Git Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Git Distributed Version Control System
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +2
Contract jobs citing Git 3 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.86% - 6.32%
As % of the Development Applications category 37.50% - 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile £515 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £545 - £525
90th Percentile - - £550
Hampshire median daily rate £593 £550 £517
% change year-on-year +7.73% +6.38% -6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £61.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% +14.29% -5.77%

All Development Application Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 8 7 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 4.97% 4.58% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 23
10th Percentile £470 £330 £453
25th Percentile £481 £350 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +40.45% -28.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £523 - £550
90th Percentile £536 - £658
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -9.09% +2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% +16.67% -7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Git job vacancy trend in Southampton

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Git

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (33.33%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) CAN bus
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) SysML
2 2 (66.67%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) Embedded C++
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) PagerDuty