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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 169 104
Rank change year-on-year +29 -65 -57
Permanent jobs citing Git 130 73 145
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.01% 1.39% 1.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.51% 21.04% 25.39%
Number of salaries quoted 79 45 100
10th Percentile £41,250 - £36,125
25th Percentile £46,250 £28,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £72,250 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £93,000 £61,975 £72,500
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 388 347 571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.02% 6.62% 7.68%
Number of salaries quoted 234 160 315
10th Percentile £41,250 £30,950 £37,530
25th Percentile £48,750 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -11.80%
75th Percentile £76,938 £64,813 £63,750
90th Percentile £87,954 £75,000 £72,500
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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -2 87 £65,000 +20.93% 108
Lancashire +26 27 £55,000 +22.22% 10
Merseyside -15 11 £70,000 +129.51% 10
Cheshire +6 3 £32,500 -45.61% 4
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.31%) Apache
3 3 (2.31%) IIS
3 3 (2.31%) nginx
3 3 (2.31%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.31%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (2.31%) Tomcat
3 3 (2.31%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.54%) CMS
4 2 (1.54%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.77%) JBoss
5 1 (0.77%) Kentico
5 1 (0.77%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.77%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.77%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 68 (52.31%) AWS
1 68 (52.31%) Azure
2 33 (25.38%) GitHub
3 28 (21.54%) GCP
4 23 (17.69%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (10.77%) Serverless
6 11 (8.46%) dbt
7 9 (6.92%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (6.15%) GitHub Actions
8 8 (6.15%) OpenShift
9 7 (5.38%) Power Platform
10 6 (4.62%) Amazon S3
10 6 (4.62%) Figma
10 6 (4.62%) SaaS
11 5 (3.85%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (3.85%) Entra ID
11 5 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
12 4 (3.08%) AWS Step Functions
12 4 (3.08%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.85%) Internet
2 3 (2.31%) DHCP
2 3 (2.31%) DNS
2 3 (2.31%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.31%) LAN
2 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.31%) VSAN
2 3 (2.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (16.92%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.23%) MySQL
3 12 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (7.69%) NoSQL
5 9 (6.92%) BigQuery
6 8 (6.15%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (6.15%) MongoDB
7 7 (5.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 7 (5.38%) Power BI
8 5 (3.85%) Chroma
8 5 (3.85%) Pinecone
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon Athena
9 4 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
10 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (2.31%) Redis
10 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 2 (1.54%) Metadata
11 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.46%) GitLab
3 10 (7.69%) JUnit
4 7 (5.38%) Bitbucket
5 6 (4.62%) Selenium
5 6 (4.62%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (3.85%) Maven
7 4 (3.08%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.08%) JIRA
7 4 (3.08%) Spock
8 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
8 3 (2.31%) Eclipse
8 3 (2.31%) Mockito
8 3 (2.31%) Postman
9 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
9 2 (1.54%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.54%) Vite
10 1 (0.77%) gulp
10 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 37 (28.46%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (14.62%) Finance
4 17 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 13 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (9.23%) Marketing
7 3 (2.31%) Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.54%) Publishing
8 2 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Back Office
9 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 63 (48.46%) Developer
2 30 (23.08%) Senior
3 18 (13.85%) Senior Developer
4 15 (11.54%) Data Engineer
5 13 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 12 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 10 (7.69%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.92%) Software Engineer
9 7 (5.38%) GCP Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Administrator
10 6 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
10 6 (4.62%) Systems Administrator
11 5 (3.85%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
11 5 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.85%) Trainee
12 4 (3.08%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (28.46%) React
2 30 (23.08%) Terraform
3 25 (19.23%) REST
4 18 (13.85%) .NET
4 18 (13.85%) Spring
5 15 (11.54%) CSS
5 15 (11.54%) HTML
6 11 (8.46%) Node.js
6 11 (8.46%) Spring Boot
7 10 (7.69%) AngularJS
7 10 (7.69%) Middleware
7 10 (7.69%) RESTful
8 8 (6.15%) .NET Core
8 8 (6.15%) .NET Framework
8 8 (6.15%) ASP.NET
8 8 (6.15%) Entity Framework
8 8 (6.15%) Vue
9 7 (5.38%) Hibernate
9 7 (5.38%) Kafka
9 7 (5.38%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.38%) Social Media
5 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.85%) Mobile App
5 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.31%) Replication
8 2 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.77%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.77%) Legacy Code
9 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.46%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) CentOS
2 8 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.08%) VMS
3 4 (3.08%) Windows
4 3 (2.31%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.54%) Android
5 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 60 (46.15%) DevOps
3 52 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 50 (38.46%) Agile
5 39 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (29.23%) AI
7 34 (26.15%) Full-Stack Development
8 31 (23.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (22.31%) Microservices
9 29 (22.31%) Software Engineering
10 27 (20.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (19.23%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (16.15%) Test Automation
13 19 (14.62%) Observability
13 19 (14.62%) Performance Optimisation
14 18 (13.85%) Containerisation
15 16 (12.31%) Technical Leadership
16 15 (11.54%) Collaborative Culture
16 15 (11.54%) SDLC
17 14 (10.77%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.23%) JavaScript
2 47 (36.15%) SQL
3 46 (35.38%) Python
4 36 (27.69%) TypeScript
5 32 (24.62%) Java
6 24 (18.46%) C#
7 10 (7.69%) Bash
8 9 (6.92%) PHP
9 6 (4.62%) C++
9 6 (4.62%) Go
10 5 (3.85%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.85%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.85%) Shell Script
11 4 (3.08%) Groovy
11 4 (3.08%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.31%) Scala
12 3 (2.31%) SOQL
12 3 (2.31%) SOSL
12 3 (2.31%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 18 (13.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) Degree
4 9 (6.92%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.77%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 11 (8.46%) Accessibility
3 10 (7.69%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.08%) WCAG
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 55 (42.31%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.31%) Ceph
3 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
3 3 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (26.15%) Kubernetes
2 15 (11.54%) Ansible
3 8 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.38%) Istio
5 6 (4.62%) Grafana
6 4 (3.08%) Argo
6 4 (3.08%) linkerd
7 3 (2.31%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.31%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.31%) Podman
7 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.31%) Puppet
7 3 (2.31%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.77%) Nagios
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.77%) Google
3 11 (8.46%) Splunk
4 7 (5.38%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.85%) OpenAI
5 5 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
6 4 (3.08%) Databricks
6 4 (3.08%) Mistral
7 3 (2.31%) Dell
7 3 (2.31%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.31%) IBM
7 3 (2.31%) McAfee
8 2 (1.54%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.54%) Apple
8 2 (1.54%) HP
8 2 (1.54%) YouTube
9 1 (0.77%) Adobe
9 1 (0.77%) New Relic
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle