Git Job Trends in the West Midlands

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 89 99
Rank change year-on-year -50 +10 -26
Permanent jobs citing Git 65 76 180
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.76% 2.42% 2.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.68% 26.57% 33.71%
Number of salaries quoted 57 55 142
10th Percentile - £46,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,250 £73,125 £65,938
90th Percentile £71,000 £75,000 £79,300
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 219 286 534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.58% 9.12% 7.13%
Number of salaries quoted 170 196 440
10th Percentile £28,250 £41,250 £33,900
25th Percentile £37,313 £46,625 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -7.08%
75th Percentile £67,438 £71,563 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,985 £81,750 £81,375
England median annual salary £61,018 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.13% +8.33% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Git job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Git
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in the West Midlands

Git
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Birmingham -18 26 £30,500 -49.17% 9
Staffordshire 0 11 £67,500 +42.11% 2
Worcestershire -30 5 £42,500 -34.62% 1
Shropshire -26 4 £47,500 -30.91% 4
Bilston - 4 £66,500 -
Wolverhampton -23 3 £32,500 -31.58%
Warwickshire -20 2 £72,500 +38.10% 1
Dudley - 2 £30,250 - 1
Solihull +4 1 £60,000 -20.00%
Coventry -21 1 £67,500 +42.11% 3
West Bromwich - 1 £60,000 -
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (6.15%) CMS
1 4 (6.15%) nginx
1 4 (6.15%) WordPress
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Adobe Illustrator
1 4 (6.15%) Photoshop
2 1 (1.54%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 40 (61.54%) Azure
2 37 (56.92%) AWS
3 25 (38.46%) GitHub
4 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (7.69%) Serverless
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon S3
6 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.62%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (4.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (3.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.08%) SaaS
9 1 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
9 1 (1.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.54%) GCP
9 1 (1.54%) Google Ads
9 1 (1.54%) Prefect
9 1 (1.54%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (29.23%) Internet
2 4 (6.15%) Bluetooth
3 2 (3.08%) DNS
3 2 (3.08%) Ethernet
3 2 (3.08%) Modbus
4 1 (1.54%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) MySQL
2 4 (6.15%) Power BI
3 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (4.62%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (3.08%) Delta Lake
4 2 (3.08%) MariaDB
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.54%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.54%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.54%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.54%) TimescaleDB
Development Applications
1 6 (9.23%) GitLab
2 5 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 4 (6.15%) Vite
4 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.54%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.54%) JIRA
4 1 (1.54%) Maven
4 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (29.23%) Multimedia
2 9 (13.85%) Social Skills
3 7 (10.77%) Electronics
3 7 (10.77%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.23%) Finance
5 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.15%) Automotive
7 3 (4.62%) Advertising
7 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Games
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Trainee
2 18 (27.69%) Developer
3 12 (18.46%) Senior
4 9 (13.85%) Software Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
5 8 (12.31%) Trainee Developer
5 8 (12.31%) Trainee Software Developer
6 7 (10.77%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) DevOps Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Embedded Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 6 (9.23%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Agile Scrum Master
8 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (7.69%) Scrum Master
9 4 (6.15%) Administrator
9 4 (6.15%) Trainee Administrator
9 4 (6.15%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (40.00%) CSS
1 26 (40.00%) HTML
2 6 (9.23%) REST
3 5 (7.69%) React
3 5 (7.69%) YAML
4 4 (6.15%) Laravel
4 4 (6.15%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (6.15%) Tailwind CSS
4 4 (6.15%) Vue
5 3 (4.62%) .NET
5 3 (4.62%) RESTful
5 3 (4.62%) Spring
6 2 (3.08%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.08%) JPA
6 2 (3.08%) Node.js
6 2 (3.08%) NumPy
6 2 (3.08%) Pandas
6 2 (3.08%) PySpark
6 2 (3.08%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.54%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.15%) CAN bus
2 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.62%) Legacy Applications
4 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.08%) ARM Cortex
5 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.23%) FreeRTOS
1 6 (9.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) CI/CD
2 23 (35.38%) Mentoring
3 21 (32.31%) DevOps
4 17 (26.15%) Agile
5 16 (24.62%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (15.38%) Coaching
7 10 (15.38%) Software Engineering
8 9 (13.85%) Scrum
9 8 (12.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (12.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (10.77%) Decision-Making
10 7 (10.77%) Roadmaps
10 7 (10.77%) Test Automation
11 6 (9.23%) Full-Stack Development
11 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (9.23%) User Experience
12 5 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 5 (7.69%) Kanban
12 5 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 38 (58.46%) Python
2 31 (47.69%) JavaScript
3 12 (18.46%) R
4 8 (12.31%) C
4 8 (12.31%) Java
5 7 (10.77%) PHP
6 6 (9.23%) Bash
6 6 (9.23%) SQL
7 4 (6.15%) C++
7 4 (6.15%) Embedded C
8 3 (4.62%) C#
9 2 (3.08%) MATLAB
9 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.54%) VB
10 1 (1.54%) VB6
Qualifications
1 23 (35.38%) AWS Certification
2 19 (29.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 19 (29.23%) Azure Certification
2 19 (29.23%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (4.62%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) IEC 61508
2 2 (3.08%) MISRA
2 2 (3.08%) MISRA C
3 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
System Software
1 11 (16.92%) Docker
2 6 (9.23%) Embedded Firmware
2 6 (9.23%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) Terraform
2 5 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.62%) Ansible
4 2 (3.08%) Functional Safety
5 1 (1.54%) Nagios
5 1 (1.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) Google
3 1 (1.54%) Informatica
3 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle