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

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 119 47
Rank change year-on-year +37 -72 -9
Permanent jobs citing Git 108 98 184
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.78% 1.84% 5.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 45.96% 21.35% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 87 58 136
10th Percentile - £30,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,500 £52,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -6.67% -2.17%
75th Percentile £58,375 £65,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £69,500 £71,625 £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 235 459 436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.86% 8.64% 12.60%
Number of salaries quoted 180 275 353
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £29,750 £43,710 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -12.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £77,715
90th Percentile £75,000 £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 21 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 21 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 +36 67 £52,500 -8.70% 48
Merseyside +10 23 £30,500 -19.74% 8
Lancashire +11 10 £42,384 -15.25% 35
Cheshire -22 6 £33,750 -32.50% 13
Cumbria - 2 £85,000 - 3
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 (10.19%) WordPress
2 5 (4.63%) nginx
3 3 (2.78%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) Apache Solr
4 2 (1.85%) CMS
4 2 (1.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.93%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.93%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.93%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (0.93%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (0.93%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.93%) Photoshop
1 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 74 (68.52%) AWS
2 70 (64.81%) Azure
3 51 (47.22%) GitHub
4 8 (7.41%) Serverless
5 7 (6.48%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
6 6 (5.56%) GCP
7 4 (3.70%) Azure AKS
7 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (3.70%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.85%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.85%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.85%) Datadog
8 2 (1.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 47 (43.52%) Internet
2 3 (2.78%) HTTP
2 3 (2.78%) SSH
3 2 (1.85%) DNS
3 2 (1.85%) OpenVPN
4 1 (0.93%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.74%) MySQL
2 10 (9.26%) NoSQL
3 9 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (8.33%) Relational Database
4 8 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 6 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.78%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
7 1 (0.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (5.56%) GitLab
1 6 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.63%) JIRA
3 4 (3.70%) JUnit
4 3 (2.78%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.85%) Maven
5 2 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (1.85%) TeamCity
6 1 (0.93%) Ant
6 1 (0.93%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.93%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (0.93%) ESLint
6 1 (0.93%) git-flow
6 1 (0.93%) PHPUnit
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
6 1 (0.93%) Storybook
6 1 (0.93%) Subversion
6 1 (0.93%) webpack
General
1 45 (41.67%) Multimedia
2 16 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 6 (5.56%) Finance
4 5 (4.63%) Marketing
5 3 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.85%) Electronics
6 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
6 2 (1.85%) Retail
7 1 (0.93%) Banking
7 1 (0.93%) Games
7 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.93%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.93%) Publishing
7 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (50.93%) Developer
2 45 (41.67%) Trainee
3 25 (23.15%) Software Developer
4 19 (17.59%) Trainee Developer
4 19 (17.59%) Trainee Software Developer
5 18 (16.67%) Senior
6 13 (12.04%) Senior Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Administrator
7 8 (7.41%) PHP Developer
7 8 (7.41%) Trainee Administrator
7 8 (7.41%) Web Administrator
8 7 (6.48%) Lead
9 6 (5.56%) .NET Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 5 (4.63%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Full-Stack Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Java Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (3.70%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (69.44%) CSS
1 75 (69.44%) HTML
2 15 (13.89%) React
3 14 (12.96%) AngularJS
3 14 (12.96%) Node.js
3 14 (12.96%) RESTful
4 13 (12.04%) .NET
4 13 (12.04%) REST
5 8 (7.41%) Laravel
5 8 (7.41%) Spring
5 8 (7.41%) Spring Boot
6 6 (5.56%) Web Services
7 5 (4.63%) .NET Framework
8 4 (3.70%) .NET Core
8 4 (3.70%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.70%) JSON
8 4 (3.70%) Kafka
8 4 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (2.78%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.48%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.70%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.85%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.85%) NHS
5 2 (1.85%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Life Science
6 1 (0.93%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.93%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.67%) Linux
2 5 (4.63%) Windows
3 3 (2.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (47.22%) Mentoring
2 38 (35.19%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (32.41%) CI/CD
4 32 (29.63%) Agile
5 24 (22.22%) DevOps
6 21 (19.44%) Microservices
7 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.59%) Containerisation
9 15 (13.89%) User Experience
10 14 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (12.96%) Web Development
11 10 (9.26%) Clean Code
11 10 (9.26%) Software Engineering
12 9 (8.33%) Front End Development
13 8 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
13 8 (7.41%) OOP
13 8 (7.41%) Scrum
14 7 (6.48%) AI
15 6 (5.56%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 87 (80.56%) JavaScript
2 60 (55.56%) Python
3 26 (24.07%) R
4 16 (14.81%) TypeScript
5 14 (12.96%) PHP
6 13 (12.04%) C#
7 12 (11.11%) Java
8 10 (9.26%) SQL
9 6 (5.56%) Go
10 4 (3.70%) C
11 3 (2.78%) Bash
11 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.85%) Bicep
13 1 (0.93%) Dart
13 1 (0.93%) Groovy
13 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 47 (43.52%) Azure Certification
2 45 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 45 (41.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 45 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.85%) Degree
4 1 (0.93%) PhD
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.93%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.70%) QA
2 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.93%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (18.52%) Docker
2 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 13 (12.04%) Ansible
3 12 (11.11%) Terraform
4 3 (2.78%) cPanel
4 3 (2.78%) Grafana
4 3 (2.78%) Plesk
5 2 (1.85%) Argo
5 2 (1.85%) Nagios
5 2 (1.85%) Rancher
6 1 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.93%) Podman
6 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) Puppet
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (46.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (2.78%) Adobe
3 2 (1.85%) Google
3 2 (1.85%) HubSpot
3 2 (1.85%) Splunk
4 1 (0.93%) AppDynamics
4 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.93%) IBM
4 1 (0.93%) Moogsoft
4 1 (0.93%) New Relic
4 1 (0.93%) Pega
4 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.93%) WSO2