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 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 89 63
Rank change year-on-year -8 -26 +62
Permanent jobs citing Git 133 110 298
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.51% 3.04% 3.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.89% 31.61% 37.48%
Number of salaries quoted 114 81 200
10th Percentile - £40,000 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,869 £47,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £65,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,751 £75,313
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +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 303 348 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.45% 9.62% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 233 272 633
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £33,750 £46,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +8.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £69,762 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,125 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +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 31 March 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 31 March 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 -8 84 £60,000 -11.11% 49
Merseyside -2 22 £30,500 -32.22% 4
Lancashire -7 14 £39,500 -17.71% 17
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 - 1
Cheshire -38 6 £33,750 -28.95% 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 18 (13.53%) WordPress
2 3 (2.26%) Apache
2 3 (2.26%) nginx
3 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.50%) CICS
3 2 (1.50%) JBoss
3 2 (1.50%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.75%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.75%) Confluence
4 1 (0.75%) IIS
4 1 (0.75%) PegaRULES
Business Applications
1 1 (0.75%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 92 (69.17%) AWS
2 86 (64.66%) Azure
3 58 (43.61%) GitHub
4 13 (9.77%) GCP
5 9 (6.77%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (6.02%) Serverless
7 6 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (3.76%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.26%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.26%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.26%) Datadog
9 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
9 3 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.26%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.26%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.26%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.50%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 58 (43.61%) Internet
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) HTTP
3 2 (1.50%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.50%) SSH
3 2 (1.50%) SSL
4 1 (0.75%) DHCP
4 1 (0.75%) LAN
4 1 (0.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.75%) VSAN
4 1 (0.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.28%) MongoDB
2 15 (11.28%) MySQL
2 15 (11.28%) NoSQL
3 9 (6.77%) Relational Database
4 6 (4.51%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (3.76%) SQL Server
6 3 (2.26%) DynamoDB
6 3 (2.26%) Power BI
7 2 (1.50%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.50%) DB2
7 2 (1.50%) Hazelcast
8 1 (0.75%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.75%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.75%) Redis
8 1 (0.75%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) Jenkins
1 9 (6.77%) JIRA
2 6 (4.51%) Bitbucket
2 6 (4.51%) GitLab
3 3 (2.26%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.26%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.26%) JUnit
4 2 (1.50%) Subversion
4 2 (1.50%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.75%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.75%) NUnit
5 1 (0.75%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.75%) Postman
5 1 (0.75%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.75%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.75%) Selenium
5 1 (0.75%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 51 (38.35%) Multimedia
2 17 (12.78%) Social Skills
3 10 (7.52%) Finance
4 9 (6.77%) Retail
5 5 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.01%) Advertising
6 4 (3.01%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.01%) Marketing
7 3 (2.26%) Banking
7 3 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.50%) Electronics
8 2 (1.50%) Games
8 2 (1.50%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.50%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 59 (44.36%) Developer
2 51 (38.35%) Trainee
3 23 (17.29%) Senior
3 23 (17.29%) Software Developer
4 19 (14.29%) Trainee Developer
4 19 (14.29%) Trainee Software Developer
5 16 (12.03%) Administrator
5 16 (12.03%) Trainee Administrator
5 16 (12.03%) Web Administrator
6 15 (11.28%) Senior Developer
7 13 (9.77%) Java Developer
8 12 (9.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 11 (8.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (6.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 7 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (4.51%) Lead
12 6 (4.51%) PHP Developer
12 6 (4.51%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (3.76%) Principal Data Scientist
13 5 (3.76%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (65.41%) CSS
1 87 (65.41%) HTML
2 22 (16.54%) React
3 20 (15.04%) RESTful
4 19 (14.29%) AngularJS
5 13 (9.77%) Node.js
5 13 (9.77%) REST
6 12 (9.02%) Spring
6 12 (9.02%) Spring Boot
7 8 (6.02%) .NET
7 8 (6.02%) Web Services
8 6 (4.51%) CSS3
8 6 (4.51%) HTML5
8 6 (4.51%) Kafka
8 6 (4.51%) Vue
9 5 (3.76%) EDI
10 4 (3.01%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.01%) ASP.NET
10 4 (3.01%) Laravel
10 4 (3.01%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (7.52%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.51%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.50%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.50%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.50%) NHS
5 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.75%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.75%) IoT
6 1 (0.75%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 2 (1.50%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.50%) Windows
2 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.75%) CentOS
3 1 (0.75%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.75%) Unix
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.35%) Mentoring
2 47 (35.34%) Agile
3 41 (30.83%) CI/CD
4 35 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
5 25 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (16.54%) DevOps
6 22 (16.54%) Full-Stack Development
7 21 (15.79%) Microservices
7 21 (15.79%) Web Development
8 16 (12.03%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (10.53%) AI
9 14 (10.53%) Containerisation
10 13 (9.77%) Scrum
10 13 (9.77%) TDD
11 12 (9.02%) Clean Code
12 11 (8.27%) User Experience
13 10 (7.52%) Front End Development
13 10 (7.52%) OOP
13 10 (7.52%) Software Engineering
14 9 (6.77%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 98 (73.68%) JavaScript
2 82 (61.65%) Python
3 32 (24.06%) R
4 22 (16.54%) SQL
4 22 (16.54%) TypeScript
5 21 (15.79%) Java
6 11 (8.27%) Go
7 9 (6.77%) C
8 8 (6.02%) C#
8 8 (6.02%) PHP
9 3 (2.26%) Bicep
9 3 (2.26%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.26%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.50%) Swift
11 1 (0.75%) Bash
11 1 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (39.85%) Azure Certification
2 51 (38.35%) AWS Certification
2 51 (38.35%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 51 (38.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.50%) Degree
4 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.75%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.75%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.75%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.75%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (15.79%) Terraform
2 18 (13.53%) Kubernetes
3 17 (12.78%) Ansible
4 3 (2.26%) cPanel
4 3 (2.26%) Nagios
4 3 (2.26%) Plesk
4 3 (2.26%) Rancher
5 2 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.75%) Argo
6 1 (0.75%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.75%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 64 (48.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.76%) Pega
3 3 (2.26%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.50%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.50%) New Relic
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle
4 2 (1.50%) Splunk
4 2 (1.50%) WSO2
5 1 (0.75%) Adobe
5 1 (0.75%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.75%) Databricks
5 1 (0.75%) DevExpress
5 1 (0.75%) Google
5 1 (0.75%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.75%) McAfee