Git Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Git Distributed Version Control System
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Git skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 29 36
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 -11
Contract jobs citing Git 5 31 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 1.64% 6.90% 4.01%
As % of the Development Applications category 11.11% 28.18% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 14
10th Percentile - £553 £440
25th Percentile £525 £613 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £675 £650
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% +3.85% +26.83%
75th Percentile £575 £734 £700
90th Percentile - - £730
South West median daily rate £430 £613 £525
% change year-on-year -29.80% +16.67% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Median hourly rate £36.00 - £78.00
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £80.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -55.00% +14.29% +6.87%

All Development Application Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 45 110 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 14.75% 24.50% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 46
10th Percentile £343 £461 £381
25th Percentile £425 £509 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £692 £681 £684
90th Percentile £700 £734 £734
South West median daily rate £531 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -1.67% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 12
10th Percentile £43.80 - £67.80
25th Percentile £55.50 - £73.88
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +52.94%
75th Percentile - £71.50 £86.25
90th Percentile - - £90.00
South West median hourly rate £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.57% +7.69% -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in Gloucestershire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Cheltenham +2 5 £550 -13.73% 9
Git
South West

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) npm
1 4 (80.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (20.00%) dbt
2 1 (20.00%) Pulumi
2 1 (20.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) RDBMS
1 4 (80.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) InfluxDB
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support
2 2 (40.00%) Applications Support Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) CentOS
1 4 (80.00%) Linux
1 4 (80.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (20.00%) ETL
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
2 4 (80.00%) Ansible
2 4 (80.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle