Git Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 41 57
Rank change year-on-year -4 +16 -1
Contract jobs citing Git 13 8 16
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.58% 1.55% 2.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.88% 13.56% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £413 £520 £185
25th Percentile £423 £550 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -32.31% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £558 £700 £663
90th Percentile £628 - £670
East of England median daily rate £465 £485 £498
% change year-on-year -4.12% -2.51% -6.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile - - £62.50
25th Percentile - - £69.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 £60.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -17.24% +10.69%
75th Percentile - - £73.75
90th Percentile - - £74.25
East of England median hourly rate £67.00 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +16.52% -20.69% +10.69%

All Development Application Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 77 59 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 15.31% 11.41% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 32
10th Percentile £403 £306 £279
25th Percentile £429 £307 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £363 £500
Median % change year-on-year +31.03% -27.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £625 £470 £628
90th Percentile £683 £655 £698
East of England median daily rate £475 £419 £475
% change year-on-year +13.43% -11.84% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 25 53
10th Percentile - £60.00 £65.00
25th Percentile £65.00 £62.50 £67.56
Median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £78.73
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -17.43% +31.21%
75th Percentile £67.06 - £90.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £70.25 -
East of England median hourly rate £66.50 £65.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +2.31% -13.33% +25.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Git job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Hertfordshire

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 22 October 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
Stevenage +3 7 £413 - 6
Watford - 2 £558 - 7
Welwyn Garden City - 1 - -
St Albans - 1 - -
Git
East of England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Neo4j
1 1 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
General
1 7 (53.85%) Manufacturing
2 6 (46.15%) Aerospace
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Software Engineer
2 6 (46.15%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Applications Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Applications Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Technical Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Perl Software Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 2 (15.38%) React
2 2 (15.38%) SOAP
3 1 (7.69%) Django
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) Jest
3 1 (7.69%) Next.js
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth
3 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
3 1 (7.69%) pytest
3 1 (7.69%) RESTful
3 1 (7.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) FPGA
1 6 (46.15%) PCIe
1 6 (46.15%) State Machine
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
2 8 (61.54%) Software Engineering
3 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 7 (53.85%) Validation
4 6 (46.15%) Concurrent Programming
4 6 (46.15%) Data Acquisition
4 6 (46.15%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (46.15%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
4 6 (46.15%) Memory Management
4 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Analysis
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Optimisation
4 6 (46.15%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
6 2 (15.38%) Containerisation
6 2 (15.38%) Data Modelling
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 1 (7.69%) Code Quality
7 1 (7.69%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) C#
1 6 (46.15%) C++
2 4 (30.77%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.69%) Cypher
5 1 (7.69%) Perl
5 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
5 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Degree
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft
2 1 (7.69%) Pega
2 1 (7.69%) Salesforce
2 1 (7.69%) SAP