git-flow Contract Job Trends

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UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring git-flow skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 550 593
Rank change year-on-year -20 +43 +86
Contract jobs citing git-flow 11 14 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.040% 0.043%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.20% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 11
10th Percentile £362 £349 £563
25th Percentile £374 £355 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £453 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% -24.58% -
75th Percentile £548 £628 £650
90th Percentile £581 £1,050 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £436 £423 £525
% change year-on-year +3.25% -19.52% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £64.55
Median hourly rate - - £69.10
75th Percentile - - £73.65
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,509 4,577 5,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.12% 13.24% 13.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,802 2,877 4,018
10th Percentile £338 £340 £363
25th Percentile £409 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £638
90th Percentile £695 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £513
% change year-on-year -2.56% -5.03% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 98 213
10th Percentile £39.00 £26.43 £45.88
25th Percentile £52.81 £46.44 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £76.53
90th Percentile £84.40 £75.00 £89.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% -

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing git-flow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

git-flow job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing git-flow over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for git-flow in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 9 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Work from Home +19 6 £364 -49.09%
England -45 6 £480 +6.08%
UK excluding London -45 5 £436 +3.25%
London -3 3 £550 -23.08%
North West -19 2 - -
North of England -37 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £463 -
Yorkshire - 2 - -
South East 0 1 £410 -13.68%

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) AWS
2 5 (45.45%) GitHub
3 3 (27.27%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (27.27%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) Azure API Management
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Run
5 1 (9.09%) Datadog
5 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (9.09%) Pulumi
5 1 (9.09%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DocumentDB
1 2 (18.18%) MongoDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
1 2 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
2 1 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
2 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Git
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
4 1 (9.09%) Gradle
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Retail Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Spring
1 6 (54.55%) Spring Boot
2 4 (36.36%) Node.js
3 3 (27.27%) Kafka
4 2 (18.18%) HTML
4 2 (18.18%) Next.js
4 2 (18.18%) React
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth
5 1 (9.09%) OAuth2
5 1 (9.09%) OpenID
5 1 (9.09%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (9.09%) REST
5 1 (9.09%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 6 (54.55%) Microservices
3 5 (45.45%) Containerisation
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Event-Driven
3 5 (45.45%) Scrum
4 4 (36.36%) API Management
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Agile
5 3 (27.27%) Code Quality
5 3 (27.27%) Front End Development
5 3 (27.27%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (27.27%) Runbook
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
6 2 (18.18%) High Availability
6 2 (18.18%) MVC
6 2 (18.18%) Product Management
6 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) JavaScript
2 4 (36.36%) Java
3 3 (27.27%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) Korn
5 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
3 1 (9.09%) Argo
3 1 (9.09%) Grafana
3 1 (9.09%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk
3 1 (9.09%) AppDynamics
3 1 (9.09%) Black Duck
3 1 (9.09%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Intel
3 1 (9.09%) PagerDuty
3 1 (9.09%) Qualys
3 1 (9.09%) Veracode