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 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 110 45
Rank change year-on-year +21 -65 -6
Permanent jobs citing Git 95 117 207
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.93% 1.79% 5.61%
As % of the Development Applications category 41.48% 22.81% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 72 72 163
10th Percentile - £30,000 £40,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £38,750 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,942 £52,500 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% -11.02% +2.61%
75th Percentile £59,063 £61,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,375 £94,231
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -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 229 513 475
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.66% 7.84% 12.88%
Number of salaries quoted 169 291 392
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £43,105 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 1 December 2025.

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 1 December 2025. 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 +28 60 £55,000 +4.76% 57
Merseyside +20 20 £30,500 -17.01% 15
Cheshire -17 8 £48,625 -2.75% 23
Lancashire +15 7 £42,384 -19.24% 48
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 (8.42%) WordPress
2 4 (4.21%) Apache Solr
3 3 (3.16%) CMS
3 3 (3.16%) nginx
4 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.05%) Apache
4 1 (1.05%) JBoss
4 1 (1.05%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.05%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.05%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.05%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.05%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.05%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.05%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 59 (62.11%) AWS
2 56 (58.95%) Azure
3 42 (44.21%) GitHub
4 8 (8.42%) Serverless
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon ECS
5 6 (6.32%) Amazon EKS
6 5 (5.26%) GCP
7 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.21%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (3.16%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.16%) Cloudflare
8 3 (3.16%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.11%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.05%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (1.05%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 34 (35.79%) Internet
2 3 (3.16%) HTTP
2 3 (3.16%) SSH
3 2 (2.11%) DNS
3 2 (2.11%) OpenVPN
4 1 (1.05%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.05%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.89%) MySQL
2 9 (9.47%) Relational Database
3 8 (8.42%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.42%) SQL Server
4 7 (7.37%) MongoDB
4 7 (7.37%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (6.32%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.11%) DynamoDB
7 1 (1.05%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.05%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 8 (8.42%) JIRA
2 7 (7.37%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.26%) GitLab
4 4 (4.21%) JUnit
5 2 (2.11%) Maven
5 2 (2.11%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.11%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.11%) webpack
6 1 (1.05%) Ant
6 1 (1.05%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.05%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.05%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.05%) CANoe
6 1 (1.05%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.05%) ESLint
6 1 (1.05%) git-flow
6 1 (1.05%) Selenium
6 1 (1.05%) Storybook
General
1 34 (35.79%) Multimedia
2 16 (16.84%) Social Skills
3 9 (9.47%) Finance
4 6 (6.32%) Marketing
5 3 (3.16%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Banking
6 2 (2.11%) Electronics
6 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.05%) Publishing
7 1 (1.05%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 50 (52.63%) Developer
2 34 (35.79%) Trainee
3 21 (22.11%) Software Developer
4 16 (16.84%) Senior
4 16 (16.84%) Trainee Developer
4 16 (16.84%) Trainee Software Developer
5 11 (11.58%) Senior Developer
6 7 (7.37%) PHP Developer
7 6 (6.32%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 6 (6.32%) Lead
7 6 (6.32%) Software Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) .NET Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.26%) Trainee Administrator
8 5 (5.26%) Web Administrator
9 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Engineer
9 4 (4.21%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (4.21%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (64.21%) CSS
1 61 (64.21%) HTML
2 15 (15.79%) React
3 14 (14.74%) AngularJS
3 14 (14.74%) Node.js
4 13 (13.68%) REST
5 12 (12.63%) .NET
5 12 (12.63%) RESTful
6 8 (8.42%) Laravel
6 8 (8.42%) Spring
6 8 (8.42%) Spring Boot
7 6 (6.32%) Web Services
8 5 (5.26%) .NET Framework
9 4 (4.21%) JSON
9 4 (4.21%) Kafka
10 3 (3.16%) ASP.NET
10 3 (3.16%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (3.16%) jQuery
10 3 (3.16%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (3.16%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.37%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.16%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
3 3 (3.16%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.11%) NHS
5 1 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.05%) IoT
5 1 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.05%) Life Science
5 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.05%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.79%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Windows
3 4 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (43.16%) Mentoring
2 35 (36.84%) CI/CD
3 31 (32.63%) Cybersecurity
4 29 (30.53%) Agile
5 24 (25.26%) DevOps
6 20 (21.05%) Microservices
6 20 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (18.95%) Containerisation
8 16 (16.84%) User Experience
9 15 (15.79%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (12.63%) Software Engineering
11 11 (11.58%) AI
12 10 (10.53%) Clean Code
13 9 (9.47%) Front End Development
13 9 (9.47%) Web Development
14 8 (8.42%) OOP
14 8 (8.42%) Scrum
15 7 (7.37%) Continuous Improvement
16 6 (6.32%) Software Testing
16 6 (6.32%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 75 (78.95%) JavaScript
2 49 (51.58%) Python
3 18 (18.95%) R
4 15 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 14 (14.74%) PHP
6 12 (12.63%) C#
7 11 (11.58%) Java
8 10 (10.53%) SQL
9 5 (5.26%) Bash
10 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
11 3 (3.16%) Bicep
11 3 (3.16%) C
11 3 (3.16%) Go
12 1 (1.05%) C++
12 1 (1.05%) Dart
12 1 (1.05%) Groovy
12 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 37 (38.95%) Azure Certification
2 34 (35.79%) AWS Certification
2 34 (35.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 34 (35.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (3.16%) Degree
4 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.05%) PhD
5 1 (1.05%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.05%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) QA
2 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) AUTOSAR
3 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.05%) GDPR
3 1 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (21.05%) Docker
2 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.58%) Ansible
3 9 (9.47%) Terraform
4 3 (3.16%) cPanel
4 3 (3.16%) Grafana
4 3 (3.16%) Plesk
5 2 (2.11%) Argo
6 1 (1.05%) Nagios
6 1 (1.05%) Podman
6 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) Rancher
Vendors
1 41 (43.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.16%) Google
3 2 (2.11%) Adobe
3 2 (2.11%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.05%) AppDynamics
4 1 (1.05%) IBM
4 1 (1.05%) Moogsoft
4 1 (1.05%) Pega
4 1 (1.05%) Splunk
4 1 (1.05%) TOWER Software
4 1 (1.05%) WSO2