Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Git skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Git over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -18 -13 -2
Contract jobs citing Git 1,184 2,284 4,612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.73% 3.82% 5.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.13% 25.22% 28.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 770 1,577 3,118
10th Percentile £350 £413 £409
25th Percentile £419 £473 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £558 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £637 £675 £650
90th Percentile £704 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £513
% change year-on-year - +2.44% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 67 51
10th Percentile £49.38 £51.25 £37.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £56.25 £50.88
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.13 £67.40
90th Percentile £79.38 £75.00 £77.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £67.34 £56.00
% change year-on-year -7.19% +20.25% +4.19%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git.

Daily rate trend for Git in the UK

Git
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the UK

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -18 993 £530 -5.27% 651
London -11 593 £543 -9.58% 218
UK excluding London -19 451 £525 - 467
Work from Home -26 383 £500 -13.04% 424
South East +15 150 £530 -3.64% 95
North of England -28 99 £525 -4.55% 122
Scotland +10 78 £575 +15.00% 34
North West -14 59 £525 - 78
Midlands -24 57 £358 -33.46% 74
West Midlands -2 50 £364 -32.59% 51
East of England -34 35 £500 - 45
Yorkshire -7 33 £513 -10.09% 35
South West -49 29 £585 +11.43% 88
North East -11 9 £380 -33.91% 9
Wales +21 7 £475 -13.64% 17
East Midlands -8 7 £356 -25.05% 23

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
1 115 (9.71%) Confluence
2 36 (3.04%) CMS
3 35 (2.96%) Apache
4 31 (2.62%) Apache Spark
5 26 (2.20%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.27%) SAS
7 14 (1.18%) CICS
8 13 (1.10%) OpenStack
9 12 (1.01%) IIS
9 12 (1.01%) nginx
10 11 (0.93%) Anypoint
11 10 (0.84%) Headless CMS
11 10 (0.84%) JBoss
11 10 (0.84%) SharePoint
12 9 (0.76%) Drupal
13 7 (0.59%) Kentico
13 7 (0.59%) WordPress
14 5 (0.42%) Mule
14 5 (0.42%) Mule ESB
15 4 (0.34%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.68%) Simulink
3 7 (0.59%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.42%) TargetLink
5 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.17%) Trello
8 1 (0.084%) Avocode
8 1 (0.084%) InVision
8 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 15 (1.27%) Shopify
2 6 (0.51%) Endur
2 6 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.17%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.17%) Magento
4 1 (0.084%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 390 (32.94%) Azure
2 361 (30.49%) AWS
3 189 (15.96%) Azure DevOps
4 131 (11.06%) Serverless
5 124 (10.47%) GitHub
6 115 (9.71%) GCP
7 85 (7.18%) Amazon S3
8 72 (6.08%) Amazon EC2
8 72 (6.08%) Azure Monitor
9 68 (5.74%) AWS Lambda
10 65 (5.49%) Azure Service Bus
11 62 (5.24%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 59 (4.98%) Amazon EKS
13 52 (4.39%) PaaS
14 43 (3.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 42 (3.55%) OpenShift
15 42 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 40 (3.38%) Azure Functions
17 35 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
18 34 (2.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 58 (4.90%) Firewall
2 42 (3.55%) DNS
2 42 (3.55%) TCP/IP
3 33 (2.79%) HTTP
3 33 (2.79%) Network Security
4 25 (2.11%) 5G
5 23 (1.94%) BGP
6 21 (1.77%) MPLS
6 21 (1.77%) SSL
6 21 (1.77%) VPN
7 20 (1.69%) SNMP
8 19 (1.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 18 (1.52%) NAS
10 17 (1.44%) Software-Defined Radio
11 16 (1.35%) DHCP
12 15 (1.27%) SAN
13 14 (1.18%) Kerberos
14 12 (1.01%) VLAN
14 12 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.76%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 152 (12.84%) SQL Server
2 120 (10.14%) PostgreSQL
3 98 (8.28%) NoSQL
4 79 (6.67%) Relational Database
5 59 (4.98%) MySQL
6 41 (3.46%) Amazon RDS
