Git Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 36 52
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing Git 60 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 9.15% 3.33% 1.76%
As % of the Development Applications category 38.22% 25.42% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 6 6
10th Percentile £319 £329 £472
25th Percentile £358 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £356 £499
Median % change year-on-year +17.63% -28.62% +7.84%
75th Percentile £469 £394 £541
90th Percentile £491 £493 £558
North West median daily rate £425 £400 £505
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.79% -11.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
North West median hourly rate £77.88 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +68.64% - -2.78%

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 157 59 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 23.93% 13.08% 22.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 36 66
10th Percentile £310 £306 £265
25th Percentile £358 £356 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.38% +0.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £488 £589 £564
90th Percentile £579 £690 £587
North West median daily rate £430 £450 £515
% change year-on-year -4.44% -12.62% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £73.50 -
25th Percentile £39.00 £75.00 -
Median hourly rate £41.00 £80.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -48.75% - -
75th Percentile £43.00 £85.00 -
90th Percentile - £86.50 -
North West median hourly rate £57.50 £47.59 £46.18
% change year-on-year +20.82% +3.05% +2.62%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Git job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Cheshire over the 6 months to 14 December 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 14 December 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 +9 49 £425 +19.38% 2
Warrington - 5 £388 - 12
Git
North West

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (21.67%) JBoss
2 10 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 9 (15.00%) Apache
3 9 (15.00%) IIS
4 8 (13.33%) iPlanet
4 8 (13.33%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.67%) CMS
5 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.67%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 34 (56.67%) AWS
2 16 (26.67%) Azure
3 14 (23.33%) GitHub
4 11 (18.33%) OpenShift
5 6 (10.00%) npm
6 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (8.33%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (6.67%) Apigee
7 4 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (6.67%) GCP
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (3.33%) Amazon MSK
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.33%) AWS CodeBuild
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (3.33%) Serverless
8 2 (3.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Kerberos
2 4 (6.67%) HTTP
2 4 (6.67%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.33%) Oracle Database
1 8 (13.33%) Relational Database
2 5 (8.33%) MySQL
2 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (5.00%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (3.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 28 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 21 (35.00%) JIRA
3 12 (20.00%) GitLab
3 12 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 11 (18.33%) Bitbucket Server
4 11 (18.33%) CA Release Automation
5 9 (15.00%) SonarQube
6 6 (10.00%) Cypress.io
6 6 (10.00%) Grunt
6 6 (10.00%) gulp
6 6 (10.00%) Postman
7 5 (8.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (8.33%) JUnit
8 4 (6.67%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.00%) Gradle
9 3 (5.00%) TeamCity
9 3 (5.00%) Xcode
10 2 (3.33%) git-flow
11 1 (1.67%) Selenium
General
1 22 (36.67%) Finance
2 17 (28.33%) Banking
3 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 5 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (58.33%) Developer
2 21 (35.00%) Java Developer
3 10 (16.67%) Senior
4 9 (15.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) UI Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Apigee Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior DevOps
7 3 (5.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Automation Tester
8 2 (3.33%) AWS Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (3.33%) iOS Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Automation Tester
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Developer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Tester
8 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (48.33%) Spring Boot
2 26 (43.33%) Spring
3 24 (40.00%) REST
4 16 (26.67%) RESTful
5 15 (25.00%) OAuth
6 14 (23.33%) React
7 12 (20.00%) HTML
8 11 (18.33%) CSS
8 11 (18.33%) JMS
8 11 (18.33%) JSON
9 10 (16.67%) Node.js
10 9 (15.00%) Hibernate
10 9 (15.00%) OpenID
10 9 (15.00%) SAML
11 8 (13.33%) LDAP
12 7 (11.67%) HTML5
12 7 (11.67%) Nightwatchjs
13 6 (10.00%) Enzyme
13 6 (10.00%) Jest
13 6 (10.00%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 9 (15.00%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.00%) Mobile Banking
3 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) CMDB
4 1 (1.67%) Graphic Design
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.67%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 16 (26.67%) Linux
2 12 (20.00%) Windows
3 8 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 7 (11.67%) Unix
5 3 (5.00%) Android
5 3 (5.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 30 (50.00%) Agile
3 29 (48.33%) DevOps
4 22 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (33.33%) Microservices
5 20 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 17 (28.33%) Containerisation
6 17 (28.33%) TDD
6 17 (28.33%) Unit Testing
7 15 (25.00%) Code Quality
7 15 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (23.33%) SDLC
9 12 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (18.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
10 11 (18.33%) Scrum
11 10 (16.67%) Integration Testing
11 10 (16.67%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (15.00%) API Design
12 9 (15.00%) Deployment Automation
12 9 (15.00%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (56.67%) Java
2 22 (36.67%) SQL
3 15 (25.00%) Python
4 13 (21.67%) JavaScript
5 9 (15.00%) Groovy
6 7 (11.67%) Shell Script
7 5 (8.33%) Perl
7 5 (8.33%) Ruby
8 3 (5.00%) C
8 3 (5.00%) C++
8 3 (5.00%) Kotlin
8 3 (5.00%) Objective-C
8 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.00%) Scala
8 3 (5.00%) Swift
8 3 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (3.33%) Bash
9 2 (3.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (18.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 8 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (13.33%) Degree
4 7 (11.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (26.67%) QA
2 11 (18.33%) ISO 20022
2 11 (18.33%) PSD2
2 11 (18.33%) SEPA
3 6 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 31 (51.67%) Docker
2 11 (18.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (11.67%) Tivoli Directory Server
4 2 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 25 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.33%) Progress Chef
3 9 (15.00%) CA Single Sign-On
4 8 (13.33%) CA Wily
5 7 (11.67%) Tivoli
6 6 (10.00%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (5.00%) Kibana
8 2 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (43.33%) Oracle
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.00%) Splunk
3 11 (18.33%) AppDynamics
4 9 (15.00%) Broadcom
5 8 (13.33%) IBM
6 6 (10.00%) Perforce
7 3 (5.00%) Cloudera
7 3 (5.00%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow