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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 175 103
Rank change year-on-year +40 -72 -50
Permanent jobs citing Git 276 128 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.15% 1.34% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.24% 23.06% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 187 93 160
10th Percentile £33,250 - £34,875
25th Percentile £46,250 £28,250 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +31.58% -9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £74,985 £60,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £70,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 806 555 930
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.36% 5.82% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 497 312 520
10th Percentile £37,500 £28,250 £37,566
25th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,761 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +31 131 £60,000 +20.00% 118
North East -13 73 £62,500 +38.89% 37
Yorkshire -13 72 £61,250 +39.20% 92
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 (7.61%) Apache Airflow
2 14 (5.07%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.99%) Apache
4 8 (2.90%) CMS
4 8 (2.90%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.90%) WordPress
5 6 (2.17%) IIS
5 6 (2.17%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (1.45%) OpenStack
7 3 (1.09%) Jupyter
7 3 (1.09%) nginx
7 3 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (1.09%) Tomcat
7 3 (1.09%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.72%) Confluence
8 2 (0.72%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.36%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.36%) JBoss
9 1 (0.36%) Kentico
Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.36%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.36%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.36%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (1.45%) Shopify
2 3 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.72%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.36%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 172 (62.32%) AWS
2 132 (47.83%) Azure
3 83 (30.07%) GitHub
4 48 (17.39%) Serverless
5 47 (17.03%) GCP
6 40 (14.49%) AWS Lambda
7 39 (14.13%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (13.77%) Amazon S3
9 37 (13.41%) GitHub Actions
10 30 (10.87%) Amazon ECS
11 28 (10.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (8.33%) Power Platform
13 21 (7.61%) AWS CloudFormation
14 20 (7.25%) AWS Step Functions
15 17 (6.16%) Datadog
16 15 (5.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
17 14 (5.07%) Cloud Computing
18 12 (4.35%) dbt
19 10 (3.62%) Amazon EKS
19 10 (3.62%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.35%) Internet
2 4 (1.45%) DNS
3 3 (1.09%) DHCP
3 3 (1.09%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.09%) LAN
3 3 (1.09%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.09%) VSAN
3 3 (1.09%) WAN
4 2 (0.72%) Firewall
4 2 (0.72%) HTTP
5 1 (0.36%) Network Security
5 1 (0.36%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 35 (12.68%) Relational Database
3 34 (12.32%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (10.87%) NoSQL
5 23 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
6 21 (7.61%) Power BI
7 20 (7.25%) MySQL
8 19 (6.88%) DynamoDB
8 19 (6.88%) MongoDB
9 15 (5.43%) Data Warehouse
10 14 (5.07%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (3.62%) BigQuery
13 8 (2.90%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (2.90%) Redis
14 7 (2.54%) Metadata
15 6 (2.17%) Data Lake
16 5 (1.81%) Chroma
16 5 (1.81%) DocumentDB
16 5 (1.81%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 54 (19.57%) GitLab
2 52 (18.84%) Jenkins
3 20 (7.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 10 (3.62%) JUnit
5 8 (2.90%) JIRA
6 7 (2.54%) Bitbucket
6 7 (2.54%) Selenium
7 6 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 6 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
8 5 (1.81%) Maven
9 4 (1.45%) IntelliJ
9 4 (1.45%) Spock
10 3 (1.09%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.09%) Mockito
10 3 (1.09%) Postman
10 3 (1.09%) TeamCity
10 3 (1.09%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.72%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.72%) Claude Code
11 2 (0.72%) Vite
General
1 118 (42.75%) Social Skills
2 53 (19.20%) Public Sector
3 52 (18.84%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.68%) Finance
5 23 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 18 (6.52%) Marketing
7 9 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.54%) Tech for Good
9 5 (1.81%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.81%) Retail
10 3 (1.09%) Banking
11 2 (0.72%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.72%) Games
11 2 (0.72%) Legal
11 2 (0.72%) Local Government
11 2 (0.72%) Publishing
12 1 (0.36%) Back Office
12 1 (0.36%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 121 (43.84%) Developer
