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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 126 148 78
Rank change year-on-year +22 -70 -10
Permanent jobs citing Git 132 110 224
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.14% 2.12% 2.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.20% 25.23% 32.56%
Number of salaries quoted 94 73 170
10th Percentile £31,075 £42,500 £36,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,500 £69,492
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £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 410 436 688
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.53% 8.42% 8.18%
Number of salaries quoted 291 224 467
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,438 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,750 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,751 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% -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 August 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 August 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 91 £66,750 +2.69% 47
Lancashire +32 29 £49,250 +6.49% 10
Cheshire +2 7 £35,000 -36.22% 12
Merseyside -18 3 £37,500 - 6
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 (6.06%) Apache Airflow
1 8 (6.06%) WordPress
2 5 (3.79%) OpenStack
3 4 (3.03%) IIS
4 3 (2.27%) nginx
4 3 (2.27%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.52%) CICS
6 1 (0.76%) Apache
6 1 (0.76%) Confluence
6 1 (0.76%) JBoss
6 1 (0.76%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.76%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.27%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.76%) Magento
2 1 (0.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 73 (55.30%) Azure
2 72 (54.55%) AWS
3 42 (31.82%) GitHub
4 27 (20.45%) Azure DevOps
4 27 (20.45%) GCP
5 12 (9.09%) Serverless
6 11 (8.33%) dbt
7 10 (7.58%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.06%) GitHub Copilot
8 8 (6.06%) OpenShift
9 7 (5.30%) Figma
10 5 (3.79%) Azure Monitor
10 5 (3.79%) ChatGPT
11 4 (3.03%) Amazon ECS
11 4 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
11 4 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 4 (3.03%) Entra ID
11 4 (3.03%) Power Platform
11 4 (3.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.82%) Internet
2 3 (2.27%) DHCP
2 3 (2.27%) DNS
2 3 (2.27%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.27%) LAN
2 3 (2.27%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.27%) VSAN
2 3 (2.27%) WAN
3 1 (0.76%) Network Security
3 1 (0.76%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.15%) SQL Server
2 15 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.36%) Relational Database
3 14 (10.61%) NoSQL
4 13 (9.85%) MySQL
5 11 (8.33%) BigQuery
6 6 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (4.55%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.03%) Power BI
8 3 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.27%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.52%) Db2
9 2 (1.52%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.52%) Metadata
9 2 (1.52%) Redis
9 2 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 27 (20.45%) Jenkins
2 15 (11.36%) GitLab
3 10 (7.58%) Bitbucket
3 10 (7.58%) JIRA
4 6 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (3.79%) Eclipse
5 5 (3.79%) IntelliJ
6 4 (3.03%) JUnit
6 4 (3.03%) Postman
6 4 (3.03%) Selenium
7 3 (2.27%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (1.52%) Claude Code
8 2 (1.52%) Maven
8 2 (1.52%) NUnit
8 2 (1.52%) Spock
8 2 (1.52%) Vite
8 2 (1.52%) XCUITest
9 1 (0.76%) gulp
9 1 (0.76%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.76%) webpack
General
1 34 (25.76%) Social Skills
2 24 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.67%) Finance
4 12 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.58%) Marketing
6 9 (6.82%) Multimedia
7 7 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (4.55%) Banking
9 5 (3.79%) Advertising
10 4 (3.03%) Retail
11 2 (1.52%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.52%) Publishing
11 2 (1.52%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.76%) Back Office
12 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 65 (49.24%) Developer
2 35 (26.52%) Senior
3 20 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 19 (14.39%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.61%) Administrator
5 14 (10.61%) Data Engineer
5 14 (10.61%) Java Developer
6 11 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 9 (6.82%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (6.82%) Trainee
8 8 (6.06%) Trainee Administrator
8 8 (6.06%) Web Administrator
9 7 (5.30%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) GCP Engineer
9 7 (5.30%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.55%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.55%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.79%) Salesforce Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.24%) React
2 29 (21.97%) CSS
2 29 (21.97%) HTML
3 25 (18.94%) REST
4 20 (15.15%) AngularJS
5 18 (13.64%) .NET
5 18 (13.64%) Spring
6 17 (12.88%) RESTful
7 16 (12.12%) Spring Boot
8 14 (10.61%) Vue
9 11 (8.33%) Node.js
10 10 (7.58%) .NET Framework
10 10 (7.58%) ASP.NET
10 10 (7.58%) Entity Framework
11 9 (6.82%) Middleware
12 8 (6.06%) .NET Core
12 8 (6.06%) CSS3
12 8 (6.06%) HTML5
12 8 (6.06%) OpenAPI
12 8 (6.06%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.36%) Cloud Native
2 13 (9.85%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.82%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.30%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.30%) Social Media
5 5 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (3.03%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.27%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.27%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.27%) Replication
8 2 (1.52%) Mainframe
8 2 (1.52%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.76%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.76%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.61%) Linux
2 6 (4.55%) CentOS
2 6 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.27%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.27%) Windows
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.52%) Android
5 2 (1.52%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (71.21%) CI/CD
2 57 (43.18%) Agile
3 55 (41.67%) DevOps
4 44 (33.33%) Mentoring
5 42 (31.82%) Full-Stack Development
6 34 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
7 32 (24.24%) AI
8 25 (18.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (18.94%) Microservices
9 21 (15.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (15.91%) Performance Optimisation
10 20 (15.15%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (15.15%) Software Engineering
10 20 (15.15%) Web Development
11 19 (14.39%) Collaborative Culture
11 19 (14.39%) SDLC
12 17 (12.88%) Clean Code
13 16 (12.12%) Observability
14 15 (11.36%) Decision-Making
14 15 (11.36%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 55 (41.67%) SQL
3 53 (40.15%) Python
4 33 (25.00%) Java
5 27 (20.45%) TypeScript
6 20 (15.15%) C#
7 10 (7.58%) Bash
8 8 (6.06%) R
9 7 (5.30%) PHP
10 5 (3.79%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.79%) Go
10 5 (3.79%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.79%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.03%) Bicep
11 4 (3.03%) C++
11 4 (3.03%) Swift
12 3 (2.27%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.27%) Scala
12 3 (2.27%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (9.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 10 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 10 (7.58%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.82%) AWS Certification
4 9 (6.82%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 8 (6.06%) Degree
6 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.76%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.64%) QA
2 7 (5.30%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 44 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.27%) Ceph
3 3 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 29 (21.97%) Terraform
2 28 (21.21%) Kubernetes
3 15 (11.36%) Ansible
4 7 (5.30%) Istio
4 7 (5.30%) Prometheus
5 5 (3.79%) Grafana
6 4 (3.03%) Argo
6 4 (3.03%) linkerd
7 3 (2.27%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.27%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.27%) Podman
7 3 (2.27%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.27%) Puppet
7 3 (2.27%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.76%) Nagios
8 1 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 27 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.58%) Google
3 9 (6.82%) Splunk
4 7 (5.30%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.79%) Pega
5 5 (3.79%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.27%) Databricks
6 3 (2.27%) Dell
6 3 (2.27%) Dynatrace
6 3 (2.27%) McAfee
6 3 (2.27%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.52%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.52%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.52%) Apple
7 2 (1.52%) DevExpress
7 2 (1.52%) Oracle
7 2 (1.52%) WSO2
8 1 (0.76%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.76%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.76%) New Relic