Git Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Git Distributed Version Control System
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Git skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 11 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +35 -10
Contract jobs citing Git 11 16 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 5.95% 10.67% 0.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 84.62% 61.54% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 1
10th Percentile £272 £205 -
25th Percentile £275 £322 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £358 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% -28.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £331 £438 -
90th Percentile £488 £493 -
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £66.69
% change year-on-year -28.57% +4.97% +2.59%

All Development Application Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 13 26 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.03% 17.33% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 18
10th Percentile £274 £291 £418
25th Percentile £277 £358 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -8.27% -0.89%
75th Percentile £341 £538 £495
90th Percentile £488 £600 £556
South East median daily rate £480 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -4.00% -6.98% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year - -19.79% +28.19%
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
% change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -10.38%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in West Sussex

Git
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in West Sussex over the 6 months to 21 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in West Sussex

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 21 September 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
Burgess Hill -1 9 £284 -12.62% 3
Crawley -5 2 £475 -9.52% 13
Git
South East

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (18.18%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Jenkins
2 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 6 (54.55%) Subversion
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) IntelliJ
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 2 (18.18%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Test Consultant
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (63.64%) GraphQL
1 7 (63.64%) gRPC
1 7 (63.64%) Kafka
1 7 (63.64%) RabbitMQ
1 7 (63.64%) REST
2 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (81.82%) BDD
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Microservices
2 9 (81.82%) TDD
3 8 (72.73%) Computer Science
4 7 (63.64%) Kanban
4 7 (63.64%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 7 (63.64%) Scrum
4 7 (63.64%) Software Engineering
5 6 (54.55%) Continuous Deployment
5 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
5 6 (54.55%) Waterfall
6 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
7 2 (18.18%) API Testing
7 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
7 2 (18.18%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Go
2 3 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (72.73%) Computer Science Degree
1 8 (72.73%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Docker
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (18.18%) Red Hat
2 2 (18.18%) Splunk