Git Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Git Distributed Version Control System
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 28 55
Rank change year-on-year -8 +27 +23
Contract jobs citing Git 37 42 11
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 5.14% 6.09% 1.49%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.46% 47.19% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 6
10th Percentile £366 £426 £336
25th Percentile £463 £481 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +29.41% -23.42%
75th Percentile £511 £694 £461
90th Percentile £538 £765 £484
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Birmingham

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 114 89 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 15.83% 12.90% 7.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 58 40
10th Percentile £291 £360 £260
25th Percentile £419 £416 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £540 £650 £514
90th Percentile £705 £756 £578
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.19% +13.51% -11.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £57.50 £66.59
% change year-on-year -1.74% -13.65% -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Git relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Git job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Birmingham over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Birmingham

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 18 (48.65%) Confluence
2 9 (24.32%) nginx
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.70%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (24.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (2.70%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 24 (64.86%) AWS
2 23 (62.16%) Amazon S3
3 22 (59.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 22 (59.46%) Amazon EC2
3 22 (59.46%) Amazon ELB
3 22 (59.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 18 (48.65%) AWS KMS
5 16 (43.24%) Azure
6 10 (27.03%) Amazon ECS
7 9 (24.32%) Amazon Glacier
7 9 (24.32%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (24.32%) Route 53
8 4 (10.81%) GitHub
8 4 (10.81%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
9 3 (8.11%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (8.11%) Power Automate
9 3 (8.11%) PowerApps
10 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 23 (62.16%) DNS
1 23 (62.16%) Firewall
2 19 (51.35%) SSH
3 18 (48.65%) FTP
3 18 (48.65%) HTTP
3 18 (48.65%) SMTP
4 9 (24.32%) IMAP
4 9 (24.32%) OpenLDAP
5 5 (13.51%) SSL
5 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
5 5 (13.51%) VPN
6 3 (8.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (48.65%) Amazon RDS
2 10 (27.03%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (24.32%) Amazon Aurora
4 4 (10.81%) Power BI
5 3 (8.11%) Power Query
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) Big Data
6 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
6 1 (2.70%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Parquet
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (78.38%) Jenkins
2 18 (48.65%) JIRA
2 18 (48.65%) Vagrant
3 4 (10.81%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (5.41%) Poetry
5 2 (5.41%) PyCharm
5 2 (5.41%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) SonarQube
5 2 (5.41%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.70%) MLflow
6 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (54.05%) Public Sector
2 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Military
4 2 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (59.46%) DevOps Engineer
2 17 (45.95%) AWS Engineer
3 16 (43.24%) AWS DevOps
3 16 (43.24%) AWS DevOps Engineer
3 16 (43.24%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 16 (43.24%) Platform Engineer
4 9 (24.32%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 8 (21.62%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 6 (16.22%) Senior
7 5 (13.51%) Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Data Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (10.81%) Senior DevOps Engineer
9 3 (8.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 3 (8.11%) Power BI Developer
10 2 (5.41%) Calypso Developer
10 2 (5.41%) Lead
11 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Engineer
11 1 (2.70%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 1 (2.70%) Senior AWS DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (24.32%) LDAP
2 2 (5.41%) Flask
2 2 (5.41%) NumPy
2 2 (5.41%) Pandas
2 2 (5.41%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) Apache Avro
3 1 (2.70%) Azure Blueprints
3 1 (2.70%) Blazor
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) CSS3
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) HTML5
3 1 (2.70%) jQuery
3 1 (2.70%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) pytest
3 1 (2.70%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (2.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (48.65%) Replication
2 2 (5.41%) Derivative
2 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) IoT
3 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 22 (59.46%) Linux
2 18 (48.65%) Amazon Linux
2 18 (48.65%) VMS
2 18 (48.65%) Windows
3 9 (24.32%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) DevOps
2 25 (67.57%) CI/CD
3 18 (48.65%) Change Management
3 18 (48.65%) Cloud Security
3 18 (48.65%) Configuration Management
3 18 (48.65%) Patch Management
3 18 (48.65%) Platform Engineering
4 12 (32.43%) Performance Tuning
5 8 (21.62%) Agile
6 7 (18.92%) Analytics
6 7 (18.92%) DevSecOps
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.51%) Data Modelling
8 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure Automation
9 4 (10.81%) Data Governance
9 4 (10.81%) Decision-Making
9 4 (10.81%) ETL
9 4 (10.81%) High Availability
10 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 32 (86.49%) Python
2 20 (54.05%) Groovy
3 19 (51.35%) PowerShell
4 18 (48.65%) SQL
5 11 (29.73%) Java
6 9 (24.32%) Perl
7 7 (18.92%) Bash
8 3 (8.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (8.11%) R
9 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
10 1 (2.70%) Go
10 1 (2.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 25 (67.57%) Security Cleared
2 22 (59.46%) SC Cleared
3 10 (27.03%) Azure Certification
4 9 (24.32%) AWS Certification
4 9 (24.32%) Degree
5 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.70%) NCSC
1 1 (2.70%) QA
1 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (67.57%) Docker
2 18 (48.65%) DFS Replication
3 10 (27.03%) Active Directory
4 9 (24.32%) Dovecot
4 9 (24.32%) Postfix
4 9 (24.32%) Squid
Systems Management
1 26 (70.27%) Terraform
2 18 (48.65%) Grafana
2 18 (48.65%) Prometheus
3 9 (24.32%) Nessus
3 9 (24.32%) Proxmox
4 6 (16.22%) Ansible
5 3 (8.11%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.70%) Argo
6 1 (2.70%) Istio
Vendors
1 18 (48.65%) ServiceNow
2 9 (24.32%) Jaspersoft
3 5 (13.51%) Microsoft
4 4 (10.81%) CheckPoint
4 4 (10.81%) F5
4 4 (10.81%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.41%) Calypso
5 2 (5.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.70%) Adobe
6 1 (2.70%) Atlassian
6 1 (2.70%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.70%) Databricks