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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 97 62
Rank change year-on-year -4 -35 +58
Permanent jobs citing Git 137 116 313
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.41% 2.91% 3.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 40.77% 32.68% 37.94%
Number of salaries quoted 117 85 213
10th Percentile - £38,500 £33,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £48,869 £47,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £67,625 £82,751 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £93,778 £100,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -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 336 355 825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.46% 8.91% 9.11%
Number of salaries quoted 253 270 653
10th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,920
25th Percentile £36,250 £47,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,030 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.40% +5.51% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £90,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.38% +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 16 April 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 16 April 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 -21 87 £60,000 -11.11% 38
Merseyside -7 19 £30,500 -32.22% 4
Lancashire +8 15 £41,500 -13.54% 14
Cumbria - 9 £85,000 -
Cheshire -37 7 £37,500 -21.05% 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 18 (13.14%) WordPress
2 3 (2.19%) Apache
2 3 (2.19%) nginx
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.46%) CICS
3 2 (1.46%) JBoss
3 2 (1.46%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.73%) IIS
4 1 (0.73%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Chatbot
1 1 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.73%) Magento
1 1 (0.73%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 90 (65.69%) AWS
2 85 (62.04%) Azure
3 59 (43.07%) GitHub
4 13 (9.49%) GCP
5 9 (6.57%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (5.84%) Amazon EKS
6 8 (5.84%) Serverless
7 6 (4.38%) Azure AKS
8 5 (3.65%) Entra ID
8 5 (3.65%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (2.92%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Functions
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (2.19%) Azure Storage
10 3 (2.19%) Datadog
10 3 (2.19%) Figma
10 3 (2.19%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 54 (39.42%) Internet
2 3 (2.19%) DNS
2 3 (2.19%) HTTP
3 2 (1.46%) OpenVPN
3 2 (1.46%) SSH
3 2 (1.46%) SSL
4 1 (0.73%) DHCP
4 1 (0.73%) LAN
4 1 (0.73%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.73%) VSAN
4 1 (0.73%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.87%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (11.68%) NoSQL
3 15 (10.95%) MongoDB
3 15 (10.95%) MySQL
4 7 (5.11%) Relational Database
4 7 (5.11%) SQL Server
5 5 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (2.92%) Power BI
7 3 (2.19%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.46%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.46%) DB2
8 2 (1.46%) Hazelcast
9 1 (0.73%) InfluxDB
9 1 (0.73%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.73%) Redis
9 1 (0.73%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.03%) JIRA
2 9 (6.57%) Bitbucket
3 8 (5.84%) Jenkins
4 6 (4.38%) GitLab
5 3 (2.19%) Eclipse
5 3 (2.19%) IntelliJ
5 3 (2.19%) JUnit
6 2 (1.46%) NUnit
6 2 (1.46%) Subversion
6 2 (1.46%) XCUITest
7 1 (0.73%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.73%) gulp
7 1 (0.73%) PHPUnit
7 1 (0.73%) Postman
7 1 (0.73%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.73%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.73%) Selenium
7 1 (0.73%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.73%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.73%) webpack
General
1 47 (34.31%) Multimedia
2 18 (13.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (8.76%) Finance
4 10 (7.30%) Retail
5 5 (3.65%) Advertising
5 5 (3.65%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.92%) Marketing
7 3 (2.19%) Banking
7 3 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.19%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.46%) Electronics
8 2 (1.46%) Games
8 2 (1.46%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.73%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 62 (45.26%) Developer
2 47 (34.31%) Trainee
3 26 (18.98%) Senior
4 22 (16.06%) Software Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Senior Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Trainee Developer
5 17 (12.41%) Trainee Software Developer
6 16 (11.68%) Administrator
6 16 (11.68%) Trainee Administrator
6 16 (11.68%) Web Administrator
7 13 (9.49%) Full-Stack Developer
8 12 (8.76%) Java Developer
9 10 (7.30%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 10 (7.30%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 8 (5.84%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (5.11%) Lead
12 6 (4.38%) PHP Developer
12 6 (4.38%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 5 (3.65%) Data Scientist
13 5 (3.65%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 86 (62.77%) CSS
1 86 (62.77%) HTML
2 26 (18.98%) React
3 22 (16.06%) AngularJS
3 22 (16.06%) RESTful
4 12 (8.76%) Node.js
4 12 (8.76%) Spring
4 12 (8.76%) Spring Boot
5 11 (8.03%) REST
6 10 (7.30%) .NET
7 8 (5.84%) Web Services
8 7 (5.11%) .NET Framework
8 7 (5.11%) Vue
9 6 (4.38%) ASP.NET
9 6 (4.38%) CSS3
9 6 (4.38%) HTML5
9 6 (4.38%) Kafka
10 5 (3.65%) .NET Core
10 5 (3.65%) EDI
11 4 (2.92%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.30%) Distributed Systems
1 10 (7.30%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.38%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.65%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (2.19%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.46%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.46%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.46%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.46%) NHS
7 1 (0.73%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.73%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.73%) IoT
7 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.68%) Linux
2 2 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.73%) CentOS
3 1 (0.73%) CoreOS
3 1 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Unix
3 1 (0.73%) Windows
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (37.96%) Mentoring
2 49 (35.77%) Agile
3 45 (32.85%) CI/CD
4 31 (22.63%) Cybersecurity
5 28 (20.44%) Problem-Solving
6 26 (18.98%) DevOps
7 25 (18.25%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (16.79%) Web Development
9 21 (15.33%) Microservices
10 18 (13.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (10.22%) AI
11 14 (10.22%) Clean Code
11 14 (10.22%) Containerisation
11 14 (10.22%) User Experience
12 13 (9.49%) Scrum
12 13 (9.49%) TDD
13 12 (8.76%) Front End Development
14 11 (8.03%) Analytics
14 11 (8.03%) OOP
15 10 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 96 (70.07%) JavaScript
2 78 (56.93%) Python
3 30 (21.90%) R
4 27 (19.71%) TypeScript
5 26 (18.98%) SQL
6 21 (15.33%) Java
7 11 (8.03%) Go
8 9 (6.57%) C
8 9 (6.57%) C#
9 7 (5.11%) PHP
10 5 (3.65%) Bicep
11 4 (2.92%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.19%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.46%) Swift
13 2 (1.46%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.73%) Bash
14 1 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.73%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 50 (36.50%) Azure Certification
2 47 (34.31%) AWS Certification
2 47 (34.31%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 47 (34.31%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.19%) Degree
4 2 (1.46%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.73%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.73%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.38%) QA
2 5 (3.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.73%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.73%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (10.95%) Docker
2 4 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 3 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (1.46%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.73%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 23 (16.79%) Terraform
2 20 (14.60%) Kubernetes
3 16 (11.68%) Ansible
4 3 (2.19%) cPanel
4 3 (2.19%) Nagios
4 3 (2.19%) Plesk
4 3 (2.19%) Rancher
5 2 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (1.46%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.73%) Argo
6 1 (0.73%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.73%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 63 (45.99%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.65%) Pega
3 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
4 2 (1.46%) Atlassian
4 2 (1.46%) Databricks
4 2 (1.46%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.46%) New Relic
4 2 (1.46%) Oracle
4 2 (1.46%) Splunk
4 2 (1.46%) WSO2
5 1 (0.73%) Adobe
5 1 (0.73%) Autodesk
5 1 (0.73%) Google
5 1 (0.73%) McAfee