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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 76 60
Rank change year-on-year -61 -16 -32
Permanent jobs citing Git 1,348 3,338 4,421
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.26% 3.14% 4.98%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.06% 35.92% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 887 2,276 2,705
10th Percentile £38,825 £35,000 £40,850
25th Percentile £49,250 £43,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,125 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £59,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.78% +7.27%

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 5,845 9,294 12,405
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.80% 8.73% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 3,356 6,302 8,049
10th Percentile £37,574 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,000 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.83% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -60 1,205 £65,000 +13.04% 1,998
UK excluding London -88 819 £60,000 +9.09% 1,412
Work from Home -57 575 £65,000 +15.04% 959
London -23 467 £70,500 +0.71% 799
South East -64 233 £65,000 +9.70% 344
North of England -106 175 £59,875 +8.86% 396
Midlands -8 162 £60,000 +20.00% 170
South West -23 122 £60,000 +20.00% 174
North West -102 118 £56,250 +2.27% 239
West Midlands +22 116 £65,000 +30.00% 111
East of England -30 55 £50,000 +8.70% 161
Scotland -31 52 £58,750 -4.86% 83
Yorkshire -48 48 £70,000 +33.33% 121
East Midlands -4 46 £50,000 -2.44% 59
Wales -20 30 £60,000 +33.33% 68
North East +20 10 £50,000 +17.65% 41
Northern Ireland +40 2 - - 32

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
1 142 (10.53%) Confluence
2 46 (3.41%) CMS
3 28 (2.08%) IIS
4 26 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 24 (1.78%) WordPress
6 22 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
7 21 (1.56%) nginx
8 19 (1.41%) Apache
9 16 (1.19%) JBoss
10 13 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
11 12 (0.89%) Red Hat Fuse
12 9 (0.67%) Tomcat
12 9 (0.67%) Umbraco
13 8 (0.59%) Headless CMS
14 7 (0.52%) Apache Solr
14 7 (0.52%) SharePoint
15 6 (0.45%) OpenStack
16 5 (0.37%) Drupal
17 4 (0.30%) Oracle SOA Suite
18 3 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 14 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.52%) Simulink
3 6 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.37%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.37%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.30%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 3 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.074%) CANalyzer
7 1 (0.074%) Elementor
7 1 (0.074%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.074%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.074%) Notion
7 1 (0.074%) Sketch
7 1 (0.074%) Trello
7 1 (0.074%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (0.89%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (0.74%) Shopify
3 9 (0.67%) NetSuite
4 7 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.45%) Magento
6 5 (0.37%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.15%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
8 1 (0.074%) Endur
8 1 (0.074%) FastStats
8 1 (0.074%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.074%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 449 (33.31%) AWS
2 443 (32.86%) Azure
3 162 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
4 159 (11.80%) GCP
5 142 (10.53%) GitHub
6 120 (8.90%) Serverless
7 116 (8.61%) Amazon S3
8 95 (7.05%) Amazon EC2
9 72 (5.34%) SaaS
10 63 (4.67%) Power Platform
11 61 (4.53%) Azure Service Bus
12 60 (4.45%) AWS Lambda
13 50 (3.71%) AWS KMS
14 48 (3.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 38 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 38 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
16 37 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
16 37 (2.74%) npm
17 36 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 34 (2.52%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.04%) Firewall
2 60 (4.45%) DNS
3 51 (3.78%) HTTP
4 33 (2.45%) WAN
5 27 (2.00%) TCP/IP
6 26 (1.93%) VPN
7 24 (1.78%) SSH
8 23 (1.71%) SMTP
9 21 (1.56%) SD-WAN
10 19 (1.41%) FTP
11 10 (0.74%) Internet
11 10 (0.74%) Multicast
12 9 (0.67%) LAN
13 8 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
14 7 (0.52%) Wireless
15 6 (0.45%) BGP
15 6 (0.45%) DHCP
15 6 (0.45%) IOS XR
16 5 (0.37%) 5G
16 5 (0.37%) FIX Connectivity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 218 (16.17%) MySQL
2 175 (12.98%) SQL Server
3 135 (10.01%) Relational Database
4 132 (9.79%) PostgreSQL
5 92 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 72 (5.34%) Amazon RDS
7 71 (5.27%) Elasticsearch
8 64 (4.75%) MongoDB
9 49 (3.64%) Power BI
10 46 (3.41%) Tableau
11 40 (2.97%) Data Lake
12 39 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
13 31 (2.30%) DynamoDB
14 29 (2.15%) Big Data
15 24 (1.78%) Amazon Aurora
16 23 (1.71%) Redis
17 22 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
17 22 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
18 17 (1.26%) BigQuery
18 17 (1.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 244 (18.10%) JIRA
2 234 (17.36%) Jenkins
3 89 (6.60%) JUnit
4 83 (6.16%) Maven
5 68 (5.04%) Bitbucket
6 66 (4.90%) GitLab
7 56 (4.15%) Visual Studio
8 55 (4.08%) SonarQube
9 54 (4.01%) webpack
10 53 (3.93%) Subversion
11 48 (3.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 44 (3.26%) Selenium
12 44 (3.26%) Team Foundation Server
13 39 (2.89%) Sonatype Nexus
14 37 (2.74%) Cypress.io
15 36 (2.67%) NUnit
16 34 (2.52%) Cucumber
16 34 (2.52%) Vagrant
17 29 (2.15%) Mockito
17 29 (2.15%) MSBuild
General
1 416 (30.86%) Social Skills
2 385 (28.56%) Finance
3 169 (12.54%) Banking
4 165 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
5 103 (7.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 92 (6.82%) Retail
7 85 (6.31%) Public Sector
8 77 (5.71%) Law
9 70 (5.19%) Games
10 58 (4.30%) Marketing
11 48 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
12 33 (2.45%) Aerospace
13 30 (2.23%) Manufacturing
14 29 (2.15%) Front Office
15 26 (1.93%) Electronics
16 21 (1.56%) Telecoms
17 18 (1.34%) Investment Banking
18 17 (1.26%) Back Office
19 16 (1.19%) Advertising
20 14 (1.04%) Legal
Job Titles
1 577 (42.80%) Developer
2 321 (23.81%) Senior
3 207 (15.36%) Software Engineer
4 151 (11.20%) Senior Developer
5 116 (8.61%) Lead
6 99 (7.34%) Full-Stack Developer
7 84 (6.23%) Java Developer
8 71 (5.27%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 70 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 64 (4.75%) .NET Developer
11 61 (4.53%) Architect
12 59 (4.38%) DevOps Engineer
13 50 (3.71%) C# Developer
14 47 (3.49%) React Developer
15 42 (3.12%) JavaScript Developer
16 41 (3.04%) Analyst
16 41 (3.04%) Java Engineer
16 41 (3.04%) Junior
16 41 (3.04%) Python Developer
17 40 (2.97%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (26.41%) HTML
2 334 (24.78%) CSS
3 285 (21.14%) React
4 284 (21.07%) .NET
5 220 (16.32%) RESTful
6 206 (15.28%) REST
7 152 (11.28%) AngularJS
8 146 (10.83%) Node.js
9 138 (10.24%) Web Services
10 136 (10.09%) Spring
11 113 (8.38%) Vue
12 110 (8.16%) JSON
12 110 (8.16%) Spring Boot
13 104 (7.72%) HTML5
14 100 (7.42%) ASP.NET
15 92 (6.82%) XML
16 87 (6.45%) .NET Framework
17 79 (5.86%) Jest
18 73 (5.42%) Bootstrap
18 73 (5.42%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 76 (5.64%) Mobile App
2 67 (4.97%) Algorithms
3 60 (4.45%) Distributed Systems
4 52 (3.86%) Cloud Native
5 45 (3.34%) Product Ownership
6 38 (2.82%) Management Information System
7 33 (2.45%) Data Centre
8 32 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
9 31 (2.30%) Virtual Team
10 29 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
10 29 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 27 (2.00%) Replication
12 24 (1.78%) Equities
13 22 (1.63%) IoT
14 21 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
15 20 (1.48%) Data Structures
15 20 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
16 19 (1.41%) Public Cloud
17 16 (1.19%) FPGA
17 16 (1.19%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 298 (22.11%) Linux
2 134 (9.94%) Windows
3 55 (4.08%) Unix
4 37 (2.74%) Android
4 37 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (2.74%) VMS
5 30 (2.23%) Apple iOS
6 20 (1.48%) Amazon Linux
6 20 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 16 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 15 (1.11%) CentOS
