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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 62
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Git 1,036 1,115 1,543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.73% 3.34% 3.40%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.87% 26.22% 24.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 730 1,038
10th Percentile £327 £358 £376
25th Percentile £400 £440 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £650
90th Percentile £688 £738 £762
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -7.14% -2.78% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 47 66
10th Percentile £44.47 £46.18 £46.18
25th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.84
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £79.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% - -

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 4,005 4,252 6,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 14.41% 12.75% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,773 2,847 4,373
10th Percentile £321 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.08%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £663
90th Percentile £700 £725 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 199 209
10th Percentile £40.90 £31.71 £45.88
25th Percentile £51.03 £51.88 £51.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.18%
75th Percentile £74.38 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £83.45 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 3 August 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 -6 527 £539 -2.05% 736
North of England +20 199 £450 -7.22% 342
Yorkshire +12 108 £473 -5.49% 121
South East -11 104 £500 -9.09% 334
Midlands -8 103 £463 +3.93% 212
North West +32 75 £402 -15.37% 190
South West +14 57 £500 -15.25% 125
West Midlands -25 56 £475 +5.56% 128
East Midlands +20 47 £415 -6.74% 82
North East -4 16 £510 +20.00% 38
East of England -7 16 £450 -28.00% 152
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 92 (8.88%) Confluence
2 43 (4.15%) Apache Spark
3 38 (3.67%) Apache
4 36 (3.47%) JBoss
5 26 (2.51%) nginx
6 24 (2.32%) Tomcat
7 21 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
8 12 (1.16%) WebSphere
9 10 (0.97%) WebLogic
10 9 (0.87%) Jupyter
11 7 (0.68%) Moodle
12 5 (0.48%) Mule
13 4 (0.39%) CICS
13 4 (0.39%) SharePoint
13 4 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
14 3 (0.29%) Anypoint
14 3 (0.29%) Camunda
14 3 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
15 2 (0.19%) CMS
15 2 (0.19%) Mendix
Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.19%) Simulink
4 2 (0.19%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.097%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.097%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.097%) MadCap Flare
5 1 (0.097%) Maple
5 1 (0.097%) Moqups
5 1 (0.097%) Sketch
5 1 (0.097%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.097%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.48%) Endur
1 5 (0.48%) Shopify
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.39%) Magento
3 3 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.097%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.097%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.097%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.097%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 390 (37.64%) AWS
2 279 (26.93%) Azure
3 141 (13.61%) GitHub
4 97 (9.36%) Azure DevOps
5 90 (8.69%) GCP
6 79 (7.63%) Amazon S3
7 77 (7.43%) Serverless
8 71 (6.85%) Amazon EC2
9 56 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
10 53 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 52 (5.02%) AWS Lambda
12 47 (4.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 47 (4.54%) OpenShift
13 40 (3.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 38 (3.67%) Amazon SQS
14 38 (3.67%) Power Platform
15 31 (2.99%) npm
16 26 (2.51%) AWS KMS
17 25 (2.41%) Amazon ELB
18 22 (2.12%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 53 (5.12%) Firewall
2 48 (4.63%) DNS
3 37 (3.57%) HTTP
4 33 (3.19%) TCP/IP
5 22 (2.12%) SSH
6 20 (1.93%) VPN
7 18 (1.74%) SSL
8 14 (1.35%) SMTP
9 12 (1.16%) FTP
9 12 (1.16%) Network Security
10 11 (1.06%) SAN
11 10 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
12 8 (0.77%) HTTPS
12 8 (0.77%) NAS
13 7 (0.68%) BGP
13 7 (0.68%) OSPF
13 7 (0.68%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.58%) Ethernet VPN
14 6 (0.58%) SNMP
15 5 (0.48%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (11.29%) PostgreSQL
2 70 (6.76%) Relational Database
3 59 (5.69%) NoSQL
4 56 (5.41%) SQL Server
5 50 (4.83%) MongoDB
6 49 (4.73%) MySQL
7 45 (4.34%) Amazon RDS
8 40 (3.86%) Big Data
9 32 (3.09%) Power BI
10 29 (2.80%) Elasticsearch
11 24 (2.32%) Tableau
12 23 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
12 23 (2.22%) Oracle Database
13 22 (2.12%) Delta Lake
13 22 (2.12%) DynamoDB
14 21 (2.03%) RDBMS
15 20 (1.93%) Amazon Aurora
15 20 (1.93%) Redis
16 19 (1.83%) Data Lake
16 19 (1.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 323 (31.18%) Jenkins
2 229 (22.10%) JIRA
3 110 (10.62%) GitLab
4 90 (8.69%) Maven
5 88 (8.49%) Bitbucket
6 86 (8.30%) SonarQube
7 60 (5.79%) JUnit
8 58 (5.60%) Selenium
9 54 (5.21%) Postman
10 48 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
11 43 (4.15%) TeamCity
12 38 (3.67%) Subversion
13 33 (3.19%) Cucumber
14 30 (2.90%) Gradle
15 29 (2.80%) Bitbucket Server
16 27 (2.61%) webpack
17 25 (2.41%) Artifactory
17 25 (2.41%) IntelliJ
18 21 (2.03%) REST Assured
19 20 (1.93%) Vagrant
General
1 256 (24.71%) Social Skills
2 217 (20.95%) Finance
3 158 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (11.68%) Banking
5 105 (10.14%) Public Sector
6 55 (5.31%) Investment Banking
7 20 (1.93%) Front Office
7 20 (1.93%) Telecoms
8 19 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (1.83%) Retail
9 17 (1.64%) Marketing
10 16 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (1.35%) Financial Institution
11 14 (1.35%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.68%) Electronics
12 7 (0.68%) Games
12 7 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (0.68%) Legal
12 7 (0.68%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.58%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 432 (41.70%) Developer
2 114 (11.00%) Senior
3 90 (8.69%) Java Developer
4 77 (7.43%) DevOps Engineer
5 68 (6.56%) Lead
6 52 (5.02%) Full-Stack Developer
7 51 (4.92%) Senior Developer
7 51 (4.92%) Software Engineer
8 48 (4.63%) Data Engineer
9 46 (4.44%) Python Developer
10 40 (3.86%) AWS Developer
11 38 (3.67%) AWS Engineer
12 36 (3.47%) Architect
12 36 (3.47%) Platform Engineer
13 30 (2.90%) AWS DevOps
14 29 (2.80%) Angular Developer
15 27 (2.61%) Test Engineer
16 26 (2.51%) Python Engineer
17 25 (2.41%) Android Developer
18 24 (2.32%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (19.11%) REST
2 181 (17.47%) RESTful
3 179 (17.28%) React
4 166 (16.02%) CSS
5 158 (15.25%) HTML
6 116 (11.20%) AngularJS
7 115 (11.10%) Spring Boot
8 106 (10.23%) Spring
9 97 (9.36%) Node.js
10 84 (8.11%) .NET
11 76 (7.34%) Kafka
12 72 (6.95%) SOAP
13 70 (6.76%) Web Services
14 64 (6.18%) JSON
15 56 (5.41%) HTML5
16 54 (5.21%) FastAPI
17 40 (3.86%) CSS3
18 39 (3.76%) Hibernate
18 39 (3.76%) Vue
19 38 (3.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.92%) Mobile App
2 45 (4.34%) Algorithms
3 44 (4.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 42 (4.05%) Distributed Systems
5 38 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.28%) Cloud Native
7 32 (3.09%) Data Structures
8 29 (2.80%) Hedge funds
9 25 (2.41%) Onboarding
10 22 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 21 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
12 19 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
13 17 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
13 17 (1.64%) Replication
14 16 (1.54%) Management Information System
15 14 (1.35%) Data Centre
15 14 (1.35%) Private Cloud
16 13 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
17 12 (1.16%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 241 (23.26%) Linux
2 115 (11.10%) Windows
3 66 (6.37%) Unix
4 51 (4.92%) Android
5 37 (3.57%) Windows Server
6 34 (3.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (2.99%) Apple iOS
8 18 (1.74%) VMS
9 14 (1.35%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.87%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.58%) Solaris
12 5 (0.48%) CentOS
13 4 (0.39%) AIX
14 3 (0.29%) Debian
