git-flow Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

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UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring git-flow skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 356 364 420
Rank change year-on-year +8 +56 +61
Contract jobs citing git-flow 6 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.006% 0.028%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.046% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £418 £543 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £545 £495
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +10.10% -5.26%
75th Percentile £455 £548 £518
90th Percentile £463 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £950 £575
% change year-on-year -44.74% +65.22% -4.17%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

git-flow 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,253 2,158 2,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.60% 12.09% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,543 1,333 1,824
10th Percentile £311 £350 £356
25th Percentile £400 £406 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £626 £656 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 154 191
10th Percentile £45.23 £45.00 £46.18
25th Percentile £55.00 £54.78 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.33%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £77.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £73.08 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing git-flow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for git-flow in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing git-flow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing git-flow

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing git-flow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing git-flow

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing git-flow within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 September 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
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
North of England - 3 - - 3
Scotland - 2 £463 -
North West - 2 - - 2
South East - 1 £410 - 6
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Azure API Management
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Next.js
1 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) Spring
2 2 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Observability
2 3 (50.00%) Product Management
3 2 (33.33%) API Management
3 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 2 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 2 (33.33%) Software Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Bicep
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle