Git Contract Job Trends

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 62 75
Rank change year-on-year -14 +13 -19
Contract jobs citing Git 1,472 1,057 1,162
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.21% 3.62% 2.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.18% 25.98% 22.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,021 721 771
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £634
90th Percentile £669 £688 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +1.05% -9.52% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 42
10th Percentile £50.50 £26.40 £46.88
25th Percentile £56.56 £51.06 £56.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -3.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £79.50 £65.00 £69.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £72.75 £74.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +12.00% - -4.21%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,845 4,069 5,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.74% 13.93% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,737 3,489
10th Percentile £340 £340 £356
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £581 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 225 71 175
10th Percentile £39.53 £26.25 £32.23
25th Percentile £60.00 £51.16 £45.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £64.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.47% +6.67% -2.44%
75th Percentile £75.00 £75.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £85.25 £81.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.84% +0.81%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Git job vacancy trend in the UK

Git
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 10 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Top 17 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 10 April 2026. 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
England -6 1,246 £500 -1.96% 730
UK excluding London -6 659 £480 +1.05% 608
London -2 629 £525 -2.78% 213
Work from Home +1 480 £513 +2.50% 312
Midlands +27 210 £484 -1.15% 83
West Midlands +26 187 £488 -2.50% 41
North of England -34 156 £450 -2.96% 137
South East -47 105 £500 - 159
North West -5 80 £413 -8.33% 73
South West -19 67 £525 -8.70% 101
Yorkshire -34 61 £470 -7.84% 43
East of England 0 57 £500 +5.26% 73
Scotland -9 56 £401 -10.89% 28
East Midlands -28 23 £450 -6.74% 42
North East -12 20 £475 +28.38% 22
Northern Ireland -2 10 - - 8
Wales -8 8 £338 -35.71% 26

Git
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
1 140 (9.51%) Confluence
2 73 (4.96%) Apache Spark
2 73 (4.96%) SAS
3 52 (3.53%) Apache
4 50 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
5 26 (1.77%) nginx
6 12 (0.82%) SharePoint
7 10 (0.68%) CMS
7 10 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 9 (0.61%) JBoss
8 9 (0.61%) WebLogic
9 8 (0.54%) OpenStack
10 7 (0.48%) Palantir Foundry
11 6 (0.41%) Ethereum
11 6 (0.41%) Hyperledger
12 5 (0.34%) Drupal
12 5 (0.34%) WebSphere
13 4 (0.27%) ArcGIS
13 4 (0.27%) Sitecore CMS
13 4 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 14 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (0.54%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.34%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.34%) Sketch
5 4 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.27%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.068%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.068%) Maya
7 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.34%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.27%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.27%) Findur
5 3 (0.20%) SAP BRIM
6 2 (0.14%) Shopify
7 1 (0.068%) Endur
7 1 (0.068%) Magento
7 1 (0.068%) Orchestrade
7 1 (0.068%) R3 Corda
7 1 (0.068%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.068%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 568 (38.59%) AWS
2 538 (36.55%) Azure
3 285 (19.36%) GitHub
4 206 (13.99%) Azure DevOps
5 186 (12.64%) Serverless
6 178 (12.09%) GCP
7 133 (9.04%) GitHub Actions
8 120 (8.15%) Amazon S3
8 120 (8.15%) AWS Lambda
9 118 (8.02%) Power Platform
10 102 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 80 (5.43%) Amazon EC2
12 79 (5.37%) Azure Data Factory
13 65 (4.42%) Amazon ECS
14 55 (3.74%) OpenShift
15 53 (3.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 53 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
