Git Job Trends in England

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 70 74
Rank change year-on-year -40 +4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Git 1,063 1,807 1,948
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.98% 3.76% 3.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.50% 36.21% 32.62%
Number of salaries quoted 780 1,023 1,587
10th Percentile - £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,339 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.33% -1.86% -3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £87,525 £92,250 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% -3.85%

All Development Application Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,173 4,990 5,972
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.91% 10.40% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2,153 2,848 4,895
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,603 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £98,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -4.00% -3.85%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Git job vacancy trend in England

Git
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 17 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in England

Git
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London -35 377 £75,000 +7.14% 203
North of England +35 268 £30,500 -43.26% 218
South East -77 163 £60,000 -7.69% 340
North West +35 117 £31,000 -43.64% 101
Yorkshire +8 116 £30,500 -41.90% 84
Midlands -10 112 £49,250 -6.19% 139
South West -46 97 £42,500 -34.62% 139
West Midlands +18 79 £36,500 -41.60% 61
North East +17 35 £30,500 -43.26% 35
East Midlands -40 31 £56,600 +61.71% 74
East of England -65 28 £40,000 -27.27% 159
Git
UK

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 42 (3.95%) Confluence
2 31 (2.92%) Apache
2 31 (2.92%) WordPress
3 26 (2.45%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.22%) nginx
4 13 (1.22%) OpenStack
5 12 (1.13%) Apache Spark
6 11 (1.03%) IIS
7 8 (0.75%) Apache Solr
7 8 (0.75%) CMS
8 4 (0.38%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) Apache Superset
9 3 (0.28%) Liferay
9 3 (0.28%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.19%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.19%) Drupal
10 2 (0.19%) EPiServer
10 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
10 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (0.94%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.75%) Photoshop
4 7 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
5 5 (0.47%) Adobe Illustrator
6 4 (0.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 4 (0.38%) Windchill
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.094%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.094%) Doxygen
7 1 (0.094%) Trello
Business Applications
1 27 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.94%) Shopify
3 4 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.28%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.19%) Dynamics NAV
5 2 (0.19%) Markit EDM
6 1 (0.094%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 617 (58.04%) Azure
2 494 (46.47%) AWS
3 396 (37.25%) GitHub
4 154 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
5 87 (8.18%) Power Platform
6 85 (8.00%) Serverless
7 65 (6.11%) Amazon S3
8 59 (5.55%) GitHub Actions
9 57 (5.36%) GCP
10 45 (4.23%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (3.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 37 (3.48%) AWS CloudFormation
12 33 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
12 33 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 32 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
13 32 (3.01%) Power Automate
14 30 (2.82%) Amazon ECS
15 29 (2.73%) Amazon EKS
15 29 (2.73%) PowerApps
16 28 (2.63%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 242 (22.77%) Internet
2 45 (4.23%) DNS
3 22 (2.07%) HTTP
4 18 (1.69%) Firewall
5 17 (1.60%) WAN
6 16 (1.51%) TCP/IP
7 14 (1.32%) BGP
8 13 (1.22%) MPLS
9 12 (1.13%) Broadband
10 11 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
11 10 (0.94%) 4G
11 10 (0.94%) Ethernet VPN
11 10 (0.94%) IOS XR
11 10 (0.94%) LAN
11 10 (0.94%) SMTP
