Git Contracts in the South East

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 59 73 87
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 -28
Contract jobs citing Git 108 150 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.59% 2.70% 2.60%
As % of the Development Applications category 30.25% 27.68% 20.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 95 92
10th Percentile £339 £325 £425
25th Percentile £413 £375 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £625 £639
90th Percentile £600 £674 £749
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 20 17
10th Percentile £50.21 £54.58 £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £60.94 £56.76
Median hourly rate £57.50 £63.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% -8.93% +16.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £75.25 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 357 542 739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.86% 9.75% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 334 481
10th Percentile £361 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £413 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £586 £619 £628
90th Percentile £638 £675 £698
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 33 39
10th Percentile £47.25 £38.65 £35.74
25th Percentile £49.50 £50.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.63 £70.00 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the South East

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Git in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in the South East

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the South East 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
Thames Valley +25 45 £500 -17.53% 70
Berkshire +21 37 £552 -9.84% 26
Hampshire +20 34 £514 +46.86% 35
Surrey +23 20 £500 - 27
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £300 -22.58% 19
West Sussex -5 5 £475 +18.75% 12
Kent +8 3 £475 -13.64% 10
Oxfordshire +1 2 £488 +39.29% 31
Home Counties - 1 - -
Git
England

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 17 (15.74%) Confluence
2 5 (4.63%) Apache
3 4 (3.70%) CMS
3 4 (3.70%) Drupal
3 4 (3.70%) WordPress
4 2 (1.85%) JBoss
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 47 (43.52%) Azure
2 23 (21.30%) AWS
3 22 (20.37%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (11.11%) GitHub
5 7 (6.48%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (6.48%) Serverless
6 6 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (5.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (5.56%) Azure Functions
6 6 (5.56%) GCP
7 5 (4.63%) Entra ID
7 5 (4.63%) SaaS
8 4 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (2.78%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Machine Learning
10 2 (1.85%) Azure Stack
10 2 (1.85%) Firebase
10 2 (1.85%) npm
10 2 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (11.11%) Software-Defined Radio
2 9 (8.33%) SNMP
3 4 (3.70%) Internet
4 3 (2.78%) HTTP
5 2 (1.85%) DHCP
5 2 (1.85%) DNS
5 2 (1.85%) Firewall
6 1 (0.93%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.93%) IPFIX
6 1 (0.93%) Network Security
6 1 (0.93%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.93%) SSL
6 1 (0.93%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (14.81%) MySQL
2 12 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 10 (9.26%) NoSQL
4 9 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (7.41%) MongoDB
6 6 (5.56%) Big Data
6 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
7 4 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (2.78%) Redis
9 2 (1.85%) DocumentDB
9 2 (1.85%) Power BI
9 2 (1.85%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
10 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.93%) ObjectStore
10 1 (0.93%) Power Query
10 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (29.63%) JIRA
2 28 (25.93%) Jenkins
3 20 (18.52%) Bitbucket
4 16 (14.81%) GoogleTest
5 14 (12.96%) Selenium
6 9 (8.33%) Robot Framework
7 7 (6.48%) Bitbucket Server
7 7 (6.48%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (6.48%) Subversion
7 7 (6.48%) TestRail
8 6 (5.56%) Eclipse
9 5 (4.63%) Cucumber
10 4 (3.70%) Cypress.io
10 4 (3.70%) GitLab
10 4 (3.70%) SpecFlow
10 4 (3.70%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (2.78%) Maven
11 3 (2.78%) Postman
11 3 (2.78%) SonarQube
11 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (13.89%) Finance
1 15 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.56%) Telecoms
4 5 (4.63%) Electronics
4 5 (4.63%) Manufacturing
4 5 (4.63%) Marketing
5 2 (1.85%) Retail
6 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.93%) Aviation
6 1 (0.93%) Games
