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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 110 53
Rank change year-on-year +23 -57 -5
Permanent jobs citing Git 243 211 362
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.31% 2.17% 5.37%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.00% 27.16% 41.23%
Number of salaries quoted 194 107 292
10th Percentile - £35,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -41.90% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £58,000 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,375 £85,000 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,200 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.68% -3.85% -

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 540 777 878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 5.13% 7.98% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 393 437 732
10th Percentile - £37,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,710 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £86,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 +31 108 £31,500 -40.00% 87
Yorkshire -5 103 £30,500 -43.26% 55
North East +18 32 £30,500 -43.26% 16
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 14 (5.76%) WordPress
2 9 (3.70%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.06%) CMS
3 5 (2.06%) nginx
4 3 (1.23%) Apache
4 3 (1.23%) Apache Solr
4 3 (1.23%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.82%) Confluence
5 2 (0.82%) Drupal
5 2 (0.82%) EPiServer
5 2 (0.82%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.23%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.41%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 181 (74.49%) Azure
2 173 (71.19%) AWS
3 137 (56.38%) GitHub
4 32 (13.17%) Serverless
5 23 (9.47%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (7.82%) Amazon S3
7 17 (7.00%) Amazon SQS
7 17 (7.00%) GitHub Actions
8 16 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
9 15 (6.17%) Amazon EKS
9 15 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
10 14 (5.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 14 (5.76%) Amazon ECS
10 14 (5.76%) Amazon EventBridge
11 13 (5.35%) AWS Step Functions
12 7 (2.88%) GCP
13 5 (2.06%) OpenShift
14 4 (1.65%) Azure AKS
15 3 (1.23%) npm
16 2 (0.82%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 118 (48.56%) Internet
2 8 (3.29%) DNS
3 3 (1.23%) HTTP
3 3 (1.23%) SSH
4 2 (0.82%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.76%) PostgreSQL
1 31 (12.76%) SQL Server
2 24 (9.88%) NoSQL
3 17 (7.00%) DynamoDB
3 17 (7.00%) MySQL
3 17 (7.00%) Relational Database
4 9 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 6 (2.47%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.23%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.23%) Metadata
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.41%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.41%) Data Vault
8 1 (0.41%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.41%) Redis
8 1 (0.41%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (0.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (7.00%) Jenkins
2 14 (5.76%) GitLab
2 14 (5.76%) JIRA
3 10 (4.12%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.47%) JUnit
5 3 (1.23%) Maven
5 3 (1.23%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.23%) webpack
6 2 (0.82%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.82%) Grunt
6 2 (0.82%) gulp
6 2 (0.82%) Selenium
6 2 (0.82%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.41%) Ant
7 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.41%) ESLint
7 1 (0.41%) git-flow
7 1 (0.41%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 116 (47.74%) Multimedia
2 56 (23.05%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.58%) Finance
4 6 (2.47%) Advertising
4 6 (2.47%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.06%) Marketing
6 4 (1.65%) Retail
7 3 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (0.82%) Electronics
8 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.41%) Banking
9 1 (0.41%) Games
9 1 (0.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.41%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.41%) Publishing
9 1 (0.41%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 132 (54.32%) Developer
2 116 (47.74%) Trainee
3 63 (25.93%) Software Developer
4 54 (22.22%) Trainee Developer
4 54 (22.22%) Trainee Software Developer
5 23 (9.47%) Senior
6 18 (7.41%) .NET Developer
7 17 (7.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 17 (7.00%) Senior Developer
8 16 (6.58%) Lead
9 14 (5.76%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.94%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 11 (4.53%) Administrator
11 11 (4.53%) Cloud Engineer
11 11 (4.53%) Trainee Administrator
11 11 (4.53%) Web Administrator
12 10 (4.12%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (3.70%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.29%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 155 (63.79%) CSS
1 155 (63.79%) HTML
2 40 (16.46%) React
3 33 (13.58%) .NET
4 30 (12.35%) RESTful
5 27 (11.11%) Node.js
6 22 (9.05%) AngularJS
6 22 (9.05%) REST
7 20 (8.23%) Spring
7 20 (8.23%) Spring Boot
8 19 (7.82%) ASP.NET
9 18 (7.41%) .NET Core
10 16 (6.58%) ASP.NET Core
10 16 (6.58%) Web Services
11 13 (5.35%) AWS CDK
11 13 (5.35%) Blazor
12 12 (4.94%) Elastic Stack
13 9 (3.70%) Kafka
14 8 (3.29%) Laravel
15 7 (2.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.58%) Cloud Native
2 15 (6.17%) Distributed Systems
3 7 (2.88%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (1.65%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.23%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.82%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.82%) Graphic Design
6 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.82%) NHS
6 2 (0.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.41%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.41%) IoT
7 1 (0.41%) Life Science
7 1 (0.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (10.29%) Linux
2 12 (4.94%) Windows
3 3 (1.23%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (55.97%) Mentoring
2 106 (43.62%) Cybersecurity
3 70 (28.81%) Agile
4 62 (25.51%) CI/CD
5 57 (23.46%) Problem-Solving
6 53 (21.81%) DevOps
7 43 (17.70%) Microservices
8 41 (16.87%) Containerisation
9 30 (12.35%) Full-Stack Development
10 25 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (9.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 22 (9.05%) Web Development
12 19 (7.82%) TDD
13 18 (7.41%) Front End Development
13 18 (7.41%) Scrum
14 17 (7.00%) User Experience
15 16 (6.58%) Deployment Automation
15 16 (6.58%) Software Engineering
16 14 (5.76%) Root Cause Analysis
17 13 (5.35%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 189 (77.78%) JavaScript
2 136 (55.97%) Python
3 64 (26.34%) R
4 34 (13.99%) SQL
5 24 (9.88%) Java
6 21 (8.64%) TypeScript
7 19 (7.82%) C#
8 15 (6.17%) PHP
9 6 (2.47%) Go
10 4 (1.65%) Bash
10 4 (1.65%) C
11 3 (1.23%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.82%) Bicep
12 2 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.41%) Dart
13 1 (0.41%) Delphi
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 127 (52.26%) AWS Certification
2 118 (48.56%) Azure Certification
3 116 (47.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 116 (47.74%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (4.53%) AWS Certified Developer
5 10 (4.12%) Degree
6 9 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.82%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.82%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.41%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.29%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.47%) QA
3 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.41%) GDPR
3 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.41%) NIST
System Software
1 46 (18.93%) Docker
2 2 (0.82%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (14.81%) Terraform
2 33 (13.58%) Kubernetes
3 18 (7.41%) Ansible
4 12 (4.94%) Grafana
5 9 (3.70%) Prometheus
6 7 (2.88%) Control-M
7 3 (1.23%) cPanel
7 3 (1.23%) Plesk
8 2 (0.82%) Argo
8 2 (0.82%) Nagios
8 2 (0.82%) Rancher
9 1 (0.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.41%) Podman
9 1 (0.41%) Puppet
9 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (50.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.29%) Oracle
3 4 (1.65%) Pega
3 4 (1.65%) WSO2
4 3 (1.23%) Adobe
5 2 (0.82%) Google
5 2 (0.82%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.82%) Splunk
6 1 (0.41%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.41%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.41%) IBM
6 1 (0.41%) Moogsoft
6 1 (0.41%) New Relic
6 1 (0.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.41%) Sage
6 1 (0.41%) Salesforce