Git Contracts in the South West

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 61 126 72
Rank change year-on-year +65 -54 -26
Contract jobs citing Git 50 31 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.98% 0.97% 3.09%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.09% 9.04% 24.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 88
10th Percentile £368 £376 £413
25th Percentile £438 £520 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +11.43% +2.44%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £625
90th Percentile £694 £721 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
10th Percentile - - £53.20
25th Percentile - £75.00 £53.75
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +39.13% -
75th Percentile - £86.25 £74.59
90th Percentile - £88.50 £78.00
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 178 343 463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.61% 10.72% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 209 320
10th Percentile £354 £425 £374
25th Percentile £450 £475 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +5.37% +1.59%
75th Percentile £615 £650 £619
90th Percentile £695 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 51 55
10th Percentile £62.50 £40.00 £50.48
25th Percentile £65.63 £59.32 £56.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £67.25 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% +9.35% +10.14%
75th Percentile £80.23 £71.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £80.00 £81.50
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in the South West

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Git in the South West

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in the South West

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Git in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Wiltshire +43 19 £585 +6.36% 5
Bristol +25 18 £430 -27.12% 41
Gloucestershire +17 7 £700 +12.00% 47
Devon - 2 £550 - 14
Somerset 0 1 £610 +16.19% 10
Dorset - 1 £280 - 13
Git
England

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (18.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) Apache
3 1 (2.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 2 (4.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.00%) dbt
6 1 (2.00%) Figma
6 1 (2.00%) IaaS
6 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.00%) PaaS
6 1 (2.00%) SaaS
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (26.00%) Bitbucket
1 13 (26.00%) JIRA
2 12 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.00%) GitLab
3 2 (4.00%) NUnit
3 2 (4.00%) Postman
3 2 (4.00%) Subversion
3 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.00%) Ant
4 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.00%) MLflow
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) Storybook
4 1 (2.00%) Vite
4 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (6.00%) Finance
5 1 (2.00%) Aviation
5 1 (2.00%) Billing
5 1 (2.00%) Electronics
5 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.00%) Marketing
5 1 (2.00%) Retail
5 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Developer
2 8 (16.00%) Platform Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) PHP Developer
6 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) FPGA Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Java Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.00%) REST
2 12 (24.00%) SOAP
3 7 (14.00%) CSS
3 7 (14.00%) FastAPI
3 7 (14.00%) HTML
3 7 (14.00%) OpenID
4 4 (8.00%) CSS3
4 4 (8.00%) HTML5
4 4 (8.00%) Laravel
5 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (6.00%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (6.00%) React
5 3 (6.00%) RESTful
5 3 (6.00%) Yii
6 2 (4.00%) .NET
6 2 (4.00%) Node.js
6 2 (4.00%) Playwright
7 1 (2.00%) Kafka
7 1 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (2.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) FPGA
2 2 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.00%) VHDL
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 22 (44.00%) Linux
2 20 (40.00%) Windows
3 10 (20.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.00%) CentOS
4 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.00%) Agile
1 22 (44.00%) DevOps
2 20 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (36.00%) NsoIT
5 12 (24.00%) CI/CD
5 12 (24.00%) Deployment Automation
5 12 (24.00%) Software Engineering
5 12 (24.00%) Validation
6 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 11 (22.00%) Reverse Engineering
6 11 (22.00%) Service Management
7 10 (20.00%) System Testing
8 8 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (14.00%) Application Security
9 7 (14.00%) Blue-Green Deployment
9 7 (14.00%) Client Onboarding
9 7 (14.00%) Platform Engineering
10 4 (8.00%) Code Quality
10 4 (8.00%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 39 (78.00%) Python
2 19 (38.00%) PowerShell
3 13 (26.00%) Bash
4 11 (22.00%) SQL
5 8 (16.00%) JavaScript
6 7 (14.00%) C#
7 4 (8.00%) Java
7 4 (8.00%) PHP
7 4 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.00%) Go
8 2 (4.00%) Ruby
8 2 (4.00%) Tcl
9 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
9 1 (2.00%) C++
9 1 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.00%) Perl
9 1 (2.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 29 (58.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (36.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (22.00%) OCA
4 11 (22.00%) Oracle Certification
5 10 (20.00%) CCNP
5 10 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (20.00%) RHCA
5 10 (20.00%) RHCE
6 7 (14.00%) DV Cleared
7 3 (6.00%) Degree
8 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (2.00%) MCITP
9 1 (2.00%) MCSA
9 1 (2.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (22.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (42.00%) Ansible
2 12 (24.00%) Puppet
2 12 (24.00%) Terraform
3 11 (22.00%) Progress Chef
3 11 (22.00%) vCenter Server
4 7 (14.00%) MIIS
5 5 (10.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.00%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (2.00%) PowerCLI
6 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (36.00%) VMware
2 13 (26.00%) Oracle
3 10 (20.00%) Cisco
4 8 (16.00%) Atlassian
5 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.00%) Databricks
6 1 (2.00%) Pardot
6 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.00%) SAP
6 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.00%) Veeam