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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 110 94
Rank change year-on-year -14 -16 -19
Permanent jobs citing Git 109 155 230
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.29% 2.57% 2.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.05% 30.27% 33.63%
Number of salaries quoted 96 96 196
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £42,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,250 £52,500 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +1.45% -3.27%
75th Percentile £67,313 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 311 512 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.67% 8.47% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 243 301 596
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +6.28% -5.91%
75th Percentile £64,875 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,409 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% -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 February 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 February 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 +12 74 £34,000 -44.49% 48
East Midlands -45 33 £54,600 +56.00% 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 6 (5.50%) Confluence
2 5 (4.59%) IIS
2 5 (4.59%) nginx
3 4 (3.67%) CMS
4 2 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.83%) WordPress
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Shopify
2 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.83%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.83%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 74 (67.89%) Azure
2 61 (55.96%) AWS
3 39 (35.78%) GitHub
4 17 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.42%) Serverless
6 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.59%) npm
7 5 (4.59%) NuGet
7 5 (4.59%) SaaS
7 5 (4.59%) SonarCloud
8 4 (3.67%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (3.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.75%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.75%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.52%) Internet
2 4 (3.67%) Bluetooth
2 4 (3.67%) LTE
2 4 (3.67%) Modbus
2 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (3.67%) Wireless
3 3 (2.75%) DNS
3 3 (2.75%) HTTP
4 2 (1.83%) Intranet
5 1 (0.92%) 4G
5 1 (0.92%) BGP
5 1 (0.92%) Broadband
5 1 (0.92%) Firewall
5 1 (0.92%) FTP
5 1 (0.92%) IMAP
5 1 (0.92%) MPLS
5 1 (0.92%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (0.92%) PuTTY
5 1 (0.92%) SMTP
5 1 (0.92%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.60%) SQL Server
2 16 (14.68%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.17%) MySQL
4 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.50%) Redis
5 5 (4.59%) Power BI
5 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.75%) Power Query
8 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.92%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (11.01%) JIRA
2 9 (8.26%) Jenkins
3 8 (7.34%) GitLab
4 5 (4.59%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.59%) Selenium
5 4 (3.67%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.67%) JUnit
5 4 (3.67%) Subversion
5 4 (3.67%) Vite
6 2 (1.83%) git-flow
6 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
7 1 (0.92%) Gatling
7 1 (0.92%) Maven
7 1 (0.92%) Mockito
7 1 (0.92%) Postman
7 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.92%) Vagrant
General
1 30 (27.52%) Multimedia
2 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.76%) Finance
4 8 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.67%) Billing
7 3 (2.75%) Advertising
7 3 (2.75%) Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Games
7 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Electronics
9 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (34.86%) Developer
2 30 (27.52%) Trainee
3 18 (16.51%) Senior
3 18 (16.51%) Software Developer
4 15 (13.76%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.84%) Trainee Developer
5 14 (12.84%) Trainee Software Developer
6 11 (10.09%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Lead
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Agile Scrum Master
9 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Scrum Master
9 5 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Embedded Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (39.45%) CSS
1 43 (39.45%) HTML
2 16 (14.68%) .NET
2 16 (14.68%) React
3 14 (12.84%) Laravel
4 12 (11.01%) Node.js
5 10 (9.17%) REST
5 10 (9.17%) Vue
5 10 (9.17%) YAML
6 9 (8.26%) Spring
7 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.42%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.50%) RESTful
9 6 (5.50%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (4.59%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.59%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.59%) JPA
10 5 (4.59%) jQuery
10 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.67%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.67%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.83%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) NHS
6 1 (0.92%) Replication
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.93%) Linux
2 8 (7.34%) Windows
3 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (0.92%) Ubuntu
4 1 (0.92%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Mentoring
2 40 (36.70%) DevOps
3 37 (33.94%) Agile
4 35 (32.11%) CI/CD
5 28 (25.69%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.35%) Software Engineering
8 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (10.09%) E-Commerce
10 11 (10.09%) Test Automation
11 10 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (9.17%) Scrum
12 9 (8.26%) Coaching
12 9 (8.26%) Microservices
12 9 (8.26%) Migration
12 9 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (8.26%) User Experience
13 8 (7.34%) Data Modelling
13 8 (7.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 49 (44.95%) JavaScript
2 48 (44.04%) Python
3 20 (18.35%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) R
5 16 (14.68%) PHP
6 14 (12.84%) C#
7 12 (11.01%) Java
8 9 (8.26%) Bash
9 6 (5.50%) C
9 6 (5.50%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
10 4 (3.67%) Embedded C
11 3 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.75%) Delphi
12 1 (0.92%) C++
12 1 (0.92%) Groovy
12 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 34 (31.19%) AWS Certification
2 32 (29.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (28.44%) Azure Certification
4 30 (27.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 6 (5.50%) Degree
6 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.83%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (18.35%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.92%) DFS Replication
3 1 (0.92%) Dovecot
3 1 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.92%) Postfix
3 1 (0.92%) Squid
Systems Management
1 20 (18.35%) Terraform
2 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
3 4 (3.67%) Grafana
4 2 (1.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.92%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (0.92%) Nagios
5 1 (0.92%) Nessus
5 1 (0.92%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 49 (44.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.59%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle
3 4 (3.67%) Atmel
4 2 (1.83%) OpenAI
4 2 (1.83%) SAP
4 2 (1.83%) Zend
5 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco
5 1 (0.92%) Denodo
5 1 (0.92%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.92%) Talend