Git Contracts in Central London

Git Distributed Version Control System
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Git skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Git over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 72 51
Rank change year-on-year +25 -21 -9
Contract jobs citing Git 84 64 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.21% 2.62% 3.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.88% 22.22% 25.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 41 81
10th Percentile £413 £395 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.25%
75th Percentile £640 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £768 £788
London median daily rate £550 £539 £600
% change year-on-year +2.09% -10.21% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate - £67.88 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +18.04% -25.32%

All Development Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 272 288 587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.62% 11.77% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 160 194 387
10th Percentile £407 £400 £413
25th Percentile £431 £451 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £34.38 £35.00
25th Percentile - £36.44 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £58.75
90th Percentile - £48.53 -
London median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Git in Central London

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Git in Central London

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Central London

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Git in Central London

Git
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +22 79 £585 +6.36% 37
West End of London -2 1 £580 - 9
Camden - 1 £580 -
Git
London

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 13 (15.48%) Apache
1 13 (15.48%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.14%) Confluence
3 5 (5.95%) Jupyter
4 4 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.19%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.19%) nginx
5 1 (1.19%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Endur
2 1 (1.19%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) AWS
2 21 (25.00%) Azure
3 8 (9.52%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.14%) Serverless
5 5 (5.95%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (5.95%) GitHub
6 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.57%) Slack
7 3 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.38%) Boomi
8 2 (2.38%) dbt
8 2 (2.38%) GCP
8 2 (2.38%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.38%) Route 53
8 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.95%) Firewall
2 4 (4.76%) SSH
3 3 (3.57%) VPN
4 2 (2.38%) DNS
4 2 (2.38%) HTTP
5 1 (1.19%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.52%) Big Data
2 8 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (8.33%) Redis
4 6 (7.14%) Power BI
5 5 (5.95%) DocumentDB
5 5 (5.95%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 4 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
6 4 (4.76%) Delta Lake
7 2 (2.38%) Apache Iceberg
7 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.38%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.38%) Flink
7 2 (2.38%) MySQL
7 2 (2.38%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.38%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (30.95%) JIRA
2 22 (26.19%) Jenkins
3 10 (11.90%) SonarQube
4 9 (10.71%) Postman
4 9 (10.71%) REST Assured
5 7 (8.33%) GitLab
5 7 (8.33%) Selenium
6 6 (7.14%) Bitbucket
6 6 (7.14%) JUnit
7 5 (5.95%) Maven
8 4 (4.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (4.76%) Bitbucket Server
8 4 (4.76%) RStudio
9 3 (3.57%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.38%) Mockito
10 2 (2.38%) NUnit
10 2 (2.38%) SoapUI
10 2 (2.38%) Subversion
10 2 (2.38%) Xcode
10 2 (2.38%) XCTest
General
1 17 (20.24%) Finance
2 16 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 9 (10.71%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.33%) Banking
6 4 (4.76%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.57%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.38%) Front Office
8 2 (2.38%) Marketing
9 1 (1.19%) Advertising
9 1 (1.19%) Back Office
9 1 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.19%) Games
9 1 (1.19%) Military
9 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (40.48%) Developer
2 13 (15.48%) Java Developer
3 11 (13.10%) Lead
4 10 (11.90%) Senior
5 7 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Python Engineer
5 7 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Apache Spark Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Team Leader
8 4 (4.76%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Software Engineer
9 3 (3.57%) Analyst
9 3 (3.57%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.57%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.38%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (19.05%) REST
2 13 (15.48%) .NET
2 13 (15.48%) React
3 11 (13.10%) HTML
4 9 (10.71%) CSS
4 9 (10.71%) RESTful
5 8 (9.52%) Kafka
5 8 (9.52%) Spring
5 8 (9.52%) Web Services
6 7 (8.33%) Node.js
6 7 (8.33%) pytest
7 5 (5.95%) Bootstrap
7 5 (5.95%) JSON
7 5 (5.95%) Spark Streaming
7 5 (5.95%) YAML
8 4 (4.76%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.76%) GraphQL
8 4 (4.76%) Hibernate
8 4 (4.76%) PySpark
8 4 (4.76%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.90%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.14%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (5.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (5.95%) Market Risk
3 5 (5.95%) Reference Data
4 4 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.76%) Fixed Income
4 4 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.57%) Equities
5 3 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.38%) Multi-touch
6 2 (2.38%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.19%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 27 (32.14%) Linux
2 5 (5.95%) Unix
2 5 (5.95%) Windows
3 2 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.19%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.19%) CentOS
4 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.19%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 33 (39.29%) Agile
3 26 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (26.19%) DevOps
5 15 (17.86%) Test Automation
6 12 (14.29%) BDD
6 12 (14.29%) Code Quality
6 12 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 11 (13.10%) Analytics
7 11 (13.10%) Electronic Trading
7 11 (13.10%) Microservices
8 10 (11.90%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (11.90%) Scrum
9 9 (10.71%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (10.71%) Kanban
9 9 (10.71%) Market Making
9 9 (10.71%) TDD
10 8 (9.52%) Algorithmic Trading
10 8 (9.52%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 51 (60.71%) Python
2 32 (38.10%) Java
3 22 (26.19%) SQL
4 19 (22.62%) JavaScript
5 12 (14.29%) Bash
6 9 (10.71%) C++
7 7 (8.33%) C
7 7 (8.33%) C#
8 6 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 6 (7.14%) Scala
9 4 (4.76%) Groovy
9 4 (4.76%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.19%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.19%) COBOL
10 1 (1.19%) JCL
10 1 (1.19%) Perl
10 1 (1.19%) Ruby
10 1 (1.19%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.19%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (23.81%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.38%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.19%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.19%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.14%) GDPR
2 4 (4.76%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.38%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.19%) EMIR
4 1 (1.19%) MiFID
4 1 (1.19%) QA
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (10.71%) Docker
2 1 (1.19%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.19%) Firmware
2 1 (1.19%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.19%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.19%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) Ansible
2 10 (11.90%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.71%) Terraform
4 4 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.57%) Puppet
6 2 (2.38%) Istio
7 1 (1.19%) Argo
7 1 (1.19%) CloudHub
7 1 (1.19%) Control-M
7 1 (1.19%) Grafana
7 1 (1.19%) Podman
7 1 (1.19%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.19%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (9.52%) Databricks
2 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 3 (3.57%) IBM
3 3 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.38%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.38%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (2.38%) Confluent
4 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) OpenLink
4 2 (2.38%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.38%) Splunk
4 2 (2.38%) VMware
5 1 (1.19%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.19%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.19%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.19%) Okta
5 1 (1.19%) Pega
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) Xilinx