Git Contracts in the UK excluding London

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 69 90 73
Rank change year-on-year +21 -17 -22
Contract jobs citing Git 440 458 782
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.45% 2.20% 3.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.72% 20.22% 22.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 273 554
10th Percentile £325 £350 £405
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £625
90th Percentile £615 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 40 39
10th Percentile £50.32 £50.48 £51.25
25th Percentile £53.13 £56.25 £53.13
Median hourly rate £57.63 £62.50 £67.34
Median % change year-on-year -7.80% -7.19% +20.25%
75th Percentile £63.44 £70.00 £74.50
90th Percentile £67.63 £80.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.25
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.21% +8.75%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,711 2,265 3,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.40% 10.90% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 1,466 2,398
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 169 184
10th Percentile £46.25 £40.00 £45.38
25th Percentile £52.42 £52.50 £52.47
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.36 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
North of England +30 118 £471 -10.38% 283
South East +14 108 £500 -5.66% 299
Scotland +13 86 £445 -22.61% 52
North West +15 58 £455 -13.33% 177
Midlands +11 53 £500 +39.66% 127
South West +65 50 £575 -1.71% 120
Yorkshire +21 46 £510 -0.49% 79
West Midlands -8 33 £506 +40.95% 85
East Midlands +23 20 £483 +35.53% 35
East of England +11 17 £463 -7.50% 106
North East +5 14 £410 +7.89% 29
Northern Ireland - 10 £325 - 18
Wales -2 3 £525 -0.71% 25
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 61 (13.86%) Confluence
2 16 (3.64%) JBoss
3 13 (2.95%) Apache
4 7 (1.59%) Tomcat
4 7 (1.59%) WebLogic
4 7 (1.59%) WebSphere
5 4 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.91%) CMS
5 4 (0.91%) Drupal
5 4 (0.91%) WordPress
6 3 (0.68%) Camunda
6 3 (0.68%) Moodle
7 2 (0.45%) OpenROAD
7 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.23%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.23%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.23%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Finacle
2 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 143 (32.50%) Azure
2 118 (26.82%) AWS
3 52 (11.82%) Azure DevOps
4 37 (8.41%) OpenShift
5 35 (7.95%) GitHub
6 27 (6.14%) GCP
7 21 (4.77%) Amazon S3
8 19 (4.32%) Serverless
9 18 (4.09%) Cloud Computing
10 17 (3.86%) SaaS
11 14 (3.18%) Power Platform
12 13 (2.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 11 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 11 (2.50%) IaaS
14 10 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (2.05%) AWS CodeBuild
15 9 (2.05%) Entra ID
15 9 (2.05%) PaaS
16 8 (1.82%) Azure Functions
16 8 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 19 (4.32%) SAN
2 15 (3.41%) NAS
3 13 (2.95%) HTTP
4 12 (2.73%) Software-Defined Radio
5 10 (2.27%) SNMP
6 9 (2.05%) DNS
7 8 (1.82%) Firewall
8 4 (0.91%) DHCP
8 4 (0.91%) Internet
9 3 (0.68%) SSL
10 2 (0.45%) Calico
10 2 (0.45%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.45%) VLAN
10 2 (0.45%) Wireless
11 1 (0.23%) 5G
11 1 (0.23%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.23%) IPFIX
11 1 (0.23%) Network Security
11 1 (0.23%) PuTTY
11 1 (0.23%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (12.73%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 40 (9.09%) MongoDB
4 39 (8.86%) MySQL
5 30 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 26 (5.91%) SQL Server
7 20 (4.55%) Oracle Database
