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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 72 61
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 -22
Contract jobs citing Git 73 64 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.87% 2.67% 3.54%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.74% 21.40% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 40 73
10th Percentile £405 £385 £403
25th Percentile £425 £424 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £519 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -5.68% -6.14%
75th Percentile £645 £656 £700
90th Percentile £758 £752 £771
London median daily rate £530 £525 £600
% change year-on-year +0.95% -12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £37.13
25th Percentile - £46.75 £40.31
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - +4.86% -
75th Percentile - £50.25 £52.81
90th Percentile - - £56.38
London median hourly rate - £67.88 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -3.04% -6.67%

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 254 299 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 13.46% 12.47% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 203 357
10th Percentile £386 £387 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £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 3
10th Percentile - £34.38 £38.25
25th Percentile - £36.44 £43.13
Median hourly rate - £40.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.38% -27.59%
75th Percentile - £45.94 £56.25
90th Percentile - £48.53 £57.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £36.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +2.74% -47.86% +57.30%

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 29 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 29 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 +14 68 £585 +11.43% 23
West End of London - 1 £580 - 5
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 11 (15.07%) Apache
1 11 (15.07%) Apache Spark
2 5 (6.85%) Confluence
3 4 (5.48%) Jupyter
4 2 (2.74%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.37%) nginx
5 1 (1.37%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Endur
2 1 (1.37%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 23 (31.51%) AWS
2 22 (30.14%) Azure
3 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.22%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.22%) Serverless
5 5 (6.85%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (5.48%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (4.11%) Amazon S3
7 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.11%) GitHub
7 3 (4.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (2.74%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.74%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.74%) Boomi
8 2 (2.74%) GCP
8 2 (2.74%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.74%) Prefect
8 2 (2.74%) Route 53
9 1 (1.37%) Figma
9 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) Firewall
1 5 (6.85%) SSH
2 3 (4.11%) DNS
2 3 (4.11%) VPN
3 2 (2.74%) HTTP
4 1 (1.37%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.37%) Internet
4 1 (1.37%) NAS
4 1 (1.37%) SAN
4 1 (1.37%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.96%) Redis
2 7 (9.59%) Big Data
2 7 (9.59%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.22%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (6.85%) Delta Lake
4 5 (6.85%) DocumentDB
4 5 (6.85%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.85%) Power BI
5 4 (5.48%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.48%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (4.11%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (4.11%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.74%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.37%) MySQL
8 1 (1.37%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (1.37%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 22 (30.14%) Jenkins
1 22 (30.14%) JIRA
2 9 (12.33%) Postman
2 9 (12.33%) REST Assured
2 9 (12.33%) SonarQube
3 6 (8.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 6 (8.22%) Bitbucket
3 6 (8.22%) GitLab
3 6 (8.22%) JUnit
3 6 (8.22%) Selenium
4 5 (6.85%) Maven
5 4 (5.48%) RStudio
6 3 (4.11%) Bitbucket Server
6 3 (4.11%) Mockito
6 3 (4.11%) SoapUI
6 3 (4.11%) Subversion
6 3 (4.11%) Xcode
6 3 (4.11%) XCTest
7 2 (2.74%) NUnit
7 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
General
1 19 (26.03%) Finance
2 16 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.33%) Public Sector
5 7 (9.59%) Banking
6 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.74%) Front Office
7 2 (2.74%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Advertising
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
8 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.37%) Games
8 1 (1.37%) Military
8 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (46.58%) Developer
2 13 (17.81%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.33%) Senior
4 7 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) Lead
5 6 (8.22%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Full-Stack Developer
5 6 (8.22%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Python Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) Test Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Apache Spark Developer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Test Engineer
7 4 (5.48%) OpenLink Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Python Developer
7 4 (5.48%) Team Leader
8 3 (4.11%) Migration Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (2.74%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (2.74%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (21.92%) REST
2 12 (16.44%) .NET
3 11 (15.07%) React
4 9 (12.33%) HTML
5 7 (9.59%) CSS
5 7 (9.59%) Spring
5 7 (9.59%) Web Services
6 6 (8.22%) Bootstrap
6 6 (8.22%) Node.js
6 6 (8.22%) pytest
6 6 (8.22%) RESTful
7 5 (6.85%) Hibernate
7 5 (6.85%) JSON
7 5 (6.85%) Kafka
7 5 (6.85%) Spark Streaming
7 5 (6.85%) YAML
8 4 (5.48%) ASP.NET
8 4 (5.48%) pydantic
8 4 (5.48%) PySpark
8 4 (5.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (8.22%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (6.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.85%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.85%) Market Risk
3 5 (6.85%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.48%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.48%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.48%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (4.11%) Equities
5 3 (4.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.74%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.74%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.37%) FPGA
7 1 (1.37%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.37%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.51%) Linux
2 7 (9.59%) Unix
3 4 (5.48%) Windows
4 2 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.37%) CentOS
5 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.37%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (54.79%) CI/CD
2 29 (39.73%) Agile
3 24 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (28.77%) DevOps
5 14 (19.18%) Microservices
6 12 (16.44%) BDD
6 12 (16.44%) Test Automation
7 11 (15.07%) Code Quality
7 11 (15.07%) Kanban
8 10 (13.70%) Data Pipeline
8 10 (13.70%) Scrum
9 8 (10.96%) Electronic Trading
9 8 (10.96%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.96%) TDD
10 7 (9.59%) Analytics
10 7 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.59%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (9.59%) Mentoring
10 7 (9.59%) Open Source
10 7 (9.59%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (58.90%) Python
2 29 (39.73%) Java
3 20 (27.40%) SQL
4 18 (24.66%) JavaScript
5 12 (16.44%) Bash
6 9 (12.33%) C#
7 6 (8.22%) C++
7 6 (8.22%) PowerShell
8 5 (6.85%) Groovy
8 5 (6.85%) Scala
8 5 (6.85%) Shell Script
9 4 (5.48%) C
10 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.37%) COBOL
10 1 (1.37%) JCL
10 1 (1.37%) Perl
10 1 (1.37%) Ruby
10 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (21.92%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) Degree
4 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.74%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) GDPR
2 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.37%) EMIR
3 1 (1.37%) MiFID
3 1 (1.37%) QA
3 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (10.96%) Docker
2 1 (1.37%) Firmware
2 1 (1.37%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.37%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.37%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Ansible
2 9 (12.33%) Kubernetes
3 7 (9.59%) Terraform
4 4 (5.48%) Progress Chef
5 3 (4.11%) Puppet
6 1 (1.37%) CloudHub
6 1 (1.37%) Control-M
6 1 (1.37%) Istio
6 1 (1.37%) Packer
6 1 (1.37%) Podman
6 1 (1.37%) Rancher
6 1 (1.37%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (8.22%) Databricks
2 5 (6.85%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.48%) OpenLink
4 3 (4.11%) CA Agile Central
4 3 (4.11%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.11%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) VMware
6 1 (1.37%) CQG
6 1 (1.37%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.37%) Google
6 1 (1.37%) IBM
6 1 (1.37%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.37%) Pega
6 1 (1.37%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.37%) Reuters
6 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Xilinx