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 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 61 57 67
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 -18
Contract jobs citing Git 1,420 1,271 1,417
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 3.90% 3.68% 3.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 25.78% 27.77% 24.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 806 952
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £411 £424 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £679 £719 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 77
10th Percentile £47.20 £22.57 -
25th Percentile £59.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median hourly rate £67.00 £57.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.03% -8.40% -3.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.85 £70.75 £76.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.74% -3.20% -4.58%

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 5,509 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% -

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 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
England -2 1,196 £513 -2.38% 1,179
UK excluding London -6 643 £480 -4.00% 1,127
London -3 588 £550 - 249
Work from Home +6 441 £504 -1.61% 612
North of England +15 223 £447 -5.89% 283
Midlands +8 176 £500 - 195
West Midlands +13 148 £500 -9.09% 108
Yorkshire +6 108 £473 -14.08% 106
North West +16 104 £425 +6.25% 152
South East -26 91 £509 +1.80% 275
Scotland -4 59 £475 +5.56% 70
South West -28 59 £525 -14.29% 133
East of England -21 29 £450 -5.26% 137
East Midlands -11 28 £463 -4.15% 82
Wales +1 17 £375 -25.00% 28
North East -14 15 £531 +46.55% 27
Northern Ireland -13 1 £425 +30.77% 25

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
1 105 (7.39%) Confluence
2 66 (4.65%) Apache Spark
3 58 (4.08%) SAS
4 54 (3.80%) Apache Airflow
5 52 (3.66%) Apache
6 33 (2.32%) nginx
7 25 (1.76%) JBoss
8 13 (0.92%) CMS
8 13 (0.92%) IIS
8 13 (0.92%) WebLogic
8 13 (0.92%) WebSphere
9 12 (0.85%) SugarCRM
10 10 (0.70%) iPlanet
10 10 (0.70%) SharePoint
10 10 (0.70%) WebSphere Application Server
11 9 (0.63%) Jupyter
11 9 (0.63%) Mule
12 8 (0.56%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 8 (0.56%) Anypoint
12 8 (0.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 17 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (0.77%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 6 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.35%) Adobe XD
4 5 (0.35%) Sketch
5 4 (0.28%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) Microsoft Office
7 1 (0.070%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.070%) Moqups
Business Applications
1 6 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.35%) Endur
3 3 (0.21%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.21%) Maximo
3 3 (0.21%) SAP BRIM
3 3 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.14%) Magento
4 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.14%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.14%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.14%) SAP FS
4 2 (0.14%) Shopify
5 1 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.070%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.070%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 587 (41.34%) AWS
2 497 (35.00%) Azure
3 279 (19.65%) GitHub
4 183 (12.89%) GCP
5 182 (12.82%) Serverless
6 171 (12.04%) Azure DevOps
7 157 (11.06%) GitHub Actions
8 132 (9.30%) Amazon S3
9 116 (8.17%) AWS Lambda
10 111 (7.82%) Amazon EC2
11 105 (7.39%) AWS CloudFormation
12 96 (6.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 79 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
13 79 (5.56%) Power Platform
14 77 (5.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 73 (5.14%) Amazon EKS
16 72 (5.07%) OpenShift
17 51 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
18 48 (3.38%) Snowflake
19 45 (3.17%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.92%) Firewall
2 80 (5.63%) DNS
3 59 (4.15%) HTTP
4 43 (3.03%) TCP/IP
5 36 (2.54%) SSL
6 34 (2.39%) VPN
7 30 (2.11%) SSH
8 23 (1.62%) FTP
9 22 (1.55%) Network Security
10 20 (1.41%) SMTP
