Git Contract Job Trends in London

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 72 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 -6
Contract jobs citing Git 568 437 596
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.15% 3.52% 3.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.11% 24.14% 25.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 297 410
10th Percentile £400 £361 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £661
90th Percentile £749 £788 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £38.00 - £49.63
25th Percentile £55.63 - £55.78
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £67.88
75th Percentile £95.00 - £71.88
90th Percentile - - £75.31
England median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% -0.93%

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 2,356 1,810 2,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.09% 14.60% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,558 1,234 1,637
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £415 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £798 £775
England median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 26
10th Percentile - £24.49 £23.50
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.14 £25.99
Median hourly rate £31.50 £38.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +6.16% -46.72%
75th Percentile £73.00 £52.50 £70.19
90th Percentile £95.00 £75.75 £71.56
England median hourly rate £67.50 £60.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +11.57% -6.92% +5.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Git job vacancy trend in London

Git
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in London

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 May 2026. 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 -17 69 £525 -9.09% 57
South London -8 19 £525 -2.33% 8
West London -14 11 £505 +24.71% 18
East London -5 3 £441 - 12
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 51 (8.98%) Confluence
2 46 (8.10%) Apache Spark
3 34 (5.99%) Apache Airflow
4 29 (5.11%) Apache
5 8 (1.41%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (1.23%) SAS
7 6 (1.06%) Ethereum
7 6 (1.06%) Hyperledger
7 6 (1.06%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.53%) Camunda
8 3 (0.53%) Drupal
8 3 (0.53%) JBoss
8 3 (0.53%) nginx
9 2 (0.35%) Apache Solr
9 2 (0.35%) CMS
9 2 (0.35%) IIS
9 2 (0.35%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.35%) WordPress
10 1 (0.18%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.18%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 13 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.35%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.18%) Maya
5 1 (0.18%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (0.88%) Findur
2 4 (0.70%) Magento
2 4 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.35%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Eloqua
4 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.18%) R3 Corda
4 1 (0.18%) SAP Hybris
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.18%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 250 (44.01%) Azure
2 225 (39.61%) AWS
3 115 (20.25%) GitHub
4 113 (19.89%) Azure DevOps
5 82 (14.44%) Serverless
6 75 (13.20%) Amazon S3
7 57 (10.04%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (10.04%) GCP
8 49 (8.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 48 (8.45%) Amazon EC2
9 48 (8.45%) GitHub Actions
10 47 (8.27%) Power Platform
11 37 (6.51%) AWS CloudFormation
12 31 (5.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 31 (5.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 26 (4.58%) Azure AKS
14 25 (4.40%) Amazon ECS
15 23 (4.05%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 23 (4.05%) Snowflake
16 21 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.70%) Firewall
2 10 (1.76%) DNS
2 10 (1.76%) HTTP
2 10 (1.76%) Network Security
2 10 (1.76%) TCP/IP
3 9 (1.58%) BGP
4 7 (1.23%) VXLAN
4 7 (1.23%) WAN
5 6 (1.06%) Ethernet VPN
5 6 (1.06%) MPLS
5 6 (1.06%) OSPF
5 6 (1.06%) SD-WAN
6 5 (0.88%) Multicast
6 5 (0.88%) Reverse Proxy
6 5 (0.88%) VPN
7 4 (0.70%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (0.70%) IOS XR
7 4 (0.70%) NAS
7 4 (0.70%) NX-OS
7 4 (0.70%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (12.15%) NoSQL
2 51 (8.98%) Data Warehouse
3 49 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
4 43 (7.57%) Data Lake
5 39 (6.87%) Power BI
6 37 (6.51%) MongoDB
6 37 (6.51%) SQL Server
7 35 (6.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 31 (5.46%) Delta Lake
9 30 (5.28%) Relational Database
10 22 (3.87%) Amazon RDS
11 21 (3.70%) Amazon Athena
12 20 (3.52%) Spark SQL
13 18 (3.17%) DynamoDB
14 17 (2.99%) Metadata
15 16 (2.82%) Big Data
16 15 (2.64%) Amazon Aurora
16 15 (2.64%) Amazon Redshift
16 15 (2.64%) MySQL
17 14 (2.46%) Redis
Development Applications
1 101 (17.78%) JIRA
2 95 (16.73%) Jenkins
3 66 (11.62%) GitLab
4 32 (5.63%) Selenium
5 31 (5.46%) JUnit
6 22 (3.87%) Cucumber
7 18 (3.17%) Postman
8 16 (2.82%) Maven
8 16 (2.82%) MLflow
9 15 (2.64%) Artifactory
9 15 (2.64%) Cypress.io
10 12 (2.11%) Gradle
10 12 (2.11%) Mockito
11 10 (1.76%) Subversion
12 9 (1.58%) Bitbucket
12 9 (1.58%) TeamCity
13 7 (1.23%) Ant
13 7 (1.23%) SpecFlow
14 6 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (1.06%) Vite
General
1 133 (23.42%) Finance
2 125 (22.01%) Social Skills
3 89 (15.67%) Public Sector
4 66 (11.62%) Analytical Skills
5 63 (11.09%) Banking
6 14 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (2.29%) Front Office
8 7 (1.23%) Billing
8 7 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (1.23%) Investment Banking
8 7 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.06%) Retail
10 5 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (0.88%) Marketing
10 5 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (0.70%) Law
11 4 (0.70%) Legal
11 4 (0.70%) Military
11 4 (0.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 167 (29.40%) Developer
2 85 (14.96%) Data Engineer
3 82 (14.44%) Senior
4 45 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
5 42 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
6 32 (5.63%) Python Developer
7 29 (5.11%) Java Developer
8 28 (4.93%) Architect
8 28 (4.93%) Lead
9 27 (4.75%) AWS Engineer
10 25 (4.40%) Azure Data Engineer
10 25 (4.40%) Cloud Engineer
11 24 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
11 24 (4.23%) Senior Developer
12 22 (3.87%) Senior Data Engineer
13 18 (3.17%) Software Engineer
14 17 (2.99%) Full-Stack Developer
15 15 (2.64%) Automation Engineer
15 15 (2.64%) Platform Engineer
16 13 (2.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (13.73%) REST
2 65 (11.44%) PySpark
2 65 (11.44%) RESTful
3 55 (9.68%) Kafka
3 55 (9.68%) React
4 53 (9.33%) Spring
5 46 (8.10%) .NET
6 43 (7.57%) Node.js
7 40 (7.04%) CSS
7 40 (7.04%) Spring Boot
8 37 (6.51%) HTML
9 36 (6.34%) AngularJS
10 27 (4.75%) Pandas
11 26 (4.58%) JSON
12 23 (4.05%) Playwright
12 23 (4.05%) Web Services
13 20 (3.52%) YAML
14 18 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
14 18 (3.17%) NumPy
15 17 (2.99%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (11.44%) Cloud Native
2 38 (6.69%) Distributed Systems
3 26 (4.58%) Product Ownership
4 16 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
5 13 (2.29%) Derivative
5 13 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 12 (2.11%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.94%) Data Centre
7 11 (1.94%) Hedge funds
8 10 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (1.76%) Management Information System
9 9 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.58%) Equities
9 9 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
10 8 (1.41%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.23%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.06%) Data Structures
12 6 (1.06%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (1.06%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 61 (10.74%) Linux
2 21 (3.70%) Unix
3 16 (2.82%) Windows
4 9 (1.58%) VMS
5 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.70%) Amazon Linux
7 3 (0.53%) Android
8 1 (0.18%) AIX
8 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.18%) Debian
8 1 (0.18%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (68.31%) CI/CD
2 268 (47.18%) DevOps
3 249 (43.84%) Agile
4 135 (23.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 128 (22.54%) Test Automation
6 111 (19.54%) Data Modelling
7 110 (19.37%) Data Pipeline
8 108 (19.01%) Containerisation
9 107 (18.84%) Microservices
10 99 (17.43%) AI
11 98 (17.25%) Data Engineering
12 96 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
13 91 (16.02%) Analytics
14 86 (15.14%) Software Engineering
15 75 (13.20%) ETL
16 65 (11.44%) Observability
17 64 (11.27%) Data Governance
17 64 (11.27%) Scrum
18 60 (10.56%) Performance Tuning
19 55 (9.68%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 338 (59.51%) Python
2 221 (38.91%) SQL
3 122 (21.48%) Java
4 83 (14.61%) JavaScript
5 75 (13.20%) C#
6 59 (10.39%) TypeScript
7 53 (9.33%) Bash
8 44 (7.75%) PowerShell
9 41 (7.22%) Scala
10 27 (4.75%) Ruby
11 19 (3.35%) Apex Code
12 17 (2.99%) Bicep
13 15 (2.64%) Shell Script
14 10 (1.76%) Go
15 8 (1.41%) C++
15 8 (1.41%) T-SQL
16 7 (1.23%) Groovy
16 7 (1.23%) Perl
17 6 (1.06%) SAS Macro
18 4 (0.70%) PHP
Qualifications
1 178 (31.34%) Security Cleared
2 159 (27.99%) SC Cleared
3 56 (9.86%) Degree
4 27 (4.75%) Azure Certification
5 23 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (4.05%) Master's Degree
6 13 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.58%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (1.23%) AWS Certification
9 5 (0.88%) CCNP
9 5 (0.88%) DV Cleared
9 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.70%) CCIE
11 3 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 3 (0.53%) CCSP
11 3 (0.53%) CISSP
11 3 (0.53%) OSCP
11 3 (0.53%) PhD
11 3 (0.53%) SANS
12 2 (0.35%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (11.97%) Data Quality
2 57 (10.04%) QA
3 19 (3.35%) GDPR
4 16 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 6 (1.06%) WCAG
7 5 (0.88%) NIST
7 5 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.53%) NCSC
9 2 (0.35%) GRC
10 1 (0.18%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.18%) HL7
10 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.18%) ITGC
10 1 (0.18%) MiFID
10 1 (0.18%) PMO
10 1 (0.18%) WAI
10 1 (0.18%) WAI-ARIA
System Software
1 167 (29.40%) Docker
2 12 (2.11%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (0.88%) Postfix
4 5 (0.88%) Squid
5 4 (0.70%) Varnish
6 3 (0.53%) NFS
6 3 (0.53%) Sendmail
6 3 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.18%) HDFS
7 1 (0.18%) KVM
7 1 (0.18%) QEMU
7 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 149 (26.23%) Terraform
2 132 (23.24%) Kubernetes
3 55 (9.68%) Ansible
4 42 (7.39%) Grafana
5 36 (6.34%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.41%) Puppet
7 4 (0.70%) Istio
7 4 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.70%) Suricata
8 3 (0.53%) HAProxy
8 3 (0.53%) Packer
8 3 (0.53%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.53%) Salt
9 2 (0.35%) Consul
9 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.35%) ITRS Geneos
9 2 (0.35%) Karpenter
9 2 (0.35%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.18%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.18%) Rancher
Vendors
1 77 (13.56%) Microsoft
2 68 (11.97%) Databricks
3 31 (5.46%) ServiceNow
4 30 (5.28%) Oracle
5 25 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 24 (4.23%) Google
7 13 (2.29%) Foundry
7 13 (2.29%) MuleSoft
8 11 (1.94%) Dynatrace
8 11 (1.94%) Splunk
9 8 (1.41%) Arista
9 8 (1.41%) Palantir
10 7 (1.23%) Atlassian
10 7 (1.23%) Cisco
10 7 (1.23%) Guidewire
11 6 (1.06%) IBM
12 5 (0.88%) F5
12 5 (0.88%) OpenAI
12 5 (0.88%) Rapid7
12 5 (0.88%) SAP