2 41 (14.86%) DevOps Engineer
3 37 (13.41%) Senior
4 36 (13.04%) Data Engineer
5 29 (10.51%) Full-Stack Developer
6 27 (9.78%) Software Engineer
7 23 (8.33%) Software Developer
8 22 (7.97%) Java Developer
9 20 (7.25%) Principal DevOps Engineer
9 20 (7.25%) Principal Engineer
9 20 (7.25%) Senior Developer
10 16 (5.80%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (4.71%) AWS Developer
12 12 (4.35%) Trainee
13 10 (3.62%) Lead
13 10 (3.62%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.26%) Junior
15 7 (2.54%) .NET Developer
15 7 (2.54%) GCP Engineer
15 7 (2.54%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (24.64%) Terraform
2 62 (22.46%) React
3 58 (21.01%) REST
4 54 (19.57%) Node.js
5 45 (16.30%) CSS
6 43 (15.58%) .NET
7 36 (13.04%) HTML
8 34 (12.32%) AngularJS
9 26 (9.42%) Spring
10 21 (7.61%) RESTful
11 19 (6.88%) Spring Boot
12 18 (6.52%) Kafka
13 16 (5.80%) .NET Core
14 14 (5.07%) ASP.NET
15 13 (4.71%) Flask
16 12 (4.35%) .NET Framework
16 12 (4.35%) Entity Framework
16 12 (4.35%) Middleware
16 12 (4.35%) Vue
17 10 (3.62%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 48 (17.39%) Cloud Native
2 19 (6.88%) Product Ownership
3 18 (6.52%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (5.43%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (2.90%) Legacy Applications
6 8 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
6 8 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 8 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (2.54%) Social Media
8 6 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
9 5 (1.81%) Private Cloud
10 4 (1.45%) AI Agents
10 4 (1.45%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.45%) Distributed Computing
10 4 (1.45%) Low-Code
11 3 (1.09%) Data Structures
11 3 (1.09%) Hedge funds
11 3 (1.09%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 50 (18.12%) Linux
2 23 (8.33%) CentOS
2 23 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (2.90%) Windows
4 7 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.45%) VMS
6 3 (1.09%) CoreOS
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.72%) Android
7 2 (0.72%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (75.36%) CI/CD
2 142 (51.45%) DevOps
3 91 (32.97%) Agile
4 85 (30.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 78 (28.26%) Full-Stack Development
6 73 (26.45%) Mentoring
7 66 (23.91%) Software Engineering
8 64 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
9 60 (21.74%) Microservices
10 54 (19.57%) Containerisation
10 54 (19.57%) Platform Engineering
11 53 (19.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (18.12%) Test Automation
13 49 (17.75%) AI
14 36 (13.04%) Collaborative Culture
14 36 (13.04%) Data Modelling
14 36 (13.04%) Data Pipeline
14 36 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 35 (12.68%) SDLC
15 35 (12.68%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 104 (37.68%) SQL
2 102 (36.96%) Python
3 93 (33.70%) JavaScript
4 78 (28.26%) TypeScript
5 66 (23.91%) Java
6 49 (17.75%) C#
7 21 (7.61%) PHP
8 20 (7.25%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.43%) Bash
10 14 (5.07%) Shell Script
11 9 (3.26%) C++
11 9 (3.26%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.54%) Go
12 7 (2.54%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.81%) Apex Code
14 4 (1.45%) Groovy
15 3 (1.09%) C
15 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (1.09%) Scala
15 3 (1.09%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 40 (14.49%) SC Cleared
3 25 (9.06%) Degree
4 24 (8.70%) DV Cleared
5 10 (3.62%) AWS Certification
6 8 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.45%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (12.68%) QA
2 29 (10.51%) Data Quality
3 16 (5.80%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.81%) WCAG
5 2 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 132 (47.83%) Docker
2 10 (3.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) Ceph
3 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 66 (23.91%) Kubernetes
2 36 (13.04%) Ansible
3 8 (2.90%) Prometheus
4 7 (2.54%) Istio
5 6 (2.17%) Grafana
5 6 (2.17%) Progress Chef
5 6 (2.17%) Puppet
6 4 (1.45%) Argo
6 4 (1.45%) linkerd
7 3 (1.09%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.09%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.09%) Podman
7 3 (1.09%) SCVMM
7 3 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.36%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.36%) Fluentd
9 1 (0.36%) Nagios
Vendors
1 47 (17.03%) Microsoft
2 23 (8.33%) Google
3 11 (3.99%) Databricks
3 11 (3.99%) Splunk
4 9 (3.26%) Dynatrace
5 7 (2.54%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.81%) Confluent
7 5 (1.81%) OpenAI
8 4 (1.45%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.45%) Mistral
9 3 (1.09%) Cisco
9 3 (1.09%) Dell
9 3 (1.09%) Foundry
9 3 (1.09%) IBM
9 3 (1.09%) McAfee
9 3 (1.09%) Palantir
9 3 (1.09%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.09%) VMware
10 2 (0.72%) HP