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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 164 74
Rank change year-on-year +22 -90 -8
Permanent jobs citing Git 238 170 427
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.12% 1.79% 2.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.82% 25.56% 34.94%
Number of salaries quoted 178 126 337
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,813 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +9.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £82,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

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 798 665 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.76% 6.98% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 583 396 900
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,625 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,875 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +8.33% -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 27 July 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 27 July 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 +4 123 £57,500 - 60
Yorkshire -13 69 £50,000 -28.57% 39
North East -14 46 £52,000 +4.00% 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 21 (8.82%) WordPress
2 12 (5.04%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.94%) CMS
3 7 (2.94%) IIS
4 6 (2.52%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (2.10%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.68%) Apache
6 4 (1.68%) nginx
7 3 (1.26%) Confluence
8 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.84%) CICS
8 2 (0.84%) JBoss
9 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.42%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.42%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.42%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Shopify
2 3 (1.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.84%) Magento
4 1 (0.42%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 144 (60.50%) AWS
2 114 (47.90%) Azure
3 84 (35.29%) GitHub
4 42 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (17.23%) Serverless
6 31 (13.03%) GitHub Actions
7 30 (12.61%) AWS Lambda
8 26 (10.92%) Amazon S3
9 24 (10.08%) Amazon ECS
9 24 (10.08%) GCP
10 17 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 16 (6.72%) Power Platform
12 14 (5.88%) Datadog
13 13 (5.46%) AWS CloudFormation
13 13 (5.46%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
14 11 (4.62%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (4.20%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (3.36%) GitHub Copilot
16 8 (3.36%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.14%) Internet
2 4 (1.68%) DNS
2 4 (1.68%) HTTP
3 3 (1.26%) DHCP
3 3 (1.26%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.26%) LAN
3 3 (1.26%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.26%) VSAN
3 3 (1.26%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) Firewall
4 2 (0.84%) SSL
5 1 (0.42%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.03%) PostgreSQL
2 30 (12.61%) NoSQL
3 29 (12.18%) SQL Server
4 28 (11.76%) Relational Database
5 27 (11.34%) MySQL
6 16 (6.72%) Power BI
7 14 (5.88%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (5.88%) DynamoDB
8 11 (4.62%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.78%) BigQuery
10 8 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
11 7 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.94%) Redis
12 6 (2.52%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.26%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.26%) GIS
13 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 48 (20.17%) Jenkins
2 34 (14.29%) GitLab
3 19 (7.98%) JIRA
4 12 (5.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (4.20%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.52%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.52%) Postman
6 6 (2.52%) Selenium
7 4 (1.68%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.68%) IntelliJ
7 4 (1.68%) JUnit
7 4 (1.68%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (1.26%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.26%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.26%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.26%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.26%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.84%) NUnit
9 2 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 86 (36.13%) Social Skills
2 31 (13.03%) Finance
2 31 (13.03%) Public Sector
3 24 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.14%) Multimedia
5 15 (6.30%) Marketing
6 10 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.94%) Retail
7 7 (2.94%) Tech for Good
8 6 (2.52%) Banking
8 6 (2.52%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.10%) Advertising
9 5 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.84%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Back Office
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Legal
11 1 (0.42%) Local Government
11 1 (0.42%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 116 (48.74%) Developer
2 48 (20.17%) Senior
3 34 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (12.61%) Java Developer
5 28 (11.76%) Senior Developer
6 22 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
7 21 (8.82%) Administrator
8 20 (8.40%) Software Engineer
9 19 (7.98%) Data Engineer
10 17 (7.14%) Trainee
11 15 (6.30%) Software Developer
11 15 (6.30%) Trainee Administrator
11 15 (6.30%) Web Administrator
12 13 (5.46%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 12 (5.04%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 12 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
14 9 (3.78%) AWS Developer
14 9 (3.78%) Lead
15 7 (2.94%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (28.15%) CSS
2 61 (25.63%) HTML
3 60 (25.21%) React
4 49 (20.59%) REST
5 42 (17.65%) Node.js
6 41 (17.23%) .NET
7 40 (16.81%) AngularJS
8 27 (11.34%) RESTful
9 26 (10.92%) Vue
10 25 (10.50%) Spring
11 24 (10.08%) Spring Boot
12 15 (6.30%) .NET Core
12 15 (6.30%) .NET Framework
12 15 (6.30%) Laravel
13 14 (5.88%) ASP.NET
13 14 (5.88%) Entity Framework
13 14 (5.88%) HTML5
14 11 (4.62%) CSS3
14 11 (4.62%) JSON
15 9 (3.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.40%) Distributed Systems
3 12 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.94%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.94%) Social Media
7 6 (2.52%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.68%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.68%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.26%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.26%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.26%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.84%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.84%) Replication
10 2 (0.84%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (11.34%) Linux
2 15 (6.30%) CentOS
2 15 (6.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.10%) Windows
3 5 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.26%) CoreOS
4 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.42%) Android
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (65.55%) CI/CD
2 111 (46.64%) DevOps
3 93 (39.08%) Agile
4 77 (32.35%) Full-Stack Development
5 52 (21.85%) Mentoring
5 52 (21.85%) Microservices
6 49 (20.59%) Infrastructure as Code
7 44 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
8 40 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (16.39%) Software Engineering
10 38 (15.97%) Containerisation
11 35 (14.71%) AI
11 35 (14.71%) Web Development
12 32 (13.45%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (13.03%) Clean Code
14 28 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
14 28 (11.76%) Test Automation
15 27 (11.34%) Workflow
16 26 (10.92%) Performance Optimisation
17 25 (10.50%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (45.38%) JavaScript
2 93 (39.08%) Python
3 90 (37.82%) SQL
4 58 (24.37%) Java
5 56 (23.53%) TypeScript
6 43 (18.07%) C#
7 26 (10.92%) PHP
8 15 (6.30%) Kotlin
8 15 (6.30%) R
9 13 (5.46%) Bash
10 8 (3.36%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.52%) C++
11 6 (2.52%) VB.NET
12 5 (2.10%) Bicep
12 5 (2.10%) Go
12 5 (2.10%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.68%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.68%) Groovy
13 4 (1.68%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.26%) Scala
Qualifications
1 31 (13.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (10.92%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.82%) Degree
4 20 (8.40%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.98%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.98%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (7.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 15 (6.30%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.68%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (14.29%) QA
2 12 (5.04%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 85 (35.71%) Docker
2 6 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.26%) Ceph
4 3 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 49 (20.59%) Kubernetes
1 49 (20.59%) Terraform
2 31 (13.03%) Ansible
3 7 (2.94%) Istio
3 7 (2.94%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.10%) Grafana
5 4 (1.68%) Argo
5 4 (1.68%) linkerd
5 4 (1.68%) Progress Chef
5 4 (1.68%) Puppet
6 3 (1.26%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.26%) Kibana
6 3 (1.26%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (1.26%) Packer
6 3 (1.26%) Podman
6 3 (1.26%) SCVMM
7 2 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.84%) Nagios
7 2 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 46 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.78%) Splunk
3 8 (3.36%) Google
3 8 (3.36%) Red Hat
4 6 (2.52%) AppDynamics
4 6 (2.52%) Databricks
5 5 (2.10%) Dynatrace
5 5 (2.10%) IBM
5 5 (2.10%) Pega
5 5 (2.10%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.68%) Oracle
7 3 (1.26%) Dell
7 3 (1.26%) McAfee
7 3 (1.26%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.26%) SnapLogic
7 3 (1.26%) WooCommerce
8 2 (0.84%) Atlassian
8 2 (0.84%) DevExpress
8 2 (0.84%) New Relic
8 2 (0.84%) WSO2