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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 165 77
Rank change year-on-year +29 -88 -11
Permanent jobs citing Git 253 166 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.18% 1.74% 2.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.20% 25.23% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 189 123 329
10th Percentile £29,750 £42,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £84,630 £93,778 £81,000
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 811 658 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.78% 6.91% 7.64%
Number of salaries quoted 586 392 881
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,125 £36,750
25th Percentile £43,813 £46,250 £43,750
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 £68,750
90th Percentile £86,250 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.23% +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 31 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 31 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 +24 130 £57,500 - 63
Yorkshire -8 72 £50,000 -28.57% 39
North East -7 51 £53,500 +12.63% 28
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 (8.70%) WordPress
2 15 (5.93%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.77%) CMS
3 7 (2.77%) IIS
4 6 (2.37%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (1.98%) Apache
5 5 (1.98%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.58%) nginx
7 3 (1.19%) Confluence
8 2 (0.79%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.79%) CICS
8 2 (0.79%) JBoss
9 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.40%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.40%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.37%) Shopify
2 3 (1.19%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.79%) Magento
4 1 (0.40%) Primavera
4 1 (0.40%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 153 (60.47%) AWS
2 122 (48.22%) Azure
3 88 (34.78%) GitHub
4 43 (17.00%) Azure DevOps
4 43 (17.00%) Serverless
5 34 (13.44%) GitHub Actions
6 32 (12.65%) AWS Lambda
7 29 (11.46%) GCP
8 28 (11.07%) Amazon S3
9 26 (10.28%) Amazon ECS
10 19 (7.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 18 (7.11%) Power Platform
12 15 (5.93%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (5.93%) Datadog
13 14 (5.53%) AWS Step Functions
14 12 (4.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 11 (4.35%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (4.35%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (4.35%) dbt
16 8 (3.16%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.72%) Internet
2 4 (1.58%) DNS
2 4 (1.58%) HTTP
3 3 (1.19%) DHCP
3 3 (1.19%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.19%) LAN
3 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.19%) VSAN
3 3 (1.19%) WAN
4 2 (0.79%) Firewall
4 2 (0.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.40%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 32 (12.65%) NoSQL
2 32 (12.65%) SQL Server
3 31 (12.25%) Relational Database
4 28 (11.07%) MySQL
5 17 (6.72%) Power BI
6 15 (5.93%) Amazon Athena
6 15 (5.93%) DynamoDB
7 12 (4.74%) BigQuery
7 12 (4.74%) MongoDB
8 9 (3.56%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (3.56%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (3.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (2.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 7 (2.77%) Redis
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon QuickSight
11 3 (1.19%) GIS
11 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 52 (20.55%) Jenkins
2 36 (14.23%) GitLab
3 19 (7.51%) JIRA
4 13 (5.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (4.35%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.37%) JUnit
6 6 (2.37%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.37%) Postman
6 6 (2.37%) Selenium
6 6 (2.37%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (1.98%) Eclipse
7 5 (1.98%) IntelliJ
8 3 (1.19%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.19%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.79%) Maven
9 2 (0.79%) Spock
General
1 96 (37.94%) Social Skills
2 35 (13.83%) Finance
3 32 (12.65%) Public Sector
4 28 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.72%) Multimedia
6 16 (6.32%) Marketing
7 11 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.77%) Retail
8 7 (2.77%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.37%) Banking
10 5 (1.98%) Advertising
10 5 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Publishing
11 2 (0.79%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Back Office
12 1 (0.40%) Games
12 1 (0.40%) Legal
12 1 (0.40%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 122 (48.22%) Developer
2 50 (19.76%) Senior
3 34 (13.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 31 (12.25%) Java Developer
5 29 (11.46%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.49%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (9.09%) Data Engineer
