Git Contracts in the East of England

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 65 76 40
Rank change year-on-year +11 -36 +15
Contract jobs citing Git 17 36 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.81% 1.89% 4.70%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.48% 23.53% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 56
10th Percentile £437 £441 £346
25th Percentile £450 £461 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £609 £656
90th Percentile £664 £638 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £50.28 £51.25
25th Percentile £66.25 £56.88 £61.75
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -14.04% +26.11%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.25 £74.50
90th Percentile - £66.40 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 83 153 326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.85% 8.01% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 55 173
10th Percentile £343 £350 £313
25th Percentile £422 £396 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £550 £625
90th Percentile £629 £623 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 52 64
10th Percentile £51.13 £51.25 -
25th Percentile £64.06 £58.75 £53.75
Median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% - +18.18%
75th Percentile £77.19 £88.75 £73.75
90th Percentile £87.50 £90.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Git in the East of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the East of England

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Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the East of England 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
Essex +12 5 £625 +26.90% 16
Norfolk - 5 £450 - 8
Cambridgeshire -7 4 £519 +3.75% 49
Hertfordshire +21 3 £563 -16.67% 12
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) SaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Azure
4 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Wireless
2 1 (5.88%) 5G
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (35.29%) MongoDB
2 5 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Hadoop
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Gerrit
3 1 (5.88%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (5.88%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) Firmware Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Firmware Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Coordinator
5 1 (5.88%) Data Science Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Node.js Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Release Coordinator
5 1 (5.88%) Release Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (35.29%) CSS
2 5 (29.41%) Alpine.js
2 5 (29.41%) Laravel
2 5 (29.41%) Tailwind CSS
3 1 (5.88%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Matplotlib
3 1 (5.88%) Middleware
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) NumPy
3 1 (5.88%) Pandas
3 1 (5.88%) POSIX
3 1 (5.88%) PyTorch
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) Redfish
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (5.88%) Seaborn
3 1 (5.88%) TensorFlow
3 1 (5.88%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) FPGA
1 5 (29.41%) VHDL
2 1 (5.88%) Algorithms
2 1 (5.88%) ASIC
2 1 (5.88%) Device Driver
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (5.88%) STB
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.88%) VxWorks
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Agile
1 8 (47.06%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (41.18%) CI/CD
3 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Design Patterns
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 4 (23.53%) Signal Processing
6 2 (11.76%) DevOps
6 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
7 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
7 1 (5.88%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis
7 1 (5.88%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.88%) IT Governance
7 1 (5.88%) Predictive Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) Requirements Management
7 1 (5.88%) Test Automation
7 1 (5.88%) Time Management
7 1 (5.88%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PHP
1 5 (29.41%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) C++
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
4 1 (5.88%) C
4 1 (5.88%) C-shell
4 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.88%) R
4 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.88%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.88%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Ansible
1 1 (5.88%) HAProxy
1 1 (5.88%) Nagios
1 1 (5.88%) Puppet
1 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Xilinx
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Dell
3 1 (5.88%) HP
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Sun
3 1 (5.88%) Wind River