8 19 (4.32%) RDBMS
9 18 (4.09%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (3.18%) Apache Cassandra
11 10 (2.27%) Big Data
11 10 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (1.59%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.36%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (1.14%) Amazon Aurora
14 5 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (1.14%) DB2
14 5 (1.14%) Neo4j
14 5 (1.14%) ObjectStore
14 5 (1.14%) Redis
Development Applications
1 123 (27.95%) Jenkins
2 117 (26.59%) JIRA
3 48 (10.91%) Bitbucket
4 41 (9.32%) Selenium
5 35 (7.95%) Subversion
6 31 (7.05%) Cucumber
6 31 (7.05%) GitLab
6 31 (7.05%) Maven
7 24 (5.45%) SonarQube
8 21 (4.77%) Postman
9 20 (4.55%) JUnit
10 19 (4.32%) Bitbucket Server
11 16 (3.64%) GoogleTest
11 16 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
12 14 (3.18%) TeamCity
13 13 (2.95%) Jasmine
13 13 (2.95%) Visual Studio
14 9 (2.05%) Artifactory
14 9 (2.05%) gulp
14 9 (2.05%) Robot Framework
General
1 78 (17.73%) Social Skills
2 73 (16.59%) Public Sector
3 65 (14.77%) Finance
4 60 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (4.77%) Banking
6 15 (3.41%) Back Office
7 14 (3.18%) Manufacturing
8 11 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 10 (2.27%) Electronics
9 10 (2.27%) Front Office
9 10 (2.27%) Marketing
10 8 (1.82%) Legal
11 6 (1.36%) Wholesale Banking
12 5 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (0.91%) Games
14 3 (0.68%) French Language
14 3 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (0.68%) Retail
15 2 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
15 2 (0.45%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 177 (40.23%) Developer
2 61 (13.86%) Senior
3 37 (8.41%) Software Engineer
4 33 (7.50%) Full-Stack Developer
5 32 (7.27%) DevOps Engineer
6 31 (7.05%) Senior Developer
7 23 (5.23%) Java Developer
7 23 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
8 21 (4.77%) Data Engineer
8 21 (4.77%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 18 (4.09%) Linux Engineer
9 18 (4.09%) Test Engineer
10 16 (3.64%) Python Engineer
11 13 (2.95%) Lead
11 13 (2.95%) Oracle Developer
11 13 (2.95%) Python Developer
12 12 (2.73%) .NET Developer
12 12 (2.73%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (2.73%) Tester
13 11 (2.50%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 82 (18.64%) CSS
2 75 (17.05%) RESTful
3 73 (16.59%) HTML
4 65 (14.77%) REST
5 63 (14.32%) React
6 54 (12.27%) AngularJS
7 48 (10.91%) .NET
8 47 (10.68%) Spring Boot
9 40 (9.09%) Node.js
10 38 (8.64%) Spring
11 34 (7.73%) Web Services
12 27 (6.14%) SOAP
13 21 (4.77%) JSON
14 17 (3.86%) HTML5
14 17 (3.86%) XML
15 16 (3.64%) Laravel
16 15 (3.41%) FastAPI
17 14 (3.18%) Swagger
18 13 (2.95%) Kafka
18 13 (2.95%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.05%) Product Ownership
2 14 (3.18%) Mobile App
3 13 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (2.95%) VHDL
4 12 (2.73%) Derivative
4 12 (2.73%) Management Information System
5 10 (2.27%) Algorithms
5 10 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 10 (2.27%) Equities
5 10 (2.27%) Equity Derivative
5 10 (2.27%) FPGA
5 10 (2.27%) Onboarding
6 8 (1.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 7 (1.59%) Private Cloud
7 7 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.36%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 4 (0.91%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 127 (28.86%) Linux
2 69 (15.68%) Windows
3 42 (9.55%) Unix
4 31 (7.05%) Windows Server
5 29 (6.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (2.50%) Ubuntu
7 8 (1.82%) Android
7 8 (1.82%) Embedded Linux
8 6 (1.36%) CentOS
9 4 (0.91%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.91%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.91%) Solaris
10 3 (0.68%) AIX
10 3 (0.68%) Mac OS X
11 2 (0.45%) Debian
11 2 (0.45%) HPUX
12 1 (0.23%) VMS
12 1 (0.23%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (50.00%) Agile
2 190 (43.18%) CI/CD
3 164 (37.27%) DevOps
4 107 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
5 105 (23.86%) Test Automation
6 85 (19.32%) Software Engineering
7 78 (17.73%) Scrum
8 77 (17.50%) Microservices
9 61 (13.86%) Continuous Integration
10 54 (12.27%) TDD
11 53 (12.05%) SDLC
12 52 (11.82%) Full-Stack Development
13 44 (10.00%) Code Quality
13 44 (10.00%) Containerisation
14 39 (8.86%) OO
15 38 (8.64%) Configuration Management
15 38 (8.64%) Design Patterns
15 38 (8.64%) Unit Testing
16 35 (7.95%) BDD
16 35 (7.95%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 203 (46.14%) Python
2 140 (31.82%) SQL
3 121 (27.50%) JavaScript
4 108 (24.55%) Java
5 60 (13.64%) C#
6 58 (13.18%) Bash
7 54 (12.27%) PowerShell
8 37 (8.41%) TypeScript
9 27 (6.14%) Shell Script
10 25 (5.68%) PHP
11 22 (5.00%) C++
11 22 (5.00%) PL/SQL
12 18 (4.09%) Perl
13 13 (2.95%) Kotlin
14 12 (2.73%) Ruby
15 10 (2.27%) C
16 9 (2.05%) ProC
16 9 (2.05%) Tcl
17 5 (1.14%) Erlang
17 5 (1.14%) Prolog
Qualifications
1 98 (22.27%) Security Cleared
2 77 (17.50%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.64%) Degree
4 18 (4.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 17 (3.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (2.95%) DV Cleared
7 12 (2.73%) Oracle Certification
8 11 (2.50%) OCA
9 10 (2.27%) CCNP
9 10 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 10 (2.27%) RHCA
9 10 (2.27%) RHCE
10 7 (1.59%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.14%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
13 3 (0.68%) CEH
13 3 (0.68%) ISEB
13 3 (0.68%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.86%) QA
2 21 (4.77%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.27%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 7 (1.59%) WCAG
5 4 (0.91%) NCSC
6 3 (0.68%) GDPR
7 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.23%) NIST
7 1 (0.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 83 (18.86%) Docker
2 26 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (5.23%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.95%) Firmware
5 7 (1.59%) vSphere
6 5 (1.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 4 (0.91%) Postfix
7 4 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.91%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.68%) Apache ZooKeeper
8 3 (0.68%) VirtualBox
8 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 106 (24.09%) Kubernetes
2 64 (14.55%) Ansible
3 54 (12.27%) Terraform
4 31 (7.05%) Progress Chef
5 25 (5.68%) Puppet
6 16 (3.64%) vCenter Server
7 15 (3.41%) Grafana
8 14 (3.18%) Kibana
8 14 (3.18%) Prometheus
9 11 (2.50%) NetBackup
9 11 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
10 7 (1.59%) MIIS
11 6 (1.36%) vRealize
12 3 (0.68%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.45%) Istio
13 2 (0.45%) Podman
13 2 (0.45%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.45%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.45%) SELinux
13 2 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 61 (13.86%) Oracle
2 48 (10.91%) Microsoft
3 39 (8.86%) VMware
4 24 (5.45%) Atlassian
5 23 (5.23%) Splunk
6 22 (5.00%) Google
7 18 (4.09%) Red Hat
7 18 (4.09%) Veritas
8 16 (3.64%) Databricks
8 16 (3.64%) SAP
9 12 (2.73%) Cisco
10 9 (2.05%) AppDynamics
10 9 (2.05%) Zend
11 7 (1.59%) OpenAI
11 7 (1.59%) Xilinx
12 6 (1.36%) ServiceNow
13 4 (0.91%) HP
13 4 (0.91%) Jaspersoft
13 4 (0.91%) Symantec
14 3 (0.68%) SolarWinds