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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 145 76
Rank change year-on-year +16 -69 -9
Permanent jobs citing Git 136 99 216
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.13% 1.90% 2.58%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.69% 23.91% 31.35%
Number of salaries quoted 95 62 159
10th Percentile £31,100 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,125 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,375 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +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 416 414 689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.45% 7.96% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 278 208 447
10th Percentile £39,881 £39,700 £37,050
25th Percentile £48,750 £47,637 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,500 £50,055
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +14.87% -16.58%
75th Percentile £77,188 £72,777 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,250 £82,500 £82,500
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 August 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 August 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 +3 94 £66,750 +15.09% 32
Lancashire +28 29 £48,500 +4.86% 12
Cheshire -6 6 £32,500 -40.77% 9
Merseyside -14 5 £45,000 - 9
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 (5.88%) WordPress
2 7 (5.15%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.68%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.21%) IIS
4 3 (2.21%) nginx
4 3 (2.21%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.47%) CICS
5 2 (1.47%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.47%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.47%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) Confluence
6 1 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.21%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.15%) Azure
2 73 (53.68%) AWS
3 42 (30.88%) GitHub
4 27 (19.85%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (19.85%) GCP
5 12 (8.82%) Serverless
6 10 (7.35%) dbt
6 10 (7.35%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.88%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.15%) Figma
8 7 (5.15%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.41%) SaaS
10 5 (3.68%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.94%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.94%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.94%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.62%) Internet
2 3 (2.21%) DHCP
2 3 (2.21%) DNS
2 3 (2.21%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.21%) LAN
2 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.21%) VSAN
2 3 (2.21%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.44%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.29%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.29%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.56%) MySQL
3 13 (9.56%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.35%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.41%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.41%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.94%) Power BI
7 3 (2.21%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.21%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.47%) Db2
8 2 (1.47%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.47%) Metadata
8 2 (1.47%) Redis
8 2 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (21.32%) Jenkins
2 16 (11.76%) GitLab
3 10 (7.35%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.62%) JIRA
5 6 (4.41%) JUnit
5 6 (4.41%) Selenium
5 6 (4.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.68%) Eclipse
6 5 (3.68%) IntelliJ
7 4 (2.94%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (2.94%) Postman
8 3 (2.21%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.47%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.47%) Maven
9 2 (1.47%) Mockito
9 2 (1.47%) NUnit
9 2 (1.47%) Spock
9 2 (1.47%) Vite
10 1 (0.74%) Subversion
10 1 (0.74%) XCUITest
General
1 36 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 25 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.44%) Finance
4 13 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.82%) Marketing
6 9 (6.62%) Multimedia
7 7 (5.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (3.68%) Banking
9 4 (2.94%) Advertising
9 4 (2.94%) Retail
10 2 (1.47%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.47%) Publishing
10 2 (1.47%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.74%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (49.26%) Developer
2 32 (23.53%) Senior
3 21 (15.44%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (12.50%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.29%) Administrator
6 13 (9.56%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.82%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.82%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.62%) Trainee
9 8 (5.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (5.88%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.88%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (5.88%) Web Administrator
10 7 (5.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (5.15%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.41%) Lead
11 6 (4.41%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.41%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.74%) React
2 29 (21.32%) Terraform
3 27 (19.85%) CSS
3 27 (19.85%) HTML
4 26 (19.12%) REST
5 19 (13.97%) .NET
5 19 (13.97%) AngularJS
5 19 (13.97%) Spring
6 17 (12.50%) RESTful
7 15 (11.03%) Spring Boot
8 13 (9.56%) Vue
9 11 (8.09%) Node.js
10 10 (7.35%) .NET Framework
10 10 (7.35%) ASP.NET
10 10 (7.35%) Entity Framework
11 9 (6.62%) Middleware
12 8 (5.88%) CSS3
12 8 (5.88%) HTML5
12 8 (5.88%) OpenAPI
12 8 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.03%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.62%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.15%) Social Media
6 5 (3.68%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.21%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.21%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.21%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.21%) Replication
9 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 7 (5.15%) CentOS
2 7 (5.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.94%) Windows
4 3 (2.21%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.21%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.47%) Android
5 2 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (69.85%) CI/CD
2 57 (41.91%) Agile
3 56 (41.18%) DevOps
4 46 (33.82%) Mentoring
5 42 (30.88%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (27.94%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (22.79%) AI
8 27 (19.85%) Microservices
9 24 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
9 24 (17.65%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.18%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (16.18%) Web Development
11 21 (15.44%) Performance Optimisation
12 20 (14.71%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (13.97%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (12.50%) Clean Code
15 16 (11.76%) SDLC
15 16 (11.76%) TDD
16 15 (11.03%) Technical Leadership
16 15 (11.03%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (47.79%) JavaScript
2 53 (38.97%) Python
2 53 (38.97%) SQL
3 37 (27.21%) Java
4 30 (22.06%) TypeScript
5 22 (16.18%) C#
6 10 (7.35%) Bash
7 8 (5.88%) PHP
7 8 (5.88%) R
8 6 (4.41%) C++
8 6 (4.41%) Go
9 5 (3.68%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.68%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.68%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.94%) Bicep
11 3 (2.21%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.21%) Scala
11 3 (2.21%) SOQL
11 3 (2.21%) SOSL
11 3 (2.21%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (11.03%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.09%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.09%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.62%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (5.88%) Degree
5 8 (5.88%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.50%) QA
2 6 (4.41%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 46 (33.82%) Docker
2 4 (2.94%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.21%) Ceph
3 3 (2.21%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (22.79%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.76%) Ansible
3 7 (5.15%) Istio
3 7 (5.15%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.68%) Grafana
5 4 (2.94%) Argo
5 4 (2.94%) linkerd
6 3 (2.21%) Check_MK
6 3 (2.21%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (2.21%) Podman
6 3 (2.21%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.21%) Puppet
6 3 (2.21%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.74%) Nagios
7 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.35%) Google
3 9 (6.62%) Splunk
4 7 (5.15%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.68%) Pega
5 5 (3.68%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.21%) Databricks
6 3 (2.21%) Dell
6 3 (2.21%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.21%) McAfee
6 3 (2.21%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.47%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.47%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.47%) Apple
7 2 (1.47%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.47%) IBM
7 2 (1.47%) Oracle
7 2 (1.47%) WSO2
8 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.74%) New Relic