Git Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Git Distributed Version Control System
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Suffolk requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs citing Git 6 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 4.32% - 1.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 42.86% - 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.00%
75th Percentile - - £563
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -

All Development Application Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 14 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 10.07% 2.50% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 5
10th Percentile £435 £433 £206
25th Percentile £550 £436 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £444 £525
Median % change year-on-year +57.75% -15.48% -25.00%
75th Percentile £750 £448 £600
90th Percentile - £449 £636
East of England median daily rate £478 £469 £450
% change year-on-year +1.97% +4.17% -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
East of England median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -3.57% +7.69%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Git job vacancy trend in Suffolk

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 31 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
Ipswich - 6 £450 - 4
Git
East of England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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 (16.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (16.67%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) RESTful
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (33.33%) LINQ
2 2 (33.33%) Middleware
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Express.js
3 1 (16.67%) Kafka
3 1 (16.67%) MERN Stack
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js
3 1 (16.67%) React
3 1 (16.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) Spring WebFlux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (33.33%) Async-Await
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
2 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Pattern Matching
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Pair Programming
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Consul
2 1 (16.67%) Kibana
2 1 (16.67%) logstash