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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 120 112
Rank change year-on-year -46 -8 -45
Permanent jobs citing Git 101 129 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.74% 2.28% 2.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.02% 28.35% 35.85%
Number of salaries quoted 79 92 154
10th Percentile £29,750 £37,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,250 £47,500 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £69,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 - £79,275
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 348 455 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.56% 8.05% 5.72%
Number of salaries quoted 249 294 498
10th Percentile £26,487 £32,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -12.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,985 £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 23 July 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 23 July 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 -64 54 £47,500 -26.92% 52
East Midlands -13 47 £57,000 +3.64% 32
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 (6.93%) WordPress
2 5 (4.95%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) IIS
3 4 (3.96%) Apache
3 4 (3.96%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.96%) CMS
4 1 (0.99%) Documentum
4 1 (0.99%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.99%) nginx
4 1 (0.99%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.99%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.99%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Magento
1 1 (0.99%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.99%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 44 (43.56%) Azure
2 35 (34.65%) AWS
3 22 (21.78%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (13.86%) GitHub
5 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.94%) GCP
7 5 (4.95%) npm
7 5 (4.95%) NuGet
7 5 (4.95%) SaaS
7 5 (4.95%) SonarCloud
8 4 (3.96%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.96%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.97%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.97%) AWS IoT
9 3 (2.97%) Google Ads
9 3 (2.97%) Meta Ads
9 3 (2.97%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.98%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (13.86%) Wi-Fi
1 14 (13.86%) Wireless
2 11 (10.89%) Bluetooth
3 9 (8.91%) Internet
4 6 (5.94%) MQTT
4 6 (5.94%) ZigBee
5 4 (3.96%) Modbus
5 4 (3.96%) VPN
6 3 (2.97%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.98%) DNS
7 2 (1.98%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.98%) Firewall
7 2 (1.98%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.98%) LTE
7 2 (1.98%) VLAN
8 1 (0.99%) HTTP
8 1 (0.99%) Intranet
8 1 (0.99%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (6.93%) Power BI
2 6 (5.94%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
3 5 (4.95%) MySQL
3 5 (4.95%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.96%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.96%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.97%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.98%) Db2
6 2 (1.98%) Easytrieve
6 2 (1.98%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.99%) Metadata
7 1 (0.99%) Power Query
7 1 (0.99%) Redis
7 1 (0.99%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) GitLab
2 14 (13.86%) Jenkins
3 11 (10.89%) JIRA
4 8 (7.92%) Cucumber
5 7 (6.93%) Postman
5 7 (6.93%) Selenium
6 6 (5.94%) GDB
7 5 (4.95%) JUnit
7 5 (4.95%) Subversion
8 4 (3.96%) Gatling
8 4 (3.96%) Robot Framework
8 4 (3.96%) Visual Studio
8 4 (3.96%) Zephyr
9 3 (2.97%) JMeter
9 3 (2.97%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.98%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.98%) Storybook
10 2 (1.98%) Vite
11 1 (0.99%) IBM UrbanCode
11 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 25 (24.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Electronics
2 9 (8.91%) Finance
3 8 (7.92%) Manufacturing
3 8 (7.92%) Multimedia
4 7 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.94%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.96%) Automotive
6 4 (3.96%) Marketing
7 3 (2.97%) Retail
8 2 (1.98%) Billing
8 2 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Advertising
9 1 (0.99%) Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Games
9 1 (0.99%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (27.72%) Developer
1 28 (27.72%) Senior
2 22 (21.78%) Software Engineer
3 19 (18.81%) Embedded Engineer
4 14 (13.86%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 11 (10.89%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 9 (8.91%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.92%) Software Developer
7 8 (7.92%) Trainee
8 7 (6.93%) Administrator
8 7 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Trainee Administrator
9 6 (5.94%) Web Administrator
10 5 (4.95%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Quality Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 5 (4.95%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (22.77%) CSS
1 23 (22.77%) REST
2 21 (20.79%) HTML
3 18 (17.82%) React
4 11 (10.89%) .NET
4 11 (10.89%) Yocto
5 10 (9.90%) RESTful
6 7 (6.93%) Node.js
6 7 (6.93%) Playwright
7 6 (5.94%) Laravel
7 6 (5.94%) YAML
8 5 (4.95%) .NET Framework
8 5 (4.95%) JSON
8 5 (4.95%) pytest
8 5 (4.95%) XML
9 4 (3.96%) PySpark
9 4 (3.96%) SOAP
9 4 (3.96%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (3.96%) Unity DI Container
9 4 (3.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.85%) Embedded Systems
2 12 (11.88%) Device Driver
2 12 (11.88%) IoT
3 11 (10.89%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (8.91%) ARM Cortex
5 7 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.94%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.96%) CAN bus
8 3 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.97%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.97%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.97%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.98%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.98%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.98%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.98%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.98%) SCADA
10 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.99%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 31 (30.69%) Linux
2 11 (10.89%) Windows
3 7 (6.93%) Embedded Linux
4 6 (5.94%) FreeRTOS
4 6 (5.94%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.98%) zOS
6 1 (0.99%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.99%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (58.42%) CI/CD
2 39 (38.61%) Software Engineering
3 36 (35.64%) DevOps
4 33 (32.67%) Agile
4 33 (32.67%) Test Automation
5 29 (28.71%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (20.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (15.84%) Mentoring
8 14 (13.86%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (11.88%) BDD
9 12 (11.88%) Computer Science
9 12 (11.88%) Software Delivery
10 11 (10.89%) Coaching
10 11 (10.89%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (10.89%) Software Testing
10 11 (10.89%) Web Development
11 10 (9.90%) Collaborative Culture
11 10 (9.90%) Decision-Making
11 10 (9.90%) Validation
12 9 (8.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 43 (42.57%) Python
2 34 (33.66%) JavaScript
3 26 (25.74%) SQL
4 22 (21.78%) C
5 20 (19.80%) C++
6 16 (15.84%) Bash
7 13 (12.87%) C#
8 12 (11.88%) Java
9 11 (10.89%) Embedded C
10 9 (8.91%) PHP
11 8 (7.92%) PowerShell
11 8 (7.92%) R
11 8 (7.92%) TypeScript
12 4 (3.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (2.97%) Go
14 2 (1.98%) Assembly Language
14 2 (1.98%) COBOL
14 2 (1.98%) JCL
14 2 (1.98%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.99%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (16.83%) Degree
2 11 (10.89%) AWS Certification
3 9 (8.91%) Azure Certification
3 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.92%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 8 (7.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (7.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (6.93%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.97%) ISEB
6 3 (2.97%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.98%) CISSP
7 2 (1.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) QA
2 8 (7.92%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.93%) JTAG
4 4 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (3.96%) WCAG
5 3 (2.97%) SLA
6 2 (1.98%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.98%) GDPR
6 2 (1.98%) IEC 61508
6 2 (1.98%) MISRA
6 2 (1.98%) MISRA C
6 2 (1.98%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (28.71%) Docker
2 11 (10.89%) Firmware
3 7 (6.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.98%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (18.81%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.86%) Terraform
3 5 (4.95%) Ansible
4 3 (2.97%) Grafana
4 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.98%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.99%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.99%) Puppet
Vendors
1 15 (14.85%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.93%) Google
3 5 (4.95%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (4.95%) SAP
4 3 (2.97%) Pega
5 2 (1.98%) Atmel
5 2 (1.98%) Databricks
5 2 (1.98%) IBM
5 2 (1.98%) Informatica
5 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.98%) VMware
6 1 (0.99%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.99%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.99%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.99%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.99%) OpenText
6 1 (0.99%) Oracle
6 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.99%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.99%) Yahoo!