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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 175 75
Rank change year-on-year +41 -100 -3
Permanent jobs citing Git 269 145 379
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.18% 1.52% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.09% 23.73% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 194 103 264
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,800 £38,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £93,409 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 813 611 1,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.55% 6.43% 7.38%
Number of salaries quoted 548 363 728
10th Percentile £33,925 £34,000 £37,574
25th Percentile £45,250 £43,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,777 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,751 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,075 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +5.13% -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 1 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 1 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 +19 132 £57,500 +4.55% 113
Yorkshire -8 72 £55,000 -21.43% 58
North East -7 65 £62,500 +35.14% 35
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 22 (8.18%) WordPress
2 16 (5.95%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.60%) CMS
4 6 (2.23%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.23%) IIS
4 6 (2.23%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.86%) Apache
5 5 (1.86%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.12%) Confluence
7 3 (1.12%) nginx
8 2 (0.74%) CICS
8 2 (0.74%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.74%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.37%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.37%) JBoss
9 1 (0.37%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (2.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Shopify
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.74%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.37%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 164 (60.97%) AWS
2 135 (50.19%) Azure
3 92 (34.20%) GitHub
4 45 (16.73%) Serverless
5 43 (15.99%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (13.75%) GitHub Actions
7 34 (12.64%) AWS Lambda
7 34 (12.64%) GCP
8 29 (10.78%) Amazon S3
9 28 (10.41%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (7.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.69%) Power Platform
12 16 (5.95%) AWS CloudFormation
13 15 (5.58%) Datadog
14 13 (4.83%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (4.83%) AWS Step Functions
15 12 (4.46%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (4.46%) Amazon EKS
16 9 (3.35%) dbt
17 8 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.32%) Internet
2 4 (1.49%) DNS
3 3 (1.12%) DHCP
3 3 (1.12%) HTTP
3 3 (1.12%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.12%) LAN
3 3 (1.12%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.12%) VSAN
3 3 (1.12%) WAN
4 2 (0.74%) Firewall
5 1 (0.37%) Network Security
5 1 (0.37%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (12.27%) PostgreSQL
1 33 (12.27%) Relational Database
1 33 (12.27%) SQL Server
2 31 (11.52%) NoSQL
3 22 (8.18%) MySQL
4 16 (5.95%) Amazon Athena
4 16 (5.95%) DynamoDB
4 16 (5.95%) Power BI
5 13 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 11 (4.09%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (3.72%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (3.72%) BigQuery
8 8 (2.97%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (2.60%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (2.60%) Redis
10 4 (1.49%) Flink
10 4 (1.49%) GIS
10 4 (1.49%) Metadata
10 4 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 55 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 41 (15.24%) GitLab
3 16 (5.95%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (5.95%) JIRA
4 11 (4.09%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.35%) JUnit
6 8 (2.97%) Selenium
7 7 (2.60%) IntelliJ
8 6 (2.23%) Cypress.io
8 6 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
9 5 (1.86%) Eclipse
9 5 (1.86%) Postman
10 4 (1.49%) Maven
10 4 (1.49%) Spock
11 3 (1.12%) Artifactory
11 3 (1.12%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
11 3 (1.12%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.12%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.74%) Vite
General
1 106 (39.41%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.50%) Finance
3 37 (13.75%) Public Sector
4 30 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.69%) Marketing
6 17 (6.32%) Multimedia
7 13 (4.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.60%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.86%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.86%) Retail
11 3 (1.12%) Advertising
11 3 (1.12%) Banking
12 2 (0.74%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.74%) Legal
12 2 (0.74%) Local Government
12 2 (0.74%) Publishing
13 1 (0.37%) Back Office
13 1 (0.37%) Games
13 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 120 (44.61%) Developer
2 38 (14.13%) Senior
3 35 (13.01%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (10.78%) Java Developer
5 28 (10.41%) Data Engineer
6 27 (10.04%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (9.67%) Software Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Administrator
