoring
3 90 (34.35%) Agile
4 88 (33.59%) DevOps
5 59 (22.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 58 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (17.94%) Cybersecurity
8 46 (17.56%) Microservices
9 42 (16.03%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (13.74%) Containerisation
10 36 (13.74%) Web Development
11 31 (11.83%) Continuous Improvement
12 28 (10.69%) Scrum
13 26 (9.92%) AI
14 23 (8.78%) Coaching
15 22 (8.40%) Software Engineering
16 21 (8.02%) TDD
17 20 (7.63%) Clean Code
17 20 (7.63%) Front End Development
18 18 (6.87%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 154 (58.78%) JavaScript
2 121 (46.18%) Python
3 78 (29.77%) SQL
4 61 (23.28%) Java
5 50 (19.08%) TypeScript
6 42 (16.03%) R
7 29 (11.07%) C#
8 20 (7.63%) PHP
9 16 (6.11%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.20%) Go
11 7 (2.67%) C
12 6 (2.29%) C++
13 5 (1.91%) Bash
13 5 (1.91%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.53%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.15%) Groovy
15 3 (1.15%) SOQL
15 3 (1.15%) SOSL
15 3 (1.15%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (28.24%) AWS Certification
2 67 (25.57%) Azure Certification
3 66 (25.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 66 (25.19%) Microsoft Certification
4 17 (6.49%) Degree
5 15 (5.73%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.58%) SC Cleared
7 6 (2.29%) AWS Certified Developer
8 4 (1.53%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.15%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (10.31%) QA
2 7 (2.67%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.76%) GDPR
4 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 67 (25.57%) Docker
2 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (18.70%) Terraform
2 37 (14.12%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.16%) Ansible
4 3 (1.15%) Packer
4 3 (1.15%) Rancher
5 2 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.76%) Grafana
5 2 (0.76%) Kibana
5 2 (0.76%) Nagios
5 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) Istio
6 1 (0.38%) linkerd
6 1 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.38%) Puppet
6 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 88 (33.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.20%) Oracle
3 6 (2.29%) Splunk
4 5 (1.91%) AppDynamics
4 5 (1.91%) IBM
4 5 (1.91%) Pega
5 4 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.15%) Databricks
6 3 (1.15%) Google
6 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.76%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.76%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.76%) New Relic
7 2 (0.76%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.76%) WSO2
8 1 (0.38%) Adobe
8 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.38%) McAfee
8 1 (0.38%) SnapLogic