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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 109 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 -59 -5
Permanent jobs citing Git 217 226 389
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.17% 2.08% 5.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.63% 27.33% 42.33%
Number of salaries quoted 171 117 317
10th Percentile - £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 509 827 919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.09% 7.60% 12.90%
Number of salaries quoted 369 456 766
10th Percentile - £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £64,750 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 99 £31,500 -40.00% 232
Yorkshire -9 88 £30,500 -44.55% 156
North East +15 30 £30,500 -44.55% 39
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 14 (6.45%) WordPress
2 7 (3.23%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.76%) CMS
4 4 (1.84%) Apache Solr
5 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.38%) nginx
5 3 (1.38%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 2 (0.92%) Drupal
6 2 (0.92%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.92%) SAS
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.46%) Apache
7 1 (0.46%) JBoss
7 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.38%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.46%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.46%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.92%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.46%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.46%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 157 (72.35%) Azure
2 148 (68.20%) AWS
3 120 (55.30%) GitHub
4 25 (11.52%) Serverless
5 18 (8.29%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (5.99%) Amazon S3
7 12 (5.53%) Amazon ECS
7 12 (5.53%) Amazon EKS
7 12 (5.53%) GitHub Actions
8 11 (5.07%) Amazon SQS
8 11 (5.07%) AWS Lambda
9 9 (4.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 9 (4.15%) Amazon EventBridge
9 9 (4.15%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.69%) AWS Step Functions
11 7 (3.23%) GCP
12 4 (1.84%) npm
12 4 (1.84%) OpenShift
13 3 (1.38%) Cloudflare
13 3 (1.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 101 (46.54%) Internet
2 5 (2.30%) DNS
3 3 (1.38%) HTTP
3 3 (1.38%) SSH
4 2 (0.92%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.92%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.46%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.46%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.60%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (8.76%) MySQL
3 19 (8.76%) NoSQL
4 16 (7.37%) Relational Database
5 11 (5.07%) DynamoDB
6 7 (3.23%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.76%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.30%) Metadata
9 3 (1.38%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.38%) Power BI
9 3 (1.38%) Tableau
10 2 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.92%) Big Data
10 2 (0.92%) Impala
10 2 (0.92%) Metadata Repository
10 2 (0.92%) Neo4j
10 2 (0.92%) Qlik Sense
10 2 (0.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 17 (7.83%) JIRA
2 16 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 10 (4.61%) GitLab
4 8 (3.69%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.76%) JUnit
6 3 (1.38%) Maven
6 3 (1.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.38%) webpack
7 2 (0.92%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.92%) Grunt
7 2 (0.92%) gulp
7 2 (0.92%) Selenium
7 2 (0.92%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.46%) Ant
8 1 (0.46%) CANoe
8 1 (0.46%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.46%) ESLint
8 1 (0.46%) git-flow
8 1 (0.46%) Storybook
General
1 101 (46.54%) Multimedia
2 51 (23.50%) Social Skills
3 17 (7.83%) Finance
4 7 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 6 (2.76%) Advertising
6 5 (2.30%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (2.30%) Marketing
7 4 (1.84%) Retail
8 3 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (0.92%) Banking
9 2 (0.92%) Electronics
9 2 (0.92%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.46%) Automotive
10 1 (0.46%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.46%) Publishing
10 1 (0.46%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 117 (53.92%) Developer
2 101 (46.54%) Trainee
3 56 (25.81%) Software Developer
4 48 (22.12%) Trainee Developer
4 48 (22.12%) Trainee Software Developer
5 22 (10.14%) Senior
6 16 (7.37%) Full-Stack Developer
6 16 (7.37%) Senior Developer
