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 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 163 77
Rank change year-on-year +30 -86 -12
Permanent jobs citing Git 258 168 382
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.19% 1.75% 2.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.54% 25.34% 33.96%
Number of salaries quoted 192 123 302
10th Percentile £29,825 £42,500 £37,575
25th Percentile £42,500 £51,250 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,500 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,708 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 818 663 1,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.79% 6.92% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 588 394 814
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,375 £37,325
25th Percentile £43,938 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,625 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 2 August 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 2 August 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 +22 132 £57,500 - 69
Yorkshire -13 71 £50,000 -28.57% 42
North East -8 55 £55,000 +15.79% 26
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 22 (8.53%) WordPress
2 16 (6.20%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.71%) CMS
3 7 (2.71%) IIS
4 6 (2.33%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.94%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.55%) Apache
7 3 (1.16%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.16%) Confluence
7 3 (1.16%) nginx
8 2 (0.78%) CICS
9 1 (0.39%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.39%) JBoss
9 1 (0.39%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.55%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.33%) Shopify
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.78%) Magento
4 1 (0.39%) Primavera
4 1 (0.39%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 157 (60.85%) AWS
2 125 (48.45%) Azure
3 89 (34.50%) GitHub
4 44 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
4 44 (17.05%) Serverless
5 34 (13.18%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (12.79%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (12.02%) GCP
8 30 (11.63%) Amazon S3
9 27 (10.47%) Amazon ECS
10 20 (7.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (6.98%) Power Platform
12 15 (5.81%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (5.43%) AWS Step Functions
13 14 (5.43%) Datadog
14 12 (4.65%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (4.65%) Amazon EKS
14 12 (4.65%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (4.26%) dbt
16 8 (3.10%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.59%) Internet
2 4 (1.55%) DNS
2 4 (1.55%) HTTP
3 3 (1.16%) DHCP
3 3 (1.16%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.16%) LAN
3 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.16%) VSAN
3 3 (1.16%) WAN
4 2 (0.78%) Firewall
5 1 (0.39%) Network Security
5 1 (0.39%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.18%) PostgreSQL
2 33 (12.79%) SQL Server
3 32 (12.40%) NoSQL
4 31 (12.02%) Relational Database
5 27 (10.47%) MySQL
6 17 (6.59%) Power BI
7 15 (5.81%) Amazon Athena
7 15 (5.81%) DynamoDB
8 13 (5.04%) MongoDB
9 12 (4.65%) BigQuery
10 10 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (3.10%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (2.71%) Amazon Redshift
12 7 (2.71%) Redis
13 4 (1.55%) GIS
13 4 (1.55%) Metadata
13 4 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 3 (1.16%) DuckDB
14 3 (1.16%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 52 (20.16%) Jenkins
2 37 (14.34%) GitLab
3 19 (7.36%) JIRA
4 13 (5.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 10 (3.88%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.33%) JUnit
6 6 (2.33%) Postman
6 6 (2.33%) Selenium
6 6 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.94%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.94%) IntelliJ
7 5 (1.94%) PHPUnit
8 3 (1.16%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.16%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.78%) Maven
9 2 (0.78%) NUnit
General
1 98 (37.98%) Social Skills
2 36 (13.95%) Finance
3 33 (12.79%) Public Sector
4 30 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.59%) Multimedia
6 16 (6.20%) Marketing
7 13 (5.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.71%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.71%) Retail
8 7 (2.71%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.33%) Banking
10 5 (1.94%) Advertising
10 5 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.78%) Publishing
11 2 (0.78%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.39%) Back Office
12 1 (0.39%) Games
12 1 (0.39%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 123 (47.67%) Developer
2 49 (18.99%) Senior
3 35 (13.57%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (12.02%) Java Developer
5 28 (10.85%) Senior Developer
6 26 (10.08%) Data Engineer
7 24 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 22 (8.53%) Software Engineer
9 21 (8.14%) Administrator
10 18 (6.98%) Software Developer