16 47 (3.19%) Amazon SQS
17 46 (3.13%) Snowflake
18 45 (3.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 47 (3.19%) Firewall
2 32 (2.17%) HTTP
3 30 (2.04%) DNS
4 15 (1.02%) BGP
4 15 (1.02%) VPN
5 13 (0.88%) TCP/IP
6 11 (0.75%) Network Security
6 11 (0.75%) Reverse Proxy
6 11 (0.75%) SAN
7 10 (0.68%) NAS
8 9 (0.61%) MPLS
9 8 (0.54%) HTTPS
9 8 (0.54%) SSL
9 8 (0.54%) VXLAN
10 7 (0.48%) Ethernet VPN
10 7 (0.48%) OSPF
11 6 (0.41%) 5G
11 6 (0.41%) AMQP
11 6 (0.41%) Multicast
11 6 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (10.94%) PostgreSQL
2 141 (9.58%) NoSQL
3 112 (7.61%) Data Warehouse
4 94 (6.39%) Power BI
5 85 (5.77%) MongoDB
5 85 (5.77%) Relational Database
6 83 (5.64%) SQL Server
7 71 (4.82%) Amazon RDS
8 58 (3.94%) Azure SQL Database
9 53 (3.60%) MySQL
10 49 (3.33%) Data Lake
11 46 (3.13%) Pentaho
12 41 (2.79%) DynamoDB
13 36 (2.45%) Delta Lake
14 30 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
14 30 (2.04%) Big Data
14 30 (2.04%) Metadata
15 27 (1.83%) Spark SQL
16 26 (1.77%) Redis
17 24 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 364 (24.73%) Jenkins
2 318 (21.60%) JIRA
3 228 (15.49%) GitLab
4 133 (9.04%) JUnit
5 115 (7.81%) Selenium
6 75 (5.10%) Cucumber
7 64 (4.35%) Maven
8 62 (4.21%) Postman
9 61 (4.14%) Bitbucket
10 42 (2.85%) Mockito
11 38 (2.58%) SonarQube
12 36 (2.45%) Gradle
13 32 (2.17%) Cypress.io
14 29 (1.97%) JMeter
15 27 (1.83%) WebDriver
16 22 (1.49%) Zephyr
17 20 (1.36%) Artifactory
18 19 (1.29%) MLflow
18 19 (1.29%) Sonatype Nexus
19 18 (1.22%) SpecFlow
General
1 395 (26.83%) Social Skills
2 220 (14.95%) Public Sector
3 217 (14.74%) Finance
4 168 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
5 104 (7.07%) Banking
6 29 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 21 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.15%) Front Office
10 15 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 14 (0.95%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (0.95%) Retail
12 13 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 12 (0.82%) Law
13 12 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 11 (0.75%) Investment Banking
14 11 (0.75%) Legal
15 10 (0.68%) Electronics
15 10 (0.68%) Military
16 6 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 491 (33.36%) Developer
2 203 (13.79%) Data Engineer
3 201 (13.65%) Senior
4 114 (7.74%) Java Developer
5 102 (6.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 92 (6.25%) Software Engineer
7 85 (5.77%) Senior Developer
8 76 (5.16%) Python Developer
9 74 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
10 72 (4.89%) Lead
11 67 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
12 50 (3.40%) Architect
13 46 (3.13%) AWS Engineer
14 44 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 42 (2.85%) Tester
16 40 (2.72%) Platform Engineer
17 37 (2.51%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
18 36 (2.45%) Azure Data Engineer
19 34 (2.31%) Cloud Engineer
20 33 (2.24%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (19.36%) REST
2 210 (14.27%) Spring
3 197 (13.38%) RESTful
4 194 (13.18%) React
5 160 (10.87%) Spring Boot
6 144 (9.78%) Node.js
7 118 (8.02%) HTML
8 116 (7.88%) .NET
9 114 (7.74%) Kafka
10 107 (7.27%) CSS
11 101 (6.86%) AngularJS
12 100 (6.79%) PySpark
13 79 (5.37%) JSON
14 60 (4.08%) Playwright
15 55 (3.74%) pytest
15 55 (3.74%) Web Services
16 53 (3.60%) Pandas
16 53 (3.60%) SOAP
17 51 (3.46%) HTML5
18 49 (3.33%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.39%) Cloud Native
2 87 (5.91%) Distributed Systems
3 76 (5.16%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.31%) Algorithms
4 34 (2.31%) Data Centre
5 28 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
6 24 (1.63%) Onboarding
7 22 (1.49%) Distributed Architecture
7 22 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
8 21 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
8 21 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.43%) Mobile App
9 20 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.22%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.15%) Derivative
12 16 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
12 16 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (0.95%) Public Cloud
14 13 (0.88%) AI Agents
14 13 (0.88%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 194 (13.18%) Linux
2 53 (3.60%) Windows
3 45 (3.06%) Unix
4 31 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (1.09%) VMS
