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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 81 67
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +2
Permanent jobs citing Git 122 117 270
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.53% 2.93% 3.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.02% 30.79% 35.86%
Number of salaries quoted 104 81 188
10th Percentile - £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £64,688 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 271 380 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.39% 9.52% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 208 273 617
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,628 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -6 78 £58,843 -12.82% 29
Merseyside +2 24 £30,500 -32.22% 9
Lancashire -6 9 £47,372 -1.31% 13
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 -
Cheshire -44 4 £33,750 -28.95% 12
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 4 (3.28%) nginx
3 3 (2.46%) Apache
4 2 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.64%) CICS
4 2 (1.64%) JBoss
5 1 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
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%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.82%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 87 (71.31%) AWS
2 79 (64.75%) Azure
3 52 (42.62%) GitHub
4 13 (10.66%) GCP
5 8 (6.56%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.74%) Serverless
7 6 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (4.10%) Azure AKS
9 4 (3.28%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.46%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.46%) ChatGPT
10 3 (2.46%) Datadog
10 3 (2.46%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (2.46%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 2 (1.64%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.64%) Azure Functions
11 2 (1.64%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 53 (43.44%) Internet
2 3 (2.46%) DNS
2 3 (2.46%) HTTP
2 3 (2.46%) SSH
3 2 (1.64%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.64%) SSL
4 1 (0.82%) DHCP
4 1 (0.82%) LAN
4 1 (0.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.82%) VSAN
4 1 (0.82%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.93%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.30%) MongoDB
3 14 (11.48%) MySQL
4 13 (10.66%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.56%) Relational Database
6 6 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.10%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.46%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.64%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.64%) DB2
9 2 (1.64%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.64%) Power BI
10 1 (0.82%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.82%) Redis
10 1 (0.82%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.74%) Jenkins
2 6 (4.92%) GitLab
2 6 (4.92%) JIRA
3 5 (4.10%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.28%) JUnit
5 3 (2.46%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.46%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.64%) Subversion
7 1 (0.82%) git-flow
7 1 (0.82%) Maven
7 1 (0.82%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.82%) Selenium
7 1 (0.82%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.82%) XCUITest
General
1 46 (37.70%) Multimedia
2 18 (14.75%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.38%) Retail
4 7 (5.74%) Finance
5 5 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.10%) Marketing
6 3 (2.46%) Banking
6 3 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.64%) Advertising
7 2 (1.64%) Analytical 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%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.82%) Publishing
8 1 (0.82%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (45.90%) Developer
2 46 (37.70%) Trainee
3 23 (18.85%) Senior
3 23 (18.85%) Software Developer
4 20 (16.39%) Trainee Developer
4 20 (16.39%) Trainee Software Developer
5 15 (12.30%) Senior Developer
6 10 (8.20%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Administrator
7 8 (6.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 8 (6.56%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (6.56%) Web Administrator
8 6 (4.92%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (4.92%) PHP Developer
8 6 (4.92%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.10%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.10%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (4.10%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (67.21%) CSS
1 82 (67.21%) HTML
2 22 (18.03%) React
3 17 (13.93%) RESTful
4 16 (13.11%) 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 6 (4.92%) CSS3
9 6 (4.92%) HTML5
9 6 (4.92%) Kafka
10 5 (4.10%) EDI
11 4 (3.28%) .NET Core
11 4 (3.28%) ASP.NET
11 4 (3.28%) Laravel
11 4 (3.28%) Sass
12 3 (2.46%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.20%) 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%) 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%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.64%) NHS
7 1 (0.82%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.82%) Enterprise Software
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 19 (15.57%) Linux
2 2 (1.64%) Windows
2 2 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.82%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.82%) CentOS
3 1 (0.82%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (45.08%) Mentoring
2 42 (34.43%) Agile
3 38 (31.15%) Cybersecurity
4 36 (29.51%) CI/CD
5 23 (18.85%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.03%) DevOps
7 21 (17.21%) Microservices
8 17 (13.93%) Full-Stack Development
9 15 (12.30%) Containerisation
10 14 (11.48%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (11.48%) Web Development
11 13 (10.66%) AI
12 11 (9.02%) User Experience
13 10 (8.20%) Clean Code
13 10 (8.20%) Front End Development
13 10 (8.20%) OOP
13 10 (8.20%) Scrum
13 10 (8.20%) TDD
14 9 (7.38%) Analytics
14 9 (7.38%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 90 (73.77%) JavaScript
2 76 (62.30%) Python
3 26 (21.31%) R
4 21 (17.21%) TypeScript
5 18 (14.75%) Java
5 18 (14.75%) SQL
6 11 (9.02%) Go
7 9 (7.38%) C
8 8 (6.56%) C#
8 8 (6.56%) PHP
9 4 (3.28%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.46%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.64%) Bash
11 2 (1.64%) Bicep
12 1 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.82%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.82%) Swift
12 1 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (39.34%) Azure Certification
2 46 (37.70%) AWS Certification
2 46 (37.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 46 (37.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.46%) Degree
4 2 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.82%) PhD
5 1 (0.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.10%) QA
2 4 (3.28%) Accessibility
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 20 (16.39%) Terraform
2 18 (14.75%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.93%) Ansible
4 3 (2.46%) cPanel
4 3 (2.46%) Nagios
4 3 (2.46%) Plesk
4 3 (2.46%) Rancher
5 2 (1.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.64%) Argo
5 2 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.82%) Grafana
6 1 (0.82%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.82%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 57 (46.72%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.28%) Pega
3 3 (2.46%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.64%) Adobe
4 2 (1.64%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.64%) New Relic
4 2 (1.64%) Oracle
4 2 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (0.82%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.82%) Google
5 1 (0.82%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.82%) McAfee
5 1 (0.82%) WSO2