Git Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Git Distributed Version Control System
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 30 31
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing Git 3 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.92% 0.59% 0.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 7.89% 11.11% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £458 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% -13.64% +27.54%
75th Percentile £483 £488 £575
90th Percentile £489 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £510
% change year-on-year - -11.76% -0.49%

All Development Application Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 38 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.62% 5.33% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 1
10th Percentile £320 £468 -
25th Percentile £425 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -13.64% +7.32%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £575
90th Percentile £695 - -
North West median daily rate £450 £447 £500
% change year-on-year +0.67% -10.60% -2.44%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Git job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 18 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
Liverpool -17 3 £469 -1.32% 6
Git
North West

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Core
1 1 (33.33%) Express.js
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) MERN Stack
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Microservices
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft