Git Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxfordshire requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 -2
Contract jobs citing Git 2 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 0.95% 2.00% 2.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.67% 33.33% 29.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £466 -
25th Percentile £525 £472 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £488 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% - -
75th Percentile £575 £497 -
90th Percentile - £499 -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £59.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £67.27
% change year-on-year -12.00% -7.08% -0.35%

All Development Application Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 12 6 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 5.69% 6.00% 7.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 7
10th Percentile £293 £466 £400
25th Percentile £413 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £522 £484
90th Percentile £565 £561 £631
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £530
% change year-on-year -5.00% -5.66% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £59.00
25th Percentile - £20.85 -
Median hourly rate - £21.90 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -66.31% -
75th Percentile - £22.95 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £83.00 £57.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +43.72% -7.60% +12.61%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Git job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 March 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
Oxford +2 1 - - 9
Git
South East

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ELB
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (50.00%) Spark SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Star Schema
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Backend Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Django
1 1 (50.00%) FastAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Flask
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth
1 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (50.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (50.00%) OpenID
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Argo
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft