Git Contracts in the UK excluding London

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Git skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Git over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 70 52
Rank change year-on-year -19 -18 -1
Contract jobs citing Git 451 789 1,321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 3.27% 4.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.28% 23.01% 28.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 560 861
10th Percentile £351 £406 £385
25th Percentile £400 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +2.44% +20.59%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £558 £550
% change year-on-year -5.83% +1.36% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 39 33
10th Percentile £50.20 £51.25 £37.05
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.13 £45.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.34 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% +20.25% +4.19%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.50 £63.25
90th Percentile £81.00 £75.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% +8.33% +11.63%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Git is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,224 3,429 4,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.77% 14.22% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 2,418 3,220
10th Percentile £350 £350 £356
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.28%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £640
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 186 113
10th Percentile £40.00 £45.63 £37.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £52.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £77.00 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
South East +15 150 £530 -3.64% 94
North of England -28 99 £525 -4.55% 121
Scotland +10 78 £575 +15.00% 33
North West -14 59 £525 - 76
Midlands -24 57 £358 -33.46% 75
West Midlands -2 50 £364 -32.59% 52
East of England -34 35 £500 - 45
Yorkshire -7 33 £513 -10.09% 36
South West -49 29 £585 +11.43% 88
North East -11 9 £380 -33.91% 9
Wales +21 7 £475 -13.64% 17
East Midlands -8 7 £356 -25.05% 23
Git
UK

Git
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:

Application Platforms
1 64 (14.19%) Confluence
2 20 (4.43%) Apache
3 13 (2.88%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.44%) CICS
4 11 (2.44%) SAS
5 10 (2.22%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (2.00%) Drupal
7 6 (1.33%) JBoss
7 6 (1.33%) OpenStack
8 5 (1.11%) CMS
9 4 (0.89%) nginx
9 4 (0.89%) SharePoint
10 3 (0.67%) Cloud Foundry
10 3 (0.67%) IIS
11 2 (0.44%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.44%) Kentico
11 2 (0.44%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.44%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.44%) Traefik
12 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.77%) Simulink
2 7 (1.55%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.11%) TargetLink
4 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.22%) Magento
2 1 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 114 (25.28%) Azure
2 111 (24.61%) AWS
3 55 (12.20%) Azure DevOps
4 48 (10.64%) Serverless
5 41 (9.09%) GitHub
6 30 (6.65%) Amazon EC2
7 29 (6.43%) GCP
8 27 (5.99%) Amazon S3
8 27 (5.99%) Azure Monitor
9 25 (5.54%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 21 (4.66%) AWS Lambda
10 21 (4.66%) OpenShift
11 19 (4.21%) Azure Functions
12 18 (3.99%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (3.55%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.55%) Entra ID
14 15 (3.33%) Amazon SQS
14 15 (3.33%) PaaS
15 13 (2.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 13 (2.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.76%) HTTP
2 23 (5.10%) DNS
3 20 (4.43%) Firewall
3 20 (4.43%) TCP/IP
4 17 (3.77%) Software-Defined Radio
5 16 (3.55%) SNMP
5 16 (3.55%) SSL
6 11 (2.44%) 5G
7 10 (2.22%) VPN
8 8 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 8 (1.77%) NAS
9 7 (1.55%) NetScaler
10 6 (1.33%) FTP
10 6 (1.33%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.33%) Network Security
10 6 (1.33%) Wireless
11 5 (1.11%) SAN
12 4 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.89%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.67%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (11.97%) PostgreSQL
2 42 (9.31%) Relational Database
3 38 (8.43%) NoSQL
4 37 (8.20%) SQL Server
5 34 (7.54%) MySQL
6 18 (3.99%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (3.33%) Big Data
8 14 (3.10%) MongoDB
9 13 (2.88%) DB2
9 13 (2.88%) Elasticsearch
10 12 (2.66%) Data Lake
10 12 (2.66%) RDBMS
11 11 (2.44%) IDMS
12 10 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.77%) Apache Cassandra
13 8 (1.77%) DynamoDB
13 8 (1.77%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
15 6 (1.33%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 143 (31.71%) Jenkins
2 116 (25.72%) JIRA
3 45 (9.98%) Bitbucket
4 42 (9.31%) GitLab
4 42 (9.31%) JUnit
5 30 (6.65%) Subversion
6 28 (6.21%) Cucumber
7 26 (5.76%) Selenium
7 26 (5.76%) Visual Studio
8 24 (5.32%) Postman
9 18 (3.99%) Eclipse
9 18 (3.99%) SonarQube
10 16 (3.55%) GoogleTest
10 16 (3.55%) Maven
11 15 (3.33%) Robot Framework
12 12 (2.66%) IntelliJ
12 12 (2.66%) Sonatype Nexus
13 11 (2.44%) Gradle
13 11 (2.44%) TeamCity
14 9 (2.00%) Artifactory
General
1 82 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 40 (8.87%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (7.54%) Public Sector
4 30 (6.65%) Finance
5 16 (3.55%) Banking
6 13 (2.88%) Aerospace
6 13 (2.88%) Telecoms
7 12 (2.66%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.66%) Multimedia
8 11 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
9 9 (2.00%) Automotive
10 5 (1.11%) Marketing
10 5 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.11%) Retail
11 4 (0.89%) German Language
12 3 (0.67%) Electronics
12 3 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.44%) Health Technology
13 2 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 200 (44.35%) Developer
2 53 (11.75%) Software Engineer
3 46 (10.20%) Java Developer
4 42 (9.31%) Senior
5 30 (6.65%) DevOps Engineer
6 27 (5.99%) Full Stack Developer
6 27 (5.99%) Lead
7 22 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
8 19 (4.21%) Azure Developer
8 19 (4.21%) Data Engineer
9 18 (3.99%) Python Developer
10 17 (3.77%) C++ Software Engineer
11 14 (3.10%) AWS DevOps
11 14 (3.10%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
12 13 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 12 (2.66%) C# Developer
13 12 (2.66%) Embedded Engineer
14 11 (2.44%) Embedded Software Engineer
14 11 (2.44%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (17.96%) REST
2 72 (15.96%) React
3 55 (12.20%) CSS
3 55 (12.20%) Spring Boot
4 52 (11.53%) .NET
5 51 (11.31%) Spring
6 46 (10.20%) HTML
7 40 (8.87%) JSON
8 39 (8.65%) Kafka
8 39 (8.65%) RESTful
9 36 (7.98%) Node.js
9 36 (7.98%) XML
10 26 (5.76%) AngularJS
11 21 (4.66%) Elastic Stack
11 21 (4.66%) Web Services
12 20 (4.43%) ASP.NET
13 17 (3.77%) YAML
14 16 (3.55%) .NET Core
14 16 (3.55%) GraphQL
15 15 (3.33%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 21 (4.66%) Data Protection Act
2 20 (4.43%) Product Ownership
3 17 (3.77%) Algorithms
3 17 (3.77%) Cloud Native
4 14 (3.10%) Mobile App
5 13 (2.88%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.44%) IBM Mainframe
6 11 (2.44%) Mainframe
7 10 (2.22%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.00%) Management Information System
8 9 (2.00%) Public Cloud
9 8 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
10 6 (1.33%) Enterprise Cloud
11 5 (1.11%) Device Driver
11 5 (1.11%) PKI
11 5 (1.11%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.11%) Social Media
12 4 (0.89%) Client/Server
12 4 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 108 (23.95%) Linux
2 65 (14.41%) Windows
3 44 (9.76%) Unix
4 22 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (2.66%) VMS
6 11 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 11 (2.44%) zOS
7 8 (1.77%) Android
7 8 (1.77%) Embedded Linux
8 5 (1.11%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.89%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.67%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.67%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.44%) CentOS
11 2 (0.44%) Debian
11 2 (0.44%) Solaris
12 1 (0.22%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.22%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (52.55%) Agile
2 180 (39.91%) DevOps
3 159 (35.25%) CI/CD
4 125 (27.72%) Scrum
5 112 (24.83%) Software Engineering
6 100 (22.17%) Continuous Integration
7 90 (19.96%) Test Automation
8 74 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
9 72 (15.96%) Microservices
10 60 (13.30%) TDD
11 59 (13.08%) Containerisation
12 55 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 54 (11.97%) Unit Testing
14 48 (10.64%) Full Stack Development
15 45 (9.98%) Software Testing
16 38 (8.43%) Kanban
16 38 (8.43%) OO
17 37 (8.20%) Computer Science
17 37 (8.20%) Deployment Automation
18 33 (7.32%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 170 (37.69%) Python
2 118 (26.16%) Java
3 100 (22.17%) SQL
4 92 (20.40%) JavaScript
5 73 (16.19%) C#
6 70 (15.52%) Bash
7 46 (10.20%) C++
8 38 (8.43%) C
8 38 (8.43%) PowerShell
9 34 (7.54%) TypeScript
10 33 (7.32%) Perl
11 29 (6.43%) Go
12 28 (6.21%) Shell Script
13 16 (3.55%) PHP
14 14 (3.10%) MATLAB
15 11 (2.44%) CLIST
15 11 (2.44%) COBOL
15 11 (2.44%) Groovy
15 11 (2.44%) REXX
16 10 (2.22%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 118 (26.16%) Security Cleared
2 104 (23.06%) SC Cleared
3 50 (11.09%) Degree
4 27 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (4.88%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.55%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 6 (1.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 5 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.89%) PhD
10 2 (0.44%) HND
10 2 (0.44%) ISEB
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.22%) CCNP
11 1 (0.22%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.22%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.10%) QA
2 8 (1.77%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.33%) JTAG
3 6 (1.33%) MISRA
3 6 (1.33%) MISRA C
4 5 (1.11%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.11%) ISO 26262
5 3 (0.67%) ISO 22301
5 3 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.67%) NCSC
5 3 (0.67%) SLA
6 2 (0.44%) GDPR
6 2 (0.44%) WCAG
7 1 (0.22%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.22%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 108 (23.95%) Docker
2 34 (7.54%) Active Directory
3 19 (4.21%) Firmware
4 7 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.55%) vSphere
5 6 (1.33%) VirtualBox
6 5 (1.11%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.89%) HDFS
7 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.89%) zsh
8 3 (0.67%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.44%) Varnish
9 2 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.22%) LXC
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 106 (23.50%) Kubernetes
2 75 (16.63%) Ansible
3 72 (15.96%) Terraform
4 21 (4.66%) Kibana
5 19 (4.21%) Grafana
6 15 (3.33%) Progress Chef
6 15 (3.33%) Puppet
7 12 (2.66%) Prometheus
8 9 (2.00%) Packer
8 9 (2.00%) vRealize
9 8 (1.77%) Docker Swarm
10 7 (1.55%) HP Fortify
11 6 (1.33%) logstash
12 4 (0.89%) HAProxy
12 4 (0.89%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.67%) Istio
13 3 (0.67%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.44%) Consul
14 2 (0.44%) linkerd
14 2 (0.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 41 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.87%) Oracle
3 25 (5.54%) Google
4 23 (5.10%) Splunk
5 19 (4.21%) Atlassian
6 18 (3.99%) VMware
7 17 (3.77%) Talend
8 14 (3.10%) Red Hat
9 13 (2.88%) IBM
10 11 (2.44%) Syncsort
10 11 (2.44%) Veritas
11 10 (2.22%) Denodo
11 10 (2.22%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.77%) Cadence
12 8 (1.77%) F5
13 7 (1.55%) Informatica
14 6 (1.33%) SAP
15 5 (1.11%) AppDynamics
15 5 (1.11%) Databricks
15 5 (1.11%) ServiceNow