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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 132 120
Rank change year-on-year -8 -12 -33
Permanent jobs citing Git 148 112 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.95% 1.99% 1.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.36% 29.95% 32.96%
Number of salaries quoted 87 85 80
10th Percentile £32,250 £35,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £33,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £62,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +21.95% -10.87%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £64,063
90th Percentile £74,991 - £72,500
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 376 374 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.41% 6.63% 5.66%
Number of salaries quoted 212 224 270
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,325 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,063 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £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 9 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 9 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 -39 86 £53,750 -23.21% 95
East Midlands +3 62 £60,000 +4.35% 56
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 4 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.03%) Apache
5 2 (1.35%) CMS
5 2 (1.35%) Headless CMS
6 1 (0.68%) Documentum
6 1 (0.68%) IIS
6 1 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 1 (0.68%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.68%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.68%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (3.38%) 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 48 (32.43%) Azure DevOps
3 43 (29.05%) AWS
4 22 (14.86%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.49%) GCP
6 15 (10.14%) GitHub
7 13 (8.78%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (8.78%) Serverless
8 12 (8.11%) Azure Functions
9 10 (6.76%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (6.76%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.41%) SaaS
11 7 (4.73%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (4.05%) Azure Data Factory
13 5 (3.38%) IaaS
13 5 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
14 4 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 4 (2.70%) Google Ads
14 4 (2.70%) PowerApps
14 4 (2.70%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.49%) Wi-Fi
1 17 (11.49%) Wireless
2 13 (8.78%) Internet
3 8 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.73%) Bluetooth
4 7 (4.73%) DNS
5 6 (4.05%) Firewall
5 6 (4.05%) MQTT
5 6 (4.05%) VLAN
5 6 (4.05%) ZigBee
6 5 (3.38%) VPN
7 4 (2.70%) BGP
7 4 (2.70%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.70%) EIGRP
7 4 (2.70%) HSRP
7 4 (2.70%) LAN
7 4 (2.70%) OSPF
7 4 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (2.70%) VRRP
7 4 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.78%) 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%) Parquet
7 4 (2.70%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.03%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.35%) Power Query
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.68%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.68%) Looker
10 1 (0.68%) Metadata
10 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.68%) Redis
Development Applications
1 27 (18.24%) GitLab
2 24 (16.22%) JIRA
3 21 (14.19%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.78%) Cucumber
5 12 (8.11%) Postman
5 12 (8.11%) Selenium
6 11 (7.43%) Subversion
7 9 (6.08%) Zephyr
8 8 (5.41%) JUnit
9 6 (4.05%) Gatling
9 6 (4.05%) GDB
9 6 (4.05%) JMeter
10 5 (3.38%) SoapUI
10 5 (3.38%) Visual Studio
11 4 (2.70%) Octopus Deploy
11 4 (2.70%) Robot Framework
11 4 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (2.70%) Storybook
12 3 (2.03%) Maven
13 2 (1.35%) Ant
General
1 55 (37.16%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.95%) Public Sector
3 24 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.86%) Finance
5 15 (10.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.11%) Manufacturing
7 9 (6.08%) Electronics
7 9 (6.08%) Marketing
8 8 (5.41%) Retail
9 6 (4.05%) Games
10 5 (3.38%) Banking
10 5 (3.38%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.03%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.35%) Automotive
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 43 (29.05%) Developer
2 39 (26.35%) Senior
3 19 (12.84%) Software Engineer
4 18 (12.16%) Embedded Engineer
5 17 (11.49%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.14%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.78%) Lead
8 12 (8.11%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 12 (8.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.76%) Trainee
10 8 (5.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
10 8 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (4.73%) Senior Developer
12 6 (4.05%) Analyst
12 6 (4.05%) Quality Engineer
12 6 (4.05%) Software Developer
13 5 (3.38%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.27%) REST
2 21 (14.19%) .NET
2 21 (14.19%) React
3 20 (13.51%) Terraform
4 18 (12.16%) CSS
5 16 (10.81%) JSON
5 16 (10.81%) Yocto
6 15 (10.14%) XML
7 14 (9.46%) HTML
8 12 (8.11%) Playwright
8 12 (8.11%) RESTful
9 9 (6.08%) .NET Framework
9 9 (6.08%) PySpark
9 9 (6.08%) SOAP
10 8 (5.41%) XSLT
11 7 (4.73%) YAML
12 6 (4.05%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.05%) ASP.NET
13 5 (3.38%) ADO
13 5 (3.38%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 22 (14.86%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (12.84%) IoT
3 17 (11.49%) Device Driver
4 12 (8.11%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (7.43%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.08%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (5.41%) Management Information System
7 8 (5.41%) Taxonomies
8 7 (4.73%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (4.05%) Virtual Team
10 5 (3.38%) FPGA
10 5 (3.38%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (3.38%) Product Ownership
10 5 (3.38%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (3.38%) Verilog
10 5 (3.38%) VHDL
11 4 (2.70%) Data Centre
12 3 (2.03%) Mobile App
12 3 (2.03%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 45 (30.41%) Linux
2 12 (8.11%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (6.76%) Windows
4 7 (4.73%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.03%) Solaris
6 2 (1.35%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
7 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (62.16%) CI/CD
2 74 (50.00%) DevOps
3 63 (42.57%) Agile
4 45 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
5 41 (27.70%) Software Engineering
6 38 (25.68%) Test Automation
7 33 (22.30%) Mentoring
8 31 (20.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.57%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.22%) AI
11 23 (15.54%) Collaborative Culture
11 23 (15.54%) Infrastructure as Code
12 22 (14.86%) Validation
13 21 (14.19%) Containerisation
13 21 (14.19%) Continuous Integration
13 21 (14.19%) SDLC
14 19 (12.84%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (12.84%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (12.16%) Decision-Making
16 17 (11.49%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.49%) Python
2 49 (33.11%) SQL
3 34 (22.97%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.62%) C#
5 27 (18.24%) C++
6 24 (16.22%) C
7 17 (11.49%) Java
8 13 (8.78%) Bash
9 12 (8.11%) Embedded C
9 12 (8.11%) TypeScript
10 10 (6.76%) Shell Script
11 7 (4.73%) PowerShell
12 6 (4.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (3.38%) Perl
14 3 (2.03%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.35%) Go
15 2 (1.35%) PHP
16 1 (0.68%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.68%) R
16 1 (0.68%) Rust
Qualifications
1 30 (20.27%) Degree
2 14 (9.46%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (6.76%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.73%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.38%) ISEB
7 5 (3.38%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.03%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.03%) CBAP
8 3 (2.03%) IIBA
8 3 (2.03%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.35%) CISSP
9 2 (1.35%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (14.86%) QA
2 21 (14.19%) Accessibility
3 14 (9.46%) WCAG
4 12 (8.11%) Data Quality
5 9 (6.08%) GDPR
6 7 (4.73%) JTAG
7 6 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (3.38%) SLA
9 4 (2.70%) SOC 2
10 2 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 1 (0.68%) GAMP
11 1 (0.68%) GMP
System Software
1 42 (28.38%) Docker
2 8 (5.41%) Firmware
3 6 (4.05%) 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 19 (12.84%) 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%) 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
6 3 (2.03%) 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