12 9 (0.85%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.85%) SSH
12 9 (0.85%) WinSCP
13 8 (0.75%) DHCP
13 8 (0.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (11.38%) SQL Server
2 97 (9.13%) PostgreSQL
3 81 (7.62%) NoSQL
4 77 (7.24%) Power BI
5 64 (6.02%) Relational Database
6 59 (5.55%) MySQL
7 49 (4.61%) MongoDB
8 46 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
9 29 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
10 27 (2.54%) DynamoDB
11 26 (2.45%) Tableau
12 25 (2.35%) Amazon Redshift
13 22 (2.07%) Data Lake
14 21 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
15 18 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 17 (1.60%) BigQuery
17 16 (1.51%) Looker
18 15 (1.41%) Amazon Athena
18 15 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
19 14 (1.32%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 152 (14.30%) Jenkins
2 135 (12.70%) JIRA
3 68 (6.40%) GitLab
4 47 (4.42%) Selenium
5 35 (3.29%) Visual Studio
6 31 (2.92%) Bitbucket
7 30 (2.82%) JUnit
8 20 (1.88%) Cypress.io
9 19 (1.79%) Cucumber
10 18 (1.69%) Maven
10 18 (1.69%) Vite
11 16 (1.51%) Robot Framework
11 16 (1.51%) webpack
12 15 (1.41%) Snyk
13 14 (1.32%) Postman
14 13 (1.22%) Visual Studio Code
15 12 (1.13%) LabVIEW
16 11 (1.03%) Subversion
17 10 (0.94%) REST Assured
18 9 (0.85%) JMeter
General
1 291 (27.38%) Social Skills
2 237 (22.30%) Multimedia
3 164 (15.43%) Finance
4 81 (7.62%) Analytical Skills
5 37 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
6 35 (3.29%) Marketing
6 35 (3.29%) Public Sector
7 33 (3.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (3.01%) Banking
9 30 (2.82%) Law
9 30 (2.82%) Retail
10 24 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 20 (1.88%) Electronics
12 13 (1.22%) Legal
12 13 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 12 (1.13%) Advertising
13 12 (1.13%) Billing
14 11 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.94%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.85%) Games
Job Titles
1 403 (37.91%) Developer
2 235 (22.11%) Trainee
3 163 (15.33%) Senior
4 141 (13.26%) Software Developer
5 111 (10.44%) Lead
6 109 (10.25%) Trainee Developer
6 109 (10.25%) Trainee Software Developer
7 83 (7.81%) Software Engineer
8 67 (6.30%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (6.30%) Senior Developer
9 58 (5.46%) DevOps Engineer
10 51 (4.80%) Data Engineer
11 42 (3.95%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 39 (3.67%) .NET Developer
13 34 (3.20%) Java Developer
14 31 (2.92%) Analyst
14 31 (2.92%) Senior Software Engineer
15 30 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
16 29 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 28 (2.63%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 380 (35.75%) CSS
2 377 (35.47%) HTML
3 165 (15.52%) React
4 139 (13.08%) .NET
5 115 (10.82%) REST
6 87 (8.18%) Node.js
7 84 (7.90%) RESTful
8 65 (6.11%) AngularJS
9 61 (5.74%) Spring
10 54 (5.08%) .NET Core
10 54 (5.08%) Web Services
11 51 (4.80%) Spring Boot
11 51 (4.80%) Vue
12 41 (3.86%) SOAP
13 40 (3.76%) .NET Framework
14 37 (3.48%) ASP.NET
15 33 (3.10%) Kafka
15 33 (3.10%) pytest
16 30 (2.82%) Elastic Stack
17 28 (2.63%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 56 (5.27%) Product Ownership
2 49 (4.61%) Cloud Native
3 36 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
4 34 (3.20%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.88%) Mobile App
6 20 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 19 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 19 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.32%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.13%) Derivative
9 12 (1.13%) Onboarding
9 12 (1.13%) Social Media
10 9 (0.85%) GNSS
10 9 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (0.85%) Virtual Team
11 8 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (0.75%) Equities
11 8 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
11 8 (0.75%) Satnav
Operating Systems
1 159 (14.96%) Linux
2 103 (9.69%) Windows
3 34 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.79%) Unix
5 16 (1.51%) VMS
6 15 (1.41%) Android
6 15 (1.41%) Apple iOS
7 14 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 11 (1.03%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.56%) Amazon Linux
9 6 (0.56%) CentOS
10 5 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.19%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.19%) VxWorks
13 1 (0.094%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 436 (41.02%) CI/CD
2 397 (37.35%) Agile
3 339 (31.89%) Mentoring
4 335 (31.51%) DevOps
5 256 (24.08%) Problem-Solving
6 219 (20.60%) Cybersecurity
7 158 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
8 150 (14.11%) Software Engineering
9 141 (13.26%) Containerisation
10 131 (12.32%) Full-Stack Development
11 130 (12.23%) Scrum
12 116 (10.91%) Microservices
13 115 (10.82%) Test Automation
14 104 (9.78%) AI
15 99 (9.31%) Analytics
16 89 (8.37%) Technical Leadership
17 88 (8.28%) User Experience
18 78 (7.34%) Front End Development
19 76 (7.15%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 572 (53.81%) Python
2 471 (44.31%) JavaScript
3 249 (23.42%) SQL
4 134 (12.61%) R
5 125 (11.76%) Java
6 120 (11.29%) C#
7 116 (10.91%) TypeScript
8 81 (7.62%) PowerShell
9 66 (6.21%) Bash
10 43 (4.05%) PHP
11 32 (3.01%) C++
12 30 (2.82%) Go
13 24 (2.26%) C
14 17 (1.60%) Scala
15 13 (1.22%) T-SQL
16 12 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 12 (1.13%) Swift
16 12 (1.13%) VB.NET
17 11 (1.03%) Apex Code
17 11 (1.03%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 264 (24.84%) AWS Certification
2 252 (23.71%) Azure Certification
3 243 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 236 (22.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 146 (13.73%) Degree
6 126 (11.85%) Security Cleared
7 60 (5.64%) SC Cleared
8 44 (4.14%) Computer Science Degree
9 38 (3.57%) DV Cleared
10 18 (1.69%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.60%) AWS Certified Developer
12 11 (1.03%) HND
13 10 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 10 (0.94%) ISTQB
14 8 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
15 7 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
16 5 (0.47%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.47%) PhD
17 4 (0.38%) CCNP
17 4 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (10.44%) QA
2 59 (5.55%) Data Quality
3 51 (4.80%) Accessibility
4 30 (2.82%) Def Stans
5 17 (1.60%) GDPR
6 14 (1.32%) WCAG
7 10 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (0.56%) SLA
9 5 (0.47%) PERC
10 4 (0.38%) ECSS
10 4 (0.38%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.19%) MISRA
11 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.094%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.094%) MiFID
12 1 (0.094%) NCSC
12 1 (0.094%) NIST
12 1 (0.094%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 191 (17.97%) Docker
2 33 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.66%) Firmware
4 7 (0.66%) NFS
5 5 (0.47%) vSphere
6 4 (0.38%) DFS Replication
6 4 (0.38%) Dovecot
6 4 (0.38%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.38%) Postfix
6 4 (0.38%) Squid
6 4 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.094%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.094%) iptables
7 1 (0.094%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.094%) vCloud
7 1 (0.094%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 190 (17.87%) Terraform
2 169 (15.90%) Kubernetes
3 111 (10.44%) Ansible
4 41 (3.86%) Grafana
5 31 (2.92%) Prometheus
6 19 (1.79%) Argo
7 14 (1.32%) Rancher
8 7 (0.66%) Control-M
8 7 (0.66%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.66%) Kibana
8 7 (0.66%) Puppet
9 6 (0.56%) Avamar
9 6 (0.56%) Nagios
10 5 (0.47%) Nessus
10 5 (0.47%) yum
11 4 (0.38%) Istio
11 4 (0.38%) linkerd
11 4 (0.38%) Mesos
11 4 (0.38%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 340 (31.98%) Microsoft
2 40 (3.76%) Oracle
3 29 (2.73%) Google
4 28 (2.63%) Databricks
5 21 (1.98%) Cisco
6 19 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 18 (1.69%) Red Hat
7 18 (1.69%) VMware
8 15 (1.41%) Black Duck
8 15 (1.41%) Coverity
9 13 (1.22%) OpenAI
10 12 (1.13%) SAP
11 11 (1.03%) Atlassian
11 11 (1.03%) Pure Storage
12 10 (0.94%) ServiceNow
13 9 (0.85%) Dynatrace
14 8 (0.75%) Xamarin
15 7 (0.66%) Commvault
15 7 (0.66%) Splunk
15 7 (0.66%) Veeam