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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 132 80
Rank change year-on-year +28 -52 -30
Permanent jobs citing Git 115 157 167
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.94% 1.78% 3.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.95% 30.43% 36.54%
Number of salaries quoted 96 79 144
10th Percentile £28,250 - £36,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £73,188 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £72,500 £76,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 303 516 457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.10% 5.86% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 227 261 389
10th Percentile £30,300 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,375 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.14% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 21 November 2025.

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 21 November 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
West Midlands +42 87 £60,000 -7.69% 104
East Midlands -2 28 £57,500 +64.29% 53
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 39 (33.91%) Confluence
2 8 (6.96%) nginx
3 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.74%) CMS
4 2 (1.74%) JBoss
4 2 (1.74%) SAS
4 2 (1.74%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.74%) WordPress
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.87%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (6.09%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.61%) SAP Business One
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.87%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 75 (65.22%) AWS
2 56 (48.70%) Azure
3 36 (31.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 34 (29.57%) Amazon S3
5 33 (28.70%) Amazon EC2
5 33 (28.70%) AWS KMS
6 31 (26.96%) Amazon ELB
6 31 (26.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 24 (20.87%) Amazon Glacier
7 24 (20.87%) GitHub
8 9 (7.83%) Route 53
9 7 (6.09%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (6.09%) GCP
9 7 (6.09%) Microsoft 365
10 6 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (5.22%) Power Platform
11 5 (4.35%) OpenShift
11 5 (4.35%) SaaS
12 4 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 32 (27.83%) Firewall
2 21 (18.26%) DNS
2 21 (18.26%) HTTP
3 20 (17.39%) FTP
3 20 (17.39%) SMTP
3 20 (17.39%) SSH
4 17 (14.78%) Internet
5 7 (6.09%) IMAP
5 7 (6.09%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (2.61%) Intranet
7 2 (1.74%) Bluetooth
7 2 (1.74%) UWB
8 1 (0.87%) DHCP
8 1 (0.87%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.87%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.87%) SAN
8 1 (0.87%) SSL
8 1 (0.87%) VLAN
8 1 (0.87%) Wideband
8 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (28.70%) Amazon RDS
2 22 (19.13%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (12.17%) SQL Server
4 9 (7.83%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (7.83%) MySQL
5 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
6 5 (4.35%) Big Data
7 4 (3.48%) DynamoDB
7 4 (3.48%) NoSQL
7 4 (3.48%) Power BI
8 3 (2.61%) MongoDB
8 3 (2.61%) Redis
9 2 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.74%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.87%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.87%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.87%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 47 (40.87%) JIRA
2 41 (35.65%) Jenkins
3 31 (26.96%) Vagrant
4 10 (8.70%) JUnit
5 8 (6.96%) Sonatype Nexus
6 7 (6.09%) Cucumber
7 6 (5.22%) Selenium
8 5 (4.35%) Maven
9 4 (3.48%) GitLab
10 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket Server
10 3 (2.61%) git-flow
10 3 (2.61%) Mockito
11 2 (1.74%) DbUnit
11 2 (1.74%) Gradle
11 2 (1.74%) jMock
11 2 (1.74%) Postman
11 2 (1.74%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.74%) SonarQube
11 2 (1.74%) Visual Studio Code
12 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 31 (26.96%) Public Sector
2 26 (22.61%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Multimedia
4 12 (10.43%) Presentation Skills
5 11 (9.57%) Finance
6 3 (2.61%) Billing
6 3 (2.61%) Retail
7 2 (1.74%) Electronics
7 2 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.87%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Automotive
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) iGaming
8 1 (0.87%) Legal
8 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 45 (39.13%) Developer
2 18 (15.65%) DevOps Engineer
3 17 (14.78%) Trainee
4 13 (11.30%) AWS Engineer
4 13 (11.30%) Software Developer
5 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (10.43%) Software Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Support
6 11 (9.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 11 (9.57%) Lead
6 11 (9.57%) Support Engineer
7 10 (8.70%) Senior
8 9 (7.83%) Platform Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.96%) Trainee Developer
9 8 (6.96%) Trainee Software Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Java Developer
10 7 (6.09%) Lead Developer
11 6 (5.22%) Junior
12 5 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (26.96%) HTML
2 30 (26.09%) CSS
3 14 (12.17%) .NET
4 13 (11.30%) REST
5 11 (9.57%) RESTful
5 11 (9.57%) Spring
5 11 (9.57%) Spring Boot
6 10 (8.70%) Laravel
7 9 (7.83%) React
8 7 (6.09%) AngularJS
8 7 (6.09%) Django
8 7 (6.09%) Flask
8 7 (6.09%) jQuery
8 7 (6.09%) LDAP
9 6 (5.22%) Node.js
9 6 (5.22%) SOAP
9 6 (5.22%) Vue
10 5 (4.35%) .NET Core
10 5 (4.35%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (19.13%) Replication
2 8 (6.96%) Cloud Native
3 7 (6.09%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.35%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.48%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.61%) Animation
6 3 (2.61%) Embedded Systems
6 3 (2.61%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.74%) Device Driver
7 2 (1.74%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.74%) IoT
7 2 (1.74%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.87%) ARM Cortex
8 1 (0.87%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.87%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.87%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 43 (37.39%) Linux
2 31 (26.96%) VMS
3 26 (22.61%) Windows
4 20 (17.39%) Amazon Linux
5 8 (6.96%) Ubuntu
6 3 (2.61%) Android
6 3 (2.61%) Apple iOS
6 3 (2.61%) Unix
6 3 (2.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.22%) DevOps
2 42 (36.52%) Agile
3 32 (27.83%) Mentoring
4 31 (26.96%) Cloud Security
4 31 (26.96%) Configuration Management
5 30 (26.09%) Change Management
6 27 (23.48%) CI/CD
7 21 (18.26%) Patch Management
8 20 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
9 16 (13.91%) Platform Engineering
9 16 (13.91%) Software Engineering
10 15 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (13.04%) Test Automation
11 13 (11.30%) Microservices
12 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 10 (8.70%) AI
13 10 (8.70%) TDD
14 9 (7.83%) User Experience
14 9 (7.83%) Web Development
15 8 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 65 (56.52%) Python
2 38 (33.04%) JavaScript
3 32 (27.83%) Groovy
4 31 (26.96%) PowerShell
5 28 (24.35%) Java
6 23 (20.00%) SQL
7 16 (13.91%) C#
8 13 (11.30%) Perl
8 13 (11.30%) PHP
9 10 (8.70%) R
10 4 (3.48%) TypeScript
11 3 (2.61%) Delphi
11 3 (2.61%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.61%) Swift
12 2 (1.74%) Bash
12 2 (1.74%) C++
12 2 (1.74%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.87%) C
13 1 (0.87%) PROC SQL
13 1 (0.87%) XAML
Qualifications
1 42 (36.52%) Security Cleared
2 39 (33.91%) SC Cleared
3 29 (25.22%) AWS Certification
3 29 (25.22%) Azure Certification
4 19 (16.52%) Degree
5 17 (14.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 17 (14.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (5.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.74%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.87%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.87%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.87%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (29.57%) Docker
2 24 (20.87%) Active Directory
3 22 (19.13%) DFS Replication
4 7 (6.09%) Dovecot
4 7 (6.09%) Postfix
4 7 (6.09%) Squid
5 2 (1.74%) Firmware
6 1 (0.87%) Apache Flume
6 1 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.87%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 38 (33.04%) Terraform
2 34 (29.57%) Grafana
3 31 (26.96%) Prometheus
4 12 (10.43%) Ansible
5 10 (8.70%) Kubernetes
6 8 (6.96%) Nessus
7 7 (6.09%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.87%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.87%) Kibana
8 1 (0.87%) logstash
8 1 (0.87%) Oozie
8 1 (0.87%) Puppet
Vendors
1 31 (26.96%) ServiceNow
2 30 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 11 (9.57%) Juniper
4 7 (6.09%) Jaspersoft
4 7 (6.09%) Oracle
5 4 (3.48%) SAP
6 3 (2.61%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.61%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.87%) Databricks
7 1 (0.87%) Denodo
7 1 (0.87%) Google
7 1 (0.87%) Informatica
7 1 (0.87%) Mentor Graphics
7 1 (0.87%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.87%) Splunk
7 1 (0.87%) Talend
7 1 (0.87%) VMware
7 1 (0.87%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.87%) Zend