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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 61 27
Rank change year-on-year -17 -34 +4
Permanent jobs citing Git 3,393 5,141 14,329
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.44% 4.95% 9.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.38% 34.47% 40.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,378 2,973 5,627
10th Percentile £35,000 £40,550 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +8.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,500 £92,250
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 14,916 35,125
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.72% 14.37% 22.44%
Number of salaries quoted 6,753 9,129 15,955
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% +8.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £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 3 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 3 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 -11 2,892 £57,500 -11.54% 763
UK excluding London -8 2,446 £55,000 -4.35% 545
Work from Home -12 1,387 £57,500 -8.00% 397
London -10 871 £72,500 -3.33% 257
South East -29 616 £60,000 - 114
North of England +17 536 £55,000 - 147
South West +14 443 £50,000 -13.04% 85
North West +42 312 £57,500 +4.55% 94
Scotland -21 303 £65,000 +8.33% 36
Midlands -26 293 £50,500 -8.18% 90
Yorkshire +4 189 £52,500 -8.70% 40
West Midlands -20 183 £51,000 -10.65% 60
East of England -24 145 £45,000 -25.00% 58
East Midlands -39 106 £50,000 -9.09% 29
Wales -4 105 £47,500 +5.56% 21
North East -25 35 £40,000 -23.81% 14
Northern Ireland -27 8 £69,750 +76.58% 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
1 218 (6.42%) Confluence
2 141 (4.16%) CMS
3 129 (3.80%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.24%) WordPress
5 71 (2.09%) Apache
6 48 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
7 47 (1.39%) OpenStack
8 46 (1.36%) IIS
9 45 (1.33%) nginx
10 39 (1.15%) Drupal
11 37 (1.09%) SharePoint
12 34 (1.00%) Umbraco
13 21 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
14 16 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 15 (0.44%) JBoss
16 12 (0.35%) Tomcat
17 11 (0.32%) Red Hat Fuse
18 9 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
19 8 (0.24%) 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 (0.80%) SDL Web 8
2 25 (0.74%) Shopify
3 21 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.41%) 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 1,086 (32.01%) AWS
2 942 (27.76%) Azure
3 404 (11.91%) Azure DevOps
4 346 (10.20%) Serverless
5 309 (9.11%) GitHub
6 228 (6.72%) GCP
7 198 (5.84%) SaaS
8 152 (4.48%) AWS Lambda
9 135 (3.98%) Amazon S3
10 113 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
11 107 (3.15%) Power Platform
12 104 (3.07%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (2.77%) Amazon EC2
14 63 (1.86%) Azure Functions
15 59 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
16 57 (1.68%) PaaS
17 56 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
17 56 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
18 49 (1.44%) AWS CloudFormation
18 49 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (2.00%) Kerberos
2 59 (1.74%) Firewall
3 41 (1.21%) DNS
4 28 (0.83%) HTTP
4 28 (0.83%) Wireless
5 24 (0.71%) Network Security
5 24 (0.71%) VPN
6 23 (0.68%) Ethernet
6 23 (0.68%) MQTT
7 21 (0.62%) TCP/IP
8 20 (0.59%) Internet
9 19 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 16 (0.47%) RS-232
11 14 (0.41%) Bluetooth
12 13 (0.38%) 5G
12 13 (0.38%) SSL
13 11 (0.32%) DHCP
14 9 (0.27%) CTI
15 8 (0.24%) Profibus
15 8 (0.24%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 455 (13.41%) SQL Server
2 366 (10.79%) MySQL
3 295 (8.69%) NoSQL
4 275 (8.10%) PostgreSQL
5 251 (7.40%) Relational Database
6 160 (4.72%) Tableau
7 132 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
8 99 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
