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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 187 88
Rank change year-on-year +54 -99 -34
Permanent jobs citing Git 275 111 300
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.14% 1.17% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.37% 21.10% 31.28%
Number of salaries quoted 185 77 186
10th Percentile £33,250 £28,250 £35,625
25th Percentile £47,000 £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 £65,000
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 824 526 959
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.42% 5.56% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 518 298 562
10th Percentile £38,984 £32,675 £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 £69,875 £68,438
90th Percentile £91,638 £81,625 £74,900
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 29 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 29 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 +27 131 £60,000 +20.00% 114
Yorkshire +11 72 £61,250 +2.08% 79
North East -10 72 £62,500 +31.58% 27
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 (6.55%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (3.64%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.91%) Apache
3 8 (2.91%) CMS
3 8 (2.91%) SharePoint
4 7 (2.55%) WordPress
5 6 (2.18%) IIS
5 6 (2.18%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (1.82%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.09%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.73%) Confluence
8 2 (0.73%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.36%) JBoss
9 1 (0.36%) Kentico
9 1 (0.36%) Palantir Foundry
9 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Shopify
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.73%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 170 (61.82%) AWS
2 132 (48.00%) Azure
3 79 (28.73%) GitHub
4 51 (18.55%) Serverless
5 45 (16.36%) GCP
6 41 (14.91%) AWS Lambda
6 41 (14.91%) Azure DevOps
7 37 (13.45%) Amazon S3
8 36 (13.09%) GitHub Actions
9 31 (11.27%) Amazon ECS
10 24 (8.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (7.64%) Power Platform
12 17 (6.18%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (5.82%) Amazon EKS
13 16 (5.82%) AWS Step Functions
14 15 (5.45%) Datadog
15 14 (5.09%) Cloud Computing
16 13 (4.73%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 12 (4.36%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (4.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.36%) Internet
2 4 (1.45%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) DHCP
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 (0.73%) Firewall
4 2 (0.73%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.73%) Relational Database
1 35 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 33 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (10.55%) NoSQL
4 21 (7.64%) MySQL
5 19 (6.91%) Amazon Athena
5 19 (6.91%) Power BI
6 17 (6.18%) DynamoDB
6 17 (6.18%) MongoDB
7 12 (4.36%) Amazon RDS
7 12 (4.36%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (3.64%) Amazon Redshift
8 10 (3.64%) BigQuery
9 8 (2.91%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (2.91%) Redis
10 6 (2.18%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.82%) DocumentDB
11 5 (1.82%) Metadata
12 4 (1.45%) Flink
12 4 (1.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 55 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 51 (18.55%) GitLab
3 19 (6.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 12 (4.36%) JIRA
5 10 (3.64%) Bitbucket
5 10 (3.64%) JUnit
6 7 (2.55%) Selenium
7 6 (2.18%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.18%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.82%) Artifactory
8 5 (1.82%) Maven
9 4 (1.45%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.45%) Spock
10 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
10 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.09%) Mockito
10 3 (1.09%) Postman
10 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
10 3 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 114 (41.45%) Social Skills
2 52 (18.91%) Public Sector
3 49 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.73%) Finance
5 21 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.55%) Marketing
7 9 (3.27%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.55%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.82%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Banking
11 2 (0.73%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.73%) Legal
11 2 (0.73%) Local Government
11 2 (0.73%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Advertising
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Games
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Law
Job Titles
1 124 (45.09%) Developer
