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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 134 116
Rank change year-on-year -19 -18 -28
Permanent jobs citing Git 135 106 195
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.88% 1.88% 1.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.68% 26.90% 34.51%
Number of salaries quoted 86 79 97
10th Percentile £32,250 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +28.57% -8.70%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £74,730 £74,000 £76,500
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 368 394 565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.41% 6.99% 5.64%
Number of salaries quoted 225 242 323
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £75,900 £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 14 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 14 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 -39 77 £50,000 -31.03% 80
East Midlands +5 58 £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 9 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.19%) Confluence
3 3 (2.22%) IIS
4 2 (1.48%) Apache
4 2 (1.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.74%) CMS
5 1 (0.74%) Documentum
5 1 (0.74%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.74%) nginx
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle HTTP Server
5 1 (0.74%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (0.74%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.74%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (5.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.22%) Shopify
3 1 (0.74%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 64 (47.41%) Azure
2 45 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (24.44%) AWS
4 18 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 12 (8.89%) GitHub
6 11 (8.15%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (8.15%) Serverless
7 10 (7.41%) Azure Functions
8 9 (6.67%) SaaS
9 8 (5.93%) Power Automate
10 6 (4.44%) GCP
11 5 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
11 5 (3.70%) SonarCloud
12 4 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 4 (2.96%) Google Ads
12 4 (2.96%) IaaS
12 4 (2.96%) Meta Ads
12 4 (2.96%) PowerApps
12 4 (2.96%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 14 (10.37%) Wi-Fi
1 14 (10.37%) Wireless
2 9 (6.67%) Bluetooth
3 8 (5.93%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.19%) DNS
5 6 (4.44%) Firewall
5 6 (4.44%) MQTT
5 6 (4.44%) VLAN
5 6 (4.44%) ZigBee
6 5 (3.70%) VPN
7 4 (2.96%) BGP
7 4 (2.96%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (2.96%) DHCP
7 4 (2.96%) Ethernet VPN
7 4 (2.96%) HSRP
7 4 (2.96%) LAN
7 4 (2.96%) OSPF
7 4 (2.96%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (2.96%) VXLAN
7 4 (2.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.85%) SQL Server
2 11 (8.15%) Power BI
3 10 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (5.93%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (5.19%) Delta Lake
5 7 (5.19%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.96%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.22%) MySQL
8 3 (2.22%) Parquet
9 2 (1.48%) Db2
9 2 (1.48%) Easytrieve
9 2 (1.48%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.48%) Power Query
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
10 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
10 1 (0.74%) GIS
10 1 (0.74%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 26 (19.26%) GitLab
2 23 (17.04%) JIRA
3 19 (14.07%) Jenkins
4 13 (9.63%) Cucumber
5 12 (8.89%) Postman
5 12 (8.89%) Selenium
5 12 (8.89%) Subversion
6 8 (5.93%) JUnit
7 7 (5.19%) Zephyr
8 6 (4.44%) Gatling
8 6 (4.44%) GDB
8 6 (4.44%) JMeter
9 5 (3.70%) SoapUI
9 5 (3.70%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.96%) Robot Framework
10 4 (2.96%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.96%) Storybook
11 3 (2.22%) Maven
11 3 (2.22%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (1.48%) Cypress.io
General
1 48 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.26%) Public Sector
3 22 (16.30%) Finance
4 13 (9.63%) Electronics
4 13 (9.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (9.63%) Manufacturing
5 12 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (6.67%) Marketing
7 8 (5.93%) Retail
8 5 (3.70%) Banking
8 5 (3.70%) Games
8 5 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.96%) Automotive
10 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.48%) Billing
12 1 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.74%) Law
12 1 (0.74%) Police
Job Titles
1 43 (31.85%) Developer
2 39 (28.89%) Senior
3 26 (19.26%) Software Engineer
4 19 (14.07%) Embedded Engineer
5 13 (9.63%) Lead
5 13 (9.63%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 12 (8.89%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Data Engineer
7 10 (7.41%) Dynamics 365 Developer
8 9 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (5.19%) Embedded Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 7 (5.19%) Software Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Quality Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
12 5 (3.70%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (22.22%) REST
2 22 (16.30%) React
3 21 (15.56%) .NET
4 20 (14.81%) Terraform
5 18 (13.33%) CSS
6 14 (10.37%) HTML
6 14 (10.37%) JSON
6 14 (10.37%) XML
7 13 (9.63%) Yocto
8 12 (8.89%) Playwright
9 10 (7.41%) .NET Framework
9 10 (7.41%) RESTful
10 9 (6.67%) SOAP
10 9 (6.67%) YAML
11 7 (5.19%) PySpark
11 7 (5.19%) XSLT
12 6 (4.44%) ASP.NET
12 6 (4.44%) Node.js
13 5 (3.70%) ADO
13 5 (3.70%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.59%) Embedded Systems
2 16 (11.85%) IoT
3 14 (10.37%) Device Driver
4 10 (7.41%) Legacy Systems
5 9 (6.67%) ARM Cortex
5 9 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 8 (5.93%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (4.44%) Legacy Applications
7 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
7 6 (4.44%) Taxonomies
8 5 (3.70%) FPGA
8 5 (3.70%) Product Ownership
8 5 (3.70%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (3.70%) Verilog
8 5 (3.70%) VHDL
8 5 (3.70%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.96%) CAN bus
9 4 (2.96%) Data Centre
10 3 (2.22%) Mobile App
10 3 (2.22%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 34 (25.19%) Linux
2 12 (8.89%) Windows
3 9 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (5.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (4.44%) FreeRTOS
6 3 (2.22%) Solaris
7 2 (1.48%) zOS
8 1 (0.74%) Alpine Linux
8 1 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (57.04%) CI/CD
2 60 (44.44%) Agile
3 59 (43.70%) DevOps
4 46 (34.07%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (34.07%) Software Engineering
5 40 (29.63%) Test Automation
6 29 (21.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 21 (15.56%) AI
8 20 (14.81%) Data Modelling
8 20 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 19 (14.07%) Validation
10 18 (13.33%) Collaborative Culture
11 16 (11.85%) Business Intelligence
12 15 (11.11%) BDD
12 15 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
12 15 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
12 15 (11.11%) Software Testing
13 14 (10.37%) Decision-Making
13 14 (10.37%) SDLC
14 13 (9.63%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 51 (37.78%) Python
2 44 (32.59%) SQL
3 34 (25.19%) JavaScript
4 31 (22.96%) C#
5 24 (17.78%) C++
6 23 (17.04%) C
7 16 (11.85%) Bash
7 16 (11.85%) Java
8 11 (8.15%) Embedded C
8 11 (8.15%) TypeScript
9 9 (6.67%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (3.70%) Perl
12 4 (2.96%) PHP
13 3 (2.22%) Go
13 3 (2.22%) T-SQL
14 2 (1.48%) Assembly Language
14 2 (1.48%) COBOL
14 2 (1.48%) JCL
14 2 (1.48%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 28 (20.74%) Degree
2 14 (10.37%) Security Cleared
3 13 (9.63%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (5.93%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.44%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (3.70%) ISEB
7 5 (3.70%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.22%) CBAP
8 3 (2.22%) IIBA
8 3 (2.22%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.48%) CISSP
9 2 (1.48%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.74%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (14.07%) QA
2 17 (12.59%) Accessibility
3 12 (8.89%) WCAG
4 9 (6.67%) Data Quality
5 7 (5.19%) GDPR
5 7 (5.19%) JTAG
6 6 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (3.70%) SLA
8 4 (2.96%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (1.48%) IEC 61508
9 2 (1.48%) MISRA
9 2 (1.48%) MISRA C
System Software
1 34 (25.19%) Docker
2 10 (7.41%) Firmware
3 8 (5.93%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.48%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.48%) Time Sharing Option
6 1 (0.74%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 22 (16.30%) Kubernetes
2 10 (7.41%) Ansible
3 3 (2.22%) Grafana
3 3 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.48%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.48%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.48%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 30 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.93%) Google
3 6 (4.44%) SAP
4 5 (3.70%) Altera
4 5 (3.70%) CrowdStrike
4 5 (3.70%) Microsemi
4 5 (3.70%) Pega
4 5 (3.70%) Xilinx
5 4 (2.96%) Cisco
6 3 (2.22%) HP
6 3 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.22%) VMware
7 2 (1.48%) IBM
7 2 (1.48%) IFS
7 2 (1.48%) Oracle
7 2 (1.48%) Veracode
8 1 (0.74%) Informatica
8 1 (0.74%) OpenText
8 1 (0.74%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.74%) Salesforce