Git Contract Job Trends in the South East

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 59 64
Rank change year-on-year -44 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Git 91 132 166
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 2.08% 3.52% 3.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.16% 26.77% 26.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 111
10th Percentile £304 £367 £393
25th Percentile £411 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £589 £600 £619
90th Percentile £638 £650 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 20
10th Percentile - £54.63 £54.18
25th Percentile - £60.38 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -8.94% +5.59%
75th Percentile £55.13 £70.00 £70.47
90th Percentile £58.20 £71.25 £76.53
England median hourly rate £67.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +8.94% -1.60% -3.85%

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 475 493 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 10.87% 13.14% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 297 433
10th Percentile £242 £330 £393
25th Percentile £365 £398 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £615
90th Percentile £638 £650 £671
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 23 29
10th Percentile £45.00 £51.05 £51.00
25th Percentile £52.50 £54.49 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.97% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £96.00 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Git job vacancy trend in the South East

Git
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the South East

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Git

Git
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 19 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
Thames Valley -26 42 £500 -16.67% 100
Berkshire -22 37 £500 -20.00% 40
Hampshire -22 26 £600 +29.73% 63
West Sussex -10 9 £340 -24.44% 9
East Sussex +6 5 £508 +11.54% 8
Surrey -14 5 £538 +7.50% 26
Buckinghamshire +1 4 £450 -18.23% 36
Middlesex - 2 £552 - 14
Oxfordshire -15 1 - - 25
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 9 (9.89%) Apache Spark
2 7 (7.69%) Confluence
3 6 (6.59%) Apache
4 3 (3.30%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.10%) ArcGIS
5 1 (1.10%) Documentum
5 1 (1.10%) Gunicorn
5 1 (1.10%) Jupyter
5 1 (1.10%) nginx
5 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Maximo
1 1 (1.10%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) AWS
1 34 (37.36%) Azure
2 25 (27.47%) GCP
3 17 (18.68%) GitHub
4 16 (17.58%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (15.38%) Serverless
6 11 (12.09%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (8.79%) Amazon S3
8 7 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (6.59%) OpenShift
10 5 (5.49%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (5.49%) Azure Functions
11 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
11 4 (4.40%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (4.40%) IaaS
11 4 (4.40%) PaaS
11 4 (4.40%) Power Platform
12 3 (3.30%) Azure Key Vault
12 3 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.20%) DNS
2 1 (1.10%) DHCP
2 1 (1.10%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) MQTT
2 1 (1.10%) SSH
2 1 (1.10%) SSL
2 1 (1.10%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.58%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (10.99%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.79%) Relational Database
4 6 (6.59%) Big Data
5 5 (5.49%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (5.49%) Couchbase
5 5 (5.49%) Hadoop
6 4 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (4.40%) Power BI
6 4 (4.40%) Tableau
7 3 (3.30%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.30%) BigQuery
7 3 (3.30%) Data Lake
7 3 (3.30%) SQL Server
8 2 (2.20%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (2.20%) RDBMS
8 2 (2.20%) Redis
9 1 (1.10%) Metadata
9 1 (1.10%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 39 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 21 (23.08%) JIRA
3 16 (17.58%) GitLab
4 8 (8.79%) Bitbucket
5 7 (7.69%) Gradle
6 6 (6.59%) Maven
7 5 (5.49%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.40%) Selenium
8 4 (4.40%) Subversion
9 3 (3.30%) Postman
9 3 (3.30%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.20%) MLflow
10 2 (2.20%) Poetry
10 2 (2.20%) SonarQube
10 2 (2.20%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (1.10%) Gatling
11 1 (1.10%) MSTest
11 1 (1.10%) PyCharm
11 1 (1.10%) Pylint
11 1 (1.10%) REST Assured
General
1 27 (29.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.68%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.20%) Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.10%) Automotive
