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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 154 77
Rank change year-on-year +10 -77 +4
Permanent jobs citing Git 223 172 548
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.11% 2.06% 2.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.04% 25.67% 36.01%
Number of salaries quoted 174 128 429
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £31,750
25th Percentile £33,750 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £82,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 768 670 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.82% 8.02% 7.61%
Number of salaries quoted 572 406 1,167
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,125 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,780 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +5.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,985 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

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 June 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 June 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 +18 118 £61,418 +2.36% 54
Yorkshire -17 75 £50,000 -28.57% 25
North East -27 30 £52,000 +4.00% 15
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 21 (9.42%) WordPress
2 9 (4.04%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (2.69%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (1.79%) CMS
4 4 (1.79%) IIS
4 4 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.35%) nginx
6 2 (0.90%) CICS
6 2 (0.90%) Confluence
7 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.45%) Apache
7 1 (0.45%) JBoss
7 1 (0.45%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.35%) Shopify
2 2 (0.90%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 135 (60.54%) AWS
2 114 (51.12%) Azure
3 87 (39.01%) GitHub
4 44 (19.73%) Serverless
5 36 (16.14%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (13.90%) AWS Lambda
7 30 (13.45%) Amazon S3
8 29 (13.00%) Amazon ECS
9 28 (12.56%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (8.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (8.52%) AWS Step Functions
12 18 (8.07%) AWS CloudFormation
13 17 (7.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 16 (7.17%) GCP
15 15 (6.73%) Datadog
16 14 (6.28%) Power Platform
17 12 (5.38%) Amazon EKS
18 8 (3.59%) Amazon EC2
18 8 (3.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
19 7 (3.14%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (15.70%) Internet
2 5 (2.24%) HTTP
3 3 (1.35%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.90%) Firewall
5 1 (0.45%) DHCP
5 1 (0.45%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) SSL
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) VSAN
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (15.70%) NoSQL
2 32 (14.35%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (12.56%) MySQL
3 28 (12.56%) Relational Database
4 20 (8.97%) DynamoDB
5 19 (8.52%) Amazon Athena
6 18 (8.07%) SQL Server
7 14 (6.28%) Power BI
8 13 (5.83%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 6 (2.69%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.79%) Redis
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.35%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.90%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.90%) Db2
12 2 (0.90%) GIS
12 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 36 (16.14%) Jenkins
2 21 (9.42%) GitLab
3 19 (8.52%) JIRA
4 8 (3.59%) Bitbucket
5 6 (2.69%) PHPUnit
6 5 (2.24%) Postman
6 5 (2.24%) Selenium
7 3 (1.35%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.35%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.35%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.35%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.35%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.35%) JUnit
7 3 (1.35%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.90%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.90%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.90%) NUnit
8 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.90%) Vite
8 2 (0.90%) XCUITest
General
1 67 (30.04%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.45%) Multimedia
3 23 (10.31%) Finance
4 18 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (4.93%) Retail
7 10 (4.48%) Marketing
8 8 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.69%) Banking
9 6 (2.69%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.24%) Advertising
10 5 (2.24%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.35%) Tech for Good
12 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Games
Job Titles
1 118 (52.91%) Developer
2 51 (22.87%) Senior
3 37 (16.59%) Java Developer
4 32 (14.35%) Senior Developer
5 30 (13.45%) Trainee
6 27 (12.11%) Full-Stack Developer
7 21 (9.42%) Software Developer
8 20 (8.97%) Software Engineer
9 15 (6.73%) Administrator
9 15 (6.73%) Trainee Administrator
9 15 (6.73%) Web Administrator
10 12 (5.38%) AWS Developer
11 11 (4.93%) Data Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 11 (4.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 10 (4.48%) Trainee Developer
12 10 (4.48%) Trainee Software Developer
13 9 (4.04%) Senior Java Developer
14 8 (3.59%) DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.14%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 76 (34.08%) CSS
2 70 (31.39%) HTML
3 54 (24.22%) React
4 46 (20.63%) REST
5 45 (20.18%) AngularJS
5 45 (20.18%) Node.js
6 33 (14.80%) .NET
7 27 (12.11%) RESTful
7 27 (12.11%) Vue
8 24 (10.76%) Spring
8 24 (10.76%) Spring Boot
9 16 (7.17%) Laravel
10 14 (6.28%) .NET Core
11 12 (5.38%) .NET Framework
12 11 (4.93%) HTML5
13 10 (4.48%) ASP.NET
13 10 (4.48%) Entity Framework
13 10 (4.48%) JSON
14 9 (4.04%) Elastic Stack
14 9 (4.04%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.07%) Distributed Systems
2 15 (6.73%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.73%) Product Ownership
3 8 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.69%) Legacy Applications
5 5 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.79%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.35%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.35%) Low-Code
7 3 (1.35%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.17%) Linux
2 3 (1.35%) CentOS
2 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.45%) Windows
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (56.05%) CI/CD
2 90 (40.36%) DevOps
3 78 (34.98%) Agile
4 62 (27.80%) Full-Stack Development
5 57 (25.56%) Mentoring
6 49 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
7 39 (17.49%) Microservices
8 37 (16.59%) Infrastructure as Code
9 35 (15.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 33 (14.80%) AI
10 33 (14.80%) Software Engineering
11 31 (13.90%) Containerisation
12 30 (13.45%) Web Development
13 27 (12.11%) Clean Code
14 24 (10.76%) Front End Development
14 24 (10.76%) Workflow
15 23 (10.31%) Continuous Integration
16 22 (9.87%) Scrum
16 22 (9.87%) Test Automation
17 21 (9.42%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 113 (50.67%) JavaScript
2 95 (42.60%) Python
3 85 (38.12%) SQL
4 62 (27.80%) Java
5 58 (26.01%) TypeScript
6 36 (16.14%) C#
7 27 (12.11%) PHP
8 20 (8.97%) R
9 19 (8.52%) Kotlin
10 9 (4.04%) Go
11 8 (3.59%) Bash
12 6 (2.69%) C++
13 5 (2.24%) C
13 5 (2.24%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.24%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.79%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.79%) Bicep
14 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
15 3 (1.35%) SOQL
15 3 (1.35%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 32 (14.35%) AWS Certification
1 32 (14.35%) Azure Certification
2 31 (13.90%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (13.45%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 20 (8.97%) Degree
5 18 (8.07%) Security Cleared
6 14 (6.28%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.79%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (13.45%) QA
2 6 (2.69%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.90%) GDPR
3 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (28.25%) Docker
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 36 (16.14%) Terraform
2 35 (15.70%) Kubernetes
3 21 (9.42%) Ansible
4 4 (1.79%) Grafana
5 3 (1.35%) Istio
5 3 (1.35%) linkerd
5 3 (1.35%) Packer
5 3 (1.35%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.90%) Kibana
6 2 (0.90%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.90%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.45%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.45%) Nagios
7 1 (0.45%) Rancher
7 1 (0.45%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 58 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.14%) Oracle
3 6 (2.69%) Splunk
4 5 (2.24%) AppDynamics
4 5 (2.24%) Google
4 5 (2.24%) IBM
4 5 (2.24%) Pega
4 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.79%) Databricks
6 3 (1.35%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.35%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.90%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.90%) SnapLogic
7 2 (0.90%) WSO2
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.45%) Infor
8 1 (0.45%) McAfee
8 1 (0.45%) New Relic