Git Job Trends

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 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 70 73
Rank change year-on-year -43 +3 -21
Permanent jobs citing Git 1,195 2,053 2,075
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.02% 3.74% 4.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.84% 36.43% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 870 1,170 1,669
10th Percentile - £36,186 £41,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £47,500 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,250 £77,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -26.67% - +5.26%

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 3,639 5,635 6,391
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 6.14% 10.26% 12.35%
Number of salaries quoted 2,391 3,268 5,132
10th Percentile £28,250 £37,750 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £91,250 £95,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £55,000 £58,175
% change year-on-year -6.36% -5.46% +5.77%

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 2 January 2026.

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 January 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 -38 1,064 £55,000 -12.00% 790
UK excluding London -47 738 £44,000 -26.67% 662
London -40 379 £73,750 +5.36% 270
Work from Home -63 330 £65,000 +4.00% 446
North of England +36 261 £30,500 -43.26% 151
South East -78 178 £60,000 -7.69% 191
Yorkshire +10 114 £30,500 -41.90% 57
North West +44 113 £31,000 -42.33% 78
Midlands -7 104 £50,000 -4.76% 95
South West -43 95 £41,250 -35.29% 98
West Midlands +16 74 £37,500 -40.00% 48
Scotland -25 52 £30,500 -49.17% 39
North East +18 34 £30,500 -43.26% 18
East of England -56 32 £40,000 -27.27% 90
East Midlands -47 28 £56,350 +61.00% 47
Wales -38 20 £57,500 +76.92% 11
Northern Ireland -17 2 £45,000 -25.00% 8

