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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 110 48
Rank change year-on-year -46 -62 -16
Permanent jobs citing Git 72 132 217
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.50% 1.84% 5.17%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.36% 24.00% 40.19%
Number of salaries quoted 44 91 184
10th Percentile - £35,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,813 £60,625 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,888 £71,250 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +1.63%

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 337 550 540
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 7.02% 7.67% 12.87%
Number of salaries quoted 157 300 447
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,574 £40,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,750 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +6.28% -13.06% +8.23%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,400 £72,639 £84,056
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -19 43 £55,000 +4.76% 71
Merseyside +11 11 £30,500 -30.29% 20
Cheshire -37 11 £59,750 +19.50% 27
Lancashire -14 7 £45,000 -18.18% 47
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 4 (5.56%) Apache Solr
2 3 (4.17%) CMS
2 3 (4.17%) IIS
2 3 (4.17%) nginx
3 1 (1.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) JBoss
3 1 (1.39%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.39%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.39%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.39%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.39%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 36 (50.00%) Azure
2 34 (47.22%) AWS
3 20 (27.78%) GitHub
4 8 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.94%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (6.94%) SaaS
6 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.56%) Serverless
7 3 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.17%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.17%) GCP
7 3 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (4.17%) IaaS
7 3 (4.17%) PaaS
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Key Vault
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.78%) Supabase
8 2 (2.78%) Vercel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (16.67%) Internet
2 3 (4.17%) DNS
2 3 (4.17%) Firewall
3 2 (2.78%) HTTP
3 2 (2.78%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.78%) VPN
3 2 (2.78%) WAN
4 1 (1.39%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.39%) SSH
4 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (25.00%) MySQL
2 13 (18.06%) SQL Server
3 10 (13.89%) Relational Database
4 8 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (8.33%) Data Lake
5 6 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.56%) Power BI
7 3 (4.17%) MongoDB
8 2 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.78%) DynamoDB
8 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
1 7 (9.72%) JIRA
2 6 (8.33%) GitLab
3 3 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 3 (4.17%) JUnit
3 3 (4.17%) webpack
4 2 (2.78%) Maven
4 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (1.39%) Ant
5 1 (1.39%) CA Release Automation
5 1 (1.39%) CANoe
5 1 (1.39%) ESLint
5 1 (1.39%) git-flow
5 1 (1.39%) Mocha
5 1 (1.39%) NUnit
5 1 (1.39%) Selenium
5 1 (1.39%) Storybook
5 1 (1.39%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.39%) Xcode
General
1 19 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 13 (18.06%) Finance
3 12 (16.67%) Multimedia
4 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.33%) Marketing
6 3 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (2.78%) Retail
8 1 (1.39%) Automotive
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 44 (61.11%) Developer
2 15 (20.83%) Senior
3 12 (16.67%) Trainee
4 11 (15.28%) Senior Developer
4 11 (15.28%) Software Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Backend Developer
5 8 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 7 (9.72%) .NET Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Senior Backend Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Trainee Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Trainee Software Developer
8 4 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) PHP Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (4.17%) Java Developer
9 3 (4.17%) JavaScript Developer
9 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Associate Engineer
10 2 (2.78%) Integration Developer
10 2 (2.78%) UI/UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (44.44%) CSS
1 32 (44.44%) HTML
2 15 (20.83%) RESTful
3 14 (19.44%) .NET
4 13 (18.06%) Node.js
5 10 (13.89%) AngularJS
6 9 (12.50%) React
6 9 (12.50%) REST
7 8 (11.11%) Spring
7 8 (11.11%) Spring Boot
7 8 (11.11%) Web Services
8 7 (9.72%) JSON
9 6 (8.33%) .NET Core
9 6 (8.33%) Laravel
10 5 (6.94%) ASP.NET
11 4 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web API
11 4 (5.56%) CSS3
11 4 (5.56%) Jest
11 4 (5.56%) Middleware
11 4 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 3 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) NHS
3 2 (2.78%) Virtual Team
3 2 (2.78%) Wiki
4 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.39%) Life Science
4 1 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (16.67%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Windows
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) CI/CD
2 29 (40.28%) DevOps
3 23 (31.94%) Agile
4 18 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 18 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (23.61%) Mentoring
6 16 (22.22%) Microservices
7 14 (19.44%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (19.44%) User Experience
8 12 (16.67%) AI
9 11 (15.28%) Containerisation
9 11 (15.28%) Scrum
9 11 (15.28%) Unit Testing
10 9 (12.50%) Clean Code
10 9 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 7 (9.72%) Analytics
11 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (8.33%) Data Protection
12 6 (8.33%) Machine Learning
12 6 (8.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 45 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 25 (34.72%) Python
3 16 (22.22%) SQL
4 13 (18.06%) C#
5 12 (16.67%) Java
6 11 (15.28%) PHP
6 11 (15.28%) TypeScript
7 6 (8.33%) R
8 5 (6.94%) Bash
9 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
10 3 (4.17%) Bicep
11 1 (1.39%) C
11 1 (1.39%) C++
11 1 (1.39%) Dart
11 1 (1.39%) Go
11 1 (1.39%) Groovy
11 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.39%) Rust
11 1 (1.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 16 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 12 (16.67%) AWS Certification
2 12 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 12 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (11.11%) Degree
4 5 (6.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (4.17%) PhD
6 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.39%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 23 (31.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 9 (12.50%) Ansible
3 5 (6.94%) Terraform
4 3 (4.17%) Grafana
4 3 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (2.78%) Progress Chef
5 2 (2.78%) Puppet
6 1 (1.39%) Argo
6 1 (1.39%) Podman
6 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) Google
3 4 (5.56%) AppDynamics
3 4 (5.56%) Bloomberg
3 4 (5.56%) IBM
3 4 (5.56%) Moogsoft
3 4 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (2.78%) Adobe
4 2 (2.78%) Databricks
4 2 (2.78%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.78%) Meraki
5 1 (1.39%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.39%) Pega
5 1 (1.39%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.39%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.39%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.39%) WSO2