14 3 (0.29%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.097%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.097%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.097%) tvOS
15 1 (0.097%) watchOS
15 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 503 (48.55%) CI/CD
2 499 (48.17%) Agile
3 402 (38.80%) DevOps
4 278 (26.83%) Problem-Solving
5 204 (19.69%) Test Automation
6 199 (19.21%) Scrum
7 198 (19.11%) Microservices
8 156 (15.06%) Software Engineering
9 127 (12.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 124 (11.97%) TDD
11 115 (11.10%) Containerisation
12 112 (10.81%) Continuous Integration
13 110 (10.62%) Code Quality
14 102 (9.85%) Full-Stack Development
15 96 (9.27%) Configuration Management
16 90 (8.69%) Mentoring
17 88 (8.49%) Clean Code
18 86 (8.30%) Unit Testing
19 83 (8.01%) Analytics
19 83 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 490 (47.30%) Python
2 347 (33.49%) Java
3 273 (26.35%) JavaScript
4 265 (25.58%) SQL
5 123 (11.87%) C#
6 110 (10.62%) Bash
7 109 (10.52%) TypeScript
8 98 (9.46%) PowerShell
9 85 (8.20%) C++
10 70 (6.76%) Shell Script
11 60 (5.79%) Go
12 42 (4.05%) Kotlin
13 39 (3.76%) Groovy
14 38 (3.67%) Perl
15 30 (2.90%) Scala
16 22 (2.12%) PHP
16 22 (2.12%) Ruby
17 21 (2.03%) C
18 18 (1.74%) Swift
19 17 (1.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 222 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 184 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 85 (8.20%) Degree
4 60 (5.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (2.80%) AWS Certification
6 26 (2.51%) DV Cleared
7 20 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (1.74%) Master's Degree
8 18 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 17 (1.64%) CCNP
9 17 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
11 12 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (1.16%) OCA
12 11 (1.06%) RHCE
13 10 (0.97%) ISTQB
13 10 (0.97%) RHCA
14 9 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.77%) CISSP
16 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (9.27%) QA
2 37 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 36 (3.47%) Data Quality
4 17 (1.64%) GDPR
5 11 (1.06%) WCAG
6 7 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.39%) EU AI Act
7 4 (0.39%) NIST
8 3 (0.29%) EMIR
8 3 (0.29%) MiFID
9 2 (0.19%) DICOM
9 2 (0.19%) HL7
9 2 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.19%) SLA
9 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
10 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.097%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.097%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 271 (26.16%) Docker
2 46 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 40 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.25%) Postfix
5 12 (1.16%) DFS Replication
6 10 (0.97%) vSphere
7 9 (0.87%) Oracle RAC
7 9 (0.87%) VMware NSX
8 8 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.58%) Firmware
10 5 (0.48%) Dovecot
10 5 (0.48%) Squid
10 5 (0.48%) VirtualBox
11 4 (0.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
11 4 (0.39%) zsh
12 2 (0.19%) FreeRADIUS
12 2 (0.19%) HDFS
12 2 (0.19%) iptables
13 1 (0.097%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 247 (23.84%) Kubernetes
2 188 (18.15%) Terraform
3 183 (17.66%) Ansible
4 67 (6.47%) Puppet
5 51 (4.92%) Progress Chef
5 51 (4.92%) Prometheus
6 50 (4.83%) Grafana
7 21 (2.03%) vCenter Server
8 20 (1.93%) Kibana
9 19 (1.83%) Packer
10 14 (1.35%) Consul
11 10 (0.97%) Istio
11 10 (0.97%) yum
12 9 (0.87%) Data Guard
12 9 (0.87%) vRealize
13 7 (0.68%) Control-M
13 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
13 7 (0.68%) MIIS
13 7 (0.68%) SCCM
14 6 (0.58%) Nagios
Vendors
1 122 (11.78%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.72%) Oracle
3 55 (5.31%) VMware
4 52 (5.02%) Splunk
5 45 (4.34%) Databricks
6 41 (3.96%) Google
7 36 (3.47%) Atlassian
7 36 (3.47%) Red Hat
8 29 (2.80%) ServiceNow
9 24 (2.32%) Cisco
10 15 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 14 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
11 14 (1.35%) F5
11 14 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 14 (1.35%) Palo Alto
12 13 (1.25%) AppDynamics
12 13 (1.25%) Jaspersoft
13 12 (1.16%) Cloudera
14 11 (1.06%) Dynatrace
14 11 (1.06%) SAP