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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 141 67
Rank change year-on-year +25 -74 +39
Permanent jobs citing Git 129 113 303
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.20% 2.43% 3.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.64% 25.11% 35.99%
Number of salaries quoted 111 84 214
10th Percentile £28,250 £38,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £48,869 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,687 £59,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.64% +3.04% -
75th Percentile £70,500 £82,751 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £95,000
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 362 450 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.38% 9.67% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 277 262 661
10th Percentile £29,750 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,418 £57,560 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.70% +4.65% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £87,175 £90,000
England median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +8.33% -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 21 May 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 May 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 81 £61,418 -9.01% 38
Lancashire +29 21 £50,000 +4.17% 17
Merseyside -16 10 £30,500 -28.24% 7
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 -
Cheshire -5 8 £37,500 -25.00% 6
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 14 (10.85%) WordPress
2 5 (3.88%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.10%) IIS
4 3 (2.33%) Apache
4 3 (2.33%) nginx
4 3 (2.33%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (1.55%) CICS
5 2 (1.55%) JBoss
5 2 (1.55%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.78%) Confluence
6 1 (0.78%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.78%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.55%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.78%) Magento
2 1 (0.78%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 81 (62.79%) Azure
2 78 (60.47%) AWS
3 47 (36.43%) GitHub
4 19 (14.73%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (10.08%) GCP
6 7 (5.43%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (3.88%) dbt
7 5 (3.88%) Figma
7 5 (3.88%) Serverless
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (3.10%) Azure AKS
8 4 (3.10%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.10%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.10%) Datadog
8 4 (3.10%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.10%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.33%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.33%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 37 (28.68%) Internet
2 3 (2.33%) DNS
2 3 (2.33%) HTTP
2 3 (2.33%) HTTPS
3 2 (1.55%) SSL
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.78%) VSAN
4 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (14.73%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (11.63%) MySQL
3 14 (10.85%) MongoDB
3 14 (10.85%) NoSQL
4 12 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 11 (8.53%) Relational Database
6 5 (3.88%) BigQuery
6 5 (3.88%) Elasticsearch
7 4 (3.10%) Power BI
8 3 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.33%) DynamoDB
9 2 (1.55%) DB2
9 2 (1.55%) Hazelcast
9 2 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.78%) InfluxDB
10 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.78%) Redis
10 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.53%) Bitbucket
1 11 (8.53%) JIRA
2 10 (7.75%) GitLab
2 10 (7.75%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.33%) Eclipse
3 3 (2.33%) IntelliJ
3 3 (2.33%) JUnit
4 2 (1.55%) NUnit
4 2 (1.55%) Subversion
4 2 (1.55%) XCUITest
5 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.78%) gulp
5 1 (0.78%) PHPUnit
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.78%) PyCharm
5 1 (0.78%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
5 1 (0.78%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.78%) webpack
General
1 30 (23.26%) Multimedia
2 21 (16.28%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.08%) Finance
4 10 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.20%) Retail
6 6 (4.65%) Banking
6 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (3.88%) Advertising
8 3 (2.33%) Marketing
9 2 (1.55%) Games
9 2 (1.55%) Retail Banking
10 1 (0.78%) Back Office
10 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.78%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 61 (47.29%) Developer
2 33 (25.58%) Senior
3 30 (23.26%) Trainee
4 19 (14.73%) Senior Developer
5 17 (13.18%) Software Developer
6 15 (11.63%) Full-Stack Developer
7 14 (10.85%) Administrator
7 14 (10.85%) Trainee Administrator
7 14 (10.85%) Web Administrator
8 12 (9.30%) Java Developer
9 10 (7.75%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 9 (6.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 9 (6.98%) Trainee Developer
10 9 (6.98%) Trainee Software Developer
11 7 (5.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 6 (4.65%) Data Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Data Scientist
13 5 (3.88%) Principal Data Scientist
13 5 (3.88%) Senior Data Engineer
13 5 (3.88%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (48.84%) CSS
1 63 (48.84%) HTML
2 23 (17.83%) React
2 23 (17.83%) RESTful
3 22 (17.05%) AngularJS
4 17 (13.18%) REST
5 14 (10.85%) .NET
6 12 (9.30%) Spring
6 12 (9.30%) Spring Boot
7 10 (7.75%) ASP.NET
7 10 (7.75%) Node.js
8 9 (6.98%) CSS3
8 9 (6.98%) HTML5
9 8 (6.20%) .NET Core
9 8 (6.20%) Entity Framework
9 8 (6.20%) Middleware
10 7 (5.43%) .NET Framework
10 7 (5.43%) Vue
11 6 (4.65%) Kafka
11 6 (4.65%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.30%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.43%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.33%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.55%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.78%) AI Agents
6 1 (0.78%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.78%) IoT
6 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.85%) Linux
2 2 (1.55%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.78%) CentOS
3 1 (0.78%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.78%) Windows
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.51%) CI/CD
2 49 (37.98%) Mentoring
3 48 (37.21%) Agile
4 39 (30.23%) DevOps
5 32 (24.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 28 (21.71%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (17.05%) Web Development
8 21 (16.28%) Microservices
9 19 (14.73%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (12.40%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (11.63%) AI
12 14 (10.85%) Scrum
13 13 (10.08%) Collaborative Culture
14 12 (9.30%) Clean Code
14 12 (9.30%) Data Modelling
14 12 (9.30%) Performance Optimisation
14 12 (9.30%) TDD
15 11 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (8.53%) Unit Testing
15 11 (8.53%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 78 (60.47%) JavaScript
2 65 (50.39%) Python
3 38 (29.46%) SQL
4 25 (19.38%) Java
4 25 (19.38%) TypeScript
5 21 (16.28%) R
6 13 (10.08%) C#
7 10 (7.75%) Go
8 7 (5.43%) C
9 6 (4.65%) PHP
10 4 (3.10%) Apex Code
11 3 (2.33%) Bicep
11 3 (2.33%) C++
11 3 (2.33%) PL/SQL
11 3 (2.33%) SOQL
11 3 (2.33%) SOSL
12 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.55%) Swift
12 2 (1.55%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (24.03%) Azure Certification
2 30 (23.26%) AWS Certification
2 30 (23.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 30 (23.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) Degree
4 4 (3.10%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.53%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (13.95%) Docker
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.55%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.78%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (20.93%) Terraform
2 18 (13.95%) Ansible
2 18 (13.95%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.33%) Nagios
3 3 (2.33%) Rancher
4 2 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.78%) Argo
5 1 (0.78%) Grafana
5 1 (0.78%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.78%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 47 (36.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.88%) Pega
2 5 (3.88%) Splunk
3 4 (3.10%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.33%) Databricks
4 3 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.55%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.55%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.55%) New Relic
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle
5 2 (1.55%) WSO2
6 1 (0.78%) Adobe
6 1 (0.78%) Autodesk
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) McAfee