Git Contracts in the North West

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 78 63
Rank change year-on-year +24 -15 -18
Contract jobs citing Git 78 60 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.80% 2.17% 3.15%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.17% 21.58% 28.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 40 62
10th Percentile £340 £375 £375
25th Percentile £358 £440 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -21.18% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £469 £550 £620
90th Percentile £500 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £39.44
25th Percentile - £67.50 £41.97
Median hourly rate £70.00 £70.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year - +51.58% -38.43%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £54.97
90th Percentile - - £60.24
England median hourly rate £55.00 £63.75 £67.34
% change year-on-year -13.73% -5.33% +2.57%

All Development Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 298 278 335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.53% 10.05% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 198 251
10th Percentile £333 £350 £320
25th Percentile £374 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.95% -7.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £515 £563 £600
90th Percentile £603 £650 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 12
10th Percentile £64.65 £30.86 £37.80
25th Percentile £70.12 £37.55 £39.15
Median hourly rate £73.75 £45.88 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year +60.75% -10.15% -31.91%
75th Percentile £77.81 £67.13 £56.38
90th Percentile £80.70 £80.45 £61.42
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.84% +18.10%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in the North West

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Git in the North West

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the North West over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the North West

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Git in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 July 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
Cheshire +24 53 £393 -17.26% 71
Manchester -9 20 £450 -16.28% 302
Lancashire -1 2 £425 - 88
Git
England

