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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 106 68
Rank change year-on-year +25 -38 +1
Permanent jobs citing Git 275 181 452
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.12% 2.34% 3.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 44.43% 27.42% 38.11%
Number of salaries quoted 223 109 355
10th Percentile - £36,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% - -
75th Percentile £60,375 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £73,500 £93,778 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,669 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% +1.12% -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 619 660 1,186
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.77% 8.53% 9.41%
Number of salaries quoted 460 388 1,006
10th Percentile - £37,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.87% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £64,000 £71,250 £73,750
90th Percentile £77,750 £83,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -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 22 February 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 22 February 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 +9 121 £39,500 -31.30% 70
Yorkshire +14 119 £30,500 -41.90% 48
North East +9 35 £30,500 -44.55% 21
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 13 (4.73%) WordPress
2 11 (4.00%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.18%) nginx
4 4 (1.45%) Apache
5 3 (1.09%) JBoss
6 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.73%) CMS
6 2 (0.73%) Confluence
7 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.36%) IIS
7 1 (0.36%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.73%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.36%) Primavera
2 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 201 (73.09%) AWS
2 198 (72.00%) Azure
3 156 (56.73%) GitHub
4 39 (14.18%) Serverless
5 28 (10.18%) Amazon S3
6 24 (8.73%) AWS CloudFormation
7 23 (8.36%) AWS Lambda
8 22 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 22 (8.00%) Amazon ECS
8 22 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
9 21 (7.64%) AWS Step Functions
10 20 (7.27%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (6.91%) Amazon SQS
12 18 (6.55%) Amazon EKS
13 14 (5.09%) Amazon EventBridge
14 9 (3.27%) GCP
15 8 (2.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 7 (2.55%) Datadog
17 5 (1.82%) Azure AKS
17 5 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 137 (49.82%) Internet
2 9 (3.27%) DNS
3 5 (1.82%) HTTP
4 3 (1.09%) SSH
5 2 (0.73%) OpenVPN
5 2 (0.73%) SSL
6 1 (0.36%) DHCP
6 1 (0.36%) LAN
6 1 (0.36%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.36%) VSAN
6 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (14.91%) PostgreSQL
2 35 (12.73%) NoSQL
3 26 (9.45%) SQL Server
4 25 (9.09%) DynamoDB
5 17 (6.18%) Relational Database
6 16 (5.82%) MongoDB
6 16 (5.82%) MySQL
7 8 (2.91%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.18%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.09%) Power BI
10 2 (0.73%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.36%) InfluxDB
11 1 (0.36%) Redis
11 1 (0.36%) Star Schema
11 1 (0.36%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 23 (8.36%) Jenkins
2 18 (6.55%) JIRA
3 15 (5.45%) GitLab
4 12 (4.36%) Bitbucket
5 8 (2.91%) JUnit
6 3 (1.09%) Maven
6 3 (1.09%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.09%) Selenium
7 2 (0.73%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.73%) Subversion
8 1 (0.36%) Ant
8 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.36%) git-flow
8 1 (0.36%) Postman
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.36%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.36%) XCUITest
General
1 130 (47.27%) Multimedia
2 58 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 18 (6.55%) Finance
4 9 (3.27%) Retail
5 7 (2.55%) Advertising
6 6 (2.18%) Public Sector
7 5 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (1.82%) Marketing
8 4 (1.45%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.73%) Electronics
10 2 (0.73%) Games
11 1 (0.36%) Banking
11 1 (0.36%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.36%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.36%) Publishing
11 1 (0.36%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 150 (54.55%) Developer
2 130 (47.27%) Trainee
3 69 (25.09%) Software Developer
4 63 (22.91%) Trainee Developer
4 63 (22.91%) Trainee Software Developer
5 31 (11.27%) Senior
6 25 (9.09%) Java Developer
7 24 (8.73%) Senior Developer
8 21 (7.64%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (5.82%) .NET Developer
10 12 (4.36%) Cloud Engineer
10 12 (4.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (4.00%) Administrator
11 11 (4.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 11 (4.00%) Lead
11 11 (4.00%) Trainee Administrator
11 11 (4.00%) Web Administrator
12 9 (3.27%) AWS Developer
12 9 (3.27%) Software Engineer
13 8 (2.91%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (62.18%) CSS
1 171 (62.18%) HTML
2 44 (16.00%) React
3 31 (11.27%) Node.js
4 27 (9.82%) .NET
4 27 (9.82%) AngularJS
4 27 (9.82%) RESTful
5 23 (8.36%) Spring
5 23 (8.36%) Spring Boot
6 22 (8.00%) REST
7 19 (6.91%) Web Services
8 18 (6.55%) .NET Core
9 17 (6.18%) ASP.NET
10 15 (5.45%) ASP.NET Core
11 13 (4.73%) AWS CDK
11 13 (4.73%) Blazor
11 13 (4.73%) Elastic Stack
12 12 (4.36%) Kafka
13 8 (2.91%) Laravel
14 7 (2.55%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 18 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
2 16 (5.82%) Cloud Native
3 11 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.45%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.09%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.73%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.73%) NHS
8 1 (0.36%) e-Learning
8 1 (0.36%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.36%) IoT
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.36%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.36%) Life Science
8 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 27 (9.82%) Linux
2 10 (3.64%) Windows
3 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (0.73%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) CentOS
4 1 (0.36%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (53.82%) Mentoring
2 119 (43.27%) Cybersecurity
3 73 (26.55%) Agile
4 70 (25.45%) CI/CD
5 63 (22.91%) Problem-Solving
6 56 (20.36%) DevOps
7 44 (16.00%) Microservices
8 42 (15.27%) Containerisation
9 32 (11.64%) Full-Stack Development
10 28 (10.18%) Infrastructure as Code
11 25 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (8.00%) TDD
13 21 (7.64%) Web Development
14 18 (6.55%) Deployment Automation
14 18 (6.55%) Scrum
15 16 (5.82%) AI
15 16 (5.82%) Front End Development
16 15 (5.45%) Root Cause Analysis
17 14 (5.09%) User Experience
18 13 (4.73%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 204 (74.18%) JavaScript
2 162 (58.91%) Python
3 69 (25.09%) R
4 43 (15.64%) SQL
5 35 (12.73%) Java
6 28 (10.18%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.73%) PHP
8 11 (4.00%) C#
8 11 (4.00%) Go
9 9 (3.27%) C
10 8 (2.91%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.45%) Bash
11 4 (1.45%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.73%) Bicep
13 1 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.36%) Delphi
13 1 (0.36%) Groovy
13 1 (0.36%) Swift
13 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 141 (51.27%) AWS Certification
2 132 (48.00%) Azure Certification
3 130 (47.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 130 (47.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (3.64%) Degree
6 9 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (1.82%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.45%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.36%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.55%) Accessibility
2 5 (1.82%) QA
3 2 (0.73%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.73%) GDPR
4 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 52 (18.91%) Docker
2 3 (1.09%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 42 (15.27%) Terraform
2 39 (14.18%) Kubernetes
3 23 (8.36%) Ansible
4 10 (3.64%) Grafana
5 9 (3.27%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.55%) Control-M
7 3 (1.09%) cPanel
7 3 (1.09%) Nagios
7 3 (1.09%) Plesk
7 3 (1.09%) Rancher
8 2 (0.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.73%) Argo
8 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.36%) McAfee ePO
9 1 (0.36%) Podman
9 1 (0.36%) Puppet
9 1 (0.36%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 142 (51.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.00%) Oracle
3 4 (1.45%) Pega
3 4 (1.45%) WSO2
4 3 (1.09%) Red Hat
5 2 (0.73%) Adobe
5 2 (0.73%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.73%) New Relic
5 2 (0.73%) Splunk
6 1 (0.36%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.36%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.36%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.36%) McAfee