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 53 (4.44%) Confluence
2 35 (2.93%) WordPress
3 28 (2.34%) Apache
4 23 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
5 17 (1.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 14 (1.17%) IIS
6 14 (1.17%) OpenStack
7 12 (1.00%) Apache Spark
7 12 (1.00%) nginx
8 11 (0.92%) Apache Solr
9 10 (0.84%) CMS
10 4 (0.33%) JBoss
10 4 (0.33%) WebSphere
11 3 (0.25%) Apache Superset
11 3 (0.25%) Liferay
11 3 (0.25%) SharePoint
11 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.25%) Umbraco
12 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.17%) EPiServer
Applications
1 10 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (0.75%) MS Visio
3 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
4 6 (0.50%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
5 4 (0.33%) Windchill
6 3 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.17%) Simulink
8 1 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
8 1 (0.084%) Doxygen
8 1 (0.084%) Trello
Business Applications
1 26 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.67%) Shopify
4 4 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Markit EDM
7 1 (0.084%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 709 (59.33%) Azure
2 551 (46.11%) AWS
3 450 (37.66%) GitHub
4 190 (15.90%) Azure DevOps
5 113 (9.46%) Serverless
6 105 (8.79%) Power Platform
7 80 (6.69%) GCP
8 78 (6.53%) GitHub Actions
9 74 (6.19%) Amazon S3
10 55 (4.60%) AWS Lambda
11 46 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 45 (3.77%) SaaS
13 44 (3.68%) Entra ID
14 43 (3.60%) AWS CloudFormation
15 36 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
16 34 (2.85%) Amazon EKS
16 34 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
17 33 (2.76%) Azure Logic Apps
18 32 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
18 32 (2.68%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 259 (21.67%) Internet
2 48 (4.02%) DNS
3 26 (2.18%) HTTP
4 21 (1.76%) Firewall
5 18 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.34%) WAN
7 13 (1.09%) SMTP
7 13 (1.09%) SSH
8 11 (0.92%) LAN
9 9 (0.75%) FTP
10 8 (0.67%) Multicast
11 7 (0.59%) DHCP
11 7 (0.59%) SAN
11 7 (0.59%) WinSCP
12 6 (0.50%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (0.50%) NAS
12 6 (0.50%) SD-WAN
13 5 (0.42%) 5G
13 5 (0.42%) SSL
13 5 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 153 (12.80%) SQL Server
2 103 (8.62%) PostgreSQL
3 95 (7.95%) Power BI
4 93 (7.78%) NoSQL
5 63 (5.27%) MySQL
5 63 (5.27%) Relational Database
6 47 (3.93%) MongoDB
7 43 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
8 42 (3.51%) Tableau
9 29 (2.43%) Amazon RDS
9 29 (2.43%) Azure SQL Database
10 25 (2.09%) DynamoDB
11 24 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
12 23 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
13 20 (1.67%) Data Lake
14 19 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 17 (1.42%) BigQuery
15 17 (1.42%) Looker
16 14 (1.17%) Delta Lake
17 12 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 179 (14.98%) Jenkins
2 174 (14.56%) JIRA
3 74 (6.19%) GitLab
4 44 (3.68%) Selenium
5 35 (2.93%) Visual Studio
6 30 (2.51%) JUnit
7 29 (2.43%) Bitbucket
8 26 (2.18%) webpack
9 24 (2.01%) Cypress.io
10 19 (1.59%) Maven
11 18 (1.51%) Cucumber
12 17 (1.42%) Oracle Forms
13 15 (1.26%) Robot Framework
13 15 (1.26%) Snyk
13 15 (1.26%) Vite
14 14 (1.17%) Postman
15 13 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
16 11 (0.92%) Artifactory
17 10 (0.84%) gulp
17 10 (0.84%) LabVIEW
General
1 331 (27.70%) Social Skills
2 257 (21.51%) Multimedia
3 196 (16.40%) Finance
4 98 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (4.35%) Marketing
6 45 (3.77%) Law
7 43 (3.60%) Public Sector
8 41 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 32 (2.68%) Banking
10 27 (2.26%) Retail
11 25 (2.09%) Electronics
11 25 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 15 (1.26%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.26%) Telecoms
13 14 (1.17%) Aviation
13 14 (1.17%) Legal
14 13 (1.09%) Billing
14 13 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.92%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 480 (40.17%) Developer
2 254 (21.26%) Trainee
3 191 (15.98%) Senior
4 154 (12.89%) Software Developer
5 136 (11.38%) Lead
6 116 (9.71%) Trainee Developer
6 116 (9.71%) Trainee Software Developer
7 92 (7.70%) Full-Stack Developer
8 91 (7.62%) Senior Developer
9 87 (7.28%) Software Engineer
10 65 (5.44%) DevOps Engineer
11 57 (4.77%) .NET Developer
12 52 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
13 48 (4.02%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 46 (3.85%) Data Engineer
15 35 (2.93%) Java Developer
16 32 (2.68%) Administrator
16 32 (2.68%) Python Engineer
17 30 (2.51%) React Developer
17 30 (2.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (35.73%) CSS
2 423 (35.40%) HTML
3 214 (17.91%) React
4 164 (13.72%) .NET
5 140 (11.72%) RESTful
6 120 (10.04%) REST
7 115 (9.62%) Node.js
8 71 (5.94%) AngularJS
9 64 (5.36%) Spring
10 59 (4.94%) .NET Core
10 59 (4.94%) Web Services
11 57 (4.77%) .NET Framework
12 55 (4.60%) Spring Boot
12 55 (4.60%) Vue
13 39 (3.26%) Entity Framework
13 39 (3.26%) SOAP
14 38 (3.18%) Kafka
15 36 (3.01%) ASP.NET
15 36 (3.01%) Elastic Stack
16 35 (2.93%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 76 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 51 (4.27%) Product Ownership
3 40 (3.35%) Distributed Systems
4 33 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (2.26%) Management Information System
6 23 (1.92%) Data Structures
7 22 (1.84%) Algorithms
7 22 (1.84%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.84%) Public Cloud
8 21 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
10 16 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 14 (1.17%) FPGA
12 13 (1.09%) Derivative
12 13 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
13 11 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
13 11 (0.92%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
14 10 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 181 (15.15%) Linux
2 108 (9.04%) Windows
3 39 (3.26%) Windows Server
4 23 (1.92%) Unix
5 18 (1.51%) Apple iOS
5 18 (1.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 18 (1.51%) VMS
6 17 (1.42%) Android
7 9 (0.75%) Amazon Linux
8 8 (0.67%) Ubuntu
9 7 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.50%) CentOS
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.17%) CoreOS
12 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.17%) Solaris
12 2 (0.17%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (43.26%) CI/CD
2 467 (39.08%) Agile
3 405 (33.89%) DevOps
4 384 (32.13%) Mentoring
5 329 (27.53%) Problem-Solving
6 239 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 179 (14.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 176 (14.73%) Containerisation
9 171 (14.31%) Software Engineering
9 171 (14.31%) Test Automation
10 170 (14.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 156 (13.05%) Infrastructure as Code
11 156 (13.05%) Microservices
12 151 (12.64%) Scrum
13 130 (10.88%) AI
14 114 (9.54%) User Experience
15 109 (9.12%) Analytics
16 105 (8.79%) Technical Leadership
17 101 (8.45%) Computer Science
18 98 (8.20%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 616 (51.55%) Python
2 542 (45.36%) JavaScript
3 296 (24.77%) SQL
4 152 (12.72%) Java
5 148 (12.38%) R
6 146 (12.22%) TypeScript
7 139 (11.63%) C#
8 82 (6.86%) PowerShell
9 70 (5.86%) Bash
10 46 (3.85%) C++
10 46 (3.85%) PHP
11 33 (2.76%) C
12 31 (2.59%) Shell Script
13 28 (2.34%) Go
14 21 (1.76%) PL/SQL
15 16 (1.34%) Scala
15 16 (1.34%) T-SQL
16 15 (1.26%) Kotlin
16 15 (1.26%) Swift
17 13 (1.09%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 287 (24.02%) AWS Certification
2 275 (23.01%) Azure Certification
3 263 (22.01%) Microsoft Certification
4 254 (21.26%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 175 (14.64%) Degree
6 136 (11.38%) Security Cleared
7 71 (5.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 69 (5.77%) SC Cleared
9 43 (3.60%) DV Cleared
10 33 (2.76%) Master's Degree
11 17 (1.42%) AWS Certified Developer
12 12 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (0.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 9 (0.75%) HND
15 8 (0.67%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.67%) PhD
16 7 (0.59%) ITIL Certification
17 3 (0.25%) CCNP
17 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
17 3 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 150 (12.55%) QA
2 60 (5.02%) Accessibility
2 60 (5.02%) Data Quality
3 30 (2.51%) Def Stans
4 18 (1.51%) GDPR
5 14 (1.17%) WCAG
6 9 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.67%) SLA
8 5 (0.42%) PERC
9 4 (0.33%) ECSS
9 4 (0.33%) IEC 61508
9 4 (0.33%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.25%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.17%) MISRA
12 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.084%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.084%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.084%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.084%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 229 (19.16%) Docker
2 50 (4.18%) Active Directory
3 21 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.59%) Firmware
5 12 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 9 (0.75%) NFS
7 7 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.59%) vSphere
8 5 (0.42%) DFS Replication
9 4 (0.33%) Dovecot
9 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.33%) Postfix
9 4 (0.33%) Squid
10 3 (0.25%) KVM
11 2 (0.17%) vCloud
12 1 (0.084%) iptables
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.084%) zsh
Systems Management
1 214 (17.91%) Terraform
2 195 (16.32%) Kubernetes
3 110 (9.21%) Ansible
4 56 (4.69%) Grafana
5 42 (3.51%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (1.42%) Argo
8 11 (0.92%) Rancher
9 9 (0.75%) Control-M
10 8 (0.67%) Docker Swarm
11 6 (0.50%) Avamar
11 6 (0.50%) Kibana
11 6 (0.50%) Puppet
12 5 (0.42%) Nagios
12 5 (0.42%) Nessus
13 4 (0.33%) linkerd
13 4 (0.33%) Mesos
13 4 (0.33%) vRealize
13 4 (0.33%) yum
13 4 (0.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 403 (33.72%) Microsoft
2 60 (5.02%) Oracle
3 38 (3.18%) Google
4 29 (2.43%) Databricks
5 24 (2.01%) VMware
6 22 (1.84%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.76%) Red Hat
8 15 (1.26%) Black Duck
8 15 (1.26%) Cisco
8 15 (1.26%) Coverity
8 15 (1.26%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.17%) SAP
10 13 (1.09%) Pure Storage
11 12 (1.00%) Dynatrace
12 11 (0.92%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.92%) OpenAI
13 10 (0.84%) Commvault
14 8 (0.67%) Xamarin
15 7 (0.59%) Dell
15 7 (0.59%) Veeam