Git Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 80 58
Rank change year-on-year +16 -22 -18
Contract jobs citing Git 356 391 1,013
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.59% 2.55% 3.92%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.02% 21.10% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 258 697
10th Percentile £333 £348 £413
25th Percentile £405 £405 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -12.28% +7.55%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £680 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 39
10th Percentile £36.15 £48.70 £51.25
25th Percentile £52.50 £58.75 £56.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.63 £73.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £77.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.25
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.21% +8.75%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Git
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Git trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Git
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Git.

Git daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Git
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Git over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Git daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Git
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Git.

Git hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Git over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Git hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 31 (8.71%) Confluence
2 11 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 8 (2.25%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.97%) Apache
4 7 (1.97%) CMS
4 7 (1.97%) JBoss
4 7 (1.97%) nginx
5 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.40%) Moodle
5 5 (1.40%) Tomcat
6 4 (1.12%) Drupal
6 4 (1.12%) IIS
6 4 (1.12%) WordPress
7 2 (0.56%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.56%) Mendix
7 2 (0.56%) SAS
8 1 (0.28%) Magnolia
8 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
8 1 (0.28%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.28%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.28%) Shopify
1 1 (0.28%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 121 (33.99%) Azure
2 108 (30.34%) AWS
3 60 (16.85%) Azure DevOps
4 36 (10.11%) GitHub
5 32 (8.99%) Power Platform
5 32 (8.99%) Serverless
6 30 (8.43%) AWS CloudFormation
7 24 (6.74%) AWS Lambda
7 24 (6.74%) GCP
8 21 (5.90%) PowerApps
9 20 (5.62%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (5.34%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (5.34%) Power Automate
11 18 (5.06%) Amazon S3
12 17 (4.78%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (4.21%) Amazon SQS
13 15 (4.21%) OpenShift
14 12 (3.37%) SaaS
14 12 (3.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (3.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.02%) HTTP
2 15 (4.21%) Firewall
3 13 (3.65%) DNS
4 9 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 8 (2.25%) VPN
6 4 (1.12%) Internet
6 4 (1.12%) Reverse Proxy
6 4 (1.12%) SNMP
7 3 (0.84%) DHCP
7 3 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
7 3 (0.84%) SSL
8 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.56%) NAS
8 2 (0.56%) Network Security
8 2 (0.56%) SAN
8 2 (0.56%) SSH
9 1 (0.28%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.28%) SMTP
9 1 (0.28%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.76%) PostgreSQL
2 39 (10.96%) Relational Database
3 28 (7.87%) MongoDB
4 23 (6.46%) MySQL
5 21 (5.90%) SQL Server
6 19 (5.34%) Power BI
7 17 (4.78%) NoSQL
7 17 (4.78%) Redis
8 13 (3.65%) Elasticsearch
9 12 (3.37%) Oracle Database
10 9 (2.53%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.53%) RDBMS
11 8 (2.25%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 6 (1.69%) Apache Hive
12 6 (1.69%) DocumentDB
12 6 (1.69%) DynamoDB
12 6 (1.69%) Hadoop
13 5 (1.40%) Big Data
13 5 (1.40%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 96 (26.97%) JIRA
2 67 (18.82%) Jenkins
3 32 (8.99%) GitLab
4 21 (5.90%) Bitbucket
4 21 (5.90%) Maven
4 21 (5.90%) Postman
5 19 (5.34%) JUnit
5 19 (5.34%) Subversion
6 17 (4.78%) SonarQube
7 14 (3.93%) Selenium
8 12 (3.37%) Cucumber
9 10 (2.81%) webpack
10 9 (2.53%) REST Assured
10 9 (2.53%) Visual Studio
11 8 (2.25%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (2.25%) Cypress.io
11 8 (2.25%) TeamCity
12 7 (1.97%) Jasmine
12 7 (1.97%) Team Foundation Server
12 7 (1.97%) Xcode
General
1 69 (19.38%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.61%) Finance
3 43 (12.08%) Public Sector
4 32 (8.99%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (8.43%) Banking
6 11 (3.09%) Investment Banking
7 8 (2.25%) Back Office
7 8 (2.25%) Front Office
7 8 (2.25%) Marketing
8 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.97%) Wholesale Banking
9 5 (1.40%) French Language
9 5 (1.40%) Retail
10 4 (1.12%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.84%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.56%) Electronics
12 2 (0.56%) German Language
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 172 (48.31%) Developer
2 48 (13.48%) Senior
3 33 (9.27%) DevOps Engineer
4 26 (7.30%) Software Engineer
5 25 (7.02%) Full-Stack Developer
5 25 (7.02%) Senior Developer
6 24 (6.74%) Java Developer
7 20 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
8 18 (5.06%) Python Developer
9 16 (4.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 14 (3.93%) Lead
10 14 (3.93%) Python Engineer
11 13 (3.65%) C# Developer
11 13 (3.65%) Power Platform Developer
12 12 (3.37%) Analyst
12 12 (3.37%) JavaScript Engineer
12 12 (3.37%) Platform Engineer
13 11 (3.09%) Full-Stack Engineer
14 10 (2.81%) Angular Developer
14 10 (2.81%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (21.63%) CSS
2 72 (20.22%) RESTful
3 71 (19.94%) React
4 65 (18.26%) HTML
5 56 (15.73%) REST
6 48 (13.48%) AngularJS
7 38 (10.67%) .NET
8 37 (10.39%) Node.js
9 29 (8.15%) SOAP
10 28 (7.87%) Spring
11 23 (6.46%) Spring Boot
12 22 (6.18%) JSON
13 21 (5.90%) Redux
13 21 (5.90%) Web Services
14 17 (4.78%) FastAPI
15 16 (4.49%) HTML5
16 15 (4.21%) Django
16 15 (4.21%) Flask
17 14 (3.93%) Kafka
17 14 (3.93%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.49%) Mobile App
2 14 (3.93%) Derivative
3 13 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 13 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 12 (3.37%) Product Ownership
5 11 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (2.53%) Algorithms
8 8 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.25%) Equities
8 8 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.97%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (1.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 5 (1.40%) e-Learning
11 5 (1.40%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.40%) VLE
12 4 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.12%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 76 (21.35%) Linux
2 38 (10.67%) Windows
3 18 (5.06%) Unix
4 17 (4.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (4.21%) Android
5 15 (4.21%) Windows Server
6 11 (3.09%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.97%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.56%) Solaris
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.28%) AIX
9 1 (0.28%) CentOS
9 1 (0.28%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.28%) HPUX
9 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.28%) VMS
9 1 (0.28%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 169 (47.47%) Agile
2 150 (42.13%) CI/CD
3 127 (35.67%) DevOps
4 82 (23.03%) Problem-Solving
5 63 (17.70%) Microservices
6 60 (16.85%) Software Engineering
7 55 (15.45%) Full-Stack Development
8 52 (14.61%) Test Automation
9 50 (14.04%) Containerisation
9 50 (14.04%) Scrum
10 48 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
11 43 (12.08%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (8.71%) Code Quality
12 31 (8.71%) OO
13 29 (8.15%) Clean Code
13 29 (8.15%) Front End Development
13 29 (8.15%) TDD
14 28 (7.87%) Design Patterns
14 28 (7.87%) Unit Testing
15 27 (7.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 145 (40.73%) Python
2 116 (32.58%) SQL
3 108 (30.34%) JavaScript
4 84 (23.60%) Java
5 60 (16.85%) C#
6 56 (15.73%) Bash
7 54 (15.17%) TypeScript
8 39 (10.96%) PowerShell
9 19 (5.34%) PHP
10 14 (3.93%) PL/SQL
11 13 (3.65%) C++
11 13 (3.65%) Kotlin
12 12 (3.37%) Shell Script
13 10 (2.81%) Perl
14 9 (2.53%) Groovy
15 8 (2.25%) Swift
16 7 (1.97%) Scala
16 7 (1.97%) T-SQL
17 6 (1.69%) Objective-C
17 6 (1.69%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 102 (28.65%) Security Cleared
2 95 (26.69%) SC Cleared
3 37 (10.39%) Degree
4 19 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.81%) AWS Certification
5 10 (2.81%) Master's Degree
6 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (1.12%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.84%) DV Cleared
8 3 (0.84%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.56%) ISEB
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.56%) OCA
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
9 2 (0.56%) RHCA
9 2 (0.56%) RHCE
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.28%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (8.43%) QA
2 15 (4.21%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.40%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.12%) GDPR
4 4 (1.12%) WCAG
5 2 (0.56%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.28%) EMIR
6 1 (0.28%) HL7
6 1 (0.28%) MiFID
6 1 (0.28%) NCSC
6 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 85 (23.88%) Docker
2 10 (2.81%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.56%) Firmware
4 2 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 2 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.56%) vSphere
5 1 (0.28%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 1 (0.28%) Ceph
5 1 (0.28%) LXC
5 1 (0.28%) OpenAM
5 1 (0.28%) OpenDJ
5 1 (0.28%) OpenIDM
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 81 (22.75%) Kubernetes
2 66 (18.54%) Terraform
3 44 (12.36%) Ansible
4 18 (5.06%) Grafana
4 18 (5.06%) Progress Chef
5 15 (4.21%) Prometheus
6 12 (3.37%) Puppet
7 8 (2.25%) Kibana
8 5 (1.40%) Packer
9 3 (0.84%) Consul
9 3 (0.84%) Control-M
9 3 (0.84%) Istio
9 3 (0.84%) MIIS
9 3 (0.84%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.56%) CA Endevor
10 2 (0.56%) Nagios
10 2 (0.56%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.56%) WSUS
11 1 (0.28%) Argo
11 1 (0.28%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 44 (12.36%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.58%) Oracle
3 16 (4.49%) Google
4 12 (3.37%) Atlassian
4 12 (3.37%) Red Hat
5 11 (3.09%) Databricks
6 10 (2.81%) Splunk
6 10 (2.81%) VMware
7 5 (1.40%) Cisco
8 4 (1.12%) Dynatrace
8 4 (1.12%) New Relic
8 4 (1.12%) SAP
8 4 (1.12%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.12%) Zend
9 3 (0.84%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.84%) CyberArk
9 3 (0.84%) Imperva
10 2 (0.56%) SolarWinds
10 2 (0.56%) Veritas
10 2 (0.56%) Xilinx