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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 184 81
Rank change year-on-year +43 -103 -18
Permanent jobs citing Git 250 124 336
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.07% 1.32% 2.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.85% 22.30% 33.53%
Number of salaries quoted 174 83 219
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,250 £37,450
25th Percentile £46,438 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £74,985 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £101,250 £86,850 £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 785 556 1,002
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.35% 5.92% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 511 315 625
10th Percentile £38,984 £35,000 £37,744
25th Percentile £46,250 £43,000 £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 £70,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £91,269 £82,751 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% -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 12 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 12 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 +18 122 £60,000 +9.09% 88
Yorkshire -17 66 £56,250 -19.64% 59
North East -11 62 £65,000 +44.44% 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 15 (6.00%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (2.80%) CMS
2 7 (2.80%) WordPress
3 6 (2.40%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.40%) IIS
3 6 (2.40%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (2.00%) Apache
4 5 (2.00%) SharePoint
5 4 (1.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (1.20%) Confluence
6 3 (1.20%) nginx
7 2 (0.80%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.80%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.40%) JBoss
Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.60%) Shopify
2 3 (1.20%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.80%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.40%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 148 (59.20%) AWS
2 115 (46.00%) Azure
3 76 (30.40%) GitHub
4 49 (19.60%) Serverless
5 40 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
5 40 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (15.60%) GitHub Actions
7 35 (14.00%) Amazon S3
8 32 (12.80%) GCP
9 30 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (9.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (7.20%) AWS CloudFormation
11 18 (7.20%) Power Platform
12 17 (6.80%) AWS Step Functions
12 17 (6.80%) Datadog
13 15 (6.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 13 (5.20%) Amazon EKS
15 12 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (3.60%) dbt
17 8 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.60%) DNS
2 3 (1.20%) DHCP
2 3 (1.20%) HTTP
2 3 (1.20%) HTTPS
2 3 (1.20%) LAN
2 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.20%) VSAN
2 3 (1.20%) WAN
3 2 (0.80%) Firewall
4 1 (0.40%) Network Security
4 1 (0.40%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.20%) SQL Server
2 32 (12.80%) NoSQL
2 32 (12.80%) PostgreSQL
3 30 (12.00%) Relational Database
4 21 (8.40%) MySQL
5 20 (8.00%) Amazon Athena
6 19 (7.60%) DynamoDB
7 16 (6.40%) Power BI
8 14 (5.60%) MongoDB
9 11 (4.40%) Amazon RDS
9 11 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
10 10 (4.00%) BigQuery
11 9 (3.60%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (3.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (3.20%) Redis
13 5 (2.00%) Data Lake
14 4 (1.60%) Flink
14 4 (1.60%) GIS
14 4 (1.60%) Metadata
14 4 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 52 (20.80%) Jenkins
2 43 (17.20%) GitLab
3 16 (6.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (6.40%) JIRA
4 10 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 9 (3.60%) JUnit
6 8 (3.20%) Selenium
7 6 (2.40%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.40%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (2.00%) Maven
8 5 (2.00%) Postman
9 4 (1.60%) Artifactory
9 4 (1.60%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.60%) Spock
10 3 (1.20%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.20%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.20%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.80%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.80%) Vite
General
1 107 (42.80%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.60%) Public Sector
3 37 (14.80%) Finance
4 33 (13.20%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.20%) Marketing
6 16 (6.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.80%) Tech for Good
9 5 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.00%) Retail
10 3 (1.20%) Advertising
10 3 (1.20%) Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.80%) Legal
11 2 (0.80%) Local Government
11 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.40%) Law
Job Titles
1 116 (46.40%) Developer
2 37 (14.80%) Senior
3 32 (12.80%) Full-Stack Developer
4 29 (11.60%) Data Engineer
5 28 (11.20%) Java Developer
6 27 (10.80%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (10.40%) Software Engineer
8 19 (7.60%) Senior Developer
9 18 (7.20%) Software Developer
10 16 (6.40%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 16 (6.40%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 16 (6.40%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.20%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.40%) Lead
13 8 (3.20%) Python Developer
14 7 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Full-Stack Java Developer
14 7 (2.80%) GCP Engineer
14 7 (2.80%) Junior
14 7 (2.80%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (24.00%) Terraform
2 59 (23.60%) React
3 58 (23.20%) REST
4 50 (20.00%) Node.js
5 46 (18.40%) CSS
6 42 (16.80%) .NET
7 40 (16.00%) AngularJS
8 37 (14.80%) HTML
9 28 (11.20%) Spring
10 24 (9.60%) RESTful
11 22 (8.80%) Spring Boot
12 16 (6.40%) Vue
13 15 (6.00%) .NET Core
13 15 (6.00%) ASP.NET
14 13 (5.20%) .NET Framework
14 13 (5.20%) Entity Framework
14 13 (5.20%) JSON
15 12 (4.80%) Kafka
16 10 (4.00%) Flask
17 9 (3.60%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.80%) Cloud Native
2 24 (9.60%) Distributed Systems
3 16 (6.40%) Product Ownership
4 15 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.20%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.20%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.80%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.80%) Social Media
7 6 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (2.00%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.60%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
9 4 (1.60%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.20%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.20%) Hedge funds
10 3 (1.20%) Learning Management System
10 3 (1.20%) Replication
11 2 (0.80%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 35 (14.00%) Linux
2 19 (7.60%) CentOS
2 19 (7.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.80%) Windows
4 6 (2.40%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.60%) VMS
6 3 (1.20%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.80%) Android
7 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (74.00%) CI/CD
2 127 (50.80%) DevOps
3 91 (36.40%) Agile
4 79 (31.60%) Full-Stack Development
5 65 (26.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 61 (24.40%) Software Engineering
7 60 (24.00%) Microservices
8 59 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
9 56 (22.40%) Mentoring
10 48 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (17.20%) AI
12 41 (16.40%) Test Automation
13 39 (15.60%) Containerisation
14 36 (14.40%) Platform Engineering
15 34 (13.60%) Collaborative Culture
16 31 (12.40%) Clean Code
17 30 (12.00%) Workflow
18 29 (11.60%) Data Modelling
19 28 (11.20%) Data Pipeline
20 27 (10.80%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 99 (39.60%) SQL
2 93 (37.20%) JavaScript
3 92 (36.80%) Python
4 72 (28.80%) Java
4 72 (28.80%) TypeScript
5 46 (18.40%) C#
6 21 (8.40%) PHP
7 20 (8.00%) Kotlin
8 14 (5.60%) Bash
9 9 (3.60%) C++
9 9 (3.60%) PowerShell
10 7 (2.80%) Groovy
10 7 (2.80%) VB.NET
11 6 (2.40%) Go
12 5 (2.00%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.60%) Bicep
14 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.20%) Scala
14 3 (1.20%) SOQL
14 3 (1.20%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 44 (17.60%) Security Cleared
2 35 (14.00%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.40%) Degree
4 20 (8.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.60%) AWS Certification
5 4 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.60%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.80%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (14.00%) QA
2 23 (9.20%) Data Quality
3 14 (5.60%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.20%) WCAG
5 2 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.40%) GDPR
6 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 109 (43.60%) Docker
2 7 (2.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.20%) Ceph
4 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 60 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 36 (14.40%) Ansible
3 8 (3.20%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.80%) Istio
5 6 (2.40%) Grafana
6 5 (2.00%) Progress Chef
6 5 (2.00%) Puppet
7 4 (1.60%) Argo
7 4 (1.60%) linkerd
8 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
8 3 (1.20%) Kibana
8 3 (1.20%) McAfee ePO
8 3 (1.20%) Packer
8 3 (1.20%) Podman
8 3 (1.20%) SCVMM
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 31 (12.40%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.40%) Google
2 11 (4.40%) Splunk
3 10 (4.00%) Databricks
4 9 (3.60%) AppDynamics
5 7 (2.80%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.80%) IBM
5 7 (2.80%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.40%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.20%) Confluent
7 3 (1.20%) Dell
7 3 (1.20%) McAfee
7 3 (1.20%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.20%) Oracle
7 3 (1.20%) SnapLogic
8 2 (0.80%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.80%) Apple
8 2 (0.80%) Mistral
8 2 (0.80%) Sage
8 2 (0.80%) WooCommerce