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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 163 96
Rank change year-on-year +25 -67 -46
Permanent jobs citing Git 131 74 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.01% 1.42% 2.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.72% 21.26% 27.26%
Number of salaries quoted 80 43 111
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £37,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £39,185 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,250 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £92,750 £66,425 £77,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 413 348 587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.19% 6.70% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 257 158 324
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,875 £37,574
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £75,300 £78,750
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -12 90 £66,750 +21.36% 103
Lancashire +26 26 £50,000 +11.11% 15
Merseyside -13 9 £70,000 +129.51% 16
Cheshire -6 4 £32,500 -45.61% 10
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 7 (5.34%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.05%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.29%) IIS
4 3 (2.29%) nginx
4 3 (2.29%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.29%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.29%) WebSphere
5 2 (1.53%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.76%) CMS
6 1 (0.76%) JBoss
6 1 (0.76%) Kentico
6 1 (0.76%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.76%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 70 (53.44%) Azure
2 67 (51.15%) AWS
3 33 (25.19%) GitHub
4 28 (21.37%) GCP
5 25 (19.08%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (11.45%) Serverless
7 10 (7.63%) dbt
8 9 (6.87%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (6.11%) AWS Lambda
9 8 (6.11%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.34%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.58%) Figma
11 6 (4.58%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.58%) SaaS
12 5 (3.82%) Amazon S3
12 5 (3.82%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.82%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (3.82%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.82%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (3.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.82%) Internet
2 3 (2.29%) DHCP
2 3 (2.29%) DNS
2 3 (2.29%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.29%) LAN
2 3 (2.29%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.29%) VSAN
2 3 (2.29%) WAN
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.79%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.69%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.16%) MySQL
3 12 (9.16%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (8.40%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.87%) BigQuery
6 7 (5.34%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (4.58%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (4.58%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.58%) Power BI
8 4 (3.05%) Data Lake
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (2.29%) Chroma
9 3 (2.29%) Pinecone
9 3 (2.29%) Redis
9 3 (2.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (1.53%) Parquet
10 2 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.61%) Jenkins
2 21 (16.03%) GitLab
3 10 (7.63%) JUnit
4 9 (6.87%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.58%) Selenium
5 6 (4.58%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.82%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.82%) JIRA
6 5 (3.82%) Maven
7 4 (3.05%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.05%) Spock
8 3 (2.29%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.29%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.29%) Mockito
8 3 (2.29%) Postman
9 2 (1.53%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.53%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.53%) Vite
10 1 (0.76%) gulp
10 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 36 (27.48%) Social Skills
2 30 (22.90%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.27%) Finance
4 17 (12.98%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (9.16%) Marketing
6 3 (2.29%) Banking
7 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.53%) Publishing
7 2 (1.53%) Retail
8 1 (0.76%) Advertising
8 1 (0.76%) Back Office
8 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (48.85%) Developer
2 31 (23.66%) Senior
3 18 (13.74%) Senior Developer
4 15 (11.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (10.69%) Data Engineer
6 12 (9.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (8.40%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.87%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.87%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.34%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Administrator
10 6 (4.58%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.58%) Java Developer
10 6 (4.58%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.58%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.82%) Lead
11 5 (3.82%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.82%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.82%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.72%) React
2 30 (22.90%) Terraform
3 26 (19.85%) REST
4 20 (15.27%) Spring
5 19 (14.50%) .NET
6 13 (9.92%) AngularJS
6 13 (9.92%) CSS
6 13 (9.92%) HTML
6 13 (9.92%) Node.js
6 13 (9.92%) Spring Boot
7 11 (8.40%) RESTful
8 10 (7.63%) Middleware
9 9 (6.87%) .NET Framework
9 9 (6.87%) ASP.NET
9 9 (6.87%) Entity Framework
10 8 (6.11%) .NET Core
10 8 (6.11%) Vue
11 7 (5.34%) Hibernate
11 7 (5.34%) OpenAPI
11 7 (5.34%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.50%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.45%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.87%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
5 7 (5.34%) Social Media
6 5 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
6 5 (3.82%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.29%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.29%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.29%) Replication
9 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.76%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Linux
2 8 (6.11%) CentOS
2 8 (6.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.05%) VMS
3 4 (3.05%) Windows
4 3 (2.29%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.53%) Android
5 2 (1.53%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (77.86%) CI/CD
2 63 (48.09%) DevOps
3 52 (39.69%) Mentoring
4 50 (38.17%) Agile
5 40 (30.53%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (28.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 36 (27.48%) AI
8 31 (23.66%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (22.14%) Microservices
10 28 (21.37%) Software Engineering
11 27 (20.61%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (19.08%) Platform Engineering
13 20 (15.27%) Performance Optimisation
13 20 (15.27%) Test Automation
14 19 (14.50%) Containerisation
15 18 (13.74%) Observability
16 17 (12.98%) Technical Leadership
17 16 (12.21%) Collaborative Culture
17 16 (12.21%) SDLC
18 14 (10.69%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (38.17%) JavaScript
2 49 (37.40%) SQL
3 44 (33.59%) Python
4 36 (27.48%) TypeScript
5 34 (25.95%) Java
6 24 (18.32%) C#
7 10 (7.63%) Bash
8 8 (6.11%) PHP
9 6 (4.58%) C++
9 6 (4.58%) Go
10 5 (3.82%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.82%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.82%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.05%) Groovy
12 3 (2.29%) Bicep
12 3 (2.29%) Scala
12 3 (2.29%) SOQL
12 3 (2.29%) SOSL
12 3 (2.29%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.50%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.45%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.87%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.11%) Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.76%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.45%) QA
2 9 (6.87%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.87%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.29%) WCAG
4 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 54 (41.22%) Docker
2 6 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.05%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.29%) Ceph
4 3 (2.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 17 (12.98%) Ansible
3 8 (6.11%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.34%) Istio
5 6 (4.58%) Grafana
6 4 (3.05%) Argo
6 4 (3.05%) linkerd
7 3 (2.29%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.29%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.29%) Podman
7 3 (2.29%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.29%) Puppet
7 3 (2.29%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 24 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.69%) Google
3 11 (8.40%) Splunk
4 7 (5.34%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.82%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.05%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.29%) Databricks
7 3 (2.29%) Dell
7 3 (2.29%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.29%) IBM
7 3 (2.29%) McAfee
7 3 (2.29%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.53%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.53%) Apple
8 2 (1.53%) HP
8 2 (1.53%) Mistral
8 2 (1.53%) YouTube
9 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.76%) New Relic
9 1 (0.76%) WSO2