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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 146 80
Rank change year-on-year +18 -66 -19
Permanent jobs citing Git 133 93 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.09% 1.79% 2.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.13% 23.43% 30.95%
Number of salaries quoted 89 59 146
10th Percentile £31,000 £37,250 £37,375
25th Percentile £45,000 £46,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,250 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £86,156 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -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 414 397 656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.38% 7.66% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 272 198 410
10th Percentile £39,642 £37,125 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,750 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.45% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -1 91 £66,750 +16.09% 84
Lancashire +27 29 £48,500 +4.86% 25
Cheshire -3 6 £32,500 -40.77% 14
Merseyside -11 5 £45,000 +47.54% 11
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 -
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 (6.02%) WordPress
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.76%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.26%) IIS
4 3 (2.26%) nginx
4 3 (2.26%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.50%) CICS
5 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Confluence
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
6 1 (0.75%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 73 (54.89%) Azure
2 69 (51.88%) AWS
3 40 (30.08%) GitHub
4 27 (20.30%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (18.80%) GCP
6 12 (9.02%) Serverless
7 10 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.77%) dbt
9 8 (6.02%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.26%) Figma
11 6 (4.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (4.51%) SaaS
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
13 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
13 4 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.01%) Entra ID
13 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
14 3 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Internet
2 3 (2.26%) DHCP
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.26%) LAN
2 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.26%) VSAN
2 3 (2.26%) WAN
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 14 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 13 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (9.02%) MySQL
4 12 (9.02%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.77%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.01%) Power BI
8 3 (2.26%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.26%) Chroma
8 3 (2.26%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.26%) Redis
8 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.50%) Db2
9 2 (1.50%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.50%) Metadata
9 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.75%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 30 (22.56%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.29%) GitLab
3 10 (7.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (6.02%) JIRA
4 8 (6.02%) JUnit
5 7 (5.26%) IntelliJ
6 6 (4.51%) Selenium
6 6 (4.51%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (3.76%) Eclipse
7 5 (3.76%) Maven
8 4 (3.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.01%) Postman
8 4 (3.01%) Spock
9 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.50%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.50%) Mockito
10 2 (1.50%) NUnit
10 2 (1.50%) Vite
11 1 (0.75%) Subversion
11 1 (0.75%) XCUITest
General
1 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.05%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (15.79%) Finance
4 14 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.02%) Marketing
6 9 (6.77%) Multimedia
7 7 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Advertising
8 3 (2.26%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.50%) Publishing
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (49.62%) Developer
2 29 (21.80%) Senior
3 20 (15.04%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (12.78%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Administrator
6 12 (9.02%) Java Developer
6 12 (9.02%) Software Developer
7 11 (8.27%) Data Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Trainee
9 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (6.02%) Web Administrator
10 7 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 7 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.51%) Lead
11 6 (4.51%) Systems Administrator
12 5 (3.76%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.32%) React
2 28 (21.05%) Terraform
3 27 (20.30%) REST
4 25 (18.80%) CSS
4 25 (18.80%) HTML
5 21 (15.79%) Spring
6 20 (15.04%) AngularJS
7 19 (14.29%) .NET
8 16 (12.03%) RESTful
9 15 (11.28%) Spring Boot
10 11 (8.27%) Node.js
10 11 (8.27%) Vue
11 10 (7.52%) .NET Framework
11 10 (7.52%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.52%) Entity Framework
12 9 (6.77%) Middleware
13 8 (6.02%) Kafka
13 8 (6.02%) OpenAPI
13 8 (6.02%) Swagger
14 7 (5.26%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.28%) Cloud Native
1 15 (11.28%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.77%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.26%) Social Media
5 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.26%) Replication
8 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.50%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 7 (5.26%) CentOS
2 7 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.01%) VMS
3 4 (3.01%) Windows
4 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.26%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.50%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (72.18%) CI/CD
2 56 (42.11%) DevOps
3 54 (40.60%) Agile
4 45 (33.83%) Mentoring
5 43 (32.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 38 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (24.81%) AI
8 27 (20.30%) Microservices
9 26 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 25 (18.80%) Software Engineering
11 23 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (15.79%) Web Development
13 20 (15.04%) Performance Optimisation
14 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
15 18 (13.53%) Collaborative Culture
16 17 (12.78%) Observability
16 17 (12.78%) Test Automation
17 16 (12.03%) Clean Code
17 16 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
18 15 (11.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 65 (48.87%) JavaScript
2 51 (38.35%) SQL
3 49 (36.84%) Python
4 37 (27.82%) Java
5 32 (24.06%) TypeScript
6 21 (15.79%) C#
7 10 (7.52%) Bash
8 8 (6.02%) PHP
8 8 (6.02%) R
9 6 (4.51%) C++
9 6 (4.51%) Go
10 5 (3.76%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.01%) Bicep
11 4 (3.01%) Groovy
11 4 (3.01%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.26%) SOQL
12 3 (2.26%) SOSL
12 3 (2.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 15 (11.28%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
2 11 (8.27%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (6.77%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
6 7 (5.26%) Degree
7 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) Accessibility
2 6 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (36.09%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.26%) Ceph
3 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (24.06%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.03%) Ansible
3 7 (5.26%) Istio
3 7 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.76%) Grafana
5 4 (3.01%) Argo
5 4 (3.01%) linkerd
6 3 (2.26%) Check_MK
6 3 (2.26%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (2.26%) Podman
6 3 (2.26%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.26%) Puppet
6 3 (2.26%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (18.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) Splunk
3 9 (6.77%) Google
4 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.76%) Pega
5 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.01%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.26%) Databricks
7 3 (2.26%) Dell
7 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.26%) McAfee
7 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
7 3 (2.26%) Oracle
8 2 (1.50%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.50%) Apple
8 2 (1.50%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.50%) Mistral
8 2 (1.50%) WSO2
9 1 (0.75%) YouTube