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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 93 51
Rank change year-on-year -69 -42 -17
Permanent jobs citing Git 76 170 227
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.49% 2.20% 4.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.59% 29.21% 37.40%
Number of salaries quoted 44 116 192
10th Percentile £32,575 £36,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £60,313 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £84,025
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 352 582 607
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 6.90% 7.55% 13.06%
Number of salaries quoted 159 333 498
10th Percentile £38,950 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £78,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Git 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -32 48 £55,000 +4.76% 69
Cheshire -19 13 £59,750 +19.50% 33
Lancashire -23 9 £45,000 -18.18% 62
Merseyside +2 6 £39,000 -10.86% 19
Git
England

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.89%) IIS
2 4 (5.26%) Apache Solr
2 4 (5.26%) CMS
3 3 (3.95%) nginx
4 1 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) JBoss
4 1 (1.32%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.32%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.32%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.32%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.32%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.32%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 29 (38.16%) AWS
3 12 (15.79%) GitHub
4 9 (11.84%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (7.89%) GCP
5 6 (7.89%) SaaS
6 5 (6.58%) Firebase
6 5 (6.58%) Power Platform
7 4 (5.26%) Cloudflare
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (3.95%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.95%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.95%) IaaS
8 3 (3.95%) PaaS
9 2 (2.63%) Azure AI
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Key Vault
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.63%) Azure Service Bus
9 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.63%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) HTTP
2 4 (5.26%) Internet
3 3 (3.95%) DNS
3 3 (3.95%) Firewall
4 2 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.63%) VPN
4 2 (2.63%) WAN
5 1 (1.32%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.32%) SSH
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.32%) MySQL
2 19 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (13.16%) NoSQL
4 8 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (9.21%) Relational Database
6 6 (7.89%) Data Lake
6 6 (7.89%) Elasticsearch
6 6 (7.89%) MongoDB
7 5 (6.58%) Power BI
8 4 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (2.63%) DynamoDB
10 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 10 (13.16%) JIRA
2 8 (10.53%) GitLab
2 8 (10.53%) JUnit
3 7 (9.21%) Jenkins
4 4 (5.26%) Maven
4 4 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (3.95%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.95%) JMeter
5 3 (3.95%) webpack
6 2 (2.63%) NUnit
6 2 (2.63%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.32%) Ant
7 1 (1.32%) CA Release Automation
7 1 (1.32%) CANoe
7 1 (1.32%) ClearCase
7 1 (1.32%) ESLint
7 1 (1.32%) git-flow
7 1 (1.32%) Storybook
7 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.32%) Xcode
General
1 21 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.32%) Finance
3 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
5 5 (6.58%) Marketing
6 4 (5.26%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.63%) Retail
8 1 (1.32%) Automotive
8 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (57.89%) Developer
2 19 (25.00%) Senior
3 13 (17.11%) .NET Developer
4 12 (15.79%) Senior Developer
5 11 (14.47%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Backend Developer
6 7 (9.21%) Software Developer
7 6 (7.89%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 5 (6.58%) JavaScript Developer
8 5 (6.58%) Software Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (5.26%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
9 4 (5.26%) PHP Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Trainee
10 3 (3.95%) Associate Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (3.95%) Lead
10 3 (3.95%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (40.79%) CSS
1 31 (40.79%) HTML
2 21 (27.63%) RESTful
3 19 (25.00%) .NET
4 12 (15.79%) Node.js
4 12 (15.79%) Spring
4 12 (15.79%) Spring Boot
5 11 (14.47%) AngularJS
5 11 (14.47%) Web Services
6 10 (13.16%) JSON
6 10 (13.16%) React
7 9 (11.84%) .NET Core
7 9 (11.84%) ASP.NET
7 9 (11.84%) REST
8 8 (10.53%) XML
9 7 (9.21%) ASP.NET Web API
10 6 (7.89%) Kafka
10 6 (7.89%) Laravel
10 6 (7.89%) Middleware
10 6 (7.89%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.58%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (6.58%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.63%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.63%) NHS
4 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.63%) Wiki
5 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.32%) Life Science
5 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.42%) Linux
2 6 (7.89%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.63%) Unix
5 1 (1.32%) Android
5 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.95%) CI/CD
2 33 (43.42%) DevOps
3 31 (40.79%) Agile
4 25 (32.89%) Full-Stack Development
5 22 (28.95%) Microservices
5 22 (28.95%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (26.32%) User Experience
7 14 (18.42%) Containerisation
7 14 (18.42%) Unit Testing
8 13 (17.11%) Artificial Intelligence
9 12 (15.79%) Scrum
10 11 (14.47%) Code Quality
11 10 (13.16%) Mentoring
11 10 (13.16%) SDLC
11 10 (13.16%) Software Engineering
12 9 (11.84%) Clean Code
12 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (11.84%) Test Automation
13 8 (10.53%) Front End Development
13 8 (10.53%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 46 (60.53%) JavaScript
2 22 (28.95%) SQL
3 18 (23.68%) C#
3 18 (23.68%) Python
4 17 (22.37%) TypeScript
5 16 (21.05%) Java
6 9 (11.84%) PHP
7 5 (6.58%) Bash
7 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.95%) Bicep
8 3 (3.95%) Go
9 2 (2.63%) R
10 1 (1.32%) C
10 1 (1.32%) C++
10 1 (1.32%) Dart
10 1 (1.32%) Groovy
10 1 (1.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.32%) Rust
10 1 (1.32%) Swift
10 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.84%) Degree
2 8 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.26%) AWS Certification
4 4 (5.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.95%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.95%) PhD
6 2 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.63%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.32%) HNC
7 1 (1.32%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.58%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.63%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 29 (38.16%) Docker
2 2 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.89%) Ansible
2 6 (7.89%) Terraform
3 3 (3.95%) Grafana
3 3 (3.95%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.63%) Istio
4 2 (2.63%) Progress Chef
4 2 (2.63%) Puppet
5 1 (1.32%) Argo
5 1 (1.32%) Podman
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.21%) Bloomberg
3 5 (6.58%) Google
4 4 (5.26%) AppDynamics
4 4 (5.26%) IBM
4 4 (5.26%) Moogsoft
4 4 (5.26%) Splunk
5 2 (2.63%) Adobe
5 2 (2.63%) Databricks
5 2 (2.63%) Meraki
6 1 (1.32%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.32%) HubSpot
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Ping Identity
6 1 (1.32%) Rollbar
6 1 (1.32%) TOWER Software