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

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 136 69
Rank change year-on-year +20 -67 +36
Permanent jobs citing Git 128 105 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.16% 2.33% 3.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.95% 24.31% 35.84%
Number of salaries quoted 110 76 219
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £36,750 £50,000 £45,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,843 £60,250 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +6.64% -1.74%
75th Percentile £72,250 £83,125 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £93,778 £92,000
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 377 432 851
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.43% 9.57% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 289 240 658
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,976
25th Percentile £45,000 £48,869 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +9.09% -4.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £77,500 £72,137
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,625 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,380 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.11% +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 28 May 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 28 May 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 82 £61,959 -8.21% 37
Lancashire +29 21 £46,250 -3.65% 17
Merseyside -14 10 £30,500 -32.22% 6
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 -
Cheshire -4 6 £37,500 -25.00% 6
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 12 (9.38%) WordPress
2 5 (3.91%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.13%) IIS
3 4 (3.13%) nginx
4 3 (2.34%) Apache
4 3 (2.34%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.56%) CICS
5 2 (1.56%) JBoss
5 2 (1.56%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.78%) Confluence
6 1 (0.78%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.34%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.78%) Magento
2 1 (0.78%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 81 (63.28%) Azure
2 75 (58.59%) AWS
3 49 (38.28%) GitHub
4 23 (17.97%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.94%) GCP
6 7 (5.47%) Serverless
7 6 (4.69%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.69%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (3.91%) Amazon EKS
8 5 (3.91%) dbt
8 5 (3.91%) Figma
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.13%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.13%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.34%) Azure AKS
10 3 (2.34%) Datadog
10 3 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 33 (25.78%) Internet
2 3 (2.34%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.56%) DNS
3 2 (1.56%) HTTP
3 2 (1.56%) SSL
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VSAN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.06%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.72%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.94%) MySQL
4 12 (9.38%) MongoDB
4 12 (9.38%) NoSQL
4 12 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 5 (3.91%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (3.13%) Power BI
7 3 (2.34%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.56%) DB2
8 2 (1.56%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.56%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.78%) Redis
9 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (9.38%) Jenkins
1 12 (9.38%) JIRA
2 10 (7.81%) Bitbucket
3 9 (7.03%) GitLab
4 3 (2.34%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.34%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.56%) JUnit
5 2 (1.56%) NUnit
5 2 (1.56%) Postman
5 2 (1.56%) Selenium
5 2 (1.56%) Subversion
5 2 (1.56%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.78%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.78%) gulp
6 1 (0.78%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 26 (20.31%) Multimedia
2 23 (17.97%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.16%) Finance
4 11 (8.59%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.81%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (7.03%) Retail
7 7 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.69%) Banking
9 5 (3.91%) Advertising
10 4 (3.13%) Marketing
11 2 (1.56%) Games
11 2 (1.56%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.78%) Back Office
12 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (48.44%) Developer
2 33 (25.78%) Senior
3 26 (20.31%) Trainee
4 19 (14.84%) Senior Developer
5 16 (12.50%) Software Developer
6 15 (11.72%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (9.38%) Administrator
7 12 (9.38%) Java Developer
7 12 (9.38%) Trainee Administrator
7 12 (9.38%) Web Administrator
8 9 (7.03%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 7 (5.47%) Trainee Developer
9 7 (5.47%) Trainee Software Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Data Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Data Scientist
11 5 (3.91%) Principal Data Scientist
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (3.91%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (45.31%) CSS
1 58 (45.31%) HTML
2 25 (19.53%) React
3 22 (17.19%) RESTful
4 19 (14.84%) AngularJS
5 16 (12.50%) .NET
5 16 (12.50%) REST
6 11 (8.59%) Spring
6 11 (8.59%) Spring Boot
7 10 (7.81%) Node.js
7 10 (7.81%) Vue
8 9 (7.03%) ASP.NET
8 9 (7.03%) CSS3
8 9 (7.03%) Entity Framework
8 9 (7.03%) HTML5
9 8 (6.25%) .NET Core
9 8 (6.25%) .NET Framework
9 8 (6.25%) Middleware
10 6 (4.69%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (4.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.38%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.47%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (2.34%) Legacy Applications
5 3 (2.34%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.56%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.56%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.56%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.78%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.56%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.56%) CentOS
2 2 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.78%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (48.44%) CI/CD
2 48 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 45 (35.16%) Agile
4 40 (31.25%) DevOps
5 31 (24.22%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (15.63%) AI
7 20 (15.63%) Infrastructure as Code
7 20 (15.63%) Web Development
8 19 (14.84%) Microservices
9 15 (11.72%) Scrum
10 14 (10.94%) Clean Code
10 14 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (10.16%) Collaborative Culture
11 13 (10.16%) Performance Optimisation
12 12 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (9.38%) Platform Engineering
12 12 (9.38%) SDLC
12 12 (9.38%) TDD
13 11 (8.59%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 73 (57.03%) JavaScript
2 63 (49.22%) Python
3 40 (31.25%) SQL
4 26 (20.31%) TypeScript
5 23 (17.97%) Java
6 19 (14.84%) R
7 16 (12.50%) C#
8 10 (7.81%) Go
9 7 (5.47%) C
9 7 (5.47%) PHP
10 4 (3.13%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.34%) Bash
11 3 (2.34%) Bicep
11 3 (2.34%) C++
11 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.34%) SOQL
11 3 (2.34%) SOSL
11 3 (2.34%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.34%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.56%) Swift
Qualifications
1 27 (21.09%) Azure Certification
2 26 (20.31%) AWS Certification
2 26 (20.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 26 (20.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (4.69%) Degree
3 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.91%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.16%) QA
2 4 (3.13%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.34%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (17.19%) Docker
2 2 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (20.31%) Terraform
2 21 (16.41%) Kubernetes
3 16 (12.50%) Ansible
4 2 (1.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.56%) Grafana
4 2 (1.56%) Nagios
4 2 (1.56%) Rancher
4 2 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.78%) Istio
5 1 (0.78%) linkerd
5 1 (0.78%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.78%) Puppet
5 1 (0.78%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 45 (35.16%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.69%) Splunk
3 5 (3.91%) Pega
4 4 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.34%) Databricks
5 3 (2.34%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.56%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.56%) Google
6 2 (1.56%) New Relic
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle
6 2 (1.56%) WSO2
7 1 (0.78%) Adobe
7 1 (0.78%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.78%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.78%) McAfee