11 16 (1.13%) OpenLDAP
12 15 (1.06%) AMQP
12 15 (1.06%) BGP
13 12 (0.85%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.77%) IMAP
15 10 (0.70%) MPLS
16 9 (0.63%) DSL
17 8 (0.56%) OSPF
17 8 (0.56%) VXLAN
18 7 (0.49%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (11.06%) PostgreSQL
2 128 (9.01%) NoSQL
3 121 (8.52%) Relational Database
4 88 (6.20%) Amazon RDS
5 76 (5.35%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (5.14%) MongoDB
7 70 (4.93%) SQL Server
8 69 (4.86%) MySQL
9 63 (4.44%) Power BI
10 45 (3.17%) Oracle Database
11 38 (2.68%) Pentaho
12 37 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
13 35 (2.46%) Big Data
14 32 (2.25%) Redis
15 31 (2.18%) Data Lake
16 29 (2.04%) RDBMS
17 28 (1.97%) Amazon Aurora
18 25 (1.76%) Tableau
19 24 (1.69%) BigQuery
20 22 (1.55%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 434 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 296 (20.85%) JIRA
3 220 (15.49%) GitLab
4 89 (6.27%) Bitbucket
5 85 (5.99%) Selenium
6 77 (5.42%) JUnit
7 64 (4.51%) Maven
8 61 (4.30%) SonarQube
9 53 (3.73%) Cucumber
9 53 (3.73%) Postman
10 43 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
11 41 (2.89%) Cypress.io
12 38 (2.68%) Gradle
13 32 (2.25%) Mockito
14 30 (2.11%) Subversion
15 25 (1.76%) webpack
16 23 (1.62%) Vagrant
17 22 (1.55%) TeamCity
18 18 (1.27%) Artifactory
18 18 (1.27%) CircleCI
General
1 392 (27.61%) Social Skills
2 233 (16.41%) Finance
3 213 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 147 (10.35%) Analytical Skills
5 122 (8.59%) Banking
6 36 (2.54%) Investment Banking
7 24 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
8 20 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 19 (1.34%) Marketing
9 19 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
9 19 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
10 14 (0.99%) Front Office
10 14 (0.99%) Retail
11 13 (0.92%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.77%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.70%) Back Office
13 10 (0.70%) Influencing Skills
14 9 (0.63%) Aerospace
14 9 (0.63%) Military
15 8 (0.56%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 526 (37.04%) Developer
2 181 (12.75%) Senior
3 137 (9.65%) DevOps Engineer
4 127 (8.94%) Data Engineer
5 109 (7.68%) Java Developer
6 87 (6.13%) Software Engineer
7 77 (5.42%) Full-Stack Developer
8 76 (5.35%) Senior Developer
9 64 (4.51%) AWS Engineer
10 63 (4.44%) Python Developer
11 58 (4.08%) Architect
12 53 (3.73%) Lead
13 46 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
14 44 (3.10%) Platform Engineer
15 42 (2.96%) AWS DevOps
16 34 (2.39%) Python Engineer
17 33 (2.32%) AWS DevOps Engineer
18 31 (2.18%) Test Engineer
19 29 (2.04%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
20 28 (1.97%) AWS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 285 (20.07%) REST
2 231 (16.27%) RESTful
3 217 (15.28%) React
4 171 (12.04%) HTML
5 164 (11.55%) CSS
6 155 (10.92%) Node.js
7 152 (10.70%) Spring
8 130 (9.15%) Spring Boot
9 123 (8.66%) AngularJS
10 119 (8.38%) Kafka
11 104 (7.32%) .NET
12 97 (6.83%) JSON
13 76 (5.35%) SOAP
14 71 (5.00%) FastAPI
15 64 (4.51%) XML
16 63 (4.44%) HTML5
17 61 (4.30%) PySpark
18 56 (3.94%) OAuth
18 56 (3.94%) pytest
19 53 (3.73%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 133 (9.37%) Cloud Native
2 64 (4.51%) Product Ownership
3 54 (3.80%) Mobile App
4 39 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
5 32 (2.25%) Algorithms
6 29 (2.04%) Replication
7 27 (1.90%) Data Structures
8 24 (1.69%) Onboarding
9 22 (1.55%) Data Centre
10 21 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (1.48%) Hedge funds
11 18 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.20%) Distributed Computing
13 16 (1.13%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.06%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.06%) Life Science
15 14 (0.99%) Clustering
15 14 (0.99%) Derivative
15 14 (0.99%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 265 (18.66%) Linux
2 98 (6.90%) Windows
3 55 (3.87%) Unix
4 34 (2.39%) Android
5 31 (2.18%) Apple iOS
6 28 (1.97%) VMS
7 24 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 24 (1.69%) Windows Server