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 20 (25.64%) JBoss
2 15 (19.23%) Tomcat
3 9 (11.54%) WebSphere
4 6 (7.69%) Confluence
5 5 (6.41%) WebLogic
6 4 (5.13%) Apache
6 4 (5.13%) WebSphere Application Server
7 3 (3.85%) nginx
8 2 (2.56%) CICS
9 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (1.28%) Camunda
9 1 (1.28%) Mule
9 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 43 (55.13%) AWS
2 16 (20.51%) OpenShift
3 15 (19.23%) Azure
4 9 (11.54%) GCP
5 7 (8.97%) npm
6 6 (7.69%) GitHub
7 4 (5.13%) Anthropic Claude
7 4 (5.13%) Azure AI
7 4 (5.13%) Google Gemini
7 4 (5.13%) IBM Cloud
7 4 (5.13%) Serverless
8 3 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
10 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.28%) AWS Step Functions
10 1 (1.28%) Azure Key Vault
10 1 (1.28%) Azure Pipelines
10 1 (1.28%) Azure Storage
10 1 (1.28%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) Relational Database
2 10 (12.82%) SQL Server
3 8 (10.26%) Elasticsearch
3 8 (10.26%) RDBMS
4 7 (8.97%) DB2
4 7 (8.97%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (7.69%) MongoDB
6 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (5.13%) Hadoop
6 4 (5.13%) Neo4j
6 4 (5.13%) NoSQL
7 3 (3.85%) Oracle Database
7 3 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.56%) Delta Lake
8 2 (2.56%) MySQL
9 1 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 1 (1.28%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.28%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (1.28%) Metadata
9 1 (1.28%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 38 (48.72%) Jenkins
2 29 (37.18%) JIRA
3 16 (20.51%) Maven
3 16 (20.51%) Sonatype Nexus
4 15 (19.23%) GitLab
4 15 (19.23%) SonarQube
5 13 (16.67%) JUnit
6 12 (15.38%) Gradle
7 9 (11.54%) Bitbucket Server
7 9 (11.54%) TeamCity
8 8 (10.26%) Bitbucket
8 8 (10.26%) CA Release Automation
9 7 (8.97%) Cucumber
10 4 (5.13%) gulp
10 4 (5.13%) Selenium
10 4 (5.13%) Xcode
11 3 (3.85%) Cypress.io
11 3 (3.85%) Gerrit
11 3 (3.85%) Grunt
11 3 (3.85%) Subversion
General
1 20 (25.64%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (20.51%) Banking
2 16 (20.51%) Finance
3 13 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 8 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.13%) Legal
5 4 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 4 (5.13%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 42 (53.85%) Developer
2 12 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 9 (11.54%) Senior
4 5 (6.41%) AWS Developer
4 5 (6.41%) DevOps Specialist
4 5 (6.41%) Scrum Master
4 5 (6.41%) Software Developer
4 5 (6.41%) UI Developer
5 4 (5.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.13%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (5.13%) iOS Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Angular Developer
6 3 (3.85%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (3.85%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (2.56%) Automation Tester
7 2 (2.56%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 2 (2.56%) SAPUI5 Developer
7 2 (2.56%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (37.18%) Spring Boot
2 22 (28.21%) REST
2 22 (28.21%) Spring
3 18 (23.08%) CSS
3 18 (23.08%) HTML
4 17 (21.79%) React
5 12 (15.38%) Node.js
5 12 (15.38%) SOAP
6 10 (12.82%) Kafka
7 9 (11.54%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (11.54%) RESTful
8 8 (10.26%) HTML5
9 7 (8.97%) AngularJS
9 7 (8.97%) Spring Cloud
10 6 (7.69%) CSS3
10 6 (7.69%) PySpark
10 6 (7.69%) RAML
11 5 (6.41%) J2EE
11 5 (6.41%) Web Services
11 5 (6.41%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 11 (14.10%) Mobile App
2 6 (7.69%) Private Cloud
2 6 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.41%) Algorithms
4 4 (5.13%) Mobile Banking
5 2 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.56%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.56%) VSAM
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.92%) Linux
2 9 (11.54%) Unix
2 9 (11.54%) Windows
3 8 (10.26%) Android
3 8 (10.26%) Apple iOS
3 8 (10.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.59%) CI/CD
2 31 (39.74%) Agile
3 29 (37.18%) DevOps
4 25 (32.05%) Microservices
4 25 (32.05%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (23.08%) Migration
6 17 (21.79%) Code Quality
7 16 (20.51%) SDLC
8 14 (17.95%) Scrum
9 13 (16.67%) TDD
10 11 (14.10%) Continuous Integration
11 10 (12.82%) API Development
11 10 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (12.82%) Front End Development
11 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
11 10 (12.82%) Unit Testing
12 9 (11.54%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (11.54%) Containerisation
12 9 (11.54%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (11.54%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 41 (52.56%) Python
2 38 (48.72%) Java
3 29 (37.18%) SQL
4 25 (32.05%) JavaScript
5 11 (14.10%) Shell Script
6 8 (10.26%) Perl
7 7 (8.97%) Bash
7 7 (8.97%) Scala
8 6 (7.69%) PowerShell
9 5 (6.41%) Ruby
9 5 (6.41%) TypeScript
10 4 (5.13%) C
10 4 (5.13%) C++
10 4 (5.13%) Kotlin
10 4 (5.13%) Objective-C
10 4 (5.13%) Swift
11 3 (3.85%) C#
12 2 (2.56%) COBOL
12 2 (2.56%) JCL
12 2 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (3.85%) Degree
2 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.97%) Accessibility
2 5 (6.41%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.28%) GDPR
4 1 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (28.21%) Docker
2 8 (10.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (32.05%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 9 (11.54%) Terraform
4 8 (10.26%) Kibana
5 5 (6.41%) Ansible
6 4 (5.13%) Istio
7 1 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (1.28%) Grafana
7 1 (1.28%) Graylog
7 1 (1.28%) Packer
7 1 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 20 (25.64%) Oracle
2 15 (19.23%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.26%) AppDynamics
3 8 (10.26%) Red Hat
3 8 (10.26%) Splunk
4 6 (7.69%) Cloudera
5 4 (5.13%) IBM
6 3 (3.85%) Databricks
6 3 (3.85%) Perforce
6 3 (3.85%) SAP
7 1 (1.28%) Ariba
7 1 (1.28%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.28%) Checkmarx
7 1 (1.28%) Google
7 1 (1.28%) Mapbox
7 1 (1.28%) TIBCO