Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Git skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Git over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 65 42 36
Rank change year-on-year -23 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Git 2,365 8,103 9,795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.43% 6.47% 7.57%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.12% 35.66% 36.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,749 3,981 5,779
10th Percentile £41,250 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £100,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% +5.26%

All Development Application Skills
UK

Git is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,932 22,722 26,609
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.99% 18.13% 20.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,296 12,823 16,464
10th Percentile £42,439 £39,750 £36,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £82,548 £81,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £98,750 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £59,526 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.23% +10.00% -

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 1,982 £65,000 - 934
UK excluding London -13 1,589 £60,000 +4.35% 696
Work from Home -21 1,266 £65,175 +4.28% 581
London -49 636 £72,500 -3.33% 340
North of England -2 451 £57,500 +4.55% 193
South East -8 385 £65,000 +8.33% 193
North West -5 244 £59,000 +2.61% 110
South West -19 231 £55,000 -8.33% 96
Yorkshire +18 200 £55,000 +4.76% 71
Midlands -25 176 £56,000 +6.67% 85
Scotland -12 158 £70,000 +17.60% 54
Wales +22 97 £55,000 +9.45% 28
West Midlands -33 96 £55,000 - 59
East Midlands -19 80 £57,500 +15.00% 25
East of England -17 76 £65,000 +8.33% 57
Northern Ireland -5 34 £50,000 -6.54% 3
North East +4 13 £57,500 +27.78% 14

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
1 168 (7.10%) Confluence
2 74 (3.13%) CMS
3 41 (1.73%) Apache
3 41 (1.73%) WordPress
4 40 (1.69%) IIS
5 37 (1.56%) SharePoint
6 29 (1.23%) WebSphere
7 28 (1.18%) Tomcat
8 26 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
8 26 (1.10%) Apache Spark
9 20 (0.85%) Umbraco
10 19 (0.80%) Drupal
11 18 (0.76%) OpenStack
12 17 (0.72%) nginx
13 16 (0.68%) WebSphere Application Server
14 13 (0.55%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 13 (0.55%) JBoss
15 12 (0.51%) MS Exchange
15 12 (0.51%) NServiceBus
16 11 (0.47%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 14 (0.59%) Photoshop
2 13 (0.55%) Adobe Illustrator
3 9 (0.38%) AutoCAD
3 9 (0.38%) PTC Creo
3 9 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
4 8 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
5 7 (0.30%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.21%) Simulink
7 3 (0.13%) 3ds Max
7 3 (0.13%) Blender
7 3 (0.13%) FileZilla
7 3 (0.13%) Maya
7 3 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
7 3 (0.13%) Sketch
8 2 (0.085%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.085%) UXPin
8 2 (0.085%) Zeplin
9 1 (0.042%) CANalyzer
9 1 (0.042%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.42%) Magento
3 5 (0.21%) Shopify
4 4 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
4 4 (0.17%) Front Arena
5 3 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.085%) SAP FI-GL
7 1 (0.042%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.042%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.042%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.042%) Salerio
7 1 (0.042%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 679 (28.71%) Azure
2 591 (24.99%) AWS
3 491 (20.76%) Serverless
4 334 (14.12%) Azure DevOps
5 235 (9.94%) GitHub
6 151 (6.38%) GCP
7 119 (5.03%) AWS Lambda
8 111 (4.69%) SaaS
9 106 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
10 86 (3.64%) PaaS
11 85 (3.59%) Power Platform
12 75 (3.17%) Amazon S3
13 68 (2.88%) Amazon EKS
14 67 (2.83%) Amazon ECS
15 62 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 62 (2.62%) IaaS
16 45 (1.90%) OpenShift
17 44 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
18 39 (1.65%) Amazon SQS
18 39 (1.65%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.88%) Internet
2 45 (1.90%) Firewall
3 43 (1.82%) TCP/IP
4 35 (1.48%) HTTP
5 34 (1.44%) DNS
6 13 (0.55%) Network Security
7 12 (0.51%) AMQP
8 10 (0.42%) SSH
9 9 (0.38%) MQTT
10 8 (0.34%) Intranet
10 8 (0.34%) Intrusion Detection
11 7 (0.30%) LAN
11 7 (0.30%) VPN
11 7 (0.30%) WAN
12 6 (0.25%) ATM
12 6 (0.25%) BGP
12 6 (0.25%) FTP
12 6 (0.25%) MPLS
12 6 (0.25%) SSL
13 5 (0.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 354 (14.97%) SQL Server
2 259 (10.95%) MySQL
3 249 (10.53%) Relational Database
4 226 (9.56%) PostgreSQL
5 163 (6.89%) NoSQL
6 125 (5.29%) MongoDB
7 122 (5.16%) RDBMS
8 109 (4.61%) Oracle Database
9 80 (3.38%) Amazon RDS
10 55 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
11 48 (2.03%) Big Data
11 48 (2.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 45 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
12 45 (1.90%) DynamoDB
13 43 (1.82%) Power BI
14 42 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
15 36 (1.52%) Tableau
16 20 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 19 (0.80%) BigQuery
18 18 (0.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 489 (20.68%) Jenkins
2 369 (15.60%) JIRA
3 182 (7.70%) Maven
4 125 (5.29%) GitLab
5 123 (5.20%) Bitbucket
6 121 (5.12%) Selenium
7 95 (4.02%) JUnit
8 91 (3.85%) SonarQube
9 81 (3.42%) Cucumber
10 80 (3.38%) Subversion
11 75 (3.17%) Visual Studio
12 70 (2.96%) Cypress.io
13 68 (2.88%) Postman
13 68 (2.88%) TeamCity
14 59 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
15 53 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
16 48 (2.03%) Artifactory
17 46 (1.95%) git-flow
17 46 (1.95%) SoapUI
18 44 (1.86%) IntelliJ
General
1 512 (21.65%) Social Skills
2 443 (18.73%) Finance
3 261 (11.04%) Banking
4 194 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 171 (7.23%) Police
6 125 (5.29%) Retail
7 97 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 78 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 65 (2.75%) Games
10 56 (2.37%) Marketing
11 42 (1.78%) Manufacturing
12 38 (1.61%) Electronics
13 35 (1.48%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
15 25 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
16 24 (1.01%) Law
16 24 (1.01%) Retail Banking
17 22 (0.93%) Investment Banking
18 21 (0.89%) Tech for Good
19 20 (0.85%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1,082 (45.75%) Developer
2 473 (20.00%) Senior
3 448 (18.94%) Software Engineer
4 283 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 245 (10.36%) DevOps Engineer
6 170 (7.19%) Java Developer
7 164 (6.93%) Lead
8 163 (6.89%) Full Stack Developer
9 159 (6.72%) Java Engineer
10 152 (6.43%) Java Software Engineer
11 138 (5.84%) Software Developer
12 134 (5.67%) .NET Developer
13 113 (4.78%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 87 (3.68%) Ruby Engineer
15 79 (3.34%) C# Developer
16 73 (3.09%) Full Stack Engineer
16 73 (3.09%) React Developer
17 68 (2.88%) Cloud Engineer
18 64 (2.71%) Lead Developer
18 64 (2.71%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 755 (31.92%) React
2 591 (24.99%) CSS
3 582 (24.61%) HTML
4 495 (20.93%) .NET
5 351 (14.84%) Node.js
5 351 (14.84%) RESTful
6 345 (14.59%) AngularJS
7 331 (14.00%) Spring
8 232 (9.81%) REST
9 208 (8.79%) HTML5
10 188 (7.95%) J2EE
11 175 (7.40%) Web Services
12 157 (6.64%) ASP.NET
13 154 (6.51%) JSON
14 153 (6.47%) .NET Framework
15 149 (6.30%) Ruby on Rails
16 145 (6.13%) Vue
17 144 (6.09%) .NET Core
18 136 (5.75%) jQuery
19 133 (5.62%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 101 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
2 83 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 71 (3.00%) Mobile App
4 64 (2.71%) IoT
5 57 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 51 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
7 46 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
8 45 (1.90%) Greenfield Project
9 43 (1.82%) Public Cloud
10 36 (1.52%) Cloud Native
10 36 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 36 (1.52%) Management Information System
11 35 (1.48%) Virtual Team
12 34 (1.44%) Data Structures
13 30 (1.27%) Online Banking
14 26 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
15 24 (1.01%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (0.97%) Low-Code
17 22 (0.93%) Legacy Code
17 22 (0.93%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 329 (13.91%) Linux
2 192 (8.12%) Windows
3 84 (3.55%) Unix
4 67 (2.83%) Windows Server
5 65 (2.75%) Android
6 45 (1.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 32 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 30 (1.27%) Mac OS
9 23 (0.97%) CentOS
10 22 (0.93%) Ubuntu
11 13 (0.55%) VMS
11 13 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 10 (0.42%) Windows 10
13 8 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
14 7 (0.30%) Debian
15 6 (0.25%) CoreOS
16 5 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
17 4 (0.17%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.17%) Windows Server 2016
18 3 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,108 (46.85%) Agile
2 965 (40.80%) DevOps
3 740 (31.29%) Problem-Solving
4 730 (30.87%) Software Engineering
5 663 (28.03%) CI/CD
6 604 (25.54%) Microservices
7 490 (20.72%) Continuous Integration
8 443 (18.73%) Mentoring
9 440 (18.60%) Unit Testing
10 431 (18.22%) Design Patterns
11 408 (17.25%) Containerisation
12 366 (15.48%) Full Stack Development
13 353 (14.93%) Code Quality
14 330 (13.95%) Scrum
15 314 (13.28%) Clean Code
16 310 (13.11%) Computer Science
17 288 (12.18%) Test Automation
18 272 (11.50%) Actionable Insight
19 264 (11.16%) TDD
20 236 (9.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 950 (40.17%) JavaScript
2 860 (36.36%) Python
3 786 (33.23%) Java
4 756 (31.97%) C#
5 656 (27.74%) SQL
6 329 (13.91%) Bash
6 329 (13.91%) TypeScript
7 287 (12.14%) Ruby
8 197 (8.33%) PHP
9 179 (7.57%) PowerShell
10 178 (7.53%) Go
11 155 (6.55%) Perl
12 124 (5.24%) C++
13 94 (3.97%) T-SQL
14 87 (3.68%) C
15 80 (3.38%) Shell Script
16 45 (1.90%) Groovy
17 32 (1.35%) Scala
18 30 (1.27%) PL/SQL
19 24 (1.01%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 409 (17.29%) Degree
2 389 (16.45%) Security Cleared
3 337 (14.25%) SC Cleared
4 218 (9.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 47 (1.99%) Azure Certification
5 47 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (1.73%) Master's Degree
7 29 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 22 (0.93%) AWS Certification
10 19 (0.80%) ISTQB
11 17 (0.72%) DBS Check
12 15 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (0.51%) ISEB
13 12 (0.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 12 (0.51%) MCSA
14 10 (0.42%) MCSE
14 10 (0.42%) PhD
15 9 (0.38%) HND
15 9 (0.38%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 253 (10.70%) QA
2 67 (2.83%) Accessibility
3 29 (1.23%) Data Quality
4 28 (1.18%) WCAG
5 17 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 15 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (0.51%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.42%) SLA
9 8 (0.34%) NCSC
10 6 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.21%) DO-178B
11 5 (0.21%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.13%) MISRA
12 3 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.085%) GDPR
13 2 (0.085%) GRC
13 2 (0.085%) MISRA C
13 2 (0.085%) WAI
14 1 (0.042%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.042%) PMO
System Software
1 571 (24.14%) Docker
2 56 (2.37%) Active Directory
3 34 (1.44%) Firmware
4 27 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
6 11 (0.47%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.38%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.30%) Ceph
9 4 (0.17%) HDFS
9 4 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.085%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.085%) KVM
10 2 (0.085%) Postfix
11 1 (0.042%) Apache Flume
11 1 (0.042%) Gluster
11 1 (0.042%) iptables
11 1 (0.042%) Varnish
11 1 (0.042%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.042%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.042%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 469 (19.83%) Kubernetes
2 351 (14.84%) Terraform
3 244 (10.32%) Ansible
4 78 (3.30%) Puppet
5 38 (1.61%) Istio
5 38 (1.61%) Progress Chef
6 31 (1.31%) Grafana
7 28 (1.18%) Prometheus
8 26 (1.10%) Kibana
9 18 (0.76%) Packer
10 16 (0.68%) Nagios
11 15 (0.63%) Kustomize
12 14 (0.59%) Red Hat Satellite
13 13 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 13 (0.55%) HP Quality Center
14 12 (0.51%) SCCM
15 11 (0.47%) SCOM
16 5 (0.21%) Cobbler
16 5 (0.21%) Microsoft Intune
16 5 (0.21%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 340 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 213 (9.01%) Oracle
3 112 (4.74%) Google
4 55 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 53 (2.24%) IBM
6 50 (2.11%) Atlassian
7 40 (1.69%) SAP
8 31 (1.31%) Splunk
9 28 (1.18%) VMware
10 25 (1.06%) AppDynamics
11 23 (0.97%) Databricks
11 23 (0.97%) Salesforce
11 23 (0.97%) TOWER Software
12 22 (0.93%) Dynatrace
12 22 (0.93%) Veracode
13 21 (0.89%) Adobe
13 21 (0.89%) ServiceNow
14 20 (0.85%) Apple
15 19 (0.80%) New Relic
16 18 (0.76%) Xamarin