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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 111 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 -69 -6
Permanent jobs citing Git 89 122 220
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.78% 1.79% 5.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 36.63% 22.98% 43.22%
Number of salaries quoted 62 77 180
10th Percentile - £33,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,384 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.23% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,875 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,125 £71,250 £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 243 531 509
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.85% 7.77% 13.19%
Number of salaries quoted 172 282 420
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £39,750 £43,710 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £52,500 £59,263
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -11.41% +7.75%
75th Percentile £66,563 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £84,056
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 18 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 18 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 +18 57 £55,000 +4.76% 97
Merseyside +17 18 £30,500 -32.22% 17
Cheshire -19 9 £48,625 -2.75% 34
Lancashire +21 5 £42,384 -22.94% 59
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 4 (4.49%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.49%) WordPress
2 3 (3.37%) CMS
2 3 (3.37%) nginx
3 1 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.12%) Apache
3 1 (1.12%) IIS
3 1 (1.12%) JBoss
3 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.12%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.12%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.12%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.12%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 52 (58.43%) AWS
2 49 (55.06%) Azure
3 37 (41.57%) GitHub
4 8 (8.99%) Serverless
5 6 (6.74%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.49%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (4.49%) GCP
7 4 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.37%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.37%) Cloudflare
9 2 (2.25%) Azure AKS
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
9 2 (2.25%) Firebase
9 2 (2.25%) Supabase
9 2 (2.25%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (31.46%) Internet
2 3 (3.37%) SSH
3 2 (2.25%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.12%) DNS
4 1 (1.12%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.12%) Firewall
4 1 (1.12%) HTTP
4 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (19.10%) MySQL
2 11 (12.36%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.99%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.74%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.49%) MongoDB
7 3 (3.37%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
8 2 (2.25%) DynamoDB
9 1 (1.12%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.74%) Jenkins
1 6 (6.74%) JIRA
2 4 (4.49%) GitLab
3 3 (3.37%) webpack
4 2 (2.25%) Cypress.io
4 2 (2.25%) JUnit
4 2 (2.25%) Maven
4 2 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.12%) Ant
5 1 (1.12%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.12%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (1.12%) CANoe
5 1 (1.12%) ESLint
5 1 (1.12%) git-flow
5 1 (1.12%) Mocha
5 1 (1.12%) NUnit
5 1 (1.12%) Selenium
5 1 (1.12%) Sinon.JS
5 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.12%) Xcode
General
1 28 (31.46%) Multimedia
2 21 (23.60%) Social Skills
3 11 (12.36%) Finance
4 6 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.62%) Marketing
6 2 (2.25%) Banking
6 2 (2.25%) Electronics
6 2 (2.25%) Retail
7 1 (1.12%) Automotive
7 1 (1.12%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.12%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 53 (59.55%) Developer
2 28 (31.46%) Trainee
3 19 (21.35%) Software Developer
4 18 (20.22%) Senior
5 14 (15.73%) Trainee Developer
5 14 (15.73%) Trainee Software Developer
6 13 (14.61%) Senior Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Backend Developer
7 7 (7.87%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.62%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 5 (5.62%) PHP Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Senior Backend Developer
8 5 (5.62%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Lead
10 3 (3.37%) DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Java Developer
10 3 (3.37%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (57.30%) CSS
1 51 (57.30%) HTML
2 16 (17.98%) Node.js
3 13 (14.61%) .NET
3 13 (14.61%) React
3 13 (14.61%) RESTful
4 11 (12.36%) AngularJS
5 9 (10.11%) REST
6 8 (8.99%) Web Services
7 7 (7.87%) Laravel
7 7 (7.87%) Spring
7 7 (7.87%) Spring Boot
8 5 (5.62%) .NET Framework
8 5 (5.62%) JSON
9 4 (4.49%) .NET Core
9 4 (4.49%) CSS3
10 3 (3.37%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.37%) Jest
10 3 (3.37%) Tailwind CSS
10 3 (3.37%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.62%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.37%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.25%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.25%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.25%) Wiki
5 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.12%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Life Science
5 1 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.12%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (15.73%) Linux
2 6 (6.74%) Windows
3 4 (4.49%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.12%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (38.20%) Mentoring
2 33 (37.08%) CI/CD
3 28 (31.46%) Cybersecurity
4 27 (30.34%) Agile
5 26 (29.21%) DevOps
6 21 (23.60%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (17.98%) Microservices
7 16 (17.98%) User Experience
8 15 (16.85%) Full-Stack Development
9 13 (14.61%) Containerisation
10 11 (12.36%) Software Engineering
11 10 (11.24%) AI
11 10 (11.24%) Clean Code
11 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (10.11%) Front End Development
13 8 (8.99%) Scrum
14 7 (7.87%) Unit Testing
15 6 (6.74%) OOP
15 6 (6.74%) TDD
15 6 (6.74%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 65 (73.03%) JavaScript
2 41 (46.07%) Python
3 14 (15.73%) R
3 14 (15.73%) TypeScript
4 13 (14.61%) C#
5 12 (13.48%) PHP
5 12 (13.48%) SQL
6 9 (10.11%) Java
7 5 (5.62%) Bash
8 4 (4.49%) PowerShell
9 3 (3.37%) Bicep
9 3 (3.37%) C
10 2 (2.25%) Go
11 1 (1.12%) C++
11 1 (1.12%) Dart
11 1 (1.12%) Groovy
11 1 (1.12%) Swift
Qualifications
1 31 (34.83%) Azure Certification
2 28 (31.46%) AWS Certification
2 28 (31.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 28 (31.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.62%) Degree
4 4 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.12%) PhD
5 1 (1.12%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.62%) QA
2 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.25%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.12%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (25.84%) Docker
2 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.99%) Ansible
3 7 (7.87%) Terraform
4 3 (3.37%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) Argo
5 1 (1.12%) cPanel
5 1 (1.12%) Plesk
5 1 (1.12%) Podman
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Puppet
Vendors
1 36 (40.45%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.62%) Google
3 3 (3.37%) AppDynamics
3 3 (3.37%) IBM
3 3 (3.37%) Moogsoft
3 3 (3.37%) Splunk
4 2 (2.25%) Adobe
4 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.25%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.12%) Pega
5 1 (1.12%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.12%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.12%) WSO2