7 39 (3.29%) MongoDB
8 38 (3.21%) Big Data
9 34 (2.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 29 (2.45%) DynamoDB
11 28 (2.36%) Data Lake
12 25 (2.11%) Data Warehouse
13 24 (2.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 21 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 20 (1.69%) Apache Cassandra
16 18 (1.52%) DB2
16 18 (1.52%) RDBMS
17 15 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
18 14 (1.18%) IDMS
18 14 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 325 (27.45%) Jenkins
2 241 (20.35%) JIRA
3 93 (7.85%) GitLab
4 77 (6.50%) JUnit
5 71 (6.00%) Bitbucket
6 68 (5.74%) Selenium
7 64 (5.41%) Cucumber
8 60 (5.07%) TeamCity
9 58 (4.90%) Maven
10 53 (4.48%) Postman
11 44 (3.72%) Subversion
12 40 (3.38%) Visual Studio
13 34 (2.87%) SonarQube
14 29 (2.45%) Visual Studio Code
15 27 (2.28%) SoapUI
16 24 (2.03%) Cypress.io
16 24 (2.03%) NUnit
17 22 (1.86%) Sonatype Nexus
17 22 (1.86%) webpack
18 21 (1.77%) REST Assured
General
1 261 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 134 (11.32%) Finance
3 115 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
4 100 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.91%) Banking
6 28 (2.36%) Marketing
6 28 (2.36%) Telecoms
7 26 (2.20%) Front Office
8 25 (2.11%) Investment Banking
8 25 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
9 22 (1.86%) Retail
10 21 (1.77%) Back Office
10 21 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
11 16 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.01%) Multimedia
14 11 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 9 (0.76%) Automotive
16 8 (0.68%) German Language
17 7 (0.59%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 512 (43.24%) Developer
2 159 (13.43%) Senior
3 109 (9.21%) DevOps Engineer
4 85 (7.18%) Java Developer
4 85 (7.18%) Software Engineer
5 84 (7.09%) Lead
6 70 (5.91%) Full Stack Developer
7 60 (5.07%) Senior Developer
8 54 (4.56%) Data Engineer
9 52 (4.39%) C# Developer
10 46 (3.89%) Python Developer
11 44 (3.72%) Azure Developer
12 43 (3.63%) AWS Engineer
13 39 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (3.13%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 37 (3.13%) React Developer
15 36 (3.04%) .NET Developer
16 30 (2.53%) AWS DevOps
17 28 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
17 28 (2.36%) JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 208 (17.57%) React
2 198 (16.72%) REST
3 180 (15.20%) .NET
4 167 (14.10%) CSS
5 157 (13.26%) HTML
6 114 (9.63%) Spring
7 112 (9.46%) Node.js
8 98 (8.28%) JSON
9 95 (8.02%) RESTful
10 91 (7.69%) Spring Boot
11 81 (6.84%) XML
12 78 (6.59%) .NET Core
13 73 (6.17%) Web Services
14 69 (5.83%) ASP.NET
15 67 (5.66%) Kafka
16 62 (5.24%) AngularJS
17 58 (4.90%) YAML
18 54 (4.56%) .NET Framework
18 54 (4.56%) SOAP
19 47 (3.97%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
1 41 (3.46%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.38%) Algorithms
3 37 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 37 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 33 (2.79%) Public Cloud
5 30 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 26 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 22 (1.86%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.60%) Replication
9 19 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.52%) Fixed Income
11 16 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.27%) Clustering
13 14 (1.18%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.18%) IBM Mainframe
13 14 (1.18%) Mainframe
14 13 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (1.01%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 209 (17.65%) Linux
2 123 (10.39%) Windows
3 88 (7.43%) Unix
4 39 (3.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (2.87%) Android
5 34 (2.87%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.94%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.44%) VMS
8 15 (1.27%) zOS
9 10 (0.84%) Solaris
9 10 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (0.68%) CentOS
11 8 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
12 5 (0.42%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.34%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.25%) Debian
