Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 138 140 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 -68 -7
Permanent jobs citing Git 1,581 1,105 2,258
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.33% 2.25% 3.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 33.03% 29.53% 37.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,028 732 1,207
10th Percentile £36,750 £28,550 £35,750
25th Percentile £46,467 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £101,250 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% -4.17%

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 4,787 3,742 6,097
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.03% 7.61% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,922 2,204 3,429
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £37,574
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,375 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £101,250 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -5.17%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Git job vacancy trend in the UK

Git
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Top 18 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 14 October 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
England +5 1,396 £62,500 -3.85% 1,520
UK excluding London +16 1,054 £57,500 +4.55% 901
Work from Home +13 496 £62,500 +3.73% 685
London -45 423 £80,000 +6.67% 710
North of England +45 280 £62,500 +31.58% 235
South East +18 257 £60,000 -14.29% 203
South West +3 198 £52,500 +10.53% 106
Midlands -4 158 £52,500 -16.00% 126
North West +23 131 £62,500 +25.00% 121
West Midlands -31 95 £48,750 -30.36% 81
North East -15 75 £62,500 +31.58% 32
Yorkshire -2 74 £60,000 +36.36% 86
Wales -34 67 £48,961 -18.40% 32
East Midlands +1 63 £60,000 +4.35% 45
East of England -21 59 £50,000 - 96
Scotland -4 30 £53,923 +76.80% 79
Northern Ireland -76 3 - - 36
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 55 (3.48%) Apache Airflow
2 52 (3.29%) Confluence
3 49 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 44 (2.78%) Apache
5 39 (2.47%) SharePoint
6 18 (1.14%) WordPress
7 17 (1.08%) IIS
8 14 (0.89%) OpenStack
9 12 (0.76%) CMS
9 12 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
10 11 (0.70%) nginx
11 10 (0.63%) JBoss
12 8 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (0.44%) Tomcat
14 6 (0.38%) Jupyter
15 4 (0.25%) Palantir Foundry
15 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
16 3 (0.19%) Ethereum
16 3 (0.19%) Hedera
16 3 (0.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 27 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.82%) Simulink
4 5 (0.32%) Stateflow
5 4 (0.25%) Lightworks
6 3 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.13%) Revit
7 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.063%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.063%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.063%) Elementor
8 1 (0.063%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 23 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.76%) Shopify
3 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
3 4 (0.25%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.19%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.19%) Dynamics GP
4 3 (0.19%) Magento
4 3 (0.19%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
5 2 (0.13%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.063%) Elite 3E
6 1 (0.063%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.063%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 745 (47.12%) Azure
2 659 (41.68%) AWS
3 314 (19.86%) GitHub
4 272 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
5 238 (15.05%) GCP
6 209 (13.22%) Serverless
7 134 (8.48%) Power Platform
8 118 (7.46%) AWS Lambda
9 100 (6.33%) GitHub Actions
10 96 (6.07%) Amazon S3
11 90 (5.69%) AWS CloudFormation
12 74 (4.68%) Amazon ECS
13 73 (4.62%) SaaS
14 72 (4.55%) Azure Functions
15 58 (3.67%) Cloud Computing
16 50 (3.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 48 (3.04%) Azure Data Factory
17 48 (3.04%) Azure Monitor
17 48 (3.04%) dbt
18 46 (2.91%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 45 (2.85%) Internet
2 30 (1.90%) VPN
3 28 (1.77%) DNS
4 26 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 25 (1.58%) Wireless
6 24 (1.52%) Firewall
7 19 (1.20%) MQTT
7 19 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (1.08%) WAN
9 11 (0.70%) Broadband
9 11 (0.70%) DHCP
10 10 (0.63%) HTTP
10 10 (0.63%) LAN
11 9 (0.57%) 5G
11 9 (0.57%) Bluetooth
11 9 (0.57%) LTE
11 9 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
11 9 (0.57%) Wireshark
12 8 (0.51%) Multicast
12 8 (0.51%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 214 (13.54%) PostgreSQL
2 173 (10.94%) SQL Server
3 169 (10.69%) Relational Database
4 156 (9.87%) MySQL
5 130 (8.22%) NoSQL
6 116 (7.34%) Power BI
7 106 (6.70%) MongoDB
8 79 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
9 58 (3.67%) DynamoDB
10 57 (3.61%) Redis
11 55 (3.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 52 (3.29%) Amazon RDS
13 47 (2.97%) Data Lake
13 47 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
14 43 (2.72%) Metadata
15 37 (2.34%) Amazon Athena
16 28 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
17 27 (1.71%) Delta Lake
18 26 (1.64%) Tableau
19 22 (1.39%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 250 (15.81%) Jenkins
2 216 (13.66%) GitLab
3 145 (9.17%) JIRA
4 68 (4.30%) Subversion
5 63 (3.98%) JUnit
6 53 (3.35%) Selenium
7 39 (2.47%) Bitbucket
7 39 (2.47%) Cypress.io
8 38 (2.40%) Eclipse
9 37 (2.34%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 33 (2.09%) Maven
11 31 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
12 29 (1.83%) Postman
13 26 (1.64%) Cucumber
14 21 (1.33%) Visual Studio
15 20 (1.27%) Vite
16 17 (1.08%) Mockito
17 14 (0.89%) GDB
18 12 (0.76%) IntelliJ
18 12 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 558 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 319 (20.18%) Finance
3 286 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
4 196 (12.40%) Public Sector
5 158 (9.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 66 (4.17%) Banking
7 55 (3.48%) Law
8 53 (3.35%) Marketing
9 42 (2.66%) Manufacturing
10 32 (2.02%) Retail
11 31 (1.96%) Telecoms
12 27 (1.71%) Aerospace
12 27 (1.71%) Electronics
13 22 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (1.27%) Legal
15 15 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
16 12 (0.76%) Publishing
17 9 (0.57%) Games
17 9 (0.57%) Tech for Good
18 8 (0.51%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 600 (37.95%) Developer
2 347 (21.95%) Senior
3 192 (12.14%) Software Engineer
4 161 (10.18%) Data Engineer
5 153 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 139 (8.79%) Senior Developer
7 126 (7.97%) Software Developer
8 109 (6.89%) Lead
9 100 (6.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 100 (6.33%) Java Developer
10 68 (4.30%) .NET Developer
11 63 (3.98%) Junior
12 51 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 44 (2.78%) Junior Developer
14 43 (2.72%) Senior Data Engineer
15 42 (2.66%) Trainee
16 40 (2.53%) Full-Stack Engineer
17 39 (2.47%) Analyst
18 38 (2.40%) Python Engineer
19 36 (2.28%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 340 (21.51%) Terraform
2 290 (18.34%) REST
3 286 (18.09%) React
4 238 (15.05%) .NET
5 211 (13.35%) CSS
6 203 (12.84%) RESTful
7 199 (12.59%) HTML
8 150 (9.49%) Node.js
9 112 (7.08%) Kafka
10 107 (6.77%) Spring
11 103 (6.51%) AngularJS
12 88 (5.57%) Spring Boot
13 76 (4.81%) ASP.NET
14 73 (4.62%) .NET Core
14 73 (4.62%) PySpark
15 71 (4.49%) JSON
16 67 (4.24%) .NET Framework
17 64 (4.05%) HTML5
18 62 (3.92%) Playwright
19 61 (3.86%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 206 (13.03%) Cloud Native
2 156 (9.87%) Product Ownership
3 87 (5.50%) Distributed Systems
4 69 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
5 67 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
6 61 (3.86%) Algorithms
6 61 (3.86%) Linux Command Line
7 50 (3.16%) Legacy Systems
8 47 (2.97%) Embedded Systems
8 47 (2.97%) Onboarding
9 43 (2.72%) Virtual Team
10 38 (2.40%) IoT
11 34 (2.15%) Public Cloud
12 33 (2.09%) AI Agents
13 32 (2.02%) Management Information System
14 29 (1.83%) Data Structures
15 27 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
16 24 (1.52%) Mobile App
17 20 (1.27%) Device Driver
18 19 (1.20%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 351 (22.20%) Linux
2 121 (7.65%) Windows
3 56 (3.54%) CentOS
4 44 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 30 (1.90%) Unix
7 18 (1.14%) VMS
8 14 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
9 13 (0.82%) Android
10 11 (0.70%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.38%) Apple iOS
