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

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 111 48
Rank change year-on-year +25 -63 -6
Permanent jobs citing Git 98 110 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.86% 1.81% 5.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.79% 21.96% 43.75%
Number of salaries quoted 76 67 157
10th Percentile - £30,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,750 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -37.62% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £58,188 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £65,625 £69,750 £96,539
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 229 501 464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.34% 8.22% 12.78%
Number of salaries quoted 171 286 379
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,000
25th Percentile £31,125 £43,720 £46,278
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £65,625 £65,000 £76,875
90th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £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 6 December 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 6 December 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 +31 61 £52,500 - 71
Merseyside +21 21 £30,500 -1.61% 18
Cheshire -17 9 £37,500 -25.00% 23
Lancashire +18 7 £42,384 -19.24% 53
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 10 (10.20%) WordPress
2 4 (4.08%) Apache Solr
3 3 (3.06%) CMS
3 3 (3.06%) nginx
4 1 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.02%) Apache
4 1 (1.02%) JBoss
4 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.02%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.02%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.02%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 62 (63.27%) AWS
2 60 (61.22%) Azure
3 45 (45.92%) GitHub
4 8 (8.16%) Serverless
5 6 (6.12%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (6.12%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.08%) GCP
6 4 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.06%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.06%) Cloudflare
7 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.04%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.04%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.02%) Datadog
9 1 (1.02%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 38 (38.78%) Internet
2 3 (3.06%) HTTP
2 3 (3.06%) SSH
3 2 (2.04%) DNS
3 2 (2.04%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.02%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.35%) MySQL
2 9 (9.18%) NoSQL
2 9 (9.18%) Relational Database
2 9 (9.18%) SQL Server
3 7 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 6 (6.12%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.04%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.02%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.16%) JIRA
2 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.10%) GitLab
4 4 (4.08%) JUnit
5 2 (2.04%) Maven
5 2 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.04%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.02%) Ant
6 1 (1.02%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.02%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.02%) CANoe
6 1 (1.02%) ESLint
6 1 (1.02%) git-flow
6 1 (1.02%) Selenium
6 1 (1.02%) Storybook
6 1 (1.02%) webpack
General
1 38 (38.78%) Multimedia
2 14 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Finance
4 5 (5.10%) Marketing
5 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.04%) Banking
6 2 (2.04%) Electronics
6 2 (2.04%) Retail
7 1 (1.02%) Automotive
7 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.02%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.02%) Publishing
7 1 (1.02%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 51 (52.04%) Developer
2 38 (38.78%) Trainee
3 22 (22.45%) Software Developer
4 17 (17.35%) Senior
4 17 (17.35%) Trainee Developer
4 17 (17.35%) Trainee Software Developer
5 12 (12.24%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.14%) Administrator
6 7 (7.14%) PHP Developer
6 7 (7.14%) Trainee Administrator
6 7 (7.14%) Web Administrator
7 6 (6.12%) .NET Developer
7 6 (6.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.12%) Lead
8 5 (5.10%) Software Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Java Developer
9 4 (4.08%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (65.31%) CSS
1 64 (65.31%) HTML
2 14 (14.29%) React
3 13 (13.27%) .NET
3 13 (13.27%) AngularJS
3 13 (13.27%) Node.js
3 13 (13.27%) REST
4 12 (12.24%) RESTful
5 8 (8.16%) Laravel
5 8 (8.16%) Spring
5 8 (8.16%) Spring Boot
6 6 (6.12%) Web Services
7 5 (5.10%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.08%) .NET Core
8 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.08%) JSON
8 4 (4.08%) Kafka
9 3 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (3.06%) gRPC
9 3 (3.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.10%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.06%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.06%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.06%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.04%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.04%) NHS
5 1 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.02%) IoT
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) Life Science
5 1 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.31%) Linux
2 6 (6.12%) Windows
3 4 (4.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (43.88%) Mentoring
2 36 (36.73%) CI/CD
3 33 (33.67%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (29.59%) Agile
5 24 (24.49%) DevOps
6 21 (21.43%) Microservices
7 19 (19.39%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (18.37%) Containerisation
9 15 (15.31%) User Experience
10 14 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (12.24%) Web Development
12 11 (11.22%) Software Engineering
13 10 (10.20%) AI
13 10 (10.20%) Clean Code
14 9 (9.18%) Front End Development
15 8 (8.16%) OOP
15 8 (8.16%) Scrum
16 7 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 6 (6.12%) Software Testing
17 6 (6.12%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 78 (79.59%) JavaScript
2 53 (54.08%) Python
3 21 (21.43%) R
4 14 (14.29%) PHP
4 14 (14.29%) TypeScript
5 13 (13.27%) C#
6 11 (11.22%) Java
7 10 (10.20%) SQL
8 5 (5.10%) Bash
9 4 (4.08%) PowerShell
10 3 (3.06%) Bicep
10 3 (3.06%) C
10 3 (3.06%) Go
11 1 (1.02%) C++
11 1 (1.02%) Dart
11 1 (1.02%) Groovy
11 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (41.84%) Azure Certification
2 38 (38.78%) AWS Certification
2 38 (38.78%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 38 (38.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.06%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.02%) PhD
5 1 (1.02%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.10%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (19.39%) Docker
2 2 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (12.24%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.22%) Ansible
3 9 (9.18%) Terraform
4 3 (3.06%) cPanel
4 3 (3.06%) Grafana
4 3 (3.06%) Plesk
5 2 (2.04%) Argo
6 1 (1.02%) Nagios
6 1 (1.02%) Podman
6 1 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.02%) Puppet
6 1 (1.02%) Rancher
Vendors
1 45 (45.92%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.04%) Adobe
2 2 (2.04%) Google
2 2 (2.04%) HubSpot
3 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
3 1 (1.02%) IBM
3 1 (1.02%) Moogsoft
3 1 (1.02%) Pega
3 1 (1.02%) Splunk
3 1 (1.02%) TOWER Software
3 1 (1.02%) WSO2