Git Job Trends in the North West

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 102 64
Rank change year-on-year +13 -38 0
Permanent jobs citing Git 122 102 239
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.60% 2.35% 3.51%
As % of the Development Applications category 46.39% 27.49% 37.05%
Number of salaries quoted 104 65 165
10th Percentile - £36,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,436 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.72% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £99,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 263 371 645
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.46% 8.53% 9.48%
Number of salaries quoted 206 241 535
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,300
25th Percentile £30,500 £45,383 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -1.74%
75th Percentile £68,729 £73,750 £75,772
90th Percentile £84,375 £83,750 £90,000
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 North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Git relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Git job vacancy trend in the North West

Git
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the North West over the 6 months to 27 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the North West

Git
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the North West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Manchester +13 76 £55,000 -18.52% 30
Merseyside +4 26 £30,500 -32.22% 5
Lancashire -1 9 £47,372 +5.31% 7
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 -
Cheshire -40 4 £33,750 -25.00% 4
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 10 (8.20%) WordPress
2 5 (4.10%) nginx
3 4 (3.28%) Apache
4 3 (2.46%) JBoss
5 1 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.82%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.82%) IIS
5 1 (0.82%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.82%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 86 (70.49%) AWS
2 79 (64.75%) Azure
3 54 (44.26%) GitHub
4 8 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (6.56%) GCP
5 7 (5.74%) Serverless
6 5 (4.10%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (3.28%) OpenShift
8 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.46%) Datadog
8 3 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (1.64%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.64%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.64%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 57 (46.72%) Internet
2 4 (3.28%) HTTP
3 3 (2.46%) DNS
3 3 (2.46%) SSH
4 2 (1.64%) OpenVPN
4 2 (1.64%) SSL
5 1 (0.82%) DHCP
5 1 (0.82%) LAN
5 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.82%) VSAN
5 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.11%) MongoDB
1 16 (13.11%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.66%) MySQL
2 13 (10.66%) NoSQL
3 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
3 6 (4.92%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.28%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.64%) Power BI
7 1 (0.82%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.82%) Redis
7 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) JIRA
2 6 (4.92%) GitLab
3 5 (4.10%) Bitbucket
3 5 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 5 (4.10%) JUnit
4 2 (1.64%) Maven
4 2 (1.64%) Subversion
5 1 (0.82%) Ant
5 1 (0.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.82%) git-flow
5 1 (0.82%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.82%) Selenium
5 1 (0.82%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.82%) XCUITest
General
1 50 (40.98%) Multimedia
2 16 (13.11%) Social Skills
3 8 (6.56%) Retail
4 7 (5.74%) Finance
5 5 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.10%) Marketing
6 3 (2.46%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.46%) Banking
6 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Electronics
7 2 (1.64%) Games
7 2 (1.64%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.64%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.82%) Advertising
8 1 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (44.26%) Developer
2 50 (40.98%) Trainee
3 26 (21.31%) Software Developer
4 22 (18.03%) Senior
4 22 (18.03%) Trainee Developer
4 22 (18.03%) Trainee Software Developer
5 14 (11.48%) Senior Developer
6 8 (6.56%) Administrator
6 8 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 8 (6.56%) Trainee Administrator
6 8 (6.56%) Web Administrator
7 7 (5.74%) PHP Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.10%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.10%) Java Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Lead
9 5 (4.10%) Principal Data Scientist
9 5 (4.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (68.03%) CSS
1 83 (68.03%) HTML
2 19 (15.57%) React
3 14 (11.48%) RESTful
4 13 (10.66%) AngularJS
5 12 (9.84%) Node.js
6 11 (9.02%) REST
7 9 (7.38%) .NET
7 9 (7.38%) Spring
7 9 (7.38%) Spring Boot
8 7 (5.74%) Web Services
9 5 (4.10%) EDI
9 5 (4.10%) Kafka
9 5 (4.10%) Laravel
10 4 (3.28%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.28%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.28%) gRPC
10 4 (3.28%) Sass
10 4 (3.28%) Spring Batch
11 3 (2.46%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.02%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.92%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.10%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.46%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.46%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.46%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.64%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.82%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.82%) IoT
7 1 (0.82%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.82%) Life Science
7 1 (0.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (16.39%) Linux
2 3 (2.46%) Windows
3 2 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.82%) CentOS
4 1 (0.82%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.82%) Unix
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (46.72%) Mentoring
2 42 (34.43%) Cybersecurity
3 37 (30.33%) Agile
4 33 (27.05%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.21%) Microservices
7 20 (16.39%) DevOps
8 17 (13.93%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 13 (10.66%) AI
10 13 (10.66%) Full-Stack Development
10 13 (10.66%) Web Development
11 12 (9.84%) User Experience
12 9 (7.38%) Analytics
12 9 (7.38%) Front End Development
12 9 (7.38%) TDD
13 8 (6.56%) Clean Code
13 8 (6.56%) Creative Problem-Solving
13 8 (6.56%) OOP
14 7 (5.74%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 90 (73.77%) JavaScript
2 79 (64.75%) Python
3 28 (22.95%) R
4 21 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 13 (10.66%) Java
6 12 (9.84%) SQL
7 11 (9.02%) Go
8 9 (7.38%) C
8 9 (7.38%) PHP
9 7 (5.74%) C#
10 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.46%) Bash
12 2 (1.64%) Bicep
13 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.82%) Groovy
13 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.82%) Swift
13 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 52 (42.62%) Azure Certification
2 50 (40.98%) AWS Certification
2 50 (40.98%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 50 (40.98%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.64%) Degree
4 1 (0.82%) PhD
4 1 (0.82%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.46%) QA
3 1 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.82%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.82%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (11.48%) Docker
2 3 (2.46%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.82%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (15.57%) Kubernetes
1 19 (15.57%) Terraform
2 18 (14.75%) Ansible
3 3 (2.46%) cPanel
3 3 (2.46%) Nagios
3 3 (2.46%) Plesk
3 3 (2.46%) Rancher
4 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.64%) Argo
4 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.82%) Grafana
5 1 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.82%) Podman
5 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.82%) Puppet
5 1 (0.82%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 61 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.64%) Adobe
3 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
3 2 (1.64%) New Relic
3 2 (1.64%) Splunk
4 1 (0.82%) Autodesk
4 1 (0.82%) HubSpot
4 1 (0.82%) McAfee
4 1 (0.82%) Pega
4 1 (0.82%) WSO2