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 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 60 78
Rank change year-on-year +10 +18 -26
Contract jobs citing Git 223 115 119
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.81% 3.21% 2.55%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.14% 21.95% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 71 74
10th Percentile £334 £313 £402
25th Percentile £361 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.89% -5.94% -11.56%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £609
90th Percentile £600 £713 £689
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 27
10th Percentile £43.65 - £45.88
25th Percentile £55.13 - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - -4.29%
75th Percentile £77.88 - -
90th Percentile £80.05 £64.97 £63.75
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.74% -3.20% -3.85%

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 887 524 578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 19.13% 14.63% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 332 428
10th Percentile £325 £325 £354
25th Percentile £391 £393 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -5.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £540 £575 £598
90th Percentile £634 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 12 39
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - +0.16%
75th Percentile £65.13 £52.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £72.98 £75.28 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.84%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 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
Yorkshire +9 108 £473 -14.08% 68
North West +14 104 £425 +6.25% 125
North East -14 15 £531 +46.55% 21
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 15 (6.73%) JBoss
2 12 (5.38%) Apache
2 12 (5.38%) WebSphere
3 11 (4.93%) IIS
4 10 (4.48%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (4.48%) iPlanet
4 10 (4.48%) WebSphere Application Server
5 7 (3.14%) Confluence
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.45%) CMS
6 1 (0.45%) SAS
6 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 112 (50.22%) AWS
2 55 (24.66%) Azure
3 39 (17.49%) GitHub
4 38 (17.04%) GCP
5 35 (15.70%) Serverless
6 30 (13.45%) AWS Lambda
7 22 (9.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 21 (9.42%) Amazon SQS
9 20 (8.97%) Amazon EC2
10 14 (6.28%) Amazon S3
10 14 (6.28%) Azure DevOps
11 13 (5.83%) OpenShift
12 12 (5.38%) Amazon ECS
12 12 (5.38%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (4.93%) Apigee
13 11 (4.93%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (4.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (4.48%) npm
15 9 (4.04%) Datadog
16 7 (3.14%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.07%) Firewall
2 10 (4.48%) DNS
2 10 (4.48%) Kerberos
2 10 (4.48%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.59%) VPN
4 6 (2.69%) HTTP
4 6 (2.69%) SSL
5 4 (1.79%) HTTPS
5 4 (1.79%) Network Security
6 3 (1.35%) NAS
6 3 (1.35%) SAN
7 1 (0.45%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (13.00%) Relational Database
2 25 (11.21%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (9.42%) NoSQL
4 20 (8.97%) Oracle Database
5 14 (6.28%) Redis
6 13 (5.83%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (5.83%) MySQL
6 13 (5.83%) SQL Server
7 10 (4.48%) DynamoDB
7 10 (4.48%) RDBMS
8 8 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (3.59%) DocumentDB
9 6 (2.69%) Amazon Aurora
9 6 (2.69%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.69%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.24%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.79%) Data Lake
12 3 (1.35%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.90%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 89 (39.91%) Jenkins
2 38 (17.04%) GitLab
2 38 (17.04%) JIRA
3 26 (11.66%) SonarQube
4 16 (7.17%) Postman
5 15 (6.73%) Gradle
6 14 (6.28%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (5.83%) Bitbucket Server
7 13 (5.83%) CA Release Automation
8 12 (5.38%) Cucumber
9 11 (4.93%) JUnit
10 10 (4.48%) CircleCI
10 10 (4.48%) Cypress.io
10 10 (4.48%) Selenium
11 8 (3.59%) Maven
12 6 (2.69%) Grunt
12 6 (2.69%) gulp
12 6 (2.69%) Xcode
13 5 (2.24%) Mockito
13 5 (2.24%) SonarLint
General
1 58 (26.01%) Social Skills
2 45 (20.18%) Public Sector
3 36 (16.14%) Finance
4 22 (9.87%) Banking
5 14 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 84 (37.67%) Developer
2 38 (17.04%) Senior
3 27 (12.11%) Java Developer
4 21 (9.42%) DevOps Engineer
5 19 (8.52%) Software Engineer
6 14 (6.28%) AWS Engineer
7 13 (5.83%) Architect
7 13 (5.83%) Senior DevOps
8 12 (5.38%) Technical Architect
9 11 (4.93%) Android Developer
9 11 (4.93%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 9 (4.04%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) AWS DevOps