9 13 (0.96%) Rocky
10 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
12 4 (0.30%) Debian
13 3 (0.22%) zOS
14 2 (0.15%) CoreOS
15 1 (0.074%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 597 (44.29%) Agile
2 559 (41.47%) CI/CD
3 494 (36.65%) DevOps
4 410 (30.42%) Problem-Solving
5 342 (25.37%) Software Engineering
6 262 (19.44%) Microservices
7 239 (17.73%) Test Automation
8 201 (14.91%) Mentoring
9 196 (14.54%) Full-Stack Development
10 183 (13.58%) Scrum
11 169 (12.54%) TDD
12 153 (11.35%) Computer Science
13 147 (10.91%) Continuous Integration
14 146 (10.83%) Code Quality
15 143 (10.61%) User Experience
16 139 (10.31%) Containerisation
17 137 (10.16%) MVC
18 134 (9.94%) Analytics
19 132 (9.79%) Infrastructure as Code
20 130 (9.64%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 534 (39.61%) JavaScript
2 475 (35.24%) SQL
3 459 (34.05%) Python
4 291 (21.59%) C#
5 285 (21.14%) Java
6 203 (15.06%) TypeScript
7 127 (9.42%) PHP
8 103 (7.64%) PowerShell
9 79 (5.86%) Bash
10 76 (5.64%) C++
11 60 (4.45%) C
12 51 (3.78%) Groovy
13 35 (2.60%) Go
14 34 (2.52%) T-SQL
15 30 (2.23%) Perl
15 30 (2.23%) Shell Script
16 26 (1.93%) Bicep
17 23 (1.71%) Kotlin
17 23 (1.71%) R
18 16 (1.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (18.18%) Degree
2 152 (11.28%) Security Cleared
3 122 (9.05%) SC Cleared
4 95 (7.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 51 (3.78%) DBS Check
6 48 (3.56%) Azure Certification
7 44 (3.26%) BPSS Clearance
7 44 (3.26%) Master's Degree
8 20 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 20 (1.48%) PhD
9 15 (1.11%) DV Cleared
10 11 (0.82%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 6 (0.45%) HND
12 5 (0.37%) HNC
12 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 4 (0.30%) AWS Certified Developer
13 4 (0.30%) CCNP
13 4 (0.30%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.30%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.23%) QA
2 52 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 36 (2.67%) GDPR
4 25 (1.85%) Data Quality
5 16 (1.19%) SLA
6 15 (1.11%) WCAG
7 7 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.37%) JTAG
9 2 (0.15%) NCSC
9 2 (0.15%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.074%) AUTOSAR
10 1 (0.074%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.074%) ECSS
10 1 (0.074%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.074%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.074%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.074%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.074%) PMO
10 1 (0.074%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 355 (26.34%) Docker
2 39 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
3 32 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (1.85%) DFS Replication
5 21 (1.56%) Firmware
6 9 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
7 8 (0.59%) Apache Flume
7 8 (0.59%) NFS
7 8 (0.59%) Postfix
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 5 (0.37%) HDFS
10 4 (0.30%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.30%) Squid
10 4 (0.30%) zsh
11 3 (0.22%) KVM
11 3 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
12 2 (0.15%) vCloud
12 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 244 (18.10%) Kubernetes
2 188 (13.95%) Terraform
3 162 (12.02%) Ansible
4 76 (5.64%) Grafana
5 61 (4.53%) Prometheus
6 35 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.41%) Progress Chef
8 14 (1.04%) Istio
8 14 (1.04%) Kibana
9 13 (0.96%) Puppet
10 8 (0.59%) Nagios
10 8 (0.59%) Oozie
11 5 (0.37%) Argo
11 5 (0.37%) logstash
11 5 (0.37%) Nessus
11 5 (0.37%) Packer
11 5 (0.37%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.30%) HAProxy
13 3 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
14 2 (0.15%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 133 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.82%) Oracle
3 86 (6.38%) Databricks
4 70 (5.19%) Atlassian
5 54 (4.01%) Google
6 47 (3.49%) Red Hat
7 44 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 39 (2.89%) VMware
9 28 (2.08%) IBM
10 24 (1.78%) Splunk
11 23 (1.71%) Cisco
12 16 (1.19%) Juniper
12 16 (1.19%) Meraki
13 15 (1.11%) Rollbar
14 13 (0.96%) Adobe
14 13 (0.96%) Bloomberg
14 13 (0.96%) MuleSoft
14 13 (0.96%) Salesforce
15 12 (0.89%) Okta
15 12 (0.89%) Twitter