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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 111 44
Rank change year-on-year -17 -67 -9
Permanent jobs citing Git 87 124 228
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.70% 1.80% 5.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.75% 22.92% 43.35%
Number of salaries quoted 59 78 187
10th Percentile - £33,375 £41,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £46,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -16.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £57,500 £61,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £64,500 £71,250 £84,434
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 274 541 526
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 5.35% 7.85% 13.32%
Number of salaries quoted 172 284 433
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £41,155 £43,710 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year - -11.80% +8.23%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £84,056
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 8 November 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 8 November 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 -5 53 £55,000 +4.76% 129
Merseyside +21 18 £30,500 -30.29% 23
Cheshire -27 9 £48,625 -2.75% 49
Lancashire +2 7 £45,000 -18.18% 74
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 (4.60%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.60%) WordPress
2 3 (3.45%) CMS
2 3 (3.45%) nginx
3 1 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.15%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) IIS
3 1 (1.15%) JBoss
3 1 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (1.15%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (1.15%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.15%) CANalyzer
1 1 (1.15%) Photoshop
1 1 (1.15%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 49 (56.32%) AWS
1 49 (56.32%) Azure
2 34 (39.08%) GitHub
3 8 (9.20%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (9.20%) Serverless
4 6 (6.90%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (4.60%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (4.60%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.60%) GCP
5 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (4.60%) SaaS
6 3 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (3.45%) Cloudflare
6 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.30%) Firebase
7 2 (2.30%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 25 (28.74%) Internet
2 3 (3.45%) DNS
2 3 (3.45%) Firewall
3 2 (2.30%) HTTP
3 2 (2.30%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.30%) VPN
3 2 (2.30%) WAN
4 1 (1.15%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.15%) SSH
4 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.69%) MySQL
2 11 (12.64%) Relational Database
2 11 (12.64%) SQL Server
3 7 (8.05%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (6.90%) Data Lake
4 6 (6.90%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (3.45%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.45%) Power BI
7 2 (2.30%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 7 (8.05%) JIRA
2 6 (6.90%) Jenkins
3 4 (4.60%) GitLab
4 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.45%) JUnit
4 3 (3.45%) webpack
5 2 (2.30%) Maven
5 2 (2.30%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.15%) Ant
6 1 (1.15%) CA Release Automation
6 1 (1.15%) CANoe
6 1 (1.15%) ESLint
6 1 (1.15%) git-flow
6 1 (1.15%) Mocha
6 1 (1.15%) NUnit
6 1 (1.15%) Selenium
6 1 (1.15%) Sinon.JS
6 1 (1.15%) Storybook
6 1 (1.15%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.15%) Xcode
General
1 25 (28.74%) Multimedia
2 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.94%) Finance
4 7 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.75%) Marketing
6 3 (3.45%) Retail
7 2 (2.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Automotive
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 51 (58.62%) Developer
2 25 (28.74%) Trainee
3 17 (19.54%) Senior
3 17 (19.54%) Software Developer
4 13 (14.94%) Senior Developer
5 12 (13.79%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (13.79%) Trainee Software Developer
6 8 (9.20%) Backend Developer
7 7 (8.05%) Full-Stack Developer
8 6 (6.90%) Senior Backend Developer
9 5 (5.75%) .NET Developer
9 5 (5.75%) PHP Developer
10 4 (4.60%) Azure Engineer
10 4 (4.60%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Lead
11 3 (3.45%) Node.js Developer
11 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (55.17%) CSS
1 48 (55.17%) HTML
2 15 (17.24%) RESTful
3 14 (16.09%) Node.js
4 13 (14.94%) .NET
5 12 (13.79%) AngularJS
5 12 (13.79%) React
6 10 (11.49%) REST
7 9 (10.34%) Spring
7 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
8 8 (9.20%) Web Services
9 7 (8.05%) Laravel
10 5 (5.75%) JSON
11 4 (4.60%) .NET Core
11 4 (4.60%) .NET Framework
11 4 (4.60%) CSS3
11 4 (4.60%) Jest
11 4 (4.60%) Vue
12 3 (3.45%) Next.js
12 3 (3.45%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.75%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.60%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.30%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.30%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.30%) NHS
3 2 (2.30%) Wiki
4 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.15%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (1.15%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.15%) Life Science
4 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.15%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.79%) Linux
2 6 (6.90%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.53%) CI/CD
2 30 (34.48%) DevOps
2 30 (34.48%) Mentoring
3 26 (29.89%) Agile
4 25 (28.74%) Cybersecurity
5 20 (22.99%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.54%) Microservices
7 15 (17.24%) Full-Stack Development
7 15 (17.24%) User Experience
8 13 (14.94%) Containerisation
9 12 (13.79%) AI
10 10 (11.49%) Clean Code
10 10 (11.49%) Scrum
10 10 (11.49%) Unit Testing
11 9 (10.34%) Software Engineering
12 8 (9.20%) Analytics
12 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (9.20%) Front End Development
13 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure as Code
14 6 (6.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 60 (68.97%) JavaScript
2 39 (44.83%) Python
3 16 (18.39%) SQL
4 13 (14.94%) R
5 12 (13.79%) C#
5 12 (13.79%) PHP
5 12 (13.79%) TypeScript
6 11 (12.64%) Java
7 6 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 5 (5.75%) Bash
8 5 (5.75%) Bicep
9 1 (1.15%) C
9 1 (1.15%) C++
9 1 (1.15%) Dart
9 1 (1.15%) Go
9 1 (1.15%) Groovy
9 1 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 30 (34.48%) Azure Certification
2 25 (28.74%) AWS Certification
2 25 (28.74%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 25 (28.74%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (8.05%) Degree
4 5 (5.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.30%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.30%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.30%) PhD
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.60%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.30%) GDPR
4 1 (1.15%) AUTOSAR
4 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (26.44%) Docker
2 4 (4.60%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
2 8 (9.20%) Ansible
3 7 (8.05%) Terraform
4 3 (3.45%) Grafana
5 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.15%) Argo
6 1 (1.15%) cPanel
6 1 (1.15%) Plesk
6 1 (1.15%) Podman
6 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (37.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.75%) Google
3 4 (4.60%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.60%) Bloomberg
3 4 (4.60%) IBM
3 4 (4.60%) Moogsoft
3 4 (4.60%) Splunk
4 2 (2.30%) Adobe
4 2 (2.30%) Databricks
4 2 (2.30%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.30%) Meraki
5 1 (1.15%) Pega
5 1 (1.15%) Rollbar
5 1 (1.15%) TOWER Software
5 1 (1.15%) WSO2