Git Contracts in the City of London

Git Distributed Version Control System
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 30 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 54 60
Rank change year-on-year -2 +6 -17
Contract jobs citing Git 66 74 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.75% 3.49% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.19% 24.67% 26.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 48 80
10th Percentile £413 £403 £411
25th Percentile £425 £484 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £593 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +5.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £680 £715 £706
90th Percentile £775 £784 £853
Central London median daily rate £575 £579 £575
% change year-on-year -0.65% +0.65% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +38.57% -33.33%
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year - +38.57% -33.33%

All Development Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 252 300 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.33% 14.16% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 205 328
10th Percentile £394 £400 £400
25th Percentile £435 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -8.17% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £738
90th Percentile £738 £772 £800
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -0.91% -8.33% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £36.63
25th Percentile £86.25 £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate £87.50 £48.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +80.41% +10.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £88.75 £50.25 £49.06
90th Percentile - - £51.88
Central London median hourly rate £87.50 £40.75 £43.75
% change year-on-year +114.72% -6.86% -16.67%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in the City of London

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Git in the City of London

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the City of London over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the City of London

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the City of London

Git
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 30 June 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
Moorgate - 1 £390 -
Git
Central London

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (13.64%) Apache
1 9 (13.64%) Apache Spark
2 6 (9.09%) Confluence
3 2 (3.03%) Jupyter
3 2 (3.03%) nginx
4 1 (1.52%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.52%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 4 (6.06%) Endur
2 1 (1.52%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.79%) AWS
2 17 (25.76%) Azure
3 6 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
3 6 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.09%) Serverless
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (7.58%) Power Platform
5 4 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.06%) GitHub
6 3 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (3.03%) Boomi
7 2 (3.03%) GCP
7 2 (3.03%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (1.52%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.52%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.06%) Firewall
2 3 (4.55%) SSH
3 2 (3.03%) DNS
3 2 (3.03%) HTTP
3 2 (3.03%) VPN
4 1 (1.52%) BGP
4 1 (1.52%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.52%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.52%) HTTPS
4 1 (1.52%) IGMP
4 1 (1.52%) Internet
4 1 (1.52%) Multicast
4 1 (1.52%) NAS
4 1 (1.52%) Network Security
4 1 (1.52%) OSPF
4 1 (1.52%) SAN
4 1 (1.52%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.52%) tcpdump
4 1 (1.52%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.61%) Big Data
2 5 (7.58%) DocumentDB
2 5 (7.58%) Hadoop
2 5 (7.58%) Redis
3 3 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 3 (4.55%) Power BI
3 3 (4.55%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.03%) Apache Hive
4 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.52%) MySQL
5 1 (1.52%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.52%) Star Schema
5 1 (1.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (25.76%) Jenkins
2 16 (24.24%) JIRA
3 7 (10.61%) Bitbucket
4 6 (9.09%) GitLab
4 6 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.58%) Postman
6 4 (6.06%) REST Assured
6 4 (6.06%) Selenium
7 3 (4.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (4.55%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (4.55%) JUnit
8 2 (3.03%) Maven
8 2 (3.03%) NUnit
8 2 (3.03%) RStudio
9 1 (1.52%) Android Studio
9 1 (1.52%) Appium
9 1 (1.52%) Artifactory
9 1 (1.52%) Cucumber
9 1 (1.52%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.52%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (31.82%) Finance
2 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (21.21%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.09%) Banking
6 4 (6.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.55%) Back Office
7 3 (4.55%) Front Office
7 3 (4.55%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Advertising
8 1 (1.52%) Automotive
8 1 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Games
8 1 (1.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (43.94%) Developer
2 12 (18.18%) Java Developer
3 8 (12.12%) Lead
4 7 (10.61%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (9.09%) JavaScript Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Apache Spark Developer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior
7 4 (6.06%) Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) OpenLink Developer
7 4 (6.06%) Test Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Migration Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.55%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.03%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) React Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (18.18%) REST
2 10 (15.15%) .NET
3 9 (13.64%) React
4 5 (7.58%) Node.js
4 5 (7.58%) Spark Streaming
5 4 (6.06%) HTML
5 4 (6.06%) Spring
6 3 (4.55%) ASP.NET
6 3 (4.55%) JSON
6 3 (4.55%) Kafka
6 3 (4.55%) pytest
6 3 (4.55%) Redux
6 3 (4.55%) RESTful
7 2 (3.03%) ASP.NET Core
7 2 (3.03%) jQuery
7 2 (3.03%) LINQ
7 2 (3.03%) pydantic
7 2 (3.03%) PySpark
7 2 (3.03%) YAML
7 2 (3.03%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.09%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (7.58%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.58%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.58%) Market Risk
3 4 (6.06%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (4.55%) Equities
4 3 (4.55%) Fixed Income
4 3 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.55%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.03%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.03%) Derivative
5 2 (3.03%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.52%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.52%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (28.79%) Linux
2 5 (7.58%) Unix
3 3 (4.55%) Windows
4 2 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.52%) Android
5 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.52%) CentOS
5 1 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (59.09%) CI/CD
2 26 (39.39%) Agile
3 23 (34.85%) DevOps
4 19 (28.79%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (21.21%) Scrum
6 13 (19.70%) Kanban
7 12 (18.18%) Microservices
8 9 (13.64%) BDD
8 9 (13.64%) Test Automation
9 8 (12.12%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (12.12%) Electronic Trading
9 8 (12.12%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (10.61%) Analytics
10 7 (10.61%) Code Quality
10 7 (10.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.61%) Software Engineering
11 6 (9.09%) Low Latency
11 6 (9.09%) Risk Management
11 6 (9.09%) Unit Testing
12 5 (7.58%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (56.06%) Python
2 28 (42.42%) Java
3 17 (25.76%) SQL
4 13 (19.70%) JavaScript
5 11 (16.67%) Bash
6 8 (12.12%) C#
7 5 (7.58%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.06%) C++
9 3 (4.55%) C
9 3 (4.55%) Scala
10 2 (3.03%) Go
10 2 (3.03%) Groovy
11 1 (1.52%) Kotlin
11 1 (1.52%) Perl
11 1 (1.52%) Ruby
11 1 (1.52%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.52%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.52%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 10 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) Degree
3 3 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) CCIE
5 1 (1.52%) CCNP
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 2 (3.03%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.03%) GDPR
4 1 (1.52%) EMIR
4 1 (1.52%) MiFID
4 1 (1.52%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (10.61%) Docker
2 1 (1.52%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.52%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.52%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (16.67%) Ansible
2 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 9 (13.64%) Terraform
3 3 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 2 (3.03%) Grafana
4 2 (3.03%) Istio
4 2 (3.03%) Packer
4 2 (3.03%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.52%) Argo
5 1 (1.52%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.52%) Consul
5 1 (1.52%) Control-M
5 1 (1.52%) Podman
5 1 (1.52%) Puppet
5 1 (1.52%) yum
Vendors
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.06%) Databricks
2 4 (6.06%) OpenLink
3 3 (4.55%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.03%) Oracle
4 2 (3.03%) Splunk
4 2 (3.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.52%) Cisco
5 1 (1.52%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.52%) CQG
5 1 (1.52%) F5
5 1 (1.52%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.52%) Google
5 1 (1.52%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.52%) Pega
5 1 (1.52%) Reuters
5 1 (1.52%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.52%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.52%) SolarWinds