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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 159 102
Rank change year-on-year +18 -57 -47
Permanent jobs citing Git 125 78 165
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.98% 1.52% 2.14%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.79% 22.16% 28.35%
Number of salaries quoted 80 46 114
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £36,550
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,870 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £51,277 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.01% -2.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,250 £58,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,625 £67,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 406 352 582
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.19% 6.85% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 256 160 330
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.73% +10.00% -16.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £64,063 £63,750
90th Percentile £89,074 £77,750 £78,875
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -4 89 £66,750 +21.36% 125
Lancashire +25 25 £49,250 +9.44% 19
Merseyside -15 5 £70,000 +129.51% 16
Cheshire -5 4 £32,500 -45.61% 17
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 6 (4.80%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.20%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.40%) IIS
3 3 (2.40%) nginx
3 3 (2.40%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.60%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.60%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.80%) Apache
5 1 (0.80%) CMS
5 1 (0.80%) Confluence
5 1 (0.80%) JBoss
5 1 (0.80%) Kentico
5 1 (0.80%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.80%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 63 (50.40%) Azure
2 61 (48.80%) AWS
3 30 (24.00%) GitHub
4 25 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (19.20%) GCP
6 14 (11.20%) Serverless
7 10 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.20%) dbt
9 8 (6.40%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.60%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.80%) Figma
11 6 (4.80%) Power Platform
11 6 (4.80%) SaaS
12 5 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (4.00%) Entra ID
12 5 (4.00%) GitHub Copilot
13 4 (3.20%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.20%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.20%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.40%) DHCP
1 3 (2.40%) DNS
1 3 (2.40%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.40%) LAN
1 3 (2.40%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.40%) VSAN
1 3 (2.40%) WAN
2 1 (0.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.80%) Network Security
2 1 (0.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.40%) MySQL
2 13 (10.40%) NoSQL
2 13 (10.40%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.60%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.20%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.80%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.80%) Power BI
6 5 (4.00%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (3.20%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.40%) Chroma
8 3 (2.40%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.40%) Redis
8 3 (2.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.60%) Metadata
9 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (20.80%) Jenkins
2 19 (15.20%) GitLab
3 9 (7.20%) Bitbucket
3 9 (7.20%) JUnit
4 7 (5.60%) JIRA
4 7 (5.60%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (4.00%) Maven
5 5 (4.00%) Selenium
6 4 (3.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (3.20%) IntelliJ
6 4 (3.20%) Spock
7 3 (2.40%) Eclipse
7 3 (2.40%) Postman
8 2 (1.60%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.60%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.60%) Mockito
8 2 (1.60%) Vite
9 1 (0.80%) NUnit
9 1 (0.80%) PyCharm
9 1 (0.80%) Subversion
General
1 34 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.60%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.60%) Finance
4 14 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.60%) Marketing
6 10 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.40%) Advertising
7 3 (2.40%) Banking
8 2 (1.60%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.60%) Publishing
8 2 (1.60%) Retail
9 1 (0.80%) Back Office
9 1 (0.80%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (51.20%) Developer
2 31 (24.80%) Senior
3 18 (14.40%) Senior Developer
4 17 (13.60%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (10.40%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.80%) Software Developer
7 9 (7.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (6.40%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.40%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (5.60%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Administrator
10 6 (4.80%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.80%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.80%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.00%) Lead
11 5 (4.00%) Salesforce Developer
12 4 (3.20%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 4 (3.20%) GCP Data Engineer
12 4 (3.20%) Principal DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (27.20%) React
2 28 (22.40%) Terraform
3 24 (19.20%) REST
4 21 (16.80%) Spring
5 19 (15.20%) .NET
6 15 (12.00%) AngularJS
6 15 (12.00%) CSS
6 15 (12.00%) HTML
6 15 (12.00%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.60%) RESTful
8 11 (8.80%) Node.js
9 10 (8.00%) Vue
10 9 (7.20%) .NET Framework
10 9 (7.20%) ASP.NET
10 9 (7.20%) Entity Framework
11 8 (6.40%) .NET Core
11 8 (6.40%) Middleware
12 7 (5.60%) Hibernate
12 7 (5.60%) OpenAPI
12 7 (5.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.40%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.60%) Social Media
5 5 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.20%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.40%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.40%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.40%) Replication
8 2 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.80%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.80%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.80%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.80%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.40%) Linux
2 7 (5.60%) CentOS
2 7 (5.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.20%) VMS
3 4 (3.20%) Windows
4 3 (2.40%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.40%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.60%) Android
5 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.80%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (76.80%) CI/CD
2 57 (45.60%) DevOps
3 50 (40.00%) Agile
4 47 (37.60%) Mentoring
5 39 (31.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (26.40%) AI
7 29 (23.20%) Microservices
8 27 (21.60%) Software Engineering
9 26 (20.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 20 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
12 19 (15.20%) Observability
12 19 (15.20%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (15.20%) Test Automation
13 18 (14.40%) Collaborative Culture
14 15 (12.00%) Containerisation
14 15 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (11.20%) Clean Code
15 14 (11.20%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 51 (40.80%) JavaScript
2 48 (38.40%) SQL
3 42 (33.60%) Python
4 35 (28.00%) Java
5 34 (27.20%) TypeScript
6 24 (19.20%) C#
7 10 (8.00%) Bash
8 8 (6.40%) PHP
9 6 (4.80%) C++
9 6 (4.80%) Go
10 5 (4.00%) Apex Code
10 5 (4.00%) Kotlin
10 5 (4.00%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.20%) Groovy
12 3 (2.40%) Bicep
12 3 (2.40%) Scala
12 3 (2.40%) SOQL
12 3 (2.40%) SOSL
12 3 (2.40%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.60%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (13.60%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.40%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.40%) Degree
3 8 (6.40%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.60%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.00%) QA
2 8 (6.40%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.60%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (38.40%) Docker
2 4 (3.20%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.20%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.40%) Ceph
3 3 (2.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (24.80%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.00%) Ansible
3 8 (6.40%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.60%) Istio
5 6 (4.80%) Grafana
6 4 (3.20%) Argo
6 4 (3.20%) linkerd
7 3 (2.40%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.40%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.40%) Podman
7 3 (2.40%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.40%) Puppet
7 3 (2.40%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.80%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (13.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.80%) Splunk
3 10 (8.00%) Google
4 7 (5.60%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.00%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.20%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.40%) Databricks
7 3 (2.40%) Dell
7 3 (2.40%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.40%) McAfee
7 3 (2.40%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.60%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.60%) Apple
8 2 (1.60%) HP
8 2 (1.60%) IBM
8 2 (1.60%) Mistral
9 1 (0.80%) New Relic
9 1 (0.80%) Oracle
9 1 (0.80%) WSO2
9 1 (0.80%) YouTube