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 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 133 118
Rank change year-on-year -4 -15 -23
Permanent jobs citing Git 145 107 194
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.96% 1.88% 1.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.52% 26.95% 34.70%
Number of salaries quoted 96 79 97
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,742 £51,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +28.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,438 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,488 £74,000 £76,500
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.92% +8.33% -7.69%

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 397 397 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.62% 6.96% 5.56%
Number of salaries quoted 250 246 325
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,109 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £69,125 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £73,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -30 85 £47,500 -34.48% 68
East Midlands +3 60 £60,000 +4.35% 50
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 7 (4.83%) Confluence
1 7 (4.83%) SharePoint
1 7 (4.83%) WordPress
2 4 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.07%) Apache
3 3 (2.07%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) CMS
4 1 (0.69%) Documentum
4 1 (0.69%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle HTTP Server
4 1 (0.69%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.69%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.69%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 5 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.07%) Shopify
3 1 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.69%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 71 (48.97%) Azure
2 44 (30.34%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (28.97%) AWS
4 19 (13.10%) GitHub
4 19 (13.10%) Power Platform
5 9 (6.21%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (6.21%) SaaS
5 9 (6.21%) Serverless
6 8 (5.52%) Azure Functions
7 6 (4.14%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (4.14%) GCP
7 6 (4.14%) Power Automate
8 5 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (3.45%) SonarCloud
9 4 (2.76%) Google Ads
9 4 (2.76%) IaaS
9 4 (2.76%) Meta Ads
9 4 (2.76%) PowerApps
9 4 (2.76%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (9.66%) Wi-Fi
1 14 (9.66%) Wireless
2 11 (7.59%) Internet
3 9 (6.21%) Bluetooth
4 8 (5.52%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.83%) DNS
6 6 (4.14%) Firewall
6 6 (4.14%) MQTT
6 6 (4.14%) VLAN
6 6 (4.14%) ZigBee
7 5 (3.45%) VPN
8 4 (2.76%) BGP
8 4 (2.76%) DHCP
8 4 (2.76%) EIGRP
8 4 (2.76%) LAN
8 4 (2.76%) OSPF
8 4 (2.76%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (2.76%) VRRP
8 4 (2.76%) VXLAN
8 4 (2.76%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.66%) Power BI
1 14 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 10 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (4.83%) Delta Lake
4 7 (4.83%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.45%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.76%) Star Schema
7 3 (2.07%) MySQL
8 2 (1.38%) Db2
8 2 (1.38%) Easytrieve
8 2 (1.38%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.38%) Parquet
8 2 (1.38%) Power Query
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.69%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.69%) Metadata
9 1 (0.69%) Redis
Development Applications
1 26 (17.93%) GitLab
2 23 (15.86%) JIRA
3 19 (13.10%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.97%) Cucumber
5 12 (8.28%) Postman
5 12 (8.28%) Selenium
5 12 (8.28%) Subversion
6 8 (5.52%) JUnit
7 7 (4.83%) Zephyr
8 6 (4.14%) Gatling
8 6 (4.14%) GDB
8 6 (4.14%) JMeter
9 5 (3.45%) SoapUI
9 5 (3.45%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.76%) Robot Framework
10 4 (2.76%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.76%) Storybook
11 3 (2.07%) Maven
12 2 (1.38%) Ant
12 2 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 46 (31.72%) Social Skills
2 23 (15.86%) Public Sector
3 21 (14.48%) Finance
4 14 (9.66%) Electronics
5 13 (8.97%) Manufacturing
6 11 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (7.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (6.21%) Marketing
8 8 (5.52%) Multimedia
8 8 (5.52%) Retail
9 5 (3.45%) Banking
9 5 (3.45%) Games
9 5 (3.45%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.76%) Automotive
11 3 (2.07%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.38%) Billing
12 2 (1.38%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.69%) Law
13 1 (0.69%) Police
Job Titles
1 45 (31.03%) Developer
2 40 (27.59%) Senior
3 26 (17.93%) Software Engineer
4 19 (13.10%) Embedded Engineer
5 13 (8.97%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) Data Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 12 (8.28%) Lead
7 9 (6.21%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (6.21%) Software Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Administrator
8 8 (5.52%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (5.52%) Trainee
9 7 (4.83%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (4.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.14%) Junior Developer
10 6 (4.14%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.69%) REST
2 26 (17.93%) CSS
3 22 (15.17%) HTML
3 22 (15.17%) React
4 21 (14.48%) .NET
5 20 (13.79%) Terraform
6 13 (8.97%) Yocto
7 12 (8.28%) JSON
7 12 (8.28%) Playwright
7 12 (8.28%) XML
8 10 (6.90%) .NET Framework
8 10 (6.90%) RESTful
9 9 (6.21%) SOAP
9 9 (6.21%) YAML
10 7 (4.83%) PySpark
11 6 (4.14%) ASP.NET
11 6 (4.14%) Node.js
12 5 (3.45%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (3.45%) pytest
12 5 (3.45%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 18 (12.41%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (11.03%) IoT
3 14 (9.66%) Device Driver
4 10 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.21%) ARM Cortex
5 9 (6.21%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.52%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (4.14%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (3.45%) FPGA
8 5 (3.45%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.45%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (3.45%) Verilog
8 5 (3.45%) VHDL
9 4 (2.76%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 4 (2.76%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.76%) Taxonomies
9 4 (2.76%) Virtual Team
10 3 (2.07%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.07%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (24.14%) Linux
2 12 (8.28%) Windows
3 9 (6.21%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (4.83%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.14%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (2.07%) Solaris
7 2 (1.38%) zOS
8 1 (0.69%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (53.79%) CI/CD
2 58 (40.00%) Agile
2 58 (40.00%) DevOps
3 47 (32.41%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (32.41%) Software Engineering
4 41 (28.28%) Test Automation
5 29 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (15.17%) Mentoring
7 19 (13.10%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (12.41%) AI
8 18 (12.41%) Collaborative Culture
8 18 (12.41%) Data Modelling
8 18 (12.41%) Validation
9 15 (10.34%) BDD
9 15 (10.34%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (10.34%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (10.34%) Scrum
9 15 (10.34%) Software Testing
10 14 (9.66%) Analytics
10 14 (9.66%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 60 (41.38%) Python
2 46 (31.72%) SQL
3 41 (28.28%) JavaScript
4 29 (20.00%) C#
5 24 (16.55%) C
5 24 (16.55%) C++
6 16 (11.03%) Bash
6 16 (11.03%) Java
7 11 (7.59%) Embedded C
7 11 (7.59%) TypeScript
8 9 (6.21%) PowerShell
9 7 (4.83%) R
10 6 (4.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (3.45%) Perl
11 5 (3.45%) PHP
12 3 (2.07%) Go
12 3 (2.07%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.38%) COBOL
13 2 (1.38%) JCL
13 2 (1.38%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (19.31%) Degree
2 14 (9.66%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.97%) Azure Certification
3 13 (8.97%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.28%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.28%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.21%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (5.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (5.52%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.45%) ISEB
7 5 (3.45%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.07%) CBAP
8 3 (2.07%) IIBA
8 3 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.38%) CISSP
9 2 (1.38%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.10%) QA
2 15 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 10 (6.90%) WCAG
4 8 (5.52%) Data Quality
5 7 (4.83%) JTAG
6 6 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (3.45%) GDPR
7 5 (3.45%) SLA
8 4 (2.76%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.38%) IEC 61508
9 2 (1.38%) MISRA
9 2 (1.38%) MISRA C
System Software
1 35 (24.14%) Docker
2 10 (6.90%) Firmware
3 8 (5.52%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.07%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.38%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.38%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.69%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (15.17%) Kubernetes
2 10 (6.90%) Ansible
3 3 (2.07%) Grafana
3 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.38%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.38%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.38%) Puppet
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 35 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.52%) Google
3 6 (4.14%) SAP
4 5 (3.45%) Altera
4 5 (3.45%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.45%) Microsemi
4 5 (3.45%) Pega
4 5 (3.45%) Xilinx
5 4 (2.76%) Cisco
6 3 (2.07%) Databricks
6 3 (2.07%) HP
6 3 (2.07%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.07%) VMware
7 2 (1.38%) IBM
7 2 (1.38%) IFS
7 2 (1.38%) Informatica
7 2 (1.38%) Oracle
7 2 (1.38%) Veracode
8 1 (0.69%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.69%) Salesforce