Git Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 158 76
Rank change year-on-year +17 -82 -4
Permanent jobs citing Git 992 711 1,709
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.27% 2.05% 2.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.05% 29.02% 35.80%
Number of salaries quoted 727 459 1,173
10th Percentile £30,250 £37,500 £36,650
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £79,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +12.07% -10.77%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,830 2,450 4,774
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.62% 7.05% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,921 1,450 3,018
10th Percentile £31,500 £33,975 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £42,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £72,000 £72,500 £69,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,751 £82,500
UK median annual salary £61,700 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.28% +4.17% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Git relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Git job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Git
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 August 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
North of England +49 277 £57,500 -3.77% 114
South East +22 263 £60,000 -12.73% 137
South West -3 200 £50,000 -2.44% 70
North West +31 137 £58,843 +2.34% 60
Midlands -29 124 £47,500 -22.61% 75
Yorkshire +4 77 £52,500 -25.00% 36
West Midlands -49 67 £47,500 -30.15% 47
North East -5 63 £62,500 +31.58% 19
East Midlands +5 57 £60,000 +9.09% 28
East of England -31 56 £47,500 -5.00% 45
Wales -38 53 £53,100 -11.50% 13
Scotland -22 20 £48,000 -26.15% 15
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -
Northern Ireland -80 1 £77,500 - 2
Git
UK

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 47 (4.74%) Apache Airflow
1 47 (4.74%) WordPress
2 41 (4.13%) Confluence
3 29 (2.92%) Apache
4 23 (2.32%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.51%) IIS
6 12 (1.21%) CMS
6 12 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
7 11 (1.11%) OpenStack
8 10 (1.01%) SharePoint
9 9 (0.91%) nginx
10 7 (0.71%) SharePoint Server
11 6 (0.60%) JBoss
12 5 (0.50%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.20%) CICS
13 2 (0.20%) Drupal
13 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
13 2 (0.20%) WebSphere
14 1 (0.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
14 1 (0.10%) PegaRULES
Applications
1 18 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (0.71%) Simulink
4 4 (0.40%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.30%) Lightworks
5 3 (0.30%) Stateflow
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.10%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.10%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.10%) Sketch
6 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.41%) Shopify
2 5 (0.50%) Magento
2 5 (0.50%) Visualfiles
3 4 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.20%) Sage 200
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.10%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.10%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 466 (46.98%) Azure
2 432 (43.55%) AWS
3 219 (22.08%) GitHub
4 173 (17.44%) Azure DevOps
5 135 (13.61%) GCP
6 123 (12.40%) Serverless
7 65 (6.55%) GitHub Actions
8 62 (6.25%) Amazon S3
9 61 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
10 46 (4.64%) Amazon ECS
11 45 (4.54%) Power Platform
12 43 (4.33%) OpenShift
13 41 (4.13%) SaaS
14 39 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
15 37 (3.73%) Azure Functions
16 35 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 33 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
18 29 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 26 (2.62%) Amazon EKS
19 26 (2.62%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.54%) Internet
2 24 (2.42%) VPN
3 21 (2.12%) Wireless
4 19 (1.92%) MQTT
5 17 (1.71%) Firewall
6 15 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.21%) WAN
8 11 (1.11%) Bluetooth
8 11 (1.11%) DNS
9 7 (0.71%) HTTP
10 6 (0.60%) SSL
10 6 (0.60%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.50%) DHCP
11 5 (0.50%) Ethernet
11 5 (0.50%) Intranet
11 5 (0.50%) LAN
11 5 (0.50%) Network Security
11 5 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.50%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (11.69%) PostgreSQL
2 111 (11.19%) SQL Server
3 102 (10.28%) MySQL
4 96 (9.68%) Relational Database
5 68 (6.85%) NoSQL
6 45 (4.54%) MongoDB
7 42 (4.23%) Power BI
8 30 (3.02%) Azure SQL Database
9 27 (2.72%) Data Warehouse
9 27 (2.72%) DynamoDB
10 20 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 20 (2.02%) Redis
11 19 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
12 17 (1.71%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.61%) Amazon Athena
14 15 (1.51%) BigQuery
15 13 (1.31%) Tableau
16 12 (1.21%) Oracle Database
17 11 (1.11%) Spark SQL
18 9 (0.91%) Impala
Development Applications
1 135 (13.61%) GitLab
2 134 (13.51%) Jenkins
3 110 (11.09%) JIRA
4 49 (4.94%) Selenium
5 47 (4.74%) JUnit
5 47 (4.74%) Subversion
6 37 (3.73%) Eclipse
7 31 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
8 30 (3.02%) Bitbucket
8 30 (3.02%) Cypress.io
9 27 (2.72%) Cucumber
10 24 (2.42%) Postman
11 18 (1.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 11 (1.11%) IBM UrbanCode
12 11 (1.11%) Robot Framework
12 11 (1.11%) Visual Studio
13 10 (1.01%) JMeter
13 10 (1.01%) Maven
13 10 (1.01%) PHPUnit
14 9 (0.91%) IntelliJ
General
1 327 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 134 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (12.30%) Finance
4 97 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 77 (7.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 43 (4.33%) Multimedia
7 32 (3.23%) Electronics
8 30 (3.02%) Manufacturing
9 27 (2.72%) Law
9 27 (2.72%) Marketing
10 25 (2.52%) Banking
11 24 (2.42%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.12%) Retail
13 19 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
14 14 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.21%) Automotive
15 12 (1.21%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.11%) Legal
17 9 (0.91%) Investment Banking
17 9 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 411 (41.43%) Developer
2 191 (19.25%) Senior
3 143 (14.42%) Software Engineer
4 100 (10.08%) Software Developer
5 87 (8.77%) Senior Developer
6 82 (8.27%) Java Developer
7 77 (7.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 74 (7.46%) Data Engineer
9 67 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
10 60 (6.05%) Lead
11 51 (5.14%) Administrator
12 50 (5.04%) Junior
13 45 (4.54%) .NET Developer
14 43 (4.33%) Trainee
15 38 (3.83%) Junior Developer
16 35 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
16 35 (3.53%) Trainee Administrator
16 35 (3.53%) Web Administrator
17 33 (3.33%) Analyst
18 32 (3.23%) Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 209 (21.07%) React
2 206 (20.77%) CSS
3 199 (20.06%) HTML
4 176 (17.74%) REST
5 160 (16.13%) .NET
6 132 (13.31%) RESTful
7 95 (9.58%) Node.js
8 74 (7.46%) AngularJS
9 68 (6.85%) Spring
10 58 (5.85%) .NET Core
10 58 (5.85%) Spring Boot
11 56 (5.65%) .NET Framework
12 51 (5.14%) ASP.NET
13 50 (5.04%) Vue
13 50 (5.04%) Web Services
14 49 (4.94%) HTML5
14 49 (4.94%) Kafka
15 47 (4.74%) JSON
16 43 (4.33%) Playwright
17 39 (3.93%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 102 (10.28%) Cloud Native
2 101 (10.18%) Product Ownership
3 54 (5.44%) Distributed Systems
4 46 (4.64%) Algorithms
4 46 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
5 42 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
6 39 (3.93%) Embedded Systems
7 35 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (2.52%) IoT
9 23 (2.32%) Onboarding
10 20 (2.02%) Data Structures
11 19 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
12 18 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
12 18 (1.81%) Social Media
13 17 (1.71%) Public Cloud
14 16 (1.61%) Device Driver
15 15 (1.51%) Mobile App
15 15 (1.51%) Robotics
15 15 (1.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 200 (20.16%) Linux
2 93 (9.38%) Windows
3 33 (3.33%) CentOS
4 32 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 18 (1.81%) Unix
7 14 (1.41%) VMS
8 12 (1.21%) Embedded Linux
9 10 (1.01%) FreeRTOS
9 10 (1.01%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.91%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.81%) Android
12 5 (0.50%) CoreOS
12 5 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (0.40%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.30%) AIX
14 3 (0.30%) Debian
14 3 (0.30%) Solaris
15 2 (0.20%) zOS
16 1 (0.10%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 573 (57.76%) CI/CD
2 487 (49.09%) Agile
3 398 (40.12%) DevOps
4 293 (29.54%) Software Engineering
5 285 (28.73%) Problem-Solving
6 221 (22.28%) Test Automation
7 201 (20.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 199 (20.06%) Infrastructure as Code
9 190 (19.15%) Full-Stack Development
10 176 (17.74%) Microservices
11 173 (17.44%) AI
12 171 (17.24%) Mentoring
13 169 (17.04%) Containerisation
13 169 (17.04%) Scrum
14 160 (16.13%) Computer Science
15 120 (12.10%) Clean Code
15 120 (12.10%) SDLC
16 99 (9.98%) Analytics
17 98 (9.88%) Web Development
18 91 (9.17%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 473 (47.68%) Python
2 369 (37.20%) JavaScript
3 304 (30.65%) SQL
4 222 (22.38%) Java
5 215 (21.67%) C#
6 151 (15.22%) TypeScript
7 131 (13.21%) C++
8 96 (9.68%) Bash
9 81 (8.17%) PHP
10 71 (7.16%) PowerShell
11 57 (5.75%) C
12 39 (3.93%) R
13 38 (3.83%) Go
14 30 (3.02%) Perl
15 27 (2.72%) Bicep
16 25 (2.52%) Kotlin
17 24 (2.42%) Rust
18 18 (1.81%) T-SQL
19 15 (1.51%) MATLAB
20 14 (1.41%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 207 (20.87%) Degree
2 195 (19.66%) Security Cleared
3 134 (13.51%) SC Cleared
4 81 (8.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (7.26%) Azure Certification
6 71 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (5.65%) AWS Certification
8 49 (4.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 41 (4.13%) DV Cleared
10 33 (3.33%) Master's Degree
11 13 (1.31%) ISTQB
12 12 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (0.71%) Cisco Certification
13 7 (0.71%) HND
14 5 (0.50%) DBS Check
15 4 (0.40%) CCNA
15 4 (0.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 4 (0.40%) OSCP
15 4 (0.40%) RHCE
15 4 (0.40%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (15.42%) QA
2 55 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 53 (5.34%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.92%) WCAG
5 24 (2.42%) GDPR
6 14 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.81%) JTAG
8 7 (0.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (0.71%) NCSC
9 5 (0.50%) HIPAA
9 5 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 5 (0.50%) PMO
9 5 (0.50%) SLA
10 4 (0.40%) IEC 61508
10 4 (0.40%) MISRA
10 4 (0.40%) MISRA C
10 4 (0.40%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.30%) ECSS
12 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.20%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 364 (36.69%) Docker
2 29 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 26 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (2.02%) Firmware
4 20 (2.02%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.61%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (1.61%) vSphere
6 14 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.71%) Ceph
7 7 (0.71%) Hyper-V
8 4 (0.40%) Squid
8 4 (0.40%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 243 (24.50%) Kubernetes
2 206 (20.77%) Terraform
3 109 (10.99%) Ansible
4 37 (3.73%) Grafana
5 34 (3.43%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.42%) Puppet
7 16 (1.61%) Podman
8 15 (1.51%) Argo
8 15 (1.51%) Kibana
9 14 (1.41%) Istio
10 11 (1.11%) Nagios
10 11 (1.11%) Progress Chef
11 10 (1.01%) Packer
12 8 (0.81%) logstash
13 7 (0.71%) Check_MK
13 7 (0.71%) Rancher
14 6 (0.60%) Docker Swarm
14 6 (0.60%) linkerd
14 6 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.60%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 183 (18.45%) Microsoft
2 50 (5.04%) Google
3 48 (4.84%) Red Hat
4 43 (4.33%) Oracle
5 38 (3.83%) Splunk
6 37 (3.73%) Databricks
7 32 (3.23%) VMware
8 15 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 13 (1.31%) Dynatrace
10 13 (1.31%) IBM
11 12 (1.21%) AppDynamics
11 12 (1.21%) ScienceLogic
12 11 (1.11%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.91%) Cisco
14 8 (0.81%) OneLogin
14 8 (0.81%) Pega
14 8 (0.81%) WooCommerce
15 7 (0.71%) Dell
16 6 (0.60%) Xilinx