Git Contract Job Trends in England

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 72 69
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Git 1,192 870 1,100
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.79% 3.55% 2.94%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.49% 25.03% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 597 719
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -5.00%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £650
90th Percentile £669 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £508
% change year-on-year +0.81% -2.36% -7.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 52
10th Percentile £36.80 £27.15 £48.28
25th Percentile £46.53 £50.00 £56.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -6.95%
75th Percentile £86.25 £58.75 £70.47
90th Percentile £95.00 £61.08 £78.63
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% -6.95%

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 5,074 3,476 4,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.90% 14.18% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,302 2,356 2,988
10th Percentile £350 £338 £350
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £680 £713 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 68 217
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.06 £32.48
25th Percentile £59.13 £50.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.20% -5.77% +5.69%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £80.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £59.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +10.17% -9.23% +5.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Git relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Git job vacancy trend in England

Git
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in England

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

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 12 June 2026. 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 -17 588 £524 -2.15% 130
Midlands -2 174 £469 -1.26% 58
North of England -53 157 £475 +2.70% 98
West Midlands +16 156 £469 -6.20% 26
South East -51 110 £495 -1.00% 131
South West +7 79 £508 -11.74% 66
Yorkshire -41 71 £468 -6.50% 30
North West -34 67 £500 +25.00% 54
East of England +20 62 £500 +11.11% 56
North East -24 24 £425 -10.05% 14
East Midlands -42 17 £475 +9.12% 32
Git
UK

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 118 (9.90%) Confluence
2 59 (4.95%) Apache Spark
3 55 (4.61%) Apache Airflow
4 49 (4.11%) Apache
5 37 (3.10%) SAS
6 12 (1.01%) nginx
7 9 (0.76%) SharePoint
8 8 (0.67%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (0.67%) WebSphere
9 6 (0.50%) CMS
9 6 (0.50%) Ethereum
9 6 (0.50%) Hyperledger
9 6 (0.50%) Tuxedo
10 5 (0.42%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.42%) WebLogic
11 4 (0.34%) Camunda
11 4 (0.34%) JBoss
12 3 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 3 (0.25%) Drupal
12 3 (0.25%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.50%) Chatbot
5 5 (0.42%) CPLEX
6 2 (0.17%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.084%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.084%) Maya
7 1 (0.084%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.084%) Sketch
7 1 (0.084%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (0.67%) Findur
2 7 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.42%) Magento
4 5 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.25%) Shopify
6 2 (0.17%) Endur
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
7 1 (0.084%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.084%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.084%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.084%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 468 (39.26%) Azure
2 467 (39.18%) AWS
3 239 (20.05%) GitHub
4 205 (17.20%) Azure DevOps
5 161 (13.51%) GCP
6 142 (11.91%) Serverless
7 133 (11.16%) Amazon S3
8 103 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
9 92 (7.72%) Amazon EC2
10 87 (7.30%) AWS Lambda
10 87 (7.30%) Power Platform
11 69 (5.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 68 (5.70%) Azure Data Factory
13 47 (3.94%) Amazon SQS
14 44 (3.69%) AWS CloudFormation
14 44 (3.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 36 (3.02%) dbt
16 34 (2.85%) AWS KMS
16 34 (2.85%) Azure Functions
16 34 (2.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.52%) Firewall
2 28 (2.35%) DNS
3 19 (1.59%) Network Security
4 15 (1.26%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.09%) HTTP
6 11 (0.92%) WAN
7 10 (0.84%) VPN
8 9 (0.76%) BGP
8 9 (0.76%) VXLAN
9 8 (0.67%) Ethernet VPN
9 8 (0.67%) SSL
10 7 (0.59%) NX-OS
10 7 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
10 7 (0.59%) SD-WAN
11 6 (0.50%) 3GPP
11 6 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (0.50%) OSPF
11 6 (0.50%) RTP
11 6 (0.50%) SAN
11 6 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (11.24%) PostgreSQL
2 95 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
3 91 (7.63%) NoSQL
4 76 (6.38%) SQL Server
5 74 (6.21%) Power BI
6 69 (5.79%) MongoDB
6 69 (5.79%) Relational Database
7 63 (5.29%) Data Lake
8 58 (4.87%) Amazon RDS
9 51 (4.28%) DynamoDB
10 42 (3.52%) Delta Lake
11 41 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
11 41 (3.44%) Azure SQL Database
11 41 (3.44%) MySQL
12 33 (2.77%) Amazon Aurora
13 32 (2.68%) Amazon Athena
14 28 (2.35%) Big Data
14 28 (2.35%) Pentaho
15 25 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
16 23 (1.93%) Redis
Development Applications
1 279 (23.41%) Jenkins
2 245 (20.55%) JIRA
3 188 (15.77%) GitLab
4 111 (9.31%) JUnit
5 76 (6.38%) Selenium
6 57 (4.78%) Maven
7 51 (4.28%) Cucumber
8 48 (4.03%) Postman
9 45 (3.78%) Gradle
10 40 (3.36%) SonarQube
11 31 (2.60%) Mockito
12 30 (2.52%) Bitbucket
13 29 (2.43%) Cypress.io
14 27 (2.27%) WebDriver
15 26 (2.18%) JMeter
16 21 (1.76%) Zephyr
17 20 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
18 19 (1.59%) Artifactory
19 17 (1.43%) REST Assured
20 16 (1.34%) TeamCity
General
1 317 (26.59%) Social Skills
2 195 (16.36%) Finance
3 156 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 152 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 94 (7.89%) Banking
6 26 (2.18%) Documentation Skills
7 20 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (1.51%) Retail
9 17 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.01%) Legal
12 10 (0.84%) Law
12 10 (0.84%) Military
12 10 (0.84%) Police
13 9 (0.76%) Front Office
13 9 (0.76%) Investment Banking
13 9 (0.76%) Marketing
14 8 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 368 (30.87%) Developer
2 201 (16.86%) Senior
3 159 (13.34%) Data Engineer
4 98 (8.22%) Java Developer
5 90 (7.55%) Software Engineer
6 88 (7.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 73 (6.12%) Senior Developer
8 65 (5.45%) Lead
9 63 (5.29%) Python Developer
10 56 (4.70%) Architect
11 52 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
12 42 (3.52%) AWS Engineer
13 41 (3.44%) Full-Stack Developer
14 40 (3.36%) Software Developer
15 35 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
16 34 (2.85%) Tester
17 33 (2.77%) Senior Data Engineer
18 27 (2.27%) Platform Engineer
19 26 (2.18%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
19 26 (2.18%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (17.20%) REST
2 176 (14.77%) Spring
3 138 (11.58%) Spring Boot
4 132 (11.07%) RESTful
5 124 (10.40%) React
6 105 (8.81%) .NET
7 101 (8.47%) Kafka
8 87 (7.30%) Node.js
9 77 (6.46%) PySpark
10 75 (6.29%) AngularJS
11 72 (6.04%) HTML
12 71 (5.96%) CSS
13 58 (4.87%) SOAP
14 53 (4.45%) JSON
15 46 (3.86%) Web Services
16 43 (3.61%) JPA
17 40 (3.36%) Playwright
18 37 (3.10%) Hibernate
18 37 (3.10%) YAML
19 36 (3.02%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 144 (12.08%) Cloud Native
2 90 (7.55%) Distributed Systems
3 61 (5.12%) Product Ownership
4 31 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 28 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
6 26 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
7 25 (2.10%) Distributed Architecture
8 23 (1.93%) Algorithms
8 23 (1.93%) Management Information System
9 21 (1.76%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.76%) Public Cloud
10 20 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.43%) Distributed Computing
11 17 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.34%) Data Structures
13 14 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 14 (1.17%) Mobile App
14 13 (1.09%) Derivative
15 12 (1.01%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 142 (11.91%) Linux
2 39 (3.27%) Windows
3 36 (3.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 36 (3.02%) Unix
4 17 (1.43%) Ubuntu
5 13 (1.09%) CentOS
6 12 (1.01%) Apple iOS
6 12 (1.01%) VMS
7 10 (0.84%) Debian
8 7 (0.59%) Android
9 6 (0.50%) Windows Server
10 5 (0.42%) Rocky
11 4 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.34%) Embedded Linux
12 2 (0.17%) AIX
12 2 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.084%) Solaris
13 1 (0.084%) SUSE
13 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 811 (68.04%) CI/CD
2 587 (49.24%) Agile
3 565 (47.40%) DevOps
4 318 (26.68%) Test Automation
5 265 (22.23%) Infrastructure as Code
5 265 (22.23%) Microservices
6 249 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
7 229 (19.21%) Containerisation
8 225 (18.88%) Software Engineering
9 201 (16.86%) Scrum
10 190 (15.94%) Data Modelling
11 182 (15.27%) Data Pipeline
12 178 (14.93%) Analytics
13 175 (14.68%) AI
14 172 (14.43%) ETL
15 153 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
15 153 (12.84%) Observability
16 144 (12.08%) TDD
17 141 (11.83%) Data Engineering
18 127 (10.65%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 526 (44.13%) Python
2 455 (38.17%) SQL
3 293 (24.58%) Java
4 167 (14.01%) JavaScript
5 138 (11.58%) C#
6 114 (9.56%) TypeScript
7 99 (8.31%) Bash
8 81 (6.80%) PowerShell
9 45 (3.78%) Shell Script
10 43 (3.61%) Go
11 34 (2.85%) Scala
12 33 (2.77%) Bicep
13 28 (2.35%) Apex Code
14 22 (1.85%) Ruby
15 18 (1.51%) C
16 17 (1.43%) Groovy
16 17 (1.43%) PL/SQL
17 16 (1.34%) C++
17 16 (1.34%) Kotlin
18 15 (1.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 418 (35.07%) Security Cleared
2 358 (30.03%) SC Cleared
3 97 (8.14%) Degree
4 46 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 44 (3.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 37 (3.10%) Azure Certification
7 27 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 22 (1.85%) ISTQB
9 21 (1.76%) Master's Degree
10 19 (1.59%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 7 (0.59%) CCNP
14 5 (0.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
14 5 (0.42%) CCIE
14 5 (0.42%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 4 (0.34%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.25%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 3 (0.25%) CCNA
16 3 (0.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 144 (12.08%) QA
2 114 (9.56%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.86%) Accessibility
4 27 (2.27%) WCAG
5 23 (1.93%) GDPR
6 18 (1.51%) SLA
7 11 (0.92%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.67%) NCSC
10 5 (0.42%) NIST
11 4 (0.34%) GRC
11 4 (0.34%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.25%) PSD2
12 3 (0.25%) SEPA
13 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.17%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.17%) MISRA
14 1 (0.084%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.084%) PMO
System Software
1 353 (29.61%) Docker
2 36 (3.02%) Active Directory
3 20 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 15 (1.26%) Postfix
4 15 (1.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.67%) Squid
6 6 (0.50%) QEMU
7 5 (0.42%) Varnish
8 4 (0.34%) NFS
9 3 (0.25%) Firmware
9 3 (0.25%) Sendmail
9 3 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) KVM
10 2 (0.17%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.084%) HDFS
11 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.084%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.084%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.084%) vSphere
11 1 (0.084%) zsh
Systems Management
1 288 (24.16%) Kubernetes
2 285 (23.91%) Terraform
3 140 (11.74%) Ansible
4 129 (10.82%) Grafana
5 91 (7.63%) Prometheus
6 22 (1.85%) Podman
6 22 (1.85%) Puppet
7 13 (1.09%) Red Hat Satellite
8 11 (0.92%) Check_MK
9 9 (0.76%) Istio
10 7 (0.59%) Packer
10 7 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
11 6 (0.50%) Argo
12 5 (0.42%) HAProxy
12 5 (0.42%) Salt
13 4 (0.34%) Consul
13 4 (0.34%) Suricata
14 3 (0.25%) Foglight
14 3 (0.25%) Rancher
Vendors
1 143 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 119 (9.98%) Oracle
3 101 (8.47%) Databricks
4 74 (6.21%) ServiceNow
5 53 (4.45%) Google
6 41 (3.44%) Salesforce
7 33 (2.77%) Splunk
8 31 (2.60%) Denodo
9 30 (2.52%) VMware
10 29 (2.43%) Talend
11 28 (2.35%) Red Hat
12 27 (2.27%) Dynatrace
13 19 (1.59%) MuleSoft
14 18 (1.51%) Atlassian
15 17 (1.43%) Jaspersoft
16 15 (1.26%) Foundry
17 13 (1.09%) IBM
18 11 (0.92%) Cisco
18 11 (0.92%) SAP
19 10 (0.84%) Palantir