Git Job Trends in the South West

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 47 42
Rank change year-on-year -55 -5 +17
Permanent jobs citing Git 113 134 425
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.47% 4.97% 4.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.42% 41.61% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 73 104 379
10th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £50,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £57,500 £73,886 £65,000
90th Percentile £71,250 £82,751 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

All Development Application Skills
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 319 322 1,023
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.15% 11.93% 11.45%
Number of salaries quoted 205 219 823
10th Percentile £30,050 £41,650 £31,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,886 £70,000
90th Percentile £79,700 £93,778 £82,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £63,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -3.17% +5.00% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Git relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Git job vacancy trend in the South West

Git
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the South West

Git
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Gloucestershire -1 43 £55,000 -15.38% 15
Bristol -56 29 £50,000 -20.00% 28
Devon -15 17 £44,100 -37.00% 11
Dorset -17 11 £45,000 -20.00% 5
Somerset -25 9 £42,784 -44.79% 14
Wiltshire -16 3 £57,500 +4.55% 13
Cornwall - 1 - -
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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 5 (4.42%) CMS
2 4 (3.54%) Confluence
3 3 (2.65%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.65%) WordPress
4 2 (1.77%) Apache
4 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.77%) Headless CMS
4 2 (1.77%) nginx
5 1 (0.88%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.88%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.88%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 5 (4.42%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.88%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.28%) AWS
2 31 (27.43%) Azure
3 20 (17.70%) GitHub
4 8 (7.08%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (6.19%) OpenShift
6 6 (5.31%) GCP
7 5 (4.42%) npm
7 5 (4.42%) SaaS
7 5 (4.42%) Serverless
8 4 (3.54%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (3.54%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.54%) DigitalOcean
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.65%) Amazon S3
9 3 (2.65%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (2.65%) Figma
10 2 (1.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.77%) BlazeMeter
10 2 (1.77%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.73%) Internet
2 10 (8.85%) WAN
3 8 (7.08%) 5G
3 8 (7.08%) SD-WAN
4 7 (6.19%) DNS
5 6 (5.31%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.65%) DHCP
6 3 (2.65%) HTTP
6 3 (2.65%) SMTP
7 2 (1.77%) 4G
7 2 (1.77%) BGP
7 2 (1.77%) Broadband
7 2 (1.77%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.77%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (1.77%) IOS XR
7 2 (1.77%) IPv4
7 2 (1.77%) LAN
7 2 (1.77%) MPLS
7 2 (1.77%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.77%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.85%) MongoDB
1 10 (8.85%) MySQL
2 9 (7.96%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (7.96%) Relational Database
3 5 (4.42%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.54%) InfluxDB
4 4 (3.54%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.65%) Big Data
5 3 (2.65%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.77%) CockroachDB
6 2 (1.77%) Power BI
7 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.88%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.88%) Redis
7 1 (0.88%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (15.93%) Jenkins
2 16 (14.16%) JIRA
3 12 (10.62%) GitLab
4 8 (7.08%) Bitbucket
4 8 (7.08%) Cypress.io
4 8 (7.08%) LabVIEW
5 7 (6.19%) Selenium
5 7 (6.19%) Subversion
6 5 (4.42%) JUnit
6 5 (4.42%) TestRail
7 4 (3.54%) Cucumber
7 4 (3.54%) Gradle
7 4 (3.54%) Robot Framework
8 3 (2.65%) Maven
9 2 (1.77%) JMeter
9 2 (1.77%) Mockito
9 2 (1.77%) Postman
9 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
9 2 (1.77%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.77%) TestNG
General
1 34 (30.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.93%) Electronics
3 16 (14.16%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.50%) Aerospace
5 11 (9.73%) Multimedia
6 10 (8.85%) Finance
7 8 (7.08%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.31%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.42%) Telecoms
10 4 (3.54%) Automotive
10 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
11 3 (2.65%) Marketing
12 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.88%) Health Technology
13 1 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.88%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (28.32%) Developer