2 42 (15.27%) DevOps Engineer
3 39 (14.18%) Senior
4 31 (11.27%) Data Engineer
5 30 (10.91%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (9.82%) Software Engineer
7 25 (9.09%) Java Developer
8 23 (8.36%) Software Developer
9 21 (7.64%) Senior Developer
10 19 (6.91%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 19 (6.91%) Principal Engineer
11 16 (5.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
12 12 (4.36%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.36%) Trainee
13 11 (4.00%) Lead
14 8 (2.91%) Junior
14 8 (2.91%) Python Developer
15 7 (2.55%) .NET Developer
15 7 (2.55%) GCP Engineer
15 7 (2.55%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (25.09%) Terraform
2 63 (22.91%) React
2 63 (22.91%) REST
3 54 (19.64%) Node.js
4 45 (16.36%) CSS
5 43 (15.64%) .NET
6 38 (13.82%) AngularJS
7 36 (13.09%) HTML
8 30 (10.91%) Spring
9 25 (9.09%) RESTful
10 23 (8.36%) Spring Boot
11 16 (5.82%) .NET Core
11 16 (5.82%) Kafka
12 15 (5.45%) ASP.NET
13 13 (4.73%) .NET Framework
13 13 (4.73%) Entity Framework
13 13 (4.73%) JSON
13 13 (4.73%) Vue
14 12 (4.36%) Flask
15 11 (4.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 47 (17.09%) Cloud Native
2 24 (8.73%) Distributed Systems
3 19 (6.91%) Product Ownership
4 15 (5.45%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.36%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.91%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.91%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.91%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 7 (2.55%) Social Media
8 6 (2.18%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.82%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.09%) AI Agents
11 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.09%) Learning Management System
11 3 (1.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 51 (18.55%) Linux
2 22 (8.00%) CentOS
2 22 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.91%) Windows
4 7 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.45%) VMS
6 3 (1.09%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.73%) Android
7 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 207 (75.27%) CI/CD
2 145 (52.73%) DevOps
3 95 (34.55%) Agile
4 84 (30.55%) Infrastructure as Code
5 80 (29.09%) Full-Stack Development
6 72 (26.18%) Mentoring
7 64 (23.27%) Microservices
7 64 (23.27%) Software Engineering
8 62 (22.55%) Problem-Solving
9 54 (19.64%) Containerisation
10 52 (18.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 51 (18.55%) Platform Engineering
12 48 (17.45%) Test Automation
13 46 (16.73%) AI
14 35 (12.73%) Collaborative Culture
14 35 (12.73%) SDLC
14 35 (12.73%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 32 (11.64%) Continuous Integration
15 32 (11.64%) Data Modelling
15 32 (11.64%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 101 (36.73%) SQL
2 97 (35.27%) Python
3 94 (34.18%) JavaScript
4 76 (27.64%) TypeScript
5 70 (25.45%) Java
6 48 (17.45%) C#
7 21 (7.64%) PHP
8 18 (6.55%) Kotlin
9 14 (5.09%) Bash
9 14 (5.09%) Shell Script
10 10 (3.64%) PowerShell
11 9 (3.27%) C++
12 7 (2.55%) Groovy
12 7 (2.55%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.18%) Go
14 5 (1.82%) Apex Code
15 4 (1.45%) Bicep
16 3 (1.09%) Scala
16 3 (1.09%) SOQL
16 3 (1.09%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 52 (18.91%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.64%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.36%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.00%) Degree
5 7 (2.55%) AWS Certification
6 6 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.36%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (13.45%) QA
2 25 (9.09%) Data Quality
3 15 (5.45%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.45%) WCAG
5 2 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 128 (46.55%) Docker
2 10 (3.64%) 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 68 (24.73%) Kubernetes
2 41 (14.91%) Ansible
3 8 (2.91%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.55%) Istio
5 6 (2.18%) Grafana
5 6 (2.18%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.18%) Puppet
6 4 (1.45%) Argo
6 4 (1.45%) linkerd
7 3 (1.09%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.09%) Kibana
7 3 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.09%) Packer
7 3 (1.09%) Podman
7 3 (1.09%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.36%) Google
3 11 (4.00%) Splunk
4 10 (3.64%) Databricks
5 9 (3.27%) AppDynamics
5 9 (3.27%) Dynatrace
6 8 (2.91%) IBM
7 7 (2.55%) Red Hat
8 6 (2.18%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.82%) Confluent
10 3 (1.09%) Cisco
10 3 (1.09%) Dell
10 3 (1.09%) McAfee
10 3 (1.09%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.09%) Oracle
10 3 (1.09%) SnapLogic
10 3 (1.09%) VMware
11 2 (0.73%) Alteryx
11 2 (0.73%) Apple
11 2 (0.73%) HP