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

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 103 93
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 -20
Permanent jobs citing Git 109 155 231
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 1.28% 2.58% 2.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.82% 30.39% 33.77%
Number of salaries quoted 97 96 198
10th Percentile - - £35,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £52,500 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +3.96% -5.61%
75th Percentile £67,250 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £73,750
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 313 510 684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.68% 8.49% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 246 299 597
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,300 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £42,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,250 £55,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +7.84% -7.27%
75th Percentile £64,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,881 £75,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 10 February 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 10 February 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 +5 73 £34,000 -44.49% 49
East Midlands -42 34 £54,000 +54.29% 50
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 5 (4.59%) Confluence
1 5 (4.59%) IIS
2 4 (3.67%) CMS
2 4 (3.67%) nginx
3 3 (2.75%) Apache
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.83%) WordPress
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.92%) SAS
5 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (3.67%) Photoshop
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Shopify
2 3 (2.75%) SAP Business One
3 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.83%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 73 (66.97%) Azure
2 60 (55.05%) AWS
3 39 (35.78%) GitHub
4 17 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.42%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.42%) Serverless
6 6 (5.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 5 (4.59%) Amazon S3
7 5 (4.59%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (4.59%) npm
7 5 (4.59%) NuGet
7 5 (4.59%) SaaS
7 5 (4.59%) SonarCloud
8 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.75%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (2.75%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.75%) Firebase
9 3 (2.75%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (27.52%) Internet
2 4 (3.67%) Bluetooth
2 4 (3.67%) LTE
2 4 (3.67%) Modbus
2 4 (3.67%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (3.67%) Wireless
3 3 (2.75%) Intranet
4 2 (1.83%) DNS
4 2 (1.83%) HTTP
5 1 (0.92%) 4G
5 1 (0.92%) BGP
5 1 (0.92%) Broadband
5 1 (0.92%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.92%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.92%) IOS XR
5 1 (0.92%) MPLS
5 1 (0.92%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (16.51%) SQL Server
2 15 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.17%) MySQL
4 6 (5.50%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.50%) Redis
5 5 (4.59%) Power BI
5 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.75%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.75%) Power Query
7 2 (1.83%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.92%) Geospatial Data
8 1 (0.92%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.92%) Looker
8 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.92%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.92%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.92%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) JIRA
2 8 (7.34%) GitLab
2 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.59%) Cucumber
3 5 (4.59%) Selenium
4 4 (3.67%) Eclipse
4 4 (3.67%) JUnit
4 4 (3.67%) Subversion
4 4 (3.67%) Vite
5 2 (1.83%) git-flow
5 2 (1.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.92%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (0.92%) Gatling
6 1 (0.92%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) Mockito
6 1 (0.92%) Postman
6 1 (0.92%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 30 (27.52%) Multimedia
2 25 (22.94%) Social Skills
3 15 (13.76%) Finance
4 8 (7.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.67%) Billing
7 3 (2.75%) Advertising
7 3 (2.75%) Banking
7 3 (2.75%) Games
7 3 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 1 (0.92%) Electronics
9 1 (0.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 39 (35.78%) Developer
2 30 (27.52%) Trainee
3 18 (16.51%) Senior
3 18 (16.51%) Software Developer
4 15 (13.76%) Software Engineer
5 14 (12.84%) Trainee Developer
5 14 (12.84%) Trainee Software Developer
6 10 (9.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 9 (8.26%) Lead
8 6 (5.50%) Senior Developer
9 5 (4.59%) Agile Scrum Master
9 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Scrum Master
9 5 (4.59%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (4.59%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Embedded Engineer
10 4 (3.67%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (40.37%) CSS
1 44 (40.37%) HTML
2 16 (14.68%) .NET
2 16 (14.68%) React
3 15 (13.76%) Laravel
4 12 (11.01%) Node.js
5 10 (9.17%) REST
5 10 (9.17%) Vue
5 10 (9.17%) YAML
6 9 (8.26%) Spring
7 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
8 7 (6.42%) .NET Core
8 7 (6.42%) RESTful
9 6 (5.50%) jQuery
9 6 (5.50%) Tailwind CSS
10 5 (4.59%) .NET Framework
10 5 (4.59%) Hibernate
10 5 (4.59%) JPA
10 5 (4.59%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (3.67%) LEMP Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.26%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.59%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.67%) Raspberry Pi
4 3 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.75%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.83%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.92%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.92%) NHS
6 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.92%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.01%) Linux
2 8 (7.34%) Windows
3 3 (2.75%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (42.20%) Mentoring
2 39 (35.78%) DevOps
3 38 (34.86%) Agile
4 34 (31.19%) CI/CD
5 28 (25.69%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (18.35%) Software Engineering
8 13 (11.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 11 (10.09%) E-Commerce
10 11 (10.09%) Test Automation
11 10 (9.17%) Full-Stack Development
11 10 (9.17%) Migration
11 10 (9.17%) Scrum
11 10 (9.17%) User Experience
12 9 (8.26%) Coaching
12 9 (8.26%) Microservices
12 9 (8.26%) Technical Leadership
13 8 (7.34%) Data Modelling
13 8 (7.34%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 50 (45.87%) JavaScript
2 47 (43.12%) Python
3 19 (17.43%) SQL
4 17 (15.60%) PHP
4 17 (15.60%) R
5 14 (12.84%) C#
6 12 (11.01%) Java
7 9 (8.26%) Bash
8 6 (5.50%) C
8 6 (5.50%) TypeScript
9 5 (4.59%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.67%) Embedded C
11 3 (2.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (2.75%) Delphi
12 1 (0.92%) C++
12 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (30.28%) AWS Certification
2 32 (29.36%) Microsoft Certification
3 30 (27.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 30 (27.52%) Azure Certification
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (4.59%) Degree
5 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 3 (2.75%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) GDPR
3 1 (0.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (17.43%) Docker
2 5 (4.59%) Firmware
3 1 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (17.43%) Terraform
2 14 (12.84%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.75%) Grafana
5 1 (0.92%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (0.92%) Nagios
5 1 (0.92%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 49 (44.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.59%) CrowdStrike
2 5 (4.59%) Oracle
3 4 (3.67%) Atmel
4 3 (2.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.75%) SAP
5 2 (1.83%) Zend
6 1 (0.92%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco
6 1 (0.92%) Denodo
6 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.92%) Talend