Git Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Git Distributed Version Control System
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 38 48
Rank change year-on-year +8 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Git 50 27 24
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 6.93% 4.18% 2.56%
As % of the Development Applications category 32.26% 21.77% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 22
10th Percentile £356 £450 £406
25th Percentile £385 £481 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £550 £750 £647
90th Percentile £575 £777 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

All Development Application Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 155 124 94
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 21.50% 19.20% 10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 83 70
10th Percentile £375 £381 £362
25th Percentile £402 £408 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £634
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £506 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.00% -9.09%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Git job vacancy trend in Leeds

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Leeds

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Git

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (54.00%) AWS
2 15 (30.00%) Serverless
3 12 (24.00%) AWS Lambda
4 11 (22.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 10 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (20.00%) Amazon S3
5 10 (20.00%) Azure
6 8 (16.00%) GCP
6 8 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 7 (14.00%) Amazon SQS
8 6 (12.00%) Amazon ELB
9 5 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (8.00%) GitHub
10 4 (8.00%) Google Play
11 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudTrail
11 3 (6.00%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (4.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 2 (4.00%) Azure Functions
12 2 (4.00%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) Firewall
2 6 (12.00%) VPN
3 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 5 (10.00%) SSL
3 5 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (6.00%) Network Security
5 1 (2.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (6.00%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (6.00%) DocumentDB
3 3 (6.00%) Redis
4 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.00%) DataStage
5 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.00%) MySQL
5 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (34.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.00%) CircleCI
2 7 (14.00%) GitLab
3 5 (10.00%) Mockito
4 4 (8.00%) SonarQube
5 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (6.00%) JIRA
5 3 (6.00%) Maven
5 3 (6.00%) Selenium
6 2 (4.00%) Gradle
6 2 (4.00%) JUnit
6 2 (4.00%) Log4j
6 2 (4.00%) Subversion
7 1 (2.00%) Mocha
7 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (2.00%) Vite
7 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (24.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Finance
4 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Developer
2 14 (28.00%) Senior
3 9 (18.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (18.00%) Software Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) AWS Engineer
4 8 (16.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Android Developer
6 4 (8.00%) iOS Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Java Developer
6 4 (8.00%) Test Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (6.00%) AWS Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Analyst
8 2 (4.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Calypso Developer
8 2 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (34.00%) RESTful
2 13 (26.00%) React
3 12 (24.00%) Node.js
4 7 (14.00%) Kafka
4 7 (14.00%) Spring
5 6 (12.00%) Android Jetpack
5 6 (12.00%) Jetpack Compose
6 5 (10.00%) Spring Boot
6 5 (10.00%) SwiftUI
7 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (8.00%) Swagger
7 4 (8.00%) Web Services
8 3 (6.00%) CSS
8 3 (6.00%) CSS3
8 3 (6.00%) HTML
8 3 (6.00%) HTML5
8 3 (6.00%) REST
9 2 (4.00%) Android SDK
9 2 (4.00%) PowerMock
9 2 (4.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Mobile App
2 5 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
5 2 (4.00%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.00%) Derivative
6 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.00%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.00%) Android
2 5 (10.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (62.00%) CI/CD
2 25 (50.00%) DevOps
3 16 (32.00%) Agile
4 15 (30.00%) Microservices
5 13 (26.00%) Containerisation
6 12 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 10 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 10 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 9 (18.00%) MVVM
9 8 (16.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (14.00%) Code Quality
10 7 (14.00%) Software Architecture
10 7 (14.00%) Test Automation
11 6 (12.00%) Android Development
11 6 (12.00%) DevSecOps
11 6 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
11 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.00%) Test Strategy
11 6 (12.00%) User Experience
12 5 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.00%) Python
2 11 (22.00%) Bash
3 10 (20.00%) Java
4 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (12.00%) Kotlin
5 5 (10.00%) SQL
5 5 (10.00%) Swift
6 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.00%) Bicep
8 2 (4.00%) Apex Code
8 2 (4.00%) C#
8 2 (4.00%) Go
8 2 (4.00%) SOQL
8 2 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 1 (2.00%) C
9 1 (2.00%) FoxPro (VFP)
9 1 (2.00%) Perl
9 1 (2.00%) Rust
9 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.00%) CISSP
4 1 (2.00%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) GCIH
4 1 (2.00%) OCP
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.00%) WCAG
2 4 (8.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (34.00%) Terraform
2 14 (28.00%) Ansible
3 13 (26.00%) Kubernetes
4 2 (4.00%) Grafana
4 2 (4.00%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
5 1 (2.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) Google
2 6 (12.00%) CheckPoint
2 6 (12.00%) F5
2 6 (12.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) Calypso
4 2 (4.00%) CloudEndure
4 2 (4.00%) Databricks
4 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (4.00%) Splunk
4 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
5 1 (2.00%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (2.00%) Darktrace
5 1 (2.00%) IBM
5 1 (2.00%) Informatica
5 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Talend