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

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 119 108
Rank change year-on-year -47 -11 -33
Permanent jobs citing Git 105 129 229
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.76% 2.26% 2.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.83% 28.86% 37.60%
Number of salaries quoted 81 90 136
10th Percentile £29,750 £40,875 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,989 £48,438 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,125 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +20.25% -13.04%
75th Percentile £69,250 £73,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £72,500 £73,875 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,457
% change year-on-year -7.69% +11.19% -10.07%

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 352 447 609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.54% 7.84% 5.40%
Number of salaries quoted 248 284 425
10th Percentile £26,588 £32,950 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,938 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,200
90th Percentile £74,985 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.15% +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 29 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 29 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 -63 59 £47,500 -26.92% 54
East Midlands -13 46 £60,000 +9.09% 36
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 (6.67%) WordPress
2 5 (4.76%) Confluence
3 4 (3.81%) Apache
3 4 (3.81%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.81%) CMS
3 4 (3.81%) IIS
4 1 (0.95%) Documentum
4 1 (0.95%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.95%) nginx
4 1 (0.95%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.95%) AutoCAD
1 1 (0.95%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.95%) Magento
1 1 (0.95%) SAP Business One
1 1 (0.95%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 47 (44.76%) Azure
2 37 (35.24%) AWS
3 24 (22.86%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (15.24%) GitHub
5 7 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 6 (5.71%) GCP
6 6 (5.71%) SaaS
7 5 (4.76%) SonarCloud
8 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (3.81%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.81%) npm
8 4 (3.81%) NuGet
9 3 (2.86%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.86%) AWS IoT
9 3 (2.86%) Google Ads
9 3 (2.86%) Meta Ads
9 3 (2.86%) Serverless
10 2 (1.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (1.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (12.38%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (12.38%) Wireless
2 9 (8.57%) Bluetooth
2 9 (8.57%) Internet
3 6 (5.71%) MQTT
3 6 (5.71%) ZigBee
4 5 (4.76%) VPN
5 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.86%) DNS
7 2 (1.90%) Ethernet
7 2 (1.90%) Firewall
7 2 (1.90%) LoRaWAN
7 2 (1.90%) Modbus
7 2 (1.90%) VLAN
8 1 (0.95%) HTTP
8 1 (0.95%) Intranet
8 1 (0.95%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (6.67%) Power BI
3 5 (4.76%) MySQL
3 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.81%) Delta Lake
4 4 (3.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.86%) Star Schema
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) Db2
6 2 (1.90%) Easytrieve
6 2 (1.90%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.95%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.95%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.95%) Redis
7 1 (0.95%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.95%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 21 (20.00%) GitLab
2 15 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 12 (11.43%) JIRA
4 10 (9.52%) Cucumber
5 9 (8.57%) Postman
5 9 (8.57%) Selenium
6 7 (6.67%) JUnit
7 6 (5.71%) GDB
8 5 (4.76%) Gatling
9 4 (3.81%) JMeter
9 4 (3.81%) Robot Framework
9 4 (3.81%) Visual Studio
9 4 (3.81%) Zephyr
10 3 (2.86%) SoapUI
10 3 (2.86%) Subversion
11 2 (1.90%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.90%) Maven
11 2 (1.90%) Storybook
11 2 (1.90%) Vite
12 1 (0.95%) TestNG
General
1 28 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.48%) Finance
3 9 (8.57%) Electronics
4 8 (7.62%) Manufacturing
4 8 (7.62%) Multimedia
4 8 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.81%) Automotive
6 4 (3.81%) Marketing
7 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Retail
8 2 (1.90%) Banking
8 2 (1.90%) Billing
8 2 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.95%) Advertising
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Games
9 1 (0.95%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.95%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (28.57%) Senior
2 29 (27.62%) Developer
3 20 (19.05%) Software Engineer
4 18 (17.14%) Embedded Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 12 (11.43%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 9 (8.57%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.62%) Software Developer
7 8 (7.62%) Trainee
8 7 (6.67%) Administrator
8 7 (6.67%) Senior Software Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Quality Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (5.71%) Trainee Administrator
9 6 (5.71%) Web Administrator
10 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (22.86%) REST
2 23 (21.90%) CSS
3 21 (20.00%) HTML
4 17 (16.19%) React
5 12 (11.43%) .NET
5 12 (11.43%) Yocto
6 11 (10.48%) RESTful
7 9 (8.57%) Playwright
8 6 (5.71%) .NET Framework
8 6 (5.71%) JSON
8 6 (5.71%) Laravel
8 6 (5.71%) Node.js
8 6 (5.71%) XML
8 6 (5.71%) YAML
9 5 (4.76%) pytest
9 5 (4.76%) SOAP
10 4 (3.81%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (3.81%) PySpark
10 4 (3.81%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (3.81%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.24%) Embedded Systems
2 13 (12.38%) Device Driver
2 13 (12.38%) IoT
3 11 (10.48%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (8.57%) ARM Cortex
5 8 (7.62%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.81%) CAN bus
7 4 (3.81%) Legacy Applications
7 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (2.86%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.90%) Legacy Code
9 2 (1.90%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.90%) SCADA
10 1 (0.95%) PMI
10 1 (0.95%) Robotics
10 1 (0.95%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 33 (31.43%) Linux
2 12 (11.43%) Windows
3 8 (7.62%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.71%) FreeRTOS
6 2 (1.90%) zOS
7 1 (0.95%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.95%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (59.05%) CI/CD
2 39 (37.14%) DevOps
2 39 (37.14%) Software Engineering
3 36 (34.29%) Agile
4 34 (32.38%) Test Automation
5 33 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 17 (16.19%) Mentoring
8 14 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
9 13 (12.38%) BDD
9 13 (12.38%) Software Delivery
10 12 (11.43%) Collaborative Culture
10 12 (11.43%) Computer Science
10 12 (11.43%) Software Testing
11 11 (10.48%) Coaching
11 11 (10.48%) Full-Stack Development
11 11 (10.48%) Validation
11 11 (10.48%) Web Development
12 10 (9.52%) Data Modelling
12 10 (9.52%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.00%) Python
2 34 (32.38%) JavaScript
3 29 (27.62%) SQL
4 21 (20.00%) C
4 21 (20.00%) C++
5 16 (15.24%) Bash
6 14 (13.33%) C#
7 13 (12.38%) Java
8 10 (9.52%) Embedded C
9 9 (8.57%) PHP
10 8 (7.62%) PowerShell
10 8 (7.62%) R
10 8 (7.62%) TypeScript
11 4 (3.81%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.86%) Go
13 2 (1.90%) Assembly Language
13 2 (1.90%) COBOL
13 2 (1.90%) JCL
13 2 (1.90%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Degree
2 11 (10.48%) AWS Certification
2 11 (10.48%) Security Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 9 (8.57%) Azure Certification
5 8 (7.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (7.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (7.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (6.67%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.86%) ISEB
7 3 (2.86%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.90%) CISSP
8 2 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.95%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.95%) CBAP
9 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.95%) IIBA
9 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.48%) QA
2 9 (8.57%) Accessibility
3 7 (6.67%) JTAG
4 5 (4.76%) WCAG
5 4 (3.81%) Data Quality
5 4 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (3.81%) SLA
6 2 (1.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.90%) GDPR
6 2 (1.90%) IEC 61508
6 2 (1.90%) MISRA
6 2 (1.90%) MISRA C
6 2 (1.90%) SOC 2
System Software
1 31 (29.52%) Docker
2 9 (8.57%) Firmware
3 7 (6.67%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.90%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 14 (13.33%) Terraform
3 5 (4.76%) Ansible
4 3 (2.86%) Grafana
4 3 (2.86%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.90%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.95%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.95%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (15.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) Google
3 5 (4.76%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (4.76%) SAP
4 3 (2.86%) Pega
5 2 (1.90%) Databricks
5 2 (1.90%) IBM
5 2 (1.90%) Informatica
5 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.90%) VMware
6 1 (0.95%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.95%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.95%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.95%) OpenText
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle
6 1 (0.95%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.95%) Veracode
6 1 (0.95%) WooCommerce
6 1 (0.95%) Yahoo!