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

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 120 115
Rank change year-on-year -24 -5 -26
Permanent jobs citing Git 138 125 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.93% 2.15% 1.93%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.13% 28.94% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 93 90 107
10th Percentile £28,550 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £47,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +13.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,080 £73,875 £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 382 432 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.57% 7.42% 5.60%
Number of salaries quoted 247 271 362
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +11.98% -10.70%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,900 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £63,075 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.91% +5.13% -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 September 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 September 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 -37 79 £47,500 -32.14% 70
East Midlands +10 59 £60,000 +4.35% 52
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 (5.07%) Confluence
1 7 (5.07%) WordPress
2 5 (3.62%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.90%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.17%) Apache
4 3 (2.17%) IIS
5 1 (0.72%) CMS
5 1 (0.72%) Documentum
5 1 (0.72%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.72%) nginx
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.72%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.72%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.17%) Shopify
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.72%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 68 (49.28%) Azure
2 42 (30.43%) AWS
3 41 (29.71%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (13.04%) GitHub
5 17 (12.32%) Power Platform
6 9 (6.52%) SaaS
7 7 (5.07%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.07%) Serverless
8 6 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 6 (4.35%) Azure Functions
8 6 (4.35%) GCP
9 5 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (3.62%) SonarCloud
10 4 (2.90%) Google Ads
10 4 (2.90%) IaaS
10 4 (2.90%) Meta Ads
10 4 (2.90%) Power Automate
10 4 (2.90%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.90%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.42%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (9.42%) Wireless
2 11 (7.97%) Internet
3 9 (6.52%) Bluetooth
4 6 (4.35%) MQTT
4 6 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.35%) ZigBee
5 5 (3.62%) DNS
5 5 (3.62%) VPN
6 4 (2.90%) Firewall
6 4 (2.90%) VLAN
7 2 (1.45%) BGP
7 2 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (1.45%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.45%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.45%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.45%) Modbus
7 2 (1.45%) OSPF
7 2 (1.45%) VRRP
7 2 (1.45%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.14%) Power BI
2 12 (8.70%) SQL Server
3 10 (7.25%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.07%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.35%) Delta Lake
7 5 (3.62%) Data Lake
7 5 (3.62%) NoSQL
8 4 (2.90%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.17%) MySQL
10 2 (1.45%) Db2
10 2 (1.45%) Easytrieve
10 2 (1.45%) MariaDB
10 2 (1.45%) Power Query
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
11 1 (0.72%) Metadata
11 1 (0.72%) Parquet
11 1 (0.72%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 26 (18.84%) GitLab
2 22 (15.94%) JIRA
3 19 (13.77%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.42%) Cucumber
5 12 (8.70%) Postman
5 12 (8.70%) Selenium
6 11 (7.97%) Subversion
7 8 (5.80%) JUnit
8 7 (5.07%) Zephyr
9 6 (4.35%) Gatling
9 6 (4.35%) GDB
9 6 (4.35%) JMeter
10 5 (3.62%) SoapUI
10 5 (3.62%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.90%) Robot Framework
11 4 (2.90%) Storybook
12 3 (2.17%) Maven
13 2 (1.45%) Ant
13 2 (1.45%) Apache Ivy
13 2 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (31.16%) Social Skills
2 20 (14.49%) Finance
3 18 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 13 (9.42%) Electronics
5 12 (8.70%) Manufacturing
6 10 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.80%) Multimedia
9 7 (5.07%) Marketing
10 6 (4.35%) Retail
11 4 (2.90%) Automotive
11 4 (2.90%) Games
12 3 (2.17%) Banking
12 3 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.45%) Billing
13 2 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.72%) Law
14 1 (0.72%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (31.16%) Developer
2 36 (26.09%) Senior
3 26 (18.84%) Software Engineer
4 18 (13.04%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (8.70%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (8.70%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 11 (7.97%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.25%) Lead
8 9 (6.52%) DevOps Engineer
8 9 (6.52%) Software Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Administrator
9 8 (5.80%) Full-Stack Developer
9 8 (5.80%) Trainee
10 7 (5.07%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Junior
11 6 (4.35%) Junior Developer
11 6 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Senior Linux Engineer
11 6 (4.35%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (21.74%) REST
2 26 (18.84%) CSS
3 22 (15.94%) HTML
3 22 (15.94%) React
4 21 (15.22%) .NET
5 18 (13.04%) Terraform
6 12 (8.70%) Playwright
6 12 (8.70%) Yocto
7 10 (7.25%) .NET Framework
7 10 (7.25%) JSON
7 10 (7.25%) RESTful
7 10 (7.25%) XML
8 9 (6.52%) SOAP
9 7 (5.07%) YAML
10 6 (4.35%) ASP.NET
10 6 (4.35%) Node.js
10 6 (4.35%) PySpark
11 5 (3.62%) ASP.NET Core
11 5 (3.62%) pytest
11 5 (3.62%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.32%) Embedded Systems
2 15 (10.87%) IoT
3 13 (9.42%) Device Driver
4 10 (7.25%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.52%) ARM Cortex
6 8 (5.80%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.80%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
9 4 (2.90%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.90%) FPGA
9 4 (2.90%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (2.90%) Verilog
9 4 (2.90%) VHDL
10 3 (2.17%) Algorithms
10 3 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.17%) PMI
10 3 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 2 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 34 (24.64%) Linux
2 12 (8.70%) Windows
3 8 (5.80%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (5.07%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.35%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (2.17%) Solaris
7 2 (1.45%) zOS
8 1 (0.72%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (52.90%) CI/CD
2 55 (39.86%) Agile
2 55 (39.86%) DevOps
3 47 (34.06%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 41 (29.71%) Test Automation
6 26 (18.84%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (15.22%) Mentoring
8 17 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (12.32%) Collaborative Culture
9 15 (10.87%) AI
9 15 (10.87%) BDD
9 15 (10.87%) Data Modelling
9 15 (10.87%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (10.87%) Infrastructure as Code
9 15 (10.87%) Software Testing
9 15 (10.87%) Validation
10 14 (10.14%) Scrum
10 14 (10.14%) SDLC
10 14 (10.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 56 (40.58%) Python
2 45 (32.61%) SQL
3 39 (28.26%) JavaScript
4 27 (19.57%) C#
5 23 (16.67%) C
5 23 (16.67%) C++
6 16 (11.59%) Bash
6 16 (11.59%) Java
7 11 (7.97%) TypeScript
8 10 (7.25%) Embedded C
9 9 (6.52%) PowerShell
10 7 (5.07%) R
11 6 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (3.62%) PHP
13 4 (2.90%) Perl
14 3 (2.17%) Go
14 3 (2.17%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.45%) Assembly Language
15 2 (1.45%) JCL
15 2 (1.45%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 26 (18.84%) Degree
2 14 (10.14%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (8.70%) AWS Certification
4 12 (8.70%) Azure Certification
5 10 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (5.80%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 8 (5.80%) Master's Degree
8 5 (3.62%) ISEB
8 5 (3.62%) ISTQB
9 3 (2.17%) CBAP
9 3 (2.17%) IIBA
9 3 (2.17%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.45%) CISSP
10 2 (1.45%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.72%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.77%) QA
2 13 (9.42%) Accessibility
3 8 (5.80%) WCAG
4 7 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 7 (5.07%) JTAG
5 6 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (3.62%) SLA
7 4 (2.90%) SOC 2
8 3 (2.17%) GDPR
9 2 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.45%) IEC 61508
9 2 (1.45%) MISRA
9 2 (1.45%) MISRA C
System Software
1 35 (25.36%) Docker
2 10 (7.25%) Firmware
3 8 (5.80%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.45%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.45%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.72%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (15.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.80%) Ansible
3 3 (2.17%) Grafana
3 3 (2.17%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.45%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.45%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.45%) Puppet
5 1 (0.72%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 32 (23.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.80%) Google
3 6 (4.35%) SAP
4 5 (3.62%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.62%) Pega
5 4 (2.90%) Altera
5 4 (2.90%) Microsemi
5 4 (2.90%) Xilinx
6 3 (2.17%) Databricks
6 3 (2.17%) HP
6 3 (2.17%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.17%) VMware
7 2 (1.45%) Cisco
7 2 (1.45%) IBM
7 2 (1.45%) IFS
7 2 (1.45%) Informatica
7 2 (1.45%) Oracle
7 2 (1.45%) Veracode
8 1 (0.72%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.72%) Salesforce