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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 40 79
Rank change year-on-year -6 +39 -17
Contract jobs citing Git 104 103 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.20% 3.88% 2.28%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.68% 36.65% 21.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 68 44
10th Percentile £340 £350 £357
25th Percentile £392 £358 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £445 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.74% -11.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £518 £612 £540
90th Percentile £575 £713 £688
England median daily rate £490 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -9.26% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £67.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% -2.99% +3.08%

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 339 281 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.70% 10.57% 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 254 207 260
10th Percentile £270 £338 £300
25th Percentile £363 £366 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £455 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -4.21% -4.04%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £550
90th Percentile £575 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
10th Percentile £21.86 £37.20 -
25th Percentile £27.34 £55.63 £31.69
Median hourly rate £37.35 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year -33.60% +68.49% -29.72%
75th Percentile £48.24 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile £54.25 £65.25 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +18.18%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -18 59 £488 +8.33% 106
East Midlands +14 45 £415 -6.74% 71
Git
England

Git
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 17 (16.35%) Confluence
2 6 (5.77%) JBoss
3 5 (4.81%) nginx
4 4 (3.85%) Apache Spark
4 4 (3.85%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.88%) Apache
5 3 (2.88%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (2.88%) CICS
5 3 (2.88%) Moodle
5 3 (2.88%) Mule
5 3 (2.88%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (2.88%) SAS
6 2 (1.92%) OpenStack
6 2 (1.92%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.96%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (4.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 1 (0.96%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.96%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 54 (51.92%) AWS
2 29 (27.88%) Amazon S3
3 27 (25.96%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (24.04%) Azure
5 23 (22.12%) AWS KMS
6 22 (21.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 15 (14.42%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (14.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 14 (13.46%) Amazon ELB
8 14 (13.46%) Route 53
9 12 (11.54%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (8.65%) Amazon Glacier
11 6 (5.77%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (4.81%) Amazon EKS
12 5 (4.81%) AWS CodeBuild
12 5 (4.81%) GitHub
12 5 (4.81%) Microsoft 365
12 5 (4.81%) OpenShift
13 4 (3.85%) GCP
14 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.42%) HTTP
2 14 (13.46%) SMTP
3 13 (12.50%) DNS
3 13 (12.50%) SSH
4 12 (11.54%) Firewall
4 12 (11.54%) FTP
5 5 (4.81%) IMAP
5 5 (4.81%) OpenLDAP
6 4 (3.85%) SSL
7 3 (2.88%) HTTPS
8 2 (1.92%) DMZ
8 2 (1.92%) Internet
9 1 (0.96%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (25.96%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (24.04%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (16.35%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (9.62%) DynamoDB
4 10 (9.62%) Relational Database
5 7 (6.73%) NoSQL
6 6 (5.77%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (4.81%) Big Data
7 5 (4.81%) MongoDB
7 5 (4.81%) MySQL
7 5 (4.81%) Oracle Database
8 4 (3.85%) DB2
9 3 (2.88%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.88%) MariaDB
9 3 (2.88%) Pentaho
10 2 (1.92%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.92%) HBase
10 2 (1.92%) Metadata
10 2 (1.92%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 53 (50.96%) Jenkins
2 31 (29.81%) JIRA
3 25 (24.04%) SonarQube
4 23 (22.12%) Maven
5 15 (14.42%) Bitbucket Server
6 14 (13.46%) Vagrant
7 13 (12.50%) JUnit
8 9 (8.65%) GitLab
8 9 (8.65%) Mockito
8 9 (8.65%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (6.73%) Bitbucket
9 7 (6.73%) DbUnit
9 7 (6.73%) jMock
9 7 (6.73%) Postman
9 7 (6.73%) Selenium
10 5 (4.81%) REST Assured
11 4 (3.85%) Gradle
11 4 (3.85%) IntelliJ
11 4 (3.85%) Subversion
11 4 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (21.15%) Public Sector
2 18 (17.31%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.65%) Finance
5 4 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.88%) Games
7 2 (1.92%) Banking
7 2 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (48.08%) Developer
2 21 (20.19%) DevOps Engineer
2 21 (20.19%) Java Developer
3 14 (13.46%) AWS Engineer
4 11 (10.58%) Platform Engineer
5 10 (9.62%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 9 (8.65%) AWS DevOps
6 9 (8.65%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 8 (7.69%) Android Developer
8 7 (6.73%) Senior
9 6 (5.77%) Angular Developer
9 6 (5.77%) AWS Platform Engineer
9 6 (5.77%) Full-Stack Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Lead
9 6 (5.77%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.77%) Tester
10 5 (4.81%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 5 (4.81%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Lead Java Developer
11 4 (3.85%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (31.73%) RESTful
2 32 (30.77%) REST
3 26 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 23 (22.12%) Spring
5 20 (19.23%) Web Services
6 19 (18.27%) AngularJS
7 15 (14.42%) SOAP
7 15 (14.42%) Spring Batch
8 14 (13.46%) JPA
9 13 (12.50%) Spring Cloud
10 12 (11.54%) ActiveMQ
11 11 (10.58%) Bootstrap
11 11 (10.58%) CSS
11 11 (10.58%) HTML
11 11 (10.58%) React
12 10 (9.62%) Hibernate
13 9 (8.65%) .NET
13 9 (8.65%) Spring Integration
14 8 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
14 8 (7.69%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.54%) Replication
2 9 (8.65%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (8.65%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.88%) e-Learning
3 3 (2.88%) FPGA
3 3 (2.88%) Mainframe
3 3 (2.88%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.88%) State Machine
3 3 (2.88%) VHDL
3 3 (2.88%) VLE
3 3 (2.88%) VSAM
4 2 (1.92%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.92%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.96%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.96%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.81%) Linux
2 18 (17.31%) Windows
3 14 (13.46%) Amazon Linux
3 14 (13.46%) VMS
4 9 (8.65%) Android
5 4 (3.85%) Ubuntu
5 4 (3.85%) Windows Server
6 3 (2.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.88%) Unix
7 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (58.65%) CI/CD
1 61 (58.65%) DevOps
2 51 (49.04%) Agile
3 34 (32.69%) Microservices
4 28 (26.92%) Scrum
5 23 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (21.15%) TDD
6 22 (21.15%) Test Automation
7 21 (20.19%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (17.31%) Platform Engineering
9 17 (16.35%) Cloud Security
9 17 (16.35%) Configuration Management
9 17 (16.35%) Containerisation
9 17 (16.35%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (14.42%) Code Quality
11 14 (13.46%) Change Management
11 14 (13.46%) Unit Testing
12 12 (11.54%) Design Patterns
12 12 (11.54%) Patch Management
13 10 (9.62%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (40.38%) Java
2 37 (35.58%) SQL
3 32 (30.77%) Python
4 20 (19.23%) JavaScript
5 18 (17.31%) PowerShell
6 16 (15.38%) Groovy
7 12 (11.54%) Perl
8 11 (10.58%) C#
9 10 (9.62%) TypeScript
10 8 (7.69%) Kotlin
11 6 (5.77%) Bash
12 5 (4.81%) PL/SQL
13 3 (2.88%) COBOL
13 3 (2.88%) Go
13 3 (2.88%) JCL
13 3 (2.88%) PHP
13 3 (2.88%) Scala
14 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
14 2 (1.92%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 37 (35.58%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.65%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.65%) Degree
4 6 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.77%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.85%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (2.88%) CEH
6 3 (2.88%) CISSP
6 3 (2.88%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.96%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.69%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 56 (53.85%) Docker
2 15 (14.42%) Active Directory
3 12 (11.54%) DFS Replication
3 12 (11.54%) Postfix
4 5 (4.81%) Dovecot
4 5 (4.81%) Squid
5 2 (1.92%) HDFS
6 1 (0.96%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 28 (26.92%) Terraform
2 26 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 24 (23.08%) Grafana
3 24 (23.08%) Prometheus
4 9 (8.65%) Ansible
5 6 (5.77%) Kibana
6 5 (4.81%) Nessus
7 4 (3.85%) Progress Chef
8 3 (2.88%) Proxmox
9 2 (1.92%) Hadoop YARN
9 2 (1.92%) Oozie
10 1 (0.96%) Argo
10 1 (0.96%) Istio
10 1 (0.96%) Podman
10 1 (0.96%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (16.35%) Oracle
1 17 (16.35%) ServiceNow
2 12 (11.54%) Jaspersoft
3 7 (6.73%) Atlassian
4 5 (4.81%) Microsoft
4 5 (4.81%) Red Hat
5 4 (3.85%) Splunk
6 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
6 3 (2.88%) Checkmarx
6 3 (2.88%) Databricks
6 3 (2.88%) Denodo
6 3 (2.88%) Talend
7 1 (0.96%) Adobe
7 1 (0.96%) Cloudera
7 1 (0.96%) Perforce
7 1 (0.96%) Xilinx