11 8 (3.59%) iOS Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Java Architect
11 8 (3.59%) Java Technical Architect
12 7 (3.14%) Node.js Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Senior Developer
12 7 (3.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (26.01%) RESTful
2 42 (18.83%) Spring Boot
3 41 (18.39%) React
3 41 (18.39%) Spring
4 40 (17.94%) Node.js
5 39 (17.49%) REST
6 30 (13.45%) HTML
7 28 (12.56%) CSS
8 21 (9.42%) JSON
9 20 (8.97%) .NET
9 20 (8.97%) Kafka
9 20 (8.97%) OAuth
10 17 (7.62%) Jest
11 15 (6.73%) FastAPI
12 14 (6.28%) HTML5
13 13 (5.83%) CSS3
13 13 (5.83%) jQuery
14 12 (5.38%) GraphQL
14 12 (5.38%) Hibernate
15 11 (4.93%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.76%) Cloud Native
2 19 (8.52%) Mobile App
3 18 (8.07%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.93%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 9 (4.04%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.59%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.69%) Clustering
7 6 (2.69%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 3 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (1.35%) Mobile Banking
8 3 (1.35%) Onboarding
9 2 (0.90%) Derivative
9 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
9 2 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.90%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Graphic Design
10 1 (0.45%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.14%) Linux
2 20 (8.97%) Windows
3 14 (6.28%) Android
4 12 (5.38%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.93%) Apple iOS
6 8 (3.59%) Unix
7 3 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.90%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (60.99%) CI/CD
2 117 (52.47%) Agile
3 105 (47.09%) DevOps
4 66 (29.60%) Microservices
5 60 (26.91%) Containerisation
6 59 (26.46%) Problem-Solving
7 55 (24.66%) Test Automation
8 34 (15.25%) Code Quality
8 34 (15.25%) Unit Testing
9 33 (14.80%) TDD
10 32 (14.35%) Design Patterns
11 31 (13.90%) Infrastructure as Code
12 28 (12.56%) Clean Code
13 27 (12.11%) Mentoring
14 26 (11.66%) SDLC
14 26 (11.66%) Software Engineering
15 25 (11.21%) OOP
15 25 (11.21%) Scrum
16 21 (9.42%) AI
16 21 (9.42%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 80 (35.87%) Python
2 79 (35.43%) Java
3 44 (19.73%) SQL
4 41 (18.39%) JavaScript
5 28 (12.56%) Shell Script
6 25 (11.21%) Bash
7 18 (8.07%) C#
8 15 (6.73%) TypeScript
9 13 (5.83%) Kotlin
10 12 (5.38%) Perl
11 11 (4.93%) Groovy
11 11 (4.93%) PowerShell
12 10 (4.48%) Swift
13 8 (3.59%) Go
14 7 (3.14%) Ruby
15 6 (2.69%) C++
15 6 (2.69%) PL/SQL
15 6 (2.69%) Scala
16 5 (2.24%) Objective-C
17 4 (1.79%) C
Qualifications
1 47 (21.08%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.76%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.42%) BPSS Clearance
4 15 (6.73%) AWS Certification
5 14 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
5 14 (6.28%) Degree
6 4 (1.79%) ISTQB
7 3 (1.35%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) CompTIA CySA+
9 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.45%) GCIH
9 1 (0.45%) OCP
9 1 (0.45%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (12.11%) QA
2 15 (6.73%) Accessibility
3 11 (4.93%) ISO 20022
3 11 (4.93%) PSD2
3 11 (4.93%) SEPA
4 10 (4.48%) WCAG
5 8 (3.59%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.45%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (36.77%) Docker
2 16 (7.17%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.48%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (3.59%) Tivoli Directory Server
5 6 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.35%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.35%) vSphere
8 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 71 (31.84%) Kubernetes
2 44 (19.73%) Terraform
3 43 (19.28%) Ansible
4 15 (6.73%) Progress Chef
5 11 (4.93%) CA Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.48%) CA Wily
6 10 (4.48%) Data Guard
6 10 (4.48%) yum
7 8 (3.59%) Tivoli
8 7 (3.14%) Grafana
8 7 (3.14%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (2.69%) Puppet
10 5 (2.24%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.79%) Kibana
12 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Clustering
12 3 (1.35%) Packer
12 3 (1.35%) SCCM
12 3 (1.35%) SELinux
12 3 (1.35%) vCenter Server
12 3 (1.35%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (17.49%) Oracle
2 35 (15.70%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.97%) Splunk
4 14 (6.28%) AppDynamics
5 12 (5.38%) IBM
6 11 (4.93%) Broadcom
6 11 (4.93%) Google
7 10 (4.48%) F5
8 8 (3.59%) GoldenSource
9 7 (3.14%) CheckPoint
9 7 (3.14%) Databricks
9 7 (3.14%) Palo Alto
10 6 (2.69%) Gigya
10 6 (2.69%) Perforce
10 6 (2.69%) VMware
11 3 (1.35%) Cloudera
11 3 (1.35%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.90%) ServiceNow
12 2 (0.90%) Talend