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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 -20
Contract jobs citing Git 70 63 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.17% 2.91% 3.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 29.05% 22.18% 24.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 71
10th Percentile £413 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £424 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.84% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £662 £656 £700
90th Percentile £768 £752 £775
Central London median daily rate £578 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +7.44% -2.27% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year - +4.86% -
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £48.50 £46.25
% change year-on-year - +4.86% -

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 241 284 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 14.37% 13.13% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 194 333
10th Percentile £407 £400 £425
25th Percentile £431 £451 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £601
Median % change year-on-year - -8.41% +2.21%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £738
90th Percentile £738 £746 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46.75 £35.00
Median hourly rate - £48.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -7.62% -27.59%
75th Percentile - £50.25 £58.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £40.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year - -22.38% -27.59%

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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 23 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 12 (17.14%) Apache Spark
2 11 (15.71%) Apache
3 5 (7.14%) Confluence
4 4 (5.71%) Jupyter
5 2 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.43%) Anypoint
6 1 (1.43%) nginx
6 1 (1.43%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 4 (5.71%) Endur
2 1 (1.43%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 22 (31.43%) AWS
2 19 (27.14%) Azure
3 8 (11.43%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (8.57%) Serverless
5 5 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.29%) GitHub
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.86%) Boomi
8 2 (2.86%) GCP
8 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.86%) Prefect
8 2 (2.86%) Slack
8 2 (2.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (1.43%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.71%) Firewall
1 4 (5.71%) SSH
2 2 (2.86%) HTTP
2 2 (2.86%) VPN
3 1 (1.43%) DNS
3 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.43%) Big Data
2 7 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.57%) Power BI
4 5 (7.14%) DocumentDB
4 5 (7.14%) Hadoop
4 5 (7.14%) Redis
5 4 (5.71%) Apache Hive
5 4 (5.71%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (5.71%) Delta Lake
6 3 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (2.86%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
7 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.86%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.43%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.43%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (31.43%) JIRA
2 19 (27.14%) Jenkins
3 7 (10.00%) Postman
3 7 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 7 (10.00%) Selenium
4 6 (8.57%) Bitbucket
4 6 (8.57%) SonarQube
5 5 (7.14%) GitLab
6 4 (5.71%) RStudio
7 3 (4.29%) Bitbucket Server
7 3 (4.29%) JUnit
8 2 (2.86%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (2.86%) Maven
8 2 (2.86%) NUnit
8 2 (2.86%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.43%) Crucible
9 1 (1.43%) Storybook
9 1 (1.43%) Visual Studio
9 1 (1.43%) Vite
9 1 (1.43%) webpack
General
1 16 (22.86%) Finance
2 15 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Social Skills
4 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.71%) Banking
5 4 (5.71%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.86%) Front Office
6 2 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.43%) Advertising
7 1 (1.43%) Back Office
7 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.43%) Games
7 1 (1.43%) Marketing
7 1 (1.43%) Military
7 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (45.71%) Developer
2 12 (17.14%) Java Developer
3 9 (12.86%) Senior
4 8 (11.43%) Lead
5 7 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 7 (10.00%) Test Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Data Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) JavaScript Engineer
6 6 (8.57%) Senior Test Engineer
7 5 (7.14%) Apache Spark Developer
7 5 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (5.71%) OpenLink Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Python Developer
8 4 (5.71%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.29%) Migration Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Senior Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Software Developer
10 2 (2.86%) Technical Engineer
10 2 (2.86%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (20.00%) REST
2 13 (18.57%) .NET
3 11 (15.71%) React
4 7 (10.00%) pytest
5 6 (8.57%) HTML
5 6 (8.57%) Node.js
5 6 (8.57%) RESTful
6 5 (7.14%) JSON
6 5 (7.14%) Spark Streaming
6 5 (7.14%) YAML
7 4 (5.71%) ASP.NET
7 4 (5.71%) CSS
7 4 (5.71%) pydantic
7 4 (5.71%) PySpark
7 4 (5.71%) Spring
7 4 (5.71%) Web Services
8 3 (4.29%) Bootstrap
8 3 (4.29%) FastAPI
8 3 (4.29%) Kafka
8 3 (4.29%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Distributed Computing
2 5 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (7.14%) Market Risk
2 5 (7.14%) Reference Data
3 4 (5.71%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.71%) Fixed Income
3 4 (5.71%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (4.29%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.29%) Equities
4 3 (4.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.86%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.43%) Derivative
6 1 (1.43%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.43%) Hedge funds
6 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.43%) Multi-touch
6 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.43%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.00%) Linux
2 4 (5.71%) Windows
3 3 (4.29%) Unix
4 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.43%) CentOS
5 1 (1.43%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.43%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) CI/CD
2 27 (38.57%) Agile
3 21 (30.00%) DevOps
3 21 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 13 (18.57%) BDD
6 11 (15.71%) Kanban
6 11 (15.71%) Microservices
7 10 (14.29%) Scrum
8 9 (12.86%) Data Pipeline
9 8 (11.43%) Analytics
9 8 (11.43%) Code Quality
9 8 (11.43%) Electronic Trading
9 8 (11.43%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (11.43%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.00%) API Testing
10 7 (10.00%) Open Source
10 7 (10.00%) Test Scripting
10 7 (10.00%) Test Strategy
11 6 (8.57%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 45 (64.29%) Python
2 26 (37.14%) Java
3 18 (25.71%) SQL
4 15 (21.43%) JavaScript
5 10 (14.29%) Bash
6 9 (12.86%) C#
7 6 (8.57%) C++
8 5 (7.14%) PowerShell
8 5 (7.14%) Scala
9 4 (5.71%) C
10 2 (2.86%) Groovy
10 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.43%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.43%) Perl
11 1 (1.43%) Ruby
11 1 (1.43%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (24.29%) Security Cleared
2 16 (22.86%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.14%) Degree
4 3 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.43%) EMIR
4 1 (1.43%) MiFID
4 1 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (1.43%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (7.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.43%) Firmware
2 1 (1.43%) OpenAM
2 1 (1.43%) OpenDJ
2 1 (1.43%) OpenIDM
2 1 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (12.86%) Ansible
2 6 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.14%) Terraform
4 3 (4.29%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.43%) CloudHub
5 1 (1.43%) Control-M
5 1 (1.43%) Istio
5 1 (1.43%) Podman
5 1 (1.43%) Puppet
5 1 (1.43%) Rancher
Vendors
1 7 (10.00%) Databricks
2 4 (5.71%) OpenLink
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.86%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.86%) Google
4 2 (2.86%) Oracle
4 2 (2.86%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.86%) VMware
5 1 (1.43%) CQG
5 1 (1.43%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.43%) IBM
5 1 (1.43%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.43%) Okta
5 1 (1.43%) Pega
5 1 (1.43%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.43%) Reuters
5 1 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.43%) Xilinx