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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 166 89
Rank change year-on-year +27 -77 -33
Permanent jobs citing Git 120 77 172
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.95% 1.50% 2.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.53% 21.57% 29.25%
Number of salaries quoted 77 45 118
10th Percentile £41,250 £33,100 £36,950
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,250 £79,650 £80,000
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 393 357 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.13% 6.95% 7.59%
Number of salaries quoted 251 163 338
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,800 £37,552
25th Percentile £50,000 £45,625 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,027
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +9.94% -16.62%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £64,688
90th Percentile £90,000 £81,000 £80,000
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 14 September 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 14 September 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 -6 87 £66,750 +21.36% 94
Lancashire +27 24 £50,000 +11.11% 18
Cheshire -4 4 £32,500 -45.61% 13
Merseyside -16 3 £70,000 +79.49% 14
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 6 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (3.33%) OpenStack
3 3 (2.50%) IIS
3 3 (2.50%) nginx
3 3 (2.50%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.50%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (1.67%) Tomcat
4 2 (1.67%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.83%) Confluence
5 1 (0.83%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.83%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.83%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 61 (50.83%) Azure
2 59 (49.17%) AWS
3 30 (25.00%) GitHub
4 24 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (19.17%) GCP
6 14 (11.67%) Serverless
7 10 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (7.50%) dbt
9 8 (6.67%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.83%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (5.00%) Figma
11 6 (5.00%) SaaS
12 5 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (4.17%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.33%) Azure Functions
13 4 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.50%) DHCP
1 3 (2.50%) DNS
1 3 (2.50%) HTTPS
1 3 (2.50%) LAN
1 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.50%) VSAN
1 3 (2.50%) WAN
2 1 (0.83%) Network Security
2 1 (0.83%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (15.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.00%) MySQL
2 12 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 12 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.17%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.50%) BigQuery
5 6 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (5.00%) MongoDB
6 5 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.17%) Power BI
7 3 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.50%) Chroma
7 3 (2.50%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.50%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.50%) Redis
7 3 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (1.67%) Parquet
8 2 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 19 (15.83%) GitLab
3 9 (7.50%) Bitbucket
4 8 (6.67%) JUnit
5 7 (5.83%) JIRA
6 6 (5.00%) Visual Studio Code
7 5 (4.17%) Maven
7 5 (4.17%) Selenium
8 4 (3.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (3.33%) IntelliJ
8 4 (3.33%) Spock
9 3 (2.50%) Postman
10 2 (1.67%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.67%) Cypress.io
10 2 (1.67%) Eclipse
10 2 (1.67%) Mockito
10 2 (1.67%) Vite
11 1 (0.83%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.83%) NUnit
11 1 (0.83%) Subversion
General
1 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 25 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.50%) Finance
4 14 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 12 (10.00%) Marketing
6 9 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.50%) Advertising
7 3 (2.50%) Banking
8 2 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.67%) Publishing
8 2 (1.67%) Retail
9 1 (0.83%) Back Office
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (50.00%) Developer
2 29 (24.17%) Senior
3 16 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 16 (13.33%) Senior Developer
4 13 (10.83%) Data Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Software Developer
6 9 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (6.67%) Java Developer
7 8 (6.67%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.83%) GCP Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Administrator
9 6 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (4.17%) Lead
10 5 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 4 (3.33%) Principal DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (26.67%) React
2 28 (23.33%) Terraform
3 23 (19.17%) REST
4 20 (16.67%) Spring
5 18 (15.00%) .NET
6 15 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 14 (11.67%) Spring Boot
8 13 (10.83%) CSS
8 13 (10.83%) HTML
9 12 (10.00%) RESTful
10 10 (8.33%) Node.js
10 10 (8.33%) Vue
11 9 (7.50%) .NET Framework
11 9 (7.50%) ASP.NET
11 9 (7.50%) Entity Framework
12 8 (6.67%) Middleware
13 7 (5.83%) .NET Core
13 7 (5.83%) OpenAPI
13 7 (5.83%) Swagger
14 6 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 15 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (7.50%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (7.50%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.83%) Social Media
5 5 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (4.17%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.33%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.50%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.50%) Replication
8 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.67%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.83%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.83%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.17%) Linux
2 7 (5.83%) CentOS
2 7 (5.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.33%) VMS
3 4 (3.33%) Windows
4 3 (2.50%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.67%) Android
5 2 (1.67%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (77.50%) CI/CD
2 55 (45.83%) DevOps
3 50 (41.67%) Agile
4 46 (38.33%) Mentoring
5 39 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
6 37 (30.83%) Full-Stack Development
7 33 (27.50%) AI
8 28 (23.33%) Microservices
9 26 (21.67%) Software Engineering
10 25 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (19.17%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (15.83%) Performance Optimisation
12 19 (15.83%) Platform Engineering
13 18 (15.00%) Collaborative Culture
13 18 (15.00%) Observability
13 18 (15.00%) Test Automation
14 15 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
15 14 (11.67%) Clean Code
15 14 (11.67%) Decision-Making
16 13 (10.83%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 50 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 48 (40.00%) SQL
3 42 (35.00%) Python
4 34 (28.33%) Java
5 32 (26.67%) TypeScript
6 21 (17.50%) C#
7 10 (8.33%) Bash
8 8 (6.67%) PHP
9 6 (5.00%) C++
9 6 (5.00%) Go
10 5 (4.17%) Apex Code
10 5 (4.17%) Kotlin
10 5 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.33%) Groovy
12 3 (2.50%) Bicep
12 3 (2.50%) Scala
12 3 (2.50%) SOQL
12 3 (2.50%) SOSL
12 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 17 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) DV Cleared
4 7 (5.83%) Degree
5 2 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.50%) QA
2 8 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 47 (39.17%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.50%) Ceph
3 3 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (25.83%) Kubernetes
2 15 (12.50%) Ansible
3 8 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.83%) Istio
5 6 (5.00%) Grafana
6 4 (3.33%) Argo
6 4 (3.33%) linkerd
7 3 (2.50%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.50%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.50%) Podman
7 3 (2.50%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.50%) Puppet
7 3 (2.50%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.83%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.17%) Splunk
3 9 (7.50%) Google
4 7 (5.83%) Red Hat
5 5 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.33%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.50%) Databricks
7 3 (2.50%) Dell
7 3 (2.50%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.50%) McAfee
7 3 (2.50%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.67%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.67%) Apple
8 2 (1.67%) IBM
8 2 (1.67%) Mistral
9 1 (0.83%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.83%) New Relic
9 1 (0.83%) Pega
9 1 (0.83%) WSO2
9 1 (0.83%) YouTube