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

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 114 55
Rank change year-on-year +36 -59 0
Permanent jobs citing Git 115 92 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.83% 1.80% 4.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 48.73% 21.65% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 94 52 137
10th Percentile - £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £57,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -46.49% +0.88% -1.74%
75th Percentile £61,875 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £83,825 £96,539
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% -3.85% -

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 236 425 478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.75% 8.32% 11.37%
Number of salaries quoted 180 258 387
10th Percentile - £37,552 £36,270
25th Percentile £28,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.26% +4.46%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £75,100 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% 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 7 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 7 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 +28 68 £47,500 -26.92% 43
Merseyside +19 26 £30,500 -32.22% 8
Lancashire +20 10 £42,384 -12.58% 19
Cumbria - 6 £85,000 - 2
Cheshire -28 5 £33,750 -30.77% 23
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 (9.57%) WordPress
2 5 (4.35%) nginx
3 3 (2.61%) Apache
3 3 (2.61%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.74%) CMS
4 2 (1.74%) JBoss
5 1 (0.87%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.87%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.87%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.87%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.87%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.87%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 81 (70.43%) AWS
2 75 (65.22%) Azure
3 53 (46.09%) GitHub
4 8 (6.96%) Serverless
5 7 (6.09%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.22%) GCP
7 5 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.48%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.48%) OpenShift
9 3 (2.61%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.74%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Functions
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.74%) Azure Storage
10 2 (1.74%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.74%) Datadog
10 2 (1.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 56 (48.70%) Internet
2 4 (3.48%) HTTP
3 3 (2.61%) SSH
4 2 (1.74%) DNS
4 2 (1.74%) OpenVPN
5 1 (0.87%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (12.17%) MongoDB
1 14 (12.17%) MySQL
2 13 (11.30%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (9.57%) NoSQL
4 7 (6.09%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.22%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (4.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (2.61%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.87%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.87%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.22%) GitLab
1 6 (5.22%) Jenkins
1 6 (5.22%) JIRA
2 5 (4.35%) JUnit
3 3 (2.61%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.74%) Maven
4 2 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.74%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.87%) Ant
5 1 (0.87%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.87%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (0.87%) ESLint
5 1 (0.87%) git-flow
5 1 (0.87%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.87%) Selenium
5 1 (0.87%) Storybook
5 1 (0.87%) Subversion
5 1 (0.87%) webpack
General
1 50 (43.48%) Multimedia
2 14 (12.17%) Social Skills
3 7 (6.09%) Finance
4 5 (4.35%) Marketing
5 3 (2.61%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.74%) Electronics
6 2 (1.74%) Games
6 2 (1.74%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.74%) Retail
7 1 (0.87%) Banking
7 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.87%) Publishing
7 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 56 (48.70%) Developer
2 50 (43.48%) Trainee
3 26 (22.61%) Software Developer
4 22 (19.13%) Trainee Developer
4 22 (19.13%) Trainee Software Developer
5 18 (15.65%) Senior
6 13 (11.30%) Senior Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Administrator
7 8 (6.96%) PHP Developer
7 8 (6.96%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (6.96%) Web Administrator
8 7 (6.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (5.22%) Lead
10 5 (4.35%) .NET Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 5 (4.35%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.35%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.48%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (69.57%) CSS
1 80 (69.57%) HTML
2 17 (14.78%) React
3 14 (12.17%) AngularJS
3 14 (12.17%) Node.js
4 13 (11.30%) REST
5 12 (10.43%) .NET
5 12 (10.43%) RESTful
6 9 (7.83%) Spring
6 9 (7.83%) Spring Boot
7 6 (5.22%) Web Services
8 5 (4.35%) Kafka
8 5 (4.35%) Laravel
9 4 (3.48%) .NET Core
9 4 (3.48%) .NET Framework
9 4 (3.48%) ASP.NET
9 4 (3.48%) gRPC
9 4 (3.48%) Spring Batch
10 3 (2.61%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.61%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.96%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (6.09%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.61%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.61%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.74%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.74%) NHS
5 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.87%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.87%) IoT
6 1 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.87%) Life Science
6 1 (0.87%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 20 (17.39%) Linux
2 5 (4.35%) Windows
3 3 (2.61%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.83%) Mentoring
2 43 (37.39%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (30.43%) CI/CD
4 32 (27.83%) Agile
5 23 (20.00%) DevOps
6 20 (17.39%) Containerisation
7 19 (16.52%) Microservices
7 19 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (13.91%) User Experience
9 14 (12.17%) Web Development
10 13 (11.30%) Full-Stack Development
11 12 (10.43%) Infrastructure as Code
12 10 (8.70%) Clean Code
13 9 (7.83%) Front End Development
13 9 (7.83%) Software Engineering
14 8 (6.96%) AI
14 8 (6.96%) OOP
14 8 (6.96%) Scrum
15 7 (6.09%) Continuous Improvement
15 7 (6.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 91 (79.13%) JavaScript
2 69 (60.00%) Python
3 28 (24.35%) R
4 22 (19.13%) TypeScript
5 13 (11.30%) Java
6 12 (10.43%) C#
7 11 (9.57%) PHP
8 10 (8.70%) Go
9 9 (7.83%) SQL
10 8 (6.96%) C
11 3 (2.61%) Bash
11 3 (2.61%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.74%) Bicep
13 1 (0.87%) Groovy
13 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (45.22%) Azure Certification
2 50 (43.48%) AWS Certification
2 50 (43.48%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 50 (43.48%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.74%) Degree
4 1 (0.87%) PhD
4 1 (0.87%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.87%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.61%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.61%) QA
2 1 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.87%) NIST
System Software
1 19 (16.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.74%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (15.65%) Kubernetes
2 17 (14.78%) Ansible
3 16 (13.91%) Terraform
4 3 (2.61%) cPanel
4 3 (2.61%) Grafana
4 3 (2.61%) Plesk
5 2 (1.74%) Argo
5 2 (1.74%) Nagios
5 2 (1.74%) Rancher
6 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.87%) Podman
6 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.87%) Puppet
6 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (47.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.61%) Adobe
3 2 (1.74%) Google
3 2 (1.74%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.74%) Splunk
4 1 (0.87%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.87%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.87%) IBM
4 1 (0.87%) Moogsoft
4 1 (0.87%) New Relic
4 1 (0.87%) Pega
4 1 (0.87%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.87%) WSO2