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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 144 73
Rank change year-on-year +20 -71 +11
Permanent jobs citing Git 265 164 527
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.36% 2.13% 3.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.73% 25.08% 36.24%
Number of salaries quoted 209 124 412
10th Percentile - £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,250 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -1.79%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,751 £71,546
90th Percentile £83,750 £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 763 654 1,454
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.92% 8.51% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 568 397 1,171
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £77,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £61,418 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -5.51% +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 23 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 23 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 +24 132 £57,593 -4.80% 58
Yorkshire +1 103 £36,250 -48.21% 34
North East -19 30 £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 28 (10.57%) WordPress
2 9 (3.40%) OpenStack
3 8 (3.02%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (2.26%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (1.51%) CMS
5 4 (1.51%) IIS
6 3 (1.13%) Apache
6 3 (1.13%) nginx
7 2 (0.75%) CICS
7 2 (0.75%) JBoss
8 1 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.38%) Confluence
8 1 (0.38%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.13%) Shopify
2 2 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.75%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 174 (65.66%) AWS
2 162 (61.13%) Azure
3 120 (45.28%) GitHub
4 44 (16.60%) Serverless
5 38 (14.34%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (13.21%) Amazon S3
7 30 (11.32%) Amazon ECS
8 29 (10.94%) AWS Lambda
8 29 (10.94%) GitHub Actions
9 26 (9.81%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (9.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 25 (9.43%) AWS Step Functions
11 19 (7.17%) Amazon EKS
12 15 (5.66%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 15 (5.66%) Datadog
12 15 (5.66%) GCP
13 14 (5.28%) Amazon SQS
14 12 (4.53%) Power Platform
15 8 (3.02%) Amazon EventBridge
15 8 (3.02%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 78 (29.43%) Internet
2 9 (3.40%) DNS
3 5 (1.89%) HTTP
4 3 (1.13%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.75%) Firewall
5 2 (0.75%) 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 (16.60%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (15.85%) NoSQL
3 27 (10.19%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.81%) DynamoDB
5 23 (8.68%) MySQL
6 21 (7.92%) SQL Server
7 16 (6.04%) Amazon Athena
8 15 (5.66%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.53%) Power BI
10 6 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (2.26%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.89%) Elasticsearch
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
12 2 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
12 2 (0.75%) DB2
12 2 (0.75%) GIS
12 2 (0.75%) Hazelcast
12 2 (0.75%) Metadata
12 2 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (12.45%) Jenkins
2 25 (9.43%) GitLab
3 17 (6.42%) JIRA
4 11 (4.15%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.64%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.26%) JUnit
7 3 (1.13%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.13%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.13%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.13%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.13%) Postman
7 3 (1.13%) Selenium
7 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.75%) NUnit
8 2 (0.75%) Subversion
8 2 (0.75%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.38%) gulp
9 1 (0.38%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 71 (26.79%) Multimedia
2 67 (25.28%) Social Skills
3 20 (7.55%) Finance
4 18 (6.79%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.53%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.02%) Retail
7 7 (2.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.64%) Marketing
8 6 (2.26%) Banking
9 5 (1.89%) Advertising
9 5 (1.89%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.75%) Games
11 2 (0.75%) Retail Banking
11 2 (0.75%) Tech for Good
12 1 (0.38%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 139 (52.45%) Developer
2 71 (26.79%) Trainee
3 51 (19.25%) Senior
4 39 (14.72%) Software Developer
5 38 (14.34%) Java Developer
6 33 (12.45%) Senior Developer
7 30 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
8 27 (10.19%) Trainee Developer