15 2 (0.17%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.084%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 584 (49.32%) Agile
2 503 (42.48%) DevOps
3 443 (37.42%) CI/CD
4 231 (19.51%) Scrum
5 225 (19.00%) Test Automation
6 213 (17.99%) Software Engineering
7 210 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
8 199 (16.81%) Continuous Integration
9 183 (15.46%) Microservices
10 168 (14.19%) TDD
11 163 (13.77%) Infrastructure as Code
12 152 (12.84%) Containerisation
13 128 (10.81%) Unit Testing
14 125 (10.56%) OO
15 108 (9.12%) Full Stack Development
16 99 (8.36%) SDLC
17 98 (8.28%) Front End Development
18 97 (8.19%) Computer Science
19 85 (7.18%) Software Testing
20 79 (6.67%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 469 (39.61%) Python
2 302 (25.51%) Java
3 281 (23.73%) SQL
4 261 (22.04%) JavaScript
5 215 (18.16%) C#
6 143 (12.08%) Bash
7 128 (10.81%) TypeScript
8 96 (8.11%) PowerShell
9 79 (6.67%) C++
10 74 (6.25%) Go
11 61 (5.15%) Perl
12 59 (4.98%) C
12 59 (4.98%) Shell Script
13 42 (3.55%) Bicep
14 29 (2.45%) PHP
15 27 (2.28%) Ruby
16 26 (2.20%) Scala
17 18 (1.52%) T-SQL
18 15 (1.27%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.27%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 262 (22.13%) Security Cleared
2 233 (19.68%) SC Cleared
3 131 (11.06%) Degree
4 77 (6.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 42 (3.55%) DV Cleared
6 21 (1.77%) Master's Degree
7 15 (1.27%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.10%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.76%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.68%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
11 7 (0.59%) PhD
12 6 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.51%) CCNP
12 6 (0.51%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.34%) ISEB
14 4 (0.34%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.00%) QA
2 50 (4.22%) Accessibility
3 22 (1.86%) WCAG
4 15 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 11 (0.93%) GDPR
6 9 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.59%) JTAG
8 6 (0.51%) MISRA
8 6 (0.51%) MISRA C
8 6 (0.51%) NCSC
9 5 (0.42%) AUTOSAR
9 5 (0.42%) ISO 26262
9 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 5 (0.42%) SLA
10 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.17%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.17%) MiFID
11 2 (0.17%) NIST
12 1 (0.084%) CDISC
12 1 (0.084%) GxP
System Software
1 301 (25.42%) Docker
2 88 (7.43%) Active Directory
3 23 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.60%) Firmware
6 14 (1.18%) VMware NSX
7 11 (0.93%) vSphere
8 10 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.76%) HDFS
10 6 (0.51%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.34%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.34%) zsh
12 3 (0.25%) vCloud
12 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.17%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 2 (0.17%) PowerDNS
13 2 (0.17%) Varnish
14 1 (0.084%) LXC
14 1 (0.084%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 276 (23.31%) Kubernetes
2 241 (20.35%) Terraform
3 174 (14.70%) Ansible
4 62 (5.24%) Grafana
5 47 (3.97%) Prometheus
5 47 (3.97%) Puppet
6 35 (2.96%) Progress Chef
7 26 (2.20%) Kibana
8 15 (1.27%) Packer
9 14 (1.18%) vRealize
10 8 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
10 8 (0.68%) EMC NetWorker
10 8 (0.68%) HP Fortify
10 8 (0.68%) logstash
10 8 (0.68%) Netcool
10 8 (0.68%) Tivoli
10 8 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 8 (0.68%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.59%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.59%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 150 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.95%) Oracle
3 54 (4.56%) Google
4 47 (3.97%) Splunk
5 42 (3.55%) VMware
6 37 (3.13%) Salesforce
7 34 (2.87%) SAP
8 29 (2.45%) IBM
9 26 (2.20%) Cisco
10 24 (2.03%) Atlassian
11 22 (1.86%) Red Hat
12 21 (1.77%) F5
13 20 (1.69%) Talend
14 19 (1.60%) Databricks
15 18 (1.52%) Nokia
16 17 (1.44%) ServiceNow
17 15 (1.27%) MuleSoft
18 14 (1.18%) Dell
18 14 (1.18%) Syncsort
18 14 (1.18%) TIBCO