12 6 (0.38%) FreeRTOS
13 5 (0.32%) CoreOS
13 5 (0.32%) Debian
13 5 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.19%) AIX
14 3 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
14 3 (0.19%) Solaris
15 2 (0.13%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,022 (64.64%) CI/CD
2 760 (48.07%) Agile
3 689 (43.58%) DevOps
4 490 (30.99%) Problem-Solving
5 473 (29.92%) Software Engineering
6 376 (23.78%) AI
7 372 (23.53%) Infrastructure as Code
8 364 (23.02%) Test Automation
9 351 (22.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 321 (20.30%) Containerisation
11 314 (19.86%) Mentoring
12 304 (19.23%) Microservices
13 248 (15.69%) Full-Stack Development
14 240 (15.18%) Computer Science
15 226 (14.29%) Scrum
16 216 (13.66%) SDLC
17 194 (12.27%) Analytics
18 185 (11.70%) Data Modelling
19 183 (11.57%) Decision-Making
20 182 (11.51%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 754 (47.69%) Python
2 534 (33.78%) SQL
3 459 (29.03%) JavaScript
4 348 (22.01%) Java
5 334 (21.13%) C#
6 247 (15.62%) TypeScript
7 188 (11.89%) C++
8 135 (8.54%) Bash
9 91 (5.76%) PowerShell
10 80 (5.06%) PHP
11 68 (4.30%) C
12 56 (3.54%) Go
13 48 (3.04%) Shell Script
14 43 (2.72%) Bicep
15 42 (2.66%) Kotlin
16 35 (2.21%) Perl
17 30 (1.90%) T-SQL
18 29 (1.83%) Rust
19 28 (1.77%) Apex Code
20 23 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 336 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 321 (20.30%) Degree
3 228 (14.42%) SC Cleared
4 140 (8.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 74 (4.68%) DV Cleared
6 62 (3.92%) Azure Certification
7 56 (3.54%) Master's Degree
8 47 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (1.71%) AWS Certification
10 24 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
11 13 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 12 (0.76%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 10 (0.63%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (0.57%) PhD
15 8 (0.51%) DBS Check
15 8 (0.51%) HND
16 6 (0.38%) CCNA
16 6 (0.38%) OSCP
16 6 (0.38%) RHCE
16 6 (0.38%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (15.94%) QA
2 152 (9.61%) Data Quality
3 98 (6.20%) Accessibility
4 47 (2.97%) GDPR
5 46 (2.91%) WCAG
6 14 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 8 (0.51%) JTAG
8 8 (0.51%) SLA
9 7 (0.44%) NCSC
10 5 (0.32%) EU AI Act
10 5 (0.32%) PMO
11 4 (0.25%) ECSS
11 4 (0.25%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 4 (0.25%) MiFID
11 4 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 4 (0.25%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.19%) UCITS
13 2 (0.13%) AUTOSAR
System Software
1 609 (38.52%) Docker
2 48 (3.04%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.33%) vSphere
5 20 (1.27%) Firmware
6 17 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (0.82%) Embedded Firmware
9 9 (0.57%) Hyper-V
10 7 (0.44%) Ceph
11 6 (0.38%) Squid
11 6 (0.38%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.19%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
14 1 (0.063%) Oracle Clusterware
14 1 (0.063%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.063%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 414 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 162 (10.25%) Ansible
3 96 (6.07%) Grafana
4 67 (4.24%) Prometheus
5 34 (2.15%) Argo
6 33 (2.09%) Puppet
7 21 (1.33%) Rancher
8 19 (1.20%) Nagios
9 18 (1.14%) Istio
10 16 (1.01%) Podman
11 13 (0.82%) Kibana
12 11 (0.70%) Packer
13 10 (0.63%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.63%) linkerd
13 10 (0.63%) Progress Chef
14 9 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.51%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 8 (0.51%) logstash
15 8 (0.51%) yum
16 7 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 303 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 109 (6.89%) Google
3 100 (6.33%) Databricks
4 64 (4.05%) Splunk
5 59 (3.73%) Oracle
6 43 (2.72%) Red Hat
7 41 (2.59%) VMware
8 37 (2.34%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.21%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.27%) Dynatrace
11 19 (1.20%) ServiceNow
12 17 (1.08%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.89%) Mistral
14 13 (0.82%) Cisco
15 12 (0.76%) Sage
15 12 (0.76%) SAP
15 12 (0.76%) ScienceLogic
16 11 (0.70%) Foundry
16 11 (0.70%) HP
16 11 (0.70%) WooCommerce