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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 114 99
Rank change year-on-year -40 -15 -24
Permanent jobs citing Git 111 117 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.84% 2.40% 2.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.13% 25.77% 34.74%
Number of salaries quoted 91 77 209
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -12.28%
75th Percentile £69,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £74,250 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 381 454 829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.87% 9.30% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 282 287 655
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £34,400
25th Percentile £34,063 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +12.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £79,800
England median annual salary £60,380 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.11% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -40 67 £47,500 -20.83% 22
East Midlands -26 42 £54,000 +48.97% 31
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 (8.11%) IIS
2 7 (6.31%) CMS
2 7 (6.31%) WordPress
3 4 (3.60%) Confluence
3 4 (3.60%) nginx
4 2 (1.80%) Apache
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.90%) Headless CMS
5 1 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.60%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.90%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 4 (3.60%) Shopify
2 1 (0.90%) Magento
2 1 (0.90%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 65 (58.56%) Azure
2 45 (40.54%) AWS
3 27 (24.32%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (23.42%) GitHub
5 9 (8.11%) npm
5 9 (8.11%) NuGet
5 9 (8.11%) SonarCloud
6 8 (7.21%) Power Platform
7 5 (4.50%) Serverless
8 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
8 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.70%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.70%) SaaS
9 3 (2.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.80%) Google Ads
10 2 (1.80%) Meta Ads
Communications & Networking
1 20 (18.02%) Internet
2 12 (10.81%) Bluetooth
3 8 (7.21%) Wi-Fi
3 8 (7.21%) Wireless
4 6 (5.41%) Modbus
5 4 (3.60%) LTE
5 4 (3.60%) MQTT
5 4 (3.60%) ZigBee
6 2 (1.80%) DNS
6 2 (1.80%) Ethernet
7 1 (0.90%) 4G
7 1 (0.90%) BGP
7 1 (0.90%) Broadband
7 1 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (0.90%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (0.90%) HTTP
7 1 (0.90%) Intranet
7 1 (0.90%) IOS XR
7 1 (0.90%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) NoSQL
2 8 (7.21%) MySQL
2 8 (7.21%) Power BI
2 8 (7.21%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.60%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.60%) Star Schema
4 3 (2.70%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 3 (2.70%) Delta Lake
4 3 (2.70%) Power Query
5 2 (1.80%) DB2
5 2 (1.80%) Easytrieve
5 2 (1.80%) MariaDB
5 2 (1.80%) Redis
5 2 (1.80%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.90%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.90%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 12 (10.81%) GitLab
2 8 (7.21%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.31%) Subversion
4 5 (4.50%) JIRA
4 5 (4.50%) Vite
5 4 (3.60%) Eclipse
5 4 (3.60%) GDB
5 4 (3.60%) Robot Framework
6 3 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 3 (2.70%) JUnit
7 2 (1.80%) Gatling
7 2 (1.80%) Postman
7 2 (1.80%) Selenium
8 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.90%) gulp
8 1 (0.90%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.90%) webpack
General
1 20 (18.02%) Multimedia
2 19 (17.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (12.61%) Finance
4 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.31%) Electronics
6 6 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (3.60%) Automotive
8 4 (3.60%) Marketing
9 3 (2.70%) Advertising
9 3 (2.70%) Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Billing
9 3 (2.70%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.80%) Games
10 2 (1.80%) Retail
11 1 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.90%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (27.03%) Developer
2 23 (20.72%) Senior
3 20 (18.02%) Software Engineer
3 20 (18.02%) Trainee
4 15 (13.51%) DevOps Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Embedded Engineer
5 14 (12.61%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 11 (9.91%) Software Developer
7 9 (8.11%) Senior DevOps
7 9 (8.11%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.21%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (6.31%) Trainee Developer
9 7 (6.31%) Trainee Software Developer
10 6 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Lead
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (5.41%) Trainee Administrator
10 6 (5.41%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (31.53%) CSS
1 35 (31.53%) HTML
2 18 (16.22%) React
3 17 (15.32%) .NET
4 15 (13.51%) REST
5 14 (12.61%) YAML
6 12 (10.81%) Node.js
7 10 (9.01%) Laravel
8 9 (8.11%) .NET Framework
9 8 (7.21%) RESTful
10 7 (6.31%) Vue
11 6 (5.41%) .NET Core
11 6 (5.41%) Tailwind CSS
12 5 (4.50%) ASP.NET
12 5 (4.50%) ASP.NET Core
12 5 (4.50%) pytest
13 4 (3.60%) LEMP Stack
13 4 (3.60%) Unity DI Container
13 4 (3.60%) Yocto
14 3 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.81%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.41%) ARM Cortex
2 6 (5.41%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.50%) Embedded Systems
4 4 (3.60%) CAN bus
4 4 (3.60%) Device Driver
4 4 (3.60%) IoT
4 4 (3.60%) Raspberry Pi
5 3 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.80%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.80%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.80%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.80%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.90%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.90%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Linux
2 10 (9.01%) Windows
3 6 (5.41%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.80%) zOS
5 1 (0.90%) Alpine Linux
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (42.34%) CI/CD
2 40 (36.04%) DevOps
3 33 (29.73%) Agile
4 26 (23.42%) Mentoring
4 26 (23.42%) Software Engineering
5 23 (20.72%) Test Automation
6 21 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (11.71%) Coaching
10 11 (9.91%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (9.91%) Web Development
11 10 (9.01%) Decision-Making
11 10 (9.01%) Microservices
12 9 (8.11%) DevSecOps
12 9 (8.11%) E-Commerce
12 9 (8.11%) Scrum
12 9 (8.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 8 (7.21%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.05%) Python
2 46 (41.44%) JavaScript
3 21 (18.92%) SQL
4 19 (17.12%) Bash
5 16 (14.41%) C
6 15 (13.51%) C#
6 15 (13.51%) R
7 13 (11.71%) PHP
8 10 (9.01%) C++
9 9 (8.11%) PowerShell
10 8 (7.21%) Embedded C
10 8 (7.21%) Java
11 6 (5.41%) TypeScript
12 5 (4.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (2.70%) Go
14 2 (1.80%) Assembly Language
14 2 (1.80%) COBOL
14 2 (1.80%) JCL
14 2 (1.80%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.90%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (21.62%) AWS Certification
2 22 (19.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (18.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 20 (18.02%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.41%) Degree
5 5 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (3.60%) Master's Degree
7 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.70%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 3 (2.70%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.81%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) JTAG
3 2 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.80%) GDPR
3 2 (1.80%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.80%) MISRA
3 2 (1.80%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.80%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (24.32%) Docker
2 10 (9.01%) Firmware
3 6 (5.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.80%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 23 (20.72%) Terraform
2 19 (17.12%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
4 2 (1.80%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.90%) Nagios
5 1 (0.90%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (29.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.11%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (3.60%) Atmel
4 2 (1.80%) Databricks
4 2 (1.80%) Google
4 2 (1.80%) IBM
5 1 (0.90%) Cisco
5 1 (0.90%) Informatica
5 1 (0.90%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.90%) SAP
5 1 (0.90%) WooCommerce