6 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (40.74%) Developer
2 17 (15.74%) Software Engineer
3 15 (13.89%) Senior
4 12 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
5 9 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 9 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 9 (8.33%) Python Developer
6 8 (7.41%) Azure Developer
6 8 (7.41%) C++ Software Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Embedded Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Software Test Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Test Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Embedded C++ Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Embedded Linux Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (30.56%) CSS
2 30 (27.78%) HTML
3 23 (21.30%) React
4 16 (14.81%) .NET
4 16 (14.81%) RESTful
5 15 (13.89%) Web Services
6 13 (12.04%) AngularJS
7 11 (10.19%) REST
8 7 (6.48%) .NET Core
8 7 (6.48%) Vue
9 6 (5.56%) JSON
9 6 (5.56%) YAML
10 5 (4.63%) Bootstrap
10 5 (4.63%) jQuery
10 5 (4.63%) Kafka
10 5 (4.63%) Laravel
10 5 (4.63%) Phalcon
10 5 (4.63%) SOAP
10 5 (4.63%) Spring Boot
11 4 (3.70%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.70%) Legacy Code
4 3 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.78%) Verilog
4 3 (2.78%) VHDL
5 2 (1.85%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.85%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (1.85%) Wiki
6 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.93%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.93%) GNSS
6 1 (0.93%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 38 (35.19%) Linux
2 15 (13.89%) Windows
3 9 (8.33%) Unix
4 7 (6.48%) Embedded Linux
4 7 (6.48%) Ubuntu
5 6 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.63%) Windows Server
7 4 (3.70%) Solaris
8 2 (1.85%) AIX
8 2 (1.85%) CentOS
8 2 (1.85%) HPUX
9 1 (0.93%) Android
9 1 (0.93%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (61.11%) Agile
2 39 (36.11%) Scrum
3 38 (35.19%) CI/CD
4 37 (34.26%) DevOps
5 33 (30.56%) Test Automation
6 29 (26.85%) Software Engineering
7 23 (21.30%) OO
8 21 (19.44%) Microservices
9 20 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (18.52%) Problem-Solving
9 20 (18.52%) SDLC
10 17 (15.74%) Design Patterns
10 17 (15.74%) Software Testing
10 17 (15.74%) Unit Testing
11 14 (12.96%) Computer Science
11 14 (12.96%) Full-Stack Development
11 14 (12.96%) Kanban
11 14 (12.96%) Validation
12 13 (12.04%) Front End Development
12 13 (12.04%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 51 (47.22%) Python
2 37 (34.26%) JavaScript
3 24 (22.22%) SQL
4 22 (20.37%) C#
5 18 (16.67%) Java
6 16 (14.81%) C++
7 14 (12.96%) TypeScript
8 13 (12.04%) Bash
8 13 (12.04%) PowerShell
9 11 (10.19%) PHP
10 5 (4.63%) Perl
11 3 (2.78%) Go
11 3 (2.78%) SystemVerilog
11 3 (2.78%) Tcl
12 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.93%) Bicep
13 1 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.93%) Korn
13 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 19 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.89%) Degree
4 9 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.63%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.93%) OCP
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.63%) QA
2 2 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.93%) Data Quality
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Docker
2 9 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 7 (6.48%) Firmware
4 3 (2.78%) vSphere
5 2 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.85%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.93%) Postfix
6 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (12.96%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.19%) Ansible
3 9 (8.33%) Terraform
4 4 (3.70%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.85%) Kibana
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle ZFS
5 2 (1.85%) Puppet
5 2 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (1.85%) SELinux
6 1 (0.93%) Grafana
6 1 (0.93%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.93%) QRadar
Vendors
1 16 (14.81%) Google
2 14 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.11%) Atlassian
4 9 (8.33%) Zend
5 7 (6.48%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.48%) SAP
6 6 (5.56%) Databricks
6 6 (5.56%) OpenAI
7 5 (4.63%) Splunk
8 4 (3.70%) Oracle
9 3 (2.78%) Xilinx
10 2 (1.85%) AppDynamics
10 2 (1.85%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (1.85%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.85%) Symantec
10 2 (1.85%) Veritas
10 2 (1.85%) VMware
11 1 (0.93%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.93%) Palo Alto
11 1 (0.93%) Twitter