Git Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Git Distributed Version Control System
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -14 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Git 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.19% 0.71% 1.96%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.22% 33.33% 30.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £465
25th Percentile - £605 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £610 £525
Median % change year-on-year -26.23% +16.19% -26.57%
75th Percentile - £615 £563
90th Percentile - - £585
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £585
% change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% +11.43%

All Development Application Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 18 3 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 5.36% 2.14% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 9
10th Percentile £397 £298 £418
25th Percentile £450 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -12.20%
75th Percentile £550 £539 £488
90th Percentile £604 £585 £605
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £539
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.09% +2.62%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Git job vacancy trend in Somerset

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
Taunton - 3 £450 - 2
Bath - 1 - - 1
Git
South West

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Copilot
1 2 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (25.00%) GIS
1 1 (25.00%) Spatial Data
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) GIS Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (25.00%) JSON
2 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (50.00%) Wiki
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) AI
2 1 (25.00%) API Development
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) DataOps
2 1 (25.00%) ETL
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft