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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 152 78
Rank change year-on-year +29 -74 -13
Permanent jobs citing Git 135 96 213
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.11% 1.84% 2.52%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.45% 23.47% 30.96%
Number of salaries quoted 93 60 155
10th Percentile £31,050 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £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 £72,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £93,900 £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 416 409 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.41% 7.83% 8.14%
Number of salaries quoted 274 206 441
10th Percentile £39,721 £40,000 £37,250
25th Percentile £47,813 £47,979 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,777 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,444 £82,500 £80,000
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 27 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 27 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 -9 93 £66,750 +16.09% 29
Lancashire +31 29 £48,500 +2.11% 4
Cheshire -3 6 £32,500 -40.77% 6
Merseyside -9 5 £45,000 - 4
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 (5.93%) WordPress
2 7 (5.19%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.70%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.22%) IIS
4 3 (2.22%) nginx
4 3 (2.22%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.48%) CICS
5 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.48%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.48%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.74%) Apache
6 1 (0.74%) Confluence
6 1 (0.74%) JBoss
6 1 (0.74%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.74%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.74%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 75 (55.56%) Azure
2 71 (52.59%) AWS
3 42 (31.11%) GitHub
4 27 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (20.00%) GCP
5 12 (8.89%) Serverless
6 10 (7.41%) dbt
6 10 (7.41%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (5.93%) OpenShift
8 7 (5.19%) Figma
8 7 (5.19%) GitHub Copilot
9 6 (4.44%) SaaS
10 5 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (2.96%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (2.96%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (2.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (2.96%) ChatGPT
11 4 (2.96%) Entra ID
11 4 (2.96%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.67%) Internet
2 3 (2.22%) DHCP
2 3 (2.22%) DNS
2 3 (2.22%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.22%) LAN
2 3 (2.22%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.22%) VSAN
2 3 (2.22%) WAN
3 1 (0.74%) Network Security
3 1 (0.74%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (15.56%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.37%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (10.37%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.63%) MySQL
3 13 (9.63%) NoSQL
4 10 (7.41%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.44%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.44%) MongoDB
6 4 (2.96%) Power BI
7 3 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.22%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.48%) Db2
8 2 (1.48%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.48%) Metadata
8 2 (1.48%) Redis
8 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.74%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 29 (21.48%) Jenkins
2 17 (12.59%) GitLab
3 10 (7.41%) Bitbucket
4 9 (6.67%) JIRA
5 7 (5.19%) JUnit
6 6 (4.44%) IntelliJ
6 6 (4.44%) Selenium
6 6 (4.44%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.70%) Eclipse
8 4 (2.96%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (2.96%) Postman
9 3 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.22%) Maven
9 3 (2.22%) Spock
10 2 (1.48%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.48%) Mockito
10 2 (1.48%) NUnit
10 2 (1.48%) Vite
11 1 (0.74%) Subversion
11 1 (0.74%) XCUITest
General
1 36 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 23 (17.04%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.30%) Finance
4 13 (9.63%) Public Sector
5 12 (8.89%) Marketing
6 9 (6.67%) Multimedia
7 7 (5.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (2.96%) Advertising
9 3 (2.22%) Banking
9 3 (2.22%) Retail
10 2 (1.48%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.48%) Publishing
11 1 (0.74%) Back Office
11 1 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (49.63%) Developer
2 30 (22.22%) Senior
3 21 (15.56%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (12.59%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.37%) Administrator
6 13 (9.63%) Java Developer
7 12 (8.89%) Data Engineer
7 12 (8.89%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.67%) Trainee
9 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 8 (5.93%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (5.93%) Web Administrator
10 7 (5.19%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.44%) Lead
11 6 (4.44%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (25.93%) React
2 29 (21.48%) Terraform
3 27 (20.00%) CSS
3 27 (20.00%) HTML
4 26 (19.26%) REST
5 20 (14.81%) AngularJS
5 20 (14.81%) Spring
6 19 (14.07%) .NET
7 17 (12.59%) RESTful
8 15 (11.11%) Spring Boot
9 13 (9.63%) Vue
10 11 (8.15%) Node.js
11 10 (7.41%) .NET Framework
11 10 (7.41%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.41%) Entity Framework
12 9 (6.67%) Middleware
13 8 (5.93%) CSS3
13 8 (5.93%) HTML5
13 8 (5.93%) OpenAPI
13 8 (5.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (10.37%) Cloud Native
3 10 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.19%) Social Media
6 5 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.96%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.96%) Private Cloud
8 3 (2.22%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.22%) Replication
9 2 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.48%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.48%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.74%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.74%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.85%) Linux
2 7 (5.19%) CentOS
2 7 (5.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (2.96%) Windows
4 3 (2.22%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.22%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.22%) VMS
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.48%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (71.11%) CI/CD
2 56 (41.48%) Agile
3 55 (40.74%) DevOps
4 46 (34.07%) Mentoring
5 43 (31.85%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (28.15%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (23.70%) AI
8 26 (19.26%) Microservices
9 25 (18.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (18.52%) Software Engineering
10 22 (16.30%) Infrastructure as Code
10 22 (16.30%) Web Development
11 21 (15.56%) Performance Optimisation
12 20 (14.81%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.07%) Collaborative Culture
14 17 (12.59%) Clean Code
15 16 (11.85%) Observability
15 16 (11.85%) Test Automation
16 15 (11.11%) Scrum
16 15 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 66 (48.89%) JavaScript
2 53 (39.26%) SQL
3 51 (37.78%) Python
4 38 (28.15%) Java
5 31 (22.96%) TypeScript
6 22 (16.30%) C#
7 10 (7.41%) Bash
8 8 (5.93%) PHP
8 8 (5.93%) R
9 6 (4.44%) C++
9 6 (4.44%) Go
10 5 (3.70%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.70%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.96%) Bicep
12 3 (2.22%) Groovy
12 3 (2.22%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.22%) Scala
12 3 (2.22%) SOQL
12 3 (2.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.15%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (5.93%) Degree
5 8 (5.93%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.59%) QA
2 6 (4.44%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (34.81%) Docker
2 4 (2.96%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.96%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.22%) Ceph
3 3 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (22.96%) Kubernetes
2 16 (11.85%) Ansible
3 7 (5.19%) Istio
3 7 (5.19%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.70%) Grafana
5 4 (2.96%) Argo
5 4 (2.96%) linkerd
6 3 (2.22%) Check_MK
6 3 (2.22%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (2.22%) Podman
6 3 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.22%) Puppet
6 3 (2.22%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.74%) Nagios
7 1 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 25 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.41%) Google
2 10 (7.41%) Splunk
3 7 (5.19%) Red Hat
4 5 (3.70%) Pega
4 5 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.22%) AppDynamics
5 3 (2.22%) Databricks
5 3 (2.22%) Dell
5 3 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 3 (2.22%) McAfee
5 3 (2.22%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.48%) Alteryx
6 2 (1.48%) Apple
6 2 (1.48%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.48%) IBM
6 2 (1.48%) Oracle
6 2 (1.48%) WSO2
7 1 (0.74%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.74%) New Relic