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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 63 33
Rank change year-on-year -15 -30 -1
Permanent jobs citing Git 2,302 2,691 11,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.04% 4.53% 7.84%
As % of the Development Applications category 34.65% 34.54% 37.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,217 2,034 4,334
10th Percentile £36,250 £42,500 £38,750
25th Percentile £47,250 £50,000 £48,091
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

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 6,643 7,792 29,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.78% 13.11% 20.68%
Number of salaries quoted 3,542 5,866 13,775
10th Percentile £37,775 £42,450 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £76,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,290 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.53% +5.45% +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 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 -10 2,107 £60,000 -7.69% 848
UK excluding London -24 1,473 £57,500 -4.17% 631
Work from Home -13 978 £60,000 -8.19% 1,072
London +13 794 £67,500 -6.90% 270
South East -4 534 £63,750 -1.92% 141
South West +17 264 £57,500 +1.77% 84
North of England -75 248 £52,500 -8.70% 155
Midlands -52 161 £52,500 -11.02% 96
North West -82 128 £50,000 -16.67% 101
East of England -23 114 £57,500 -8.00% 108
Yorkshire -36 96 £55,000 - 30
West Midlands -43 93 £60,000 +4.35% 68
Scotland -48 80 £65,000 -7.14% 34
Wales +7 79 £32,500 -40.91% 13
East Midlands -40 67 £35,000 -41.67% 28
North East -23 24 £56,000 -2.61% 24
Northern Ireland -2 15 £38,750 -22.50% 12
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 120 (5.21%) CMS
2 80 (3.48%) Confluence
3 62 (2.69%) WordPress
4 42 (1.82%) nginx
5 36 (1.56%) Apache
6 35 (1.52%) IIS
7 33 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
8 30 (1.30%) Drupal
9 25 (1.09%) Apache Spark
10 17 (0.74%) Umbraco
11 15 (0.65%) Moodle
11 15 (0.65%) OpenStack
12 14 (0.61%) Totara
13 13 (0.56%) Apache Solr
14 10 (0.43%) JBoss
15 9 (0.39%) SharePoint
16 8 (0.35%) Tomcat
17 6 (0.26%) Luigi
18 5 (0.22%) WildFly
19 4 (0.17%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 52 (2.26%) Simulink
2 25 (1.09%) Adobe XD
3 16 (0.70%) Photoshop
4 8 (0.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
5 7 (0.30%) MadCap Flare
5 7 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
5 7 (0.30%) RoboHelp
5 7 (0.30%) Sketch
6 6 (0.26%) Microsoft Office
6 6 (0.26%) Trello
7 5 (0.22%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.087%) MS Visio
8 2 (0.087%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.043%) EngageOne
9 1 (0.043%) InDesign
9 1 (0.043%) InVision
9 1 (0.043%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.043%) SketchUp
9 1 (0.043%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 24 (1.04%) Shopify
2 20 (0.87%) Magento
3 15 (0.65%) Ripple
4 12 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
4 12 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
5 6 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.087%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.043%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.043%) ReMetrica
7 1 (0.043%) TIBCO iProcess
7 1 (0.043%) TRIRIGA
7 1 (0.043%) WebTrends
Cloud Services
1 745 (32.36%) Azure
2 715 (31.06%) AWS
3 330 (14.34%) Azure DevOps
4 226 (9.82%) GCP
5 220 (9.56%) GitHub
6 190 (8.25%) Serverless
7 123 (5.34%) SaaS
8 103 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
9 89 (3.87%) Power Platform
10 86 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 72 (3.13%) Amazon S3
12 67 (2.91%) Azure Service Bus
13 56 (2.43%) Entra ID
14 44 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
14 44 (1.91%) npm
15 43 (1.87%) Azure Functions
16 41 (1.78%) Azure Logic Apps
17 39 (1.69%) PaaS
18 37 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
19 36 (1.56%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (4.13%) Broadband
2 64 (2.78%) DNS
3 37 (1.61%) Network Security
4 36 (1.56%) TCP/IP
5 33 (1.43%) Firewall
6 30 (1.30%) HTTP
7 20 (0.87%) MQTT
8 18 (0.78%) Internet
9 16 (0.70%) VPN
10 15 (0.65%) IPv6
10 15 (0.65%) WAN
