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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 141 71
Rank change year-on-year +18 -70 +15
Permanent jobs citing Git 118 112 325
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.08% 2.37% 2.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.57% 25.06% 35.56%
Number of salaries quoted 97 77 235
10th Percentile £28,700 £42,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,250 £82,751 £70,625
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 386 447 914
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.54% 9.46% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 289 244 670
10th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £47,500 £48,839 £42,031
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £57,780 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% +5.05% -4.86%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -11.54%

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 June 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 21 June 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 -15 79 £62,500 -7.41% 28
Lancashire +29 18 £52,500 +12.90% 14
Cheshire 0 7 £35,000 -36.22% 8
Merseyside -18 7 £30,500 -44.55% 8
Cumbria - 7 £85,000 -
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 (6.78%) WordPress
2 5 (4.24%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.39%) IIS
4 3 (2.54%) nginx
4 3 (2.54%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.69%) CICS
5 2 (1.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.85%) Apache
6 1 (0.85%) Confluence
6 1 (0.85%) JBoss
6 1 (0.85%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) Magento
2 1 (0.85%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 70 (59.32%) Azure
2 65 (55.08%) AWS
3 41 (34.75%) GitHub
4 25 (21.19%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (12.71%) GCP
6 11 (9.32%) Serverless
7 8 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
8 7 (5.93%) GitHub Copilot
9 5 (4.24%) Amazon EKS
9 5 (4.24%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (4.24%) dbt
9 5 (4.24%) Figma
10 4 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (3.39%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 4 (3.39%) Entra ID
10 4 (3.39%) Power Platform
11 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (2.54%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.54%) ChatGPT
11 3 (2.54%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 19 (16.10%) Internet
2 3 (2.54%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.85%) DHCP
3 1 (0.85%) DNS
3 1 (0.85%) HTTP
3 1 (0.85%) LAN
3 1 (0.85%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) SSL
3 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.85%) VSAN
3 1 (0.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (11.86%) SQL Server
3 13 (11.02%) MySQL
3 13 (11.02%) NoSQL
3 13 (11.02%) Relational Database
4 10 (8.47%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.24%) BigQuery
6 4 (3.39%) Power BI
7 3 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (2.54%) Pinecone
7 3 (2.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.69%) Db2
8 2 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (1.69%) Hazelcast
8 2 (1.69%) Redis
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.85%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.85%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 17 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 11 (9.32%) JIRA
3 10 (8.47%) GitLab
4 8 (6.78%) Bitbucket
5 3 (2.54%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.54%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.54%) Postman
5 3 (2.54%) Selenium
6 2 (1.69%) Claude Code
6 2 (1.69%) NUnit
6 2 (1.69%) Vite
6 2 (1.69%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.85%) gulp
7 1 (0.85%) JUnit
7 1 (0.85%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.85%) Subversion
7 1 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 22 (18.64%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.86%) Multimedia
3 13 (11.02%) Finance
4 10 (8.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.63%) Retail
6 7 (5.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.08%) Banking
8 5 (4.24%) Advertising
8 5 (4.24%) Marketing
9 2 (1.69%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Games
10 1 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 60 (50.85%) Developer
2 32 (27.12%) Senior
3 18 (15.25%) Senior Developer
4 17 (14.41%) Full-Stack Developer
5 14 (11.86%) Trainee
6 13 (11.02%) Java Developer
7 12 (10.17%) Software Developer
8 9 (7.63%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 8 (6.78%) Administrator
9 8 (6.78%) Trainee Administrator
9 8 (6.78%) Web Administrator
10 6 (5.08%) Data Engineer
10 6 (5.08%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (5.08%) Software Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Data Scientist
11 5 (4.24%) GCP Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Principal Data Scientist
11 5 (4.24%) Senior Data Engineer
11 5 (4.24%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (33.05%) CSS
1 39 (33.05%) HTML
2 30 (25.42%) React
3 21 (17.80%) REST
4 19 (16.10%) RESTful
5 18 (15.25%) AngularJS
6 17 (14.41%) .NET
7 14 (11.86%) Spring
7 14 (11.86%) Spring Boot
7 14 (11.86%) Vue
8 11 (9.32%) Node.js
9 9 (7.63%) .NET Framework
9 9 (7.63%) ASP.NET
9 9 (7.63%) Entity Framework
10 8 (6.78%) .NET Core
10 8 (6.78%) CSS3
10 8 (6.78%) HTML5
10 8 (6.78%) Middleware
11 7 (5.93%) OpenAPI
11 7 (5.93%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Cloud Native
1 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.54%) AI Agents
5 3 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.54%) Legacy Applications
6 2 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.85%) Legacy Code
7 1 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.17%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.69%) CentOS
2 2 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.85%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (57.63%) CI/CD
2 45 (38.14%) DevOps
3 42 (35.59%) Agile
4 39 (33.05%) Mentoring
5 35 (29.66%) Full-Stack Development
6 31 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
7 26 (22.03%) AI
8 22 (18.64%) Infrastructure as Code
9 21 (17.80%) Microservices
10 15 (12.71%) Clean Code
10 15 (12.71%) Platform Engineering
10 15 (12.71%) Web Development
11 14 (11.86%) Collaborative Culture
11 14 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (11.86%) Performance Optimisation
11 14 (11.86%) Scrum
11 14 (11.86%) SDLC
11 14 (11.86%) Software Engineering
12 13 (11.02%) Front End Development
12 13 (11.02%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 60 (50.85%) JavaScript
2 56 (47.46%) Python
3 44 (37.29%) SQL
4 27 (22.88%) TypeScript
5 26 (22.03%) Java
6 17 (14.41%) C#
7 10 (8.47%) R
8 9 (7.63%) Go
9 8 (6.78%) PHP
10 6 (5.08%) Bash
11 5 (4.24%) C
12 4 (3.39%) Apex Code
12 4 (3.39%) Bicep
13 3 (2.54%) C++
13 3 (2.54%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.54%) SOQL
13 3 (2.54%) SOSL
13 3 (2.54%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.54%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (13.56%) Azure Certification
2 15 (12.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 14 (11.86%) AWS Certification
3 14 (11.86%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 9 (7.63%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.93%) Degree
5 7 (5.93%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.54%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.86%) QA
2 4 (3.39%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (22.03%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (22.88%) Terraform
2 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
3 15 (12.71%) Ansible
4 4 (3.39%) Grafana
5 3 (2.54%) Istio
5 3 (2.54%) linkerd
5 3 (2.54%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.69%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.85%) Argo
7 1 (0.85%) McAfee ePO
7 1 (0.85%) Nagios
7 1 (0.85%) Rancher
7 1 (0.85%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (28.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.08%) Splunk
3 5 (4.24%) Pega
4 4 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.54%) Databricks
5 3 (2.54%) Google
5 3 (2.54%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.69%) DevExpress
6 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.69%) Oracle
6 2 (1.69%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.69%) WSO2
7 1 (0.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.85%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.85%) McAfee
7 1 (0.85%) New Relic