8 21 (7.81%) Senior Developer
9 20 (7.43%) Software Developer
10 17 (6.32%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 17 (6.32%) Trainee
11 16 (5.95%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 16 (5.95%) Principal Engineer
12 15 (5.58%) Trainee Administrator
12 15 (5.58%) Web Administrator
13 12 (4.46%) Lead
14 11 (4.09%) AWS Developer
15 10 (3.72%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 8 (2.97%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (24.54%) CSS
2 62 (23.05%) React
3 59 (21.93%) REST
3 59 (21.93%) Terraform
4 57 (21.19%) HTML
5 48 (17.84%) Node.js
6 44 (16.36%) .NET
7 43 (15.99%) AngularJS
8 29 (10.78%) Spring
9 28 (10.41%) RESTful
10 23 (8.55%) Spring Boot
11 19 (7.06%) Vue
12 16 (5.95%) .NET Core
12 16 (5.95%) ASP.NET
13 14 (5.20%) .NET Framework
13 14 (5.20%) Entity Framework
14 13 (4.83%) Kafka
15 12 (4.46%) HTML5
16 11 (4.09%) JSON
16 11 (4.09%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 37 (13.75%) Cloud Native
2 25 (9.29%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.58%) Product Ownership
3 15 (5.58%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.97%) Legacy Applications
4 8 (2.97%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.60%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.60%) Social Media
6 5 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.86%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.86%) Private Cloud
7 4 (1.49%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
7 4 (1.49%) Hedge funds
8 3 (1.12%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.12%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.12%) Replication
9 2 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.64%) Linux
2 19 (7.06%) CentOS
2 19 (7.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.60%) Windows
4 6 (2.23%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.49%) VMS
6 3 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.12%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.74%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (68.40%) CI/CD
2 126 (46.84%) DevOps
3 95 (35.32%) Agile
4 83 (30.86%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (23.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 60 (22.30%) Microservices
6 60 (22.30%) Software Engineering
7 56 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
8 55 (20.45%) Mentoring
9 49 (18.22%) Continuous Improvement
10 42 (15.61%) AI
11 41 (15.24%) Containerisation
12 39 (14.50%) Test Automation
13 36 (13.38%) Platform Engineering
13 36 (13.38%) Web Development
14 33 (12.27%) Collaborative Culture
15 32 (11.90%) Data Modelling
16 31 (11.52%) Clean Code
17 30 (11.15%) Workflow
18 27 (10.04%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 115 (42.75%) JavaScript
2 108 (40.15%) Python
3 99 (36.80%) SQL
4 72 (26.77%) Java
5 69 (25.65%) TypeScript
6 46 (17.10%) C#
7 23 (8.55%) PHP
8 18 (6.69%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.58%) R
10 14 (5.20%) Bash
11 9 (3.35%) C++
11 9 (3.35%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.60%) Groovy
12 7 (2.60%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.23%) Go
14 5 (1.86%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.86%) Bicep
14 5 (1.86%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.12%) C
15 3 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (15.24%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.90%) SC Cleared
3 21 (7.81%) AWS Certification
3 21 (7.81%) Degree
4 20 (7.43%) DV Cleared
4 20 (7.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (7.06%) Azure Certification
6 17 (6.32%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (12.64%) QA
2 21 (7.81%) Data Quality
3 12 (4.46%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.37%) GDPR
6 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 106 (39.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.60%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.12%) Ceph
4 3 (1.12%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (21.93%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.75%) Ansible
3 7 (2.60%) Istio
3 7 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.86%) Grafana
4 5 (1.86%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.86%) Puppet
5 4 (1.49%) Argo
5 4 (1.49%) linkerd
6 3 (1.12%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.12%) Kibana
6 3 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.12%) Packer
6 3 (1.12%) Podman
6 3 (1.12%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.37%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.37%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.37%) Nagios
8 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (18.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.09%) Google
2 11 (4.09%) Splunk
3 10 (3.72%) Databricks
4 9 (3.35%) AppDynamics
5 7 (2.60%) IBM
5 7 (2.60%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.23%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.23%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.86%) Pega
8 4 (1.49%) Oracle
9 3 (1.12%) Dell
9 3 (1.12%) McAfee
9 3 (1.12%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.12%) SnapLogic
10 2 (0.74%) Confluent
10 2 (0.74%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.74%) Mistral
10 2 (0.74%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.74%) WSO2