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

6 months to
25 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 96 70
Rank change year-on-year +7 -26 +13
Permanent jobs citing Git 289 179 508
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.94% 2.79% 3.33%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.81% 28.73% 37.19%
Number of salaries quoted 235 137 388
10th Percentile - £41,250 £33,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% +15.04% +2.73%
75th Percentile £61,140 £82,751 £73,750
90th Percentile £74,500 £93,778 £92,104
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.35% +4.58% -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 675 623 1,366
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.53% 9.71% 8.95%
Number of salaries quoted 500 451 1,110
10th Percentile - £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65,625 £76,840 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.73% +5.00% -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 25 March 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 25 March 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 -6 132 £47,500 -26.92% 73
Yorkshire +7 124 £30,500 -52.71% 43
North East -1 33 £30,500 -44.55% 22
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 28 (9.69%) WordPress
2 12 (4.15%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.04%) Apache
4 3 (1.04%) nginx
5 2 (0.69%) CICS
5 2 (0.69%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
6 1 (0.35%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Markit EDM
1 2 (0.69%) Shopify
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 209 (72.32%) AWS
2 200 (69.20%) Azure
3 159 (55.02%) GitHub
4 42 (14.53%) Serverless
5 31 (10.73%) Amazon S3
6 25 (8.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 25 (8.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 25 (8.65%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (8.30%) Amazon ECS
7 24 (8.30%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (8.30%) AWS Step Functions
8 21 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
9 19 (6.57%) Amazon EKS
9 19 (6.57%) Amazon SQS
10 14 (4.84%) Amazon EventBridge
10 14 (4.84%) GCP
11 9 (3.11%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 8 (2.77%) Datadog
13 6 (2.08%) Power Platform
14 5 (1.73%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 136 (47.06%) Internet
2 9 (3.11%) DNS
3 5 (1.73%) HTTP
4 2 (0.69%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.69%) SSH
4 2 (0.69%) SSL
5 1 (0.35%) DHCP
5 1 (0.35%) LAN
5 1 (0.35%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.35%) VSAN
5 1 (0.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (15.22%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (13.49%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.00%) DynamoDB
3 26 (9.00%) SQL Server
4 21 (7.27%) MySQL
5 20 (6.92%) Relational Database
6 15 (5.19%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.11%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.08%) Power BI
9 3 (1.04%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.69%) DB2
10 2 (0.69%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
11 1 (0.35%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (9.34%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.23%) JIRA
3 15 (5.19%) GitLab
4 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.42%) JUnit
5 7 (2.42%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.38%) Selenium
7 3 (1.04%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.04%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.04%) Postman
8 2 (0.69%) Subversion
8 2 (0.69%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.35%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) NUnit
9 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 129 (44.64%) Multimedia
2 57 (19.72%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.61%) Finance
4 11 (3.81%) Retail
5 8 (2.77%) Advertising
6 6 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.38%) Marketing
9 3 (1.04%) Banking
9 3 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.69%) Electronics
10 2 (0.69%) Games
10 2 (0.69%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 154 (53.29%) Developer
2 129 (44.64%) Trainee
3 60 (20.76%) Software Developer
4 55 (19.03%) Trainee Developer
4 55 (19.03%) Trainee Software Developer
5 38 (13.15%) Senior
6 34 (11.76%) Java Developer
7 30 (10.38%) Senior Developer
8 28 (9.69%) Full-Stack Developer
9 26 (9.00%) Administrator
9 26 (9.00%) Trainee Administrator
9 26 (9.00%) Web Administrator
10 17 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 15 (5.19%) .NET Developer
12 12 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (4.15%) Lead
13 11 (3.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 9 (3.11%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.11%) Senior Java Developer
15 8 (2.77%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (59.52%) CSS
1 172 (59.52%) HTML
2 45 (15.57%) React
3 34 (11.76%) AngularJS
3 34 (11.76%) RESTful
4 33 (11.42%) Node.js
5 27 (9.34%) .NET
6 26 (9.00%) Spring
6 26 (9.00%) Spring Boot
7 24 (8.30%) REST
8 20 (6.92%) Web Services
9 19 (6.57%) .NET Core
10 17 (5.88%) ASP.NET
11 16 (5.54%) ASP.NET Core
12 14 (4.84%) Vue
13 13 (4.50%) AWS CDK
13 13 (4.50%) Blazor
13 13 (4.50%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (4.50%) Kafka
14 10 (3.46%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.23%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.81%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.04%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.69%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.69%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.69%) NHS
7 2 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.35%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.35%) IoT
8 1 (0.35%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.35%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.35%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 22 (7.61%) Linux
2 7 (2.42%) Windows
3 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.69%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.35%) CentOS
4 1 (0.35%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.35%) Unix
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (46.02%) Mentoring
2 103 (35.64%) Cybersecurity
3 89 (30.80%) Agile
4 81 (28.03%) CI/CD
5 63 (21.80%) DevOps
6 62 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (17.30%) Microservices
8 42 (14.53%) Full-Stack Development
9 41 (14.19%) Containerisation
10 36 (12.46%) Web Development
11 29 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 29 (10.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 27 (9.34%) TDD
13 24 (8.30%) Scrum
14 20 (6.92%) Deployment Automation
15 17 (5.88%) AI
15 17 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
16 16 (5.54%) Front End Development
17 15 (5.19%) Coaching
17 15 (5.19%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 212 (73.36%) JavaScript
2 167 (57.79%) Python
3 76 (26.30%) R
4 55 (19.03%) SQL
5 44 (15.22%) Java
6 30 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 15 (5.19%) PHP
8 13 (4.50%) C#
9 11 (3.81%) Go
10 9 (3.11%) C
10 9 (3.11%) Kotlin
11 3 (1.04%) Bicep
11 3 (1.04%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.04%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.69%) Bash
12 2 (0.69%) Swift
12 2 (0.69%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.35%) Delphi
13 1 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 140 (48.44%) AWS Certification
2 131 (45.33%) Azure Certification
3 129 (44.64%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 129 (44.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.81%) AWS Certified Developer
5 9 (3.11%) Degree
6 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.73%) Security Cleared
8 4 (1.38%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.38%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.69%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.42%) Accessibility
1 7 (2.42%) QA
2 3 (1.04%) GDPR
3 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.69%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 52 (17.99%) Docker
2 3 (1.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 43 (14.88%) Terraform
2 36 (12.46%) Kubernetes
3 22 (7.61%) Ansible
4 7 (2.42%) Grafana
5 6 (2.08%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.73%) Control-M
7 3 (1.04%) cPanel
7 3 (1.04%) Nagios
7 3 (1.04%) Plesk
7 3 (1.04%) Rancher
8 2 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.35%) Argo
9 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 144 (49.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.50%) Oracle
3 8 (2.77%) Pega
4 5 (1.73%) WSO2
5 3 (1.04%) Red Hat
6 2 (0.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.69%) New Relic
6 2 (0.69%) Splunk
7 1 (0.35%) Adobe
7 1 (0.35%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.35%) Databricks
7 1 (0.35%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.35%) Google
7 1 (0.35%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.35%) McAfee
7 1 (0.35%) WooCommerce