Git Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 46 61
Rank change year-on-year -46 +15 +9
Contract jobs citing Git 183 175 140
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 2.53% 4.56% 3.04%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.10% 28.36% 25.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 133 98
10th Percentile £369 £350 £375
25th Percentile £401 £375 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.51% -9.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £513 £550
90th Percentile £638 £575 £645
England median daily rate £500 £498 £535
% change year-on-year +0.50% -7.01% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 3
10th Percentile £36.80 - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - -
Median hourly rate £46.80 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -33.14% +51.58% -
75th Percentile £95.00 - £59.34
90th Percentile - - £67.24
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -2.53%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,011 617 542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.00% 16.08% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 460 370
10th Percentile £350 £337 £363
25th Percentile £400 £387 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -3.16% -8.65%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £573
90th Percentile £640 £604 £625
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 9 13
10th Percentile £35.00 £52.14 £29.91
25th Percentile £46.80 £70.00 £37.55
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +58.02% -0.65%
75th Percentile - £77.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £74.20 £80.05 £68.20
England median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +4.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Git job vacancy trend in the North of England

Git
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the North of England

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the North of England

Git
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
North West -42 86 £488 +21.27% 47
Yorkshire -42 77 £475 -1.30% 27
North East -23 27 £425 -15.00% 30
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 19 (10.38%) Confluence
2 10 (5.46%) Apache Spark
3 8 (4.37%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (3.83%) Apache
5 3 (1.64%) Jupyter
6 2 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.09%) CMS
6 2 (1.09%) SAS
7 1 (0.55%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.55%) Camunda
7 1 (0.55%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.55%) nginx
7 1 (0.55%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.55%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Chatbot
1 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.55%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 65 (35.52%) AWS
2 57 (31.15%) Azure
3 43 (23.50%) GCP
3 43 (23.50%) GitHub
4 23 (12.57%) Serverless
5 22 (12.02%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (11.48%) GitHub Actions
7 15 (8.20%) AWS Lambda
8 12 (6.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 10 (5.46%) Amazon S3
9 10 (5.46%) OCI
10 9 (4.92%) Amazon SQS
10 9 (4.92%) dbt
11 8 (4.37%) Cloud Run
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
12 7 (3.83%) Amazon EKS
12 7 (3.83%) Apigee
12 7 (3.83%) Power Platform
13 6 (3.28%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.83%) Network Security
2 6 (3.28%) 3GPP
2 6 (3.28%) Firewall
2 6 (3.28%) RTP
2 6 (3.28%) Wireshark
3 4 (2.19%) DNS
4 3 (1.64%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.09%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.09%) VPN
5 2 (1.09%) WAN
5 2 (1.09%) Wireless
6 1 (0.55%) DHCP
6 1 (0.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (14.21%) Relational Database
2 25 (13.66%) SQL Server
3 20 (10.93%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (9.29%) MongoDB
5 16 (8.74%) RDBMS
6 15 (8.20%) Oracle Database
7 11 (6.01%) Amazon RDS
8 9 (4.92%) MySQL
9 8 (4.37%) NoSQL
9 8 (4.37%) Oracle Exadata
10 7 (3.83%) Power BI
10 7 (3.83%) Redis
10 7 (3.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (3.28%) DynamoDB
12 5 (2.73%) Delta Lake
12 5 (2.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 4 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (2.19%) Hazelcast
13 4 (2.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (1.64%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 62 (33.88%) Jenkins
2 42 (22.95%) GitLab
3 31 (16.94%) JIRA
4 10 (5.46%) Cucumber
4 10 (5.46%) Gradle
4 10 (5.46%) Maven
5 9 (4.92%) JUnit
5 9 (4.92%) Postman
5 9 (4.92%) Selenium
5 9 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (4.37%) Claude Code
7 6 (3.28%) Flyway
7 6 (3.28%) TeamCity
8 5 (2.73%) Cypress.io
8 5 (2.73%) SonarQube
8 5 (2.73%) Visual Studio
9 4 (2.19%) Mocha
9 4 (2.19%) MSBuild
9 4 (2.19%) REST Assured
9 4 (2.19%) Snyk
General
1 42 (22.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (11.48%) Finance
3 16 (8.74%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.74%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.65%) Banking
5 7 (3.83%) Retail
6 6 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (2.73%) Aviation
7 5 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (2.73%) Fire and Rescue
7 5 (2.73%) Police
8 4 (2.19%) Legal
8 4 (2.19%) Military
9 3 (1.64%) Law
10 2 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Automotive
11 1 (0.55%) Marketing
11 1 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (28.42%) Senior
2 47 (25.68%) Developer
3 25 (13.66%) DevOps Engineer
4 18 (9.84%) Java Developer
4 18 (9.84%) Senior Developer
4 18 (9.84%) Software Engineer
5 14 (7.65%) Data Engineer
6 12 (6.56%) Lead
7 11 (6.01%) GCP Engineer
7 11 (6.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (5.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 10 (5.46%) GCP DevOps
8 10 (5.46%) Software Developer
9 9 (4.92%) Architect
9 9 (4.92%) GCP DevOps Engineer
10 8 (4.37%) Backend Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Backend Developer
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.37%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (19.13%) REST
2 34 (18.58%) React
3 32 (17.49%) Spring
4 30 (16.39%) Kafka
4 30 (16.39%) Spring Boot
5 24 (13.11%) .NET
6 23 (12.57%) RESTful
7 17 (9.29%) Node.js
8 15 (8.20%) JSON
9 11 (6.01%) .NET Core
9 11 (6.01%) PySpark
10 10 (5.46%) HTML
10 10 (5.46%) Next.js
10 10 (5.46%) Playwright
11 9 (4.92%) AngularJS
11 9 (4.92%) OAuth
11 9 (4.92%) OpenTelemetry
11 9 (4.92%) RabbitMQ
12 8 (4.37%) GraphQL
12 8 (4.37%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 32 (17.49%) Cloud Native
2 16 (8.74%) Public Cloud
3 9 (4.92%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (4.92%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (2.73%) Robotics
6 4 (2.19%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.64%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.64%) Clustering
7 3 (1.64%) Culture of Ownership
7 3 (1.64%) Replication
8 2 (1.09%) BYOD
8 2 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (16.94%) Linux
2 8 (4.37%) AIX
3 3 (1.64%) Unix
4 2 (1.09%) Windows
5 1 (0.55%) Android
5 1 (0.55%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.55%) VMS
5 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (78.14%) CI/CD
2 108 (59.02%) Agile
3 107 (58.47%) DevOps
4 73 (39.89%) Infrastructure as Code
5 58 (31.69%) Test Automation
6 48 (26.23%) Microservices
7 42 (22.95%) Software Engineering
8 37 (20.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 36 (19.67%) Observability
10 33 (18.03%) Problem-Solving
11 31 (16.94%) Migration
12 30 (16.39%) Containerisation
12 30 (16.39%) Scrum
13 29 (15.85%) AI
14 28 (15.30%) Code Quality
15 22 (12.02%) Full-Stack Development
16 20 (10.93%) Analytics
16 20 (10.93%) Data Modelling
16 20 (10.93%) Event-Driven
16 20 (10.93%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 67 (36.61%) Python
1 67 (36.61%) SQL
2 47 (25.68%) Java
3 28 (15.30%) C#
4 24 (13.11%) JavaScript
5 21 (11.48%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.84%) Bash
6 18 (9.84%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.83%) Bicep
8 3 (1.64%) Go
8 3 (1.64%) Groovy
8 3 (1.64%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.64%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.64%) Scala
8 3 (1.64%) VB
8 3 (1.64%) VB6
9 2 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (1.09%) T-SQL
9 2 (1.09%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (16.39%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.38%) SC Cleared
3 17 (9.29%) Degree
4 15 (8.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 11 (6.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.64%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.09%) ISTQB
7 2 (1.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 1 (0.55%) CCIE
8 1 (0.55%) CCNP
8 1 (0.55%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.55%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (10.93%) QA
2 8 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.83%) Accessibility
4 6 (3.28%) WCAG
5 2 (1.09%) GRC
5 2 (1.09%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.55%) GDPR
6 1 (0.55%) PSD2
6 1 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.55%) SEPA
6 1 (0.55%) SLA
System Software
1 65 (35.52%) Docker
2 8 (4.37%) Oracle RAC
3 6 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.64%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.55%) zsh
Systems Management
1 84 (45.90%) Terraform
2 58 (31.69%) Kubernetes
3 38 (20.77%) Ansible
4 26 (14.21%) Grafana
5 24 (13.11%) Prometheus
6 8 (4.37%) Data Guard
6 8 (4.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 5 (2.73%) Argo
7 5 (2.73%) Istio
8 3 (1.64%) Foglight
8 3 (1.64%) Rancher
9 2 (1.09%) Apache Ranger
9 2 (1.09%) Consul
9 2 (1.09%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.55%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (10.93%) Microsoft
2 18 (9.84%) Databricks
2 18 (9.84%) ServiceNow
3 17 (9.29%) Oracle
4 9 (4.92%) Google
5 5 (2.73%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.19%) Cisco
6 4 (2.19%) Splunk
7 2 (1.09%) Adobe
7 2 (1.09%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.09%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.09%) Informatica
7 2 (1.09%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.09%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.09%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.09%) SAP
7 2 (1.09%) Sitecore
7 2 (1.09%) Solace
8 1 (0.55%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.55%) VMware