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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 156 90
Rank change year-on-year +24 -66 -33
Permanent jobs citing Git 133 80 176
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.06% 1.55% 2.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.28% 22.04% 29.88%
Number of salaries quoted 89 47 122
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,150 £36,350
25th Percentile £45,000 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,250 £61,938 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,250 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.31% +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 412 363 589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.28% 7.02% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 267 169 339
10th Percentile £38,761 £37,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% +4.58% -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 11 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 11 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 -9 91 £66,750 +21.36% 51
Lancashire +29 29 £48,500 +7.78% 13
Cheshire -2 6 £32,500 -45.61% 9
Merseyside -13 5 £45,000 +15.38% 13
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 8 (6.02%) WordPress
2 6 (4.51%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (3.76%) OpenStack
4 3 (2.26%) IIS
4 3 (2.26%) nginx
4 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.26%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.50%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.75%) Apache
6 1 (0.75%) Confluence
6 1 (0.75%) JBoss
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.75%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.75%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 73 (54.89%) Azure
2 68 (51.13%) AWS
3 40 (30.08%) GitHub
4 25 (18.80%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (16.54%) GCP
6 14 (10.53%) Serverless
7 10 (7.52%) GitHub Actions
8 9 (6.77%) dbt
9 8 (6.02%) OpenShift
10 7 (5.26%) Figma
11 6 (4.51%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (4.51%) GitHub Copilot
11 6 (4.51%) SaaS
12 5 (3.76%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (3.76%) Azure Monitor
12 5 (3.76%) Entra ID
12 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
13 4 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
13 4 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 4 (3.01%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Internet
2 3 (2.26%) DHCP
2 3 (2.26%) DNS
2 3 (2.26%) HTTPS
2 3 (2.26%) LAN
2 3 (2.26%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.26%) VSAN
2 3 (2.26%) WAN
3 1 (0.75%) Network Security
3 1 (0.75%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (15.04%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (9.02%) MySQL
3 12 (9.02%) NoSQL
3 12 (9.02%) Relational Database
4 9 (6.77%) BigQuery
5 6 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (4.51%) MongoDB
6 5 (3.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (3.76%) Power BI
7 3 (2.26%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.26%) Chroma
7 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.26%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.26%) Redis
7 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.50%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (1.50%) Metadata
8 2 (1.50%) Parquet
8 2 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 27 (20.30%) Jenkins
2 19 (14.29%) GitLab
3 10 (7.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (6.02%) JIRA
4 8 (6.02%) JUnit
5 6 (4.51%) Selenium
5 6 (4.51%) Visual Studio Code
6 5 (3.76%) Maven
7 4 (3.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (3.01%) IntelliJ
7 4 (3.01%) Postman
7 4 (3.01%) Spock
8 3 (2.26%) Cypress.io
9 2 (1.50%) Claude Code
9 2 (1.50%) Eclipse
9 2 (1.50%) Mockito
9 2 (1.50%) NUnit
9 2 (1.50%) Vite
10 1 (0.75%) Subversion
10 1 (0.75%) XCUITest
General
1 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.55%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Finance
4 14 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.02%) Marketing
6 9 (6.77%) Multimedia
7 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.26%) Advertising
8 3 (2.26%) Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.50%) Publishing
9 2 (1.50%) Retail
10 1 (0.75%) Back Office
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 64 (48.12%) Developer
2 30 (22.56%) Senior
3 18 (13.53%) Full-Stack Developer
4 17 (12.78%) Senior Developer
5 14 (10.53%) Administrator
6 13 (9.77%) Data Engineer