9 98 (2.89%) Big Data
10 96 (2.83%) DynamoDB
11 95 (2.80%) Apache Hive
12 86 (2.53%) HBase
13 84 (2.48%) Metadata
14 81 (2.39%) MongoDB
15 76 (2.24%) RDBMS
16 71 (2.09%) Power BI
17 69 (2.03%) Hadoop
18 59 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
19 52 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 47 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 609 (17.95%) Jenkins
2 498 (14.68%) JIRA
3 271 (7.99%) Visual Studio
4 257 (7.57%) Bitbucket
5 219 (6.45%) GitLab
6 167 (4.92%) Selenium
7 148 (4.36%) Subversion
8 101 (2.98%) TeamCity
9 99 (2.92%) Cypress.io
10 86 (2.53%) Bitbucket Server
11 85 (2.51%) Sourcetree
12 81 (2.39%) JUnit
12 81 (2.39%) Maven
13 79 (2.33%) Team Foundation Server
14 71 (2.09%) Artifactory
15 63 (1.86%) NUnit
16 55 (1.62%) Postman
17 46 (1.36%) Octopus Deploy
18 45 (1.33%) Visual Studio Code
19 44 (1.30%) Cucumber
General
1 955 (28.15%) Social Skills
2 621 (18.30%) Finance
3 327 (9.64%) Analytical Skills
4 297 (8.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 249 (7.34%) Law
6 215 (6.34%) Marketing
7 213 (6.28%) Retail
8 211 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
9 156 (4.60%) Games
10 148 (4.36%) Banking
11 133 (3.92%) Public Sector
12 130 (3.83%) Legal
13 119 (3.51%) Manufacturing
14 105 (3.09%) Electronics
15 70 (2.06%) Telecoms
16 68 (2.00%) Automotive
17 44 (1.30%) Aerospace
17 44 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
18 29 (0.85%) Investment Banking
18 29 (0.85%) Police
Job Titles
1 1,647 (48.54%) Developer
2 859 (25.32%) Senior
3 615 (18.13%) Software Engineer
4 413 (12.17%) Senior Developer
5 376 (11.08%) Lead
6 239 (7.04%) Full Stack Developer
7 198 (5.84%) PHP Developer
8 194 (5.72%) Software Developer
9 160 (4.72%) Java Developer
10 159 (4.69%) .NET Developer
11 155 (4.57%) DevOps Engineer
12 154 (4.54%) Senior Software Engineer
13 136 (4.01%) AWS Engineer
14 127 (3.74%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 118 (3.48%) Analyst
16 111 (3.27%) C# Developer
17 108 (3.18%) Data Engineer
18 105 (3.09%) Data Analyst
19 90 (2.65%) Games Developer
20 88 (2.59%) 3D Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 819 (24.14%) HTML
2 791 (23.31%) CSS
3 704 (20.75%) React
4 676 (19.92%) .NET
5 490 (14.44%) RESTful
6 413 (12.17%) REST
7 383 (11.29%) AngularJS
8 366 (10.79%) Node.js
9 349 (10.29%) Web Services
10 301 (8.87%) .NET Framework
11 295 (8.69%) JSON
12 277 (8.16%) ASP.NET
13 267 (7.87%) Spring
14 256 (7.54%) jQuery
15 238 (7.01%) Laravel
16 233 (6.87%) .NET Core
17 227 (6.69%) XML
18 223 (6.57%) Vue
19 213 (6.28%) HTML5
20 200 (5.89%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 211 (6.22%) Algorithms
2 139 (4.10%) Management Information System
3 118 (3.48%) Mobile App
4 106 (3.12%) Product Ownership
5 103 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 100 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
7 89 (2.62%) Virtual Reality
8 86 (2.53%) IoT
9 81 (2.39%) Greenfield Project
10 75 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
11 73 (2.15%) Reference Data
12 68 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
13 60 (1.77%) Onboarding
14 59 (1.74%) Virtual Team
15 55 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
16 49 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
16 49 (1.44%) Legacy Systems
17 48 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
18 46 (1.36%) Data Structures
19 35 (1.03%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 424 (12.50%) Linux
2 233 (6.87%) Windows
3 143 (4.21%) Unix
4 78 (2.30%) Android
5 74 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 63 (1.86%) Windows Server
7 50 (1.47%) CentOS
8 35 (1.03%) Apple iOS
9 33 (0.97%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.68%) 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%) VMS
16 11 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
16 11 (0.32%) Solaris
17 10 (0.29%) SUSE
18 9 (0.27%) Debian
19 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,625 (47.89%) Agile
2 1,139 (33.57%) DevOps
3 1,094 (32.24%) Software Engineering
4 861 (25.38%) Problem-Solving
5 854 (25.17%) CI/CD
6 556 (16.39%) Test Automation
7 525 (15.47%) Computer Science
8 519 (15.30%) Microservices
9 500 (14.74%) TDD
10 453 (13.35%) Full Stack Development
11 447 (13.17%) Scrum
12 390 (11.49%) SDLC
13 370 (10.90%) Artificial Intelligence
14 366 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
15 354 (10.43%) MVC
16 348 (10.26%) Mentoring
17 336 (9.90%) Design Patterns
18 323 (9.52%) Containerisation
19 314 (9.25%) Visualisation
20 309 (9.11%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 1,259 (37.11%) JavaScript
2 1,054 (31.06%) Python
3 1,016 (29.94%) SQL
4 982 (28.94%) C#
5 658 (19.39%) Java
6 478 (14.09%) PHP
7 416 (12.26%) TypeScript
8 228 (6.72%) Bash
9 223 (6.57%) Go
10 184 (5.42%) PowerShell
11 176 (5.19%) C++
12 168 (4.95%) T-SQL
13 166 (4.89%) C
14 113 (3.33%) Ruby
15 89 (2.62%) PL/SQL
16 77 (2.27%) Perl
17 67 (1.97%) SPARQL
18 65 (1.92%) Prolog
19 63 (1.86%) Kotlin
20 47 (1.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 909 (26.79%) Degree
2 333 (9.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 300 (8.84%) Security Cleared
4 247 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 157 (4.63%) DBS Check
6 117 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 113 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.41%) AWS Certification
9 41 (1.21%) Azure Certification
10 33 (0.97%) PhD
11 22 (0.65%) DV Cleared
12 21 (0.62%) HND
13 17 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.32%) PMI Certification
15 10 (0.29%) ISTQB
16 9 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
17 8 (0.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
18 7 (0.21%) ISEB
18 7 (0.21%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 235 (6.93%) QA
2 113 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.09%) GDPR
4 36 (1.06%) WCAG
5 30 (0.88%) Data Quality
6 29 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 15 (0.44%) WAI
8 8 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 8 (0.24%) ISO 13485
8 8 (0.24%) PSD2
9 6 (0.18%) JTAG
10 5 (0.15%) MISRA
10 5 (0.15%) SLA
11 4 (0.12%) HIPAA
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
1 775 (22.84%) Docker
2 108 (3.18%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.77%) HDFS
4 55 (1.62%) Firmware
5 49 (1.44%) Hyper-V
5 49 (1.44%) Virtual Machines
6 24 (0.71%) Embedded Firmware
7 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (0.29%) NFS
8 10 (0.29%) pfSense
9 6 (0.18%) Ceph
9 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
10 5 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 5 (0.15%) vSphere
11 4 (0.12%) Varnish
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.088%) Gluster
12 3 (0.088%) KVM
12 3 (0.088%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 518 (15.27%) Kubernetes
2 451 (13.29%) Terraform
3 291 (8.58%) Ansible
4 99 (2.92%) Puppet
5 45 (1.33%) Progress Chef
6 42 (1.24%) Grafana
7 23 (0.68%) Prometheus
8 20 (0.59%) ZABBIX
9 16 (0.47%) Nagios
10 15 (0.44%) Istio
10 15 (0.44%) Kibana
11 12 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (0.29%) Argo
12 10 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (0.29%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12 10 (0.29%) SCDPM
13 9 (0.27%) Graphite
13 9 (0.27%) MIIS
14 7 (0.21%) Foglight
14 7 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 503 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 254 (7.49%) Databricks
3 175 (5.16%) Google
4 133 (3.92%) Oracle
5 86 (2.53%) Informatica
6 66 (1.95%) Cloudera
7 58 (1.71%) Red Hat
8 51 (1.50%) Adobe
9 44 (1.30%) SAP
10 42 (1.24%) WSO2
11 40 (1.18%) Atlassian
12 36 (1.06%) Salesforce
13 34 (1.00%) VMware
14 27 (0.80%) Sitecore
14 27 (0.80%) WooCommerce
15 26 (0.77%) Splunk
16 23 (0.68%) Xamarin
17 21 (0.62%) DevExpress
18 20 (0.59%) Apple
19 19 (0.56%) ForgeRock