Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Git skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Git over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 61 27
Rank change year-on-year -16 -34 +5
Permanent jobs citing Git 3,400 5,134 14,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.44% 4.96% 9.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.40% 34.64% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 2,382 2,973 5,613
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,328 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Git is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 9,604 14,820 35,456
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 14.33% 22.53%
Number of salaries quoted 6,766 9,070 15,978
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,237 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +9.25%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 2024. 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 -12 2,901 £57,500 -11.54% 702
UK excluding London -9 2,452 £55,000 -4.35% 497
Work from Home -12 1,396 £57,500 -8.00% 441
London -14 872 £72,500 -3.33% 227
South East -30 622 £60,000 - 112
North of England +20 538 £55,000 - 127
South West +12 444 £50,000 -13.04% 89
North West +49 314 £57,500 +4.55% 77
Scotland -19 301 £65,000 +8.33% 29
Midlands -27 292 £50,000 -9.09% 77
Yorkshire +7 189 £52,500 -8.70% 42
West Midlands -15 183 £51,000 -8.93% 54
East of England -26 145 £45,000 -24.05% 54
Wales -4 105 £47,500 +5.56% 13
East Midlands -43 105 £50,000 -9.09% 23
North East -29 35 £40,000 -23.81% 9
Northern Ireland -32 8 £69,750 +76.58% 6

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
1 217 (6.38%) Confluence
2 142 (4.18%) CMS
3 129 (3.79%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.26%) WordPress
5 71 (2.09%) Apache
6 48 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
7 47 (1.38%) OpenStack
8 46 (1.35%) IIS
9 45 (1.32%) nginx
10 39 (1.15%) Drupal
11 36 (1.06%) SharePoint
12 34 (1.00%) Umbraco
13 21 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
14 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 15 (0.44%) JBoss
16 12 (0.35%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
18 9 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
19 8 (0.24%) Jupyter
20 7 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 35 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (0.97%) Photoshop
3 32 (0.94%) Simulink
4 10 (0.29%) GNU Octave
5 6 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.15%) Doxygen
6 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
8 3 (0.088%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.029%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
9 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.029%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (0.79%) SDL Web 8
2 25 (0.74%) Shopify
3 22 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.38%) Magento
6 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) CiviCRM
7 2 (0.059%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,088 (32.00%) AWS
2 942 (27.71%) Azure
3 403 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
4 346 (10.18%) Serverless
5 305 (8.97%) GitHub
6 227 (6.68%) GCP
7 199 (5.85%) SaaS
8 152 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
9 135 (3.97%) Amazon S3
10 113 (3.32%) Amazon EKS
11 107 (3.15%) Power Platform
12 104 (3.06%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (2.76%) Amazon EC2
14 63 (1.85%) Azure Functions
15 59 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
16 58 (1.71%) PaaS
17 57 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
18 56 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
19 49 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.00%) Kerberos
2 59 (1.74%) Firewall
3 41 (1.21%) DNS
4 28 (0.82%) HTTP
4 28 (0.82%) Wireless
5 24 (0.71%) Network Security
5 24 (0.71%) VPN
6 23 (0.68%) Ethernet
6 23 (0.68%) MQTT
7 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.59%) Internet
9 19 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.47%) RS-232
11 14 (0.41%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.38%) 5G
12 13 (0.38%) SSL
13 11 (0.32%) DHCP
14 9 (0.26%) CTI
15 8 (0.24%) Profibus
15 8 (0.24%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 458 (13.47%) SQL Server
