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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 129 113
Rank change year-on-year -10 -16 -25
Permanent jobs citing Git 148 110 190
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.94% 1.96% 1.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.64% 29.18% 33.75%
Number of salaries quoted 88 83 90
10th Percentile £32,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,813 £49,375 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,313 £73,750 £64,688
90th Percentile £73,093 - £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 383 377 563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.43% 6.71% 5.80%
Number of salaries quoted 221 226 294
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,813 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,450 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -45 85 £51,250 -28.07% 107
East Midlands +5 63 £60,000 +4.35% 70
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 11 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.38%) Confluence
3 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.35%) Apache
4 2 (1.35%) CMS
4 2 (1.35%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.35%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) Documentum
5 1 (0.68%) nginx
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.68%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.03%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.05%) Azure
2 49 (33.11%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (29.05%) AWS
4 21 (14.19%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.49%) GCP
6 13 (8.78%) Dynamics 365
6 13 (8.78%) Serverless
7 12 (8.11%) Azure Functions
7 12 (8.11%) GitHub
8 10 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (6.76%) Power Automate
9 8 (5.41%) SaaS
10 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (3.38%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.38%) IaaS
11 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 4 (2.70%) Google Ads
12 4 (2.70%) Meta Ads
12 4 (2.70%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.81%) Wi-Fi
1 16 (10.81%) Wireless
2 13 (8.78%) Internet
3 9 (6.08%) Bluetooth
4 8 (5.41%) TCP/IP
5 7 (4.73%) DNS
6 6 (4.05%) Firewall
6 6 (4.05%) MQTT
6 6 (4.05%) VLAN
6 6 (4.05%) ZigBee
7 5 (3.38%) VPN
8 4 (2.70%) BGP
8 4 (2.70%) DHCP
8 4 (2.70%) EIGRP
8 4 (2.70%) Ethernet VPN
8 4 (2.70%) LAN
8 4 (2.70%) OSPF
8 4 (2.70%) VRRP
8 4 (2.70%) VXLAN
8 4 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.11%) Power BI
3 11 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.08%) Delta Lake
5 8 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.05%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.05%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.70%) Parquet
7 4 (2.70%) Star Schema
8 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.35%) Power Query
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.68%) GIS
9 1 (0.68%) Metadata
9 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 25 (16.89%) GitLab
2 22 (14.86%) JIRA
3 19 (12.84%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.78%) Cucumber
5 12 (8.11%) Postman
5 12 (8.11%) Selenium
5 12 (8.11%) Subversion
6 8 (5.41%) JUnit
7 7 (4.73%) Zephyr
8 6 (4.05%) Gatling
8 6 (4.05%) GDB
8 6 (4.05%) JMeter
9 5 (3.38%) SoapUI
9 5 (3.38%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (2.70%) Robot Framework
10 4 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.70%) Storybook
11 3 (2.03%) Maven
12 2 (1.35%) Apache Ivy
General
1 52 (35.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.27%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.54%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.86%) Finance
5 15 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 13 (8.78%) Manufacturing
7 12 (8.11%) Electronics
8 9 (6.08%) Marketing
9 7 (4.73%) Retail
10 5 (3.38%) Banking
10 5 (3.38%) Games
10 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
11 4 (2.70%) Automotive
12 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.68%) Billing
13 1 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.68%) Law
13 1 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.68%) Police
Job Titles
1 44 (29.73%) Developer
2 42 (28.38%) Senior
3 22 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 20 (13.51%) Embedded Engineer
5 18 (12.16%) DevOps Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Data Engineer
6 14 (9.46%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Lead
8 12 (8.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 11 (7.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 10 (6.76%) Trainee
11 9 (6.08%) Embedded Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (6.08%) Senior Linux Engineer
12 8 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (4.73%) Senior Developer
13 7 (4.73%) Software Developer
14 6 (4.05%) Quality Engineer
14 6 (4.05%) Senior Software Engineer
15 5 (3.38%) Senior Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.27%) REST
2 22 (14.86%) .NET
3 21 (14.19%) React
4 20 (13.51%) Terraform
5 17 (11.49%) CSS
6 15 (10.14%) JSON
6 15 (10.14%) XML
6 15 (10.14%) Yocto
7 13 (8.78%) HTML
8 12 (8.11%) Playwright
9 11 (7.43%) RESTful
10 10 (6.76%) .NET Framework
11 9 (6.08%) PySpark
11 9 (6.08%) SOAP
12 8 (5.41%) XSLT
12 8 (5.41%) YAML
13 7 (4.73%) ASP.NET
14 6 (4.05%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (3.38%) ADO
15 5 (3.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.84%) Embedded Systems
2 18 (12.16%) IoT
3 16 (10.81%) Device Driver
4 12 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.76%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (5.41%) ARM Cortex
7 8 (5.41%) Management Information System
7 8 (5.41%) Taxonomies
8 6 (4.05%) Virtual Team
9 5 (3.38%) FPGA
9 5 (3.38%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
9 5 (3.38%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (3.38%) Verilog
9 5 (3.38%) VHDL
10 4 (2.70%) CAN bus
10 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
11 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 46 (31.08%) Linux
2 11 (7.43%) Embedded Linux
2 11 (7.43%) Windows
3 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.38%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (2.03%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (60.14%) CI/CD
2 74 (50.00%) DevOps
3 62 (41.89%) Agile
4 47 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
5 44 (29.73%) Software Engineering
6 37 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 33 (22.30%) Mentoring
8 29 (19.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.57%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.22%) AI
11 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (14.19%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (14.19%) SDLC
13 20 (13.51%) Collaborative Culture
13 20 (13.51%) Containerisation
13 20 (13.51%) Validation
14 19 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (12.16%) Business Intelligence
15 18 (12.16%) DevSecOps
16 17 (11.49%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.49%) Python
2 49 (33.11%) SQL
3 34 (22.97%) JavaScript
4 33 (22.30%) C#
5 25 (16.89%) C++
6 24 (16.22%) C
7 14 (9.46%) Bash
7 14 (9.46%) Java
8 13 (8.78%) Embedded C
9 11 (7.43%) TypeScript
10 10 (6.76%) Shell Script
11 8 (5.41%) PowerShell
12 6 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (3.38%) Perl
14 3 (2.03%) Go
14 3 (2.03%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.35%) PHP
16 1 (0.68%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 28 (18.92%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.73%) Azure Certification
6 5 (3.38%) ISEB
6 5 (3.38%) ISTQB
7 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.03%) CBAP
7 3 (2.03%) IIBA
7 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.35%) CISSP
8 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.84%) Accessibility
1 19 (12.84%) QA
2 14 (9.46%) WCAG
3 12 (8.11%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.08%) GDPR
5 7 (4.73%) JTAG
6 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (3.38%) SLA
8 4 (2.70%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.68%) GAMP
10 1 (0.68%) GMP
10 1 (0.68%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.68%) MISRA
10 1 (0.68%) MISRA C
System Software
1 42 (28.38%) Docker
2 9 (6.08%) Firmware
3 7 (4.73%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (13.51%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.43%) Ansible
3 3 (2.03%) Grafana
3 3 (2.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.35%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.35%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.68%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (30.41%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.16%) Google
3 6 (4.05%) SAP
4 5 (3.38%) Altera
4 5 (3.38%) Microsemi
4 5 (3.38%) Pega
4 5 (3.38%) Xilinx
5 4 (2.70%) Cisco
5 4 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.03%) Databricks
6 3 (2.03%) HP
6 3 (2.03%) Oracle
6 3 (2.03%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.03%) VMware
7 2 (1.35%) IFS
7 2 (1.35%) Veracode
8 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.68%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.68%) Yahoo!
8 1 (0.68%) YouTube