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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 114 44
Rank change year-on-year 0 -70 -3
Permanent jobs citing Git 179 241 431
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.83% 1.94% 5.63%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.80% 27.39% 42.63%
Number of salaries quoted 141 130 361
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £85,000 £87,500
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 500 880 1,011
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.12% 7.09% 13.20%
Number of salaries quoted 364 460 835
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,200 £41,250
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,710 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -10.26% +6.36%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +10 90 £43,692 -12.62% 165
Yorkshire -16 62 £30,500 -49.17% 78
North East +12 27 £30,500 -45.54% 30
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 6 (3.35%) CMS
2 5 (2.79%) WordPress
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Solr
3 4 (2.23%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.68%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.68%) nginx
4 3 (1.68%) SAS
4 3 (1.68%) Umbraco
5 2 (1.12%) Confluence
5 2 (1.12%) Drupal
5 2 (1.12%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.56%) Apache
6 1 (0.56%) IIS
6 1 (0.56%) JBoss
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.56%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.56%) CANalyzer
2 1 (0.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.12%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 124 (69.27%) Azure
2 112 (62.57%) AWS
3 91 (50.84%) GitHub
4 19 (10.61%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (10.06%) Serverless
6 9 (5.03%) Amazon ECS
7 8 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (4.47%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
8 7 (3.91%) Amazon S3
8 7 (3.91%) GCP
9 6 (3.35%) SaaS
10 5 (2.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 5 (2.79%) Amazon EventBridge
10 5 (2.79%) Amazon SQS
11 4 (2.23%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (2.23%) AWS Step Functions
11 4 (2.23%) npm
11 4 (2.23%) Power Platform
12 3 (1.68%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 73 (40.78%) Internet
2 3 (1.68%) PuTTY
3 2 (1.12%) SSH
4 1 (0.56%) DNS
4 1 (0.56%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.56%) Firewall
4 1 (0.56%) HTTP
4 1 (0.56%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.56%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (16.76%) SQL Server
2 21 (11.73%) MySQL
3 19 (10.61%) Relational Database
4 18 (10.06%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (5.59%) NoSQL
6 9 (5.03%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (3.91%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.35%) Elasticsearch
9 5 (2.79%) Metadata
10 4 (2.23%) Data Lake
10 4 (2.23%) Power BI
10 4 (2.23%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.68%) Apache Hive
11 3 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.68%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.68%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (1.68%) MongoDB
11 3 (1.68%) QlikView
11 3 (1.68%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 15 (8.38%) JIRA
2 11 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.91%) Bitbucket
4 6 (3.35%) GitLab
5 5 (2.79%) webpack
6 3 (1.68%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.68%) JUnit
6 3 (1.68%) Maven
6 3 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (1.12%) Artifactory
7 2 (1.12%) Grunt
7 2 (1.12%) gulp
7 2 (1.12%) Selenium
7 2 (1.12%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.56%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (0.56%) CANoe
8 1 (0.56%) ESLint
8 1 (0.56%) git-flow
8 1 (0.56%) Sinon.JS
8 1 (0.56%) Storybook
General
1 73 (40.78%) Multimedia
2 50 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.73%) Finance
4 7 (3.91%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (3.91%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.35%) Advertising
6 5 (2.79%) Marketing
7 4 (2.23%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Banking
8 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.56%) Automotive
9 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Electronics
9 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.56%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 104 (58.10%) Developer
2 73 (40.78%) Trainee
3 45 (25.14%) Software Developer
4 37 (20.67%) Trainee Developer
4 37 (20.67%) Trainee Software Developer
5 21 (11.73%) Senior