2 367 (10.79%) MySQL
3 297 (8.74%) NoSQL
4 276 (8.12%) PostgreSQL
5 251 (7.38%) Relational Database
6 164 (4.82%) Tableau
7 132 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
9 98 (2.88%) Big Data
10 96 (2.82%) DynamoDB
11 95 (2.79%) Apache Hive
12 86 (2.53%) HBase
13 84 (2.47%) Metadata
14 80 (2.35%) MongoDB
15 76 (2.24%) RDBMS
16 71 (2.09%) Power BI
17 69 (2.03%) Hadoop
18 60 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
19 52 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 47 (1.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 609 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 497 (14.62%) JIRA
3 271 (7.97%) Visual Studio
4 257 (7.56%) Bitbucket
5 218 (6.41%) GitLab
6 168 (4.94%) Selenium
7 148 (4.35%) Subversion
8 102 (3.00%) TeamCity
9 100 (2.94%) Cypress.io
10 86 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
11 85 (2.50%) Sourcetree
12 80 (2.35%) JUnit
12 80 (2.35%) Maven
13 79 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
14 71 (2.09%) Artifactory
15 63 (1.85%) NUnit
16 55 (1.62%) Postman
17 46 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
18 45 (1.32%) Visual Studio Code
19 43 (1.26%) Cucumber
General
1 961 (28.26%) Social Skills
2 620 (18.24%) Finance
3 332 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 297 (8.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 249 (7.32%) Law
6 217 (6.38%) Retail
7 215 (6.32%) Marketing
7 215 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
8 157 (4.62%) Games
9 144 (4.24%) Banking
10 133 (3.91%) Public Sector
11 130 (3.82%) Legal
12 119 (3.50%) Manufacturing
13 105 (3.09%) Electronics
14 70 (2.06%) Telecoms
15 68 (2.00%) Automotive
16 44 (1.29%) Aerospace
16 44 (1.29%) Organisational Skills
17 29 (0.85%) Police
18 28 (0.82%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,650 (48.53%) Developer
2 862 (25.35%) Senior
3 614 (18.06%) Software Engineer
4 414 (12.18%) Senior Developer
5 374 (11.00%) Lead
6 239 (7.03%) Full Stack Developer
7 200 (5.88%) PHP Developer
8 195 (5.74%) Software Developer
9 159 (4.68%) .NET Developer
10 158 (4.65%) Java Developer
11 155 (4.56%) DevOps Engineer
12 154 (4.53%) Senior Software Engineer
13 136 (4.00%) AWS Engineer
14 128 (3.76%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 122 (3.59%) Analyst
16 111 (3.26%) C# Developer
17 109 (3.21%) Data Analyst
17 109 (3.21%) Data Engineer
18 90 (2.65%) Games Developer
19 88 (2.59%) Unity 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 821 (24.15%) HTML
2 793 (23.32%) CSS
3 705 (20.74%) React
4 679 (19.97%) .NET
5 491 (14.44%) RESTful
6 414 (12.18%) REST
7 382 (11.24%) AngularJS
8 365 (10.74%) Node.js
9 353 (10.38%) Web Services
10 303 (8.91%) .NET Framework
11 293 (8.62%) JSON
12 278 (8.18%) ASP.NET
13 265 (7.79%) Spring
14 258 (7.59%) jQuery
15 238 (7.00%) Laravel
16 233 (6.85%) .NET Core
17 227 (6.68%) XML
18 223 (6.56%) Vue
19 213 (6.26%) HTML5
20 201 (5.91%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 211 (6.21%) Algorithms
2 139 (4.09%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.47%) Mobile App
4 107 (3.15%) Product Ownership
5 103 (3.03%) Cloud Native
6 100 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
7 89 (2.62%) Virtual Reality
8 86 (2.53%) IoT
9 81 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 75 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 73 (2.15%) Reference Data
12 68 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 61 (1.79%) Onboarding
14 59 (1.74%) Virtual Team
15 55 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
16 49 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
16 49 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
17 48 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
18 46 (1.35%) Data Structures
19 35 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 426 (12.53%) Linux
2 234 (6.88%) Windows
3 143 (4.21%) Unix
4 78 (2.29%) Android
5 74 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 63 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 50 (1.47%) CentOS
8 35 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 33 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.68%) Windows 10
11 21 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
12 20 (0.59%) CoreOS