8 20 (1.41%) Amazon Linux
9 15 (1.06%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.63%) CentOS
11 5 (0.35%) Solaris
12 4 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.21%) Debian
14 2 (0.14%) Oracle Linux
15 1 (0.070%) Alpine Linux
15 1 (0.070%) Robot Operating System
15 1 (0.070%) tvOS
15 1 (0.070%) watchOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 889 (62.61%) CI/CD
2 738 (51.97%) Agile
3 665 (46.83%) DevOps
4 401 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
5 319 (22.46%) Containerisation
6 316 (22.25%) Test Automation
7 282 (19.86%) Microservices
8 246 (17.32%) Scrum
9 235 (16.55%) Infrastructure as Code
10 202 (14.23%) Software Engineering
11 186 (13.10%) Analytics
12 183 (12.89%) Data Pipeline
13 179 (12.61%) Data Modelling
14 153 (10.77%) AI
15 147 (10.35%) Full-Stack Development
16 139 (9.79%) Code Quality
17 137 (9.65%) Data Engineering
18 135 (9.51%) TDD
19 132 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
20 131 (9.23%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 647 (45.56%) Python
2 412 (29.01%) SQL
3 398 (28.03%) Java
4 276 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 150 (10.56%) Bash
6 146 (10.28%) TypeScript
7 145 (10.21%) C#
8 90 (6.34%) PowerShell
9 70 (4.93%) C++
10 60 (4.23%) Go
10 60 (4.23%) Shell Script
11 58 (4.08%) Ruby
12 52 (3.66%) Perl
13 50 (3.52%) Groovy
14 46 (3.24%) Scala
15 33 (2.32%) PHP
16 28 (1.97%) Kotlin
17 21 (1.48%) Swift
18 19 (1.34%) C
18 19 (1.34%) Rust
Qualifications
1 410 (28.87%) Security Cleared
2 324 (22.82%) SC Cleared
3 132 (9.30%) Degree
4 76 (5.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (5.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 54 (3.80%) AWS Certification
7 34 (2.39%) DV Cleared
8 29 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 22 (1.55%) Master's Degree
10 16 (1.13%) Microsoft Certification
11 15 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 13 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.70%) CCNP
14 9 (0.63%) Oracle Certification
15 7 (0.49%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
16 6 (0.42%) CCNA
16 6 (0.42%) CISSP
16 6 (0.42%) ISTQB
16 6 (0.42%) OCP
17 5 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (9.37%) QA
2 122 (8.59%) Data Quality
3 86 (6.06%) Accessibility
4 39 (2.75%) WCAG
5 21 (1.48%) GDPR
6 16 (1.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 11 (0.77%) ISO 20022
7 11 (0.77%) PSD2
7 11 (0.77%) SEPA
8 8 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (0.42%) NIST
10 5 (0.35%) NCSC
11 4 (0.28%) EU AI Act
11 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.14%) FIPS 140-2
13 2 (0.14%) MiFID
14 1 (0.070%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.070%) PMO
System Software
1 550 (38.73%) Docker
2 54 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.34%) DFS Replication
6 12 (0.85%) Squid
7 11 (0.77%) Dovecot
7 11 (0.77%) Postfix
8 10 (0.70%) Oracle RAC
9 8 (0.56%) Tivoli Directory Server
9 8 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
9 8 (0.56%) zsh
10 6 (0.42%) Firmware
11 4 (0.28%) KVM
11 4 (0.28%) NFS
11 4 (0.28%) Veritas File System
11 4 (0.28%) Veritas Volume Manager
11 4 (0.28%) vSphere
12 3 (0.21%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 470 (33.10%) Kubernetes
2 319 (22.46%) Terraform
3 199 (14.01%) Ansible
4 108 (7.61%) Grafana
5 89 (6.27%) Prometheus
6 44 (3.10%) Puppet
7 33 (2.32%) Progress Chef
8 25 (1.76%) Packer
9 23 (1.62%) Argo
10 20 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
11 18 (1.27%) Consul
12 14 (0.99%) Podman
13 13 (0.92%) Proxmox
14 12 (0.85%) Kibana
15 11 (0.77%) CA Single Sign-On
15 11 (0.77%) Nessus
16 10 (0.70%) CA Wily
16 10 (0.70%) Data Guard
16 10 (0.70%) yum
17 8 (0.56%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 160 (11.27%) Microsoft
2 152 (10.70%) Oracle
3 90 (6.34%) Databricks
4 82 (5.77%) Google
5 58 (4.08%) ServiceNow
6 55 (3.87%) Splunk
7 41 (2.89%) Talend
8 37 (2.61%) F5
8 37 (2.61%) VMware
9 35 (2.46%) Denodo
10 33 (2.32%) Salesforce
11 32 (2.25%) Red Hat
12 29 (2.04%) Palo Alto
13 28 (1.97%) MuleSoft
14 26 (1.83%) Atlassian
15 25 (1.76%) IBM
16 24 (1.69%) CheckPoint
17 21 (1.48%) SAP
18 19 (1.34%) Adobe
19 17 (1.20%) AppDynamics