11 13 (0.56%) 5G
12 12 (0.52%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.52%) SMTP
13 10 (0.43%) DHCP
14 9 (0.39%) SSL
14 9 (0.39%) VLAN
14 9 (0.39%) Wireless
15 8 (0.35%) Kerberos
15 8 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (19.33%) MySQL
2 332 (14.42%) SQL Server
3 221 (9.60%) Relational Database
4 208 (9.04%) NoSQL
5 189 (8.21%) MongoDB
5 189 (8.21%) PostgreSQL
6 108 (4.69%) Tableau
7 76 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 76 (3.30%) Power BI
8 66 (2.87%) Elasticsearch
9 53 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
10 51 (2.22%) DynamoDB
11 47 (2.04%) Big Data
12 44 (1.91%) Amazon RDS
13 36 (1.56%) Redis
14 28 (1.22%) Data Lake
15 24 (1.04%) RDBMS
15 24 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.00%) BigQuery
17 20 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 259 (11.25%) JIRA
2 254 (11.03%) Jenkins
3 203 (8.82%) GitLab
4 113 (4.91%) Selenium
5 107 (4.65%) Visual Studio
6 93 (4.04%) Maven
7 87 (3.78%) Bitbucket
8 86 (3.74%) Subversion
9 80 (3.48%) webpack
10 64 (2.78%) Cypress.io
10 64 (2.78%) Team Foundation Server
11 63 (2.74%) Octopus Deploy
12 45 (1.95%) TeamCity
13 43 (1.87%) Cucumber
14 42 (1.82%) JUnit
15 41 (1.78%) Mockito
16 39 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
17 38 (1.65%) Gradle
18 37 (1.61%) NUnit
19 36 (1.56%) Vagrant
General
1 710 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 351 (15.25%) Finance
3 285 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (4.87%) Retail
5 100 (4.34%) Games
6 85 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
7 79 (3.43%) Marketing
8 74 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 59 (2.56%) Electronics
10 53 (2.30%) Public Sector
11 48 (2.09%) Banking
11 48 (2.09%) Law
12 34 (1.48%) Aerospace
12 34 (1.48%) Manufacturing
13 30 (1.30%) Tech for Good
14 29 (1.26%) Automotive
14 29 (1.26%) Telecoms
15 27 (1.17%) Advertising
15 27 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (0.96%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 1,087 (47.22%) Developer
2 603 (26.19%) Senior
3 292 (12.68%) Software Engineer
4 290 (12.60%) Senior Developer
5 167 (7.25%) Lead
6 157 (6.82%) Full-Stack Developer
7 143 (6.21%) .NET Developer
8 141 (6.13%) PHP Developer
9 108 (4.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 101 (4.39%) C# Developer
11 96 (4.17%) Product Manager
12 95 (4.13%) Technical Manager
12 95 (4.13%) Technical Product Manager
13 94 (4.08%) Software Developer
14 89 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
14 89 (3.87%) Java Developer
15 85 (3.69%) Analyst
16 84 (3.65%) Senior Software Engineer
17 74 (3.21%) Cloud Engineer
18 70 (3.04%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 643 (27.93%) HTML
2 580 (25.20%) CSS
3 503 (21.85%) .NET
4 473 (20.55%) React
5 357 (15.51%) RESTful
6 243 (10.56%) AngularJS
7 242 (10.51%) REST
8 233 (10.12%) ASP.NET
9 207 (8.99%) Node.js
10 194 (8.43%) .NET Framework
11 190 (8.25%) HTML5
12 164 (7.12%) Web Services
13 159 (6.91%) JSON
13 159 (6.91%) Laravel
14 158 (6.86%) GraphQL
15 140 (6.08%) Vue
16 138 (5.99%) Spring
17 137 (5.95%) Entity Framework
18 132 (5.73%) jQuery
19 128 (5.56%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 181 (7.86%) Product Ownership
2 125 (5.43%) Cloud Native
3 79 (3.43%) Mobile App
4 73 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
5 72 (3.13%) Algorithms
6 57 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 52 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 41 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
9 34 (1.48%) IoT
10 32 (1.39%) Legacy Code
10 32 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 31 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
12 26 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
13 25 (1.09%) Onboarding
13 25 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 24 (1.04%) Data Structures
14 24 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
15 21 (0.91%) Cybercrime
16 19 (0.83%) Private Cloud
17 18 (0.78%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 363 (15.77%) Linux
2 162 (7.04%) Windows
3 136 (5.91%) Android
4 66 (2.87%) Unix
5 63 (2.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 56 (2.43%) Ubuntu
7 51 (2.22%) CentOS
8 41 (1.78%) Apple iOS
9 34 (1.48%) Windows Server
10 14 (0.61%) VxWorks
11 11 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
12 8 (0.35%) VMS
13 6 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.22%) Solaris
14 5 (0.22%) Windows 10
15 4 (0.17%) Rocky
16 3 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
17 2 (0.087%) CoreOS
17 2 (0.087%) Debian
17 2 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 823 (35.75%) Agile
2 755 (32.80%) DevOps
3 693 (30.10%) Problem-Solving
4 681 (29.58%) CI/CD
5 629 (27.32%) Software Engineering
6 402 (17.46%) Microservices
7 384 (16.68%) Full-Stack Development
8 327 (14.21%) Computer Science
9 305 (13.25%) Continuous Integration
10 291 (12.64%) TDD
11 284 (12.34%) Design Patterns
12 273 (11.86%) Mentoring
13 271 (11.77%) SDLC
14 267 (11.60%) Scrum
15 245 (10.64%) Test Automation
16 222 (9.64%) Artificial Intelligence
17 217 (9.43%) User Experience
18 216 (9.38%) Front End Development
19 208 (9.04%) Web Development
20 204 (8.86%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 917 (39.83%) JavaScript
2 773 (33.58%) SQL
3 715 (31.06%) Python
4 574 (24.93%) C#
5 417 (18.11%) Java
6 364 (15.81%) PHP
7 311 (13.51%) TypeScript
8 194 (8.43%) C++
9 140 (6.08%) PowerShell
10 122 (5.30%) C
11 108 (4.69%) Bash
12 88 (3.82%) Go
13 85 (3.69%) T-SQL
14 83 (3.61%) Kotlin
15 41 (1.78%) Bicep
16 37 (1.61%) MATLAB
17 36 (1.56%) Shell Script
18 32 (1.39%) Objective-C
19 23 (1.00%) Groovy
19 23 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 535 (23.24%) Degree
2 221 (9.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 168 (7.30%) Security Cleared
4 119 (5.17%) DBS Check
5 102 (4.43%) SC Cleared
6 81 (3.52%) Master's Degree
7 34 (1.48%) DV Cleared
8 32 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 19 (0.83%) Azure Certification
10 18 (0.78%) CCNA
10 18 (0.78%) CCNP
10 18 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (0.65%) CEH
12 15 (0.65%) CISA
12 15 (0.65%) CISSP
12 15 (0.65%) CRISC
13 10 (0.43%) PhD
14 8 (0.35%) HND
15 7 (0.30%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (9.90%) QA
2 57 (2.48%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.69%) GDPR
4 36 (1.56%) Data Quality
5 28 (1.22%) WCAG
6 18 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 9 (0.39%) Solvency II
8 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (0.22%) NCSC
10 4 (0.17%) ISO 26262
10 4 (0.17%) ISO 9001
10 4 (0.17%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.087%) Automotive SPICE
11 2 (0.087%) AUTOSAR
11 2 (0.087%) GRC
11 2 (0.087%) MISRA
11 2 (0.087%) MISRA C
12 1 (0.043%) ISO 15022
12 1 (0.043%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 653 (28.37%) Docker
2 74 (3.21%) Virtual Machines
3 67 (2.91%) Active Directory
4 43 (1.87%) Firmware
5 25 (1.09%) Embedded Firmware
6 24 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
7 17 (0.74%) VMware Infrastructure
8 4 (0.17%) NFS
9 2 (0.087%) HDFS
9 2 (0.087%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.087%) Samba
9 2 (0.087%) Varnish
9 2 (0.087%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.087%) vSphere
10 1 (0.043%) Ceph
10 1 (0.043%) Gluster
10 1 (0.043%) KVM
10 1 (0.043%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 434 (18.85%) Kubernetes
2 260 (11.29%) Terraform
3 167 (7.25%) Ansible
4 53 (2.30%) Grafana
5 47 (2.04%) Prometheus
6 26 (1.13%) Puppet
7 21 (0.91%) Progress Chef
8 18 (0.78%) Kibana
9 11 (0.48%) Nagios
10 8 (0.35%) Istio
10 8 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 7 (0.30%) Packer
12 4 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.17%) cPanel
12 4 (0.17%) logstash
12 4 (0.17%) Podman
12 4 (0.17%) Rancher
12 4 (0.17%) ZABBIX
13 3 (0.13%) Plesk
13 3 (0.13%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 218 (9.47%) Microsoft
2 130 (5.65%) Google
3 123 (5.34%) Databricks
4 57 (2.48%) Oracle
5 37 (1.61%) Adobe
6 34 (1.48%) Xamarin
7 33 (1.43%) Atlassian
8 30 (1.30%) Xilinx
9 28 (1.22%) VMware
10 26 (1.13%) Red Hat
11 23 (1.00%) WooCommerce
12 17 (0.74%) Sybase
13 16 (0.70%) Splunk
14 14 (0.61%) IBM
14 14 (0.61%) Wind River
15 13 (0.56%) SAP
16 12 (0.52%) Apple
16 12 (0.52%) ServiceNow
17 11 (0.48%) Salesforce
17 11 (0.48%) Zend