11 17 (6.59%) Trainee
12 15 (5.81%) Trainee Administrator
12 15 (5.81%) Web Administrator
13 14 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 13 (5.04%) Principal DevOps Engineer
14 13 (5.04%) Principal Engineer
15 12 (4.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
16 10 (3.88%) AWS Developer
16 10 (3.88%) Lead
17 8 (3.10%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (27.13%) CSS
2 63 (24.42%) HTML
3 60 (23.26%) React
4 55 (21.32%) REST
5 45 (17.44%) Node.js
6 43 (16.67%) .NET
6 43 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 28 (10.85%) RESTful
8 27 (10.47%) Spring
9 25 (9.69%) Spring Boot
9 25 (9.69%) Vue
10 17 (6.59%) .NET Core
11 15 (5.81%) .NET Framework
11 15 (5.81%) ASP.NET
12 14 (5.43%) Entity Framework
12 14 (5.43%) HTML5
12 14 (5.43%) Laravel
13 11 (4.26%) CSS3
13 11 (4.26%) JSON
14 10 (3.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 35 (13.57%) Cloud Native
2 22 (8.53%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.04%) Product Ownership
3 13 (5.04%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.10%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
5 7 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
5 7 (2.71%) Social Media
6 6 (2.33%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.55%) Algorithms
7 4 (1.55%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.55%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 3 (1.16%) Learning Management System
8 3 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.16%) Replication
9 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.24%) Linux
2 16 (6.20%) CentOS
2 16 (6.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.94%) Windows
3 5 (1.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.55%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.16%) CoreOS
5 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.78%) Android
6 2 (0.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 173 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 121 (46.90%) DevOps
3 101 (39.15%) Agile
4 81 (31.40%) Full-Stack Development
5 56 (21.71%) Microservices
6 55 (21.32%) Mentoring
7 53 (20.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 53 (20.54%) Problem-Solving
8 48 (18.60%) Continuous Improvement
9 47 (18.22%) Software Engineering
10 40 (15.50%) AI
10 40 (15.50%) Containerisation
11 36 (13.95%) Web Development
12 34 (13.18%) Platform Engineering
13 33 (12.79%) Clean Code
13 33 (12.79%) Collaborative Culture
13 33 (12.79%) Test Automation
14 30 (11.63%) Workflow
15 29 (11.24%) Data Modelling
16 28 (10.85%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 114 (44.19%) JavaScript
2 102 (39.53%) Python
3 100 (38.76%) SQL
4 65 (25.19%) Java
5 61 (23.64%) TypeScript
6 45 (17.44%) C#
7 26 (10.08%) PHP
8 17 (6.59%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.81%) R
10 13 (5.04%) Bash
11 8 (3.10%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.71%) C++
12 7 (2.71%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.94%) Apex Code
13 5 (1.94%) Bicep
13 5 (1.94%) Go
13 5 (1.94%) Groovy
13 5 (1.94%) PL/SQL
14 4 (1.55%) Swift
14 4 (1.55%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 28 (10.85%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.91%) Degree
4 21 (8.14%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.36%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (6.20%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.55%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (14.34%) QA
2 17 (6.59%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.49%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.78%) GDPR
4 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 96 (37.21%) Docker
2 6 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.16%) Ceph
4 3 (1.16%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 54 (20.93%) Terraform
2 53 (20.54%) Kubernetes
3 32 (12.40%) Ansible
4 7 (2.71%) Istio
4 7 (2.71%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.94%) Grafana
6 4 (1.55%) Argo
6 4 (1.55%) linkerd
6 4 (1.55%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.55%) Puppet
7 3 (1.16%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.16%) Kibana
7 3 (1.16%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.16%) Packer
7 3 (1.16%) Podman
7 3 (1.16%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.39%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.39%) Fluentd
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.39%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (18.99%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.65%) Google
3 9 (3.49%) Splunk
4 7 (2.71%) AppDynamics
4 7 (2.71%) Databricks
4 7 (2.71%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.33%) Dynatrace
5 6 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.94%) IBM
6 5 (1.94%) Pega
7 4 (1.55%) Oracle
8 3 (1.16%) Dell
8 3 (1.16%) McAfee
8 3 (1.16%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.16%) SnapLogic
8 3 (1.16%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.78%) Alteryx
9 2 (0.78%) Apple
9 2 (0.78%) Confluent
9 2 (0.78%) WSO2