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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 111 81
Rank change year-on-year -13 -30 -15
Permanent jobs citing Git 105 149 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.35% 2.28% 3.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.54% 29.39% 36.28%
Number of salaries quoted 91 96 134
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £73,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

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 304 507 441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.90% 7.74% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 235 291 389
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% -

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 4 January 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 4 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
West Midlands +17 75 £36,500 -41.60% 138
East Midlands -33 28 £56,350 +61.00% 133
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 13 (12.38%) Confluence
2 7 (6.67%) nginx
3 3 (2.86%) Apache
3 3 (2.86%) CMS
3 3 (2.86%) IIS
4 2 (1.90%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.90%) WordPress
5 1 (0.95%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.95%) JBoss
5 1 (0.95%) SAS
5 1 (0.95%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.95%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 3 (2.86%) Adobe Illustrator
2 3 (2.86%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.86%) SAP Business One
1 3 (2.86%) Shopify
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.90%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 70 (66.67%) Azure
2 62 (59.05%) AWS
3 36 (34.29%) GitHub
4 13 (12.38%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (10.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 9 (8.57%) Amazon S3
7 8 (7.62%) Amazon EC2
7 8 (7.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (6.67%) Amazon ELB
8 7 (6.67%) AWS KMS
8 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
9 5 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (4.76%) SaaS
9 5 (4.76%) Serverless
10 4 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (3.81%) OpenShift
10 4 (3.81%) Route 53
11 3 (2.86%) NuGet
11 3 (2.86%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (26.67%) Internet
2 10 (9.52%) DNS
2 10 (9.52%) HTTP
3 8 (7.62%) Firewall
4 7 (6.67%) FTP
4 7 (6.67%) SMTP
4 7 (6.67%) SSH
5 4 (3.81%) IMAP
5 4 (3.81%) OpenLDAP
6 3 (2.86%) Intranet
7 2 (1.90%) Bluetooth
7 2 (1.90%) UWB
8 1 (0.95%) DHCP
8 1 (0.95%) PuTTY
8 1 (0.95%) SAN
8 1 (0.95%) SSL
8 1 (0.95%) VLAN
8 1 (0.95%) Wideband
8 1 (0.95%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (16.19%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.57%) MySQL
4 8 (7.62%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.71%) Redis
6 5 (4.76%) Power BI
6 5 (4.76%) Relational Database
7 4 (3.81%) Amazon Aurora
7 4 (3.81%) NoSQL
8 3 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.86%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.86%) Power Query
9 2 (1.90%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.95%) Geospatial Data
10 1 (0.95%) Looker
10 1 (0.95%) MariaDB
10 1 (0.95%) Pentaho
10 1 (0.95%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.95%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 20 (19.05%) JIRA
2 15 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.67%) GitLab
3 7 (6.67%) Vagrant
4 5 (4.76%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.76%) JUnit
4 5 (4.76%) Selenium
5 3 (2.86%) git-flow
5 3 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.86%) Vite
6 2 (1.90%) Maven
6 2 (1.90%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.95%) Gatling
7 1 (0.95%) Gradle
7 1 (0.95%) Mockito
7 1 (0.95%) NUnit
7 1 (0.95%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 28 (26.67%) Multimedia
2 23 (21.90%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.33%) Finance
4 12 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.81%) Billing
6 4 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.90%) Games
7 2 (1.90%) Marketing
8 1 (0.95%) Advertising
8 1 (0.95%) Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Electronics
8 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.95%) Retail
Job Titles
1 42 (40.00%) Developer
2 28 (26.67%) Trainee
3 18 (17.14%) Software Developer
4 15 (14.29%) Senior
5 14 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
6 13 (12.38%) Trainee Developer
6 13 (12.38%) Trainee Software Developer
7 12 (11.43%) Software Engineer
8 10 (9.52%) Lead
9 5 (4.76%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.76%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) DevOps Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Junior
10 4 (3.81%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.81%) PHP Developer
10 4 (3.81%) Senior Software Developer
11 3 (2.86%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (40.00%) CSS
1 42 (40.00%) HTML
2 14 (13.33%) .NET
2 14 (13.33%) Laravel
2 14 (13.33%) React
3 12 (11.43%) REST
4 10 (9.52%) Node.js
5 9 (8.57%) Vue
6 8 (7.62%) RESTful
6 8 (7.62%) Spring
6 8 (7.62%) Spring Boot
7 7 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 7 (6.67%) YAML
8 6 (5.71%) jQuery
9 5 (4.76%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (4.76%) Tailwind CSS
10 4 (3.81%) Hibernate
10 4 (3.81%) JPA
10 4 (3.81%) Next.js
10 4 (3.81%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.81%) Replication
3 3 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (1.90%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.90%) Device Driver
5 1 (0.95%) Animation
5 1 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.95%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (0.95%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.95%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.95%) NHS
5 1 (0.95%) Raspberry Pi
5 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.05%) Linux
2 11 (10.48%) Windows
3 7 (6.67%) Amazon Linux
3 7 (6.67%) VMS
4 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
5 3 (2.86%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.95%) Android
6 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (40.95%) Mentoring
2 40 (38.10%) DevOps
3 36 (34.29%) Agile
4 30 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 26 (24.76%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (16.19%) Software Engineering
8 10 (9.52%) E-Commerce
9 9 (8.57%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 9 (8.57%) Microservices
9 9 (8.57%) Migration
9 9 (8.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (8.57%) User Experience
10 8 (7.62%) Patch Management
10 8 (7.62%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (7.62%) Test Automation
11 7 (6.67%) Change Management
11 7 (6.67%) Data Modelling
11 7 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 48 (45.71%) Python
2 46 (43.81%) JavaScript
3 22 (20.95%) SQL
4 17 (16.19%) PHP
5 15 (14.29%) R
6 14 (13.33%) Java
7 13 (12.38%) C#
8 10 (9.52%) PowerShell
9 7 (6.67%) Groovy
9 7 (6.67%) TypeScript
10 6 (5.71%) Bash
11 3 (2.86%) C++
11 3 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.86%) Delphi
11 3 (2.86%) Perl
12 2 (1.90%) C
12 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.95%) Swift
13 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (31.43%) AWS Certification
2 32 (30.48%) Azure Certification
3 30 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (26.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 10 (9.52%) Security Cleared
6 9 (8.57%) Degree
6 9 (8.57%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) QA
2 2 (1.90%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.95%) GDPR
3 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (20.95%) Docker
2 4 (3.81%) DFS Replication
2 4 (3.81%) Dovecot
2 4 (3.81%) Postfix
2 4 (3.81%) Squid
3 3 (2.86%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (20.00%) Terraform
2 10 (9.52%) Grafana
2 10 (9.52%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.62%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.76%) Nessus
5 4 (3.81%) Proxmox
6 2 (1.90%) Ansible
7 1 (0.95%) CA Service Virtualization
7 1 (0.95%) Nagios
7 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (43.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.71%) Oracle
4 4 (3.81%) Jaspersoft
5 3 (2.86%) CrowdStrike
5 3 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 3 (2.86%) SAP
6 2 (1.90%) Zend
7 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.95%) Denodo
7 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.95%) Talend
7 1 (0.95%) VMware