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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 114 47
Rank change year-on-year +29 -67 -11
Permanent jobs citing Git 102 127 210
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 2.04% 1.86% 5.65%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.64% 23.52% 43.39%
Number of salaries quoted 74 79 167
10th Percentile - £30,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,692 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -16.67% +4.35%
75th Percentile £58,750 £60,625 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £69,250 £85,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 251 540 484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.01% 7.93% 13.03%
Number of salaries quoted 184 299 399
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,450 £41,000
25th Percentile £38,125 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,313 £64,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 +26 66 £55,000 +4.76% 64
Merseyside +21 20 £30,500 -17.01% 16
Cheshire -16 11 £48,625 -2.75% 23
Lancashire +25 5 £42,384 -22.94% 55
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 7 (6.86%) WordPress
2 4 (3.92%) Apache Solr
3 3 (2.94%) CMS
3 3 (2.94%) nginx
4 1 (0.98%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.98%) Apache
4 1 (0.98%) IIS
4 1 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.98%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.98%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.98%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.98%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.98%) CANalyzer
1 1 (0.98%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.98%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 62 (60.78%) AWS
2 57 (55.88%) Azure
3 42 (41.18%) GitHub
4 9 (8.82%) Serverless
5 7 (6.86%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (5.88%) GCP
7 5 (4.90%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.92%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.94%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.96%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.96%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.96%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.96%) Firebase
10 2 (1.96%) Supabase
10 2 (1.96%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 33 (32.35%) Internet
2 3 (2.94%) SSH
3 2 (1.96%) HTTP
3 2 (1.96%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.98%) DNS
4 1 (0.98%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.98%) Firewall
4 1 (0.98%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (18.63%) MySQL
2 11 (10.78%) SQL Server
3 10 (9.80%) Relational Database
4 9 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.88%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.90%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.96%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.96%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.98%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Jenkins
1 7 (6.86%) JIRA
2 5 (4.90%) GitLab
3 3 (2.94%) JUnit
3 3 (2.94%) webpack
4 2 (1.96%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.96%) Maven
4 2 (1.96%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.96%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.98%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.98%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.98%) CANoe
5 1 (0.98%) ESLint
5 1 (0.98%) git-flow
5 1 (0.98%) Mocha
5 1 (0.98%) NUnit
5 1 (0.98%) Selenium
5 1 (0.98%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (0.98%) Storybook
5 1 (0.98%) Xcode
General
1 33 (32.35%) Multimedia
2 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
3 11 (10.78%) Finance
4 7 (6.86%) Marketing
5 5 (4.90%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.96%) Banking
7 2 (1.96%) Electronics
7 2 (1.96%) Retail
8 1 (0.98%) Automotive
8 1 (0.98%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.98%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.98%) Publishing
8 1 (0.98%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (57.84%) Developer
2 33 (32.35%) Trainee
3 21 (20.59%) Senior
3 21 (20.59%) Software Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Senior Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Trainee Developer
4 16 (15.69%) Trainee Software Developer
5 8 (7.84%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (6.86%) PHP Developer
6 7 (6.86%) Software Engineer
7 6 (5.88%) .NET Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Backend Developer
7 6 (5.88%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (4.90%) Lead
9 4 (3.92%) Administrator
9 4 (3.92%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Java Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Senior Backend Developer
9 4 (3.92%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (60.78%) CSS
1 62 (60.78%) HTML
2 17 (16.67%) Node.js
3 16 (15.69%) React
4 15 (14.71%) .NET
5 14 (13.73%) AngularJS
5 14 (13.73%) RESTful
6 12 (11.76%) REST
7 8 (7.84%) Laravel
7 8 (7.84%) Spring
7 8 (7.84%) Spring Boot
7 8 (7.84%) Web Services
8 6 (5.88%) .NET Framework
9 5 (4.90%) .NET Core
9 5 (4.90%) JSON
10 4 (3.92%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.92%) CSS3
11 3 (2.94%) ASP.NET Web API
11 3 (2.94%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.94%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (4.90%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.94%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.96%) NHS
5 2 (1.96%) Wiki
6 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.98%) IoT
6 1 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.98%) Life Science
6 1 (0.98%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.71%) Linux
2 6 (5.88%) Windows
3 4 (3.92%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.20%) Mentoring
2 38 (37.25%) CI/CD
3 32 (31.37%) Agile
4 31 (30.39%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (27.45%) DevOps
6 24 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (19.61%) Microservices
8 18 (17.65%) Full-Stack Development
8 18 (17.65%) User Experience
9 16 (15.69%) Containerisation
10 13 (12.75%) Software Engineering
11 12 (11.76%) Clean Code
12 11 (10.78%) AI
13 10 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (9.80%) Front End Development
14 8 (7.84%) OOP
14 8 (7.84%) Scrum
14 8 (7.84%) Web Development
15 7 (6.86%) TDD
15 7 (6.86%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (75.49%) JavaScript
2 47 (46.08%) Python
3 17 (16.67%) R
3 17 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 15 (14.71%) C#
5 14 (13.73%) PHP
6 12 (11.76%) SQL
7 10 (9.80%) Java
8 5 (4.90%) Bash
9 4 (3.92%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.94%) Bicep
10 3 (2.94%) C
11 2 (1.96%) Go
12 1 (0.98%) C++
12 1 (0.98%) Dart
12 1 (0.98%) Groovy
12 1 (0.98%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.98%) Swift
Qualifications
1 36 (35.29%) Azure Certification
2 33 (32.35%) AWS Certification
2 33 (32.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 33 (32.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.92%) Degree
4 3 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.98%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.98%) PhD
5 1 (0.98%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.90%) QA
2 2 (1.96%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.96%) GDPR
3 1 (0.98%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.98%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (24.51%) Docker
2 2 (1.96%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.80%) Ansible
3 8 (7.84%) Terraform
4 3 (2.94%) cPanel
4 3 (2.94%) Grafana
4 3 (2.94%) Plesk
5 2 (1.96%) Argo
6 1 (0.98%) Nagios
6 1 (0.98%) Podman
6 1 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (40.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.90%) Google
3 2 (1.96%) Adobe
3 2 (1.96%) AppDynamics
3 2 (1.96%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.96%) IBM
3 2 (1.96%) Moogsoft
3 2 (1.96%) Splunk
4 1 (0.98%) Bloomberg
4 1 (0.98%) Pega
4 1 (0.98%) Rollbar
4 1 (0.98%) TOWER Software
4 1 (0.98%) WSO2