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

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 119 117
Rank change year-on-year -33 -2 -29
Permanent jobs citing Git 121 132 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.84% 2.28% 2.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.06% 29.46% 36.27%
Number of salaries quoted 87 92 117
10th Percentile £27,950 £37,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,125 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £61,375 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +16.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £69,000 £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 366 448 590
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.53% 7.73% 5.53%
Number of salaries quoted 247 283 388
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,875 £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 £67,750 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £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 15 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 15 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 -55 66 £47,500 -30.15% 61
East Midlands +1 55 £60,000 +9.09% 36
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 (5.79%) WordPress
2 5 (4.13%) Confluence
3 4 (3.31%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.31%) IIS
4 3 (2.48%) Apache
4 3 (2.48%) CMS
5 2 (1.65%) nginx
6 1 (0.83%) Documentum
6 1 (0.83%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.83%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.83%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.31%) Shopify
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 58 (47.93%) Azure
2 38 (31.40%) AWS
3 34 (28.10%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (14.05%) GitHub
5 11 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (7.44%) SaaS
7 6 (4.96%) GCP
7 6 (4.96%) SonarCloud
8 5 (4.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (4.13%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Functions
9 4 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.31%) IaaS
9 4 (3.31%) npm
9 4 (3.31%) NuGet
9 4 (3.31%) Serverless
9 4 (3.31%) Supabase
10 3 (2.48%) AWS IoT
10 3 (2.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.48%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 13 (10.74%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (10.74%) Wireless
2 9 (7.44%) Bluetooth
2 9 (7.44%) Internet
3 6 (4.96%) MQTT
3 6 (4.96%) ZigBee
4 5 (4.13%) VPN
5 4 (3.31%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.48%) DNS
7 2 (1.65%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.65%) Firewall
7 2 (1.65%) HTTP
7 2 (1.65%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.65%) Modbus
7 2 (1.65%) VLAN
8 1 (0.83%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.26%) Power BI
1 10 (8.26%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.44%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.79%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.96%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.31%) Delta Lake
5 4 (3.31%) MySQL
5 4 (3.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.48%) Star Schema
7 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.65%) Db2
7 2 (1.65%) Easytrieve
7 2 (1.65%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.65%) Power Query
8 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.83%) Metadata
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (19.01%) GitLab
2 16 (13.22%) Jenkins
2 16 (13.22%) JIRA
3 11 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 10 (8.26%) Postman
4 10 (8.26%) Selenium
5 8 (6.61%) JUnit
6 7 (5.79%) Subversion
7 6 (4.96%) Gatling
7 6 (4.96%) GDB
8 5 (4.13%) Visual Studio
9 4 (3.31%) JMeter
9 4 (3.31%) Robot Framework
9 4 (3.31%) Storybook
9 4 (3.31%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.48%) Maven
10 3 (2.48%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.65%) Ant
11 2 (1.65%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.65%) Vite
General
1 34 (28.10%) Social Skills
2 15 (12.40%) Finance
3 11 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.26%) Electronics
5 9 (7.44%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.44%) Manufacturing
6 8 (6.61%) Multimedia
7 4 (3.31%) Automotive
7 4 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.31%) Marketing
7 4 (3.31%) Retail
8 3 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.65%) Billing
10 1 (0.83%) Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Law
10 1 (0.83%) Police
Job Titles
1 36 (29.75%) Developer
2 34 (28.10%) Senior
3 24 (19.83%) Software Engineer
4 18 (14.88%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (9.92%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 10 (8.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (7.44%) Data Engineer
8 8 (6.61%) Administrator
8 8 (6.61%) Software Developer
8 8 (6.61%) Trainee
9 7 (5.79%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Junior Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Quality Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Trainee Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (23.14%) REST
2 26 (21.49%) CSS
3 22 (18.18%) HTML
4 20 (16.53%) React
5 19 (15.70%) .NET
6 12 (9.92%) Yocto
7 10 (8.26%) Playwright
8 9 (7.44%) .NET Framework
8 9 (7.44%) RESTful
9 7 (5.79%) SOAP
9 7 (5.79%) YAML
10 6 (4.96%) JSON
10 6 (4.96%) Node.js
10 6 (4.96%) Tailwind CSS
10 6 (4.96%) XML
11 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET
11 5 (4.13%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (4.13%) pytest
12 4 (3.31%) Laravel
12 4 (3.31%) Unity DI Container
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (10.74%) Device Driver
2 13 (10.74%) IoT
3 11 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (7.44%) ARM Cortex
5 8 (6.61%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (5.79%) Cloud Native
7 6 (4.96%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (4.96%) Product Ownership
8 4 (3.31%) CAN bus
9 3 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 3 (2.48%) PMI
10 2 (1.65%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
10 2 (1.65%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.65%) SCADA
10 2 (1.65%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (29.75%) Linux
2 13 (10.74%) Windows
3 8 (6.61%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (5.79%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.96%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (2.48%) Solaris
7 2 (1.65%) zOS
8 1 (0.83%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (54.55%) CI/CD
2 48 (39.67%) DevOps
3 47 (38.84%) Agile
4 44 (36.36%) Software Engineering
5 42 (34.71%) Problem-Solving
6 36 (29.75%) Test Automation
7 24 (19.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 18 (14.88%) Mentoring
9 15 (12.40%) Collaborative Culture
9 15 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.57%) SDLC
10 14 (11.57%) Web Development
11 13 (10.74%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (10.74%) Software Delivery
12 12 (9.92%) AI
12 12 (9.92%) BDD
12 12 (9.92%) Computer Science
12 12 (9.92%) Software Architecture
12 12 (9.92%) Software Testing
12 12 (9.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 45 (37.19%) Python
2 38 (31.40%) SQL
3 37 (30.58%) JavaScript
4 22 (18.18%) C
4 22 (18.18%) C++
5 21 (17.36%) C#
6 18 (14.88%) Bash
7 13 (10.74%) Java
8 10 (8.26%) Embedded C
8 10 (8.26%) PowerShell
8 10 (8.26%) TypeScript
9 7 (5.79%) PHP
9 7 (5.79%) R
10 5 (4.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.48%) Go
11 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.65%) Assembly Language
12 2 (1.65%) COBOL
12 2 (1.65%) JCL
12 2 (1.65%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 21 (17.36%) Degree
2 14 (11.57%) Security Cleared
3 13 (10.74%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.09%) AWS Certification
4 11 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 8 (6.61%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (6.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (6.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (5.79%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.48%) CBAP
7 3 (2.48%) IIBA
7 3 (2.48%) ISEB
7 3 (2.48%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.48%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.65%) CISSP
8 2 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.83%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.57%) QA
2 11 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.79%) JTAG
4 6 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (4.96%) WCAG
5 5 (4.13%) Data Quality
5 5 (4.13%) SLA
6 4 (3.31%) SOC 2
7 2 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.65%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.65%) MISRA
7 2 (1.65%) MISRA C
8 1 (0.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 36 (29.75%) Docker
2 9 (7.44%) Firmware
3 7 (5.79%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.65%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (19.01%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.22%) Terraform
3 6 (4.96%) Ansible
4 3 (2.48%) Grafana
4 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.65%) Functional Safety
5 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.65%) Puppet
6 1 (0.83%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 22 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.79%) Google
3 6 (4.96%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.31%) SAP
5 3 (2.48%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) Pega
5 3 (2.48%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.48%) VMware
6 2 (1.65%) IBM
6 2 (1.65%) IFS
6 2 (1.65%) Informatica
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle
6 2 (1.65%) Veracode
7 1 (0.83%) Altera
7 1 (0.83%) OpenText
7 1 (0.83%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.83%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.83%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.83%) Yahoo!