13 19 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.38%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.35%) Solaris
15 12 (0.35%) VMS
16 10 (0.29%) SUSE
17 9 (0.26%) Debian
18 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,624 (47.76%) Agile
2 1,138 (33.47%) DevOps
3 1,092 (32.12%) Software Engineering
4 868 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
5 855 (25.15%) CI/CD
6 557 (16.38%) Test Automation
7 526 (15.47%) Computer Science
8 517 (15.21%) Microservices
9 501 (14.74%) TDD
10 453 (13.32%) Full Stack Development
11 447 (13.15%) Scrum
12 390 (11.47%) SDLC
13 371 (10.91%) Artificial Intelligence
14 367 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
15 354 (10.41%) MVC
16 348 (10.24%) Mentoring
17 335 (9.85%) Design Patterns
18 325 (9.56%) Containerisation
19 318 (9.35%) Visualisation
20 309 (9.09%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,263 (37.15%) JavaScript
2 1,057 (31.09%) Python
3 1,023 (30.09%) SQL
4 984 (28.94%) C#
5 655 (19.26%) Java
6 479 (14.09%) PHP
7 418 (12.29%) TypeScript
8 229 (6.74%) Bash
9 225 (6.62%) Go
10 183 (5.38%) PowerShell
11 177 (5.21%) C++
12 168 (4.94%) T-SQL
13 167 (4.91%) C
14 112 (3.29%) Ruby
15 89 (2.62%) PL/SQL
16 75 (2.21%) Perl
17 67 (1.97%) SPARQL
18 65 (1.91%) Prolog
19 63 (1.85%) Kotlin
20 48 (1.41%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 914 (26.88%) Degree
2 333 (9.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 300 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 247 (7.26%) SC Cleared
5 161 (4.74%) DBS Check
6 116 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 113 (3.32%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 41 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 33 (0.97%) PhD
11 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 21 (0.62%) HND
13 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.32%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.29%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.21%) ISEB
18 7 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (6.91%) QA
2 113 (3.32%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.09%) GDPR
4 36 (1.06%) WCAG
5 30 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 15 (0.44%) WAI
8 8 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 8 (0.24%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.24%) PSD2
9 6 (0.18%) JTAG
10 5 (0.15%) MISRA
10 5 (0.15%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
11 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.12%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.12%) PMO
12 3 (0.088%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.088%) NCSC
12 3 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 778 (22.88%) Docker
2 108 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.76%) HDFS
4 55 (1.62%) Firmware
5 49 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
7 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (0.29%) NFS
8 10 (0.29%) pfSense
9 6 (0.18%) Ceph
9 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.15%) vSphere
11 4 (0.12%) Varnish
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.088%) Gluster
12 3 (0.088%) KVM
12 3 (0.088%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 520 (15.29%) Kubernetes
2 450 (13.24%) Terraform
3 290 (8.53%) Ansible
4 98 (2.88%) Puppet
5 45 (1.32%) Progress Chef
6 44 (1.29%) Grafana
7 24 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.59%) ZABBIX
9 16 (0.47%) Istio
9 16 (0.47%) Nagios
10 15 (0.44%) Kibana
11 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (0.29%) Argo
12 10 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.29%) SCDPM
13 9 (0.26%) Graphite
13 9 (0.26%) MIIS
14 7 (0.21%) Foglight
14 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 504 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 258 (7.59%) Databricks
3 176 (5.18%) Google
4 134 (3.94%) Oracle
5 86 (2.53%) Informatica
6 66 (1.94%) Cloudera
7 57 (1.68%) Red Hat
8 51 (1.50%) Adobe
9 44 (1.29%) SAP
10 42 (1.24%) WSO2
11 40 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 36 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 35 (1.03%) VMware
14 27 (0.79%) Sitecore
14 27 (0.79%) WooCommerce
15 26 (0.76%) Splunk
16 23 (0.68%) Xamarin
17 21 (0.62%) DevExpress
18 20 (0.59%) Apple
19 19 (0.56%) ForgeRock