Git Contracts in the Thames Valley

Git Distributed Version Control System
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 57 82 82
Rank change year-on-year +25 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Git 45 64 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.98% 2.38% 2.39%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.42% 24.71% 21.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 41
10th Percentile £311 £328 £396
25th Percentile £431 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +21.25% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £638 £675 £738
South East median daily rate £500 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -5.66% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - £60.00 £53.13
25th Percentile - - £55.94
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year - +6.12% -
75th Percentile - - £65.94
90th Percentile - £67.50 £68.38
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £63.75 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.80% -8.93% +16.67%

All Development Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 177 259 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 11.71% 9.64% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 158 212
10th Percentile £359 £329 £363
25th Percentile £452 £416 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.04% +12.37%
75th Percentile £589 £650 £629
90th Percentile £638 £688 £723
South East median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 11 2
10th Percentile £26.28 - £53.13
25th Percentile £34.43 £46.25 £55.94
Median hourly rate £48.00 £55.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% -10.20% -6.49%
75th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £65.94
90th Percentile £73.60 - £68.38
South East median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £56.24
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.14% +2.25%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the Thames Valley

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Git in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in the Thames Valley

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +21 37 £552 -9.84% 25
Buckinghamshire +11 6 £300 -22.58% 17
Oxfordshire +1 2 £488 +39.29% 29
Git
South East

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (2.22%) Apache
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (66.67%) Azure
2 17 (37.78%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (28.89%) AWS
4 8 (17.78%) GitHub
5 7 (15.56%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (15.56%) Serverless
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (13.33%) Azure Functions
6 6 (13.33%) GCP
7 5 (11.11%) Entra ID
8 2 (4.44%) Azure AKS
8 2 (4.44%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (4.44%) Power Automate
9 1 (2.22%) AWS KMS
9 1 (2.22%) Azure API Management
9 1 (2.22%) Azure App Service
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (2.22%) Azure Storage
9 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) IPFIX
1 1 (2.22%) Network Security
1 1 (2.22%) PuTTY
1 1 (2.22%) SSL
1 1 (2.22%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Big Data
1 6 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.89%) MySQL
2 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (4.44%) DocumentDB
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (2.22%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.22%) DynamoDB
5 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.22%) Parquet
5 1 (2.22%) Power BI
5 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.22%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Selenium
2 10 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.67%) GitLab
4 2 (4.44%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.44%) Maven
4 2 (4.44%) SpecFlow
5 1 (2.22%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (2.22%) CMake
5 1 (2.22%) DbUnit
5 1 (2.22%) JIRA
5 1 (2.22%) jMock
5 1 (2.22%) JUnit
5 1 (2.22%) Mockito
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (2.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.22%) Toad
5 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.22%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 8 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
4 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.89%) Electronics
5 4 (8.89%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.89%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Games
6 1 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (48.89%) Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Azure Developer
2 8 (17.78%) Python Developer
3 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 6 (13.33%) React Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 5 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) .NET Developer
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 4 (8.89%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (6.67%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Administrator
7 2 (4.44%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Automation Developer
7 2 (4.44%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.44%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) CSS
1 11 (24.44%) HTML
2 10 (22.22%) .NET
3 8 (17.78%) React
4 6 (13.33%) RESTful
5 4 (8.89%) REST
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
6 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
6 3 (6.67%) Django
6 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
6 3 (6.67%) FastAPI
6 3 (6.67%) Flask
7 2 (4.44%) ADO
7 2 (4.44%) ASP.NET Web API
7 2 (4.44%) NHibernate
7 2 (4.44%) Playwright
7 2 (4.44%) TensorFlow
7 2 (4.44%) Web Services
8 1 (2.22%) CNTK
8 1 (2.22%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.44%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.22%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.22%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 13 (28.89%) Windows
2 10 (22.22%) Linux
3 7 (15.56%) Ubuntu
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Server
5 3 (6.67%) Unix
6 2 (4.44%) AIX
6 2 (4.44%) CentOS
6 2 (4.44%) HPUX
6 2 (4.44%) Solaris
7 1 (2.22%) Android
7 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (64.44%) DevOps
2 20 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 18 (40.00%) Agile
4 13 (28.89%) SDLC
5 11 (24.44%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (24.44%) Microservices
6 10 (22.22%) Unit Testing
7 9 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (17.78%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (17.78%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (17.78%) Test Automation
9 7 (15.56%) Configuration Management
9 7 (15.56%) Software Testing
10 6 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (13.33%) Integration Testing
10 6 (13.33%) LLM
10 6 (13.33%) Open Source
10 6 (13.33%) Product Backlog
10 6 (13.33%) Scrum
10 6 (13.33%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (68.89%) Python
2 15 (33.33%) SQL
3 13 (28.89%) C#
3 13 (28.89%) PowerShell
4 11 (24.44%) JavaScript
5 9 (20.00%) Bash
6 4 (8.89%) Java
7 2 (4.44%) Shell Script
8 1 (2.22%) Bicep
8 1 (2.22%) C++
8 1 (2.22%) Korn
8 1 (2.22%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.89%) Docker
3 1 (2.22%) Postfix
3 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Ansible
1 8 (17.78%) Terraform
2 3 (6.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (4.44%) Oracle ZFS
3 2 (4.44%) Progress Chef
3 2 (4.44%) Puppet
4 1 (2.22%) Grafana
4 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.22%) QRadar
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) Databricks
1 6 (13.33%) OpenAI
2 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) SAP
4 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.44%) Splunk
5 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.22%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
5 1 (2.22%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.22%) Google
5 1 (2.22%) HP
5 1 (2.22%) Jaspersoft
5 1 (2.22%) Oracle
5 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.22%) Remedy