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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 108 93
Rank change year-on-year -34 -15 -22
Permanent jobs citing Git 117 115 290
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.98% 2.38% 2.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.47% 27.00% 34.65%
Number of salaries quoted 102 85 224
10th Percentile - £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £40,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +3.96% -8.18%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £69,950 £71,250 £76,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -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 384 426 837
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.21% 8.83% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 297 322 681
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,875 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% +4.58% -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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -2 78 £42,500 -27.97% 32
East Midlands -62 37 £60,100 +71.71% 37
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 8 (6.84%) IIS
1 8 (6.84%) WordPress
2 7 (5.98%) CMS
3 5 (4.27%) Confluence
3 5 (4.27%) nginx
4 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.71%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Adobe Illustrator
1 5 (4.27%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.85%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Shopify
2 2 (1.71%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 73 (62.39%) Azure
2 62 (52.99%) AWS
3 42 (35.90%) GitHub
4 20 (17.09%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (6.84%) npm
5 8 (6.84%) NuGet
5 8 (6.84%) SonarCloud
6 7 (5.98%) Power Platform
7 6 (5.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (5.13%) Serverless
8 5 (4.27%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.27%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.27%) SaaS
9 3 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.56%) GCP
9 3 (2.56%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 32 (27.35%) Internet
2 6 (5.13%) Bluetooth
2 6 (5.13%) Modbus
3 4 (3.42%) LTE
3 4 (3.42%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (3.42%) Wireless
4 2 (1.71%) DNS
4 2 (1.71%) Ethernet
4 2 (1.71%) HTTP
5 1 (0.85%) 4G
5 1 (0.85%) BGP
5 1 (0.85%) Broadband
5 1 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.85%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.85%) Intranet
5 1 (0.85%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.85%) MPLS
5 1 (0.85%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.11%) MySQL
2 13 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.13%) Power BI
5 5 (4.27%) Redis
5 5 (4.27%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.56%) Power Query
7 2 (1.71%) DB2
7 2 (1.71%) Easytrieve
7 2 (1.71%) MariaDB
7 2 (1.71%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.85%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.85%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.85%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 10 (8.55%) JIRA
2 8 (6.84%) GitLab
2 8 (6.84%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.27%) Subversion
3 5 (4.27%) Vite
4 4 (3.42%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.56%) Cucumber
5 3 (2.56%) JUnit
5 3 (2.56%) Selenium
6 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.85%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.85%) Maven
7 1 (0.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 32 (27.35%) Multimedia
2 22 (18.80%) Social Skills
3 13 (11.11%) Finance
4 8 (6.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.27%) Electronics
5 5 (4.27%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.42%) Billing
7 3 (2.56%) Advertising
7 3 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.56%) Banking
7 3 (2.56%) Games
7 3 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.71%) Automotive
8 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.71%) Marketing
8 2 (1.71%) Retail
9 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (31.62%) Developer
2 32 (27.35%) Trainee
3 24 (20.51%) Senior
4 18 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 18 (15.38%) Software Engineer
5 13 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 13 (11.11%) Trainee Developer
5 13 (11.11%) Trainee Software Developer
6 9 (7.69%) Lead
7 8 (6.84%) Administrator
7 8 (6.84%) Embedded Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Senior DevOps
7 8 (6.84%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (6.84%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (6.84%) Web Administrator
8 6 (5.13%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.13%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.27%) Agile Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (39.32%) CSS
1 46 (39.32%) HTML
2 17 (14.53%) React
3 15 (12.82%) .NET
4 14 (11.97%) Laravel
4 14 (11.97%) YAML
5 13 (11.11%) Node.js
6 11 (9.40%) Vue
7 9 (7.69%) .NET Core
8 8 (6.84%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.84%) REST
9 7 (5.98%) Spring
9 7 (5.98%) Tailwind CSS
10 6 (5.13%) RESTful
10 6 (5.13%) Spring Boot
11 5 (4.27%) LEMP Stack
12 4 (3.42%) RabbitMQ
13 3 (2.56%) Django
13 3 (2.56%) JPA
13 3 (2.56%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.82%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.42%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.56%) Legacy Applications
5 2 (1.71%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.71%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (1.71%) CAN bus
5 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.71%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.71%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
6 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.85%) NHS
6 1 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.68%) Linux
2 9 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (3.42%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (1.71%) zOS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.04%) Mentoring
2 40 (34.19%) CI/CD
3 38 (32.48%) DevOps
4 31 (26.50%) Agile
5 25 (21.37%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (21.37%) Software Engineering
6 24 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.68%) Infrastructure as Code
8 15 (12.82%) Test Automation
9 14 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 12 (10.26%) Scrum
10 12 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 11 (9.40%) E-Commerce
11 11 (9.40%) Microservices
11 11 (9.40%) Web Development
12 9 (7.69%) Data Modelling
12 9 (7.69%) Decision-Making
12 9 (7.69%) Full-Stack Development
12 9 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
12 9 (7.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 55 (47.01%) Python
2 53 (45.30%) JavaScript
3 20 (17.09%) R
3 20 (17.09%) SQL
4 17 (14.53%) PHP
5 14 (11.97%) Bash
5 14 (11.97%) C#
6 11 (9.40%) Java
7 10 (8.55%) C
8 8 (6.84%) PowerShell
9 6 (5.13%) Embedded C
9 6 (5.13%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.56%) C++
10 3 (2.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (2.56%) Delphi
11 2 (1.71%) Assembly Language
11 2 (1.71%) COBOL
11 2 (1.71%) JCL
11 2 (1.71%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (30.77%) AWS Certification
2 34 (29.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 32 (27.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 32 (27.35%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.13%) Degree
5 5 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.40%) QA
2 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.71%) GDPR
2 2 (1.71%) IEC 61508
2 2 (1.71%) MISRA
2 2 (1.71%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 24 (20.51%) Docker
2 8 (6.84%) Firmware
3 4 (3.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.71%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 22 (18.80%) Terraform
2 18 (15.38%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.56%) Ansible
3 3 (2.56%) Grafana
4 2 (1.71%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.85%) Nagios
5 1 (0.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 48 (41.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.84%) CrowdStrike
3 5 (4.27%) Oracle
4 4 (3.42%) Atmel
5 2 (1.71%) Databricks
5 2 (1.71%) IBM
5 2 (1.71%) Zend
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco
6 1 (0.85%) Denodo
6 1 (0.85%) Informatica
6 1 (0.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.85%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) Talend