Git Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Git Distributed Version Control System
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 57
Rank change year-on-year -16 +10 -14
Contract jobs citing Git 65 39 28
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 3.19% 3.84% 2.38%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.89% 25.32% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 32 21
10th Percentile £375 £361 £356
25th Percentile £406 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £488 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.03% +21.88% -20.00%
75th Percentile £592 £584 £575
90th Percentile £675 £648 £650
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £77.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -28.57% +51.58% -

All Development Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 225 154 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 11.03% 15.17% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 116 82
10th Percentile £376 £339 £324
25th Percentile £413 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +8.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £550
90th Percentile £674 £645 £599
North West median daily rate £500 £425 £448
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.03% -12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 1 1
10th Percentile £24.15 - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 £70.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +47.37% -30.91%
75th Percentile £77.00 - £48.75
90th Percentile £81.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 £63.40 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.36% +37.29% -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Git job vacancy trend in Manchester

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Manchester

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in Manchester over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in Manchester

Git
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Bury - 3 £744 - 1
Stockport - 2 - -
Git
North West

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (6.15%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.08%) SAS
4 1 (1.54%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.54%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.54%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.08%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 29 (44.62%) AWS
2 19 (29.23%) GitHub
3 17 (26.15%) Azure
4 15 (23.08%) GCP
5 12 (18.46%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (9.23%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon ECS
8 4 (6.15%) Amazon SQS
8 4 (6.15%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (6.15%) dbt
8 4 (6.15%) SaaS
8 4 (6.15%) Serverless
9 3 (4.62%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (4.62%) Anthropic Claude
9 3 (4.62%) Azure Stack
9 3 (4.62%) Google Gemini
9 3 (4.62%) OCI
9 3 (4.62%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Firewall
2 3 (4.62%) BGP
2 3 (4.62%) DNS
2 3 (4.62%) MPLS
2 3 (4.62%) OSPF
2 3 (4.62%) TCP/IP
2 3 (4.62%) VPN
3 2 (3.08%) DHCP
3 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.08%) VLAN
3 2 (3.08%) WAN
4 1 (1.54%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.54%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (1.54%) HTTP
4 1 (1.54%) Network Security
4 1 (1.54%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.54%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) NoSQL
2 7 (10.77%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.23%) MongoDB
3 6 (9.23%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (7.69%) MySQL
5 3 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.62%) Delta Lake
5 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 3 (4.62%) Looker
5 3 (4.62%) Semantic Layer
5 3 (4.62%) Snowflake Schema
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (3.08%) Data Vault
6 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
6 2 (3.08%) RDBMS
6 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.54%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 21 (32.31%) Jenkins
2 9 (13.85%) Cucumber
2 9 (13.85%) GitLab
2 9 (13.85%) JUnit
3 6 (9.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 5 (7.69%) Mockito
4 5 (7.69%) Selenium
4 5 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 4 (6.15%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.15%) Claude Code
5 4 (6.15%) Postman
6 3 (4.62%) Gradle
6 3 (4.62%) JIRA
6 3 (4.62%) REST Assured
7 2 (3.08%) Burp Suite
7 2 (3.08%) Gatling
7 2 (3.08%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.08%) Maven
8 1 (1.54%) git-flow
8 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (23.08%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Banking
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.15%) Retail
6 3 (4.62%) Military
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Developer
2 14 (21.54%) Senior
3 8 (12.31%) Software Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Java Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Architect
6 5 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
6 5 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Network Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Lead
7 4 (6.15%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (6.15%) Technical Leader
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) C# Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Architect
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (35.38%) REST
2 21 (32.31%) Terraform
3 16 (24.62%) React
4 15 (23.08%) Kafka
5 13 (20.00%) Spring
6 12 (18.46%) Node.js
7 10 (15.38%) JSON
8 9 (13.85%) RESTful
8 9 (13.85%) Spring Boot
9 7 (10.77%) Spring MVC
10 5 (7.69%) GraphQL
10 5 (7.69%) Next.js
10 5 (7.69%) Web Services
11 4 (6.15%) Hibernate
11 4 (6.15%) HTML
11 4 (6.15%) Vue
12 3 (4.62%) .NET
12 3 (4.62%) CSS
12 3 (4.62%) OAuth
12 3 (4.62%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 15 (23.08%) Cloud Native
2 6 (9.23%) AI Agents
2 6 (9.23%) Distributed Systems
3 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 5 (7.69%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Culture of Ownership
4 3 (4.62%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.08%) CMDB
5 2 (3.08%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.08%) PDA
5 2 (3.08%) PKI
5 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.00%) Linux
2 4 (6.15%) Unix
2 4 (6.15%) Windows
3 3 (4.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 41 (63.08%) Agile
3 33 (50.77%) DevOps
4 32 (49.23%) Test Automation
5 25 (38.46%) Software Engineering
6 24 (36.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 22 (33.85%) Microservices
8 20 (30.77%) AI
8 20 (30.77%) Observability
9 15 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (21.54%) Data Modelling
10 14 (21.54%) Full-Stack Development
11 13 (20.00%) Event-Driven
12 12 (18.46%) Event-Driven Architecture
13 11 (16.92%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (15.38%) Clean Code
14 10 (15.38%) Code Quality
14 10 (15.38%) Mentoring
14 10 (15.38%) SDLC
15 9 (13.85%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) SQL
2 23 (35.38%) Python
3 21 (32.31%) Java
4 15 (23.08%) JavaScript
5 12 (18.46%) TypeScript
6 7 (10.77%) C#
7 5 (7.69%) Bash
7 5 (7.69%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.62%) Go
9 2 (3.08%) Google Apps Script
9 2 (3.08%) Scala
9 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
10 1 (1.54%) Bicep
10 1 (1.54%) C++
10 1 (1.54%) SOQL
10 1 (1.54%) SOSL
10 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (16.92%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.08%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) CCIE
5 1 (1.54%) CCNP
5 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) QA
2 4 (6.15%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.62%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (49.23%) Docker
2 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.54%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 33 (50.77%) Kubernetes
2 10 (15.38%) Ansible
3 6 (9.23%) Grafana
3 6 (9.23%) Istio
3 6 (9.23%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (1.54%) Argo
5 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Google
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.23%) Databricks
4 5 (7.69%) Cisco
5 4 (6.15%) Oracle
5 4 (6.15%) Palo Alto
6 3 (4.62%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.62%) F5
6 3 (4.62%) Fortinet
6 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.08%) Arista
7 2 (3.08%) Informatica
7 2 (3.08%) Juniper
7 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
7 2 (3.08%) Splunk
8 1 (1.54%) Adobe
8 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.54%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.54%) SAP
8 1 (1.54%) VMware