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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 116 116
Rank change year-on-year -37 0 -35
Permanent jobs citing Git 117 134 211
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.81% 2.32% 1.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.97% 29.58% 36.38%
Number of salaries quoted 83 94 116
10th Percentile £27,650 £38,625 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £48,438 £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 £69,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 - £79,125
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 366 453 580
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.54% 7.84% 5.43%
Number of salaries quoted 245 289 386
10th Percentile £27,000 £33,700 £32,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,995 £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 10 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 10 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 -60 63 £47,500 -28.30% 70
East Midlands 0 54 £52,500 -4.55% 47
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 (5.98%) WordPress
2 5 (4.27%) Confluence
3 4 (3.42%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.42%) CMS
3 4 (3.42%) IIS
4 3 (2.56%) Apache
5 2 (1.71%) nginx
6 1 (0.85%) Documentum
6 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.85%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.85%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Shopify
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 55 (47.01%) Azure
2 38 (32.48%) AWS
3 31 (26.50%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (14.53%) GitHub
5 9 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.98%) SaaS
7 6 (5.13%) GCP
7 6 (5.13%) SonarCloud
8 5 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.42%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (3.42%) IaaS
9 4 (3.42%) npm
9 4 (3.42%) NuGet
10 3 (2.56%) AWS IoT
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (2.56%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.56%) Google Ads
10 3 (2.56%) Meta Ads
10 3 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (11.11%) Wireless
2 9 (7.69%) Bluetooth
2 9 (7.69%) Internet
3 6 (5.13%) MQTT
3 6 (5.13%) ZigBee
4 5 (4.27%) VPN
5 4 (3.42%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.56%) DNS
7 2 (1.71%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.71%) Firewall
7 2 (1.71%) HTTP
7 2 (1.71%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.71%) Modbus
7 2 (1.71%) VLAN
8 1 (0.85%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.84%) Power BI
3 7 (5.98%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (5.98%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.13%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.27%) MySQL
6 4 (3.42%) Delta Lake
6 4 (3.42%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.56%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.71%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.71%) Db2
8 2 (1.71%) Easytrieve
8 2 (1.71%) MariaDB
8 2 (1.71%) Power Query
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.85%) Metadata
9 1 (0.85%) Redis
9 1 (0.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (17.95%) GitLab
2 16 (13.68%) Jenkins
3 15 (12.82%) JIRA
4 11 (9.40%) Cucumber
5 10 (8.55%) Postman
5 10 (8.55%) Selenium
6 8 (6.84%) JUnit
7 7 (5.98%) Subversion
8 6 (5.13%) Gatling
8 6 (5.13%) GDB
9 5 (4.27%) Visual Studio
10 4 (3.42%) JMeter
10 4 (3.42%) Robot Framework
10 4 (3.42%) Zephyr
11 3 (2.56%) Maven
11 3 (2.56%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.71%) Ant
12 2 (1.71%) Apache Ivy
12 2 (1.71%) Cypress.io
12 2 (1.71%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 35 (29.91%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.97%) Finance
3 10 (8.55%) Electronics
3 10 (8.55%) Public Sector
4 9 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 8 (6.84%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.84%) Multimedia
6 4 (3.42%) Automotive
6 4 (3.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.42%) Marketing
7 3 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Retail
8 2 (1.71%) Billing
9 1 (0.85%) Banking
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Games
9 1 (0.85%) Law
9 1 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 34 (29.06%) Developer
2 33 (28.21%) Senior
3 24 (20.51%) Software Engineer
4 18 (15.38%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (10.26%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (10.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 10 (8.55%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Administrator
7 8 (6.84%) Data Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Software Developer
7 8 (6.84%) Trainee
8 7 (5.98%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Junior
9 6 (5.13%) Junior Developer
9 6 (5.13%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Quality Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.13%) Trainee Administrator
9 6 (5.13%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (22.22%) REST
2 25 (21.37%) CSS
3 23 (19.66%) HTML
4 18 (15.38%) .NET
4 18 (15.38%) React
5 12 (10.26%) Yocto
6 10 (8.55%) Playwright
6 10 (8.55%) RESTful
7 9 (7.69%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.98%) SOAP
8 7 (5.98%) YAML
9 6 (5.13%) JSON
9 6 (5.13%) Node.js
9 6 (5.13%) XML
10 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET
10 5 (4.27%) ASP.NET Core
10 5 (4.27%) Laravel
10 5 (4.27%) pytest
11 4 (3.42%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.42%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.68%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (11.11%) Device Driver
2 13 (11.11%) IoT
3 11 (9.40%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (7.69%) ARM Cortex
5 8 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (5.98%) Cloud Native
7 6 (5.13%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
9 4 (3.42%) CAN bus
10 3 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.56%) Mobile App
11 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
11 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Storage
11 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
11 2 (1.71%) Mainframe
11 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
11 2 (1.71%) PMI
11 2 (1.71%) SCADA
11 2 (1.71%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 36 (30.77%) Linux
2 13 (11.11%) Windows
3 8 (6.84%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (5.98%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.13%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (2.56%) Solaris
7 2 (1.71%) zOS
8 1 (0.85%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (53.85%) CI/CD
2 45 (38.46%) DevOps
3 44 (37.61%) Agile
3 44 (37.61%) Software Engineering
4 39 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (29.06%) Test Automation
6 24 (20.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 15 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.97%) Collaborative Culture
9 14 (11.97%) Web Development
10 13 (11.11%) Software Delivery
11 12 (10.26%) BDD
11 12 (10.26%) Computer Science
11 12 (10.26%) SDLC
11 12 (10.26%) Software Architecture
11 12 (10.26%) Software Testing
11 12 (10.26%) TDD
12 11 (9.40%) AI
12 11 (9.40%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (37.61%) Python
2 37 (31.62%) JavaScript
3 35 (29.91%) SQL
4 22 (18.80%) C
4 22 (18.80%) C++
5 20 (17.09%) C#
6 18 (15.38%) Bash
7 13 (11.11%) Java
8 10 (8.55%) Embedded C
8 10 (8.55%) PowerShell
9 8 (6.84%) PHP
9 8 (6.84%) TypeScript
10 7 (5.98%) R
11 5 (4.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.56%) Go
12 3 (2.56%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.71%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.71%) COBOL
13 2 (1.71%) JCL
13 2 (1.71%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 20 (17.09%) Degree
2 14 (11.97%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 11 (9.40%) AWS Certification
5 10 (8.55%) Azure Certification
6 8 (6.84%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (6.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (5.98%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.56%) ISEB
8 3 (2.56%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.71%) CBAP
9 2 (1.71%) CISSP
9 2 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.71%) IIBA
9 2 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.97%) QA
2 9 (7.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (5.98%) JTAG
4 6 (5.13%) WCAG
5 5 (4.27%) SLA
6 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
6 4 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.71%) IEC 61508
7 2 (1.71%) MISRA
7 2 (1.71%) MISRA C
7 2 (1.71%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 34 (29.06%) Docker
2 9 (7.69%) Firmware
3 7 (5.98%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.71%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 23 (19.66%) Kubernetes
2 16 (13.68%) Terraform
3 6 (5.13%) Ansible
4 3 (2.56%) Grafana
4 3 (2.56%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.71%) Functional Safety
5 2 (1.71%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.71%) Puppet
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.98%) Google
3 6 (5.13%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (3.42%) SAP
5 3 (2.56%) Pega
5 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.56%) VMware
6 2 (1.71%) Databricks
6 2 (1.71%) IBM
6 2 (1.71%) IFS
6 2 (1.71%) Informatica
6 2 (1.71%) Oracle
6 2 (1.71%) Veracode
7 1 (0.85%) Altera
7 1 (0.85%) OpenText
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) WooCommerce
7 1 (0.85%) Xilinx
7 1 (0.85%) Yahoo!