Git Contracts in England

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Git skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Git over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 59 47
Rank change year-on-year -15 -12 -3
Contract jobs citing Git 1,032 1,811 3,607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.84% 3.76% 5.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.27% 25.68% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 1,269 2,448
10th Percentile £356 £409 £413
25th Percentile £425 £473 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% +13.00%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £675
90th Percentile £719 £758 £750
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 54 39
10th Percentile £50.95 £51.25 £49.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £68.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -4.04% +18.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £74.31 £77.50
90th Percentile £79.50 £75.00 £80.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.54
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.44% +24.84%

All Development Application Skills
England

Git is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,252 7,052 12,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.69% 14.64% 18.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,015 9,022
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 203 186
10th Percentile £31.84 £43.17 £38.68
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.13 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +10.53%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.71
90th Percentile £78.68 £84.44 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in England

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in England.

Daily rate trend for Git in England

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in England

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in England.

Hourly rate trend for Git in England

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in England

Git
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -6 598 £525 -12.50% 249
South East +15 148 £550 - 105
North of England -14 126 £507 -7.82% 153
Midlands -1 65 £363 -27.54% 100
North West -15 63 £510 +0.74% 91
Yorkshire +9 56 £500 -12.28% 47
West Midlands +9 52 £358 -33.70% 69
East of England -33 35 £550 +10.00% 48
South West -59 30 £590 +13.73% 96
East Midlands -9 13 £445 -6.32% 31
North East -15 9 £380 -33.91% 16
Git
UK

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 96 (9.30%) Confluence
2 33 (3.20%) Apache
3 32 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 30 (2.91%) CMS
5 28 (2.71%) Apache Airflow
6 22 (2.13%) nginx
7 12 (1.16%) JBoss
8 11 (1.07%) CICS
8 11 (1.07%) SAS
9 10 (0.97%) Anypoint
10 9 (0.87%) Drupal
10 9 (0.87%) IIS
10 9 (0.87%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.78%) SharePoint
12 6 (0.58%) WordPress
13 5 (0.48%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.48%) Mule
13 5 (0.48%) Mule ESB
14 4 (0.39%) ArcGIS
14 4 (0.39%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.78%) Simulink
3 7 (0.68%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.48%) TargetLink
5 4 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.29%) Trello
7 1 (0.097%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.58%) Endur
2 5 (0.48%) Shopify
3 2 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.097%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.097%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.097%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 350 (33.91%) Azure
2 313 (30.33%) AWS
3 162 (15.70%) Azure DevOps
4 128 (12.40%) Serverless
5 110 (10.66%) GitHub
6 105 (10.17%) GCP
7 81 (7.85%) Amazon S3
8 72 (6.98%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (6.40%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 63 (6.10%) Azure Service Bus
11 61 (5.91%) Amazon EC2
11 61 (5.91%) AWS Lambda
12 49 (4.75%) PaaS
13 43 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (3.97%) Azure Functions
15 39 (3.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 37 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
17 34 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
18 32 (3.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 32 (3.10%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 50 (4.84%) Firewall
2 39 (3.78%) DNS
3 34 (3.29%) TCP/IP
4 26 (2.52%) HTTP
5 23 (2.23%) Network Security
6 22 (2.13%) VPN
7 21 (2.03%) SNMP
8 19 (1.84%) Software-Defined Radio
9 17 (1.65%) 5G
10 16 (1.55%) BGP
11 15 (1.45%) SSL
12 14 (1.36%) MPLS
13 13 (1.26%) DHCP
14 12 (1.16%) NAS
14 12 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
15 9 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 9 (0.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 9 (0.87%) SAN
15 9 (0.87%) VLAN
16 7 (0.68%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (12.31%) SQL Server
2 99 (9.59%) NoSQL
3 94 (9.11%) PostgreSQL
4 69 (6.69%) Relational Database
5 66 (6.40%) MySQL
6 43 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
7 42 (4.07%) Amazon Redshift
8 41 (3.97%) Big Data
9 38 (3.68%) Data Lake
10 37 (3.59%) MongoDB
11 27 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (2.52%) DynamoDB
13 22 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
15 19 (1.84%) Apache Cassandra
15 19 (1.84%) Hadoop
16 18 (1.74%) RDBMS
17 17 (1.65%) BigQuery
18 15 (1.45%) Amazon Athena
19 13 (1.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 254 (24.61%) Jenkins
2 190 (18.41%) JIRA
3 75 (7.27%) GitLab
4 64 (6.20%) Bitbucket
5 60 (5.81%) Selenium
6 58 (5.62%) JUnit
7 53 (5.14%) TeamCity
8 46 (4.46%) Cucumber
9 41 (3.97%) Visual Studio
10 39 (3.78%) Subversion
11 32 (3.10%) Maven
12 30 (2.91%) Postman
13 28 (2.71%) SonarQube
14 25 (2.42%) NUnit
15 23 (2.23%) Artifactory
15 23 (2.23%) Visual Studio Code
16 21 (2.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
17 20 (1.94%) Eclipse
18 18 (1.74%) Appium
18 18 (1.74%) JMeter
General
1 196 (18.99%) Social Skills
2 131 (12.69%) Finance
3 112 (10.85%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 68 (6.59%) Banking
6 28 (2.71%) Front Office
7 26 (2.52%) Marketing
8 24 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 23 (2.23%) Telecoms
10 22 (2.13%) Back Office
11 20 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.74%) Retail
13 16 (1.55%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.36%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
16 9 (0.87%) Multimedia
17 8 (0.78%) Automotive
18 6 (0.58%) Electronics
18 6 (0.58%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.58%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 427 (41.38%) Developer
2 151 (14.63%) Senior
3 98 (9.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 80 (7.75%) Software Engineer
5 77 (7.46%) Lead
6 71 (6.88%) Full Stack Developer
7 60 (5.81%) Java Developer
8 54 (5.23%) Senior Developer
9 45 (4.36%) Data Engineer
10 44 (4.26%) Python Developer
11 43 (4.17%) C# Developer
12 39 (3.78%) AWS Engineer
12 39 (3.78%) Azure Developer
13 35 (3.39%) Architect
14 32 (3.10%) .NET Developer
15 31 (3.00%) AWS DevOps
16 30 (2.91%) Azure Engineer
17 27 (2.62%) React Developer
18 26 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
18 26 (2.52%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 188 (18.22%) React
2 175 (16.96%) .NET
3 150 (14.53%) REST
4 143 (13.86%) CSS
5 137 (13.28%) HTML
6 80 (7.75%) RESTful
6 80 (7.75%) Spring
7 79 (7.66%) JSON
8 75 (7.27%) .NET Core
9 74 (7.17%) Node.js
10 66 (6.40%) ASP.NET
11 65 (6.30%) XML
12 62 (6.01%) Spring Boot
13 57 (5.52%) Web Services
14 54 (5.23%) Kafka
15 51 (4.94%) YAML
16 50 (4.84%) AngularJS
17 49 (4.75%) .NET Framework
18 41 (3.97%) Elastic Stack
19 37 (3.59%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 46 (4.46%) Product Ownership
2 36 (3.49%) Algorithms
3 33 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
4 32 (3.10%) Public Cloud
5 28 (2.71%) Mobile App
6 27 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
