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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 100 97
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -18
Permanent jobs citing Git 110 159 208
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.36% 2.55% 2.80%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.07% 30.40% 34.10%
Number of salaries quoted 95 99 174
10th Percentile - - £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -1.41% +0.47%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,375
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 305 523 610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.76% 8.40% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 235 303 526
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,125 £42,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,750 £73,750 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 +15 77 £36,500 -40.41% 54
East Midlands -46 31 £54,600 +56.00% 50
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 10 (9.09%) Confluence
2 7 (6.36%) nginx
3 4 (3.64%) CMS
3 4 (3.64%) IIS
4 3 (2.73%) Apache
5 2 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.82%) WordPress
6 1 (0.91%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.91%) SAS
6 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.64%) Photoshop
2 3 (2.73%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Shopify
2 3 (2.73%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 75 (68.18%) Azure
2 63 (57.27%) AWS
3 39 (35.45%) GitHub
4 16 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 8 (7.27%) Amazon S3
7 7 (6.36%) Amazon EC2
7 7 (6.36%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (4.55%) Amazon ELB
8 5 (4.55%) AWS KMS
8 5 (4.55%) SaaS
8 5 (4.55%) Serverless
9 4 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.64%) npm
9 4 (3.64%) NuGet
9 4 (3.64%) SonarCloud
10 3 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.73%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.27%) Internet
2 7 (6.36%) DNS
2 7 (6.36%) HTTP
3 5 (4.55%) Firewall
3 5 (4.55%) FTP
3 5 (4.55%) SMTP
3 5 (4.55%) SSH
4 3 (2.73%) IMAP
4 3 (2.73%) Intranet
4 3 (2.73%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (1.82%) Bluetooth
5 2 (1.82%) LTE
5 2 (1.82%) Modbus
5 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.82%) Wireless
6 1 (0.91%) BGP
6 1 (0.91%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (0.91%) IOS XR
6 1 (0.91%) MPLS
6 1 (0.91%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.36%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (15.45%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.09%) MySQL
4 7 (6.36%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.45%) Redis
6 5 (4.55%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.55%) Power BI
6 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.73%) Power Query
8 2 (1.82%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.91%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.91%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.91%) Pentaho
9 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.91%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 16 (14.55%) JIRA
2 12 (10.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.36%) GitLab
4 5 (4.55%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.55%) Selenium
4 5 (4.55%) Vagrant
5 4 (3.64%) JUnit
5 4 (3.64%) Vite
6 3 (2.73%) git-flow
7 2 (1.82%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.82%) Subversion
7 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.91%) Gatling
8 1 (0.91%) Maven
8 1 (0.91%) Postman
8 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.91%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (27.27%) Multimedia
2 26 (23.64%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.64%) Finance
4 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.64%) Billing
7 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Advertising
8 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Games
8 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.91%) Electronics
9 1 (0.91%) Retail
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 41 (37.27%) Developer
2 30 (27.27%) Trainee
3 18 (16.36%) Software Developer
4 17 (15.45%) Senior
5 14 (12.73%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.73%) Trainee Developer
5 14 (12.73%) Trainee Software Developer
6 13 (11.82%) Software Engineer
7 9 (8.18%) Lead
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.55%) Agile Scrum Master
9 5 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Scrum Master
9 5 (4.55%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.64%) Operations Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Product Owner
10 4 (3.64%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (3.64%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (40.91%) CSS
1 45 (40.91%) HTML
2 16 (14.55%) React
3 15 (13.64%) .NET
3 15 (13.64%) Laravel
4 11 (10.00%) Node.js
4 11 (10.00%) REST
5 10 (9.09%) Vue
6 9 (8.18%) YAML
7 8 (7.27%) Spring
7 8 (7.27%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.36%) jQuery
8 7 (6.36%) RESTful
9 6 (5.45%) .NET Core
9 6 (5.45%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (4.55%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.55%) JPA
10 5 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.64%) .NET Framework
11 4 (3.64%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.27%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.73%) Replication
5 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.82%) Raspberry Pi
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.91%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.91%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.55%) Linux
2 10 (9.09%) Windows
3 5 (4.55%) Amazon Linux
3 5 (4.55%) VMS
4 3 (2.73%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.73%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Mentoring
2 43 (39.09%) DevOps
3 40 (36.36%) Agile
4 33 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 28 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (19.09%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.36%) Software Engineering
8 11 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 11 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (10.00%) User Experience
9 10 (9.09%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (8.18%) Migration
10 9 (8.18%) Scrum
10 9 (8.18%) Technical Leadership
10 9 (8.18%) Test Automation
11 8 (7.27%) Coaching
11 8 (7.27%) Microservices
12 7 (6.36%) API Integration
12 7 (6.36%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 49 (44.55%) Python
3 22 (20.00%) SQL
4 18 (16.36%) PHP
5 16 (14.55%) R
6 13 (11.82%) C#
6 13 (11.82%) Java
7 9 (8.18%) PowerShell
8 8 (7.27%) Bash
9 7 (6.36%) TypeScript
10 5 (4.55%) Groovy
11 4 (3.64%) C
12 3 (2.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.73%) Delphi
13 2 (1.82%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.82%) Perl
14 1 (0.91%) C++
14 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 35 (31.82%) AWS Certification
2 33 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 32 (29.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (27.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (7.27%) Degree
6 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.45%) Security Cleared
7 5 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.82%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
9 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.00%) QA
2 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) GDPR
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 22 (20.00%) Docker
2 3 (2.73%) DFS Replication
2 3 (2.73%) Dovecot
2 3 (2.73%) Firmware
2 3 (2.73%) Postfix
2 3 (2.73%) Squid
3 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 22 (20.00%) Terraform
2 12 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 8 (7.27%) Grafana
4 6 (5.45%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.73%) Ansible
5 3 (2.73%) Nessus
5 3 (2.73%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.91%) CA Service Virtualization
6 1 (0.91%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (44.55%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.55%) Oracle
2 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (2.73%) Jaspersoft
4 3 (2.73%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.73%) SAP
5 2 (1.82%) Atmel
5 2 (1.82%) Zend
6 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.91%) Cisco
6 1 (0.91%) Denodo
6 1 (0.91%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.91%) Talend