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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 90 70
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 +30
Permanent jobs citing Git 285 181 533
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.79% 2.85% 3.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.18% 30.02% 37.83%
Number of salaries quoted 224 138 404
10th Percentile - £41,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,780 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £61,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -48.78% +8.85% +2.73%
75th Percentile £63,352 £82,751 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 692 603 1,409
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 4.35% 9.49% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 514 445 1,136
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £77,500 £73,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £91,934 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -11 131 £52,500 -17.97% 73
Yorkshire -4 125 £30,500 -53.08% 43
North East -2 29 £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 (9.82%) WordPress
2 13 (4.56%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.05%) Apache
4 3 (1.05%) nginx
5 2 (0.70%) CICS
5 2 (0.70%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.35%) CMS
6 1 (0.35%) Confluence
6 1 (0.35%) IIS
6 1 (0.35%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Shopify
2 1 (0.35%) Magento
2 1 (0.35%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 209 (73.33%) AWS
2 191 (67.02%) Azure
3 153 (53.68%) GitHub
4 50 (17.54%) Serverless
5 36 (12.63%) Amazon S3
6 31 (10.88%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (10.18%) Amazon ECS
8 27 (9.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 27 (9.47%) AWS CloudFormation
9 26 (9.12%) AWS Step Functions
10 25 (8.77%) Amazon EKS
11 24 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
11 24 (8.42%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
13 14 (4.91%) Amazon EventBridge
13 14 (4.91%) GCP
14 11 (3.86%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 10 (3.51%) Datadog
16 6 (2.11%) Power Platform
17 5 (1.75%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 126 (44.21%) Internet
2 9 (3.16%) DNS
3 5 (1.75%) HTTP
4 2 (0.70%) OpenVPN
4 2 (0.70%) SSH
4 2 (0.70%) 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 46 (16.14%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (14.74%) NoSQL
3 28 (9.82%) DynamoDB
4 22 (7.72%) MySQL
4 22 (7.72%) Relational Database
5 21 (7.37%) SQL Server
6 15 (5.26%) MongoDB
7 11 (3.86%) Amazon Athena
8 6 (2.11%) Power BI
9 5 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (1.05%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.70%) DB2
11 2 (0.70%) Hazelcast
12 1 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
12 1 (0.35%) Looker
12 1 (0.35%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.35%) Redis
12 1 (0.35%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 33 (11.58%) Jenkins
2 19 (6.67%) JIRA
3 18 (6.32%) GitLab
4 10 (3.51%) Bitbucket
5 7 (2.46%) JUnit
5 7 (2.46%) PHPUnit
6 4 (1.40%) Cucumber
6 4 (1.40%) Selenium
7 3 (1.05%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.05%) Eclipse
7 3 (1.05%) IntelliJ
7 3 (1.05%) Postman
7 3 (1.05%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.70%) NUnit
8 2 (0.70%) Subversion
8 2 (0.70%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.35%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.35%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.35%) TeamCity
General
1 119 (41.75%) Multimedia
2 60 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 19 (6.67%) Finance
4 11 (3.86%) Retail
5 10 (3.51%) Public Sector
6 7 (2.46%) Advertising
7 6 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.05%) Banking
9 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.05%) Marketing
10 2 (0.70%) Electronics
10 2 (0.70%) Games
10 2 (0.70%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.35%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.35%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 154 (54.04%) Developer
2 119 (41.75%) Trainee
3 55 (19.30%) Software Developer
4 50 (17.54%) Trainee Developer
4 50 (17.54%) Trainee Software Developer
5 41 (14.39%) Java Developer
6 40 (14.04%) Senior
7 31 (10.88%) Full-Stack Developer
8 30 (10.53%) Senior Developer
9 26 (9.12%) Administrator
9 26 (9.12%) Trainee Administrator
9 26 (9.12%) Web Administrator
10 19 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 15 (5.26%) .NET Developer
12 14 (4.91%) Cloud Engineer
