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 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 132 71
Rank change year-on-year +9 -61 +18
Permanent jobs citing Git 121 115 323
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.12% 2.44% 2.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.84% 25.61% 35.30%
Number of salaries quoted 100 78 231
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,709 £60,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +9.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,751 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 380 449 915
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.52% 9.54% 8.25%
Number of salaries quoted 285 245 672
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £46,750 £47,231 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +4.65% -4.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +11.11% -10.00%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -9 81 £62,500 -7.41% 31
Lancashire +38 18 £52,500 +12.90% 16
Merseyside -13 9 £30,500 -32.22% 9
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 -
Cheshire +1 6 £37,500 -25.00% 10
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 8 (6.61%) WordPress
2 5 (4.13%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.31%) IIS
3 4 (3.31%) nginx
4 3 (2.48%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.65%) Apache
5 2 (1.65%) CICS
5 2 (1.65%) JBoss
5 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.83%) Confluence
6 1 (0.83%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.83%) Magento
2 1 (0.83%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 75 (61.98%) Azure
2 69 (57.02%) AWS
3 45 (37.19%) GitHub
4 25 (20.66%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.40%) GCP
6 10 (8.26%) Serverless
7 8 (6.61%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.79%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.13%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.13%) dbt
9 5 (4.13%) Figma
10 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.31%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.48%) Datadog
11 3 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (2.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (19.01%) Internet
2 3 (2.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.65%) SSL
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.88%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.57%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.74%) NoSQL
3 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 12 (9.92%) MySQL
5 10 (8.26%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.13%) BigQuery
7 4 (3.31%) Power BI
8 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.48%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.65%) Db2
9 2 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (1.65%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.83%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.83%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (14.05%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.09%) JIRA
3 10 (8.26%) GitLab
4 9 (7.44%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.48%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.48%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.48%) Postman
5 3 (2.48%) Selenium
6 2 (1.65%) NUnit
6 2 (1.65%) Subversion
6 2 (1.65%) Vite
6 2 (1.65%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
7 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.83%) gulp
7 1 (0.83%) JUnit
7 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 22 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (14.88%) Multimedia
3 13 (10.74%) Finance
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.44%) Retail
6 7 (5.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.96%) Banking
8 5 (4.13%) Advertising
8 5 (4.13%) Marketing
9 2 (1.65%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.83%) Back Office
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (51.24%) Developer
2 32 (26.45%) Senior
3 18 (14.88%) Senior Developer
3 18 (14.88%) Trainee
4 17 (14.05%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (11.57%) Software Developer
6 13 (10.74%) Java Developer
7 9 (7.44%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (6.61%) Administrator
8 8 (6.61%) Trainee Administrator
8 8 (6.61%) Web Administrator
9 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.96%) Trainee Developer
9 6 (4.96%) Trainee Software Developer
10 5 (4.13%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Principal Data Scientist
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.13%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 44 (36.36%) CSS
1 44 (36.36%) HTML
2 29 (23.97%) React
3 19 (15.70%) REST
3 19 (15.70%) RESTful
4 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
5 16 (13.22%) .NET
6 13 (10.74%) Spring
6 13 (10.74%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.92%) Vue
8 11 (9.09%) Node.js
9 9 (7.44%) CSS3
9 9 (7.44%) Entity Framework
9 9 (7.44%) HTML5
10 8 (6.61%) .NET Framework
10 8 (6.61%) ASP.NET
10 8 (6.61%) Middleware
11 7 (5.79%) .NET Core
11 7 (5.79%) OpenAPI
11 7 (5.79%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 11 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.48%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.92%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.65%) CentOS
2 2 (1.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.83%) Windows
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (55.37%) CI/CD
2 44 (36.36%) DevOps
3 43 (35.54%) Mentoring
4 42 (34.71%) Agile
5 34 (28.10%) Full-Stack Development
6 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (20.66%) AI
8 22 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
9 20 (16.53%) Microservices
10 15 (12.40%) Clean Code
10 15 (12.40%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (12.40%) Web Development
11 14 (11.57%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (11.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.57%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (11.57%) Scrum
11 14 (11.57%) SDLC
12 13 (10.74%) Software Engineering
13 12 (9.92%) Front End Development
13 12 (9.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.89%) JavaScript
2 60 (49.59%) Python
3 43 (35.54%) SQL
4 26 (21.49%) TypeScript
5 25 (20.66%) Java
6 16 (13.22%) C#
7 12 (9.92%) R
8 9 (7.44%) Go
9 7 (5.79%) PHP
10 6 (4.96%) Bash
11 5 (4.13%) C
12 4 (3.31%) Apex Code
12 4 (3.31%) Bicep
13 3 (2.48%) C++
13 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.48%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.48%) SOQL
13 3 (2.48%) SOSL
13 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.48%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 20 (16.53%) Azure Certification
2 19 (15.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 18 (14.88%) AWS Certification
3 18 (14.88%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (7.44%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.79%) Degree
5 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.74%) QA
2 4 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.65%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (21.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.65%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.65%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (22.31%) Terraform
2 25 (20.66%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.40%) Ansible
4 4 (3.31%) Grafana
5 3 (2.48%) Istio
5 3 (2.48%) linkerd
5 3 (2.48%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (1.65%) Nagios
6 2 (1.65%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.65%) Puppet
6 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.83%) Argo
7 1 (0.83%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.83%) Rancher
7 1 (0.83%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 38 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.79%) Splunk
3 5 (4.13%) Pega
4 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.48%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) Google
5 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.65%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.65%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.65%) New Relic
6 2 (1.65%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.65%) Oracle
6 2 (1.65%) WSO2
7 1 (0.83%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.83%) McAfee