Git Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Git Distributed Version Control System
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 45 72
Rank change year-on-year +15 +27 -28
Contract jobs citing Git 149 67 39
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 6.65% 4.03% 2.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 39.21% 39.18% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 44 19
10th Percentile £403 £425 £355
25th Percentile £462 £472 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -16.36%
75th Percentile £538 £648 £538
90th Percentile £588 £748 £695
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £36.00 - -
England median hourly rate £67.00 £60.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +10.74% -3.20% -3.85%

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 380 171 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 16.95% 10.29% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 119 101
10th Percentile £363 £375 £319
25th Percentile £429 £434 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -11.90%
75th Percentile £569 £636 £575
90th Percentile £700 £708 £655
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £39.75 - £57.16
25th Percentile £45.38 £56.25 £60.40
Median hourly rate £56.50 £57.50 £66.59
Median % change year-on-year -1.74% -13.65% -
75th Percentile £67.88 £58.75 £73.58
90th Percentile £73.65 - £77.30
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Git job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Git
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the West Midlands

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Git

Git
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 16 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
Shropshire +9 77 £514 +18.43% 9
Birmingham -11 37 £475 -13.64% 14
Warwickshire +2 14 £463 -7.50% 5
Worcestershire - 10 £575 - 3
Coventry -12 5 £425 - 7
Solihull +1 2 £450 -8.07%
Staffordshire +1 1 £338 -15.63% 11
Wolverhampton - 1 - - 6
Git
England

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 54 (36.24%) SAS
2 23 (15.44%) Confluence
3 11 (7.38%) nginx
4 9 (6.04%) JBoss
4 9 (6.04%) WebLogic
5 8 (5.37%) Apache
6 6 (4.03%) OpenStack
7 3 (2.01%) SugarCRM
8 2 (1.34%) Drupal
9 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (7.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 6 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (3.36%) Adobe XD
3 5 (3.36%) Sketch
4 1 (0.67%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.67%) Moqups
Cloud Services
1 57 (38.26%) AWS
2 46 (30.87%) Azure
3 25 (16.78%) Amazon S3
3 25 (16.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 24 (16.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 24 (16.11%) Amazon EC2
4 24 (16.11%) Amazon ELB
4 24 (16.11%) OpenShift
5 20 (13.42%) AWS KMS
6 17 (11.41%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (11.41%) GCP
7 15 (10.07%) GitHub
8 14 (9.40%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (8.05%) Amazon ECS
10 11 (7.38%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
10 11 (7.38%) Route 53
10 11 (7.38%) Serverless
11 9 (6.04%) Amazon Glacier
12 8 (5.37%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 24 (16.11%) DNS
1 24 (16.11%) Firewall
2 20 (13.42%) SMTP
2 20 (13.42%) SSH
3 19 (12.75%) FTP
3 19 (12.75%) HTTP
4 11 (7.38%) IMAP
4 11 (7.38%) OpenLDAP
5 6 (4.03%) SSL
5 6 (4.03%) VPN
6 5 (3.36%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.01%) Network Security
8 1 (0.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (23.49%) Pentaho
2 21 (14.09%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (13.42%) Amazon RDS
4 16 (10.74%) Oracle Database
5 15 (10.07%) MongoDB
6 11 (7.38%) Amazon Aurora
6 11 (7.38%) MySQL
6 11 (7.38%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 7 (4.70%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.68%) Power BI
9 3 (2.01%) Power Query
9 3 (2.01%) SAS Visual Analytics
10 2 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 2 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.34%) NoSQL
10 2 (1.34%) Redis
11 1 (0.67%) Big Data
11 1 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 93 (62.42%) Jenkins
2 59 (39.60%) JIRA
3 37 (24.83%) GitLab
3 37 (24.83%) Selenium
4 34 (22.82%) JUnit
5 20 (13.42%) Vagrant
6 10 (6.71%) Maven
7 9 (6.04%) SonarQube
8 8 (5.37%) Eclipse
8 8 (5.37%) IntelliJ
8 8 (5.37%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (4.70%) Bitbucket
10 6 (4.03%) Cucumber
11 5 (3.36%) Artifactory
11 5 (3.36%) CircleCI
11 5 (3.36%) Cypress.io
11 5 (3.36%) Gradle
11 5 (3.36%) Mockito
11 5 (3.36%) Postman
11 5 (3.36%) webpack
General
1 66 (44.30%) Social Skills
2 35 (23.49%) Public Sector
3 14 (9.40%) Presentation Skills
4 11 (7.38%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (5.37%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.34%) Aeronautics
6 2 (1.34%) Military
6 2 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.67%) Marketing
7 1 (0.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (21.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 27 (18.12%) Developer
3 23 (15.44%) AWS Engineer
4 22 (14.77%) Data Engineer
5 18 (12.08%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 18 (12.08%) Platform Engineer
6 17 (11.41%) AWS DevOps
6 17 (11.41%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 17 (11.41%) Test Specialist
7 11 (7.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Senior
9 9 (6.04%) DevOps Platform Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Test Automation Specialist
11 7 (4.70%) GCP Developer
11 7 (4.70%) Lead
11 7 (4.70%) SAS Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Cloud Developer
12 6 (4.03%) Java Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) Java Developer
13 5 (3.36%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (28.19%) REST
2 23 (15.44%) HTML
3 19 (12.75%) JSON
4 18 (12.08%) Spring
5 17 (11.41%) pytest
6 15 (10.07%) HTML5
7 13 (8.72%) SOAP
8 12 (8.05%) LDAP
9 11 (7.38%) React
9 11 (7.38%) RESTful
10 10 (6.71%) CSS
11 9 (6.04%) Node.js
11 9 (6.04%) OAuth
11 9 (6.04%) Spring Boot
12 8 (5.37%) EJB
12 8 (5.37%) Hibernate
12 8 (5.37%) J2EE
12 8 (5.37%) J2SE
12 8 (5.37%) Play Framework
12 8 (5.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (12.75%) Replication
2 9 (6.04%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.36%) Private Cloud
3 5 (3.36%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.01%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.34%) Derivative
5 2 (1.34%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.67%) IoT
6 1 (0.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (22.15%) Linux
2 23 (15.44%) Windows
3 20 (13.42%) Amazon Linux
3 20 (13.42%) VMS
4 10 (6.71%) Ubuntu
5 8 (5.37%) Unix
6 3 (2.01%) Windows Server
7 2 (1.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.67%) Android
8 1 (0.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (78.52%) CI/CD
2 110 (73.83%) DevOps
3 99 (66.44%) Agile
4 80 (53.69%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (42.28%) Analytics
5 63 (42.28%) Scrum
6 57 (38.26%) Test Automation
7 54 (36.24%) Data Pipeline
8 47 (31.54%) Continuous Improvement
9 44 (29.53%) ETL
10 43 (28.86%) Data Modelling
11 42 (28.19%) Deployment Automation
12 34 (22.82%) Business Intelligence
13 33 (22.15%) Data Virtualisation
14 31 (20.81%) Data Integration
15 30 (20.13%) Containerisation
16 29 (19.46%) Data Analytics
17 26 (17.45%) Business Analytics
17 26 (17.45%) Configuration Management
17 26 (17.45%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 75 (50.34%) SQL
2 67 (44.97%) Python
3 31 (20.81%) Java
4 22 (14.77%) Groovy
4 22 (14.77%) PowerShell
5 14 (9.40%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.38%) Perl
7 9 (6.04%) Bash
8 8 (5.37%) Scala
9 6 (4.03%) VBA
10 5 (3.36%) PHP
11 4 (2.68%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (2.01%) R
12 3 (2.01%) Ruby
13 2 (1.34%) Go
14 1 (0.67%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (61.74%) Security Cleared
2 79 (53.02%) SC Cleared
3 17 (11.41%) Azure Certification
4 16 (10.74%) Degree
5 14 (9.40%) AWS Certification
6 7 (4.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.68%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (20.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.71%) Accessibility
2 10 (6.71%) WCAG
3 5 (3.36%) QA
4 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.67%) NCSC
4 1 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 100 (67.11%) Docker
2 19 (12.75%) DFS Replication
3 14 (9.40%) Active Directory
4 11 (7.38%) Dovecot
4 11 (7.38%) Postfix
4 11 (7.38%) Squid
Systems Management
1 77 (51.68%) Kubernetes
2 39 (26.17%) Terraform
3 32 (21.48%) Grafana
4 27 (18.12%) Prometheus
5 16 (10.74%) Ansible
6 13 (8.72%) Puppet
7 11 (7.38%) Nessus
8 10 (6.71%) Proxmox
9 6 (4.03%) Kibana
9 6 (4.03%) Progress Chef
10 5 (3.36%) Podman
11 1 (0.67%) Argo
11 1 (0.67%) Istio
Vendors
1 44 (29.53%) Oracle
2 35 (23.49%) Denodo
3 34 (22.82%) Talend
4 20 (13.42%) ServiceNow
5 17 (11.41%) Microsoft
6 11 (7.38%) Jaspersoft
7 9 (6.04%) Google
8 8 (5.37%) webMethods
9 7 (4.70%) Splunk
10 6 (4.03%) Adobe
10 6 (4.03%) MuleSoft
11 4 (2.68%) CheckPoint
11 4 (2.68%) F5
11 4 (2.68%) Palo Alto
11 4 (2.68%) Red Hat
12 2 (1.34%) Calypso
12 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
13 1 (0.67%) Ariba
13 1 (0.67%) SAP
13 1 (0.67%) VMware