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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 61 27
Rank change year-on-year -15 -34 +5
Permanent jobs citing Git 3,412 5,048 14,552
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.44% 4.97% 9.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.58% 34.80% 40.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,374 2,919 5,563
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,950 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £63,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.45% +5.83% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,750 £76,578
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,328 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £54,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +6.48% +8.00%

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 9,589 14,507 35,658
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.67% 14.28% 22.65%
Number of salaries quoted 6,723 8,884 15,852
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +4.00% +8.76%
75th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 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 -12 2,916 £57,500 -11.54% 832
UK excluding London -10 2,445 £55,000 -4.35% 568
Work from Home -13 1,414 £57,500 -8.00% 460
London -6 892 £72,500 -3.33% 301
South East -31 618 £60,000 - 113
North of England +16 539 £55,000 - 148
South West +13 444 £50,000 -13.04% 94
North West +46 314 £57,500 +4.55% 84
Scotland -15 300 £65,000 +8.33% 35
Midlands -30 290 £51,000 -7.27% 100
Yorkshire +8 190 £52,500 -8.70% 53
West Midlands -20 180 £50,500 -11.53% 68
East of England -28 144 £45,000 -25.00% 58
East Midlands -37 106 £50,000 -9.09% 32
Wales -4 104 £46,816 +4.03% 22
North East -25 35 £40,000 -23.81% 12
Northern Ireland -31 7 £49,500 +25.32% 6

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
1 215 (6.30%) Confluence
2 143 (4.19%) CMS
3 129 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 77 (2.26%) WordPress
5 74 (2.17%) Apache
6 50 (1.47%) Apache Airflow
7 48 (1.41%) IIS
8 47 (1.38%) OpenStack
9 46 (1.35%) nginx
10 39 (1.14%) Drupal
11 35 (1.03%) SharePoint
12 34 (1.00%) Umbraco
13 21 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
14 16 (0.47%) JBoss
15 15 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 12 (0.35%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
18 9 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
19 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
20 7 (0.21%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 35 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (0.97%) Photoshop
3 32 (0.94%) Simulink
4 10 (0.29%) GNU Octave
5 6 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.15%) Doxygen
6 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.12%) Trello
8 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
8 3 (0.088%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.029%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.029%) Sketch
9 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.029%) UXPin
9 1 (0.029%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (0.79%) SDL Web 8
2 25 (0.73%) Shopify
3 21 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 15 (0.44%) Payment Gateway
5 13 (0.38%) Magento
6 4 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
6 4 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.059%) CiviCRM
7 2 (0.059%) SAP FI-GL
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.029%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.029%) Towers Watson Igloo
Cloud Services
1 1,099 (32.21%) AWS
2 947 (27.75%) Azure
3 406 (11.90%) Azure DevOps
4 348 (10.20%) Serverless
5 304 (8.91%) GitHub
6 227 (6.65%) GCP
7 202 (5.92%) SaaS
8 155 (4.54%) AWS Lambda
9 138 (4.04%) Amazon S3
10 112 (3.28%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (3.11%) Power Platform
12 104 (3.05%) Amazon ECS
13 93 (2.73%) Amazon EC2
14 64 (1.88%) Azure Functions
15 58 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
15 58 (1.70%) PaaS
16 57 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
17 55 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
18 50 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
19 49 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.99%) Kerberos
2 61 (1.79%) Firewall
3 41 (1.20%) DNS
4 29 (0.85%) Wireless
5 27 (0.79%) HTTP
6 25 (0.73%) VPN
7 24 (0.70%) Network Security
8 23 (0.67%) Ethernet
9 22 (0.64%) MQTT
10 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
11 20 (0.59%) Internet
12 19 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (0.47%) RS-232
14 14 (0.41%) Bluetooth
14 14 (0.41%) SSL
15 13 (0.38%) 5G
16 11 (0.32%) DHCP
17 9 (0.26%) CTI
18 8 (0.23%) Profibus
18 8 (0.23%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (13.45%) SQL Server
2 367 (10.76%) MySQL
3 297 (8.70%) NoSQL
4 273 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
5 250 (7.33%) Relational Database
6 178 (5.22%) Tableau
7 132 (3.87%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.90%) Amazon RDS
8 99 (2.90%) Big Data
9 96 (2.81%) DynamoDB
10 95 (2.78%) Apache Hive
11 86 (2.52%) HBase
12 84 (2.46%) Metadata
13 79 (2.32%) MongoDB
14 76 (2.23%) RDBMS
15 70 (2.05%) Power BI
16 69 (2.02%) Hadoop
17 61 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
18 49 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
19 45 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 611 (17.91%) Jenkins
2 491 (14.39%) JIRA
3 275 (8.06%) Visual Studio
4 257 (7.53%) Bitbucket
5 214 (6.27%) GitLab
6 164 (4.81%) Selenium
7 145 (4.25%) Subversion
8 101 (2.96%) TeamCity
9 97 (2.84%) Cypress.io
10 86 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
11 85 (2.49%) Sourcetree
12 79 (2.32%) JUnit
12 79 (2.32%) Team Foundation Server
13 77 (2.26%) Maven
14 70 (2.05%) Artifactory
15 62 (1.82%) NUnit
16 52 (1.52%) Postman
17 45 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
18 44 (1.29%) Visual Studio Code
19 42 (1.23%) Cucumber
General
1 977 (28.63%) Social Skills
2 622 (18.23%) Finance
3 343 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 299 (8.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 253 (7.42%) Law
6 227 (6.65%) Retail
7 226 (6.62%) Presentation Skills
8 213 (6.24%) Marketing
9 154 (4.51%) Games
10 144 (4.22%) Banking
11 132 (3.87%) Public Sector
12 130 (3.81%) Legal
13 119 (3.49%) Manufacturing
14 106 (3.11%) Electronics
15 69 (2.02%) Automotive
15 69 (2.02%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.35%) Aerospace
17 45 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
18 29 (0.85%) Police
19 27 (0.79%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 1,645 (48.21%) Developer
2 881 (25.82%) Senior
3 618 (18.11%) Software Engineer
4 411 (12.05%) Senior Developer
5 372 (10.90%) Lead
6 239 (7.00%) Full Stack Developer
7 201 (5.89%) PHP Developer
8 192 (5.63%) Software Developer
9 160 (4.69%) .NET Developer
10 157 (4.60%) Java Developer
11 156 (4.57%) Senior Software Engineer
12 154 (4.51%) DevOps Engineer
13 135 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
14 132 (3.87%) Analyst
15 127 (3.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 119 (3.49%) Data Analyst
17 112 (3.28%) C# Developer
18 108 (3.17%) Data Engineer
19 89 (2.61%) Games Developer
19 89 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 822 (24.09%) HTML
2 791 (23.18%) CSS
3 707 (20.72%) React
4 684 (20.05%) .NET
5 491 (14.39%) RESTful
6 414 (12.13%) REST
7 383 (11.23%) AngularJS
8 364 (10.67%) Node.js
9 355 (10.40%) Web Services
10 309 (9.06%) .NET Framework
11 296 (8.68%) JSON
12 283 (8.29%) ASP.NET
13 263 (7.71%) Spring
14 258 (7.56%) jQuery
15 239 (7.00%) Laravel
16 237 (6.95%) .NET Core
17 230 (6.74%) XML
18 222 (6.51%) Vue
19 211 (6.18%) HTML5
20 201 (5.89%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 216 (6.33%) Algorithms
2 138 (4.04%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.46%) Mobile App
4 109 (3.19%) Product Ownership
5 103 (3.02%) Cloud Native
6 99 (2.90%) Distributed Systems
7 89 (2.61%) Virtual Reality
8 84 (2.46%) IoT
9 81 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 74 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
11 73 (2.14%) Reference Data
12 68 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
13 61 (1.79%) Onboarding
14 58 (1.70%) Virtual Team
15 55 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
16 50 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
17 48 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
17 48 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
18 46 (1.35%) Data Structures
19 38 (1.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 426 (12.49%) Linux
2 234 (6.86%) Windows
3 143 (4.19%) Unix
4 78 (2.29%) Android
5 74 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 63 (1.85%) Windows Server
7 51 (1.49%) CentOS
8 35 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 33 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.67%) Windows 10
11 21 (0.62%) FreeRTOS
12 20 (0.59%) CoreOS
13 19 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.38%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.35%) Solaris
16 11 (0.32%) VMS
17 10 (0.29%) SUSE
18 9 (0.26%) Debian
19 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,621 (47.51%) Agile
2 1,141 (33.44%) DevOps
3 1,093 (32.03%) Software Engineering
4 880 (25.79%) Problem-Solving
5 854 (25.03%) CI/CD
6 561 (16.44%) Test Automation
7 523 (15.33%) Computer Science
8 520 (15.24%) Microservices
9 504 (14.77%) TDD
10 450 (13.19%) Full Stack Development
11 449 (13.16%) Scrum
12 389 (11.40%) SDLC
13 370 (10.84%) Artificial Intelligence
14 366 (10.73%) Continuous Integration
15 352 (10.32%) MVC
16 347 (10.17%) Mentoring
17 333 (9.76%) Design Patterns
17 333 (9.76%) Visualisation
18 329 (9.64%) Containerisation
19 314 (9.20%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,261 (36.96%) JavaScript
2 1,076 (31.54%) Python
3 1,035 (30.33%) SQL
4 982 (28.78%) C#
5 655 (19.20%) Java
6 478 (14.01%) PHP
7 417 (12.22%) TypeScript
8 227 (6.65%) Bash
9 223 (6.54%) Go
10 184 (5.39%) PowerShell
11 173 (5.07%) C++
12 168 (4.92%) C
13 166 (4.87%) T-SQL
14 110 (3.22%) Ruby
15 89 (2.61%) PL/SQL
16 73 (2.14%) Perl
17 67 (1.96%) SPARQL
18 65 (1.91%) Prolog
19 63 (1.85%) Kotlin
20 47 (1.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 926 (27.14%) Degree
2 331 (9.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 301 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 248 (7.27%) SC Cleared
5 176 (5.16%) DBS Check
6 121 (3.55%) Master's Degree
7 112 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 33 (0.97%) PhD
11 22 (0.64%) DV Cleared
12 21 (0.62%) HND
13 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.35%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.29%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 8 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.21%) ISEB
18 7 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 238 (6.98%) QA
2 114 (3.34%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.08%) GDPR
4 34 (1.00%) WCAG
5 30 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 15 (0.44%) WAI
8 8 (0.23%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 8 (0.23%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.23%) PSD2
9 6 (0.18%) JTAG
10 5 (0.15%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.15%) MISRA
10 5 (0.15%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.12%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.12%) PMO
12 3 (0.088%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.088%) NCSC
12 3 (0.088%) SEPA
System Software
1 774 (22.68%) Docker
2 108 (3.17%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.75%) HDFS
4 54 (1.58%) Firmware
5 50 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (1.44%) Hyper-V
7 24 (0.70%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (0.29%) NFS
9 10 (0.29%) pfSense
10 6 (0.18%) Ceph
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
11 5 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 5 (0.15%) vSphere
12 4 (0.12%) Varnish
12 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 3 (0.088%) Gluster
13 3 (0.088%) KVM
13 3 (0.088%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 515 (15.09%) Kubernetes
2 449 (13.16%) Terraform
3 292 (8.56%) Ansible
4 98 (2.87%) Puppet
5 47 (1.38%) Progress Chef
6 44 (1.29%) Grafana
7 24 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.62%) ZABBIX
9 18 (0.53%) Nagios
10 16 (0.47%) Istio
11 15 (0.44%) Kibana
12 11 (0.32%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.29%) Argo
13 10 (0.29%) Graphite
13 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (0.29%) SCDPM
14 9 (0.26%) MIIS
15 8 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
16 7 (0.21%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 502 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 273 (8.00%) Databricks
3 177 (5.19%) Google
4 133 (3.90%) Oracle
5 86 (2.52%) Informatica
6 66 (1.93%) Cloudera
7 57 (1.67%) Red Hat
8 50 (1.47%) Adobe
9 43 (1.26%) SAP
10 42 (1.23%) WSO2
11 39 (1.14%) Atlassian
12 36 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 35 (1.03%) VMware
14 28 (0.82%) Sitecore
14 28 (0.82%) Splunk
15 27 (0.79%) WooCommerce
16 23 (0.67%) Xamarin
17 21 (0.62%) DevExpress
18 20 (0.59%) Apple
18 20 (0.59%) ForgeRock