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

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 120 76
Rank change year-on-year -2 -44 +15
Permanent jobs citing Git 261 185 523
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.41% 2.47% 3.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.27% 27.86% 36.75%
Number of salaries quoted 202 142 406
10th Percentile - £41,300 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,869 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.01% +9.55% -
75th Percentile £67,625 £82,751 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 740 664 1,423
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.99% 8.88% 8.45%
Number of salaries quoted 547 442 1,153
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,825 £35,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,875 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,840 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £91,741 £83,950
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 10 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 10 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 +18 128 £55,000 -7.17% 61
Yorkshire -23 105 £33,250 -48.85% 48
North East -23 28 £30,500 -44.55% 28
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 27 (10.34%) WordPress
2 9 (3.45%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.15%) Apache
4 3 (1.15%) CMS
4 3 (1.15%) nginx
5 2 (0.77%) CICS
5 2 (0.77%) IIS
5 2 (0.77%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.38%) Confluence
6 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.15%) Shopify
2 2 (0.77%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 180 (68.97%) AWS
2 159 (60.92%) Azure
3 126 (48.28%) GitHub
4 43 (16.48%) Serverless
5 35 (13.41%) Amazon S3
6 29 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
7 28 (10.73%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (10.34%) AWS CloudFormation
8 27 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (9.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 26 (9.96%) AWS Step Functions
9 26 (9.96%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (7.28%) Amazon EKS
11 16 (6.13%) Amazon SQS
12 14 (5.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (5.36%) Datadog
12 14 (5.36%) GCP
13 10 (3.83%) Amazon EventBridge
13 10 (3.83%) Power Platform
14 4 (1.53%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 91 (34.87%) Internet
2 9 (3.45%) DNS
3 5 (1.92%) HTTP
4 2 (0.77%) SSL
5 1 (0.38%) DHCP
5 1 (0.38%) Firewall
5 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.38%) LAN
5 1 (0.38%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.38%) SSH
5 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.38%) VSAN
5 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.24%) NoSQL
2 42 (16.09%) PostgreSQL
3 27 (10.34%) DynamoDB
4 23 (8.81%) Relational Database
5 22 (8.43%) MySQL
6 18 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 16 (6.13%) MongoDB
8 14 (5.36%) Amazon Athena
9 10 (3.83%) Power BI
10 5 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.53%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.77%) DB2
12 2 (0.77%) Hazelcast
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 1 (0.38%) GIS
13 1 (0.38%) RDBMS
13 1 (0.38%) Redis
13 1 (0.38%) Star Schema
13 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (11.88%) Jenkins
2 21 (8.05%) GitLab
3 18 (6.90%) JIRA
4 12 (4.60%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.68%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.30%) JUnit
7 3 (1.15%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.15%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.15%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.15%) Postman
7 3 (1.15%) Selenium
7 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.77%) NUnit
8 2 (0.77%) Subversion
8 2 (0.77%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.38%) gulp
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 84 (32.18%) Multimedia
2 61 (23.37%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.05%) Finance
4 10 (3.83%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 9 (3.45%) Retail
6 7 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (2.30%) Marketing
8 5 (1.92%) Advertising
9 4 (1.53%) Banking
10 3 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.77%) Games
11 2 (0.77%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.77%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.77%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
12 1 (0.38%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (54.02%) Developer
2 84 (32.18%) Trainee
3 44 (16.86%) Senior
4 42 (16.09%) Software Developer
5 38 (14.56%) Java Developer
6 34 (13.03%) Senior Developer
6 34 (13.03%) Trainee Developer
6 34 (13.03%) Trainee Software Developer
7 28 (10.73%) Full-Stack Developer
8 23 (8.81%) Administrator
8 23 (8.81%) Trainee Administrator
8 23 (8.81%) Web Administrator
9 15 (5.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 14 (5.36%) .NET Developer
10 14 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.98%) Lead
12 11 (4.21%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.45%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.07%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (50.19%) CSS
2 129 (49.43%) HTML
3 54 (20.69%) React
4 43 (16.48%) AngularJS
5 38 (14.56%) Node.js
5 38 (14.56%) RESTful
6 30 (11.49%) REST
7 28 (10.73%) .NET
8 24 (9.20%) Spring
8 24 (9.20%) Spring Boot
9 20 (7.66%) .NET Core
10 19 (7.28%) ASP.NET
11 17 (6.51%) Vue
12 16 (6.13%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (5.36%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (5.36%) Web Services
14 13 (4.98%) Kafka
15 12 (4.60%) Blazor
16 11 (4.21%) Laravel
17 10 (3.83%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.43%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (6.13%) Cloud Native
3 13 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 5 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.15%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (0.77%) Hedge funds
7 2 (0.77%) Low-Code
7 2 (0.77%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.77%) NHS
7 2 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.38%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.38%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.28%) Linux
2 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.77%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) CentOS
3 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (39.85%) CI/CD
2 96 (36.78%) Mentoring
3 93 (35.63%) Agile
4 74 (28.35%) DevOps
5 62 (23.75%) Cybersecurity
6 60 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (19.16%) Full-Stack Development
7 50 (19.16%) Microservices
8 36 (13.79%) Containerisation
8 36 (13.79%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (13.41%) Web Development
10 31 (11.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (9.58%) Scrum
12 22 (8.43%) TDD
13 20 (7.66%) AI
13 20 (7.66%) Clean Code
13 20 (7.66%) Deployment Automation
14 19 (7.28%) User Experience
15 17 (6.51%) Front End Development
15 17 (6.51%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 167 (63.98%) JavaScript
2 132 (50.57%) Python
3 66 (25.29%) SQL
4 54 (20.69%) Java
5 51 (19.54%) R
6 45 (17.24%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.28%) C#
7 19 (7.28%) PHP
8 14 (5.36%) Kotlin
9 11 (4.21%) Go
10 8 (3.07%) C
11 5 (1.92%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.53%) Bash
13 3 (1.15%) Apex Code
13 3 (1.15%) Bicep
13 3 (1.15%) Groovy
14 2 (0.77%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.77%) SOQL
14 2 (0.77%) Swift
14 2 (0.77%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 93 (35.63%) AWS Certification
2 85 (32.57%) Azure Certification
3 84 (32.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 84 (32.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (4.98%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.21%) Degree
6 10 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.07%) AWS Certified Developer
8 3 (1.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.77%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.77%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.51%) QA
2 6 (2.30%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.53%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.15%) GDPR
5 2 (0.77%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 58 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 47 (18.01%) Terraform
2 34 (13.03%) Kubernetes
3 24 (9.20%) Ansible
4 3 (1.15%) Grafana
4 3 (1.15%) Nagios
4 3 (1.15%) Packer
4 3 (1.15%) Rancher
5 2 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.77%) cPanel
5 2 (0.77%) Kibana
5 2 (0.77%) Plesk
5 2 (0.77%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) Control-M
6 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.38%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 103 (39.46%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.60%) Oracle
3 5 (1.92%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.92%) IBM
3 5 (1.92%) Pega
4 3 (1.15%) Databricks
4 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
4 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.15%) Splunk
5 2 (0.77%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.77%) DevExpress
5 2 (0.77%) Google
5 2 (0.77%) New Relic
5 2 (0.77%) WSO2
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe
6 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.38%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.38%) McAfee
6 1 (0.38%) Netlify
6 1 (0.38%) WooCommerce