Git Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Git Distributed Version Control System
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Git skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 28
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -7
Contract jobs citing Git 4 27 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheltenham 4.49% 10.80% 3.74%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.57% 34.62% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile - £536 £581
25th Percentile £525 £603 £609
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £663
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% -3.85% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £705 £731
90th Percentile - £724 £806
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £650 £650
% change year-on-year -15.38% - +26.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £36.00 - £78.00

All Development Application Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 14 78 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 15.73% 31.20% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 27 22
10th Percentile £450 £458 £362
25th Percentile £488 £509 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £656 £697
90th Percentile £646 £721 £738
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
10th Percentile - - £45.45
25th Percentile - £70.50 £59.63
Median hourly rate £36.00 £71.00 £85.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.30% -16.96% -
75th Percentile - £71.50 £91.13
90th Percentile - - £93.15
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +52.94%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in Cheltenham

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Git

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) npm
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) dbt
2 1 (25.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) RDBMS
1 3 (75.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (50.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (25.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Maven
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) CentOS
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Terraform
2 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 3 (75.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle