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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 63 56
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 -12
Contract jobs citing Git 435 604 1,164
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.47% 3.39% 4.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.98% 25.98% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 412 790
10th Percentile £357 £363 £417
25th Percentile £413 £437 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £539 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% -10.21% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £725
90th Percentile £788 £749 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 24
10th Percentile - £49.63 -
25th Percentile - £55.78 £56.25
Median hourly rate - £67.88 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.04% -25.32%
75th Percentile - £71.41 £70.00
90th Percentile - £75.31 £75.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 1,814 2,325 4,441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 14.46% 13.04% 16.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,230 1,656 3,172
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £419 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £800
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 39
10th Percentile £22.93 £22.90 £48.20
25th Percentile £26.04 £25.99 £56.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% -36.52% +29.21%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £71.25 £86.00
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +25 84 £578 +5.00% 55
South London -6 12 £380 -26.92% 3
East London +9 1 - - 8
West London -7 1 £565 +32.94% 14
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 33 (7.59%) Apache Spark
2 30 (6.90%) Confluence
3 28 (6.44%) Apache
4 12 (2.76%) Apache Airflow
4 12 (2.76%) Jupyter
5 10 (2.30%) nginx
6 6 (1.38%) Tomcat
7 5 (1.15%) JBoss
8 3 (0.69%) CMS
9 2 (0.46%) IIS
9 2 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.46%) SharePoint
9 2 (0.46%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.23%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.23%) Magnolia
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.23%) MQSeries
10 1 (0.23%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.23%) Sketch
2 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.23%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.92%) Shopify
2 2 (0.46%) Endur
3 1 (0.23%) Fidessa
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 141 (32.41%) AWS
2 93 (21.38%) Azure
3 46 (10.57%) GitHub
4 32 (7.36%) GCP
5 31 (7.13%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (6.44%) Serverless
7 27 (6.21%) Power Platform
8 22 (5.06%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (3.91%) OpenShift
10 16 (3.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (3.22%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (2.99%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (2.99%) Amazon S3
14 12 (2.76%) dbt
14 12 (2.76%) npm
14 12 (2.76%) Slack
14 12 (2.76%) Yarn
15 10 (2.30%) Amazon SQS
15 10 (2.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.91%) DNS
1 17 (3.91%) Firewall
1 17 (3.91%) HTTP
2 14 (3.22%) TCP/IP
3 8 (1.84%) SSH
3 8 (1.84%) VPN
4 5 (1.15%) Network Security
4 5 (1.15%) Reverse Proxy
5 4 (0.92%) DHCP
6 2 (0.46%) IPv4
6 2 (0.46%) Kerberos
6 2 (0.46%) LAN
6 2 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (0.46%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.46%) SNMP
6 2 (0.46%) SSL
6 2 (0.46%) Telnet
6 2 (0.46%) WAN
6 2 (0.46%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.23%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (11.95%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.44%) SQL Server
3 23 (5.29%) Power BI
4 21 (4.83%) MySQL
4 21 (4.83%) NoSQL
5 18 (4.14%) Big Data
5 18 (4.14%) MongoDB
6 15 (3.45%) Redis
7 13 (2.99%) Apache Hive
7 13 (2.99%) Hadoop
7 13 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 12 (2.76%) Apache Cassandra
8 12 (2.76%) Tableau
9 10 (2.30%) Delta Lake
10 9 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (2.07%) Data Lake
10 9 (2.07%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.84%) Apache Iceberg
11 8 (1.84%) Azure SQL Database
11 8 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 102 (23.45%) Jenkins
2 90 (20.69%) JIRA
3 34 (7.82%) GitLab
3 34 (7.82%) JUnit
4 31 (7.13%) Bitbucket
5 27 (6.21%) Maven
5 27 (6.21%) TeamCity
6 26 (5.98%) Selenium
6 26 (5.98%) SonarQube
7 24 (5.52%) Postman
8 23 (5.29%) REST Assured
9 19 (4.37%) Subversion
10 17 (3.91%) Cucumber
11 16 (3.68%) webpack
12 12 (2.76%) Cypress.io
13 11 (2.53%) Jasmine
14 8 (1.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 8 (1.84%) NUnit
14 8 (1.84%) Xcode
15 7 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 126 (28.97%) Social Skills
2 116 (26.67%) Finance
3 75 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (16.32%) Banking
5 41 (9.43%) Investment Banking
6 32 (7.36%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.37%) Front Office
8 14 (3.22%) Financial Institution
8 14 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.07%) Marketing
10 8 (1.84%) Retail
11 7 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.15%) Games
14 3 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.46%) Advertising
15 2 (0.46%) Back Office
15 2 (0.46%) Health Technology
16 1 (0.23%) Military
16 1 (0.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 185 (42.53%) Developer
2 59 (13.56%) Senior
3 50 (11.49%) Lead
4 48 (11.03%) Java Developer
5 37 (8.51%) DevOps Engineer
6 34 (7.82%) Senior Developer
7 27 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 26 (5.98%) Full-Stack Developer
9 25 (5.75%) Software Engineer
10 23 (5.29%) Python Developer
11 20 (4.60%) Python Engineer
12 19 (4.37%) UI Developer
13 18 (4.14%) Test Engineer
14 17 (3.91%) AWS Developer
15 16 (3.68%) Analyst
15 16 (3.68%) AWS Engineer
16 14 (3.22%) Senior UI Developer
17 13 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
17 13 (2.99%) AWS DevOps Engineer
17 13 (2.99%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 94 (21.61%) React
2 75 (17.24%) CSS
3 71 (16.32%) RESTful
4 62 (14.25%) HTML
5 51 (11.72%) REST
6 45 (10.34%) .NET
6 45 (10.34%) Node.js
7 39 (8.97%) AngularJS
8 34 (7.82%) Spring
9 33 (7.59%) Kafka
10 32 (7.36%) Spring Boot
11 26 (5.98%) HTML5
11 26 (5.98%) JSON
12 23 (5.29%) FastAPI
12 23 (5.29%) pytest
13 22 (5.06%) Redux
14 21 (4.83%) Sass
15 20 (4.60%) Web Services
16 19 (4.37%) Swagger
17 17 (3.91%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (7.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 26 (5.98%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (5.29%) Data Structures
4 21 (4.83%) Algorithms
5 18 (4.14%) Hedge funds
6 17 (3.91%) Derivative
7 13 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 12 (2.76%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
9 11 (2.53%) Public Cloud
10 10 (2.30%) Distributed Computing
11 9 (2.07%) Cloud Native
11 9 (2.07%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (2.07%) Replication
12 8 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (1.84%) Equities
12 8 (1.84%) Market Risk
12 8 (1.84%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.84%) Reference Data
12 8 (1.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 97 (22.30%) Linux
2 33 (7.59%) Windows
3 19 (4.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (3.91%) Android
5 16 (3.68%) Unix
6 13 (2.99%) Apple iOS
7 11 (2.53%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.61%) Solaris
9 2 (0.46%) CentOS
9 2 (0.46%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.23%) Debian
10 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.23%) Rocky
10 1 (0.23%) SUSE
10 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.23%) VMS
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (51.49%) CI/CD
2 166 (38.16%) Agile
3 142 (32.64%) DevOps
4 123 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
5 103 (23.68%) Test Automation
6 72 (16.55%) Software Engineering
7 68 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
7 68 (15.63%) Scrum
8 66 (15.17%) Microservices
9 57 (13.10%) Full-Stack Development
10 52 (11.95%) Containerisation
10 52 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (8.74%) Clean Code
12 37 (8.51%) Mentoring
12 37 (8.51%) TDD
12 37 (8.51%) Unit Testing
13 35 (8.05%) Computer Science
13 35 (8.05%) OO
14 34 (7.82%) Code Quality
15 33 (7.59%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 205 (47.13%) Python
2 157 (36.09%) Java
3 125 (28.74%) JavaScript
4 124 (28.51%) SQL
5 69 (15.86%) TypeScript
6 53 (12.18%) Bash
7 50 (11.49%) C#
8 36 (8.28%) C++
9 27 (6.21%) PowerShell
10 18 (4.14%) Scala
11 16 (3.68%) Go
12 13 (2.99%) C
13 12 (2.76%) Perl
13 12 (2.76%) Shell Script
14 9 (2.07%) Ruby
15 8 (1.84%) Groovy
15 8 (1.84%) Rust
15 8 (1.84%) Swift
16 7 (1.61%) Kotlin
16 7 (1.61%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 88 (20.23%) Security Cleared
2 75 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 44 (10.11%) Degree
4 28 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 13 (2.99%) AWS Certification
5 13 (2.99%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.07%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.46%) OCP
8 2 (0.46%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.46%) RHCE
9 1 (0.23%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) CISSP
9 1 (0.23%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.23%) MCAD
9 1 (0.23%) PhD
9 1 (0.23%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.23%) PMP
9 1 (0.23%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (9.43%) QA
2 17 (3.91%) GDPR
3 16 (3.68%) Accessibility
4 11 (2.53%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 5 (1.15%) WCAG
7 3 (0.69%) HL7
8 2 (0.46%) DICOM
8 2 (0.46%) SLA
9 1 (0.23%) EMIR
9 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.23%) MiFID
System Software
1 83 (19.08%) Docker
2 11 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.07%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.46%) FreeRADIUS
6 2 (0.46%) iptables
6 2 (0.46%) NFS
6 2 (0.46%) Veritas File System
6 2 (0.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (0.23%) Ceph
7 1 (0.23%) Firmware
7 1 (0.23%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.23%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.23%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 94 (21.61%) Kubernetes
2 73 (16.78%) Terraform
3 65 (14.94%) Ansible
4 18 (4.14%) Prometheus
5 15 (3.45%) Grafana
5 15 (3.45%) Puppet
6 11 (2.53%) Progress Chef
7 8 (1.84%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (1.61%) Istio
9 6 (1.38%) Nagios
9 6 (1.38%) Packer
9 6 (1.38%) QRadar
10 5 (1.15%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.15%) Tivoli
10 5 (1.15%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.92%) Control-M
11 4 (0.92%) Kustomize
11 4 (0.92%) ZABBIX
12 3 (0.69%) Argo
12 3 (0.69%) Netcool
Vendors
1 37 (8.51%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.06%) Splunk
3 20 (4.60%) Databricks
4 19 (4.37%) Oracle
4 19 (4.37%) Red Hat
5 16 (3.68%) VMware
6 13 (2.99%) Atlassian
7 11 (2.53%) Google
8 9 (2.07%) IBM
8 9 (2.07%) ServiceNow
9 8 (1.84%) CyberArk
10 7 (1.61%) Qualys
11 6 (1.38%) Adobe
11 6 (1.38%) SaltStack
12 5 (1.15%) Cisco
12 5 (1.15%) EMC
12 5 (1.15%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.15%) SAP
13 3 (0.69%) Murex
13 3 (0.69%) Sybase