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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 78 67
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 -27
Contract jobs citing Git 58 59 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.95% 2.14% 3.19%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.17% 19.60% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 40 74
10th Percentile £358 £413 £381
25th Percentile £393 £496 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £496 £575 £638
90th Percentile £538 £660 £650
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%

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 274 301 417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 13.92% 10.93% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 231 322
10th Percentile £329 £375 £325
25th Percentile £391 £431 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £507
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.28% +1.30%
75th Percentile £534 £600 £600
90th Percentile £600 £675 £656
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £54.02 £40.52 £38.16
25th Percentile £63.25 £45.88 £42.81
Median hourly rate £75.00 £52.94 £49.88
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% +6.15% +17.35%
75th Percentile £78.13 £74.63 £53.44
90th Percentile £81.35 £81.45 £56.38
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in the North West

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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 May 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
Manchester -4 26 £463 -15.91% 184
Cheshire +14 24 £397 -22.25% 69
Lancashire +4 3 £425 - 68
Merseyside +4 1 £475 -13.64% 24
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England

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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 9 (15.52%) JBoss
2 6 (10.34%) WebSphere
3 4 (6.90%) Confluence
3 4 (6.90%) Tomcat
3 4 (6.90%) WebLogic
4 2 (3.45%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.45%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.72%) Apache
5 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.72%) Camunda
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (48.28%) AWS
2 15 (25.86%) Azure
3 7 (12.07%) GCP
4 6 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (8.62%) GitHub
6 4 (6.90%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (6.90%) Azure AI
6 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.90%) Google Gemini
6 4 (6.90%) Serverless
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (3.45%) IBM Cloud
8 2 (3.45%) npm
8 2 (3.45%) Slack
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
9 1 (1.72%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.45%) Calico
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.24%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (13.79%) SQL Server
3 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
4 6 (10.34%) Relational Database
5 5 (8.62%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (8.62%) RDBMS
6 4 (6.90%) DB2
6 4 (6.90%) MySQL
6 4 (6.90%) Neo4j
6 4 (6.90%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.90%) ObjectStore
7 3 (5.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (5.17%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (5.17%) Delta Lake
7 3 (5.17%) Hadoop
7 3 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
8 2 (3.45%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (3.45%) GIS
8 2 (3.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.69%) JIRA
3 10 (17.24%) GitLab
4 7 (12.07%) SonarQube
5 6 (10.34%) Jasmine
5 6 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (10.34%) TeamCity
6 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket
6 5 (8.62%) Bitbucket Server
6 5 (8.62%) CA Release Automation
7 4 (6.90%) gulp
7 4 (6.90%) Maven
7 4 (6.90%) Mocha
7 4 (6.90%) Subversion
8 3 (5.17%) Cucumber
8 3 (5.17%) Grunt
8 3 (5.17%) Selenium
9 2 (3.45%) JUnit
10 1 (1.72%) Artifactory
10 1 (1.72%) Cypress.io
General
1 14 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (17.24%) Finance
3 6 (10.34%) Social Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Banking
5 4 (6.90%) Legal
5 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Military
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Developer
2 12 (20.69%) Senior
3 7 (12.07%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 6 (10.34%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Senior Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
5 5 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 4 (6.90%) Scrum Master
6 4 (6.90%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.17%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) JavaScript Developer
7 3 (5.17%) SAP Developer
7 3 (5.17%) SAPUI5 Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Scientist
8 2 (3.45%) DevOps Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Python Data Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (25.86%) Node.js
1 15 (25.86%) Spring Boot
2 12 (20.69%) CSS
2 12 (20.69%) HTML
3 10 (17.24%) HTML5
3 10 (17.24%) Spring
4 9 (15.52%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.52%) RESTful
5 8 (13.79%) React
6 6 (10.34%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (10.34%) PySpark
6 6 (10.34%) PyTorch
6 6 (10.34%) REST
6 6 (10.34%) TensorFlow
7 5 (8.62%) jQuery
8 4 (6.90%) EJB
8 4 (6.90%) JSP
8 4 (6.90%) Servlets
8 4 (6.90%) SOAP
8 4 (6.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.34%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.62%) Private Cloud
2 5 (8.62%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.90%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.45%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.72%) NHS
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (24.14%) Linux
2 7 (12.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (10.34%) Windows
4 5 (8.62%) Unix
5 3 (5.17%) Mac OS X
6 2 (3.45%) Android
6 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 23 (39.66%) DevOps
3 18 (31.03%) Agile
4 15 (25.86%) Test Automation
5 14 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 13 (22.41%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (18.97%) Microservices
7 11 (18.97%) Migration
7 11 (18.97%) SDLC
8 10 (17.24%) Code Quality
8 10 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (15.52%) Front End Development
9 9 (15.52%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (12.07%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (12.07%) User Experience
10 7 (12.07%) Visualisation
11 6 (10.34%) Decision-Making
11 6 (10.34%) Natural Language Processing
11 6 (10.34%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) Python
2 25 (43.10%) SQL
3 21 (36.21%) JavaScript
4 20 (34.48%) Java
5 9 (15.52%) Bash
6 7 (12.07%) PowerShell
7 5 (8.62%) Perl
7 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
8 4 (6.90%) C#
9 3 (5.17%) R
9 3 (5.17%) Scala
10 2 (3.45%) Ruby
10 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.90%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.72%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Accessibility
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
3 4 (6.90%) WCAG
4 2 (3.45%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) GDPR
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (36.21%) Docker
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 26 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 10 (17.24%) Progress Chef
3 8 (13.79%) Terraform
4 5 (8.62%) Ansible
4 5 (8.62%) Kibana
5 2 (3.45%) Istio
6 1 (1.72%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (1.72%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) Graylog
6 1 (1.72%) Packer
6 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.72%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Oracle
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft
3 5 (8.62%) AppDynamics
3 5 (8.62%) Databricks
3 5 (8.62%) Red Hat
3 5 (8.62%) Splunk
4 4 (6.90%) SAP
5 3 (5.17%) Cloudera
6 2 (3.45%) Google
6 2 (3.45%) IBM
6 2 (3.45%) Mapbox
7 1 (1.72%) Ariba
7 1 (1.72%) TIBCO
7 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media