Hybrid/Remote Git Job Trends

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for remote or hybrid work requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 71 65
Rank change year-on-year -58 -6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Git 367 675 1,343
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.99% 4.64% 4.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.27% 34.87% 35.75%
Number of salaries quoted 265 449 969
10th Percentile £42,500 £39,800 £37,500
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +9.57% -8.00%
75th Percentile £84,750 £82,751 £72,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £93,778 £90,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -10.81%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,346 1,936 3,757
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 7.29% 13.31% 11.54%
Number of salaries quoted 879 1,277 2,998
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -6.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,751 £75,772
90th Percentile £95,000 £107,867 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Git and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Git job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Git over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Git salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 19 (5.18%) Apache Airflow
2 13 (3.54%) Apache
3 12 (3.27%) Confluence
4 10 (2.72%) Apache Spark
5 9 (2.45%) CMS
6 7 (1.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 6 (1.63%) nginx
8 3 (0.82%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.82%) WordPress
9 2 (0.54%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.27%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.27%) Drupal
10 1 (0.27%) JBoss
10 1 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Fuse
10 1 (0.27%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.36%) Photoshop
3 4 (1.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.54%) Trello
6 1 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.27%) EngageOne
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (2.45%) Shopify
2 7 (1.91%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.27%) CiviCRM
3 1 (0.27%) Magento
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.27%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.27%) TIBCO iProcess
Cloud Services
1 168 (45.78%) Azure
2 125 (34.06%) AWS
3 88 (23.98%) GitHub
4 57 (15.53%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (11.99%) Serverless
6 38 (10.35%) GCP
7 31 (8.45%) SaaS
8 28 (7.63%) Amazon S3
9 27 (7.36%) AWS Lambda
9 27 (7.36%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (5.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 19 (5.18%) Power Platform
12 16 (4.36%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (4.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (3.81%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (3.81%) Entra ID
15 13 (3.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (3.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (3.00%) Amazon ECS
17 10 (2.72%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.45%) Broadband
2 18 (4.90%) DNS
3 12 (3.27%) 4G
4 11 (3.00%) BGP
4 11 (3.00%) Cisco IOS
4 11 (3.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 11 (3.00%) IOS XR
4 11 (3.00%) MPLS
5 8 (2.18%) Firewall
6 6 (1.63%) HTTP
7 5 (1.36%) DHCP
8 4 (1.09%) Bluetooth
8 4 (1.09%) LTE
8 4 (1.09%) Modbus
8 4 (1.09%) MQTT
8 4 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.09%) Wireless
9 3 (0.82%) PuTTY
9 3 (0.82%) RTP
9 3 (0.82%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.99%) PostgreSQL
2 36 (9.81%) MySQL
3 34 (9.26%) Relational Database
4 33 (8.99%) NoSQL
5 30 (8.17%) SQL Server
6 22 (5.99%) Tableau
7 20 (5.45%) MongoDB
8 19 (5.18%) Power BI
9 16 (4.36%) Amazon Athena
10 14 (3.81%) Data Lake
11 13 (3.54%) Amazon Redshift
12 12 (3.27%) Metadata
13 11 (3.00%) Amazon QuickSight
13 11 (3.00%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (3.00%) Apache Iceberg
13 11 (3.00%) Azure SQL Database
13 11 (3.00%) Delta Lake
13 11 (3.00%) DynamoDB
14 8 (2.18%) Redis
15 6 (1.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 45 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 42 (11.44%) GitLab
3 34 (9.26%) JIRA
4 12 (3.27%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.72%) Maven
5 10 (2.72%) Visual Studio Code
6 9 (2.45%) Selenium
7 8 (2.18%) Cypress.io
7 8 (2.18%) JUnit
7 8 (2.18%) Vite
7 8 (2.18%) webpack
8 7 (1.91%) Oracle Forms
8 7 (1.91%) Subversion
9 5 (1.36%) NUnit
10 4 (1.09%) Babel
10 4 (1.09%) Eclipse
10 4 (1.09%) Gradle
10 4 (1.09%) JMeter
10 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 135 (36.78%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.80%) Finance
3 38 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.08%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 23 (6.27%) Telecoms
7 15 (4.09%) Marketing
8 13 (3.54%) Law
9 8 (2.18%) Billing
9 8 (2.18%) Legal
9 8 (2.18%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.91%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.91%) Games
10 7 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.63%) Advertising
12 4 (1.09%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.09%) Retail
13 3 (0.82%) Electronics
13 3 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.54%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 155 (42.23%) Developer
2 76 (20.71%) Senior
3 59 (16.08%) Lead
4 42 (11.44%) Full-Stack Developer
5 39 (10.63%) Senior Developer
6 35 (9.54%) Data Engineer
7 33 (8.99%) Software Engineer
8 26 (7.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 24 (6.54%) Java Developer
10 21 (5.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 18 (4.90%) Platform Engineer
12 17 (4.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 17 (4.63%) Lead Developer
13 16 (4.36%) Network Engineer
14 15 (4.09%) React Developer
14 15 (4.09%) Software Developer
15 14 (3.81%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
16 13 (3.54%) Lead Cloud Engineer
17 12 (3.27%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (3.27%) Node.js Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (26.43%) React
2 67 (18.26%) CSS
3 60 (16.35%) HTML
3 60 (16.35%) RESTful
4 55 (14.99%) Node.js
5 52 (14.17%) REST
6 39 (10.63%) .NET
7 34 (9.26%) Vue
8 30 (8.17%) AngularJS
9 29 (7.90%) Kafka
10 24 (6.54%) Spring
11 20 (5.45%) OAuth
12 19 (5.18%) ASP.NET
12 19 (5.18%) Jinja
13 18 (4.90%) Laravel
13 18 (4.90%) Next.js
13 18 (4.90%) Web Services
14 17 (4.63%) JSON
15 16 (4.36%) .NET Core
15 16 (4.36%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 44 (11.99%) Cloud Native
2 38 (10.35%) Product Ownership
3 23 (6.27%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 12 (3.27%) Social Media
6 11 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 11 (3.00%) Public Cloud
7 10 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 9 (2.45%) Private Cloud
8 9 (2.45%) Virtual Team
9 8 (2.18%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.91%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.63%) CMDB
11 6 (1.63%) CUDA
11 6 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
12 5 (1.36%) Cyberattack
12 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 56 (15.26%) Linux
2 10 (2.72%) Windows
3 9 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.09%) Android
5 3 (0.82%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.27%) FreeBSD
6 1 (0.27%) OpenBSD
6 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 217 (59.13%) CI/CD
2 161 (43.87%) Agile
3 144 (39.24%) DevOps
4 113 (30.79%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (21.53%) Software Engineering
6 77 (20.98%) Full-Stack Development
7 74 (20.16%) Mentoring
7 74 (20.16%) Microservices
8 61 (16.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 59 (16.08%) Containerisation
10 58 (15.80%) Analytics
11 57 (15.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 55 (14.99%) AI
13 52 (14.17%) Data Pipeline
14 50 (13.62%) Clean Code
14 50 (13.62%) Test Automation
15 48 (13.08%) Computer Science
16 47 (12.81%) Scrum
17 44 (11.99%) Data Modelling
17 44 (11.99%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 133 (36.24%) Python
2 120 (32.70%) SQL
3 105 (28.61%) JavaScript
4 78 (21.25%) TypeScript
5 51 (13.90%) Java
6 38 (10.35%) C#
7 26 (7.08%) PHP
8 19 (5.18%) Bash
9 15 (4.09%) PowerShell
10 14 (3.81%) Scala
11 12 (3.27%) C++
12 11 (3.00%) C
12 11 (3.00%) Shell Script
13 8 (2.18%) Kotlin
13 8 (2.18%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.91%) Bicep
14 7 (1.91%) Rust
15 5 (1.36%) Go
16 4 (1.09%) Embedded C
17 3 (0.82%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 70 (19.07%) Degree
2 53 (14.44%) Security Cleared
3 44 (11.99%) SC Cleared
4 36 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (4.36%) Azure Certification
6 5 (1.36%) CISSP
6 5 (1.36%) GIAC
6 5 (1.36%) ISACA
6 5 (1.36%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.36%) SANS
7 4 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.09%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.09%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Developer
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.27%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.81%) QA
2 29 (7.90%) Data Quality
3 24 (6.54%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.36%) NIST
5 4 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.09%) WCAG
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
7 1 (0.27%) HL7
7 1 (0.27%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.27%) SLA
7 1 (0.27%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 96 (26.16%) Docker
2 20 (5.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.09%) Firmware
6 3 (0.82%) Kamailio
7 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.27%) Xen
Systems Management
1 90 (24.52%) Terraform
2 68 (18.53%) Kubernetes
3 34 (9.26%) Ansible
4 8 (2.18%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.91%) Grafana
6 6 (1.63%) Packer
6 6 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.09%) Progress Chef
7 4 (1.09%) Puppet
8 3 (0.82%) Argo
8 3 (0.82%) Kibana
9 2 (0.54%) cPanel
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (0.54%) Plesk
10 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.27%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 70 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 24 (6.54%) Databricks
3 22 (5.99%) Cisco
4 14 (3.81%) Oracle
5 13 (3.54%) Google
6 10 (2.72%) VMware
7 8 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 6 (1.63%) EMC
8 6 (1.63%) F5
8 6 (1.63%) Palo Alto
8 6 (1.63%) Red Hat
8 6 (1.63%) Salesforce
9 5 (1.36%) ForgeRock
9 5 (1.36%) Okta
10 4 (1.09%) Atmel
11 3 (0.82%) Adobe
11 3 (0.82%) Apple
11 3 (0.82%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.82%) Mitel
11 3 (0.82%) MuleSoft