Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Git skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Git over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 72 61
Rank change year-on-year -56 -11 -34
Permanent jobs citing Git 1,375 3,421 4,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 3.42% 5.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.87% 35.89% 34.99%
Number of salaries quoted 922 2,354 2,897
10th Percentile £37,050 £35,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £94,878 £91,934 £97,328
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,013 9,532 14,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.76% 9.54% 14.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3,651 6,651 8,729
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,560 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.65% -4.35% +4.55%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the UK

Git
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Git.

Salary trend for Git in the UK

Git
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the UK over the 6 months to 21 May 2025. 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
England -55 1,244 £64,000 +11.30% 1,940
UK excluding London -72 865 £60,000 +9.09% 1,427
Work from Home -40 647 £65,000 +13.04% 1,446
London -24 460 £70,000 -2.78% 839
South East -32 278 £63,000 +5.00% 426
North of England -103 185 £58,500 +6.36% 326
Midlands -31 145 £52,500 +5.00% 191
South West -17 130 £60,000 +20.00% 184
North West -114 120 £57,500 - 198
West Midlands -10 92 £60,000 +20.00% 137
Yorkshire -30 60 £65,000 +23.81% 91
East Midlands -12 53 £37,500 -25.00% 51
Scotland -19 53 £60,000 -7.69% 82
East of England -33 51 £53,250 +18.33% 157
Wales -13 31 £51,000 +10.55% 29
North East +13 9 £55,000 +37.50% 41
Northern Ireland +36 1 - - 30

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 123 (8.95%) Confluence
2 52 (3.78%) CMS
3 36 (2.62%) WordPress
4 28 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 28 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 18 (1.31%) IIS
6 16 (1.16%) JBoss
7 14 (1.02%) Red Hat Fuse
8 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
8 13 (0.95%) nginx
9 11 (0.80%) Apache
10 10 (0.73%) Tomcat
11 8 (0.58%) Headless CMS
11 8 (0.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 8 (0.58%) SharePoint
12 7 (0.51%) Drupal
13 6 (0.44%) OpenStack
14 5 (0.36%) Umbraco
15 4 (0.29%) Apache Solr
16 3 (0.22%) Mule
Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (0.36%) Simulink
4 4 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.15%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.073%) Blender
7 1 (0.073%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.073%) Maya
7 1 (0.073%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 1 (0.073%) Sketch
7 1 (0.073%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 15 (1.09%) Oracle EBS
1 15 (1.09%) Shopify
2 9 (0.65%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.36%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.073%) Endur
6 1 (0.073%) Magento
6 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 439 (31.93%) AWS
2 437 (31.78%) Azure
3 180 (13.09%) GCP
4 167 (12.15%) Azure DevOps
5 150 (10.91%) GitHub
6 125 (9.09%) Serverless
7 94 (6.84%) Amazon S3
8 77 (5.60%) SaaS
9 73 (5.31%) Amazon EC2
10 66 (4.80%) Power Platform
11 63 (4.58%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (4.36%) Azure Service Bus
13 48 (3.49%) Amazon EKS
14 42 (3.05%) PaaS
15 40 (2.91%) Azure Data Factory
16 39 (2.84%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 39 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
17 34 (2.47%) npm
18 33 (2.40%) SonarCloud
19 30 (2.18%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 49 (3.56%) DNS
2 42 (3.05%) Firewall
3 38 (2.76%) HTTP
4 36 (2.62%) WAN
5 28 (2.04%) SD-WAN
6 27 (1.96%) VPN
7 23 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 12 (0.87%) 5G
9 11 (0.80%) Internet
9 11 (0.80%) Wireless
10 10 (0.73%) SMTP
10 10 (0.73%) SSH
11 8 (0.58%) Multicast
11 8 (0.58%) Network Security
12 7 (0.51%) Bluetooth
12 7 (0.51%) LAN
13 6 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
13 6 (0.44%) DHCP
13 6 (0.44%) FTP
13 6 (0.44%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (17.75%) MySQL
2 180 (13.09%) SQL Server
3 141 (10.25%) Relational Database
4 139 (10.11%) PostgreSQL
5 122 (8.87%) NoSQL
6 73 (5.31%) MongoDB
7 60 (4.36%) Elasticsearch
8 59 (4.29%) Tableau
9 53 (3.85%) Power BI
10 40 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
10 40 (2.91%) Data Lake
11 33 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
12 22 (1.60%) DynamoDB
12 22 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 21 (1.53%) BigQuery
13 21 (1.53%) Redis
14 18 (1.31%) Big Data
15 17 (1.24%) RDBMS
15 17 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 14 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 219 (15.93%) JIRA
2 211 (15.35%) Jenkins
3 92 (6.69%) JUnit
4 75 (5.45%) GitLab
5 71 (5.16%) Bitbucket
6 68 (4.95%) Visual Studio
7 67 (4.87%) webpack
8 65 (4.73%) Maven
9 62 (4.51%) Selenium
10 60 (4.36%) SonarQube
11 50 (3.64%) Octopus Deploy
11 50 (3.64%) Team Foundation Server
12 45 (3.27%) Subversion
13 43 (3.13%) Cypress.io
14 37 (2.69%) Cucumber
15 33 (2.40%) Mockito
15 33 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
16 32 (2.33%) MSBuild
16 32 (2.33%) NUnit
17 27 (1.96%) Gradle
General
1 396 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 352 (25.60%) Finance
3 168 (12.22%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (10.84%) Banking
5 113 (8.22%) Retail
6 95 (6.91%) Games
7 69 (5.02%) Public Sector
8 49 (3.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 45 (3.27%) Presentation Skills
10 39 (2.84%) Aerospace
11 36 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 34 (2.47%) Electronics
12 34 (2.47%) Marketing
13 31 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 28 (2.04%) Law
15 19 (1.38%) Advertising
16 15 (1.09%) Investment Banking
17 14 (1.02%) Front Office
17 14 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
18 13 (0.95%) Legal
Job Titles
1 598 (43.49%) Developer
2 377 (27.42%) Senior
3 198 (14.40%) Software Engineer
4 172 (12.51%) Senior Developer
5 97 (7.05%) Lead
6 85 (6.18%) Full-Stack Developer
7 82 (5.96%) Senior Software Engineer
8 73 (5.31%) Java Developer
9 66 (4.80%) Architect
10 64 (4.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 53 (3.85%) Analyst
11 53 (3.85%) PHP Developer
12 52 (3.78%) .NET Developer
13 46 (3.35%) DevOps Engineer
14 45 (3.27%) JavaScript Developer
15 44 (3.20%) C# Developer
16 40 (2.91%) React Developer
17 39 (2.84%) Software Developer
18 38 (2.76%) Data Analyst
19 37 (2.69%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 387 (28.15%) HTML
2 367 (26.69%) CSS
3 309 (22.47%) React
4 297 (21.60%) .NET
5 224 (16.29%) RESTful
6 192 (13.96%) REST
7 179 (13.02%) Node.js
8 140 (10.18%) AngularJS
9 132 (9.60%) Web Services
10 125 (9.09%) Spring
11 110 (8.00%) ASP.NET
12 109 (7.93%) JSON
13 106 (7.71%) .NET Framework
14 105 (7.64%) HTML5
14 105 (7.64%) Vue
15 99 (7.20%) Spring Boot
16 97 (7.05%) XML
17 87 (6.33%) Laravel
18 82 (5.96%) Jest
19 73 (5.31%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 100 (7.27%) Mobile App
2 66 (4.80%) Algorithms
3 56 (4.07%) Distributed Systems
4 51 (3.71%) Management Information System
5 46 (3.35%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 36 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 34 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 30 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (1.96%) Public Cloud
12 25 (1.82%) Data Centre
13 24 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
15 21 (1.53%) IoT
15 21 (1.53%) Mobile Games
16 18 (1.31%) Equities
16 18 (1.31%) NHS
17 17 (1.24%) Data Structures
18 15 (1.09%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 277 (20.15%) Linux
2 124 (9.02%) Windows
3 53 (3.85%) Unix
4 46 (3.35%) Android
5 32 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 28 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 17 (1.24%) CentOS
7 17 (1.24%) VMS
8 15 (1.09%) Windows Server
9 14 (1.02%) Ubuntu
10 13 (0.95%) Rocky
11 7 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.36%) Debian
12 5 (0.36%) Embedded Linux
13 3 (0.22%) Windows Server 2019
13 3 (0.22%) zOS
14 1 (0.073%) CoreOS
14 1 (0.073%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 576 (41.89%) Agile
2 519 (37.75%) CI/CD
3 472 (34.33%) DevOps
4 390 (28.36%) Problem-Solving
5 358 (26.04%) Software Engineering
6 242 (17.60%) Microservices
7 229 (16.65%) Test Automation
8 208 (15.13%) Full-Stack Development
9 180 (13.09%) Analytics
10 175 (12.73%) Computer Science
11 174 (12.65%) MVC
12 173 (12.58%) Mentoring
13 168 (12.22%) Scrum
14 162 (11.78%) TDD
15 149 (10.84%) User Experience
15 149 (10.84%) Web Development
16 143 (10.40%) Code Quality
17 138 (10.04%) Containerisation
18 136 (9.89%) Front End Development
18 136 (9.89%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 563 (40.95%) JavaScript
2 492 (35.78%) SQL
3 480 (34.91%) Python
4 314 (22.84%) C#
5 271 (19.71%) Java
6 210 (15.27%) TypeScript
7 166 (12.07%) PHP
8 87 (6.33%) C++
9 71 (5.16%) C
10 70 (5.09%) Bash
11 69 (5.02%) PowerShell
12 35 (2.55%) T-SQL
13 30 (2.18%) Go
14 23 (1.67%) Perl
15 22 (1.60%) Groovy
15 22 (1.60%) R
16 21 (1.53%) Kotlin
17 20 (1.45%) Bicep
17 20 (1.45%) Shell Script
18 15 (1.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 294 (21.38%) Degree
2 129 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 105 (7.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 90 (6.55%) SC Cleared
5 65 (4.73%) DBS Check
6 54 (3.93%) Master's Degree
7 48 (3.49%) BPSS Clearance
8 31 (2.25%) Azure Certification
9 20 (1.45%) PhD
10 14 (1.02%) DV Cleared
11 11 (0.80%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.73%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.65%) HND
14 8 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (0.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 5 (0.36%) HNC
17 4 (0.29%) RHCSA
18 3 (0.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
18 3 (0.22%) OCP
18 3 (0.22%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (6.18%) QA
2 45 (3.27%) Accessibility
3 37 (2.69%) GDPR
4 23 (1.67%) WCAG
5 18 (1.31%) SLA
6 16 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 7 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.29%) JTAG
8 4 (0.29%) PMO
9 2 (0.15%) NCSC
9 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.073%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.073%) ECSS
10 1 (0.073%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.073%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.073%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.073%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 375 (27.27%) Docker
2 25 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
2 25 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.53%) Active Directory
4 17 (1.24%) Firmware
5 7 (0.51%) DFS Replication
5 7 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
6 6 (0.44%) Apache Flume
6 6 (0.44%) Postfix
7 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.29%) vSphere
9 3 (0.22%) KVM
9 3 (0.22%) NFS
10 2 (0.15%) HDFS
10 2 (0.15%) Xen
11 1 (0.073%) Dovecot
11 1 (0.073%) Squid
11 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.073%) zsh
Systems Management
1 273 (19.85%) Kubernetes
2 161 (11.71%) Terraform
3 155 (11.27%) Ansible
4 45 (3.27%) Grafana
5 33 (2.40%) Single Sign-On
6 30 (2.18%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.24%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.02%) Istio
9 11 (0.80%) Nagios
9 11 (0.80%) Puppet
10 10 (0.73%) Kibana
11 9 (0.65%) Argo
12 6 (0.44%) Oozie
13 5 (0.36%) Kustomize
13 5 (0.36%) Packer
14 4 (0.29%) HAProxy
15 3 (0.22%) logstash
15 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
16 2 (0.15%) CFEngine
16 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 132 (9.60%) Microsoft
2 101 (7.35%) Databricks
3 78 (5.67%) Atlassian
3 78 (5.67%) Oracle
4 56 (4.07%) Google
5 38 (2.76%) Red Hat
6 34 (2.47%) VMware
7 32 (2.33%) IBM
8 21 (1.53%) ServiceNow
9 16 (1.16%) Meraki
9 16 (1.16%) Twitter
10 14 (1.02%) Cisco
10 14 (1.02%) MuleSoft
10 14 (1.02%) Splunk
11 13 (0.95%) New Relic
12 12 (0.87%) Okta
12 12 (0.87%) WooCommerce
13 10 (0.73%) Bloomberg
13 10 (0.73%) SAP
14 9 (0.65%) Salesforce