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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 104 130
Rank change year-on-year +11 +26 +38
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 224 200 169
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.08% 2.20% 1.99%
As % of the Cloud Services category 5.40% 6.88% 5.06%
Number of salaries quoted 202 104 131
10th Percentile - £40,000 £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,250 £54,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £67,750 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year -54.98% -2.44% +16.67%
75th Percentile £60,000 £77,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,750 £91,934
England median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -15.38% -10.34% +4.40%

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 4,149 2,907 3,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 38.51% 31.97% 39.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,884 1,617 2,849
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,970 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -15 107 £30,500 -49.79% 83
North West +27 83 £30,500 -56.43% 82
North East +34 34 £30,500 -55.64% 34
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 (4.91%) WordPress
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.34%) Apache
3 3 (1.34%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.89%) CMS
4 2 (0.89%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.45%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 190 (84.82%) Azure
2 184 (82.14%) AWS
3 45 (20.09%) GitHub Actions
4 40 (17.86%) Serverless
5 36 (16.07%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
6 24 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (9.82%) Amazon S3
8 21 (9.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (9.38%) AWS Step Functions
9 16 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
10 13 (5.80%) Amazon EventBridge
11 10 (4.46%) GCP
12 9 (4.02%) SaaS
13 7 (3.13%) IaaS
13 7 (3.13%) PaaS
14 6 (2.68%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (2.23%) Amazon OpenSearch
16 4 (1.79%) Azure App Service
16 4 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 130 (58.04%) Internet
2 5 (2.23%) DNS
2 5 (2.23%) Firewall
3 4 (1.79%) HTTP
3 4 (1.79%) SAN
3 4 (1.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.93%) SQL Server
2 19 (8.48%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (8.04%) DynamoDB
3 18 (8.04%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.68%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.23%) Amazon Athena
6 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.34%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (1.34%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.34%) Apache Iceberg
7 3 (1.34%) Data Lake
7 3 (1.34%) Data Vault
7 3 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.34%) Metadata
7 3 (1.34%) MySQL
7 3 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
9 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 153 (68.30%) Git
2 21 (9.38%) Jenkins
3 7 (3.13%) Cypress.io
4 5 (2.23%) GitLab
4 5 (2.23%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.79%) JIRA
6 3 (1.34%) Selenium
7 2 (0.89%) Appium
7 2 (0.89%) Postman
7 2 (0.89%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.45%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.45%) git-flow
8 1 (0.45%) JUnit
8 1 (0.45%) SonarQube
General
1 130 (58.04%) Multimedia
2 35 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 9 (4.02%) Finance
4 8 (3.57%) Telecoms
5 7 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (2.68%) Law
7 5 (2.23%) Public Sector
8 2 (0.89%) Banking
8 2 (0.89%) Marketing
8 2 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.45%) Advertising
9 1 (0.45%) Back Office
9 1 (0.45%) Legal
9 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (58.04%) Trainee
2 104 (46.43%) Developer
3 64 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 63 (28.13%) Trainee Developer
4 63 (28.13%) Trainee Software Developer
5 23 (10.27%) Senior
6 15 (6.70%) Lead
7 13 (5.80%) .NET Developer
8 12 (5.36%) Administrator
9 11 (4.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 11 (4.91%) Python Developer
9 11 (4.91%) Trainee Administrator
9 11 (4.91%) Web Administrator
10 9 (4.02%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (4.02%) Senior Developer
11 8 (3.57%) Java Developer
12 7 (3.13%) Architect
12 7 (3.13%) AWS Developer
13 6 (2.68%) Data Engineer
13 6 (2.68%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 149 (66.52%) CSS
1 149 (66.52%) HTML
2 34 (15.18%) React
3 19 (8.48%) .NET
4 18 (8.04%) RESTful
5 17 (7.59%) ASP.NET
6 16 (7.14%) .NET Core
7 15 (6.70%) Vue
8 14 (6.25%) Blazor
8 14 (6.25%) Node.js
9 13 (5.80%) ASP.NET Core
9 13 (5.80%) AWS CDK
10 12 (5.36%) AngularJS
10 12 (5.36%) Django
10 12 (5.36%) Flask
11 11 (4.91%) FastAPI
12 8 (3.57%) CSS3
12 8 (3.57%) HTML5
13 5 (2.23%) Elastic Stack
14 4 (1.79%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.82%) Cloud Native
2 11 (4.91%) Data Structures
3 6 (2.68%) Product Ownership
4 4 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.34%) Clustering
5 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Cloud
5 3 (1.34%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.34%) Virtual Team
6 2 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (0.89%) Driving Licence
6 2 (0.89%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.45%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.45%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.45%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.34%) VMS
2 1 (0.45%) Android
2 1 (0.45%) Linux
2 1 (0.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (66.07%) Mentoring
2 125 (55.80%) Cybersecurity
3 75 (33.48%) CI/CD
4 65 (29.02%) DevOps
5 59 (26.34%) Infrastructure as Code
6 42 (18.75%) Agile
7 32 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
8 30 (13.39%) Containerisation
9 16 (7.14%) Microservices
10 15 (6.70%) Deployment Automation
10 15 (6.70%) Web Development
11 14 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (5.80%) API Testing
12 13 (5.80%) Application Security
12 13 (5.80%) Root Cause Analysis
12 13 (5.80%) Software Engineering
12 13 (5.80%) Test Automation
13 12 (5.36%) Data Analysis
13 12 (5.36%) Front End Development
13 12 (5.36%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 164 (73.21%) Python
2 152 (67.86%) JavaScript
3 67 (29.91%) R
4 42 (18.75%) SQL
5 13 (5.80%) TypeScript
6 12 (5.36%) Java
6 12 (5.36%) PowerShell
7 10 (4.46%) Bicep
8 8 (3.57%) Bash
9 7 (3.13%) C#
10 5 (2.23%) Go
10 5 (2.23%) Kotlin
11 4 (1.79%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.45%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 142 (63.39%) AWS Certification
2 139 (62.05%) Azure Certification
3 135 (60.27%) Microsoft Certification
4 130 (58.04%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 11 (4.91%) AWS Certified Developer
6 8 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 8 (3.57%) Security Cleared
7 3 (1.34%) Degree
7 3 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
8 1 (0.45%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.34%) Data Quality
1 3 (1.34%) QA
System Software
1 48 (21.43%) Docker
2 2 (0.89%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.89%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 53 (23.66%) Terraform
2 18 (8.04%) Kubernetes
3 12 (5.36%) Grafana
4 11 (4.91%) Ansible
5 9 (4.02%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.45%) Argo
6 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 148 (66.07%) Microsoft
2 5 (2.23%) VMware
3 3 (1.34%) Databricks
3 3 (1.34%) Google
3 3 (1.34%) Informatica
3 3 (1.34%) RedGate
3 3 (1.34%) Talend
4 2 (0.89%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.45%) Foundry
5 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle
5 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.45%) Splunk