7 22 (2.13%) Greenfield Project
8 20 (1.94%) Fixed Income
9 19 (1.84%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.84%) Management Information System
10 18 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.65%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.65%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.65%) Replication
12 16 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
13 13 (1.26%) Clustering
13 13 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.07%) IBM Mainframe
14 11 (1.07%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.07%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 192 (18.60%) Linux
2 99 (9.59%) Windows
3 62 (6.01%) Unix
4 35 (3.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 32 (3.10%) Android
6 22 (2.13%) Apple iOS
7 19 (1.84%) Windows Server
8 14 (1.36%) VMS
9 12 (1.16%) zOS
10 8 (0.78%) CentOS
10 8 (0.78%) Solaris
10 8 (0.78%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
11 7 (0.68%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.48%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.39%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.29%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.29%) Debian
15 2 (0.19%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.097%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (48.06%) Agile
2 445 (43.12%) DevOps
3 395 (38.28%) CI/CD
4 216 (20.93%) Software Engineering
5 213 (20.64%) Scrum
6 203 (19.67%) Test Automation
7 194 (18.80%) Problem-Solving
8 166 (16.09%) Microservices
9 164 (15.89%) Continuous Integration
10 153 (14.83%) TDD
11 152 (14.73%) Containerisation
12 128 (12.40%) Infrastructure as Code
13 115 (11.14%) Unit Testing
14 110 (10.66%) OO
15 102 (9.88%) Full Stack Development
16 93 (9.01%) Computer Science
17 90 (8.72%) SDLC
18 79 (7.66%) Front End Development
19 77 (7.46%) Software Testing
20 72 (6.98%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 423 (40.99%) Python
2 254 (24.61%) Java
3 248 (24.03%) SQL
4 216 (20.93%) JavaScript
5 201 (19.48%) C#
6 131 (12.69%) Bash
7 124 (12.02%) TypeScript
8 86 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 79 (7.66%) C++
10 61 (5.91%) Go
11 51 (4.94%) C
12 46 (4.46%) Shell Script
13 40 (3.88%) Bicep
14 36 (3.49%) Perl
15 28 (2.71%) Scala
16 22 (2.13%) PHP
17 15 (1.45%) Kotlin
17 15 (1.45%) MATLAB
18 14 (1.36%) Rust
18 14 (1.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 236 (22.87%) Security Cleared
2 207 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 122 (11.82%) Degree
4 65 (6.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.97%) DV Cleared
6 21 (2.03%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.55%) AWS Certification
8 12 (1.16%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 8 (0.78%) PhD
10 7 (0.68%) ISTQB
11 6 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.58%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (0.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (0.39%) CISSP
12 4 (0.39%) Numerate Degree
13 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.29%) CCNP
13 3 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
14 2 (0.19%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (6.78%) QA
2 47 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.33%) WCAG
4 15 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.26%) GDPR
6 7 (0.68%) JTAG
6 7 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.58%) MISRA
7 6 (0.58%) MISRA C
8 5 (0.48%) AUTOSAR
8 5 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.48%) ISO 26262
8 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.48%) NCSC
8 5 (0.48%) SLA
9 3 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.29%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.19%) MiFID
10 2 (0.19%) NIST
11 1 (0.097%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 261 (25.29%) Docker
2 87 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.13%) Firmware
4 19 (1.84%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (0.68%) HDFS
6 7 (0.68%) vSphere
7 6 (0.58%) VirtualBox
8 5 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
8 5 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.48%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.39%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.39%) zsh
10 3 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.19%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.19%) Varnish
12 1 (0.097%) Cronacle
12 1 (0.097%) LXC
12 1 (0.097%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.097%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 250 (24.22%) Kubernetes
2 211 (20.45%) Terraform
3 156 (15.12%) Ansible
4 59 (5.72%) Grafana
5 44 (4.26%) Puppet
6 42 (4.07%) Prometheus
7 39 (3.78%) Progress Chef
8 22 (2.13%) Packer
9 19 (1.84%) Kibana
10 13 (1.26%) Consul
11 12 (1.16%) logstash
12 11 (1.07%) Docker Swarm
13 10 (0.97%) vRealize
14 9 (0.87%) Podman
15 7 (0.68%) HP Fortify
15 7 (0.68%) ZABBIX
16 6 (0.58%) EMC NetWorker
16 6 (0.58%) Netcool
16 6 (0.58%) Tivoli
16 6 (0.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 137 (13.28%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.75%) Oracle
3 63 (6.10%) Google
4 48 (4.65%) Splunk
5 29 (2.81%) VMware
6 25 (2.42%) Atlassian
7 24 (2.33%) IBM
7 24 (2.33%) Talend
8 23 (2.23%) Salesforce
9 20 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 18 (1.74%) Cisco
10 18 (1.74%) SAP
11 17 (1.65%) Denodo
12 16 (1.55%) Databricks
13 14 (1.36%) F5
13 14 (1.36%) MuleSoft
14 12 (1.16%) Nokia
14 12 (1.16%) ServiceNow
14 12 (1.16%) TIBCO
15 11 (1.07%) CyberArk