5 1 (1.10%) Aviation
5 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.10%) Finance
5 1 (1.10%) Legal
5 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 27 (29.67%) Developer
2 18 (19.78%) Senior
3 15 (16.48%) Architect
4 11 (12.09%) Java Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Senior Developer
4 11 (12.09%) Solutions Architect
5 8 (8.79%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (7.69%) Software Engineer
7 6 (6.59%) Lead
8 5 (5.49%) C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Embedded C++ Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Embedded Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 5 (5.49%) Java Architect
8 5 (5.49%) Java Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Principal Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.40%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (4.40%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (23.08%) REST
2 15 (16.48%) Kafka
3 9 (9.89%) RabbitMQ
3 9 (9.89%) Spring
4 8 (8.79%) RESTful
5 7 (7.69%) scikit-learn
6 6 (6.59%) GraphQL
6 6 (6.59%) Spring Boot
7 5 (5.49%) gRPC
7 5 (5.49%) NumPy
7 5 (5.49%) Pandas
7 5 (5.49%) PyTorch
7 5 (5.49%) TensorFlow
8 4 (4.40%) .NET
8 4 (4.40%) Google JAX
8 4 (4.40%) JAX
8 4 (4.40%) Node.js
9 3 (3.30%) .NET Core
9 3 (3.30%) Material Design
9 3 (3.30%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Cloud Native
2 8 (8.79%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.59%) CAN bus
4 4 (4.40%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Computing
5 3 (3.30%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.30%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.20%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.20%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.98%) Linux
2 7 (7.69%) Windows
3 3 (3.30%) Android
3 3 (3.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.10%) Solaris
4 1 (1.10%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (65.93%) CI/CD
2 51 (56.04%) Agile
3 45 (49.45%) DevOps
4 35 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 28 (30.77%) Containerisation
6 26 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (28.57%) Microservices
7 24 (26.37%) Software Engineering
8 17 (18.68%) Computer Science
9 16 (17.58%) Test Automation
10 15 (16.48%) Scrum
11 14 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
12 12 (13.19%) TDD
13 11 (12.09%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (10.99%) Code Quality
14 10 (10.99%) Configuration Management
14 10 (10.99%) Machine Learning
15 9 (9.89%) AI
15 9 (9.89%) Regression Testing
15 9 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (36.26%) Python
2 31 (34.07%) Java
3 22 (24.18%) SQL
4 12 (13.19%) C#
5 11 (12.09%) C++
6 10 (10.99%) Bash
6 10 (10.99%) JavaScript
7 9 (9.89%) Go
8 6 (6.59%) Embedded C++
9 4 (4.40%) PowerShell
9 4 (4.40%) R
10 3 (3.30%) C
10 3 (3.30%) Kotlin
10 3 (3.30%) Objective-C
10 3 (3.30%) Shell Script
10 3 (3.30%) Swift
10 3 (3.30%) TypeScript
11 2 (2.20%) Perl
11 2 (2.20%) PHP
12 1 (1.10%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (29.67%) Security Cleared
2 19 (20.88%) Degree
3 14 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.99%) DV Cleared
5 5 (5.49%) RHCE
6 3 (3.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.10%) OCP
7 1 (1.10%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) QA
2 6 (6.59%) GDPR
3 5 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.40%) EU AI Act
4 4 (4.40%) NIST
5 1 (1.10%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.10%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 36 (39.56%) Docker
2 6 (6.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (3.30%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.10%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 34 (37.36%) Kubernetes
2 22 (24.18%) Terraform
3 18 (19.78%) Ansible
4 9 (9.89%) Grafana
5 7 (7.69%) Prometheus
6 5 (5.49%) Puppet
7 2 (2.20%) Argo
7 2 (2.20%) logstash
7 2 (2.20%) Podman
7 2 (2.20%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.10%) Istio
8 1 (1.10%) Kubeflow
8 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.10%) Red Hat Satellite
8 1 (1.10%) SELinux
Vendors
1 9 (9.89%) Google
2 7 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 6 (6.59%) Microsoft
4 5 (5.49%) Atlassian
5 4 (4.40%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.30%) Apple
6 3 (3.30%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (3.30%) Foundry
6 3 (3.30%) Palantir
7 2 (2.20%) Databricks
7 2 (2.20%) PagerDuty
7 2 (2.20%) Splunk
8 1 (1.10%) Cloudera
8 1 (1.10%) IBM
8 1 (1.10%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.10%) Symantec
8 1 (1.10%) Tenable
8 1 (1.10%) Veritas
8 1 (1.10%) VMware