Git Job Trends in the Midlands

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 115 100
Rank change year-on-year -38 -15 -29
Permanent jobs citing Git 109 118 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.82% 2.41% 2.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.76% 26.11% 34.73%
Number of salaries quoted 89 78 209
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,750 £45,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +16.50% -12.53%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 379 452 835
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.85% 9.23% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 279 285 654
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £34,375 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,850
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +8.33% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Git job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Git
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the Midlands

Git
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
West Midlands -47 65 £47,500 -20.83% 22
East Midlands -32 42 £54,000 +44.00% 32
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 9 (8.26%) IIS
2 7 (6.42%) CMS
2 7 (6.42%) WordPress
3 4 (3.67%) Confluence
3 4 (3.67%) nginx
4 2 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.92%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.67%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.92%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Shopify
2 1 (0.92%) Magento
2 1 (0.92%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 63 (57.80%) Azure
2 44 (40.37%) AWS
3 27 (24.77%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (22.94%) GitHub
5 9 (8.26%) npm
5 9 (8.26%) NuGet
5 9 (8.26%) SonarCloud
6 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.59%) Serverless
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.75%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.75%) SaaS
9 3 (2.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.83%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.83%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 19 (17.43%) Internet
2 12 (11.01%) Bluetooth
3 8 (7.34%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (7.34%) Wireless
4 6 (5.50%) Modbus
5 4 (3.67%) LTE
5 4 (3.67%) MQTT
5 4 (3.67%) ZigBee
6 2 (1.83%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.92%) 4G
7 1 (0.92%) BGP
7 1 (0.92%) Broadband
7 1 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.92%) DNS
7 1 (0.92%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.92%) HTTP
7 1 (0.92%) Intranet
7 1 (0.92%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.92%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.26%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.34%) MySQL
2 8 (7.34%) Power BI
2 8 (7.34%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.67%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.67%) Star Schema
4 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.75%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.75%) Power Query
5 2 (1.83%) DB2
5 2 (1.83%) Easytrieve
5 2 (1.83%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.83%) Redis
5 2 (1.83%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.92%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) GitLab
2 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.42%) Subversion
4 5 (4.59%) JIRA
4 5 (4.59%) Vite
5 4 (3.67%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.67%) GDB
5 4 (3.67%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.75%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.75%) JUnit
7 2 (1.83%) Gatling
7 2 (1.83%) Postman
7 2 (1.83%) Selenium
8 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.92%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.92%) gulp
8 1 (0.92%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.92%) webpack
General
1 19 (17.43%) Multimedia
1 19 (17.43%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.84%) Finance
3 8 (7.34%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.42%) Electronics
5 6 (5.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.67%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Automotive
7 4 (3.67%) Marketing
8 3 (2.75%) Advertising
8 3 (2.75%) Banking
8 3 (2.75%) Billing
8 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.83%) Games
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (27.52%) Developer
2 23 (21.10%) Senior
3 20 (18.35%) Software Engineer
4 19 (17.43%) Trainee
5 15 (13.76%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (12.84%) Embedded Engineer
6 14 (12.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 11 (10.09%) Software Developer
8 9 (8.26%) Senior DevOps
8 9 (8.26%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 8 (7.34%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (6.42%) Trainee Developer
10 7 (6.42%) Trainee Software Developer
11 6 (5.50%) Administrator
11 6 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Data Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Embedded Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (5.50%) Trainee Administrator
11 6 (5.50%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (31.19%) CSS
1 34 (31.19%) HTML
2 18 (16.51%) React
3 17 (15.60%) .NET
4 15 (13.76%) REST
5 14 (12.84%) YAML
6 12 (11.01%) Node.js
7 10 (9.17%) Laravel
8 9 (8.26%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.34%) RESTful
10 7 (6.42%) Vue
11 6 (5.50%) .NET Core
11 6 (5.50%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET
12 5 (4.59%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (4.59%) pytest
13 4 (3.67%) LEMP Stack
13 4 (3.67%) Unity DI Container
13 4 (3.67%) Yocto
14 3 (2.75%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.50%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (5.50%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.50%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.59%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.67%) CAN bus
4 4 (3.67%) Device Driver
4 4 (3.67%) IoT
4 4 (3.67%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (2.75%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.83%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.83%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.83%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (20.18%) Linux
2 10 (9.17%) Windows
3 6 (5.50%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.83%) zOS
5 1 (0.92%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (43.12%) CI/CD
2 40 (36.70%) DevOps
3 32 (29.36%) Agile
4 26 (23.85%) Software Engineering
5 24 (22.02%) Mentoring
6 23 (21.10%) Test Automation
7 20 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.51%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (12.84%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (11.01%) Coaching
12 11 (10.09%) Full-Stack Development
12 11 (10.09%) Web Development
13 10 (9.17%) Decision-Making
13 10 (9.17%) Microservices
14 9 (8.26%) DevSecOps
14 9 (8.26%) E-Commerce
14 9 (8.26%) Scrum
14 9 (8.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 8 (7.34%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.95%) Python
2 45 (41.28%) JavaScript
3 21 (19.27%) SQL
4 19 (17.43%) Bash
5 16 (14.68%) C
6 15 (13.76%) C#
7 14 (12.84%) R
8 13 (11.93%) PHP
9 10 (9.17%) C++
10 9 (8.26%) PowerShell
11 8 (7.34%) Embedded C
11 8 (7.34%) Java
12 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
13 5 (4.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 3 (2.75%) Go
15 2 (1.83%) Assembly Language
15 2 (1.83%) COBOL
15 2 (1.83%) JCL
15 2 (1.83%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.92%) VB
Qualifications
1 23 (21.10%) AWS Certification
2 21 (19.27%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (17.43%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 19 (17.43%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.50%) Degree
5 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.67%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (2.75%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.75%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) QA
2 4 (3.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.67%) JTAG
3 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.83%) GDPR
3 2 (1.83%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.83%) MISRA
3 2 (1.83%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (24.77%) Docker
2 10 (9.17%) Firmware
3 6 (5.50%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.83%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 22 (20.18%) Terraform
2 19 (17.43%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.75%) Ansible
4 2 (1.83%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.92%) Nagios
5 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.26%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (3.67%) Atmel
4 2 (1.83%) Databricks
4 2 (1.83%) Google
4 2 (1.83%) IBM
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco
5 1 (0.92%) Informatica
5 1 (0.92%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.92%) SAP
5 1 (0.92%) WooCommerce