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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 162 99
Rank change year-on-year +18 -63 -49
Permanent jobs citing Git 130 75 157
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.01% 1.47% 2.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.55% 21.55% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 81 44 109
10th Percentile £41,250 £28,250 £36,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £40,027 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,027 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.93% -4.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,250 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £65,888 £78,000
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 412 348 570
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.20% 6.81% 7.58%
Number of salaries quoted 257 158 318
10th Percentile £41,250 £35,875 £37,552
25th Percentile £50,000 £43,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £55,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +11.82% +6.28% -13.06%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £88,889 £76,075 £77,875
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 23 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 23 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 -4 91 £66,750 +21.36% 97
Lancashire +21 25 £49,250 +9.44% 16
Merseyside -14 8 £70,000 +129.51% 16
Cheshire -6 4 £32,500 -45.61% 13
Cumbria - 2 £37,500 - 1
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 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.08%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.31%) IIS
4 3 (2.31%) nginx
4 3 (2.31%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (2.31%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.31%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.77%) Apache
5 1 (0.77%) CMS
5 1 (0.77%) Confluence
5 1 (0.77%) JBoss
5 1 (0.77%) Kentico
5 1 (0.77%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.77%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 69 (53.08%) Azure
2 66 (50.77%) AWS
3 32 (24.62%) GitHub
4 27 (20.77%) GCP
5 25 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (10.77%) Serverless
7 10 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.92%) dbt
9 8 (6.15%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.38%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.62%) Entra ID
11 6 (4.62%) Figma
11 6 (4.62%) SaaS
12 5 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (3.85%) GitHub Copilot
12 5 (3.85%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.08%) Amazon EKS
13 4 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.08%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.08%) Internet
2 3 (2.31%) DHCP
2 3 (2.31%) DNS
2 3 (2.31%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.31%) LAN
2 3 (2.31%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.31%) VSAN
2 3 (2.31%) WAN
3 1 (0.77%) Network Security
3 1 (0.77%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.15%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.00%) MySQL
2 13 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 12 (9.23%) NoSQL
4 9 (6.92%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.62%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.85%) Power BI
7 4 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 3 (2.31%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.31%) Chroma
8 3 (2.31%) Pinecone
8 3 (2.31%) Redis
8 3 (2.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.54%) Metadata
9 2 (1.54%) Parquet
9 2 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.77%) Jenkins
2 20 (15.38%) GitLab
3 10 (7.69%) JUnit
4 9 (6.92%) Bitbucket
5 7 (5.38%) JIRA
5 7 (5.38%) Visual Studio Code
6 6 (4.62%) Selenium
7 5 (3.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (3.85%) Maven
8 4 (3.08%) IntelliJ
8 4 (3.08%) Spock
9 3 (2.31%) Cypress.io
9 3 (2.31%) Eclipse
9 3 (2.31%) Mockito
9 3 (2.31%) Postman
10 2 (1.54%) Artifactory
10 2 (1.54%) Claude Code
10 2 (1.54%) Vite
11 1 (0.77%) gulp
11 1 (0.77%) webpack
General
1 36 (27.69%) Social Skills
2 29 (22.31%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.15%) Finance
4 16 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.23%) Marketing
6 11 (8.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.31%) Banking
8 2 (1.54%) Advertising
8 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.54%) Publishing
8 2 (1.54%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Back Office
9 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (49.23%) Developer
2 32 (24.62%) Senior
3 18 (13.85%) Senior Developer
4 16 (12.31%) Full-Stack Developer
5 13 (10.00%) Data Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (8.46%) Software Developer
7 9 (6.92%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) GCP Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Administrator
9 6 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 6 (4.62%) Senior Data Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (3.85%) Lead
10 5 (3.85%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Principal Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Salesforce Developer
11 4 (3.08%) GCP Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (26.92%) React
2 30 (23.08%) Terraform
3 25 (19.23%) REST
4 21 (16.15%) Spring
5 19 (14.62%) .NET
6 14 (10.77%) AngularJS
6 14 (10.77%) CSS
6 14 (10.77%) HTML
6 14 (10.77%) Spring Boot
7 12 (9.23%) Node.js
7 12 (9.23%) RESTful
8 9 (6.92%) .NET Framework
8 9 (6.92%) ASP.NET
8 9 (6.92%) Entity Framework
8 9 (6.92%) Middleware
8 9 (6.92%) Vue
9 8 (6.15%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.38%) Hibernate
10 7 (5.38%) OpenAPI
10 7 (5.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.62%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (6.92%) Product Ownership
4 7 (5.38%) Social Media
5 5 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.31%) AI Agents
7 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (2.31%) Replication
8 2 (1.54%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.77%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.77%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.77%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.77%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.77%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.69%) Linux
2 8 (6.15%) CentOS
2 8 (6.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.08%) VMS
3 4 (3.08%) Windows
4 3 (2.31%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.54%) Android
5 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (77.69%) CI/CD
2 61 (46.92%) DevOps
3 51 (39.23%) Mentoring
4 50 (38.46%) Agile
5 39 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
6 38 (29.23%) Full-Stack Development
7 35 (26.92%) AI
8 30 (23.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 29 (22.31%) Microservices
10 28 (21.54%) Software Engineering
11 26 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 24 (18.46%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.62%) Observability
13 19 (14.62%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (14.62%) Test Automation
14 18 (13.85%) Collaborative Culture
14 18 (13.85%) Containerisation
15 17 (13.08%) Technical Leadership
16 15 (11.54%) SDLC
17 14 (10.77%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (39.23%) JavaScript
2 48 (36.92%) SQL
3 42 (32.31%) Python
4 35 (26.92%) Java
4 35 (26.92%) TypeScript
5 24 (18.46%) C#
6 10 (7.69%) Bash
7 8 (6.15%) PHP
8 6 (4.62%) C++
8 6 (4.62%) Go
9 5 (3.85%) Apex Code
9 5 (3.85%) Kotlin
9 5 (3.85%) PowerShell
10 4 (3.08%) Groovy
10 4 (3.08%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.31%) Bicep
11 3 (2.31%) Scala
11 3 (2.31%) SOQL
11 3 (2.31%) SOSL
11 3 (2.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (14.62%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 9 (6.92%) DV Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) Degree
5 2 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.54%) QA
2 9 (6.92%) Accessibility
3 8 (6.15%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.31%) WCAG
5 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (40.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.31%) Ceph
4 3 (2.31%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 33 (25.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (13.08%) Ansible
3 8 (6.15%) Prometheus
4 7 (5.38%) Istio
5 6 (4.62%) Grafana
6 4 (3.08%) Argo
6 4 (3.08%) linkerd
7 3 (2.31%) Check_MK
7 3 (2.31%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (2.31%) Podman
7 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
7 3 (2.31%) Puppet
7 3 (2.31%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.77%) Nagios
9 1 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 22 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) Google
3 11 (8.46%) Splunk
4 7 (5.38%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.08%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.31%) Dell
7 3 (2.31%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.31%) IBM
7 3 (2.31%) McAfee
7 3 (2.31%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.54%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.54%) Apple
8 2 (1.54%) Databricks
8 2 (1.54%) HP
8 2 (1.54%) Mistral
8 2 (1.54%) YouTube
9 1 (0.77%) New Relic
9 1 (0.77%) Oracle
9 1 (0.77%) WSO2