Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring Git skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Git over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 77 61
Rank change year-on-year -24 -16 -34
Permanent jobs citing Git 1,449 3,369 5,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.78% 3.43% 4.97%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.36% 35.22% 34.35%
Number of salaries quoted 979 2,372 2,978
10th Percentile £37,000 £35,000 £40,192
25th Percentile £47,750 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £64,470
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -10.81% +7.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £81,125
90th Percentile £95,000 £91,993 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +7.48%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,498 9,566 15,038
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.54% 9.73% 14.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,807 6,755 9,183
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £96,750 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the UK

Git
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Git.

Salary trend for Git in the UK

Git
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England -23 1,310 £60,669 +5.51% 1,185
UK excluding London -38 926 £60,000 +9.09% 817
Work from Home +8 681 £62,750 +9.13% 852
London -4 475 £70,000 -3.45% 441
South East +2 318 £60,000 - 165
North of England -72 190 £58,500 +6.36% 265
South West -16 143 £62,500 +25.00% 113
Midlands -28 134 £52,500 +5.00% 115
North West -85 124 £57,500 - 164
West Midlands -28 79 £58,250 +16.50% 81
Yorkshire -18 61 £65,000 +23.81% 74
East of England -9 60 £54,500 +21.11% 85
Scotland -6 58 £58,750 -9.62% 45
East Midlands +5 55 £37,500 -25.00% 32
Wales -13 35 £50,000 +5.26% 25
North East +26 9 £55,000 +37.50% 29
Northern Ireland +31 3 - - 17

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 118 (8.14%) Confluence
2 60 (4.14%) CMS
3 39 (2.69%) WordPress
4 29 (2.00%) Apache Spark
5 27 (1.86%) Apache Airflow
6 13 (0.90%) JBoss
6 13 (0.90%) nginx
7 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 12 (0.83%) Red Hat Fuse
7 12 (0.83%) Tomcat
8 11 (0.76%) IIS
9 10 (0.69%) Apache
9 10 (0.69%) Drupal
9 10 (0.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 9 (0.62%) SharePoint
11 7 (0.48%) Headless CMS
12 6 (0.41%) OpenStack
13 5 (0.35%) CICS
14 4 (0.28%) Apache Solr
14 4 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 12 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.62%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.41%) Simulink
4 3 (0.21%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.21%) Trello
5 2 (0.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 2 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 1 (0.069%) Adobe XD
6 1 (0.069%) Blender
6 1 (0.069%) GNU Octave
6 1 (0.069%) Maya
6 1 (0.069%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.069%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 20 (1.38%) Shopify
2 15 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (0.62%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.35%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 2 (0.14%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
6 1 (0.069%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.069%) Endur
6 1 (0.069%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.069%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.069%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.069%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.069%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 448 (30.92%) Azure
2 425 (29.33%) AWS
3 212 (14.63%) GCP
4 168 (11.59%) Azure DevOps
5 166 (11.46%) GitHub
6 132 (9.11%) Serverless
7 78 (5.38%) Amazon S3
8 66 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
9 63 (4.35%) SaaS
10 55 (3.80%) Amazon EC2
11 52 (3.59%) Azure Service Bus
12 47 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
12 47 (3.24%) Power Platform
13 46 (3.17%) Amazon EKS
13 46 (3.17%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 38 (2.62%) Azure Data Factory
14 38 (2.62%) npm
15 36 (2.48%) SonarCloud
16 31 (2.14%) Azure Functions
17 29 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (2.14%) HTTP
2 28 (1.93%) DNS
3 18 (1.24%) Firewall
3 18 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 17 (1.17%) WAN
5 13 (0.90%) SD-WAN
6 12 (0.83%) 5G
6 12 (0.83%) VPN
7 10 (0.69%) Internet
8 9 (0.62%) Wireless
9 8 (0.55%) Bluetooth
9 8 (0.55%) Multicast
10 7 (0.48%) Network Security
11 6 (0.41%) DHCP
12 5 (0.35%) FIX Connectivity
12 5 (0.35%) SMTP
12 5 (0.35%) SSH
13 4 (0.28%) Telnet
13 4 (0.28%) VLAN
13 4 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 258 (17.81%) MySQL
2 184 (12.70%) SQL Server
3 145 (10.01%) NoSQL
4 144 (9.94%) Relational Database
5 141 (9.73%) PostgreSQL
6 73 (5.04%) MongoDB
7 57 (3.93%) Elasticsearch
8 56 (3.86%) Tableau
9 35 (2.42%) Power BI
10 31 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
11 29 (2.00%) Redis
12 25 (1.73%) Data Lake
13 22 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
14 21 (1.45%) Big Data
15 20 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 18 (1.24%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.17%) RDBMS
18 16 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
18 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 14 (0.97%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 219 (15.11%) JIRA
2 202 (13.94%) Jenkins
3 86 (5.94%) JUnit
4 83 (5.73%) GitLab
5 81 (5.59%) Maven
6 79 (5.45%) Bitbucket
7 78 (5.38%) webpack
8 74 (5.11%) Visual Studio
9 69 (4.76%) Selenium
10 64 (4.42%) SonarQube
11 54 (3.73%) Octopus Deploy
12 52 (3.59%) Team Foundation Server
13 47 (3.24%) Subversion
14 44 (3.04%) Cypress.io
15 39 (2.69%) Cucumber
16 35 (2.42%) MSBuild
17 34 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
18 33 (2.28%) Gradle
19 29 (2.00%) Mockito
20 27 (1.86%) NUnit
General
1 423 (29.19%) Social Skills
2 377 (26.02%) Finance
3 171 (11.80%) Banking
4 161 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 125 (8.63%) Retail
6 113 (7.80%) Games
7 72 (4.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 71 (4.90%) Public Sector
9 42 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (2.83%) Aerospace
11 39 (2.69%) Telecoms
12 36 (2.48%) Electronics
13 34 (2.35%) Marketing
14 32 (2.21%) Law
14 32 (2.21%) Manufacturing
15 19 (1.31%) Advertising
16 18 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
17 16 (1.10%) Investment Banking
18 15 (1.04%) Automotive
18 15 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 634 (43.75%) Developer
2 427 (29.47%) Senior
3 231 (15.94%) Software Engineer
4 191 (13.18%) Senior Developer
5 106 (7.32%) Lead
6 95 (6.56%) Senior Software Engineer
7 91 (6.28%) Full-Stack Developer
8 67 (4.62%) Java Developer
9 63 (4.35%) PHP Developer
10 60 (4.14%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 56 (3.86%) .NET Developer
12 54 (3.73%) Architect
13 49 (3.38%) JavaScript Developer
14 47 (3.24%) Analyst
14 47 (3.24%) C# Developer
15 45 (3.11%) Software Developer
16 44 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
17 42 (2.90%) React Developer
18 39 (2.69%) Python Developer
18 39 (2.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 429 (29.61%) HTML
2 402 (27.74%) CSS
3 327 (22.57%) React
4 321 (22.15%) .NET
5 232 (16.01%) RESTful
6 192 (13.25%) Node.js
7 190 (13.11%) REST
8 140 (9.66%) AngularJS
9 138 (9.52%) Web Services
10 126 (8.70%) .NET Framework
11 124 (8.56%) Spring
12 121 (8.35%) ASP.NET
13 114 (7.87%) HTML5
14 113 (7.80%) JSON
15 108 (7.45%) Laravel
16 104 (7.18%) XML
17 103 (7.11%) Vue
18 95 (6.56%) Spring Boot
19 85 (5.87%) Entity Framework
20 83 (5.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 115 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 71 (4.90%) Algorithms
3 54 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
4 53 (3.66%) Management Information System
5 52 (3.59%) Cloud Native
6 46 (3.17%) Product Ownership
7 39 (2.69%) Greenfield Project
8 37 (2.55%) Virtual Team
9 36 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
10 31 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
11 29 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
11 29 (2.00%) Public Cloud
12 24 (1.66%) Embedded Systems
13 23 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
13 23 (1.59%) Mobile Games
14 20 (1.38%) IoT
15 18 (1.24%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.24%) Equities
16 16 (1.10%) e-Learning
16 16 (1.10%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 263 (18.15%) Linux
2 124 (8.56%) Windows
3 55 (3.80%) Android
4 49 (3.38%) Unix
5 38 (2.62%) Apple iOS
6 22 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (1.31%) Windows Server
8 16 (1.10%) CentOS
9 13 (0.90%) Rocky
9 13 (0.90%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.55%) VMS
11 5 (0.35%) Debian
11 5 (0.35%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (0.35%) zOS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.069%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.069%) Solaris
13 1 (0.069%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 598 (41.27%) Agile
2 529 (36.51%) CI/CD
3 495 (34.16%) DevOps
4 422 (29.12%) Software Engineering
5 418 (28.85%) Problem-Solving
6 251 (17.32%) Microservices
7 249 (17.18%) Test Automation
8 231 (15.94%) Full-Stack Development
9 208 (14.35%) MVC
10 196 (13.53%) Mentoring
11 191 (13.18%) Computer Science
12 187 (12.91%) TDD
13 166 (11.46%) Analytics
14 163 (11.25%) Scrum
14 163 (11.25%) Web Development
15 153 (10.56%) OOP
16 151 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
16 151 (10.42%) User Experience
17 149 (10.28%) Code Quality
18 147 (10.14%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 613 (42.31%) JavaScript
2 498 (34.37%) SQL
3 481 (33.20%) Python
4 349 (24.09%) C#
5 299 (20.63%) Java
6 222 (15.32%) TypeScript
7 194 (13.39%) PHP
8 92 (6.35%) C++
9 79 (5.45%) C
10 67 (4.62%) Bash
11 55 (3.80%) PowerShell
12 41 (2.83%) T-SQL
13 35 (2.42%) Go
14 26 (1.79%) Kotlin
15 19 (1.31%) Perl
15 19 (1.31%) Shell Script
16 18 (1.24%) Objective-C
17 16 (1.10%) R
17 16 (1.10%) Swift
18 14 (0.97%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 316 (21.81%) Degree
2 135 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 118 (8.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 76 (5.24%) SC Cleared
5 57 (3.93%) Master's Degree
6 50 (3.45%) DBS Check
7 49 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 19 (1.31%) PhD
9 16 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 15 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (0.90%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.62%) HND
13 7 (0.48%) AWS Certification
13 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 6 (0.41%) ISTQB
15 5 (0.35%) HNC
16 4 (0.28%) OCP
16 4 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
17 3 (0.21%) RHCSA
18 2 (0.14%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (6.42%) QA
2 48 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 39 (2.69%) GDPR
4 24 (1.66%) WCAG
5 15 (1.04%) SLA
6 7 (0.48%) Data Quality
6 7 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.28%) PMO
8 3 (0.21%) JTAG
9 2 (0.14%) NCSC
9 2 (0.14%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.069%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.069%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.069%) ECSS
10 1 (0.069%) IFRS
10 1 (0.069%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.069%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.069%) ISO 26262
10 1 (0.069%) MISRA
10 1 (0.069%) MISRA C
System Software
1 389 (26.85%) Docker
2 19 (1.31%) Active Directory
3 16 (1.10%) Firmware
3 16 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
5 6 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.35%) Apache Flume
6 5 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.14%) Postfix
7 2 (0.14%) vSphere
8 1 (0.069%) HDFS
8 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 302 (20.84%) Kubernetes
2 148 (10.21%) Ansible
3 147 (10.14%) Terraform
4 30 (2.07%) Grafana
5 21 (1.45%) Prometheus
6 16 (1.10%) Istio
6 16 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
7 12 (0.83%) Argo
7 12 (0.83%) Nagios
8 11 (0.76%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.55%) Kustomize
10 7 (0.48%) Kibana
11 6 (0.41%) Packer
12 5 (0.35%) Oozie
13 4 (0.28%) CA Endevor
13 4 (0.28%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.28%) Puppet
14 3 (0.21%) Control-M
14 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Satellite
15 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 140 (9.66%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.73%) Databricks
3 79 (5.45%) Oracle
4 74 (5.11%) Atlassian
5 60 (4.14%) Google
6 50 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 48 (3.31%) IBM
8 25 (1.73%) VMware
9 22 (1.52%) Twitter
10 15 (1.04%) New Relic
10 15 (1.04%) WooCommerce
11 14 (0.97%) MuleSoft
12 12 (0.83%) Okta
12 12 (0.83%) Splunk
13 11 (0.76%) ServiceNow
14 10 (0.69%) SAP
15 9 (0.62%) Adobe
15 9 (0.62%) Salesforce
15 9 (0.62%) Siemens
15 9 (0.62%) Telerik