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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 163 78
Rank change year-on-year +22 -85 -13
Permanent jobs citing Git 244 167 416
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.15% 1.75% 2.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.42% 25.26% 34.58%
Number of salaries quoted 183 124 329
10th Percentile £29,900 £42,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £44,375 £51,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.71% +9.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £81,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.19% -10.07%

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 802 661 1,203
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.77% 6.95% 7.69%
Number of salaries quoted 584 395 884
10th Percentile £33,750 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £44,000 £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 £85,000 £86,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 29 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 29 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 +7 126 £57,500 - 65
Yorkshire -6 70 £50,000 -28.57% 38
North East -12 48 £55,000 +15.79% 31
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 (8.61%) WordPress
2 14 (5.74%) Apache Airflow
3 7 (2.87%) CMS
3 7 (2.87%) IIS
4 6 (2.46%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (2.05%) OpenStack
6 4 (1.64%) Apache
6 4 (1.64%) nginx
7 3 (1.23%) Confluence
8 2 (0.82%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.82%) CICS
8 2 (0.82%) JBoss
9 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.41%) PegaRULES
9 1 (0.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.46%) Shopify
2 3 (1.23%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.82%) Magento
4 1 (0.41%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 150 (61.48%) AWS
2 117 (47.95%) Azure
3 87 (35.66%) GitHub
4 42 (17.21%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (17.21%) Serverless
5 33 (13.52%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (12.70%) AWS Lambda
7 27 (11.07%) Amazon S3
7 27 (11.07%) GCP
8 25 (10.25%) Amazon ECS
9 18 (7.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 16 (6.56%) Power Platform
11 14 (5.74%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (5.74%) Datadog
12 13 (5.33%) AWS Step Functions
13 11 (4.51%) Amazon EC2
13 11 (4.51%) Amazon EKS
13 11 (4.51%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 11 (4.51%) dbt
14 8 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 17 (6.97%) Internet
2 4 (1.64%) DNS
2 4 (1.64%) HTTP
3 3 (1.23%) DHCP
3 3 (1.23%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.23%) LAN
3 3 (1.23%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.23%) VSAN
3 3 (1.23%) WAN
4 2 (0.82%) Firewall
4 2 (0.82%) SSL
5 1 (0.41%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
2 31 (12.70%) NoSQL
3 30 (12.30%) SQL Server
4 29 (11.89%) Relational Database
5 27 (11.07%) MySQL
6 16 (6.56%) Power BI
7 14 (5.74%) Amazon Athena
7 14 (5.74%) DynamoDB
8 12 (4.92%) BigQuery
8 12 (4.92%) MongoDB
9 9 (3.69%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
11 7 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
11 7 (2.87%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (2.87%) Redis
12 3 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
12 3 (1.23%) GIS
12 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.23%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (20.90%) Jenkins
2 35 (14.34%) GitLab
3 19 (7.79%) JIRA
4 13 (5.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 11 (4.51%) Bitbucket
6 6 (2.46%) PHPUnit
6 6 (2.46%) Postman
6 6 (2.46%) Selenium
7 5 (2.05%) Visual Studio Code
8 4 (1.64%) Eclipse
8 4 (1.64%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.64%) JUnit
9 3 (1.23%) Artifactory
9 3 (1.23%) Cucumber
9 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
9 3 (1.23%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.23%) TeamCity
9 3 (1.23%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.82%) Vite
10 2 (0.82%) XCUITest
General
1 92 (37.70%) Social Skills
2 33 (13.52%) Finance
3 32 (13.11%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (6.97%) Multimedia
6 15 (6.15%) Marketing
7 11 (4.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.87%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.87%) Retail
8 7 (2.87%) Tech for Good
9 6 (2.46%) Banking
10 5 (2.05%) Advertising
10 5 (2.05%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.82%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.41%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.41%) Back Office
12 1 (0.41%) Games
12 1 (0.41%) Legal
12 1 (0.41%) Local Government
12 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 116 (47.54%) Developer
2 49 (20.08%) Senior
3 34 (13.93%) Full-Stack Developer
4 30 (12.30%) Java Developer
5 28 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 24 (9.84%) DevOps Engineer
7 22 (9.02%) Data Engineer
8 21 (8.61%) Administrator
8 21 (8.61%) Software Engineer
9 17 (6.97%) Trainee
10 15 (6.15%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.15%) Trainee Administrator
10 15 (6.15%) Web Administrator
11 13 (5.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
11 13 (5.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 13 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
12 12 (4.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 9 (3.69%) AWS Developer
13 9 (3.69%) Lead
14 8 (3.28%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (27.87%) CSS
2 61 (25.00%) HTML
2 61 (25.00%) React
3 50 (20.49%) REST
4 43 (17.62%) Node.js
5 41 (16.80%) .NET
6 40 (16.39%) AngularJS
7 27 (11.07%) RESTful
8 26 (10.66%) Vue
9 25 (10.25%) Spring
10 24 (9.84%) Spring Boot
11 15 (6.15%) .NET Core
11 15 (6.15%) .NET Framework
11 15 (6.15%) Laravel
12 14 (5.74%) ASP.NET
12 14 (5.74%) Entity Framework
12 14 (5.74%) HTML5
13 11 (4.51%) CSS3
13 11 (4.51%) JSON
14 9 (3.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 33 (13.52%) Cloud Native
2 20 (8.20%) Distributed Systems
3 13 (5.33%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (4.51%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (2.87%) Renewable Energy
6 7 (2.87%) Social Media
7 6 (2.46%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.64%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.64%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.64%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.64%) Mobile App
9 3 (1.23%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.23%) Learning Management System
9 3 (1.23%) Low-Code
9 3 (1.23%) Replication
10 2 (0.82%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.82%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 29 (11.89%) Linux
2 16 (6.56%) CentOS
2 16 (6.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.05%) Windows
3 5 (2.05%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.23%) CoreOS
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.41%) Android
5 1 (0.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (66.39%) CI/CD
2 113 (46.31%) DevOps
3 95 (38.93%) Agile
4 78 (31.97%) Full-Stack Development
5 53 (21.72%) Mentoring
5 53 (21.72%) Microservices
6 52 (21.31%) Infrastructure as Code
7 48 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
8 42 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (16.39%) Containerisation
9 40 (16.39%) Software Engineering
10 37 (15.16%) AI
11 35 (14.34%) Web Development
12 34 (13.93%) Platform Engineering
13 31 (12.70%) Clean Code
14 30 (12.30%) Collaborative Culture
15 29 (11.89%) Test Automation
16 27 (11.07%) Performance Optimisation
16 27 (11.07%) Workflow
17 25 (10.25%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 108 (44.26%) JavaScript
2 97 (39.75%) Python
3 93 (38.11%) SQL
4 58 (23.77%) Java
5 57 (23.36%) TypeScript
6 43 (17.62%) C#
7 26 (10.66%) PHP
8 15 (6.15%) Kotlin
8 15 (6.15%) R
9 13 (5.33%) Bash
10 8 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 6 (2.46%) C++
11 6 (2.46%) VB.NET
12 5 (2.05%) Bicep
12 5 (2.05%) Go
12 5 (2.05%) PL/SQL
13 4 (1.64%) Apex Code
13 4 (1.64%) Groovy
13 4 (1.64%) T-SQL
14 3 (1.23%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (13.11%) Security Cleared
2 27 (11.07%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.61%) Degree
4 20 (8.20%) AWS Certification
5 19 (7.79%) Azure Certification
5 19 (7.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 17 (6.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 16 (6.56%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.64%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.82%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (13.93%) QA
2 13 (5.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.82%) GDPR
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 91 (37.30%) Docker
2 6 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.23%) Ceph
4 3 (1.23%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 53 (21.72%) Terraform
2 50 (20.49%) Kubernetes
3 32 (13.11%) Ansible
4 7 (2.87%) Istio
4 7 (2.87%) Prometheus
5 5 (2.05%) Grafana
6 4 (1.64%) Argo
6 4 (1.64%) linkerd
6 4 (1.64%) Progress Chef
6 4 (1.64%) Puppet
7 3 (1.23%) Check_MK
7 3 (1.23%) Kibana
7 3 (1.23%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (1.23%) Packer
7 3 (1.23%) Podman
7 3 (1.23%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.82%) Nagios
8 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.41%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 46 (18.85%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.10%) Google
3 9 (3.69%) Splunk
4 8 (3.28%) Red Hat
5 6 (2.46%) AppDynamics
5 6 (2.46%) Databricks
6 5 (2.05%) Dynatrace
6 5 (2.05%) IBM
6 5 (2.05%) Pega
6 5 (2.05%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.64%) Oracle
8 3 (1.23%) Dell
8 3 (1.23%) McAfee
8 3 (1.23%) OpenAI
8 3 (1.23%) SnapLogic
8 3 (1.23%) WooCommerce
9 2 (0.82%) Atlassian
9 2 (0.82%) DevExpress
9 2 (0.82%) New Relic
9 2 (0.82%) WSO2