Git Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 11 -
Rank change year-on-year -5 - -
Contract jobs citing Git 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 1.37% 5.63% -
As % of the Development Applications category 5.26% 66.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £255 -
25th Percentile £331 £300 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.63% - -
75th Percentile £344 £500 -
90th Percentile - £545 -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -21.30%

All Development Application Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 19 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 26.03% 8.45% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £280 £257 -
25th Percentile £331 £305 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £444 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.61% - -
75th Percentile £415 £575 -
90th Percentile £520 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £487 £450
% change year-on-year -0.41% +8.22% -16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £47.30 £57.50 £56.88
% change year-on-year -17.73% +1.10% -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

Git job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 2 March 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 £338 - 4
Git
West Midlands

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DocumentDB
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) API Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes