Git Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Git Distributed Version Control System
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 10 22
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing Git 3 13 14
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.58% 10.57% 5.47%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.00% 61.90% 34.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £342 £204
25th Percentile £380 £372 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £384 £446 £619
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% -27.88% +45.59%
75th Percentile £389 £522 £706
90th Percentile - £554 -
Hampshire median daily rate £600 £450 £517
% change year-on-year +33.33% -12.96% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 9
10th Percentile - £54.63 £54.25
25th Percentile - £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -5.66%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £71.25 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

All Development Application Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 12 21 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 6.32% 17.07% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 24
10th Percentile £376 £376 £392
25th Percentile £416 £415 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £450 £519
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -13.34% +1.82%
75th Percentile £480 £514 £638
90th Percentile £543 £625 £706
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £511 £538
% change year-on-year -2.20% -4.88% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 10
10th Percentile £47.00 £55.60 £54.63
25th Percentile £48.13 £61.25 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.04% -5.77%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile - £71.00 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.75 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% - -3.85%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Git job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Git

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSH
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
1 1 (33.33%) Delta Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Hadoop
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Parquet
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) MLflow
2 1 (33.33%) Poetry
2 1 (33.33%) PyCharm
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Apache Avro
2 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (33.33%) Flask
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Memory Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Argo
1 1 (33.33%) Istio
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cloudera
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat