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 21 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 179 73
Rank change year-on-year +47 -106 +2
Permanent jobs citing Git 276 149 391
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.23% 1.56% 2.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.37% 23.58% 34.24%
Number of salaries quoted 202 104 282
10th Percentile £29,825 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,875 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% +8.86% -6.78%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,563 £71,250
90th Percentile £100,625 £93,778 £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 827 632 1,142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.68% 6.60% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 566 374 775
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,250 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,688 £68,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +16 136 £57,500 +2.22% 57
Yorkshire -6 75 £55,000 -21.43% 34
North East 0 65 £62,500 +31.58% 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 22 (7.97%) WordPress
2 17 (6.16%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.54%) CMS
4 6 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 6 (2.17%) IIS
4 6 (2.17%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.81%) Apache
5 5 (1.81%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.45%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.09%) Confluence
7 3 (1.09%) nginx
8 2 (0.72%) CICS
8 2 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.72%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.36%) JBoss
9 1 (0.36%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Shopify
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.72%) Magento
3 2 (0.72%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 171 (61.96%) AWS
2 137 (49.64%) Azure
3 96 (34.78%) GitHub
4 46 (16.67%) Serverless
5 43 (15.58%) Azure DevOps
6 39 (14.13%) GitHub Actions
7 36 (13.04%) GCP
8 35 (12.68%) AWS Lambda
9 32 (11.59%) Amazon S3
10 29 (10.51%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (7.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 19 (6.88%) Power Platform
13 17 (6.16%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (5.80%) AWS Step Functions
14 16 (5.80%) Datadog
15 14 (5.07%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 12 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
17 10 (3.62%) dbt
18 8 (2.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.16%) Internet
2 4 (1.45%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) DHCP
3 3 (1.09%) HTTP
3 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.09%) LAN
3 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.09%) VSAN
3 3 (1.09%) WAN
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.68%) SQL Server
2 34 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (11.96%) NoSQL
3 33 (11.96%) Relational Database
4 26 (9.42%) MySQL
5 17 (6.16%) Amazon Athena
5 17 (6.16%) DynamoDB
5 17 (6.16%) Power BI
6 13 (4.71%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.99%) BigQuery
7 11 (3.99%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.54%) Redis
11 4 (1.45%) Flink
11 4 (1.45%) GIS
11 4 (1.45%) Metadata
11 4 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.09%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 55 (19.93%) Jenkins
2 39 (14.13%) GitLab
3 16 (5.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 16 (5.80%) JIRA
4 10 (3.62%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.54%) JUnit
5 7 (2.54%) Selenium
6 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.81%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.81%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.81%) IntelliJ
7 5 (1.81%) Postman
8 4 (1.45%) PHPUnit
9 3 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.09%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.72%) Maven
10 2 (0.72%) NUnit
General
1 109 (39.49%) Social Skills
2 38 (13.77%) Finance
3 37 (13.41%) Public Sector
4 32 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.52%) Marketing
6 17 (6.16%) Multimedia
7 13 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.26%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.54%) Retail
9 7 (2.54%) Tech for Good
10 5 (1.81%) Banking
10 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.45%) Advertising
12 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.72%) Legal
12 2 (0.72%) Local Government
12 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 2 (0.72%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.36%) Games
13 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 126 (45.65%) Developer
2 45 (16.30%) Senior
3 36 (13.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 32 (11.59%) Java Developer
5 29 (10.51%) Data Engineer
6 27 (9.78%) DevOps Engineer
7 26 (9.42%) Software Engineer
8 25 (9.06%) Senior Developer
9 21 (7.61%) Administrator
10 20 (7.25%) Software Developer
11 17 (6.16%) Trainee
12 16 (5.80%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 16 (5.80%) Principal Engineer
13 15 (5.43%) Trainee Administrator
13 15 (5.43%) Web Administrator
14 14 (5.07%) Full-Stack Engineer
15 12 (4.35%) Lead
16 11 (3.99%) AWS Developer
16 11 (3.99%) Full-Stack Java Developer
17 8 (2.90%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (24.64%) CSS
2 62 (22.46%) React
3 60 (21.74%) Terraform
4 59 (21.38%) HTML
4 59 (21.38%) REST
5 49 (17.75%) Node.js
6 44 (15.94%) .NET
7 43 (15.58%) AngularJS
8 28 (10.14%) RESTful
8 28 (10.14%) Spring
9 24 (8.70%) Spring Boot
10 23 (8.33%) Vue
11 17 (6.16%) .NET Core
12 16 (5.80%) ASP.NET
13 15 (5.43%) .NET Framework
14 14 (5.07%) Entity Framework
15 13 (4.71%) HTML5
15 13 (4.71%) Kafka
15 13 (4.71%) Laravel
16 11 (3.99%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 38 (13.77%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
3 15 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.07%) Product Ownership
5 8 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
5 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 7 (2.54%) Social Media
7 5 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.81%) Low-Code
8 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
8 4 (1.45%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.09%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.09%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 34 (12.32%) Linux
2 19 (6.88%) CentOS
2 19 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (2.54%) Windows
4 6 (2.17%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.09%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.09%) CoreOS
5 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.72%) Android
6 2 (0.72%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (67.03%) CI/CD
2 127 (46.01%) DevOps
3 100 (36.23%) Agile
4 82 (29.71%) Full-Stack Development
5 64 (23.19%) Infrastructure as Code
6 62 (22.46%) Microservices
7 59 (21.38%) Software Engineering
8 57 (20.65%) Mentoring
9 56 (20.29%) Problem-Solving
10 47 (17.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (15.58%) Containerisation
12 41 (14.86%) AI
13 37 (13.41%) Platform Engineering
13 37 (13.41%) Web Development
14 36 (13.04%) Test Automation
15 34 (12.32%) Collaborative Culture
16 32 (11.59%) Clean Code
16 32 (11.59%) Data Modelling
17 31 (11.23%) Workflow
18 27 (9.78%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 118 (42.75%) JavaScript
2 112 (40.58%) Python
3 104 (37.68%) SQL
4 74 (26.81%) Java
5 68 (24.64%) TypeScript
6 47 (17.03%) C#
7 25 (9.06%) PHP
8 19 (6.88%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.43%) R
10 14 (5.07%) Bash
11 9 (3.26%) C++
11 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.54%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.17%) Go
14 5 (1.81%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.81%) Bicep
14 5 (1.81%) Groovy
14 5 (1.81%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.45%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.09%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (14.86%) Security Cleared
2 32 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 22 (7.97%) Degree
4 21 (7.61%) AWS Certification
5 20 (7.25%) DV Cleared
5 20 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (6.88%) Azure Certification
7 17 (6.16%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.45%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.68%) QA
2 21 (7.61%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.99%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.09%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.36%) GDPR
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 106 (38.41%) Docker
2 7 (2.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.09%) Ceph
4 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (21.38%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.41%) Ansible
3 7 (2.54%) Istio
3 7 (2.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.81%) Grafana
4 5 (1.81%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.81%) Puppet
5 4 (1.45%) Argo
5 4 (1.45%) linkerd
6 3 (1.09%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.09%) Kibana
6 3 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.09%) Packer
6 3 (1.09%) Podman
6 3 (1.09%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.36%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.35%) Google
3 10 (3.62%) Databricks
4 9 (3.26%) Splunk
5 7 (2.54%) AppDynamics
5 7 (2.54%) IBM
5 7 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.17%) Dynatrace
6 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.81%) Pega
8 4 (1.45%) Oracle
9 3 (1.09%) Dell
9 3 (1.09%) McAfee
9 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.09%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.09%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.72%) Alteryx
10 2 (0.72%) Confluent
10 2 (0.72%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) WSO2