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 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 46 68 59
Rank change year-on-year +22 -9 -19
Contract jobs citing Git 79 60 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.50% 2.73% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.50% 21.98% 25.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 38 76
10th Percentile £413 £392 £406
25th Percentile £425 £425 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £641 £675 £725
90th Percentile £750 £770 £788
Central London median daily rate £578 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.65% -
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year - -15.65% -

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 259 273 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.75% 12.43% 15.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 185 360
10th Percentile £413 £406 £425
25th Percentile £449 £463 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £605
Median % change year-on-year - -9.05% +3.38%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £750
90th Percentile £725 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - £46.75 £39.06
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.82% -10.57%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year - -25.91% -10.57%

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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

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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

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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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the City of London

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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

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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 13 (16.46%) Apache
1 13 (16.46%) Apache Spark
2 6 (7.59%) Confluence
3 5 (6.33%) Jupyter
4 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.27%) Anypoint
5 1 (1.27%) nginx
5 1 (1.27%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Endur
2 1 (1.27%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 25 (31.65%) AWS
2 19 (24.05%) Azure
3 8 (10.13%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.59%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (7.59%) Serverless
5 5 (6.33%) Amazon SQS
5 5 (6.33%) GitHub
6 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.80%) Slack
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.53%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.53%) Boomi
8 2 (2.53%) dbt
8 2 (2.53%) GCP
8 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.53%) Prefect
8 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.06%) Firewall
1 4 (5.06%) SSH
2 2 (2.53%) HTTP
2 2 (2.53%) VPN
3 1 (1.27%) DNS
3 1 (1.27%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (10.13%) Big Data
3 6 (7.59%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (7.59%) Power BI
4 5 (6.33%) DocumentDB
4 5 (6.33%) Hadoop
4 5 (6.33%) Redis
5 4 (5.06%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.06%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.06%) Delta Lake
6 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.53%) DynamoDB
7 2 (2.53%) Flink
7 2 (2.53%) MySQL
7 2 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.53%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 24 (30.38%) JIRA
2 20 (25.32%) Jenkins
3 8 (10.13%) SonarQube
4 7 (8.86%) Postman
4 7 (8.86%) REST Assured
4 7 (8.86%) Selenium
5 6 (7.59%) Bitbucket
6 5 (6.33%) GitLab
7 4 (5.06%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (5.06%) JUnit
7 4 (5.06%) RStudio
8 3 (3.80%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (2.53%) Maven
9 2 (2.53%) NUnit
10 1 (1.27%) Crucible
10 1 (1.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.27%) Jasmine
10 1 (1.27%) Storybook
10 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (20.25%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (18.99%) Finance
3 11 (13.92%) Social Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.33%) Banking
6 4 (5.06%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.80%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Front Office
8 2 (2.53%) Marketing
9 1 (1.27%) Advertising
9 1 (1.27%) Back Office
9 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Games
9 1 (1.27%) Military
9 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (41.77%) Developer
2 12 (15.19%) Java Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Lead
4 9 (11.39%) Senior
5 7 (8.86%) Full-Stack Developer
5 7 (8.86%) Python Engineer
5 7 (8.86%) Test Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Data Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (7.59%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (6.33%) Apache Spark Developer
7 5 (6.33%) Team Leader
8 4 (5.06%) Python Developer
9 3 (3.80%) Analyst
9 3 (3.80%) Data Scientist
9 3 (3.80%) Migration Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (17.72%) REST
2 13 (16.46%) .NET
2 13 (16.46%) React
3 9 (11.39%) HTML
3 9 (11.39%) RESTful
4 7 (8.86%) CSS
4 7 (8.86%) Node.js
4 7 (8.86%) pytest
5 6 (7.59%) Web Services
6 5 (6.33%) JSON
6 5 (6.33%) Kafka
6 5 (6.33%) Spark Streaming
6 5 (6.33%) Spring
6 5 (6.33%) YAML
7 4 (5.06%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.06%) GraphQL
7 4 (5.06%) pydantic
7 4 (5.06%) PySpark
8 3 (3.80%) Bootstrap
8 3 (3.80%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.13%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (7.59%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (6.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (6.33%) Market Risk
3 5 (6.33%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.06%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 4 (5.06%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.06%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.80%) Equities
5 3 (3.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (3.80%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.53%) Multi-touch
6 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 25 (31.65%) Linux
2 4 (5.06%) Windows
3 3 (3.80%) Unix
4 2 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.27%) CentOS
5 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.27%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (58.23%) CI/CD
2 30 (37.97%) Agile
3 23 (29.11%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (27.85%) DevOps
5 15 (18.99%) Test Automation
6 12 (15.19%) BDD
7 11 (13.92%) Analytics
7 11 (13.92%) Electronic Trading
7 11 (13.92%) Software Engineering
8 10 (12.66%) Code Quality
8 10 (12.66%) Scrum
9 9 (11.39%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (11.39%) Data Pipeline
9 9 (11.39%) Kanban
9 9 (11.39%) Market Making
9 9 (11.39%) Microservices
10 8 (10.13%) Algorithmic Trading
10 8 (10.13%) Continuous Deployment
10 8 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (8.86%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 50 (63.29%) Python
2 29 (36.71%) Java
3 20 (25.32%) SQL
4 17 (21.52%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.92%) Bash
6 9 (11.39%) C++
7 7 (8.86%) C
7 7 (8.86%) C#
8 6 (7.59%) Scala
9 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.53%) Groovy
10 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.27%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.27%) Perl
11 1 (1.27%) Ruby
11 1 (1.27%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (25.32%) Security Cleared
2 19 (24.05%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.53%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.27%) EMIR
4 1 (1.27%) MiFID
4 1 (1.27%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (7.59%) Docker
2 1 (1.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.27%) Firmware
2 1 (1.27%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.27%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.27%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.27%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (11.39%) Ansible
2 7 (8.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (8.86%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.27%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.27%) Control-M
4 1 (1.27%) Istio
4 1 (1.27%) Podman
4 1 (1.27%) Puppet
4 1 (1.27%) Rancher
Vendors
1 8 (10.13%) Databricks
2 3 (3.80%) IBM
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.53%) Bloomberg
3 2 (2.53%) Confluent
3 2 (2.53%) Google
3 2 (2.53%) OpenLink
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) CQG
4 1 (1.27%) ForgeRock
4 1 (1.27%) ION Trading
4 1 (1.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.27%) Okta
4 1 (1.27%) Pega
4 1 (1.27%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.27%) Reuters
4 1 (1.27%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.27%) Xilinx