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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 190 93
Rank change year-on-year +58 -97 -38
Permanent jobs citing Git 273 111 312
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.14% 1.17% 2.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.25% 21.06% 31.87%
Number of salaries quoted 183 77 194
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,250 £36,550
25th Percentile £46,625 £31,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +21.36% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,985 £61,250 £66,875
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,500 £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 821 527 979
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.42% 5.55% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 517 299 578
10th Percentile £38,984 £32,700 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,000 £42,500 £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 £75,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,761 £81,500 £77,500
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 28 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 28 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 +19 131 £60,000 +20.00% 116
North East -8 72 £62,500 +31.58% 27
Yorkshire +13 70 £61,250 +2.08% 75
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 18 (6.59%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.30%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.93%) Apache
3 8 (2.93%) CMS
4 7 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.56%) WordPress
5 6 (2.20%) IIS
5 6 (2.20%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (1.83%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.10%) nginx
7 3 (1.10%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.10%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.73%) Confluence
8 2 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.37%) JBoss
9 1 (0.37%) Kentico
9 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.47%) Shopify
2 3 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.73%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 169 (61.90%) AWS
2 130 (47.62%) Azure
3 79 (28.94%) GitHub
4 51 (18.68%) Serverless
5 44 (16.12%) GCP
6 41 (15.02%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (15.02%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (13.55%) Amazon S3
8 36 (13.19%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (11.36%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (8.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.69%) Power Platform
12 17 (6.23%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (5.86%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (5.86%) AWS Step Functions
14 15 (5.49%) Datadog
15 14 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (4.76%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 12 (4.40%) Amazon EC2
18 10 (3.66%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.40%) 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 (0.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.73%) HTTP
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 34 (12.45%) Relational Database
3 33 (12.09%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (10.62%) NoSQL
5 21 (7.69%) MySQL
6 19 (6.96%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (6.96%) Power BI
7 17 (6.23%) DynamoDB
7 17 (6.23%) MongoDB
8 12 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (3.66%) Amazon Redshift
9 10 (3.66%) BigQuery
10 8 (2.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (2.93%) Redis
11 6 (2.20%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.83%) DocumentDB
13 4 (1.47%) Flink
13 4 (1.47%) GIS
13 4 (1.47%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 55 (20.15%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.68%) GitLab
3 19 (6.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 12 (4.40%) JIRA
5 10 (3.66%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.66%) JUnit
6 7 (2.56%) Selenium
7 6 (2.20%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.83%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.83%) Maven
9 4 (1.47%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.47%) Spock
10 3 (1.10%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.10%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.10%) Mockito
10 3 (1.10%) Postman
10 3 (1.10%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.10%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (41.39%) Social Skills
2 52 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 48 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.82%) Finance
5 21 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.59%) Marketing
7 9 (3.30%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.56%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.83%) Retail
10 3 (1.10%) Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 2 (0.73%) Publishing
12 1 (0.37%) Advertising
12 1 (0.37%) Back Office
12 1 (0.37%) Games
12 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 124 (45.42%) Developer
2 42 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (14.29%) Senior
4 30 (10.99%) Data Engineer
4 30 (10.99%) Full-Stack Developer
5 27 (9.89%) Software Engineer
6 25 (9.16%) Java Developer
7 23 (8.42%) Software Developer
8 21 (7.69%) Senior Developer
9 19 (6.96%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 19 (6.96%) Principal Engineer
10 16 (5.86%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (4.40%) AWS Developer
11 12 (4.40%) Trainee
12 11 (4.03%) Lead
13 8 (2.93%) Junior
13 8 (2.93%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.56%) .NET Developer
14 7 (2.56%) Angular Developer
14 7 (2.56%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (24.91%) Terraform
2 63 (23.08%) React
2 63 (23.08%) REST
3 54 (19.78%) Node.js
4 45 (16.48%) CSS
5 43 (15.75%) .NET
6 38 (13.92%) AngularJS
7 36 (13.19%) HTML
8 30 (10.99%) Spring
9 25 (9.16%) RESTful
10 23 (8.42%) Spring Boot
11 16 (5.86%) .NET Core
11 16 (5.86%) Kafka
12 15 (5.49%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.76%) .NET Framework
13 13 (4.76%) Entity Framework
13 13 (4.76%) JSON
13 13 (4.76%) Vue
14 12 (4.40%) Flask
15 11 (4.03%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.22%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.79%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.49%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.40%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.93%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.93%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.93%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.56%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.56%) Social Media
8 5 (1.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.83%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.47%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.47%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.47%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.10%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.10%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.10%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.68%) Linux
2 22 (8.06%) CentOS
2 22 (8.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.56%) Windows
4 6 (2.20%) 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 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (75.09%) CI/CD
2 145 (53.11%) DevOps
3 95 (34.80%) Agile
4 84 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (29.30%) Full-Stack Development
6 72 (26.37%) Mentoring
7 64 (23.44%) Microservices
8 63 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 61 (22.34%) Problem-Solving
10 54 (19.78%) Containerisation
11 52 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (18.68%) Platform Engineering
13 47 (17.22%) Test Automation
14 46 (16.85%) AI
15 35 (12.82%) Collaborative Culture
15 35 (12.82%) SDLC
15 35 (12.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
16 32 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
16 32 (11.72%) Workflow
17 31 (11.36%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 99 (36.26%) SQL
2 95 (34.80%) Python
3 94 (34.43%) JavaScript
4 76 (27.84%) TypeScript
5 70 (25.64%) Java
6 48 (17.58%) C#
7 21 (7.69%) PHP
8 18 (6.59%) Kotlin
9 14 (5.13%) Bash
9 14 (5.13%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.30%) C++
10 9 (3.30%) PowerShell
11 7 (2.56%) Groovy
11 7 (2.56%) VB.NET
12 6 (2.20%) Go
13 5 (1.83%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.47%) Bicep
15 3 (1.10%) SOQL
15 3 (1.10%) SOSL
15 3 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 52 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.75%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.42%) DV Cleared
4 21 (7.69%) Degree
5 7 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 5 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.47%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.55%) QA
2 24 (8.79%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.47%) WCAG
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 128 (46.89%) Docker
2 9 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.10%) Ceph
4 3 (1.10%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 68 (24.91%) Kubernetes
2 40 (14.65%) Ansible
3 8 (2.93%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.56%) Istio
5 6 (2.20%) Grafana
6 5 (1.83%) Progress Chef
6 5 (1.83%) Puppet
7 4 (1.47%) Argo
7 4 (1.47%) linkerd
8 3 (1.10%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.10%) Kibana
8 3 (1.10%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.10%) Packer
8 3 (1.10%) Podman
8 3 (1.10%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 46 (16.85%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.42%) Google
3 11 (4.03%) Splunk
4 10 (3.66%) Databricks
5 9 (3.30%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.30%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.93%) IBM
7 7 (2.56%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.83%) Confluent
10 3 (1.10%) Dell
10 3 (1.10%) McAfee
10 3 (1.10%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.10%) Oracle
10 3 (1.10%) SnapLogic
11 2 (0.73%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.73%) Apple
11 2 (0.73%) Cisco
11 2 (0.73%) HP
11 2 (0.73%) Sage