Git Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Git Distributed Version Control System
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 21 -
Rank change year-on-year -7 - -
Contract jobs citing Git 16 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 6.04% 4.65% -
As % of the Development Applications category 23.19% 17.39% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 0
10th Percentile £503 £319 -
25th Percentile £520 £389 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £448 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.91% - -
75th Percentile £600 £591 -
90th Percentile £620 £616 -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £550 £425 -
% change year-on-year +29.41% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £36.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 69 46 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 26.04% 26.74% 9.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 27 6
10th Percentile £382 £320 £378
25th Percentile £425 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £448
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -5.03% -18.64%
75th Percentile £575 £480 £475
90th Percentile £599 £595 £513
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £500 £425 £448
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.03% -18.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £37.70 - -
25th Percentile £40.25 - -
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
75th Percentile £53.25 - -
90th Percentile £54.30 - -
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £48.00 - -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Git job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Git

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 9 (56.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 14 (87.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub
2 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (12.50%) Serverless
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) Pulumi
3 1 (6.25%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 4 (25.00%) MySQL
1 4 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 4 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Spark SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) GitLab
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (12.50%) Mocha
3 2 (12.50%) Postman
3 2 (12.50%) REST Assured
4 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (81.25%) Public Sector
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (18.75%) Lead
4 2 (12.50%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Backend Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Lead Data Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Node.js Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Python Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Node.js
2 5 (31.25%) Spring
3 4 (25.00%) RESTful
4 3 (18.75%) REST
4 3 (18.75%) Spring Boot
4 3 (18.75%) Spring MVC
4 3 (18.75%) Web Services
5 2 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 2 (12.50%) Jest
6 1 (6.25%) PySpark
6 1 (6.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 11 (68.75%) CI/CD
3 8 (50.00%) DevOps
4 7 (43.75%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 4 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
6 4 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (25.00%) Microservices
6 4 (25.00%) MVC
6 4 (25.00%) TDD
7 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
7 3 (18.75%) SFIA
8 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 2 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 2 (12.50%) Data Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) DevSecOps
8 2 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (12.50%) Observability
8 2 (12.50%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (43.75%) Python
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 4 (25.00%) Bash
3 4 (25.00%) Go
3 4 (25.00%) Perl
4 1 (6.25%) Bicep
4 1 (6.25%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 11 (68.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (43.75%) Kubernetes
1 7 (43.75%) Terraform
2 4 (25.00%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks