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

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 161 74
Rank change year-on-year +10 -87 -6
Permanent jobs citing Git 221 166 487
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 1.76% 2.78%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.55% 25.23% 35.44%
Number of salaries quoted 174 124 383
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +13.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,751 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £84,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 774 658 1,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.69% 6.98% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 576 391 1,030
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,987 £75,000 £69,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 19 July 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 19 July 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 -4 111 £60,709 +5.58% 48
Yorkshire -7 72 £50,000 -28.57% 28
North East -19 38 £52,000 +4.00% 29
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 (9.50%) WordPress
2 11 (4.98%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (3.17%) CMS
3 7 (3.17%) IIS
4 6 (2.71%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.36%) Confluence
5 3 (1.36%) nginx
6 2 (0.90%) CICS
6 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.45%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.45%) Apache
7 1 (0.45%) JBoss
7 1 (0.45%) PegaRULES
7 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.45%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.71%) Shopify
2 3 (1.36%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.90%) Magento
4 1 (0.45%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 132 (59.73%) AWS
2 108 (48.87%) Azure
3 82 (37.10%) GitHub
4 41 (18.55%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (18.55%) Serverless
5 30 (13.57%) AWS Lambda
5 30 (13.57%) GitHub Actions
6 26 (11.76%) Amazon S3
7 24 (10.86%) Amazon ECS
8 19 (8.60%) GCP
9 17 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (7.24%) AWS Step Functions
11 15 (6.79%) Datadog
11 15 (6.79%) Power Platform
12 14 (6.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 14 (6.33%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (4.07%) Amazon EKS
14 8 (3.62%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.62%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.69%) Internet
2 4 (1.81%) HTTP
3 3 (1.36%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.90%) Firewall
5 1 (0.45%) DHCP
5 1 (0.45%) DNS
5 1 (0.45%) LAN
5 1 (0.45%) Network Security
5 1 (0.45%) SSL
5 1 (0.45%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.45%) VSAN
5 1 (0.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.57%) NoSQL
2 27 (12.22%) MySQL
2 27 (12.22%) PostgreSQL
2 27 (12.22%) Relational Database
3 23 (10.41%) SQL Server
4 17 (7.69%) Amazon Athena
5 16 (7.24%) DynamoDB
6 15 (6.79%) Power BI
7 7 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 7 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 7 (3.17%) Redis
8 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.71%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.81%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (1.36%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (1.36%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (1.36%) Tableau
11 2 (0.90%) GIS
11 2 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 42 (19.00%) Jenkins
2 30 (13.57%) GitLab
3 19 (8.60%) JIRA
4 11 (4.98%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 7 (3.17%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.71%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.71%) Postman
6 6 (2.71%) Selenium
7 4 (1.81%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.36%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.36%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.36%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.36%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.36%) JUnit
8 3 (1.36%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.36%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.90%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.90%) Vite
9 2 (0.90%) XCUITest
General
1 77 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 28 (12.67%) Public Sector
3 26 (11.76%) Finance
4 17 (7.69%) Multimedia
5 14 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.88%) Marketing
7 9 (4.07%) Retail
8 8 (3.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.17%) Tech for Good
10 6 (2.71%) Banking
10 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
11 5 (2.26%) Advertising
11 5 (2.26%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.45%) Back Office
13 1 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.45%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 113 (51.13%) Developer
2 49 (22.17%) Senior
3 33 (14.93%) Java Developer
4 31 (14.03%) Full-Stack Developer
5 29 (13.12%) Senior Developer
6 21 (9.50%) Software Engineer
7 19 (8.60%) DevOps Engineer
8 17 (7.69%) Trainee
9 15 (6.79%) Administrator
9 15 (6.79%) Trainee Administrator
9 15 (6.79%) Web Administrator
10 13 (5.88%) Data Engineer
10 13 (5.88%) Software Developer
11 12 (5.43%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 12 (5.43%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 11 (4.98%) AWS Developer
12 11 (4.98%) Principal DevOps Engineer
12 11 (4.98%) Principal Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Lead
14 7 (3.17%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (29.86%) CSS
2 60 (27.15%) HTML
3 57 (25.79%) React
4 46 (20.81%) REST
5 44 (19.91%) Node.js
6 42 (19.00%) AngularJS
7 39 (17.65%) .NET
8 27 (12.22%) RESTful
8 27 (12.22%) Vue
9 24 (10.86%) Spring
10 23 (10.41%) Spring Boot
11 16 (7.24%) Laravel
12 14 (6.33%) .NET Core
13 13 (5.88%) .NET Framework
13 13 (5.88%) ASP.NET
13 13 (5.88%) Entity Framework
14 12 (5.43%) HTML5
15 10 (4.52%) JSON
16 9 (4.07%) CSS3
16 9 (4.07%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.86%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.60%) Distributed Systems
3 11 (4.98%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.62%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.62%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.71%) Legacy Applications
5 6 (2.71%) Renewable Energy
6 4 (1.81%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.81%) Hedge funds
6 4 (1.81%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.36%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.36%) Learning Management System
7 3 (1.36%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (0.90%) Mainframe
8 2 (0.90%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.05%) Linux
2 12 (5.43%) CentOS
2 12 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.36%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.90%) Windows
4 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.45%) Android
5 1 (0.45%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.45%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (64.25%) CI/CD
2 104 (47.06%) DevOps
3 83 (37.56%) Agile
4 71 (32.13%) Full-Stack Development
5 50 (22.62%) Mentoring
6 47 (21.27%) Microservices
7 44 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (19.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 37 (16.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 36 (16.29%) Software Engineering
11 34 (15.38%) Containerisation
12 33 (14.93%) Web Development
13 31 (14.03%) AI
14 28 (12.67%) Clean Code
14 28 (12.67%) Platform Engineering
15 27 (12.22%) Workflow
16 24 (10.86%) Performance Optimisation
16 24 (10.86%) Scrum
16 24 (10.86%) Test Automation
17 22 (9.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 103 (46.61%) JavaScript
2 89 (40.27%) SQL
3 83 (37.56%) Python
4 59 (26.70%) Java
5 56 (25.34%) TypeScript
6 41 (18.55%) C#
7 27 (12.22%) PHP
8 18 (8.14%) Kotlin
9 15 (6.79%) R
10 9 (4.07%) Bash
11 6 (2.71%) C++
11 6 (2.71%) VB.NET
12 5 (2.26%) Bicep
12 5 (2.26%) PL/SQL
12 5 (2.26%) PowerShell
13 4 (1.81%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.81%) Go
13 4 (1.81%) Groovy
13 4 (1.81%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.36%) Scala
Qualifications
1 27 (12.22%) Security Cleared
2 22 (9.95%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.05%) Degree
4 19 (8.60%) AWS Certification
4 19 (8.60%) Azure Certification
4 19 (8.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (7.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 14 (6.33%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.81%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.90%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (14.03%) QA
2 8 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 75 (33.94%) Docker
2 4 (1.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 43 (19.46%) Terraform
2 40 (18.10%) Kubernetes
3 27 (12.22%) Ansible
4 4 (1.81%) Grafana
5 3 (1.36%) Istio
5 3 (1.36%) linkerd
5 3 (1.36%) Packer
5 3 (1.36%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.36%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.36%) Puppet
6 2 (0.90%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.45%) Argo
7 1 (0.45%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.45%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) Nagios
7 1 (0.45%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 45 (20.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.62%) Splunk
3 6 (2.71%) AppDynamics
3 6 (2.71%) Google
4 5 (2.26%) Databricks
4 5 (2.26%) IBM
4 5 (2.26%) Pega
4 5 (2.26%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.81%) Oracle
6 3 (1.36%) Dynatrace
6 3 (1.36%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.36%) SnapLogic
6 3 (1.36%) WooCommerce
7 2 (0.90%) DevExpress
7 2 (0.90%) Red Hat
7 2 (0.90%) WSO2
8 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.45%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.45%) Infor
8 1 (0.45%) McAfee