8 22 (8.70%) Software Engineer
9 21 (8.30%) Administrator
10 17 (6.72%) Software Developer
10 17 (6.72%) Trainee
11 15 (5.93%) Trainee Administrator
11 15 (5.93%) Web Administrator
12 14 (5.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 13 (5.14%) Principal DevOps Engineer
13 13 (5.14%) Principal Engineer
14 12 (4.74%) Full-Stack Java Developer
15 10 (3.95%) AWS Developer
16 9 (3.56%) Lead
17 8 (3.16%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (27.67%) CSS
2 63 (24.90%) HTML
3 61 (24.11%) React
4 53 (20.95%) REST
5 44 (17.39%) Node.js
6 42 (16.60%) .NET
6 42 (16.60%) AngularJS
7 27 (10.67%) RESTful
7 27 (10.67%) Spring
8 26 (10.28%) Vue
9 25 (9.88%) Spring Boot
10 16 (6.32%) .NET Core
11 15 (5.93%) .NET Framework
11 15 (5.93%) ASP.NET
11 15 (5.93%) Laravel
12 14 (5.53%) Entity Framework
12 14 (5.53%) HTML5
13 11 (4.35%) CSS3
13 11 (4.35%) JSON
14 10 (3.95%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.04%) Cloud Native
2 21 (8.30%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.77%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.77%) Legacy Applications
6 7 (2.77%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.77%) Social Media
7 6 (2.37%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.58%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.58%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.58%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.58%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.19%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.19%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.19%) Private Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Replication
10 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.46%) Linux
2 16 (6.32%) CentOS
2 16 (6.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (1.98%) Windows
3 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.58%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.19%) CoreOS
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.79%) Android
6 2 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (66.40%) CI/CD
2 117 (46.25%) DevOps
3 98 (38.74%) Agile
4 79 (31.23%) Full-Stack Development
5 54 (21.34%) Microservices
6 53 (20.95%) Mentoring
7 52 (20.55%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
9 47 (18.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 44 (17.39%) Software Engineering
11 40 (15.81%) Containerisation
12 38 (15.02%) AI
13 36 (14.23%) Web Development
14 34 (13.44%) Platform Engineering
15 32 (12.65%) Clean Code
16 31 (12.25%) Collaborative Culture
16 31 (12.25%) Test Automation
17 29 (11.46%) Workflow
18 28 (11.07%) Performance Optimisation
19 27 (10.67%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 112 (44.27%) JavaScript
2 99 (39.13%) Python
3 96 (37.94%) SQL
4 63 (24.90%) Java
5 60 (23.72%) TypeScript
6 45 (17.79%) C#
7 27 (10.67%) PHP
8 17 (6.72%) Kotlin
9 15 (5.93%) R
10 13 (5.14%) Bash
11 8 (3.16%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.77%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.37%) C++
14 5 (1.98%) Apex Code
14 5 (1.98%) Bicep
14 5 (1.98%) Go
14 5 (1.98%) Groovy
14 5 (1.98%) PL/SQL
15 4 (1.58%) Swift
15 4 (1.58%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 27 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.30%) Degree
4 20 (7.91%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.51%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.72%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (6.32%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.58%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.44%) QA
2 14 (5.53%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.56%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.79%) GDPR
4 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 93 (36.76%) Docker
2 6 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.19%) Ceph
4 3 (1.19%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (20.95%) Terraform
2 50 (19.76%) Kubernetes
3 32 (12.65%) Ansible
4 7 (2.77%) Istio
4 7 (2.77%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.98%) Grafana
6 4 (1.58%) Argo
6 4 (1.58%) linkerd
6 4 (1.58%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.58%) Puppet
7 3 (1.19%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.19%) Kibana
7 3 (1.19%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.19%) Packer
7 3 (1.19%) Podman
7 3 (1.19%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.79%) Nagios
8 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 48 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.35%) Google
3 10 (3.95%) Splunk
4 8 (3.16%) Red Hat
5 7 (2.77%) AppDynamics
6 6 (2.37%) Databricks
6 6 (2.37%) Salesforce
7 5 (1.98%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.98%) IBM
7 5 (1.98%) Pega
8 4 (1.58%) Oracle
9 3 (1.19%) Dell
9 3 (1.19%) McAfee
9 3 (1.19%) OpenAI
9 3 (1.19%) SnapLogic
9 3 (1.19%) WooCommerce
10 2 (0.79%) Apple
10 2 (0.79%) DevExpress
10 2 (0.79%) New Relic
10 2 (0.79%) WSO2