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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 108 111
Rank change year-on-year -51 +3 -41
Permanent jobs citing Git 97 139 281
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.75% 2.55% 2.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.03% 29.96% 34.27%
Number of salaries quoted 78 94 180
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,475 £34,875
25th Percentile £40,125 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £69,250 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,093 - £78,825
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +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 346 464 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.66% 8.51% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 249 296 605
10th Percentile £26,400 £33,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,990 £75,000 £79,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,965
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.14% -10.82%

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 July 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 July 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 -55 51 £50,000 -23.08% 30
East Midlands -18 46 £54,000 +8.00% 36
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 7 (7.22%) WordPress
2 6 (6.19%) IIS
3 5 (5.15%) CMS
4 3 (3.09%) Apache
4 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (3.09%) Confluence
5 2 (2.06%) nginx
6 1 (1.03%) Documentum
6 1 (1.03%) Headless CMS
6 1 (1.03%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Adobe Illustrator
1 2 (2.06%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.03%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Shopify
2 1 (1.03%) Magento
2 1 (1.03%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 44 (45.36%) Azure
2 31 (31.96%) AWS
3 22 (22.68%) Azure DevOps
4 16 (16.49%) GitHub
5 6 (6.19%) npm
5 6 (6.19%) NuGet
5 6 (6.19%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.19%) SonarCloud
6 4 (4.12%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.09%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.09%) GCP
7 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.09%) Google Ads
7 3 (3.09%) Meta Ads
7 3 (3.09%) SaaS
7 3 (3.09%) Serverless
7 3 (3.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.06%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 13 (13.40%) Bluetooth
1 13 (13.40%) Wi-Fi
1 13 (13.40%) Wireless
2 10 (10.31%) Internet
3 6 (6.19%) Modbus
4 5 (5.15%) MQTT
4 5 (5.15%) ZigBee
5 4 (4.12%) LTE
6 2 (2.06%) Ethernet
6 2 (2.06%) Firewall
6 2 (2.06%) VLAN
6 2 (2.06%) VPN
7 1 (1.03%) 4G
7 1 (1.03%) BGP
7 1 (1.03%) Broadband
7 1 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (1.03%) Intranet
7 1 (1.03%) IOS XR
7 1 (1.03%) MPLS
7 1 (1.03%) UWB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.19%) MySQL
1 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
1 6 (6.19%) Power BI
2 5 (5.15%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.12%) Delta Lake
3 4 (4.12%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.09%) Star Schema
5 2 (2.06%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.06%) Db2
5 2 (2.06%) Easytrieve
5 2 (2.06%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.03%) Redis
6 1 (1.03%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 11 (11.34%) GitLab
2 9 (9.28%) Jenkins
2 9 (9.28%) JIRA
3 7 (7.22%) Subversion
4 5 (5.15%) GDB
5 4 (4.12%) Eclipse
5 4 (4.12%) Robot Framework
5 4 (4.12%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.09%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.09%) JUnit
6 3 (3.09%) Vite
7 2 (2.06%) Gatling
7 2 (2.06%) Postman
7 2 (2.06%) Selenium
8 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.03%) Cypress.io
8 1 (1.03%) gulp
8 1 (1.03%) webpack
8 1 (1.03%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (20.62%) Social Skills
2 10 (10.31%) Multimedia
3 9 (9.28%) Finance
4 8 (8.25%) Electronics
4 8 (8.25%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.12%) Automotive
6 4 (4.12%) Marketing
7 3 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.06%) Advertising
8 2 (2.06%) Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Billing
8 2 (2.06%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.06%) Retail
9 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.03%) Games
9 1 (1.03%) Law
9 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (28.87%) Developer
2 24 (24.74%) Senior
3 23 (23.71%) Software Engineer
4 18 (18.56%) Embedded Engineer
5 15 (15.46%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 10 (10.31%) Trainee
