Git Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Git Distributed Version Control System
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 23 30 16
Rank change year-on-year +7 -14 +15
Contract jobs citing Git 14 2 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.74% 0.82% 12.07%
As % of the Development Applications category 28.57% 13.33% 33.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 36
10th Percentile £311 £324 £500
25th Percentile £335 £345 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £380 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -37.96% +11.36%
75th Percentile £473 £415 £720
90th Percentile £485 £436 £750
North East median daily rate £410 £380 £575
% change year-on-year +7.89% -33.91% +6.98%

All Development Application Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 49 15 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 20.08% 6.17% 35.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 8 104
10th Percentile £335 £391 £476
25th Percentile £378 £444 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -14.22% -
75th Percentile £564 £549 £700
90th Percentile £626 £588 £775
North East median daily rate £475 £533 £575
% change year-on-year -10.80% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 - -
North East median hourly rate £52.00 £46.18 £49.00
% change year-on-year +12.60% -5.76% -11.71%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Git in Tyne and Wear

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Git in Tyne and Wear

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +1 12 £411 +8.22% 20
Sunderland - 1 £450 - 3
Git
North East

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Kong
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) dbt
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) MongoDB
2 4 (28.57%) MySQL
2 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
2 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (14.29%) Redis
3 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (7.14%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (28.57%) Artifactory
2 4 (28.57%) GitLab
2 4 (28.57%) gulp
2 4 (28.57%) Maven
2 4 (28.57%) SonarQube
2 4 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (21.43%) Cucumber
3 3 (21.43%) REST Assured
3 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio
3 3 (21.43%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (14.29%) JIRA
5 1 (7.14%) git-flow
5 1 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
2 4 (28.57%) Electronics
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 4 (28.57%) Marketing
2 4 (28.57%) Telecoms
3 3 (21.43%) French Language
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Legal
4 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead
5 1 (7.14%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Lead Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Node.js
2 5 (35.71%) CSS
2 5 (35.71%) HTML
2 5 (35.71%) React
3 4 (28.57%) AngularJS
3 4 (28.57%) Apache CXF
3 4 (28.57%) Dropwizard
3 4 (28.57%) Express.js
3 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 4 (28.57%) JAX-RS
3 4 (28.57%) Kafka
3 4 (28.57%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (28.57%) MERN Stack
3 4 (28.57%) Mongoose
3 4 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (28.57%) RESTful
3 4 (28.57%) Sequelize
3 4 (28.57%) Spring
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
4 3 (21.43%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Microservices
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
2 5 (35.71%) Full-Stack Development
3 4 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 4 (28.57%) Digital Marketing
3 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven
3 4 (28.57%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 4 (28.57%) Open Source
3 4 (28.57%) Operational Stability
3 4 (28.57%) Programme Management
4 3 (21.43%) BDD
4 3 (21.43%) SDLC
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) API Integration
5 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Front End Development
5 2 (14.29%) Software Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (50.00%) Java
2 6 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) SQL
4 3 (21.43%) C#
5 2 (14.29%) Python
6 1 (7.14%) Bash
6 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) AWS Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (7.14%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) New Relic
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) Dynatrace