Git Contracts in Cheshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 35 49 29
Rank change year-on-year +14 -20 +21
Contract jobs citing Git 24 9 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.35% 1.79% 6.42%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.27% 13.64% 33.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 30
10th Percentile £355 £463 £417
25th Percentile £376 £484 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £397 £510 £474
Median % change year-on-year -22.25% +7.68% -1.33%
75th Percentile £488 £515 £638
90th Percentile £496 - £680
North West median daily rate £455 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +0.96%

All Development Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 88 66 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 19.60% 13.10% 19.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 53 87
10th Percentile £325 £311 £326
25th Percentile £358 £376 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% -1.10% +17.10%
75th Percentile £492 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £613 £627
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
% change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in Cheshire

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Git in Cheshire

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in Cheshire

Git
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 17 £393 - 5
Macclesfield +14 4 £490 -3.92%
Alderley Edge - 1 - - 1
Git
North West

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 8 (33.33%) JBoss
2 3 (12.50%) Tomcat
2 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 3 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 2 (8.33%) Confluence
4 1 (4.17%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) AWS
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) OpenShift
4 4 (16.67%) Anthropic Claude
4 4 (16.67%) Azure AI
4 4 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (16.67%) Google Gemini
5 3 (12.50%) Serverless
6 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Elasticsearch
1 5 (20.83%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (20.83%) RDBMS
1 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Neo4j
3 3 (12.50%) DB2
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
4 2 (8.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (41.67%) JIRA
2 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 6 (25.00%) SonarQube
3 6 (25.00%) TeamCity
4 5 (20.83%) Bitbucket Server
4 5 (20.83%) CA Release Automation
4 5 (20.83%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (16.67%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.17%) Selenium
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Legal
3 4 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (12.50%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Scrum Master
4 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.17%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (4.17%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Java Scrum Master
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Spring Boot
2 5 (20.83%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (20.83%) REST
3 4 (16.67%) PyTorch
3 4 (16.67%) Spring
3 4 (16.67%) TensorFlow
4 3 (12.50%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.50%) CSS
4 3 (12.50%) EJB
4 3 (12.50%) HTML
4 3 (12.50%) J2EE
4 3 (12.50%) JSP
4 3 (12.50%) RAML
4 3 (12.50%) Servlets
4 3 (12.50%) SOAP
4 3 (12.50%) Web Services
4 3 (12.50%) WSDL
5 2 (8.33%) CSS3
5 2 (8.33%) Node.js
5 2 (8.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Algorithms
1 4 (16.67%) Private Cloud
1 4 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Linux
2 5 (20.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) CI/CD
2 15 (62.50%) DevOps
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) Migration
4 9 (37.50%) SDLC
5 7 (29.17%) Code Quality
5 7 (29.17%) Containerisation
5 7 (29.17%) Deployment Automation
5 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (25.00%) Microservices
7 5 (20.83%) API Development
7 5 (20.83%) Build Automation
7 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Vision
8 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 4 (16.67%) Multi-Agent System
8 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Task Automation
8 4 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 19 (79.17%) Python
2 12 (50.00%) SQL
3 8 (33.33%) Java
4 6 (25.00%) Bash
5 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
5 5 (20.83%) Perl
5 5 (20.83%) PowerShell
6 3 (12.50%) Scala
7 2 (8.33%) Ruby
8 1 (4.17%) C#
8 1 (4.17%) R
8 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (50.00%) Docker
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (66.67%) Kubernetes
2 10 (41.67%) Progress Chef
3 5 (20.83%) Kibana
4 4 (16.67%) Ansible
5 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
5 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Oracle
2 5 (20.83%) AppDynamics
2 5 (20.83%) Red Hat
2 5 (20.83%) Splunk
3 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.50%) Cloudera
5 1 (4.17%) Ariba
5 1 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (4.17%) TIBCO