Git Contracts in England

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 75 61
Rank change year-on-year +5 -14 -14
Contract jobs citing Git 818 1,046 1,761
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.41% 2.87% 3.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.53% 24.61% 25.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 567 701 1,226
10th Percentile £356 £356 £406
25th Percentile £413 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £686
90th Percentile £730 £719 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -1.96% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 49 56
10th Percentile £35.05 £50.20 £50.63
25th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £53.44
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £66.09
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -5.44% -1.98%
75th Percentile £59.44 £70.00 £74.63
90th Percentile £63.25 £79.00 £76.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £66.09
% change year-on-year -12.00% -5.44% +0.84%

All Development Application Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,335 4,251 6,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.90% 11.65% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,264 2,904 4,892
10th Percentile £343 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £610 £638 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 200 201
10th Percentile £27.54 £31.71 £44.64
25th Percentile £48.50 £54.38 £52.50
Median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.35% +5.69% +17.70%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £79.88 £78.08 £83.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +5.69% +17.14%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in England

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Git in England

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in England

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Git in England

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in England

Git
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London -11 434 £537 +2.24% 1,159
North of England +11 126 £466 -8.19% 1,794
South East +5 97 £500 -9.09% 2,111
Midlands +9 72 £475 +27.52% 1,515
North West +8 64 £425 -16.67% 855
Yorkshire +11 51 £500 - 722
South West +52 45 £575 -1.20% 1,004
West Midlands +2 42 £500 +38.89% 851
East Midlands +20 30 £463 +3.93% 575
East of England +7 17 £450 -18.18% 1,214
North East +1 11 £465 +22.37% 222
Git
UK

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 69 (8.44%) Confluence
2 43 (5.26%) Apache Spark
3 37 (4.52%) Apache
4 23 (2.81%) JBoss
5 16 (1.96%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.47%) Tomcat
7 10 (1.22%) Jupyter
7 10 (1.22%) nginx
8 9 (1.10%) CMS
8 9 (1.10%) WebLogic
8 9 (1.10%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.61%) Moodle
9 5 (0.61%) WordPress
10 4 (0.49%) Drupal
11 3 (0.37%) Mendix
11 3 (0.37%) Oracle Application Server
11 3 (0.37%) SharePoint
12 2 (0.24%) Camunda
12 2 (0.24%) IIS
12 2 (0.24%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.24%) Trello
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe XD
3 1 (0.12%) CANalyzer
3 1 (0.12%) MadCap Flare
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Simulink
3 1 (0.12%) Sketch
3 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (0.49%) Endur
1 4 (0.49%) Shopify
2 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.12%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.12%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 280 (34.23%) AWS
2 226 (27.63%) Azure
3 99 (12.10%) GitHub
4 84 (10.27%) Azure DevOps
5 61 (7.46%) GCP
6 54 (6.60%) Serverless
7 39 (4.77%) AWS Lambda
8 37 (4.52%) Power Platform
9 36 (4.40%) Amazon S3
10 35 (4.28%) Amazon EC2
11 34 (4.16%) AWS CloudFormation
11 34 (4.16%) GitHub Actions
12 33 (4.03%) OpenShift
13 28 (3.42%) Amazon SQS
14 22 (2.69%) npm
15 20 (2.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 18 (2.20%) dbt
17 16 (1.96%) SaaS
18 15 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 15 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 34 (4.16%) HTTP
2 30 (3.67%) DNS
3 25 (3.06%) Firewall
4 16 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.47%) VPN
6 10 (1.22%) SNMP
6 10 (1.22%) SSL
7 9 (1.10%) SAN
8 8 (0.98%) Network Security
8 8 (0.98%) Software-Defined Radio
8 8 (0.98%) SSH
9 7 (0.86%) DHCP
9 7 (0.86%) HTTPS
9 7 (0.86%) Internet
10 5 (0.61%) NAS
10 5 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
11 4 (0.49%) Kerberos
12 3 (0.37%) LAN
12 3 (0.37%) VLAN
13 2 (0.24%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (12.84%) PostgreSQL
2 58 (7.09%) MySQL
3 53 (6.48%) MongoDB
4 48 (5.87%) Relational Database
5 46 (5.62%) SQL Server
6 44 (5.38%) NoSQL
7 36 (4.40%) Big Data
8 26 (3.18%) Power BI
9 25 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
10 22 (2.69%) Amazon RDS
10 22 (2.69%) Hadoop
11 20 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
12 19 (2.32%) Tableau
13 16 (1.96%) Delta Lake
13 16 (1.96%) DynamoDB
13 16 (1.96%) Redis
14 15 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
14 15 (1.83%) Azure SQL Database
15 14 (1.71%) Apache Hive
16 13 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 235 (28.73%) Jenkins
2 188 (22.98%) JIRA
3 79 (9.66%) GitLab
4 69 (8.44%) Bitbucket
5 66 (8.07%) Maven
6 61 (7.46%) Selenium
7 58 (7.09%) SonarQube
8 49 (5.99%) JUnit
9 43 (5.26%) Postman
10 40 (4.89%) Subversion
11 38 (4.65%) TeamCity
12 33 (4.03%) Cucumber
13 32 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
14 28 (3.42%) REST Assured
15 23 (2.81%) Bitbucket Server
16 22 (2.69%) webpack
17 20 (2.44%) IntelliJ
18 17 (2.08%) Cypress.io
19 14 (1.71%) Mockito
20 13 (1.59%) Artifactory
General
1 201 (24.57%) Social Skills
2 161 (19.68%) Finance
3 130 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.39%) Banking
5 75 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 40 (4.89%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
8 21 (2.57%) Front Office
9 19 (2.32%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.83%) Marketing
11 12 (1.47%) Financial Institution
11 12 (1.47%) Retail
12 10 (1.22%) Manufacturing
13 9 (1.10%) Games
13 9 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.73%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.73%) Electronics
15 5 (0.61%) Legal
16 4 (0.49%) Health Technology
16 4 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 353 (43.15%) Developer
2 106 (12.96%) Senior
3 69 (8.44%) DevOps Engineer
4 67 (8.19%) Java Developer
5 61 (7.46%) Full-Stack Developer
6 59 (7.21%) Lead
7 54 (6.60%) Senior Developer
8 49 (5.99%) Software Engineer
9 46 (5.62%) Data Engineer
10 34 (4.16%) Python Developer
11 33 (4.03%) Test Engineer
12 26 (3.18%) AWS Engineer
13 25 (3.06%) AWS Developer
14 23 (2.81%) Python Engineer
15 22 (2.69%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 22 (2.69%) Platform Engineer
16 21 (2.57%) Architect
17 20 (2.44%) AWS DevOps
17 20 (2.44%) Tester
18 19 (2.32%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (18.58%) React
2 146 (17.85%) CSS
3 138 (16.87%) RESTful
4 133 (16.26%) REST
5 130 (15.89%) HTML
6 91 (11.12%) Node.js
7 85 (10.39%) AngularJS
8 83 (10.15%) Spring Boot
9 79 (9.66%) .NET
10 73 (8.92%) Spring
11 69 (8.44%) Web Services
12 53 (6.48%) SOAP
13 51 (6.23%) Kafka
14 47 (5.75%) JSON
15 43 (5.26%) HTML5
16 36 (4.40%) FastAPI
17 32 (3.91%) Vue
18 30 (3.67%) Sass
18 30 (3.67%) XML
19 27 (3.30%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.40%) Distributed Systems
2 35 (4.28%) Algorithms
3 34 (4.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (4.03%) Product Ownership
5 28 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 24 (2.93%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
7 23 (2.81%) Mobile App
8 19 (2.32%) Hedge funds
9 17 (2.08%) Cloud Native
10 16 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
12 13 (1.59%) Derivative
12 13 (1.59%) Public Cloud
13 11 (1.34%) Hybrid Cloud
14 10 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 9 (1.10%) Equities
15 9 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
15 9 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 193 (23.59%) Linux
2 80 (9.78%) Windows
3 45 (5.50%) Unix
4 34 (4.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (4.03%) Windows Server
6 25 (3.06%) Android
7 13 (1.59%) Apple iOS
8 9 (1.10%) Solaris
9 8 (0.98%) Ubuntu
10 6 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (0.61%) Mac OS X
12 4 (0.49%) CentOS
13 3 (0.37%) VMS
14 2 (0.24%) Debian
14 2 (0.24%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.12%) AIX
15 1 (0.12%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.12%) SUSE
15 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (45.97%) CI/CD
2 356 (43.52%) Agile
3 291 (35.57%) DevOps
4 228 (27.87%) Problem-Solving
5 188 (22.98%) Test Automation
6 147 (17.97%) Microservices
6 147 (17.97%) Scrum
7 134 (16.38%) Software Engineering
8 114 (13.94%) Continuous Integration
9 106 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
10 90 (11.00%) TDD
11 89 (10.88%) Containerisation
12 87 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 80 (9.78%) Code Quality
14 69 (8.44%) SDLC
15 68 (8.31%) OO
16 64 (7.82%) Clean Code
16 64 (7.82%) Computer Science
16 64 (7.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (7.46%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 388 (47.43%) Python
2 252 (30.81%) Java
3 242 (29.58%) JavaScript
4 231 (28.24%) SQL
5 105 (12.84%) TypeScript
6 104 (12.71%) C#
7 96 (11.74%) Bash
8 80 (9.78%) PowerShell
9 55 (6.72%) C++
10 43 (5.26%) Shell Script
11 30 (3.67%) PHP
12 24 (2.93%) Go
12 24 (2.93%) Perl
12 24 (2.93%) Scala
13 22 (2.69%) Kotlin
14 20 (2.44%) Ruby
15 16 (1.96%) Groovy
16 14 (1.71%) C
17 13 (1.59%) PL/SQL
18 10 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 194 (23.72%) Security Cleared
2 163 (19.93%) SC Cleared
3 74 (9.05%) Degree
4 48 (5.87%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.32%) AWS Certification
6 18 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 16 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.96%) Master's Degree
8 14 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
9 11 (1.34%) OCA
9 11 (1.34%) RHCE
10 10 (1.22%) CCNP
10 10 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
10 10 (1.22%) RHCA
11 8 (0.98%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 8 (0.98%) ISTQB
12 7 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 4 (0.49%) CEH
14 4 (0.49%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.31%) QA
2 32 (3.91%) Accessibility
3 25 (3.06%) Data Quality
4 21 (2.57%) GDPR
5 11 (1.34%) WCAG
6 8 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.37%) EMIR
7 3 (0.37%) HL7
7 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.37%) MiFID
8 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.24%) DICOM
8 2 (0.24%) NIST
8 2 (0.24%) SLA
8 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.12%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 185 (22.62%) Docker
2 27 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 21 (2.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.22%) Firmware
6 8 (0.98%) vSphere
7 6 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.61%) Postfix
9 4 (0.49%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.37%) VirtualBox
11 2 (0.24%) FreeRADIUS
11 2 (0.24%) iptables
11 2 (0.24%) NFS
11 2 (0.24%) Veritas File System
11 2 (0.24%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.12%) Ceph
12 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
12 1 (0.12%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.12%) zsh
Systems Management
1 178 (21.76%) Kubernetes
2 130 (15.89%) Terraform
3 128 (15.65%) Ansible
4 44 (5.38%) Puppet
5 40 (4.89%) Progress Chef
6 29 (3.55%) Prometheus
7 27 (3.30%) Grafana
8 16 (1.96%) vCenter Server
9 15 (1.83%) Kibana
10 9 (1.10%) Packer
10 9 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
11 7 (0.86%) Istio
11 7 (0.86%) MIIS
11 7 (0.86%) QRadar
12 6 (0.73%) Control-M
12 6 (0.73%) Kustomize
12 6 (0.73%) Nagios
12 6 (0.73%) vRealize
13 5 (0.61%) Tivoli
13 5 (0.61%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 82 (10.02%) Microsoft
2 60 (7.33%) Oracle
3 44 (5.38%) Databricks
4 42 (5.13%) VMware
5 40 (4.89%) Splunk
6 34 (4.16%) Red Hat
7 32 (3.91%) Atlassian
8 28 (3.42%) Google
9 18 (2.20%) Cisco
10 16 (1.96%) ServiceNow
11 15 (1.83%) SAP
12 10 (1.22%) IBM
13 9 (1.10%) AppDynamics
13 9 (1.10%) CA Agile Central
13 9 (1.10%) CyberArk
13 9 (1.10%) Zend
14 7 (0.86%) Adobe
14 7 (0.86%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.86%) EMC
14 7 (0.86%) Qualys