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

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 139 71
Rank change year-on-year 0 -68 -1
Permanent jobs citing Git 110 110 279
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.97% 2.15% 2.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.65% 25.40% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 86 74 206
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,313 £50,313 £43,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,709 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,688 £67,968
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 384 433 801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.37% 8.45% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 282 226 557
10th Percentile £34,450 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,000 £75,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £88,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 21 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 21 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 -14 76 £66,750 +2.69% 35
Lancashire +25 21 £50,000 +8.11% 15
Cheshire +2 7 £35,000 -36.22% 12
Merseyside -13 4 £41,250 - 5
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 -
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 (7.27%) WordPress
2 6 (5.45%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.64%) IIS
4 3 (2.73%) nginx
4 3 (2.73%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.82%) CICS
5 2 (1.82%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.91%) Apache
6 1 (0.91%) Confluence
6 1 (0.91%) JBoss
6 1 (0.91%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.91%) Magento
2 1 (0.91%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 62 (56.36%) Azure
2 60 (54.55%) AWS
3 39 (35.45%) GitHub
4 25 (22.73%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (16.36%) GCP
6 12 (10.91%) Serverless
7 9 (8.18%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (7.27%) GitHub Copilot
9 7 (6.36%) dbt
10 6 (5.45%) Figma
11 5 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (3.64%) Amazon EKS
12 4 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (3.64%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.64%) Entra ID
12 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
13 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
13 3 (2.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 3 (2.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.18%) Internet
2 3 (2.73%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.91%) Network Security
3 1 (0.91%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 13 (11.82%) Relational Database
3 12 (10.91%) MySQL
3 12 (10.91%) NoSQL
3 12 (10.91%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (6.36%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.64%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.64%) Power BI
6 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.73%) Pinecone
6 3 (2.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.82%) Db2
7 2 (1.82%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.82%) Redis
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.91%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) Jenkins
2 12 (10.91%) GitLab
3 10 (9.09%) JIRA
4 8 (7.27%) Bitbucket
5 4 (3.64%) IntelliJ
5 4 (3.64%) Postman
5 4 (3.64%) Selenium
6 3 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (2.73%) Eclipse
7 2 (1.82%) Claude Code
7 2 (1.82%) NUnit
7 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (1.82%) Vite
7 2 (1.82%) XCUITest
8 1 (0.91%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.91%) gulp
8 1 (0.91%) JUnit
8 1 (0.91%) Maven
8 1 (0.91%) Subversion
8 1 (0.91%) webpack
General
1 24 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.55%) Finance
3 12 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.91%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.18%) Multimedia
5 8 (7.27%) Marketing
6 6 (5.45%) Banking
7 5 (4.55%) Advertising
7 5 (4.55%) Retail
8 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.91%) Back Office
10 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.91%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (53.64%) Developer
2 33 (30.00%) Senior
3 19 (17.27%) Full-Stack Developer
4 18 (16.36%) Senior Developer
5 14 (12.73%) Java Developer
6 9 (8.18%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 9 (8.18%) Software Developer
6 9 (8.18%) Trainee
7 8 (7.27%) Administrator
7 8 (7.27%) Data Engineer
7 8 (7.27%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (7.27%) Web Administrator
8 6 (5.45%) GCP Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Senior Data Engineer
8 6 (5.45%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 5 (4.55%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (3.64%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (27.27%) CSS
1 30 (27.27%) HTML
1 30 (27.27%) React
2 21 (19.09%) REST
3 18 (16.36%) AngularJS
3 18 (16.36%) RESTful
4 17 (15.45%) .NET
5 15 (13.64%) Spring
6 14 (12.73%) Spring Boot
6 14 (12.73%) Vue
7 11 (10.00%) Node.js
8 9 (8.18%) .NET Framework
8 9 (8.18%) ASP.NET
8 9 (8.18%) Entity Framework
9 8 (7.27%) .NET Core
9 8 (7.27%) CSS3
9 8 (7.27%) HTML5
9 8 (7.27%) Middleware
9 8 (7.27%) OpenAPI
9 8 (7.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (8.18%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (7.27%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
5 5 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.73%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.73%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.82%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.91%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Replication
9 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.27%) Linux
2 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
2 3 (2.73%) CentOS
2 3 (2.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.91%) Android
3 1 (0.91%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (70.00%) CI/CD
2 48 (43.64%) DevOps
3 42 (38.18%) Agile
4 38 (34.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 38 (34.55%) Mentoring
5 27 (24.55%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (21.82%) AI
7 22 (20.00%) Microservices
8 19 (17.27%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (17.27%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (16.36%) Web Development
10 17 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (15.45%) Performance Optimisation
11 16 (14.55%) Collaborative Culture
12 15 (13.64%) Clean Code
12 15 (13.64%) SDLC
12 15 (13.64%) Software Engineering
13 14 (12.73%) Scrum
14 13 (11.82%) TDD
15 12 (10.91%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 55 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 46 (41.82%) SQL
3 44 (40.00%) Python
4 28 (25.45%) Java
5 24 (21.82%) TypeScript
6 17 (15.45%) C#
7 8 (7.27%) PHP
7 8 (7.27%) R
8 6 (5.45%) Bash
9 4 (3.64%) Apex Code
9 4 (3.64%) Bicep
9 4 (3.64%) Go
9 4 (3.64%) Kotlin
10 3 (2.73%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.73%) Scala
10 3 (2.73%) SOQL
10 3 (2.73%) SOSL
10 3 (2.73%) Swift
10 3 (2.73%) T-SQL
10 3 (2.73%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 10 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.18%) AWS Certification
4 9 (8.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.36%) Degree
6 6 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (13.64%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (30.00%) Docker
2 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (22.73%) Terraform
2 23 (20.91%) Kubernetes
3 12 (10.91%) Ansible
4 4 (3.64%) Grafana
5 3 (2.73%) Istio
5 3 (2.73%) linkerd
5 3 (2.73%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.82%) Puppet
7 1 (0.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.91%) Argo
7 1 (0.91%) Nagios
7 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.27%) Splunk
3 5 (4.55%) Pega
4 4 (3.64%) Google
4 4 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.73%) Databricks
5 3 (2.73%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.73%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.82%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.82%) Oracle
6 2 (1.82%) WSO2
7 1 (0.91%) AppDynamics
7 1 (0.91%) Apple
7 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.91%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.91%) New Relic
7 1 (0.91%) Red Hat