2 17 (15.04%) Software Engineer
3 12 (10.62%) Test Engineer
4 11 (9.73%) Trainee
5 10 (8.85%) Lead
5 10 (8.85%) Software Developer
6 9 (7.96%) DevOps Engineer
6 9 (7.96%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 9 (7.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Full-Stack Developer
7 8 (7.08%) Product Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Product Test Engineer
7 8 (7.08%) Verification Engineer
8 7 (6.19%) Python Engineer
9 6 (5.31%) Team Leader
10 5 (4.42%) Development Team Leader
10 5 (4.42%) DevSecOps Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Data Engineer
11 4 (3.54%) Graduate
11 4 (3.54%) Graduate Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (24.78%) HTML
2 25 (22.12%) CSS
3 18 (15.93%) React
4 15 (13.27%) REST
5 14 (12.39%) pytest
6 12 (10.62%) RESTful
7 10 (8.85%) Node.js
8 6 (5.31%) Elastic Stack
8 6 (5.31%) Flask
9 5 (4.42%) .NET
9 5 (4.42%) .NET Core
10 4 (3.54%) FastAPI
10 4 (3.54%) Laravel
10 4 (3.54%) Playwright
10 4 (3.54%) Vue
11 3 (2.65%) Bootstrap
11 3 (2.65%) Django
11 3 (2.65%) Entity Framework
11 3 (2.65%) LoopBack
11 3 (2.65%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Self-Motivation
2 10 (8.85%) Cloud Native
3 8 (7.08%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.08%) Self-Driving Car
4 7 (6.19%) Product Ownership
5 6 (5.31%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (4.42%) Distributed Systems
7 4 (3.54%) CUDA
7 4 (3.54%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (2.65%) Fat Client
8 3 (2.65%) GNSS
8 3 (2.65%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.65%) PKI
8 3 (2.65%) Satnav
8 3 (2.65%) Thin Client
9 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.77%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
9 2 (1.77%) Smartphone
9 2 (1.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (30.09%) Linux
2 26 (23.01%) Windows
3 10 (8.85%) Unix
4 7 (6.19%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.31%) CentOS
6 2 (1.77%) Android
6 2 (1.77%) CoreOS
6 2 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (43.36%) CI/CD
2 43 (38.05%) Agile
3 41 (36.28%) Test Automation
4 34 (30.09%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (26.55%) Software Engineering
6 27 (23.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 25 (22.12%) DevOps
8 23 (20.35%) Mentoring
9 22 (19.47%) SDLC
10 21 (18.58%) Containerisation
11 19 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 17 (15.04%) Scrum
12 17 (15.04%) Validation
13 14 (12.39%) Full-Stack Development
14 12 (10.62%) Clean Code
14 12 (10.62%) Code Quality
14 12 (10.62%) Front End Development
14 12 (10.62%) Kanban
15 11 (9.73%) Analytics
15 11 (9.73%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 68 (60.18%) Python
2 43 (38.05%) JavaScript
3 23 (20.35%) Java
4 21 (18.58%) SQL
5 17 (15.04%) Bash
6 13 (11.50%) TypeScript
7 12 (10.62%) C++
7 12 (10.62%) PowerShell
8 11 (9.73%) C#
9 10 (8.85%) Go
10 9 (7.96%) R
11 8 (7.08%) MATLAB
11 8 (7.08%) PHP
12 3 (2.65%) VBA
13 2 (1.77%) C
13 2 (1.77%) Groovy
13 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.77%) Rust
14 1 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.88%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 27 (23.89%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.58%) Degree
3 15 (13.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 13 (11.50%) AWS Certification
4 13 (11.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (9.73%) Azure Certification
5 11 (9.73%) DV Cleared
6 8 (7.08%) HND
7 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (2.65%) ISTQB
10 2 (1.77%) CCNA
10 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.77%) OSCP
10 2 (1.77%) RHCE
10 2 (1.77%) RHCSA
11 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.50%) QA
2 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.88%) GDPR
3 1 (0.88%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Docker
2 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.54%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (2.65%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.77%) Squid
5 2 (1.77%) VMware NSX
5 2 (1.77%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 29 (25.66%) Kubernetes
2 20 (17.70%) Terraform
3 17 (15.04%) Ansible
4 8 (7.08%) Argo
4 8 (7.08%) Kibana
4 8 (7.08%) Rancher
5 7 (6.19%) yum
6 6 (5.31%) Grafana
6 6 (5.31%) logstash
7 4 (3.54%) Puppet
7 4 (3.54%) vCenter Server
8 3 (2.65%) SCCM
8 3 (2.65%) SCOM
8 3 (2.65%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.77%) McAfee ePO
9 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (1.77%) Packer
9 2 (1.77%) Prometheus
9 2 (1.77%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.77%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (19.47%) Microsoft
2 10 (8.85%) VMware
3 8 (7.08%) Red Hat
3 8 (7.08%) Splunk
4 6 (5.31%) Databricks
4 6 (5.31%) Oracle
5 5 (4.42%) Atlassian
6 3 (2.65%) Cisco
6 3 (2.65%) SAP
7 2 (1.77%) McAfee
7 2 (1.77%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.88%) Adobe
8 1 (0.88%) Dell
8 1 (0.88%) HP
8 1 (0.88%) Juniper
8 1 (0.88%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.88%) Veeam