7 12 (9.02%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.77%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.77%) Trainee
9 8 (6.02%) Software Engineer
9 8 (6.02%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (6.02%) Web Administrator
10 7 (5.26%) GCP Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (4.51%) Lead
11 6 (4.51%) Senior Data Engineer
11 6 (4.51%) Systems Administrator
12 5 (3.76%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (24.06%) React
2 28 (21.05%) Terraform
3 25 (18.80%) REST
4 22 (16.54%) CSS
4 22 (16.54%) HTML
5 21 (15.79%) Spring
6 19 (14.29%) .NET
7 17 (12.78%) AngularJS
8 15 (11.28%) Spring Boot
9 13 (9.77%) RESTful
10 11 (8.27%) Node.js
10 11 (8.27%) Vue
11 10 (7.52%) .NET Framework
11 10 (7.52%) ASP.NET
11 10 (7.52%) Entity Framework
12 8 (6.02%) OpenAPI
12 8 (6.02%) Swagger
13 7 (5.26%) .NET Core
13 7 (5.26%) Middleware
14 6 (4.51%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.78%) Cloud Native
2 15 (11.28%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
4 9 (6.77%) Product Ownership
5 7 (5.26%) Social Media
6 5 (3.76%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (3.76%) Private Cloud
7 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
8 3 (2.26%) AI Agents
8 3 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (2.26%) Replication
9 2 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.50%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
10 1 (0.75%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.78%) Linux
2 7 (5.26%) CentOS
2 7 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.01%) VMS
3 4 (3.01%) Windows
4 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.26%) CoreOS
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.50%) Android
6 1 (0.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 56 (42.11%) DevOps
3 53 (39.85%) Agile
4 47 (35.34%) Mentoring
5 40 (30.08%) Full-Stack Development
5 40 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (24.81%) AI
7 29 (21.80%) Microservices
8 27 (20.30%) Software Engineering
9 26 (19.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 23 (17.29%) Infrastructure as Code
11 21 (15.79%) Web Development
12 20 (15.04%) Performance Optimisation
13 19 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
13 19 (14.29%) Test Automation
14 18 (13.53%) Collaborative Culture
15 17 (12.78%) Observability
16 16 (12.03%) Clean Code
16 16 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
17 15 (11.28%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 62 (46.62%) JavaScript
2 51 (38.35%) Python
3 50 (37.59%) SQL
4 36 (27.07%) Java
5 32 (24.06%) TypeScript
6 22 (16.54%) C#
7 10 (7.52%) Bash
8 8 (6.02%) PHP
8 8 (6.02%) R
9 6 (4.51%) C++
9 6 (4.51%) Go
10 5 (3.76%) Apex Code
10 5 (3.76%) Kotlin
10 5 (3.76%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.01%) Bicep
11 4 (3.01%) Groovy
12 3 (2.26%) Scala
12 3 (2.26%) SOQL
12 3 (2.26%) SOSL
12 3 (2.26%) Swift
Qualifications
1 17 (12.78%) Security Cleared
2 13 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 11 (8.27%) Azure Certification
4 10 (7.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (6.77%) AWS Certification
5 9 (6.77%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 8 (6.02%) DV Cleared
7 7 (5.26%) Degree
8 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 1 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) QA
2 8 (6.02%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 48 (36.09%) Docker
2 4 (3.01%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.01%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.26%) Ceph
3 3 (2.26%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 32 (24.06%) Kubernetes
2 16 (12.03%) Ansible
3 7 (5.26%) Istio
3 7 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 5 (3.76%) Grafana
5 4 (3.01%) Argo
5 4 (3.01%) linkerd
6 3 (2.26%) Check_MK
6 3 (2.26%) McAfee ePO
6 3 (2.26%) Podman
6 3 (2.26%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.26%) Puppet
6 3 (2.26%) SCVMM
7 2 (1.50%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.75%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.27%) Splunk
3 9 (6.77%) Google
4 7 (5.26%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.76%) Salesforce
6 4 (3.01%) AppDynamics
7 3 (2.26%) Databricks
7 3 (2.26%) Dell
7 3 (2.26%) Dynatrace
7 3 (2.26%) McAfee
7 3 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.50%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.50%) Apple
8 2 (1.50%) DevExpress
8 2 (1.50%) IBM
8 2 (1.50%) Mistral
8 2 (1.50%) Pega
8 2 (1.50%) WSO2
9 1 (0.75%) New Relic
9 1 (0.75%) YouTube