13 13 (4.56%) Lead
14 11 (3.86%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 10 (3.51%) AWS Developer
16 9 (3.16%) Senior Java Developer
17 8 (2.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 163 (57.19%) CSS
1 163 (57.19%) HTML
2 47 (16.49%) React
3 41 (14.39%) AngularJS
4 39 (13.68%) RESTful
5 34 (11.93%) Node.js
6 30 (10.53%) Spring
6 30 (10.53%) Spring Boot
7 29 (10.18%) REST
8 26 (9.12%) .NET
9 23 (8.07%) Web Services
10 19 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
11 18 (6.32%) .NET Core
11 18 (6.32%) ASP.NET
12 17 (5.96%) ASP.NET Core
13 15 (5.26%) Vue
14 13 (4.56%) AWS CDK
14 13 (4.56%) Blazor
14 13 (4.56%) Kafka
15 11 (3.86%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 26 (9.12%) Distributed Systems
2 18 (6.32%) Cloud Native
3 11 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.11%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 3 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.05%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.70%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.70%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.70%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.70%) NHS
7 2 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.35%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.35%) e-Learning
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 (7.72%) Linux
2 4 (1.40%) Windows
3 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
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
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (42.81%) Mentoring
2 98 (34.39%) Agile
3 93 (32.63%) Cybersecurity
4 90 (31.58%) CI/CD
5 71 (24.91%) DevOps
6 58 (20.35%) Problem-Solving
7 57 (20.00%) Microservices
8 46 (16.14%) Full-Stack Development
9 39 (13.68%) Containerisation
10 35 (12.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 35 (12.28%) Web Development
11 31 (10.88%) TDD
12 30 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 28 (9.82%) Scrum
14 23 (8.07%) Deployment Automation
15 18 (6.32%) Clean Code
16 17 (5.96%) Continuous Integration
16 17 (5.96%) Root Cause Analysis
17 16 (5.61%) AI
17 16 (5.61%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 203 (71.23%) JavaScript
2 158 (55.44%) Python
3 71 (24.91%) R
4 57 (20.00%) SQL
5 53 (18.60%) Java
6 33 (11.58%) TypeScript
7 14 (4.91%) PHP
8 13 (4.56%) C#
9 11 (3.86%) Go
9 11 (3.86%) Kotlin
10 9 (3.16%) C
11 5 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 4 (1.40%) Bicep
13 3 (1.05%) Groovy
13 3 (1.05%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.70%) Bash
14 2 (0.70%) Swift
15 1 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.35%) Delphi
15 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 130 (45.61%) AWS Certification
2 121 (42.46%) Azure Certification
3 119 (41.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 119 (41.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (3.86%) AWS Certified Developer
4 11 (3.86%) Security Cleared
5 9 (3.16%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.46%) Degree
7 4 (1.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.70%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.51%) QA
2 7 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.05%) GDPR
4 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.35%) NIST
System Software
1 57 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (1.05%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 51 (17.89%) Terraform
2 41 (14.39%) Kubernetes
3 28 (9.82%) Ansible
4 5 (1.75%) Grafana
5 4 (1.40%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.05%) Control-M
6 3 (1.05%) cPanel
6 3 (1.05%) Nagios
6 3 (1.05%) Packer
6 3 (1.05%) Plesk
6 3 (1.05%) Rancher
7 2 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 2 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.35%) Argo
8 1 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.35%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.35%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 134 (47.02%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.26%) Oracle
3 9 (3.16%) Pega
4 6 (2.11%) WSO2
5 5 (1.75%) AppDynamics
5 5 (1.75%) IBM
6 3 (1.05%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.70%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.70%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.70%) New Relic
7 2 (0.70%) Splunk
8 1 (0.35%) Adobe
8 1 (0.35%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.35%) Databricks
8 1 (0.35%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.35%) Google
8 1 (0.35%) McAfee
8 1 (0.35%) WooCommerce