6 14 (0.95%) Windows Server
7 13 (0.88%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.75%) CentOS
10 9 (0.61%) Debian
11 8 (0.54%) Android
12 5 (0.34%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.27%) Embedded Linux
13 4 (0.27%) Rocky
14 1 (0.068%) AIX
14 1 (0.068%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 987 (67.05%) CI/CD
2 724 (49.18%) Agile
3 657 (44.63%) DevOps
4 390 (26.49%) Test Automation
5 355 (24.12%) Problem-Solving
6 319 (21.67%) Containerisation
7 314 (21.33%) Microservices
8 287 (19.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 246 (16.71%) Scrum
10 243 (16.51%) Analytics
11 236 (16.03%) Data Modelling
12 227 (15.42%) Data Pipeline
13 225 (15.29%) Software Engineering
14 188 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
15 186 (12.64%) ETL
16 174 (11.82%) AI
16 174 (11.82%) Data Engineering
17 167 (11.35%) Observability
18 147 (9.99%) TDD
19 142 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 671 (45.58%) Python
2 489 (33.22%) SQL
3 354 (24.05%) Java
4 233 (15.83%) JavaScript
5 164 (11.14%) TypeScript
6 156 (10.60%) C#
7 114 (7.74%) Bash
8 104 (7.07%) PowerShell
9 63 (4.28%) Ruby
9 63 (4.28%) Scala
10 50 (3.40%) Go
11 41 (2.79%) Shell Script
12 36 (2.45%) C++
13 29 (1.97%) Bicep
14 27 (1.83%) Perl
15 24 (1.63%) Apex Code
16 22 (1.49%) C
17 15 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
18 14 (0.95%) Kotlin
18 14 (0.95%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 516 (35.05%) Security Cleared
2 440 (29.89%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.81%) Degree
4 69 (4.69%) BPSS Clearance
5 65 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
6 34 (2.31%) Azure Certification
7 30 (2.04%) Master's Degree
8 26 (1.77%) DV Cleared
9 22 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 19 (1.29%) ISTQB
11 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
12 16 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.68%) CCNP
14 7 (0.48%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 7 (0.48%) Oracle Certification
14 7 (0.48%) RHCE
15 6 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 6 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
16 5 (0.34%) CCIE
16 5 (0.34%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (10.12%) Data Quality
2 146 (9.92%) QA
3 89 (6.05%) Accessibility
4 49 (3.33%) WCAG
5 34 (2.31%) GDPR
6 16 (1.09%) SLA
7 13 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 8 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 8 (0.54%) NCSC
9 7 (0.48%) NIST
9 7 (0.48%) PSD2
9 7 (0.48%) SEPA
10 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.14%) Disclosure Scotland
11 2 (0.14%) GRC
11 2 (0.14%) HL7
12 1 (0.068%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.068%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.068%) PMO
System Software
1 485 (32.95%) Docker
2 34 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 32 (2.17%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.68%) Postfix
6 6 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
7 5 (0.34%) QEMU
8 4 (0.27%) Varnish
9 3 (0.20%) Firmware
9 3 (0.20%) NFS
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.14%) Ceph
10 2 (0.14%) Sendmail
11 1 (0.068%) iptables
11 1 (0.068%) Samba
11 1 (0.068%) Squid
11 1 (0.068%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.068%) VMware NSX
11 1 (0.068%) vSphere
11 1 (0.068%) zsh
Systems Management
1 446 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 318 (21.60%) Terraform
3 152 (10.33%) Ansible
4 142 (9.65%) Grafana
5 98 (6.66%) Prometheus
6 30 (2.04%) Puppet
7 20 (1.36%) Packer
7 20 (1.36%) Podman
8 16 (1.09%) Consul
9 12 (0.82%) Red Hat Satellite
10 10 (0.68%) Istio
10 10 (0.68%) Progress Chef
11 9 (0.61%) Check_MK
11 9 (0.61%) Kibana
11 9 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 7 (0.48%) Argo
12 7 (0.48%) NetBackup
13 6 (0.41%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.34%) Rancher
15 4 (0.27%) Salt
Vendors
1 177 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 141 (9.58%) Oracle
3 125 (8.49%) Databricks
4 64 (4.35%) Google
5 63 (4.28%) ServiceNow
6 48 (3.26%) Talend
7 46 (3.13%) Denodo
8 37 (2.51%) Splunk
9 36 (2.45%) Salesforce
10 31 (2.11%) Red Hat
10 31 (2.11%) VMware
11 22 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 21 (1.43%) Dynatrace
13 19 (1.29%) Atlassian
14 17 (1.15%) SAP
15 16 (1.09%) Foundry
16 15 (1.02%) IBM
17 12 (0.82%) Adobe
17 12 (0.82%) Jaspersoft
18 11 (0.75%) Palantir