Git Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Git Distributed Version Control System
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 23 18 13
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Git 5 3 19
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.23% 2.56% 9.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.83% 13.04% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile - £449 £441
25th Percentile £558 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £538 £588
Median % change year-on-year +5.12% -8.51% +30.56%
75th Percentile £573 £591 £638
90th Percentile - £611 -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £565 £519 £588
% change year-on-year +8.92% -11.70% +30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £53.50
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £30.32 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -51.49% +19.05%

All Development Application Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 24 23 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 10.71% 19.66% 19.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 19
10th Percentile £505 £288 £347
25th Percentile £556 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £583 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% +7.53% -2.11%
75th Percentile £638 £556 £594
90th Percentile £675 £625 £660
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £583 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £53.50
25th Percentile - - £56.88
Median hourly rate - - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile - - £66.25
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate - £30.32 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -51.49% +19.05%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Git job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Git

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Control Tower
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Data Pipeline
1 4 (80.00%) ETL
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
1 4 (80.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
2 2 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Model Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Databricks
2 2 (40.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) TOWER Software