7 9 (9.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 9 (9.28%) Software Developer
8 8 (8.25%) Data Engineer
9 7 (7.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Administrator
10 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps
10 6 (6.19%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
10 6 (6.19%) Trainee Administrator
10 6 (6.19%) Web Administrator
11 4 (4.12%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (4.12%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (24.74%) CSS
1 24 (24.74%) HTML
2 20 (20.62%) REST
3 18 (18.56%) React
4 13 (13.40%) .NET
5 9 (9.28%) RESTful
5 9 (9.28%) YAML
6 8 (8.25%) Node.js
6 8 (8.25%) Yocto
7 7 (7.22%) .NET Framework
7 7 (7.22%) Laravel
8 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET
8 5 (5.15%) ASP.NET Core
8 5 (5.15%) pytest
8 5 (5.15%) Vue
9 4 (4.12%) PySpark
9 4 (4.12%) Unity DI Container
10 3 (3.09%) .NET Core
10 3 (3.09%) React Native
10 3 (3.09%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.37%) Embedded Systems
2 11 (11.34%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (9.28%) Device Driver
3 9 (9.28%) IoT
4 8 (8.25%) ARM Cortex
5 7 (7.22%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.15%) Raspberry Pi
7 4 (4.12%) CAN bus
7 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
7 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
8 3 (3.09%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (3.09%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
9 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (2.06%) Legacy Code
9 2 (2.06%) Mainframe
9 2 (2.06%) SCADA
10 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
10 1 (1.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.74%) Linux
2 9 (9.28%) Windows
3 6 (6.19%) FreeRTOS
4 4 (4.12%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.06%) zOS
7 1 (1.03%) Alpine Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (48.45%) CI/CD
2 36 (37.11%) Software Engineering
3 31 (31.96%) DevOps
4 29 (29.90%) Agile
5 25 (25.77%) Test Automation
6 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (15.46%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (14.43%) Mentoring
10 11 (11.34%) Web Development
11 10 (10.31%) Coaching
11 10 (10.31%) Computer Science
11 10 (10.31%) Decision-Making
11 10 (10.31%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (9.28%) Software Delivery
13 8 (8.25%) Clean Code
13 8 (8.25%) Collaborative Culture
13 8 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (8.25%) DevSecOps
13 8 (8.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 44 (45.36%) Python
2 38 (39.18%) JavaScript
3 21 (21.65%) C
3 21 (21.65%) SQL
4 17 (17.53%) Bash
4 17 (17.53%) C++
5 15 (15.46%) C#
6 11 (11.34%) Embedded C
7 10 (10.31%) PHP
8 9 (9.28%) Java
8 9 (9.28%) R
9 8 (8.25%) PowerShell
10 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
11 3 (3.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (3.09%) Go
12 2 (2.06%) Assembly Language
12 2 (2.06%) COBOL
12 2 (2.06%) JCL
12 2 (2.06%) MATLAB
13 1 (1.03%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) AWS Certification
2 12 (12.37%) Degree
3 10 (10.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 10 (10.31%) Azure Certification
3 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (6.19%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.15%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 2 (2.06%) CISSP
7 2 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) JTAG
3 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (2.06%) IEC 61508
5 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (2.06%) MISRA
5 2 (2.06%) MISRA C
5 2 (2.06%) WCAG
6 1 (1.03%) GDPR
System Software
1 25 (25.77%) Docker
2 12 (12.37%) Firmware
3 7 (7.22%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (2.06%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.06%) Time Sharing Option
4 2 (2.06%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (17.53%) Kubernetes
2 16 (16.49%) Terraform
3 5 (5.15%) Ansible
4 2 (2.06%) Functional Safety
4 2 (2.06%) Grafana
4 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 17 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.19%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (5.15%) Google
4 4 (4.12%) Atmel
5 2 (2.06%) Databricks
5 2 (2.06%) IBM
5 2 (2.06%) Informatica
5 2 (2.06%) SAP
5 2 (2.06%) VMware
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco
6 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.03%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.03%) OpenText
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle
6 1 (1.03%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) WooCommerce
6 1 (1.03%) Yahoo!