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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 133 66
Rank change year-on-year -8 -67 +7
Permanent jobs citing Git 114 111 315
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.02% 2.21% 2.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.23% 24.83% 35.59%
Number of salaries quoted 92 75 232
10th Percentile £31,500 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,938 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.92% +13.04% -11.54%

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 390 447 885
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.48% 8.88% 8.32%
Number of salaries quoted 288 241 636
10th Percentile £37,125 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +4.65% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £88,250 £82,751 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 6 July 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 6 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
Manchester -18 80 £66,750 +2.69% 35
Lancashire +33 20 £50,000 +7.53% 15
Cheshire -2 7 £35,000 -36.22% 10
Merseyside -15 4 £41,250 -13.16% 7
Cumbria - 3 £45,000 -
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 8 (7.02%) WordPress
2 6 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.51%) IIS
4 3 (2.63%) nginx
4 3 (2.63%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.75%) CICS
5 2 (1.75%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.88%) Apache
6 1 (0.88%) Confluence
6 1 (0.88%) JBoss
6 1 (0.88%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.88%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 67 (58.77%) Azure
2 61 (53.51%) AWS
3 39 (34.21%) GitHub
4 25 (21.93%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (14.91%) GCP
6 12 (10.53%) Serverless
7 9 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.02%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (5.26%) dbt
9 6 (5.26%) Figma
10 5 (4.39%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
12 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
12 3 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 3 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.77%) Internet
2 3 (2.63%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.88%) DHCP
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) Network Security
3 1 (0.88%) SSL
3 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) VSAN
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
1 14 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.40%) MySQL
2 13 (11.40%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.53%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.26%) BigQuery
5 5 (4.39%) MongoDB
6 4 (3.51%) Power BI
7 3 (2.63%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.63%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.75%) Db2
8 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.75%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.75%) Redis
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
9 1 (0.88%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 20 (17.54%) Jenkins
2 13 (11.40%) GitLab
3 10 (8.77%) JIRA
4 8 (7.02%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.51%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.51%) Postman
5 4 (3.51%) Selenium
6 3 (2.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.63%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.75%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.75%) NUnit
7 2 (1.75%) Vite
7 2 (1.75%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.88%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.88%) gulp
8 1 (0.88%) PyCharm
8 1 (0.88%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.88%) Spock
8 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.88%) webpack
General
1 24 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 14 (12.28%) Finance
3 12 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (7.89%) Multimedia
5 9 (7.89%) Retail
6 7 (6.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (6.14%) Marketing
7 6 (5.26%) Banking
8 5 (4.39%) Advertising
9 2 (1.75%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.88%) Back Office
10 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 58 (50.88%) Developer
2 33 (28.95%) Senior
3 18 (15.79%) Full-Stack Developer
3 18 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 14 (12.28%) Java Developer
5 9 (7.89%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 9 (7.89%) Software Developer
5 9 (7.89%) Trainee
6 8 (7.02%) Administrator
6 8 (7.02%) Trainee Administrator
6 8 (7.02%) Web Administrator
7 7 (6.14%) Data Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Data Scientist
8 6 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 6 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.26%) Senior Data Scientist
8 6 (5.26%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.39%) Principal Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (27.19%) CSS
1 31 (27.19%) HTML
2 30 (26.32%) React
3 20 (17.54%) REST
4 19 (16.67%) RESTful
5 18 (15.79%) AngularJS
6 17 (14.91%) .NET
7 15 (13.16%) Spring
8 14 (12.28%) Spring Boot
8 14 (12.28%) Vue
9 11 (9.65%) Node.js
10 9 (7.89%) .NET Framework
10 9 (7.89%) ASP.NET
10 9 (7.89%) Entity Framework
11 8 (7.02%) .NET Core
11 8 (7.02%) CSS3
11 8 (7.02%) HTML5
11 8 (7.02%) Middleware
11 8 (7.02%) OpenAPI
11 8 (7.02%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Cloud Native
2 10 (8.77%) Product Ownership
3 8 (7.02%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.39%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.63%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.63%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.75%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.88%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.88%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.88%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.77%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) CentOS
2 4 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.88%) CoreOS
4 1 (0.88%) VMS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (64.91%) CI/CD
2 48 (42.11%) DevOps
3 42 (36.84%) Agile
4 38 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 37 (32.46%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (27.19%) Problem-Solving
7 27 (23.68%) AI
8 23 (20.18%) Microservices
9 20 (17.54%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (15.79%) Platform Engineering
11 17 (14.91%) Web Development
12 16 (14.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 15 (13.16%) Collaborative Culture
13 15 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (13.16%) SDLC
13 15 (13.16%) Software Engineering
14 14 (12.28%) Clean Code
14 14 (12.28%) Scrum
15 13 (11.40%) TDD
16 12 (10.53%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 55 (48.25%) JavaScript
2 49 (42.98%) Python
3 46 (40.35%) SQL
4 27 (23.68%) Java
5 24 (21.05%) TypeScript
6 17 (14.91%) C#
7 8 (7.02%) PHP
7 8 (7.02%) R
8 6 (5.26%) Bash
9 5 (4.39%) Go
10 4 (3.51%) Apex Code
10 4 (3.51%) Bicep
11 3 (2.63%) C++
11 3 (2.63%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
11 3 (2.63%) Scala
11 3 (2.63%) SOQL
11 3 (2.63%) SOSL
11 3 (2.63%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.63%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Azure Certification
1 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (7.89%) AWS Certification
3 9 (7.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 9 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.14%) Degree
5 5 (4.39%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.16%) QA
2 4 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (27.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (22.81%) Terraform
2 24 (21.05%) Kubernetes
3 13 (11.40%) Ansible
4 4 (3.51%) Grafana
5 3 (2.63%) Istio
5 3 (2.63%) linkerd
5 3 (2.63%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.75%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.75%) Puppet
7 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.88%) Argo
7 1 (0.88%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.88%) Nagios
7 1 (0.88%) Rancher
7 1 (0.88%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Splunk
3 5 (4.39%) Pega
4 4 (3.51%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.63%) Databricks
5 3 (2.63%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.63%) Google
5 3 (2.63%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.75%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.75%) Oracle
6 2 (1.75%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.75%) WSO2
7 1 (0.88%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.88%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.88%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.88%) McAfee
7 1 (0.88%) New Relic