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 9 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 116 66
Rank change year-on-year -1 -50 +46
Permanent jobs citing Git 125 115 305
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.21% 2.61% 3.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.41% 27.45% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 105 86 216
10th Percentile - £38,750 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,869 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £68,750 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £96,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% -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 353 419 833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.42% 9.52% 8.90%
Number of salaries quoted 270 262 664
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,944
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,058 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +4.65% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,253 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +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 9 May 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 9 May 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 -12 82 £61,418 -9.01% 35
Lancashire +16 14 £42,000 -12.50% 13
Merseyside -16 12 £30,500 -32.22% 3
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 - 1
Cheshire -12 8 £37,500 -25.00% 6
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 15 (12.00%) WordPress
2 3 (2.40%) Apache
2 3 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.40%) nginx
3 2 (1.60%) CICS
3 2 (1.60%) IIS
3 2 (1.60%) JBoss
3 2 (1.60%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.80%) Confluence
4 1 (0.80%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.80%) Magento
1 1 (0.80%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 79 (63.20%) AWS
2 74 (59.20%) Azure
3 47 (37.60%) GitHub
4 13 (10.40%) GCP
5 9 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (5.60%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (4.00%) Serverless
8 4 (3.20%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.20%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.20%) Datadog
8 4 (3.20%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.20%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.40%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.40%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.40%) dbt
9 3 (2.40%) Figma
9 3 (2.40%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 41 (32.80%) Internet
2 3 (2.40%) DNS
2 3 (2.40%) HTTP
3 2 (1.60%) SSL
4 1 (0.80%) DHCP
4 1 (0.80%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.80%) LAN
4 1 (0.80%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.80%) SSH
4 1 (0.80%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.80%) VSAN
4 1 (0.80%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.00%) MySQL
2 15 (12.00%) NoSQL
3 14 (11.20%) MongoDB
4 9 (7.20%) Relational Database
5 8 (6.40%) SQL Server
6 5 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.20%) Power BI
8 3 (2.40%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.40%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.60%) DB2
9 2 (1.60%) Hazelcast
10 1 (0.80%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.80%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.80%) Redis
10 1 (0.80%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Bitbucket
1 11 (8.80%) JIRA
2 9 (7.20%) Jenkins
3 7 (5.60%) GitLab
4 3 (2.40%) Eclipse
4 3 (2.40%) IntelliJ
4 3 (2.40%) JUnit
5 2 (1.60%) NUnit
5 2 (1.60%) Subversion
5 2 (1.60%) XCUITest
6 1 (0.80%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.80%) gulp
6 1 (0.80%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.80%) Postman
6 1 (0.80%) PyCharm
6 1 (0.80%) REST Assured
6 1 (0.80%) Selenium
6 1 (0.80%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.80%) webpack
General
1 34 (27.20%) Multimedia
2 19 (15.20%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.40%) Finance
4 8 (6.40%) Retail
5 7 (5.60%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.00%) Advertising
7 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.20%) Banking
9 3 (2.40%) Marketing
10 2 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.60%) Games
10 2 (1.60%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.80%) Back Office
11 1 (0.80%) Electronics
11 1 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.80%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 58 (46.40%) Developer
2 34 (27.20%) Trainee
3 28 (22.40%) Senior
4 19 (15.20%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.60%) Software Developer
6 14 (11.20%) Administrator
6 14 (11.20%) Full-Stack Developer
6 14 (11.20%) Trainee Administrator
6 14 (11.20%) Web Administrator
7 12 (9.60%) Java Developer
8 11 (8.80%) Trainee Developer
8 11 (8.80%) Trainee Software Developer
9 10 (8.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (6.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (4.80%) Lead
12 6 (4.80%) PHP Developer
13 5 (4.00%) Data Scientist
13 5 (4.00%) Principal Data Scientist
13 5 (4.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (56.00%) CSS
1 70 (56.00%) HTML
2 25 (20.00%) React
3 23 (18.40%) RESTful
4 21 (16.80%) AngularJS
5 13 (10.40%) REST
6 12 (9.60%) Node.js
6 12 (9.60%) Spring
6 12 (9.60%) Spring Boot
7 10 (8.00%) .NET
8 7 (5.60%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.60%) ASP.NET
8 7 (5.60%) CSS3
8 7 (5.60%) HTML5
8 7 (5.60%) Vue
9 6 (4.80%) .NET Core
9 6 (4.80%) Kafka
9 6 (4.80%) Web Services
10 5 (4.00%) EDI
10 5 (4.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.20%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (3.20%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.20%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.40%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.60%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.60%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.60%) NHS
6 2 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.80%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.80%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.80%) IoT
7 1 (0.80%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.80%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.80%) CentOS
3 1 (0.80%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.80%) Unix
3 1 (0.80%) Windows
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (39.20%) CI/CD
2 47 (37.60%) Agile
3 44 (35.20%) Mentoring
4 28 (22.40%) DevOps
4 28 (22.40%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (20.80%) Full-Stack Development
6 21 (16.80%) Microservices
7 20 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (16.00%) Web Development
8 17 (13.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.20%) AI
9 14 (11.20%) Scrum
10 13 (10.40%) Clean Code
10 13 (10.40%) TDD
11 12 (9.60%) User Experience
12 11 (8.80%) Collaborative Culture
12 11 (8.80%) Containerisation
12 11 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
13 10 (8.00%) Analytics
13 10 (8.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 80 (64.00%) JavaScript
2 66 (52.80%) Python
3 30 (24.00%) SQL
4 27 (21.60%) TypeScript
5 23 (18.40%) R
6 21 (16.80%) Java
7 11 (8.80%) Go
8 9 (7.20%) C#
9 8 (6.40%) C
10 7 (5.60%) PHP
11 3 (2.40%) Bicep
11 3 (2.40%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.60%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.60%) Bash
12 2 (1.60%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.60%) Swift
12 2 (1.60%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.80%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.80%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) Azure Certification
2 34 (27.20%) AWS Certification
2 34 (27.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 34 (27.20%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (3.20%) Degree
3 4 (3.20%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.40%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.80%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.40%) QA
2 3 (2.40%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.60%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (12.00%) Docker
2 2 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.60%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.80%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (18.40%) Terraform
2 19 (15.20%) Kubernetes
3 17 (13.60%) Ansible
4 3 (2.40%) Nagios
4 3 (2.40%) Rancher
5 2 (1.60%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.60%) cPanel
5 2 (1.60%) Plesk
5 2 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.80%) Argo
6 1 (0.80%) Grafana
6 1 (0.80%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.80%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 49 (39.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.00%) Pega
3 3 (2.40%) Databricks
3 3 (2.40%) Red Hat
3 3 (2.40%) Splunk
4 2 (1.60%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.60%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.60%) New Relic
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle
4 2 (1.60%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.60%) WSO2
5 1 (0.80%) Adobe
5 1 (0.80%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.80%) Google
5 1 (0.80%) McAfee