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 22 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 113 58
Rank change year-on-year +36 -55 +7
Permanent jobs citing Git 119 96 212
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.80% 1.90% 4.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.77% 23.02% 39.33%
Number of salaries quoted 98 55 150
10th Percentile - £33,500 £37,377
25th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £63,220 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £76,250 £82,050 £96,539
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 244 417 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.69% 8.24% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 184 255 446
10th Percentile - £37,530 £36,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £67,562 £68,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,550 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 +34 75 £52,500 -19.23% 46
Merseyside +9 25 £30,500 -32.22% 8
Lancashire +15 7 £41,500 -11.70% 25
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 - 1
Cheshire -29 5 £33,750 -30.77% 18
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 11 (9.24%) WordPress
2 5 (4.20%) nginx
3 3 (2.52%) Apache
4 2 (1.68%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.68%) JBoss
5 1 (0.84%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.84%) CMS
5 1 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.84%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.84%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.84%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.84%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 82 (68.91%) AWS
2 77 (64.71%) Azure
3 53 (44.54%) GitHub
4 8 (6.72%) Amazon EKS
4 8 (6.72%) Serverless
5 7 (5.88%) GCP
6 5 (4.20%) Amazon ECS
6 5 (4.20%) Azure AKS
6 5 (4.20%) OpenShift
7 3 (2.52%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.52%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.68%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.68%) Datadog
8 2 (1.68%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 57 (47.90%) Internet
2 4 (3.36%) HTTP
3 3 (2.52%) DNS
3 3 (2.52%) SSH
4 2 (1.68%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.84%) DHCP
5 1 (0.84%) LAN
5 1 (0.84%) SSL
5 1 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.84%) VSAN
5 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.45%) MongoDB
2 15 (12.61%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (11.76%) MySQL
4 12 (10.08%) NoSQL
5 6 (5.04%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (5.04%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.36%) DynamoDB
6 4 (3.36%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.84%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.84%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.84%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (5.88%) GitLab
2 6 (5.04%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.04%) JIRA
3 5 (4.20%) JUnit
4 4 (3.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.68%) Maven
5 2 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.68%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.84%) Ant
6 1 (0.84%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.84%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.84%) git-flow
6 1 (0.84%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.84%) Selenium
6 1 (0.84%) Subversion
General
1 50 (42.02%) Multimedia
2 15 (12.61%) Social Skills
3 7 (5.88%) Finance
3 7 (5.88%) Retail
4 5 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 5 (4.20%) Marketing
5 3 (2.52%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.52%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.68%) Electronics
6 2 (1.68%) Games
6 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.84%) Banking
7 1 (0.84%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.84%) Publishing
7 1 (0.84%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 54 (45.38%) Developer
2 50 (42.02%) Trainee
3 26 (21.85%) Software Developer
4 22 (18.49%) Trainee Developer
4 22 (18.49%) Trainee Software Developer
5 19 (15.97%) Senior
6 14 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.72%) Administrator
7 8 (6.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 8 (6.72%) PHP Developer
7 8 (6.72%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (6.72%) Web Administrator
8 6 (5.04%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.04%) Senior Front-End Developer
9 5 (4.20%) Data Scientist
9 5 (4.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.20%) Lead
9 5 (4.20%) Principal Data Scientist
9 5 (4.20%) Senior Data Scientist
9 5 (4.20%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (67.23%) CSS
1 80 (67.23%) HTML
2 17 (14.29%) React
3 14 (11.76%) Node.js
4 13 (10.92%) AngularJS
4 13 (10.92%) RESTful
5 12 (10.08%) REST
6 10 (8.40%) .NET
7 9 (7.56%) Spring
7 9 (7.56%) Spring Boot
8 6 (5.04%) Web Services
9 5 (4.20%) EDI
9 5 (4.20%) Kafka
9 5 (4.20%) Laravel
10 4 (3.36%) .NET Framework
10 4 (3.36%) gRPC
10 4 (3.36%) Spring Batch
11 3 (2.52%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.52%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (2.52%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.24%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.72%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.04%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.52%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.52%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.52%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.68%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.68%) NHS
6 1 (0.84%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.84%) IoT
6 1 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.84%) Life Science
6 1 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.49%) Linux
2 5 (4.20%) Windows
3 3 (2.52%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.84%) CentOS
5 1 (0.84%) CoreOS
5 1 (0.84%) Unix
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (47.06%) Mentoring
2 42 (35.29%) Cybersecurity
3 33 (27.73%) Agile
3 33 (27.73%) CI/CD
4 25 (21.01%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (16.81%) Containerisation
5 20 (16.81%) DevOps
6 19 (15.97%) Microservices
7 14 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (11.76%) Web Development
8 12 (10.08%) AI
8 12 (10.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 12 (10.08%) User Experience
9 10 (8.40%) Analytics
9 10 (8.40%) Clean Code
10 9 (7.56%) Front End Development
10 9 (7.56%) Software Engineering
11 8 (6.72%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 8 (6.72%) OOP
11 8 (6.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 89 (74.79%) JavaScript
2 76 (63.87%) Python
3 28 (23.53%) R
4 22 (18.49%) TypeScript
5 14 (11.76%) Java
6 12 (10.08%) Go
7 11 (9.24%) PHP
8 10 (8.40%) SQL
9 9 (7.56%) C
10 8 (6.72%) C#
11 4 (3.36%) Bash
11 4 (3.36%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.68%) Bicep
13 1 (0.84%) Groovy
13 1 (0.84%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (43.70%) Azure Certification
2 50 (42.02%) AWS Certification
2 50 (42.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 50 (42.02%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.68%) Degree
4 1 (0.84%) PhD
4 1 (0.84%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.84%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.84%) NIST
2 1 (0.84%) QA
System Software
1 17 (14.29%) Docker
2 3 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.84%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (16.81%) Kubernetes
2 19 (15.97%) Ansible
3 18 (15.13%) Terraform
4 3 (2.52%) cPanel
4 3 (2.52%) Plesk
4 3 (2.52%) Rancher
5 2 (1.68%) Argo
5 2 (1.68%) Grafana
5 2 (1.68%) Nagios
6 1 (0.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.84%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.84%) Podman
6 1 (0.84%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.84%) Puppet
6 1 (0.84%) SCVMM
6 1 (0.84%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (49.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.52%) Adobe
3 2 (1.68%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.68%) Red Hat
3 2 (1.68%) Splunk
4 1 (0.84%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.84%) Google
4 1 (0.84%) IBM
4 1 (0.84%) McAfee
4 1 (0.84%) Moogsoft
4 1 (0.84%) New Relic
4 1 (0.84%) Pega
4 1 (0.84%) WSO2