8 27 (10.19%) Trainee Software Developer
9 23 (8.68%) Administrator
9 23 (8.68%) Trainee Administrator
9 23 (8.68%) Web Administrator
10 15 (5.66%) Cloud Engineer
10 15 (5.66%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 15 (5.66%) Software Engineer
11 13 (4.91%) Lead
12 12 (4.53%) .NET Developer
13 10 (3.77%) AWS Developer
14 8 (3.02%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.02%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (45.66%) CSS
2 116 (43.77%) HTML
3 51 (19.25%) React
4 44 (16.60%) AngularJS
5 41 (15.47%) Node.js
6 38 (14.34%) REST
7 36 (13.58%) RESTful
8 34 (12.83%) .NET
9 23 (8.68%) Spring
9 23 (8.68%) Spring Boot
10 21 (7.92%) .NET Core
11 19 (7.17%) ASP.NET
12 18 (6.79%) Vue
13 14 (5.28%) ASP.NET Core
13 14 (5.28%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (4.91%) Kafka
15 12 (4.53%) Web Services
16 11 (4.15%) Blazor
17 10 (3.77%) HTML5
17 10 (3.77%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 20 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
2 14 (5.28%) Product Ownership
3 13 (4.91%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
4 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.13%) Public Cloud
7 3 (1.13%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.13%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.75%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 2 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.75%) Hedge funds
8 2 (0.75%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.75%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.75%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.38%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.38%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (6.42%) Linux
2 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.38%) CentOS
3 1 (0.38%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.38%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (45.28%) CI/CD
2 94 (35.47%) Mentoring
3 91 (34.34%) Agile
4 87 (32.83%) DevOps
5 61 (23.02%) Full-Stack Development
6 57 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (18.87%) Cybersecurity
8 47 (17.74%) Microservices
9 40 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 38 (14.34%) Web Development
11 36 (13.58%) Containerisation
12 31 (11.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (9.81%) Scrum
14 25 (9.43%) AI
15 23 (8.68%) Coaching
16 21 (7.92%) Software Engineering
16 21 (7.92%) TDD
17 20 (7.55%) Clean Code
17 20 (7.55%) Front End Development
18 19 (7.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 159 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 127 (47.92%) Python
3 78 (29.43%) SQL
4 61 (23.02%) Java
5 47 (17.74%) TypeScript
6 44 (16.60%) R
7 28 (10.57%) C#
8 20 (7.55%) PHP
9 15 (5.66%) Kotlin
10 11 (4.15%) Go
11 7 (2.64%) C
12 6 (2.26%) Bash
12 6 (2.26%) C++
13 5 (1.89%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.51%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.13%) Bicep
15 3 (1.13%) Groovy
15 3 (1.13%) SOQL
15 3 (1.13%) SOSL
15 3 (1.13%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (29.81%) AWS Certification
2 72 (27.17%) Azure Certification
3 71 (26.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 71 (26.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (5.28%) Degree
4 14 (5.28%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.15%) SC Cleared
6 6 (2.26%) AWS Certified Developer
7 3 (1.13%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.75%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.68%) QA
2 7 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.26%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.13%) GDPR
5 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 63 (23.77%) Docker
2 2 (0.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.38%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 49 (18.49%) Terraform
2 34 (12.83%) Kubernetes
3 25 (9.43%) Ansible
4 3 (1.13%) Grafana
4 3 (1.13%) Nagios
4 3 (1.13%) Packer
4 3 (1.13%) Rancher
5 2 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.75%) Kibana
5 2 (0.75%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.38%) Argo
6 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
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%) Puppet
6 1 (0.38%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 92 (34.72%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.53%) Oracle
3 5 (1.89%) AppDynamics
3 5 (1.89%) IBM
3 5 (1.89%) Pega
3 5 (1.89%) Splunk
4 4 (1.51%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.13%) Databricks
5 3 (1.13%) Google
5 3 (1.13%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.75%) DevExpress
6 2 (0.75%) New Relic
6 2 (0.75%) WooCommerce
6 2 (0.75%) WSO2
7 1 (0.38%) Adobe
7 1 (0.38%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.38%) McAfee
7 1 (0.38%) Netlify
7 1 (0.38%) SnapLogic