GitHub Job Trends in the North of England

GitHub
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 113 164
Rank change year-on-year +21 +51 -13
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 239 179 189
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.92% 2.25% 1.53%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.25% 6.57% 4.12%
Number of salaries quoted 216 97 154
10th Percentile - £46,338 £36,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £68,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -55.15% +6.67% +10.87%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £90,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +0.80%

All Cloud Computing Skills
North of England

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,551 2,723 4,584
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 36.62% 34.20% 37.14%
Number of salaries quoted 2,103 1,549 3,991
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £83,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

GitHub job vacancy trend in the North of England

GitHub
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 February 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in the North of England

GitHub
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 GitHub within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 February 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
Yorkshire -12 117 £30,500 -55.15% 63
North West +24 84 £30,500 -56.43% 63
North East +23 38 £30,500 -53.08% 15
GitHub
England

GitHub
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 11 (4.60%) WordPress
2 7 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.84%) Apache
3 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.84%) CMS
3 2 (0.84%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.42%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 197 (82.43%) AWS
1 197 (82.43%) Azure
2 59 (24.69%) GitHub Actions
3 46 (19.25%) Azure DevOps
4 41 (17.15%) Serverless
5 29 (12.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 27 (11.30%) Amazon S3
6 27 (11.30%) AWS Lambda
7 26 (10.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 25 (10.46%) AWS Step Functions
9 23 (9.62%) GCP
10 15 (6.28%) Amazon SQS
11 13 (5.44%) Amazon ECS
11 13 (5.44%) Amazon EventBridge
12 10 (4.18%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 9 (3.77%) PaaS
13 9 (3.77%) SaaS
14 8 (3.35%) IaaS
15 7 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
16 6 (2.51%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 130 (54.39%) Internet
2 17 (7.11%) Firewall
3 13 (5.44%) DNS
4 12 (5.02%) HTTP
4 12 (5.02%) TCP/IP
5 5 (2.09%) SAN
6 3 (1.26%) VPN
7 1 (0.42%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.42%) Network Security
7 1 (0.42%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.62%) DynamoDB
1 23 (9.62%) NoSQL
2 20 (8.37%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.95%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (4.18%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.26%) Metadata
6 3 (1.26%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.26%) MySQL
6 3 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
7 2 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.84%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.84%) Data Vault
7 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.42%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.42%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.42%) Redis
Development Applications
1 155 (64.85%) Git
2 35 (14.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (3.35%) GitLab
4 6 (2.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.67%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.67%) JIRA
6 1 (0.42%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.42%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.42%) git-flow
6 1 (0.42%) JUnit
6 1 (0.42%) Selenium
General
1 130 (54.39%) Multimedia
2 37 (15.48%) Social Skills
3 16 (6.69%) Telecoms
4 14 (5.86%) Law
5 8 (3.35%) Finance
6 7 (2.93%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (2.09%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.84%) Marketing
8 2 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (0.84%) Retail
9 1 (0.42%) Advertising
9 1 (0.42%) Back Office
9 1 (0.42%) Banking
9 1 (0.42%) German Language
9 1 (0.42%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 130 (54.39%) Trainee
2 107 (44.77%) Developer
3 64 (26.78%) Software Developer
4 63 (26.36%) Trainee Developer
4 63 (26.36%) Trainee Software Developer
5 22 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
6 21 (8.79%) Senior
7 14 (5.86%) Lead
8 13 (5.44%) .NET Developer
9 12 (5.02%) Administrator
9 12 (5.02%) Java Developer
10 11 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.60%) Python Developer
10 11 (4.60%) Trainee Administrator
10 11 (4.60%) Web Administrator
11 9 (3.77%) AWS Developer
12 8 (3.35%) Architect
12 8 (3.35%) Senior Developer
13 7 (2.93%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 147 (61.51%) CSS
1 147 (61.51%) HTML
2 30 (12.55%) React
3 18 (7.53%) .NET
3 18 (7.53%) Node.js
4 17 (7.11%) RESTful
5 16 (6.69%) .NET Core
5 16 (6.69%) AngularJS
5 16 (6.69%) ASP.NET
6 14 (5.86%) Elastic Stack
6 14 (5.86%) Vue
7 13 (5.44%) ASP.NET Core
7 13 (5.44%) AWS CDK
7 13 (5.44%) Blazor
8 12 (5.02%) Django
8 12 (5.02%) Flask
9 11 (4.60%) FastAPI
10 6 (2.51%) CSS3
10 6 (2.51%) HTML5
11 5 (2.09%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.04%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.60%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (2.09%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.09%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.26%) Clustering
5 3 (1.26%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.84%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.84%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.42%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.42%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.42%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.42%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.67%) Linux
2 3 (1.26%) VMS
3 2 (0.84%) Debian
3 2 (0.84%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (61.92%) Mentoring
2 124 (51.88%) Cybersecurity
3 90 (37.66%) CI/CD
4 82 (34.31%) DevOps
5 72 (30.13%) Infrastructure as Code
6 44 (18.41%) Containerisation
7 37 (15.48%) Agile
8 32 (13.39%) Problem-Solving
9 24 (10.04%) DevSecOps
10 20 (8.37%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (7.11%) High Availability
12 16 (6.69%) Deployment Automation
12 16 (6.69%) Microservices
13 15 (6.28%) Application Security
13 15 (6.28%) Web Development
14 13 (5.44%) Continuous Delivery
14 13 (5.44%) Root Cause Analysis
14 13 (5.44%) Site Reliability Engineering
14 13 (5.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
15 12 (5.02%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 176 (73.64%) Python
2 151 (63.18%) JavaScript
3 67 (28.03%) R
4 46 (19.25%) SQL
5 19 (7.95%) Bash
6 15 (6.28%) Go
7 14 (5.86%) Java
8 13 (5.44%) PowerShell
9 12 (5.02%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.60%) Bicep
11 10 (4.18%) Kotlin
12 5 (2.09%) C#
13 4 (1.67%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.42%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 141 (59.00%) AWS Certification
2 140 (58.58%) Azure Certification
3 134 (56.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 130 (54.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (4.60%) AWS Certified Developer
6 9 (3.77%) Security Cleared
7 8 (3.35%) SC Cleared
8 4 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (1.26%) Degree
10 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.42%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.84%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.42%) QA
2 1 (0.42%) SOC 2
System Software
1 51 (21.34%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 67 (28.03%) Terraform
2 22 (9.21%) Ansible
2 22 (9.21%) Kubernetes
3 19 (7.95%) Grafana
4 17 (7.11%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.84%) Argo
5 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 150 (62.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.51%) VMware
3 5 (2.09%) Google
4 3 (1.26%) Databricks
4 3 (1.26%) Informatica
4 3 (1.26%) RedGate
4 3 (1.26%) Talend
5 2 (0.84%) HubSpot
5 2 (0.84%) Oracle
6 1 (0.42%) F5
6 1 (0.42%) Foundry
6 1 (0.42%) HP
6 1 (0.42%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.42%) Splunk