6 17 (9.50%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.15%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 11 (6.15%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.59%) .NET Developer
9 9 (5.03%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.47%) Analyst
10 8 (4.47%) Software Engineer
11 7 (3.91%) Applications Support
11 7 (3.91%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (3.91%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.91%) Lead
11 7 (3.91%) Support Analyst
12 6 (3.35%) Senior Backend Developer
13 5 (2.79%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 107 (59.78%) CSS
1 107 (59.78%) HTML
2 29 (16.20%) .NET
3 26 (14.53%) React
4 23 (12.85%) Node.js
5 22 (12.29%) RESTful
6 19 (10.61%) AngularJS
7 17 (9.50%) REST
8 16 (8.94%) Web Services
9 14 (7.82%) Spring
9 14 (7.82%) Spring Boot
10 13 (7.26%) ASP.NET
11 9 (5.03%) .NET Core
11 9 (5.03%) ASP.NET Core
11 9 (5.03%) CSS3
11 9 (5.03%) Vue
12 7 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (3.91%) HTML5
12 7 (3.91%) Laravel
13 6 (3.35%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.47%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (3.35%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.68%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.12%) Graphic Design
6 2 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.12%) Wiki
7 1 (0.56%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.56%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (0.56%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.56%) Life Science
7 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (11.17%) Linux
2 17 (9.50%) Windows
3 4 (2.23%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.68%) Unix
5 1 (0.56%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (50.84%) Mentoring
2 72 (40.22%) Cybersecurity
3 48 (26.82%) DevOps
4 47 (26.26%) Agile
5 45 (25.14%) CI/CD
6 40 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
7 29 (16.20%) Microservices
8 25 (13.97%) Containerisation
9 20 (11.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 20 (11.17%) Software Engineering
10 18 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (10.06%) TDD
11 17 (9.50%) Front End Development
11 17 (9.50%) User Experience
11 17 (9.50%) Web Development
12 15 (8.38%) Computer Science
13 14 (7.82%) AI
13 14 (7.82%) Scrum
14 13 (7.26%) Unit Testing
15 11 (6.15%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 131 (73.18%) JavaScript
2 92 (51.40%) Python
3 40 (22.35%) R
4 35 (19.55%) SQL
5 23 (12.85%) C#
6 19 (10.61%) Java
7 18 (10.06%) TypeScript
8 14 (7.82%) PHP
9 8 (4.47%) Bash
10 4 (2.23%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.68%) Bicep
11 3 (1.68%) PROC SQL
12 2 (1.12%) C
12 2 (1.12%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.56%) C++
13 1 (0.56%) Dart
13 1 (0.56%) Delphi
13 1 (0.56%) Go
13 1 (0.56%) Groovy
13 1 (0.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 80 (44.69%) AWS Certification
2 79 (44.13%) Azure Certification
3 73 (40.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 73 (40.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (8.94%) Degree
5 13 (7.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (3.35%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.23%) AWS Certified Developer
8 2 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.12%) PhD
9 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.56%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.03%) QA
2 8 (4.47%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.23%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.12%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.56%) NIST
System Software
1 34 (18.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.68%) Apache Flume
2 3 (1.68%) HDFS
3 2 (1.12%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (13.97%) Kubernetes
2 15 (8.38%) Terraform
3 11 (6.15%) Ansible
3 11 (6.15%) Grafana
4 8 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 7 (3.91%) Control-M
6 3 (1.68%) Kibana
6 3 (1.68%) logstash
6 3 (1.68%) Oozie
7 1 (0.56%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) cPanel
7 1 (0.56%) Plesk
7 1 (0.56%) Podman
7 1 (0.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (46.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.79%) Google
3 4 (2.23%) AppDynamics
3 4 (2.23%) IBM
3 4 (2.23%) Moogsoft
3 4 (2.23%) Pega
3 4 (2.23%) Splunk
3 4 (2.23%) WSO2
4 3 (1.68%) Bloomberg
4 3 (1.68%) Databricks
4 3 (1.68%) Informatica
4 3 (1.68%) MicroStrategy
4 3 (1.68%) Oracle
4 3 (1.68%) SAP
5 2 (1.12%) Adobe
5 2 (1.12%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.56%) Rollbar
6 1 (0.56%) Sage
6 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.56%) TOWER Software