7 13 (5.99%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 12 (5.53%) Java Developer
8 12 (5.53%) Lead
9 11 (5.07%) Administrator
9 11 (5.07%) Trainee Administrator
9 11 (5.07%) Web Administrator
10 9 (4.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (4.15%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.23%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (3.23%) PHP Developer
11 7 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (62.67%) CSS
1 136 (62.67%) HTML
2 34 (15.67%) React
3 28 (12.90%) .NET
4 24 (11.06%) Node.js
5 23 (10.60%) RESTful
6 21 (9.68%) AngularJS
7 20 (9.22%) REST
8 18 (8.29%) Spring
8 18 (8.29%) Spring Boot
9 14 (6.45%) ASP.NET
9 14 (6.45%) Web Services
10 13 (5.99%) .NET Core
11 11 (5.07%) ASP.NET Core
12 10 (4.61%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (4.15%) Kafka
14 8 (3.69%) AWS CDK
14 8 (3.69%) Blazor
14 8 (3.69%) Laravel
14 8 (3.69%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.99%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (5.07%) Cloud Native
3 6 (2.76%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.84%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.38%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.92%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.92%) Graphic Design
7 2 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (0.92%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.92%) NHS
8 1 (0.46%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (0.46%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.46%) IoT
8 1 (0.46%) Life Science
8 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.14%) Linux
2 13 (5.99%) Windows
3 4 (1.84%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.38%) Unix
5 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (54.38%) Mentoring
2 92 (42.40%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (28.11%) Agile
4 56 (25.81%) CI/CD
5 50 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (21.66%) DevOps
7 36 (16.59%) Microservices
8 35 (16.13%) Containerisation
9 28 (12.90%) Full-Stack Development
10 24 (11.06%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (9.68%) Web Development
12 19 (8.76%) Software Engineering
13 17 (7.83%) TDD
13 17 (7.83%) User Experience
14 16 (7.37%) Front End Development
14 16 (7.37%) Scrum
15 15 (6.91%) AI
15 15 (6.91%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (5.53%) Root Cause Analysis
17 11 (5.07%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 170 (78.34%) JavaScript
2 123 (56.68%) Python
3 57 (26.27%) R
4 31 (14.29%) SQL
5 23 (10.60%) Java
6 19 (8.76%) C#
6 19 (8.76%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.91%) PHP
8 8 (3.69%) Bash
9 4 (1.84%) PowerShell
10 3 (1.38%) Bicep
10 3 (1.38%) C
10 3 (1.38%) Go
11 2 (0.92%) PROC SQL
11 2 (0.92%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.46%) C++
12 1 (0.46%) Dart
12 1 (0.46%) Delphi
12 1 (0.46%) Groovy
12 1 (0.46%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 111 (51.15%) AWS Certification
2 106 (48.85%) Azure Certification
3 101 (46.54%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 101 (46.54%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (5.07%) Degree
5 9 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.69%) AWS Certified Developer
7 6 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.92%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.92%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.15%) QA
2 7 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) GDPR
4 1 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 38 (17.51%) Docker
2 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.92%) Apache Flume
2 2 (0.92%) HDFS
2 2 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (13.36%) Kubernetes
2 25 (11.52%) Terraform
3 15 (6.91%) Ansible
4 12 (5.53%) Grafana
5 9 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 7 (3.23%) Control-M
7 3 (1.38%) cPanel
7 3 (1.38%) Plesk
8 2 (0.92%) Argo
8 2 (0.92%) Kibana
8 2 (0.92%) logstash
8 2 (0.92%) Oozie
9 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.46%) Nagios
9 1 (0.46%) Podman
9 1 (0.46%) Puppet
9 1 (0.46%) Rancher
Vendors
1 110 (50.69%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.69%) Oracle
3 4 (1.84%) Pega
3 4 (1.84%) WSO2
4 2 (0.92%) Adobe
4 2 (0.92%) Databricks
4 2 (0.92%) Google
4 2 (0.92%) HubSpot
4 2 (0.92%) Informatica
4 2 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
4 2 (0.92%) SAP
5 1 (0.46%) AppDynamics
5 1 (0.46%) Dynatrace
5 1 (0.46%) IBM
5 1 (0.46%) Moogsoft
5 1 (0.46%) Sage
5 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.46%) Splunk
5 1 (0.46%) TOWER Software