Git Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 16 13
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Git 72 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 22.15% 9.68% 7.69%
As % of the Development Applications category 66.67% 46.15% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 9 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £489 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £358 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.85% - -
75th Percentile £537 £373 -
90th Percentile £559 £434 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -16.36%

All Development Application Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 108 26 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 33.23% 20.97% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 19 0
10th Percentile £414 £338 -
25th Percentile £452 £358 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £446 -
Median % change year-on-year +12.10% - -
75th Percentile £534 £495 -
90th Percentile £551 £508 -
West Midlands median daily rate £503 £506 £469
% change year-on-year -0.64% +8.00% -10.71%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Git job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Shropshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Shropshire over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Shropshire

Git
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Telford +2 66 £515 +43.85% 8
Git
West Midlands

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 52 (72.22%) SAS
2 9 (12.50%) JBoss
2 9 (12.50%) WebLogic
3 8 (11.11%) Apache
4 1 (1.39%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.00%) OpenShift
2 17 (23.61%) AWS
3 8 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.56%) Azure
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 3 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) PowerApps
5 3 (4.17%) Serverless
6 2 (2.78%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (47.22%) Pentaho
2 14 (19.44%) Oracle Database
3 12 (16.67%) MongoDB
4 11 (15.28%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 3 (4.17%) SAS Visual Analytics
6 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 52 (72.22%) Jenkins
2 33 (45.83%) JIRA
3 29 (40.28%) JUnit
3 29 (40.28%) Selenium
4 23 (31.94%) GitLab
5 8 (11.11%) Eclipse
5 8 (11.11%) IntelliJ
6 6 (8.33%) Cucumber
7 5 (6.94%) Maven
7 5 (6.94%) Mockito
8 1 (1.39%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket
8 1 (1.39%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (1.39%) CA Release Automation
8 1 (1.39%) Gatling
8 1 (1.39%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.39%) TeamCity
General
1 36 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
3 8 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) Test Specialist
2 16 (22.22%) Data Engineer
3 8 (11.11%) Test Automation Specialist
4 7 (9.72%) Developer
5 6 (8.33%) Java Engineer
5 6 (8.33%) SAS Engineer
6 5 (6.94%) Java Developer
6 5 (6.94%) Network Specialist
7 4 (5.56%) Senior
8 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Applications Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Denodo Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Power Apps Engineer
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.78%) Senior Java Developer
10 1 (1.39%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 1 (1.39%) Open Source Developer
10 1 (1.39%) Open Source Engineer
10 1 (1.39%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (38.89%) REST
2 15 (20.83%) pytest
2 15 (20.83%) Spring
3 14 (19.44%) JSON
4 13 (18.06%) HTML
5 8 (11.11%) EJB
5 8 (11.11%) Hibernate
5 8 (11.11%) HTML5
5 8 (11.11%) J2EE
5 8 (11.11%) J2SE
5 8 (11.11%) Play Framework
5 8 (11.11%) SOAP
5 8 (11.11%) Spring Boot
5 8 (11.11%) XML
6 6 (8.33%) Playwright
6 6 (8.33%) React
7 5 (6.94%) Gherkin
7 5 (6.94%) JDBC
7 5 (6.94%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.94%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Unix
2 2 (2.78%) Linux
2 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (95.83%) Agile
2 59 (81.94%) CI/CD
2 59 (81.94%) DevOps
3 56 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (76.39%) Scrum
5 54 (75.00%) Analytics
6 47 (65.28%) Test Automation
7 43 (59.72%) Data Pipeline
8 38 (52.78%) Deployment Automation
9 37 (51.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (48.61%) Data Modelling
11 33 (45.83%) Data Virtualisation
11 33 (45.83%) ETL
12 31 (43.06%) Data Integration
13 29 (40.28%) Data Analytics
14 28 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
15 25 (34.72%) Business Analytics
16 23 (31.94%) Stakeholder Management
17 17 (23.61%) Containerisation
17 17 (23.61%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 46 (63.89%) SQL
2 21 (29.17%) Python
3 17 (23.61%) Java
4 8 (11.11%) Scala
5 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
6 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 54 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 52 (72.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (38.89%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.33%) WCAG
3 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) QA
System Software
1 58 (80.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (81.94%) Kubernetes
2 8 (11.11%) Puppet
3 6 (8.33%) Kibana
4 5 (6.94%) Grafana
5 1 (1.39%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 41 (56.94%) Oracle
2 34 (47.22%) Denodo
3 33 (45.83%) Talend
4 8 (11.11%) webMethods
5 6 (8.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.78%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.39%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.39%) Splunk