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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 85 64
Rank change year-on-year -8 -21 +3
Permanent jobs citing Git 120 116 272
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.49% 2.93% 3.44%
As % of the Development Applications category 43.80% 30.21% 35.88%
Number of salaries quoted 102 82 190
10th Percentile - £37,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,750 £45,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,938 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,669 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% +1.12% -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 274 384 758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.40% 9.70% 9.58%
Number of salaries quoted 211 279 620
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £33,750 £45,688 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.54% +7.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £68,750 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £90,000
England median annual salary £57,593 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.85% +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 11 March 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 March 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 -13 78 £58,843 -12.82% 31
Merseyside -2 22 £30,500 -32.22% 9
Lancashire -3 9 £47,372 -1.31% 17
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 -
Cheshire -42 4 £33,750 -28.95% 12
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 10 (8.33%) WordPress
2 3 (2.50%) Apache
2 3 (2.50%) nginx
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) CICS
3 2 (1.67%) JBoss
4 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.83%) CMS
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.83%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 86 (71.67%) AWS
2 77 (64.17%) Azure
3 51 (42.50%) GitHub
4 13 (10.83%) GCP
5 8 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 7 (5.83%) Serverless
7 5 (4.17%) Azure AKS
7 5 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (2.50%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.50%) Datadog
9 3 (2.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.50%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (1.67%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.67%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.67%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 53 (44.17%) Internet
2 3 (2.50%) DNS
2 3 (2.50%) HTTP
2 3 (2.50%) SSH
3 2 (1.67%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.67%) SSL
4 1 (0.83%) DHCP
4 1 (0.83%) LAN
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) VSAN
4 1 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.17%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (12.50%) MongoDB
3 14 (11.67%) MySQL
4 13 (10.83%) NoSQL
5 8 (6.67%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.33%) SQL Server
8 3 (2.50%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
9 2 (1.67%) DB2
9 2 (1.67%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.67%) Power BI
10 1 (0.83%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.83%) Redis
10 1 (0.83%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.00%) GitLab
2 6 (5.00%) JIRA
3 5 (4.17%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.33%) JUnit
5 3 (2.50%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.50%) IntelliJ
6 2 (1.67%) Subversion
7 1 (0.83%) Maven
7 1 (0.83%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.83%) Selenium
7 1 (0.83%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.83%) XCUITest
General
1 46 (38.33%) Multimedia
2 17 (14.17%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.50%) Retail
4 7 (5.83%) Finance
5 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (4.17%) Marketing
6 3 (2.50%) Banking
6 3 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Advertising
7 2 (1.67%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.67%) Electronics
7 2 (1.67%) Games
7 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.67%) Retail Banking
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.83%) Publishing
8 1 (0.83%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 55 (45.83%) Developer
2 46 (38.33%) Trainee
3 23 (19.17%) Software Developer
4 22 (18.33%) Senior
5 20 (16.67%) Trainee Developer
5 20 (16.67%) Trainee Software Developer
6 15 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 10 (8.33%) Java Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Administrator
8 8 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 8 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
8 8 (6.67%) Trainee Administrator
8 8 (6.67%) Web Administrator
9 6 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.00%) PHP Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Data Scientist
10 5 (4.17%) Lead
10 5 (4.17%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (67.50%) CSS
1 81 (67.50%) HTML
2 20 (16.67%) React
3 17 (14.17%) RESTful
4 15 (12.50%) AngularJS
5 11 (9.17%) Node.js
5 11 (9.17%) REST
6 9 (7.50%) Spring
6 9 (7.50%) Spring Boot
7 7 (5.83%) .NET
7 7 (5.83%) Web Services
8 6 (5.00%) CSS3
8 6 (5.00%) HTML5
8 6 (5.00%) Kafka
9 5 (4.17%) EDI
10 4 (3.33%) Laravel
10 4 (3.33%) Sass
11 3 (2.50%) .NET Framework
11 3 (2.50%) Razor View Engine
11 3 (2.50%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
4 5 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.83%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) IoT
7 1 (0.83%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.83%) Life Science
7 1 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.00%) Linux
2 2 (1.67%) Windows
2 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.83%) CentOS
3 1 (0.83%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (45.00%) Mentoring
2 41 (34.17%) Agile
3 38 (31.67%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (29.17%) CI/CD
5 22 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (16.67%) DevOps
7 19 (15.83%) Microservices
8 17 (14.17%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (11.67%) Containerisation
9 14 (11.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (11.67%) Web Development
10 13 (10.83%) AI
11 11 (9.17%) User Experience
12 10 (8.33%) Front End Development
12 10 (8.33%) OOP
12 10 (8.33%) Scrum
12 10 (8.33%) TDD
13 9 (7.50%) Analytics
13 9 (7.50%) Clean Code
13 9 (7.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 89 (74.17%) JavaScript
2 76 (63.33%) Python
3 26 (21.67%) R
4 21 (17.50%) TypeScript
5 18 (15.00%) Java
5 18 (15.00%) SQL
6 11 (9.17%) Go
7 9 (7.50%) C
8 8 (6.67%) PHP
9 7 (5.83%) C#
10 3 (2.50%) PL/SQL
10 3 (2.50%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.67%) Bicep
12 1 (0.83%) Bash
12 1 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.83%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.83%) Swift
12 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 48 (40.00%) Azure Certification
2 46 (38.33%) AWS Certification
2 46 (38.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 46 (38.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.67%) Degree
4 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (0.83%) PhD
4 1 (0.83%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.83%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.17%) QA
2 4 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) Docker
2 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 19 (15.83%) Terraform
2 17 (14.17%) Kubernetes
3 16 (13.33%) Ansible
4 3 (2.50%) cPanel
4 3 (2.50%) Nagios
4 3 (2.50%) Plesk
4 3 (2.50%) Rancher
5 2 (1.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.83%) Argo
6 1 (0.83%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.83%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 57 (47.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.33%) Pega
3 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.67%) Adobe
4 2 (1.67%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.67%) New Relic
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle
4 2 (1.67%) Splunk
5 1 (0.83%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.83%) Google
5 1 (0.83%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.83%) McAfee
5 1 (0.83%) WSO2