Git Contracts in London

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 61 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Git 501 660 1,042
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.77% 3.75% 4.05%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.57% 26.66% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 450 728
10th Percentile £350 £375 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £590
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -7.84% -1.67%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £718
90th Percentile £788 £800 £825
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 13
10th Percentile - £54.30 £55.25
25th Percentile - £65.63 £64.50
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +14.00%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £80.00
90th Percentile - £76.00 £89.31
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £67.34
% change year-on-year -15.38% -3.47% +3.60%

All Development Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,039 2,476 4,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.35% 14.07% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,757 2,942
10th Percentile £350 £363 £407
25th Percentile £420 £450 £482
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £669 £713
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 37
10th Percentile £25.52 £23.30 £49.25
25th Percentile £32.13 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £59.69 £71.25 £82.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £71.63 £90.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +16.82%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in London

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in London.

Daily rate trend for Git in London

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in London over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in London

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in London.

Hourly rate trend for Git in London

Git
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the London region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Central London +2 72 £550 -4.35% 201
South London -8 15 £538 +5.29% 30
West London 0 9 £405 -4.82% 50
Git
England

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 36 (7.19%) Confluence
2 31 (6.19%) Apache Spark
3 28 (5.59%) Apache
4 18 (3.59%) nginx
5 9 (1.80%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.60%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.40%) JBoss
8 5 (1.00%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.60%) Camunda
9 3 (0.60%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.60%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.40%) Anypoint
10 2 (0.40%) CMS
10 2 (0.40%) IIS
11 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.20%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.20%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.20%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.20%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.20%) Sketch
2 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.40%) Shopify
2 5 (1.00%) Endur
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Magento
4 1 (0.20%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 194 (38.72%) AWS
2 137 (27.35%) Azure
3 71 (14.17%) GitHub
4 48 (9.58%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (8.98%) GCP
6 44 (8.78%) Serverless
7 42 (8.38%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (6.19%) Power Platform
9 30 (5.99%) AWS Lambda
9 30 (5.99%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (5.19%) Amazon S3
11 24 (4.79%) Amazon EC2
12 20 (3.99%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.39%) Amazon SQS
14 16 (3.19%) dbt
15 14 (2.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (2.40%) npm
17 11 (2.20%) Datadog
18 10 (2.00%) Yarn
19 9 (1.80%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.39%) DNS
2 11 (2.20%) Firewall
2 11 (2.20%) HTTP
3 10 (2.00%) TCP/IP
4 8 (1.60%) VPN
5 7 (1.40%) SSH
6 5 (1.00%) LAN
7 4 (0.80%) DHCP
7 4 (0.80%) Kerberos
7 4 (0.80%) Multicast
7 4 (0.80%) Network Security
8 3 (0.60%) BGP
8 3 (0.60%) Bluetooth
8 3 (0.60%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (0.60%) Internet
8 3 (0.60%) OSPF
8 3 (0.60%) VLAN
8 3 (0.60%) VXLAN
8 3 (0.60%) WAN
9 2 (0.40%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (7.98%) PostgreSQL
2 26 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 25 (4.99%) Big Data
3 25 (4.99%) Power BI
4 19 (3.79%) Tableau
5 18 (3.59%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 15 (2.99%) MySQL
7 13 (2.59%) Amazon RDS
8 12 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.40%) Delta Lake
9 11 (2.20%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.20%) GIS
9 11 (2.20%) Redis
10 10 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
10 10 (2.00%) Geospatial Data
11 9 (1.80%) Hadoop
11 9 (1.80%) MongoDB
12 8 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
13 7 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 125 (24.95%) Jenkins
2 92 (18.36%) JIRA
3 40 (7.98%) GitLab
4 39 (7.78%) Bitbucket
5 34 (6.79%) Maven
6 31 (6.19%) SonarQube
7 27 (5.39%) JUnit
8 24 (4.79%) TeamCity
9 21 (4.19%) Selenium
10 19 (3.79%) webpack
11 18 (3.59%) Subversion
12 17 (3.39%) Postman
13 16 (3.19%) Artifactory
14 14 (2.79%) REST Assured
15 12 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
16 10 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 10 (2.00%) IntelliJ
16 10 (2.00%) Mockito
17 9 (1.80%) Cypress.io
17 9 (1.80%) NUnit
General
1 150 (29.94%) Finance
2 147 (29.34%) Social Skills
3 90 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (16.57%) Banking
5 47 (9.38%) Investment Banking
6 35 (6.99%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (3.79%) Front Office
9 16 (3.19%) Marketing
9 16 (3.19%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.79%) Financial Institution
10 14 (2.79%) Retail
11 10 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.20%) Back Office
13 5 (1.00%) Games
14 3 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.60%) Military
15 2 (0.40%) Automotive
15 2 (0.40%) Manufacturing
15 2 (0.40%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 218 (43.51%) Developer
2 58 (11.58%) Lead
3 52 (10.38%) Senior
4 50 (9.98%) Java Developer
5 33 (6.59%) Python Developer
6 32 (6.39%) Data Engineer
6 32 (6.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 29 (5.79%) Senior Developer
8 23 (4.59%) AWS Developer
8 23 (4.59%) Software Engineer
9 21 (4.19%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (3.59%) Technical Leader
11 17 (3.39%) UI Developer
12 16 (3.19%) Analyst
12 16 (3.19%) AWS Engineer
12 16 (3.19%) JavaScript Developer
13 15 (2.99%) Architect
14 14 (2.79%) Angular Developer
15 13 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (20.36%) React
2 84 (16.77%) CSS
3 77 (15.37%) HTML
4 71 (14.17%) RESTful
5 70 (13.97%) REST
6 56 (11.18%) AngularJS
7 50 (9.98%) Node.js
8 44 (8.78%) .NET
9 37 (7.39%) HTML5
9 37 (7.39%) Spring
9 37 (7.39%) Spring Boot
10 32 (6.39%) JSON
11 28 (5.59%) Kafka
12 27 (5.39%) Vue
13 26 (5.19%) Web Services
14 23 (4.59%) CSS3
14 23 (4.59%) FastAPI
14 23 (4.59%) Redux
15 22 (4.39%) Sass
16 21 (4.19%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 32 (6.39%) Algorithms
3 24 (4.79%) Data Structures
3 24 (4.79%) Distributed Systems
3 24 (4.79%) Hedge funds
4 17 (3.39%) Mobile App
4 17 (3.39%) Product Ownership
5 16 (3.19%) Onboarding
5 16 (3.19%) Public Cloud
6 15 (2.99%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.99%) Distributed Computing
7 13 (2.59%) Linux Command Line
7 13 (2.59%) Self-Motivation
8 12 (2.40%) Derivative
9 9 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
9 9 (1.80%) Market Risk
9 9 (1.80%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.40%) Management Information System
11 7 (1.40%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 112 (22.36%) Linux
2 37 (7.39%) Windows
3 36 (7.19%) Unix
4 20 (3.99%) Android
5 13 (2.59%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.40%) Apple iOS
6 12 (2.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.80%) Solaris
8 1 (0.20%) AIX
8 1 (0.20%) CentOS
8 1 (0.20%) Debian
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.20%) VMS
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (49.90%) CI/CD
2 212 (42.32%) Agile
3 172 (34.33%) DevOps
4 134 (26.75%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (18.76%) Scrum
6 87 (17.37%) Test Automation
7 77 (15.37%) Software Engineering
8 73 (14.57%) Microservices
9 66 (13.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (12.18%) Clean Code
11 55 (10.98%) Containerisation
12 52 (10.38%) Mentoring
13 49 (9.78%) Continuous Integration
14 47 (9.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 44 (8.78%) Analytics
16 43 (8.58%) Full-Stack Development
17 42 (8.38%) OO
18 41 (8.18%) Data Pipeline
19 40 (7.98%) TDD
20 36 (7.19%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 236 (47.11%) Python
2 180 (35.93%) Java
3 156 (31.14%) JavaScript
4 132 (26.35%) SQL
5 70 (13.97%) C#
6 67 (13.37%) TypeScript
7 63 (12.57%) C++
8 48 (9.58%) Bash
9 35 (6.99%) PowerShell
10 26 (5.19%) Go
11 24 (4.79%) Shell Script
12 18 (3.59%) Groovy
13 16 (3.19%) Scala
14 14 (2.79%) C
14 14 (2.79%) Rust
15 12 (2.40%) Kotlin
16 10 (2.00%) Ruby
17 9 (1.80%) Perl
17 9 (1.80%) PHP
18 7 (1.40%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 89 (17.76%) Security Cleared
2 77 (15.37%) SC Cleared
3 41 (8.18%) Degree
4 25 (4.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.40%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.20%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.00%) CCNP
8 5 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (0.80%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.60%) CISSP
10 3 (0.60%) OCP
10 3 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.40%) CCIE
11 2 (0.40%) CCNA
11 2 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (8.78%) QA
2 22 (4.39%) Accessibility
3 20 (3.99%) Data Quality
4 10 (2.00%) GDPR
5 6 (1.20%) WCAG
6 4 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.60%) EMIR
7 3 (0.60%) HL7
7 3 (0.60%) MiFID
8 2 (0.40%) DICOM
8 2 (0.40%) SLA
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.20%) PMO
System Software
1 118 (23.55%) Docker
2 11 (2.20%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.60%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Firmware
5 2 (0.40%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (0.40%) iptables
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.40%) zsh
6 1 (0.20%) Ceph
6 1 (0.20%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.20%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.20%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.20%) Postfix
6 1 (0.20%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.20%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 130 (25.95%) Kubernetes
2 99 (19.76%) Terraform
3 79 (15.77%) Ansible
4 30 (5.99%) Puppet
5 23 (4.59%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.79%) Packer
7 17 (3.39%) Grafana
8 14 (2.79%) Consul
8 14 (2.79%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.20%) Nagios
10 5 (1.00%) Istio
11 4 (0.80%) Control-M
11 4 (0.80%) EMC NetWorker
11 4 (0.80%) Podman
11 4 (0.80%) Red Hat Satellite
11 4 (0.80%) Tivoli
11 4 (0.80%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 3 (0.60%) Kibana
12 3 (0.60%) logstash
12 3 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 60 (11.98%) Microsoft
2 27 (5.39%) Splunk
3 26 (5.19%) Databricks
4 21 (4.19%) Oracle
5 19 (3.79%) Google
6 16 (3.19%) VMware
7 13 (2.59%) Atlassian
8 11 (2.20%) Red Hat
9 8 (1.60%) Cisco
9 8 (1.60%) IBM
10 7 (1.40%) Adobe
10 7 (1.40%) Dynatrace
10 7 (1.40%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.20%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.20%) SAP
12 5 (1.00%) CyberArk
12 5 (1.00%) OpenLink
13 4 (0.80%) Bloomberg
13 4 (0.80%) EMC
13 4 (0.80%) Palo Alto