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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 122 116
Rank change year-on-year -29 -6 -18
Permanent jobs citing Git 126 129 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.86% 2.22% 2.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.05% 29.19% 35.79%
Number of salaries quoted 88 92 116
10th Percentile £28,025 £37,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,563 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,125 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +14.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £68,875 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 - £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 370 442 598
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.54% 7.62% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 247 280 383
10th Percentile £27,500 £33,850 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +12.75% -11.30%
75th Percentile £67,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £80,000
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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -57 70 £47,500 -30.66% 49
East Midlands +7 56 £60,000 +9.09% 37
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 (5.56%) WordPress
2 6 (4.76%) Confluence
3 4 (3.17%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.17%) IIS
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
5 1 (0.79%) CMS
5 1 (0.79%) Documentum
5 1 (0.79%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.79%) nginx
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.79%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.79%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.79%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (48.41%) Azure
2 39 (30.95%) AWS
3 36 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (12.70%) GitHub
5 12 (9.52%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.14%) SaaS
7 6 (4.76%) GCP
7 6 (4.76%) SonarCloud
8 5 (3.97%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.17%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.17%) IaaS
9 4 (3.17%) npm
9 4 (3.17%) NuGet
9 4 (3.17%) Serverless
9 4 (3.17%) Supabase
10 3 (2.38%) AWS IoT
10 3 (2.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.38%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.32%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (10.32%) Wireless
2 11 (8.73%) Internet
3 9 (7.14%) Bluetooth
4 6 (4.76%) MQTT
4 6 (4.76%) ZigBee
5 5 (3.97%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.97%) VPN
6 4 (3.17%) DNS
7 3 (2.38%) Firewall
7 3 (2.38%) VLAN
8 2 (1.59%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.59%) HTTP
8 2 (1.59%) LoRaWAN
8 2 (1.59%) Modbus
9 1 (0.79%) BGP
9 1 (0.79%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.79%) LAN
9 1 (0.79%) OSPF
9 1 (0.79%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.73%) Power BI
1 11 (8.73%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.94%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 6 (4.76%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.17%) Delta Lake
6 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.38%) MySQL
6 3 (2.38%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.59%) Db2
7 2 (1.59%) Easytrieve
7 2 (1.59%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.59%) Power Query
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.79%) Metadata
8 1 (0.79%) Redis
8 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 24 (19.05%) GitLab
2 18 (14.29%) JIRA
3 17 (13.49%) Jenkins
4 12 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 11 (8.73%) Postman
5 11 (8.73%) Selenium
6 9 (7.14%) Subversion
7 8 (6.35%) JUnit
8 6 (4.76%) Gatling
8 6 (4.76%) GDB
9 5 (3.97%) JMeter
9 5 (3.97%) Visual Studio
9 5 (3.97%) Zephyr
10 4 (3.17%) Robot Framework
10 4 (3.17%) SoapUI
10 4 (3.17%) Storybook
11 3 (2.38%) Maven
12 2 (1.59%) Ant
12 2 (1.59%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.59%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 37 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.70%) Finance
3 13 (10.32%) Public Sector
4 11 (8.73%) Electronics
5 10 (7.94%) Manufacturing
6 9 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (6.35%) Multimedia
8 5 (3.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.97%) Marketing
8 5 (3.97%) Retail
9 4 (3.17%) Automotive
10 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.59%) Banking
11 2 (1.59%) Billing
11 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.59%) Games
11 2 (1.59%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.79%) Law
12 1 (0.79%) Police
Job Titles
1 38 (30.16%) Developer
2 35 (27.78%) Senior
3 25 (19.84%) Software Engineer
4 18 (14.29%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (9.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 10 (7.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Data Engineer
7 9 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.35%) Administrator
8 8 (6.35%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.35%) Trainee
9 7 (5.56%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Junior
10 6 (4.76%) Junior Developer
10 6 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.76%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.22%) REST
2 26 (20.63%) CSS
3 22 (17.46%) .NET
3 22 (17.46%) HTML
3 22 (17.46%) React
4 17 (13.49%) Terraform
5 12 (9.52%) Yocto
6 11 (8.73%) .NET Framework
6 11 (8.73%) Playwright
7 10 (7.94%) RESTful
8 8 (6.35%) SOAP
9 7 (5.56%) JSON
9 7 (5.56%) Node.js
9 7 (5.56%) XML
9 7 (5.56%) YAML
10 6 (4.76%) ASP.NET
11 5 (3.97%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (3.97%) pytest
11 5 (3.97%) Tailwind CSS
12 4 (3.17%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.70%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (11.90%) IoT
3 13 (10.32%) Device Driver
4 11 (8.73%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (7.14%) ARM Cortex
6 8 (6.35%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (5.56%) Cloud Native
8 6 (4.76%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (3.97%) Product Ownership
10 4 (3.17%) CAN bus
11 3 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
11 3 (2.38%) PMI
12 2 (1.59%) Client/Server
12 2 (1.59%) Enterprise Storage
12 2 (1.59%) Mainframe
12 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 2 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (1.59%) Verilog
12 2 (1.59%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 35 (27.78%) Linux
2 13 (10.32%) Windows
3 8 (6.35%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (5.56%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.76%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (2.38%) Solaris
7 2 (1.59%) zOS
8 1 (0.79%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (53.97%) CI/CD
2 50 (39.68%) DevOps
3 49 (38.89%) Agile
4 45 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 45 (35.71%) Software Engineering
5 39 (30.95%) Test Automation
6 24 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (15.08%) Mentoring
8 16 (12.70%) Collaborative Culture
9 15 (11.90%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (11.90%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.11%) SDLC
10 14 (11.11%) Web Development
11 13 (10.32%) BDD
11 13 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (10.32%) Software Delivery
11 13 (10.32%) Software Testing
12 12 (9.52%) Computer Science
12 12 (9.52%) Software Architecture
12 12 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 48 (38.10%) Python
2 41 (32.54%) SQL
3 37 (29.37%) JavaScript
4 24 (19.05%) C#
5 22 (17.46%) C
5 22 (17.46%) C++
6 17 (13.49%) Bash
7 14 (11.11%) Java
8 10 (7.94%) Embedded C
8 10 (7.94%) PowerShell
8 10 (7.94%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.56%) R
10 5 (3.97%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (3.97%) PHP
11 3 (2.38%) Go
11 3 (2.38%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.59%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.59%) JCL
12 2 (1.59%) MATLAB
12 2 (1.59%) Perl
Qualifications
1 22 (17.46%) Degree
2 14 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.32%) SC Cleared
4 11 (8.73%) AWS Certification
4 11 (8.73%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.35%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.56%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.17%) ISEB
7 4 (3.17%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.38%) CBAP
8 3 (2.38%) IIBA
8 3 (2.38%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.59%) CISSP
9 2 (1.59%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.49%) QA
2 11 (8.73%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.56%) JTAG
4 6 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.76%) WCAG
5 5 (3.97%) Data Quality
5 5 (3.97%) SLA
6 4 (3.17%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.59%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.59%) MISRA
7 2 (1.59%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.79%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (28.57%) Docker
2 9 (7.14%) Firmware
3 7 (5.56%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.59%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.59%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (18.25%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (2.38%) Grafana
3 3 (2.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.59%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.59%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.59%) Puppet
5 1 (0.79%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 25 (19.84%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.56%) Google
3 6 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.97%) SAP
5 4 (3.17%) Pega
6 3 (2.38%) Databricks
6 3 (2.38%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.38%) VMware
7 2 (1.59%) Altera
7 2 (1.59%) IBM
7 2 (1.59%) IFS
7 2 (1.59%) Informatica
7 2 (1.59%) Microsemi
7 2 (1.59%) Oracle
7 2 (1.59%) Veracode
7 2 (1.59%) Xilinx
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco
8 1 (0.79%) OpenText
8 1 (0.79%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.79%) Salesforce