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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 140 72
Rank change year-on-year +25 -68 +22
Permanent jobs citing Git 121 115 318
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.13% 2.45% 2.91%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.27% 25.50% 35.41%
Number of salaries quoted 102 79 226
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +10.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £74,301 £82,751 £72,188
90th Percentile £85,000 £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 375 451 898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.51% 9.61% 8.21%
Number of salaries quoted 284 248 665
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £46,625 £48,370 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £58,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% +5.91% -4.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -3.85% +10.73% -9.69%

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 12 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 12 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 -15 78 £62,500 -7.41% 36
Lancashire +40 19 £55,000 +18.28% 16
Merseyside -7 9 £30,500 -32.22% 6
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 -
Cheshire +6 6 £37,500 -25.00% 8
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 74 (61.16%) Azure
2 70 (57.85%) AWS
3 44 (36.36%) GitHub
4 24 (19.83%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.74%) GCP
6 9 (7.44%) Serverless
7 6 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
7 6 (4.96%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.96%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.13%) dbt
8 5 (4.13%) Figma
9 4 (3.31%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (3.31%) Entra ID
9 4 (3.31%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.48%) Datadog
10 3 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (2.48%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (21.49%) Internet
2 3 (2.48%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.65%) DNS
3 2 (1.65%) SSL
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
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 21 (17.36%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.57%) SQL Server
3 13 (10.74%) MongoDB
3 13 (10.74%) MySQL
3 13 (10.74%) NoSQL
3 13 (10.74%) Relational Database
4 5 (4.13%) BigQuery
5 4 (3.31%) Power BI
6 3 (2.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.65%) Db2
7 2 (1.65%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.65%) Hazelcast
7 2 (1.65%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.83%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 15 (12.40%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.09%) GitLab
2 11 (9.09%) JIRA
3 10 (8.26%) Bitbucket
4 3 (2.48%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.48%) IntelliJ
5 2 (1.65%) NUnit
5 2 (1.65%) Postman
5 2 (1.65%) Selenium
5 2 (1.65%) Subversion
5 2 (1.65%) Vite
5 2 (1.65%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.83%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.83%) Gemini Tracker
6 1 (0.83%) gulp
6 1 (0.83%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.83%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.83%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.83%) webpack
General
1 22 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.70%) Multimedia
3 12 (9.92%) 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 60 (49.59%) Developer
2 31 (25.62%) Senior
3 19 (15.70%) Trainee
4 17 (14.05%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (14.05%) Senior Developer
5 14 (11.57%) Software Developer
6 12 (9.92%) 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 7 (5.79%) Cloud Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.96%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.96%) Trainee Developer
10 6 (4.96%) Trainee Software Developer
11 5 (4.13%) Data Scientist
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.13%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (37.19%) CSS
1 45 (37.19%) HTML
2 29 (23.97%) React
3 19 (15.70%) RESTful
4 18 (14.88%) REST
5 17 (14.05%) AngularJS
6 16 (13.22%) .NET
7 12 (9.92%) Spring
7 12 (9.92%) 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
12 6 (4.96%) OpenAPI
12 6 (4.96%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.44%) Cloud Native
3 7 (5.79%) Distributed Systems
4 5 (4.13%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (3.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (3.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (2.48%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (1.65%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.65%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.65%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.74%) 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 63 (52.07%) CI/CD
2 45 (37.19%) Mentoring
3 42 (34.71%) Agile
3 42 (34.71%) DevOps
4 34 (28.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 30 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (18.18%) AI
6 22 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (17.36%) Microservices
8 15 (12.40%) Web Development
9 14 (11.57%) Clean Code
9 14 (11.57%) Performance Optimisation
9 14 (11.57%) Scrum
10 13 (10.74%) Collaborative Culture
11 12 (9.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (9.92%) Front End Development
11 12 (9.92%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (9.92%) SDLC
11 12 (9.92%) Software Engineering
11 12 (9.92%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (52.89%) JavaScript
2 60 (49.59%) Python
3 43 (35.54%) SQL
4 27 (22.31%) TypeScript
5 24 (19.83%) Java
6 16 (13.22%) C#
7 13 (10.74%) R
8 10 (8.26%) Go
9 7 (5.79%) C
9 7 (5.79%) PHP
10 4 (3.31%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.48%) Bash
11 3 (2.48%) Bicep
11 3 (2.48%) C++
11 3 (2.48%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.48%) SOQL
11 3 (2.48%) SOSL
11 3 (2.48%) T-SQL
11 3 (2.48%) VB.NET
12 2 (1.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 20 (16.53%) Azure Certification
2 19 (15.70%) AWS Certification
2 19 (15.70%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 19 (15.70%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (6.61%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.96%) Degree
6 2 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) 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 21 (17.36%) 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 28 (23.14%) Terraform
2 23 (19.01%) Kubernetes
3 17 (14.05%) Ansible
4 2 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.65%) Grafana
4 2 (1.65%) Nagios
4 2 (1.65%) Rancher
4 2 (1.65%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.83%) Istio
5 1 (0.83%) linkerd
5 1 (0.83%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.83%) Puppet
5 1 (0.83%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 38 (31.40%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.96%) Splunk
3 5 (4.13%) Pega
4 4 (3.31%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.48%) Databricks
5 3 (2.48%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.65%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.65%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.65%) Google
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%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.83%) McAfee