Git Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Git Distributed Version Control System
South East > Thames Valley

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

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 30 65
Rank change year-on-year -73 +35 -14
Permanent jobs citing Git 61 183 236
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 1.31% 6.58% 3.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.48% 53.82% 43.78%
Number of salaries quoted 38 121 197
10th Percentile £42,850 £47,500 £48,750
25th Percentile £46,750 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £71,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -2.07% +16.00%
75th Percentile £70,625 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £75,750 £95,000 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,650 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.25% - +4.35%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 284 340 539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.08% 12.22% 8.88%
Number of salaries quoted 145 216 418
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,938 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
75th Percentile £68,750 £81,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £92,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Git job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Git
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the Thames Valley

Git
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 March 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
Berkshire -62 32 £50,000 -35.48% 23
Buckinghamshire +1 16 £56,250 -6.25% 18
Oxfordshire -25 13 £62,500 +4.17% 20
Git
South East

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (9.84%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.28%) WordPress
3 1 (1.64%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 29 (47.54%) Azure
2 25 (40.98%) AWS
3 14 (22.95%) GitHub
4 8 (13.11%) GCP
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon ECS
5 7 (11.48%) Amazon S3
5 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (11.48%) Serverless
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon EKS
6 6 (9.84%) Amazon SQS
6 6 (9.84%) OpenShift
7 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
8 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (4.92%) Azure Machine Learning
9 3 (4.92%) dbt
9 3 (4.92%) Figma
10 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (3.28%) GitHub Copilot
10 2 (3.28%) Snowflake
11 1 (1.64%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (9.84%) Firewall
2 4 (6.56%) SpaceWire
3 2 (3.28%) Internet
4 1 (1.64%) DNS
4 1 (1.64%) HTTP
4 1 (1.64%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.64%) SMTP
4 1 (1.64%) SSL
4 1 (1.64%) VLAN
4 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (14.75%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (14.75%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.84%) MySQL
2 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
3 5 (8.20%) NoSQL
4 4 (6.56%) Power BI
5 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.28%) Metadata
6 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (3.28%) Tableau
7 1 (1.64%) Airbyte
7 1 (1.64%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.64%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.64%) Looker
7 1 (1.64%) QGIS
7 1 (1.64%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (1.64%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
2 8 (13.11%) GitLab
3 3 (4.92%) MLflow
4 2 (3.28%) Claude Code
4 2 (3.28%) JIRA
4 2 (3.28%) JUnit
4 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.64%) Ant
5 1 (1.64%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.64%) Burp Suite
5 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.64%) Gradle
5 1 (1.64%) LabVIEW
5 1 (1.64%) Maven
5 1 (1.64%) Mockito
5 1 (1.64%) Subversion
General
1 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Telecoms
4 5 (8.20%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.92%) Aviation
6 2 (3.28%) Aeronautics
6 2 (3.28%) Automotive
6 2 (3.28%) Finance
6 2 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.28%) Multimedia
6 2 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (3.28%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.64%) Electronics
7 1 (1.64%) Games
7 1 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.64%) Law
7 1 (1.64%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (40.98%) Developer
2 17 (27.87%) Senior
3 13 (21.31%) Full-Stack Developer
4 10 (16.39%) Senior Developer
5 9 (14.75%) Software Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Automation Engineer
6 6 (9.84%) Java Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Data Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Network Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (8.20%) Telecoms Engineer
8 4 (6.56%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (6.56%) React Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Senior .NET Developer
8 4 (6.56%) Senior React Developer
9 3 (4.92%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.92%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (24.59%) React
1 15 (24.59%) REST
2 13 (21.31%) .NET
3 9 (14.75%) .NET Framework
4 8 (13.11%) Spring
4 8 (13.11%) Web Services
5 7 (11.48%) CSS
5 7 (11.48%) Kafka
5 7 (11.48%) Node.js
5 7 (11.48%) Spring Boot
6 6 (9.84%) ASP.NET
6 6 (9.84%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (9.84%) Mustache
7 5 (8.20%) Entity Framework
7 5 (8.20%) HTML
7 5 (8.20%) Jinja
7 5 (8.20%) JSON
7 5 (8.20%) Qt
7 5 (8.20%) YAML
8 4 (6.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.92%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (4.92%) Life Science
2 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (4.92%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.64%) Arduino
4 1 (1.64%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.64%) FPGA
4 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.03%) Linux
2 4 (6.56%) VxWorks
3 1 (1.64%) Android
3 1 (1.64%) FreeBSD
3 1 (1.64%) OpenBSD
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (63.93%) CI/CD
2 20 (32.79%) Agile
3 19 (31.15%) Containerisation
3 19 (31.15%) Full-Stack Development
3 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (29.51%) Software Engineering
5 11 (18.03%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (18.03%) DevOps
6 10 (16.39%) SDLC
7 9 (14.75%) AI
7 9 (14.75%) Microservices
7 9 (14.75%) Scrum
8 8 (13.11%) Clean Code
8 8 (13.11%) Test Automation
9 7 (11.48%) Computer Science
9 7 (11.48%) Project Delivery
9 7 (11.48%) TDD
10 6 (9.84%) API Integration
10 6 (9.84%) Machine Learning
10 6 (9.84%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 30 (49.18%) Python
2 21 (34.43%) JavaScript
3 20 (32.79%) SQL
4 11 (18.03%) C#
5 10 (16.39%) C++
6 9 (14.75%) Java
7 7 (11.48%) TypeScript
8 6 (9.84%) C
9 4 (6.56%) Shell Script
10 3 (4.92%) Bash
10 3 (4.92%) R
11 2 (3.28%) PHP
11 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
12 1 (1.64%) Go
12 1 (1.64%) Scala
12 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (18.03%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.92%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 2 (3.28%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) PhD
4 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 6 (9.84%) ECSS
3 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.64%) GDPR
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.64%) MISRA
5 1 (1.64%) NCSC
5 1 (1.64%) SLA
5 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (37.70%) Docker
2 3 (4.92%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.64%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.64%) KVM
3 1 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) Kubernetes
2 8 (13.11%) Terraform
3 2 (3.28%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Argo
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.64%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
1 7 (11.48%) Red Hat
2 5 (8.20%) Cisco
3 2 (3.28%) Databricks
4 1 (1.64%) Foundry
4 1 (1.64%) Google
4 1 (1.64%) Informatica
4 1 (1.64%) Mapbox
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle
4 1 (1.64%) Palantir
4 1 (1.64%) Rollbar
4 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.64%) VMware
4 1 (1.64%) Xamarin
4 1 (1.64%) Zend