Git Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Git skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 69 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Git 16 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.23% 1.76% 2.43%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.43% 19.71% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 22
10th Percentile £262 - £283
25th Percentile £355 £213 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £363 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.03% -19.44% -10.22%
75th Percentile £489 £638 £513
90th Percentile £518 £650 £698
England median daily rate £492 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -8.67% -2.00% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 10
10th Percentile £26.50 £46.25 £51.25
25th Percentile £57.35 £48.75 £58.13
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.52% -20.69% +10.69%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £73.75
90th Percentile - - £73.88
England median hourly rate £55.00 £64.38 £65.00
% change year-on-year -14.56% -0.96% -0.76%

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 140 137 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.79% 8.95% 12.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 43 109
10th Percentile £235 £230 £296
25th Percentile £400 £338 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% - -7.81%
75th Percentile £550 £556 £550
90th Percentile £600 £638 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 39 62
10th Percentile £61.03 £49.25 £56.75
25th Percentile £65.00 £55.95 £65.63
Median hourly rate £65.50 £65.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -13.33% +25.00%
75th Percentile £67.00 - £90.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £65.50 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

Git
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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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Git

Git
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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Git

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 18 September 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
Hertfordshire +7 10 £413 -41.07% 12
Cambridgeshire -9 3 £200 -68.00% 21
Essex -4 1 £465 +106.67% 31
Bedfordshire -10 1 - - 11
Norfolk - 1 £525 - 11
Git
England

Git
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 (6.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 1 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Simulink
1 2 (12.50%) Stateflow
2 1 (6.25%) CANalyzer
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (6.25%) Anthropic Claude
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) ChatGPT
2 1 (6.25%) GCP
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
1 1 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Neo4j
1 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) CANoe
1 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) Appium
2 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
2 1 (6.25%) Gatling
2 1 (6.25%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) JMeter
2 1 (6.25%) JUnit
2 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
2 1 (6.25%) Postman
2 1 (6.25%) Selenium
2 1 (6.25%) TestNG
General
1 7 (43.75%) Manufacturing
2 6 (37.50%) Aerospace
3 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Automotive
4 2 (12.50%) Electronics
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Finance
5 1 (6.25%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) C++ Software Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) REST
2 3 (18.75%) React
3 2 (12.50%) Next.js
3 2 (12.50%) RESTful
3 2 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (6.25%) Django
4 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
4 1 (6.25%) Jest
4 1 (6.25%) JSR 170
4 1 (6.25%) NETCONF
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
4 1 (6.25%) OSGi
4 1 (6.25%) pytest
4 1 (6.25%) RESTCONF
4 1 (6.25%) SAML
4 1 (6.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) FPGA
1 6 (37.50%) PCIe
1 6 (37.50%) State Machine
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Linux
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) CI/CD
2 8 (50.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 8 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
3 7 (43.75%) Validation
4 6 (37.50%) Concurrent Programming
4 6 (37.50%) Data Acquisition
4 6 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (37.50%) Memory Management
4 6 (37.50%) Multithreading
4 6 (37.50%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (37.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (37.50%) Unit Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Agile
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Analytics
7 2 (12.50%) Front End Development
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
7 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) C++
3 4 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) MATLAB
5 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
6 1 (6.25%) Cypher
6 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.25%) CCIE
2 1 (6.25%) CCNP
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
4 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Adobe
1 1 (6.25%) OpenAI
1 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
1 1 (6.25%) Workday