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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 61 59
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 -13
Contract jobs citing Git 474 639 1,004
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.78% 3.63% 4.00%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.46% 26.53% 25.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 434 701
10th Percentile £352 £375 £413
25th Percentile £413 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £725
90th Percentile £780 £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 6 14
10th Percentile - £49.63 £55.00
25th Percentile - £55.78 £58.31
Median hourly rate - £67.88 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +0.69%
75th Percentile - £71.88 £78.75
90th Percentile - £75.31 £88.97
England median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £68.67
% change year-on-year -12.10% -8.99% +4.60%

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 1,938 2,409 3,960
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.45% 13.69% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,720 2,873
10th Percentile £350 £363 £413
25th Percentile £421 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £650 £671 £718
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 9 27 35
10th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £51.35
25th Percentile £27.50 £25.99 £54.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -50.00% +68.54%
75th Percentile £47.50 £69.13 £82.50
90th Percentile £71.75 £71.50 £90.00
England median hourly rate £59.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -9.23% +4.84% +23.75%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 68 £575 +1.77% 220
South London -10 14 £531 +4.06% 28
West London +3 6 £407 -4.29% 72
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 (7.59%) Confluence
2 28 (5.91%) Apache Spark
3 26 (5.49%) Apache
4 18 (3.80%) nginx
5 9 (1.90%) Jupyter
6 8 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.48%) JBoss
8 5 (1.05%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.63%) Camunda
9 3 (0.63%) SharePoint
9 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.42%) CMS
10 2 (0.42%) IIS
11 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 1 (0.21%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.21%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.21%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.21%) Sketch
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.27%) Shopify
2 5 (1.05%) Endur
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 178 (37.55%) AWS
2 126 (26.58%) Azure
3 65 (13.71%) GitHub
4 43 (9.07%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (8.65%) GCP
6 39 (8.23%) Serverless
7 37 (7.81%) AWS CloudFormation
8 31 (6.54%) Power Platform
9 28 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
10 25 (5.27%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (4.85%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (4.85%) Amazon S3
12 20 (4.22%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.59%) Amazon SQS
14 14 (2.95%) dbt
15 13 (2.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (2.32%) Datadog
16 11 (2.32%) npm
17 9 (1.90%) SaaS
17 9 (1.90%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.59%) DNS
2 11 (2.32%) Firewall
2 11 (2.32%) TCP/IP
3 10 (2.11%) HTTP
4 8 (1.69%) VPN
5 7 (1.48%) SSH
6 5 (1.05%) LAN
7 4 (0.84%) DHCP
7 4 (0.84%) Kerberos
8 3 (0.63%) Internet
8 3 (0.63%) Multicast
8 3 (0.63%) Network Security
8 3 (0.63%) VLAN
8 3 (0.63%) WAN
9 2 (0.42%) NAS
9 2 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
9 2 (0.42%) Reverse Proxy
9 2 (0.42%) SAN
9 2 (0.42%) VXLAN
9 2 (0.42%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (8.02%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (5.91%) SQL Server
3 25 (5.27%) Power BI
4 24 (5.06%) Big Data
5 18 (3.80%) NoSQL
5 18 (3.80%) Tableau
6 14 (2.95%) MySQL
6 14 (2.95%) Relational Database
7 13 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (2.32%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.32%) GIS
8 11 (2.32%) Redis
9 10 (2.11%) Delta Lake
9 10 (2.11%) Elasticsearch
9 10 (2.11%) Geospatial Data
10 9 (1.90%) Data Lake
10 9 (1.90%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.69%) MongoDB
12 7 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.27%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 120 (25.32%) Jenkins
2 92 (19.41%) JIRA
3 39 (8.23%) Bitbucket
4 38 (8.02%) GitLab
5 35 (7.38%) Maven
6 31 (6.54%) SonarQube
7 29 (6.12%) JUnit
8 25 (5.27%) TeamCity
9 23 (4.85%) Selenium
10 21 (4.43%) Subversion
11 17 (3.59%) Postman
11 17 (3.59%) REST Assured
11 17 (3.59%) webpack
12 15 (3.16%) Artifactory
13 11 (2.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 11 (2.32%) Sonatype Nexus
14 10 (2.11%) Cypress.io
14 10 (2.11%) IntelliJ
14 10 (2.11%) Mockito
15 9 (1.90%) Cucumber
General
1 140 (29.54%) Social Skills
2 138 (29.11%) Finance
3 84 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (16.24%) Banking
5 43 (9.07%) Investment Banking
6 34 (7.17%) Public Sector
7 19 (4.01%) Front Office
7 19 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.95%) Marketing
10 13 (2.74%) Financial Institution
11 11 (2.32%) Retail
12 9 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.05%) Back Office
13 5 (1.05%) Games
14 4 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (0.63%) Military
16 2 (0.42%) Advertising
16 2 (0.42%) Automotive
16 2 (0.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 208 (43.88%) Developer
2 56 (11.81%) Lead
3 49 (10.34%) Senior
4 48 (10.13%) Java Developer
5 32 (6.75%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (6.54%) Python Developer
7 29 (6.12%) Data Engineer
8 28 (5.91%) Senior Developer
9 23 (4.85%) Software Engineer
10 21 (4.43%) AWS Developer
11 19 (4.01%) Full-Stack Developer
12 18 (3.80%) Technical Leader
13 16 (3.38%) UI Developer
14 15 (3.16%) Analyst
14 15 (3.16%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.95%) JavaScript Developer
15 14 (2.95%) Python Engineer
16 13 (2.74%) Architect
16 13 (2.74%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (20.04%) React
2 81 (17.09%) CSS
3 75 (15.82%) HTML
4 71 (14.98%) REST
5 65 (13.71%) RESTful
6 51 (10.76%) AngularJS
6 51 (10.76%) Node.js
7 45 (9.49%) .NET
8 37 (7.81%) HTML5
9 36 (7.59%) Spring
9 36 (7.59%) Spring Boot
10 30 (6.33%) JSON
11 26 (5.49%) Kafka
11 26 (5.49%) Web Services
12 23 (4.85%) Redux
12 23 (4.85%) Sass
12 23 (4.85%) Vue
13 22 (4.64%) CSS3
14 20 (4.22%) SOAP
15 19 (4.01%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 38 (8.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (6.54%) Algorithms
3 23 (4.85%) Data Structures
3 23 (4.85%) Distributed Systems
4 22 (4.64%) Hedge funds
5 17 (3.59%) Mobile App
6 16 (3.38%) Product Ownership
7 15 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
7 15 (3.16%) Onboarding
7 15 (3.16%) Public Cloud
8 13 (2.74%) Cloud Native
8 13 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (2.53%) Derivative
9 12 (2.53%) Linux Command Line
10 9 (1.90%) Market Risk
10 9 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.69%) Equities
11 8 (1.69%) Replication
12 7 (1.48%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 111 (23.42%) Linux
2 38 (8.02%) Windows
3 34 (7.17%) Unix
4 19 (4.01%) Android
5 13 (2.74%) Windows Server
6 12 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (2.32%) Apple iOS
8 5 (1.05%) Solaris
9 2 (0.42%) CentOS
9 2 (0.42%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.21%) AIX
10 1 (0.21%) Debian
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.21%) VMS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (48.73%) CI/CD
2 194 (40.93%) Agile
3 154 (32.49%) DevOps
4 121 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
5 84 (17.72%) Scrum
5 84 (17.72%) Test Automation
6 74 (15.61%) Software Engineering
7 68 (14.35%) Microservices
8 55 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
9 52 (10.97%) Clean Code
10 49 (10.34%) Mentoring
11 48 (10.13%) Continuous Integration
12 46 (9.70%) Containerisation
13 43 (9.07%) OO
14 42 (8.86%) Continuous Improvement
15 41 (8.65%) Analytics
16 40 (8.44%) TDD
17 39 (8.23%) Full-Stack Development
18 38 (8.02%) Data Pipeline
19 35 (7.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 218 (45.99%) Python
2 173 (36.50%) Java
3 149 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 122 (25.74%) SQL
5 68 (14.35%) C#
6 65 (13.71%) TypeScript
7 57 (12.03%) C++
8 46 (9.70%) Bash
9 34 (7.17%) PowerShell
10 20 (4.22%) Go
10 20 (4.22%) Shell Script
11 17 (3.59%) Groovy
12 14 (2.95%) C
12 14 (2.95%) Scala
13 12 (2.53%) Kotlin
13 12 (2.53%) Rust
14 10 (2.11%) Perl
14 10 (2.11%) PHP
15 9 (1.90%) Ruby
16 7 (1.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 72 (15.19%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.02%) Degree
4 25 (5.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (3.16%) AWS Certification
6 12 (2.53%) Master's Degree
7 11 (2.32%) DV Cleared
8 4 (0.84%) CCNP
8 4 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (0.84%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.63%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.63%) CISSP
10 2 (0.42%) CCNA
10 2 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.42%) JNCIA
10 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.42%) OCP
10 2 (0.42%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.21%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.65%) QA
2 22 (4.64%) Accessibility
3 17 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 11 (2.32%) GDPR
5 7 (1.48%) WCAG
6 5 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.63%) EMIR
7 3 (0.63%) HL7
7 3 (0.63%) MiFID
8 2 (0.42%) DICOM
8 2 (0.42%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 105 (22.15%) Docker
2 12 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Firmware
5 2 (0.42%) FreeRADIUS
5 2 (0.42%) iptables
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.42%) zsh
6 1 (0.21%) Ceph
6 1 (0.21%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.21%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.21%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.21%) Postfix
6 1 (0.21%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.21%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 114 (24.05%) Kubernetes
2 86 (18.14%) Terraform
3 72 (15.19%) Ansible
4 26 (5.49%) Puppet
5 19 (4.01%) Packer
6 17 (3.59%) Prometheus
7 14 (2.95%) Consul
7 14 (2.95%) Grafana
8 11 (2.32%) Progress Chef
9 6 (1.27%) Nagios
10 5 (1.05%) EMC NetWorker
10 5 (1.05%) Istio
10 5 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.05%) Tivoli
10 5 (1.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 4 (0.84%) Control-M
11 4 (0.84%) Podman
11 4 (0.84%) QRadar
12 3 (0.63%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.63%) Netcool
Vendors
1 55 (11.60%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.06%) Databricks
3 23 (4.85%) Splunk
4 20 (4.22%) Oracle
5 17 (3.59%) VMware
6 16 (3.38%) Google
7 13 (2.74%) Red Hat
8 12 (2.53%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.90%) IBM
10 8 (1.69%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.48%) Cisco
11 7 (1.48%) Dynatrace
12 6 (1.27%) Adobe
12 6 (1.27%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.05%) EMC
13 5 (1.05%) OpenLink
13 5 (1.05%) Qualys
13 5 (1.05%) Salesforce
13 5 (1.05%) SAP
14 4 (0.84%) SaltStack