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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 132 114
Rank change year-on-year -9 -18 -32
Permanent jobs citing Git 147 113 181
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.94% 2.00% 1.90%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.73% 29.89% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 87 85 82
10th Percentile £32,250 £32,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +21.95% -10.87%
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £74,679 - £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 370 378 543
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.37% 6.70% 5.69%
Number of salaries quoted 211 226 275
10th Percentile £29,500 £34,125 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,875 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,450 £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 8 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 8 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 -42 85 £51,250 -26.79% 102
East Midlands +7 62 £60,000 +4.35% 58
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 (7.48%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.40%) Confluence
3 4 (2.72%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.04%) Apache
5 2 (1.36%) CMS
5 2 (1.36%) 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 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (6.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.04%) Shopify
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.68%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 80 (54.42%) Azure
2 48 (32.65%) Azure DevOps
3 42 (28.57%) AWS
4 22 (14.97%) Power Platform
5 17 (11.56%) GCP
6 14 (9.52%) GitHub
7 13 (8.84%) Dynamics 365
7 13 (8.84%) Serverless
8 12 (8.16%) Azure Functions
9 10 (6.80%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (6.80%) Power Automate
10 8 (5.44%) SaaS
11 6 (4.08%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (3.40%) IaaS
12 5 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
13 4 (2.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 4 (2.72%) Google Ads
13 4 (2.72%) PowerApps
13 4 (2.72%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 17 (11.56%) Wi-Fi
1 17 (11.56%) Wireless
2 13 (8.84%) Internet
3 8 (5.44%) Bluetooth
3 8 (5.44%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.76%) DNS
5 6 (4.08%) Firewall
5 6 (4.08%) MQTT
5 6 (4.08%) VLAN
5 6 (4.08%) ZigBee
6 5 (3.40%) VPN
7 4 (2.72%) BGP
7 4 (2.72%) DHCP
7 4 (2.72%) EIGRP
7 4 (2.72%) LAN
7 4 (2.72%) OSPF
7 4 (2.72%) Structured Cabling
7 4 (2.72%) VRRP
7 4 (2.72%) VXLAN
7 4 (2.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (13.61%) SQL Server
2 13 (8.84%) Power BI
3 11 (7.48%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (6.12%) Delta Lake
5 8 (5.44%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.08%) Data Lake
6 6 (4.08%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.72%) Parquet
7 4 (2.72%) Star Schema
8 3 (2.04%) NoSQL
9 2 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (1.36%) 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 26 (17.69%) GitLab
2 23 (15.65%) JIRA
3 20 (13.61%) Jenkins
4 13 (8.84%) Cucumber
5 12 (8.16%) Postman
5 12 (8.16%) Selenium
6 11 (7.48%) Subversion
7 8 (5.44%) JUnit
7 8 (5.44%) Zephyr
8 6 (4.08%) Gatling
8 6 (4.08%) GDB
8 6 (4.08%) JMeter
9 5 (3.40%) SoapUI
9 5 (3.40%) Visual Studio
10 4 (2.72%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (2.72%) Robot Framework
10 4 (2.72%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (2.72%) Storybook
11 3 (2.04%) Maven
12 2 (1.36%) Ant
General
1 53 (36.05%) Social Skills
2 30 (20.41%) Public Sector
3 23 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (14.97%) Finance
5 15 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (8.16%) Manufacturing
7 10 (6.80%) Electronics
8 9 (6.12%) Marketing
9 8 (5.44%) Retail
10 6 (4.08%) Games
11 5 (3.40%) Banking
11 5 (3.40%) Telecoms
12 3 (2.04%) Automotive
12 3 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
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 (29.25%) Developer
2 40 (27.21%) Senior
3 20 (13.61%) Software Engineer
4 19 (12.93%) Embedded Engineer
5 17 (11.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (10.20%) Data Engineer
7 13 (8.84%) Lead
7 13 (8.84%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 12 (8.16%) Dynamics 365 Developer
9 10 (6.80%) Embedded Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 10 (6.80%) Trainee
10 9 (6.12%) Embedded Software Engineer
11 8 (5.44%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (4.76%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.08%) Analyst
13 6 (4.08%) Quality Engineer
13 6 (4.08%) Software Developer
14 5 (3.40%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (20.41%) REST
2 21 (14.29%) .NET
3 20 (13.61%) React
4 19 (12.93%) Terraform
5 17 (11.56%) CSS
6 16 (10.88%) JSON
6 16 (10.88%) Yocto
7 15 (10.20%) XML
8 13 (8.84%) HTML
9 12 (8.16%) Playwright
10 11 (7.48%) RESTful
11 9 (6.12%) .NET Framework
11 9 (6.12%) PySpark
11 9 (6.12%) SOAP
12 8 (5.44%) XSLT
13 7 (4.76%) YAML
14 6 (4.08%) ASP.NET
15 5 (3.40%) ADO
15 5 (3.40%) ASP.NET Core
15 5 (3.40%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
2 19 (12.93%) IoT
3 17 (11.56%) Device Driver
4 12 (8.16%) Linux Command Line
5 10 (6.80%) Cloud Native
6 9 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (5.44%) Management Information System
7 8 (5.44%) Taxonomies
8 7 (4.76%) ARM Cortex
9 6 (4.08%) Virtual Team
10 5 (3.40%) FPGA
10 5 (3.40%) Legacy Applications
10 5 (3.40%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (3.40%) Product Ownership
10 5 (3.40%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (3.40%) Verilog
10 5 (3.40%) VHDL
11 4 (2.72%) Data Centre
12 3 (2.04%) CAN bus
12 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (30.61%) Linux
2 12 (8.16%) Embedded Linux
3 10 (6.80%) Windows
4 7 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 3 (2.04%) FreeRTOS
5 3 (2.04%) Solaris
6 1 (0.68%) Alpine Linux
6 1 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (61.22%) CI/CD
2 73 (49.66%) DevOps
3 62 (42.18%) Agile
4 45 (30.61%) Problem-Solving
5 42 (28.57%) Software Engineering
6 36 (24.49%) Test Automation
7 33 (22.45%) Mentoring
8 30 (20.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 26 (17.69%) Data Modelling
10 24 (16.33%) AI
11 22 (14.97%) Collaborative Culture
11 22 (14.97%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
12 21 (14.29%) SDLC
12 21 (14.29%) Validation
13 20 (13.61%) Containerisation
14 19 (12.93%) Business Intelligence
14 19 (12.93%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (12.24%) Decision-Making
16 17 (11.56%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 54 (36.73%) Python
2 49 (33.33%) SQL
3 33 (22.45%) JavaScript
4 32 (21.77%) C#
5 26 (17.69%) C++
6 24 (16.33%) C
7 15 (10.20%) Java
8 13 (8.84%) Bash
8 13 (8.84%) Embedded C
9 11 (7.48%) TypeScript
10 10 (6.80%) Shell Script
11 7 (4.76%) PowerShell
12 6 (4.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (3.40%) Perl
14 3 (2.04%) T-SQL
15 2 (1.36%) Go
15 2 (1.36%) PHP
16 1 (0.68%) R
16 1 (0.68%) Rust
16 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 29 (19.73%) Degree
2 14 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 13 (8.84%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (6.12%) Master's Degree
5 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (4.76%) Azure Certification
7 5 (3.40%) ISEB
7 5 (3.40%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.04%) AWS Certification
8 3 (2.04%) CBAP
8 3 (2.04%) IIBA
8 3 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.36%) CISSP
9 2 (1.36%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.68%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (13.61%) Accessibility
1 20 (13.61%) QA
2 14 (9.52%) WCAG
3 12 (8.16%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.12%) GDPR
5 7 (4.76%) JTAG
6 6 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (3.40%) SLA
8 4 (2.72%) SOC 2
9 2 (1.36%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.68%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.68%) GAMP
10 1 (0.68%) GMP
System Software
1 41 (27.89%) Docker
2 8 (5.44%) Firmware
3 6 (4.08%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.36%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.68%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (7.48%) Ansible
3 3 (2.04%) Grafana
3 3 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.36%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.36%) Puppet
5 1 (0.68%) Data Guard
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 45 (30.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (12.24%) Google
3 6 (4.08%) SAP
4 5 (3.40%) Altera
4 5 (3.40%) Microsemi
4 5 (3.40%) Pega
4 5 (3.40%) Xilinx
5 4 (2.72%) Cisco
6 3 (2.04%) CrowdStrike
6 3 (2.04%) Databricks
6 3 (2.04%) HP
6 3 (2.04%) Oracle
6 3 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.04%) VMware
7 2 (1.36%) IFS
7 2 (1.36%) Veracode
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.68%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.68%) OpenText