Git Contracts in the West Midlands

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 64 56 55
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 -6
Contract jobs citing Git 33 55 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.45% 2.82% 3.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.33% 26.19% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 70
10th Percentile £388 £334 £450
25th Percentile £459 £358 £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £359 £540
Median % change year-on-year +40.95% -33.52% +5.37%
75th Percentile £547 £469 £557
90th Percentile £633 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £558
% change year-on-year -3.33% -5.83% +1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year -8.00% -3.85% +8.33%

All Development Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 180 210 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.38% 10.79% 14.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 149 248
10th Percentile £399 £260 £361
25th Percentile £449 £358 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £538
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -16.36% +9.80%
75th Percentile £548 £536 £590
90th Percentile £648 £556 £700
England median daily rate £500 £534 £550
% change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 1
10th Percentile - £10.50 -
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.88 £31.69
Median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £33.39
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +68.49% -14.40%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £35.08
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Git in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 6 £494 +9.67% 40
Shropshire -15 6 £475 +32.68% 5
Warwickshire -5 5 £500 -25.93% 10
Solihull - 4 £500 - 2
Herefordshire - 3 £700 -
Coventry +6 2 £413 - 9
Staffordshire +3 2 £250 - 29
Worcestershire - 2 £700 - 3
Git
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Moodle
3 2 (6.06%) WebLogic
4 1 (3.03%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 12 (36.36%) AWS
2 8 (24.24%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 3 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 3 (9.09%) AWS KMS
4 3 (9.09%) Route 53
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (3.03%) Apigee
5 1 (3.03%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Datadog
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) DHCP
1 2 (6.06%) DNS
1 2 (6.06%) Firewall
1 2 (6.06%) HTTP
1 2 (6.06%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (6.06%) SAN
1 2 (6.06%) SSL
1 2 (6.06%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (12.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (9.09%) DynamoDB
2 3 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (6.06%) MySQL
3 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Jenkins
2 9 (27.27%) JIRA
3 7 (21.21%) Maven
4 6 (18.18%) Postman
5 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
5 3 (9.09%) DbUnit
5 3 (9.09%) GitLab
5 3 (9.09%) JMeter
5 3 (9.09%) jMock
5 3 (9.09%) JUnit
5 3 (9.09%) Mockito
5 3 (9.09%) PHPUnit
5 3 (9.09%) Plastic SCM
5 3 (9.09%) REST Assured
5 3 (9.09%) Selenium
5 3 (9.09%) SonarQube
5 3 (9.09%) TestNG
5 3 (9.09%) Travis CI
6 2 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (3.03%) Subversion
General
1 7 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (12.12%) Social Skills
3 3 (9.09%) Games
3 3 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.03%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 16 (48.48%) Developer
2 7 (21.21%) Senior
3 6 (18.18%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Games Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Java Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Lead
5 3 (9.09%) Moodle Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Denodo Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Java Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Tester
7 1 (3.03%) AWS Developer
7 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Elasticsearch Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Linux DevOps Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (33.33%) RESTful
2 5 (15.15%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) .NET
3 3 (9.09%) ActiveMQ
3 3 (9.09%) AngularJS
3 3 (9.09%) Behat
3 3 (9.09%) Bootstrap
3 3 (9.09%) Hibernate
3 3 (9.09%) HTML
3 3 (9.09%) JPA
3 3 (9.09%) JSON
3 3 (9.09%) PowerMock
3 3 (9.09%) SOAP
3 3 (9.09%) Spring
3 3 (9.09%) Spring Batch
3 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 3 (9.09%) Spring Integration
3 3 (9.09%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 3 (9.09%) Web Services
3 3 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (9.09%) e-Learning
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 3 (9.09%) VLE
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.03%) FPGA
3 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.03%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 8 (24.24%) Linux
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
3 2 (6.06%) CentOS
3 2 (6.06%) Debian
3 2 (6.06%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Agile
2 15 (45.45%) DevOps
3 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (36.36%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (21.21%) Scrum
6 6 (18.18%) Data Management
6 6 (18.18%) Microservices
7 5 (15.15%) Code Quality
7 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
7 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (15.15%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (15.15%) Open Source
7 5 (15.15%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (15.15%) Test Strategy
8 4 (12.12%) Design Patterns
8 4 (12.12%) Kanban
8 4 (12.12%) TDD
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
8 4 (12.12%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 12 (36.36%) Python
3 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 5 (15.15%) PHP
6 4 (12.12%) C#
7 3 (9.09%) Bash
7 3 (9.09%) Shell Script
7 3 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 2 (6.06%) Go
8 2 (6.06%) PL/SQL
8 2 (6.06%) Ruby
9 1 (3.03%) Tcl
9 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) Security Cleared
2 9 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 7 (21.21%) Degree
4 3 (9.09%) CEH
4 3 (9.09%) CISSP
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (9.09%) DV Cleared
4 3 (9.09%) ISTQB
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certification
5 2 (6.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
System Software
1 16 (48.48%) Docker
2 3 (9.09%) Postfix
3 1 (3.03%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (3.03%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 10 (30.30%) Kubernetes
2 3 (9.09%) Grafana
2 3 (9.09%) Kibana
2 3 (9.09%) Prometheus
2 3 (9.09%) Terraform
3 2 (6.06%) Nessus
3 2 (6.06%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Atlassian
1 3 (9.09%) Denodo
1 3 (9.09%) Jaspersoft
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Sophos
2 2 (6.06%) VMware
3 1 (3.03%) Splunk