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

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 61 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 -34 +5
Permanent jobs citing Git 3,417 4,965 15,069
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.42% 5.01% 9.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 35.86% 34.95% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2,354 2,883 5,507
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £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 £73,852 £80,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £91,934 £97,290 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 9,528 14,205 36,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.54% 14.32% 22.92%
Number of salaries quoted 6,654 8,679 15,823
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% +9.25%
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 18 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 18 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 2,935 £57,500 -11.54% 732
UK excluding London -10 2,416 £55,000 -4.35% 552
Work from Home -13 1,423 £57,500 -9.24% 442
London -2 926 £72,500 -2.17% 237
South East -32 626 £60,000 - 124
North of England +4 531 £55,000 -4.35% 152
South West +11 431 £50,000 -13.04% 85
North West +40 309 £57,500 - 81
Scotland -18 292 £65,000 +4.00% 26
Midlands -29 290 £50,000 -10.31% 89
Yorkshire +6 187 £52,500 -8.70% 58
West Midlands -21 180 £50,000 -9.09% 65
East of England -28 140 £45,000 -18.18% 57
East Midlands -33 106 £50,000 -13.04% 24
Wales -6 104 £46,131 +2.51% 23
North East -29 35 £40,000 -25.58% 15
Northern Ireland -38 5 £49,500 +25.32% 2

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
1 207 (6.06%) Confluence
2 146 (4.27%) CMS
3 129 (3.78%) Apache Spark
4 76 (2.22%) WordPress
5 75 (2.19%) Apache
6 51 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
7 49 (1.43%) IIS
8 47 (1.38%) nginx
9 46 (1.35%) OpenStack
10 40 (1.17%) Drupal
11 35 (1.02%) SharePoint
12 33 (0.97%) Umbraco
13 21 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
14 16 (0.47%) JBoss
15 11 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 10 (0.29%) Red Hat Fuse
16 10 (0.29%) Tomcat
17 9 (0.26%) Sitecore CMS
18 8 (0.23%) Jupyter
19 7 (0.20%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 37 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (1.05%) Simulink
3 34 (1.00%) Photoshop
4 33 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
5 10 (0.29%) GNU Octave
6 6 (0.18%) Adobe Illustrator
6 6 (0.18%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.15%) Doxygen
7 5 (0.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 4 (0.12%) Trello
9 3 (0.088%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.088%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.088%) Stateflow
9 3 (0.088%) TargetLink
10 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
10 1 (0.029%) RoboHelp
10 1 (0.029%) Sketch
10 1 (0.029%) SOLIDWORKS
10 1 (0.029%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (0.85%) SDL Web 8
2 25 (0.73%) Shopify
3 21 (0.61%) 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 1,128 (33.01%) AWS
2 947 (27.71%) Azure
3 400 (11.71%) Azure DevOps
4 337 (9.86%) Serverless
5 293 (8.57%) GitHub
6 231 (6.76%) GCP
7 206 (6.03%) SaaS
8 163 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
9 140 (4.10%) Amazon S3
10 108 (3.16%) Amazon EKS
11 106 (3.10%) Power Platform
12 103 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
13 94 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (1.81%) Azure Functions
15 58 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
16 57 (1.67%) PaaS
17 54 (1.58%) Dynamics 365
18 53 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
19 49 (1.43%) AWS CloudFormation
19 49 (1.43%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 68 (1.99%) Kerberos
2 59 (1.73%) Firewall
3 40 (1.17%) DNS
4 29 (0.85%) HTTP
5 28 (0.82%) Wireless
6 25 (0.73%) Network Security
6 25 (0.73%) VPN
7 24 (0.70%) Ethernet
8 22 (0.64%) MQTT
9 21 (0.61%) TCP/IP
10 19 (0.56%) Internet
10 19 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
11 17 (0.50%) RS-232
12 15 (0.44%) SSL
13 14 (0.41%) Bluetooth
14 13 (0.38%) 5G
15 11 (0.32%) DHCP
16 9 (0.26%) CTI
17 8 (0.23%) Profibus
17 8 (0.23%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 469 (13.73%) SQL Server
2 378 (11.06%) MySQL
3 304 (8.90%) NoSQL
4 269 (7.87%) PostgreSQL
5 250 (7.32%) Relational Database
6 201 (5.88%) Tableau
7 130 (3.80%) Data Warehouse
8 110 (3.22%) Amazon RDS
9 106 (3.10%) DynamoDB
10 99 (2.90%) Big Data
11 95 (2.78%) Apache Hive
12 86 (2.52%) HBase
13 84 (2.46%) Metadata
14 78 (2.28%) MongoDB
15 76 (2.22%) RDBMS
16 72 (2.11%) Power BI
17 69 (2.02%) Hadoop
18 60 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
19 51 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 45 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 605 (17.71%) Jenkins
2 482 (14.11%) JIRA
3 277 (8.11%) Visual Studio
4 246 (7.20%) Bitbucket
5 221 (6.47%) GitLab
6 165 (4.83%) Selenium
7 143 (4.18%) Subversion
8 102 (2.99%) TeamCity
9 89 (2.60%) Cypress.io
10 86 (2.52%) Bitbucket Server
10 86 (2.52%) Sourcetree
11 82 (2.40%) Team Foundation Server
12 76 (2.22%) JUnit
13 74 (2.17%) Maven
14 68 (1.99%) Artifactory
14 68 (1.99%) NUnit
15 54 (1.58%) Postman
16 47 (1.38%) Visual Studio Code
17 46 (1.35%) Octopus Deploy
18 42 (1.23%) webpack
General
1 1,016 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 623 (18.23%) Finance
3 358 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
4 300 (8.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 257 (7.52%) Law
6 246 (7.20%) Retail
7 237 (6.94%) Presentation Skills
8 218 (6.38%) Marketing
9 143 (4.18%) Games
10 136 (3.98%) Banking
11 132 (3.86%) Public Sector
12 131 (3.83%) Legal
13 120 (3.51%) Manufacturing
14 106 (3.10%) Electronics
15 71 (2.08%) Automotive
16 70 (2.05%) Telecoms
17 48 (1.40%) Aerospace
18 47 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
19 29 (0.85%) Police
20 24 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1,641 (48.02%) Developer
2 917 (26.84%) Senior
3 612 (17.91%) Software Engineer
4 416 (12.17%) Senior Developer
5 370 (10.83%) Lead
6 244 (7.14%) Full Stack Developer
7 206 (6.03%) PHP Developer
8 194 (5.68%) Software Developer
9 165 (4.83%) .NET Developer
10 160 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
11 154 (4.51%) Java Developer
12 152 (4.45%) Analyst
13 150 (4.39%) DevOps Engineer
14 139 (4.07%) AWS Engineer
14 139 (4.07%) Data Analyst
15 126 (3.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 119 (3.48%) C# Developer
17 109 (3.19%) Senior Analyst
18 108 (3.16%) Data Engineer
19 102 (2.99%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 830 (24.29%) HTML
2 800 (23.41%) CSS
3 693 (20.28%) .NET
4 686 (20.08%) React
5 504 (14.75%) RESTful
6 416 (12.17%) REST
7 382 (11.18%) AngularJS
8 360 (10.54%) Web Services
9 358 (10.48%) Node.js
10 317 (9.28%) .NET Framework
11 296 (8.66%) JSON
12 293 (8.57%) ASP.NET
13 265 (7.76%) jQuery
14 244 (7.14%) Laravel
15 240 (7.02%) Spring
16 237 (6.94%) .NET Core
17 231 (6.76%) XML
18 221 (6.47%) Vue
19 211 (6.18%) Entity Framework
20 206 (6.03%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 222 (6.50%) Algorithms
2 137 (4.01%) Management Information System
3 116 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 113 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 104 (3.04%) Cloud Native
6 100 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
7 86 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 82 (2.40%) IoT
9 80 (2.34%) Virtual Reality
10 75 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
11 73 (2.14%) Reference Data
12 68 (1.99%) Enterprise Cloud
13 59 (1.73%) Onboarding
14 55 (1.61%) Virtual Team
15 53 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
16 51 (1.49%) Embedded Systems
17 48 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
18 46 (1.35%) Data Structures
18 46 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
19 39 (1.14%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 422 (12.35%) Linux
2 232 (6.79%) Windows
3 140 (4.10%) Unix
4 82 (2.40%) Android
5 74 (2.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 60 (1.76%) Windows Server
7 53 (1.55%) CentOS
8 37 (1.08%) Ubuntu
9 34 (1.00%) Apple iOS
10 23 (0.67%) Windows 10
11 21 (0.61%) FreeRTOS
12 19 (0.56%) CoreOS
13 18 (0.53%) Embedded Linux
14 13 (0.38%) Mac OS
15 12 (0.35%) Oracle Linux
15 12 (0.35%) Solaris
16 10 (0.29%) SUSE
16 10 (0.29%) VMS
17 8 (0.23%) Debian
18 6 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,630 (47.70%) Agile
2 1,128 (33.01%) DevOps
3 1,094 (32.02%) Software Engineering
4 892 (26.10%) Problem-Solving
5 861 (25.20%) CI/CD
6 557 (16.30%) Test Automation
7 529 (15.48%) Computer Science
8 524 (15.34%) TDD
9 505 (14.78%) Microservices
10 465 (13.61%) Full Stack Development
11 446 (13.05%) Scrum
12 390 (11.41%) SDLC
13 375 (10.97%) Artificial Intelligence
14 357 (10.45%) Visualisation
15 356 (10.42%) MVC
16 347 (10.16%) Continuous Integration
17 331 (9.69%) Mentoring
18 321 (9.39%) Machine Learning
19 313 (9.16%) Containerisation
19 313 (9.16%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 1,267 (37.08%) JavaScript
2 1,086 (31.78%) Python
3 1,069 (31.28%) SQL
4 958 (28.04%) C#
5 636 (18.61%) Java
6 487 (14.25%) PHP
7 409 (11.97%) TypeScript
8 226 (6.61%) Go
9 219 (6.41%) Bash
10 185 (5.41%) PowerShell
11 177 (5.18%) C++
12 169 (4.95%) C
12 169 (4.95%) T-SQL
13 88 (2.58%) PL/SQL
14 86 (2.52%) Ruby
15 69 (2.02%) Perl
16 67 (1.96%) Kotlin
16 67 (1.96%) SPARQL
17 65 (1.90%) Prolog
18 46 (1.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 947 (27.71%) Degree
2 336 (9.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 292 (8.55%) Security Cleared
4 241 (7.05%) SC Cleared
5 212 (6.20%) DBS Check
6 127 (3.72%) Master's Degree
7 99 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
8 48 (1.40%) AWS Certification
9 41 (1.20%) Azure Certification
10 33 (0.97%) PhD
11 21 (0.61%) HND
12 20 (0.59%) DV Cleared
13 18 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 12 (0.35%) PMI Certification
15 9 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 9 (0.26%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.23%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 8 (0.23%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
17 7 (0.20%) ISEB
17 7 (0.20%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 239 (6.99%) QA
2 112 (3.28%) Accessibility
3 37 (1.08%) GDPR
4 32 (0.94%) WCAG
5 29 (0.85%) Data Quality
6 20 (0.59%) 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%) PMO
12 3 (0.088%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.088%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.088%) SEPA
13 1 (0.029%) ISO 15022
System Software
1 770 (22.53%) Docker
2 105 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 94 (2.75%) HDFS
4 53 (1.55%) Firmware
5 50 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
6 49 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
8 15 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
9 10 (0.29%) NFS
9 10 (0.29%) pfSense
10 7 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 6 (0.18%) Ceph
11 6 (0.18%) VirtualBox
12 5 (0.15%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 5 (0.15%) vSphere
13 4 (0.12%) Varnish
13 4 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 3 (0.088%) Gluster
14 3 (0.088%) KVM
14 3 (0.088%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 512 (14.98%) Kubernetes
2 447 (13.08%) Terraform
3 292 (8.55%) Ansible
4 94 (2.75%) Puppet
5 47 (1.38%) Progress Chef
6 45 (1.32%) Grafana
7 24 (0.70%) Prometheus
8 21 (0.61%) ZABBIX
9 19 (0.56%) Nagios
10 16 (0.47%) Kibana
11 14 (0.41%) Istio
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%) SCDPM
14 9 (0.26%) MIIS
14 9 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
15 8 (0.23%) Microsoft Clustering
16 7 (0.20%) Foglight
Vendors
1 490 (14.34%) Microsoft
2 298 (8.72%) Databricks
3 181 (5.30%) Google
4 133 (3.89%) Oracle
5 86 (2.52%) Informatica
6 66 (1.93%) Cloudera
7 53 (1.55%) Red Hat
8 47 (1.38%) Adobe
9 43 (1.26%) SAP
10 41 (1.20%) WSO2
11 38 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 35 (1.02%) Salesforce
12 35 (1.02%) VMware
13 28 (0.82%) Sitecore
13 28 (0.82%) Splunk
14 27 (0.79%) WooCommerce
15 23 (0.67%) Xamarin
16 21 (0.61%) DevExpress
17 20 (0.59%) Apple
17 20 (0.59%) ForgeRock