Git Contracts in the Midlands

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 60 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +11 -6 -6
Contract jobs citing Git 53 62 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.77% 2.25% 3.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.54% 24.03% 25.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 93
10th Percentile £367 £341 £370
25th Percentile £456 £356 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £358 £538
Median % change year-on-year +39.66% -33.46% +7.60%
75th Percentile £532 £463 £540
90th Percentile £575 £645 £698
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 258 258 465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.48% 9.36% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 187 361
10th Percentile £313 £260 £290
25th Percentile £410 £357 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £480
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -8.33% +1.05%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £550
90th Percentile £627 £560 £638
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 4
10th Percentile £22.01 £10.50 £33.21
25th Percentile £27.71 £43.88 £35.49
Median hourly rate £37.85 £56.25 £49.25
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% +14.21% +26.28%
75th Percentile £48.61 £58.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £54.70 - £66.13
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 the Midlands

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Git in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -8 33 £506 +40.95% 85
East Midlands +23 20 £483 +35.53% 35
Git
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 5 (9.43%) Confluence
2 3 (5.66%) Moodle
3 2 (3.77%) JBoss
3 2 (3.77%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.89%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) AWS
1 20 (37.74%) Azure
2 12 (22.64%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.43%) AWS CodeBuild
4 4 (7.55%) GCP
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon SQS
5 3 (5.66%) AWS KMS
5 3 (5.66%) Route 53
6 2 (3.77%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.89%) Apigee
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.89%) Datadog
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub
7 1 (1.89%) npm
7 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) DHCP
1 2 (3.77%) DNS
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
1 2 (3.77%) HTTP
1 2 (3.77%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (3.77%) SAN
1 2 (3.77%) SSL
1 2 (3.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (15.09%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (15.09%) Relational Database
2 6 (11.32%) MySQL
3 5 (9.43%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (5.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.66%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.66%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.77%) Big Data
6 2 (3.77%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.89%) Power BI
7 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 18 (33.96%) Jenkins
2 15 (28.30%) JIRA
3 9 (16.98%) SonarQube
4 7 (13.21%) Maven
5 6 (11.32%) Postman
6 5 (9.43%) Bitbucket Server
7 4 (7.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (5.66%) Chocolatey
8 3 (5.66%) DbUnit
8 3 (5.66%) GitLab
8 3 (5.66%) JMeter
8 3 (5.66%) jMock
8 3 (5.66%) JUnit
8 3 (5.66%) Mockito
8 3 (5.66%) PHPUnit
8 3 (5.66%) Plastic SCM
8 3 (5.66%) Selenium
8 3 (5.66%) TeamCity
8 3 (5.66%) TestNG
8 3 (5.66%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (18.87%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.43%) Finance
4 3 (5.66%) Games
4 3 (5.66%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.89%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 23 (43.40%) Developer
2 10 (18.87%) Senior
3 7 (13.21%) Senior Developer
4 6 (11.32%) Data Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (11.32%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Android Developer
5 5 (9.43%) Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Games Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Java Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Moodle Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Denodo Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (28.30%) RESTful
2 10 (18.87%) .NET
2 10 (18.87%) REST
3 6 (11.32%) React
4 5 (9.43%) Android Jetpack
4 5 (9.43%) Jetpack Compose
4 5 (9.43%) Spring Boot
5 4 (7.55%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.55%) HTML
5 4 (7.55%) JSON
5 4 (7.55%) Spring
6 3 (5.66%) ActiveMQ
6 3 (5.66%) Bootstrap
6 3 (5.66%) CSS
6 3 (5.66%) Hibernate
6 3 (5.66%) JPA
6 3 (5.66%) SOAP
6 3 (5.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
6 3 (5.66%) Web Services
6 3 (5.66%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Mobile App
2 4 (7.55%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.66%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.66%) e-Learning
3 3 (5.66%) VLE
4 2 (3.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.77%) FPGA
4 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.77%) VHDL
5 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.89%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Linux
2 7 (13.21%) Windows
3 5 (9.43%) Android
4 4 (7.55%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.77%) CentOS
5 2 (3.77%) Debian
5 2 (3.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.77%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.89%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (60.38%) Agile
2 28 (52.83%) DevOps
3 26 (49.06%) CI/CD
4 15 (28.30%) Microservices
4 15 (28.30%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (22.64%) Scrum
6 11 (20.75%) Test Automation
7 9 (16.98%) TDD
8 8 (15.09%) Code Quality
8 8 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (15.09%) Full-Stack Development
9 7 (13.21%) Open Source
10 6 (11.32%) Data Management
10 6 (11.32%) Software Engineering
10 6 (11.32%) Technical Leadership
10 6 (11.32%) Unit Testing
11 5 (9.43%) Computer Science
11 5 (9.43%) ITIL
11 5 (9.43%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) Python
2 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
3 14 (26.42%) SQL
4 12 (22.64%) C#
5 7 (13.21%) TypeScript
6 6 (11.32%) Java
7 5 (9.43%) Kotlin
7 5 (9.43%) PHP
7 5 (9.43%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.66%) Bash
8 3 (5.66%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.77%) Go
9 2 (3.77%) Perl
9 2 (3.77%) PL/SQL
9 2 (3.77%) Ruby
9 2 (3.77%) Tcl
10 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (24.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (18.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (13.21%) Degree
4 3 (5.66%) CEH
4 3 (5.66%) CISSP
4 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (5.66%) DV Cleared
4 3 (5.66%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.98%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.89%) Data Quality
System Software
1 21 (39.62%) Docker
2 3 (5.66%) Postfix
3 2 (3.77%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.89%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (1.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (15.09%) Terraform
3 5 (9.43%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) Kibana
4 3 (5.66%) Grafana
4 3 (5.66%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.77%) Nessus
5 2 (3.77%) Progress Chef
5 2 (3.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Oracle
2 3 (5.66%) Atlassian
2 3 (5.66%) Databricks
2 3 (5.66%) Denodo
2 3 (5.66%) Jaspersoft
2 3 (5.66%) ServiceNow
2 3 (5.66%) Splunk
3 2 (3.77%) AppDynamics
3 2 (3.77%) Perforce
3 2 (3.77%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.77%) Sophos
3 2 (3.77%) VMware