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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 62 47
Rank change year-on-year -11 -15 -3
Contract jobs citing Git 1,071 1,724 3,579
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.90% 3.61% 5.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.90% 25.27% 28.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 710 1,197 2,432
10th Percentile £358 £405 £413
25th Percentile £425 £464 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £573
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.93% +14.50%
75th Percentile £639 £688 £675
90th Percentile £719 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 53 37
10th Percentile £48.00 £51.25 £45.75
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.34 £67.36
Median % change year-on-year -7.19% -0.03% +14.45%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.40 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.34 £65.54
% change year-on-year -7.19% +2.75% +12.31%

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 4,302 6,822 12,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.65% 14.29% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,914 4,867 8,988
10th Percentile £350 £370 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £669
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 200 177
10th Percentile £31.57 £46.03 £38.15
25th Percentile £52.50 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +23.00% -
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £83.18 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -6 605 £525 -12.50% 214
South East +16 162 £550 - 87
North of England -8 131 £505 -8.18% 129
Midlands +14 76 £400 -20.79% 72
North West -11 63 £510 -2.86% 77
West Midlands +18 62 £377 -30.60% 51
Yorkshire +17 60 £500 -12.28% 40
South West -49 44 £584 +17.29% 82
East of England -33 39 £575 +16.16% 43
East Midlands -10 14 £445 -11.00% 21
North East -9 10 £380 -40.39% 15
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
1 100 (9.34%) Confluence
2 35 (3.27%) Apache Spark
3 31 (2.89%) CMS
4 30 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
5 28 (2.61%) Apache
6 16 (1.49%) nginx
7 13 (1.21%) SAS
8 12 (1.12%) JBoss
9 11 (1.03%) Anypoint
9 11 (1.03%) CICS
10 9 (0.84%) Drupal
10 9 (0.84%) IIS
11 8 (0.75%) SharePoint
12 6 (0.56%) WordPress
13 5 (0.47%) Headless CMS
13 5 (0.47%) Mule
13 5 (0.47%) Mule ESB
13 5 (0.47%) OpenStack
14 3 (0.28%) Jupyter
14 3 (0.28%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.75%) Simulink
3 7 (0.65%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.47%) TargetLink
5 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.37%) Trello
6 3 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.093%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Endur
2 3 (0.28%) Shopify
3 2 (0.19%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.19%) Magento
3 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.093%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.093%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 362 (33.80%) Azure
2 321 (29.97%) AWS
3 157 (14.66%) Azure DevOps
4 133 (12.42%) Serverless
5 117 (10.92%) GitHub
6 109 (10.18%) GCP
7 82 (7.66%) Amazon S3
8 71 (6.63%) Azure Monitor
9 66 (6.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 64 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
11 61 (5.70%) Azure Service Bus
12 60 (5.60%) Amazon EC2
13 42 (3.92%) PaaS
14 41 (3.83%) AWS CloudFormation
14 41 (3.83%) Azure Functions
15 38 (3.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 37 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
17 35 (3.27%) Amazon EKS
17 35 (3.27%) Entra ID
18 32 (2.99%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.39%) Firewall
2 40 (3.73%) DNS
3 31 (2.89%) TCP/IP
4 25 (2.33%) HTTP
5 23 (2.15%) SNMP
6 21 (1.96%) Network Security
7 20 (1.87%) Software-Defined Radio
7 20 (1.87%) VPN
8 17 (1.59%) 5G
9 15 (1.40%) SSL
10 13 (1.21%) DHCP
11 12 (1.12%) BGP
12 11 (1.03%) NAS
13 10 (0.93%) Internet
13 10 (0.93%) MPLS
13 10 (0.93%) Wi-Fi
14 8 (0.75%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 8 (0.75%) SAN
14 8 (0.75%) VLAN
15 7 (0.65%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 104 (9.71%) NoSQL
3 96 (8.96%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (7.66%) Relational Database
5 67 (6.26%) MySQL
6 43 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
6 43 (4.01%) Big Data
7 41 (3.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 40 (3.73%) Data Lake
9 39 (3.64%) MongoDB
10 27 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
11 26 (2.43%) DynamoDB
12 23 (2.15%) Elasticsearch
12 23 (2.15%) Hadoop
13 21 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
13 21 (1.96%) Azure SQL Database
14 19 (1.77%) BigQuery
15 18 (1.68%) RDBMS
16 16 (1.49%) Power BI
17 14 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 266 (24.84%) Jenkins
2 200 (18.67%) JIRA
3 72 (6.72%) GitLab
4 69 (6.44%) Bitbucket
5 64 (5.98%) Selenium
6 58 (5.42%) JUnit
7 54 (5.04%) TeamCity
8 45 (4.20%) Cucumber
9 42 (3.92%) Visual Studio
10 38 (3.55%) Subversion
11 37 (3.45%) Maven
12 31 (2.89%) Postman
13 27 (2.52%) SonarQube
14 25 (2.33%) NUnit
15 24 (2.24%) Visual Studio Code
16 23 (2.15%) Artifactory
16 23 (2.15%) Eclipse
17 20 (1.87%) Atlassian Bamboo
18 19 (1.77%) GoogleTest
19 18 (1.68%) Robot Framework
General
1 207 (19.33%) Social Skills
2 134 (12.51%) Finance
3 122 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.06%) Public Sector
5 73 (6.82%) Banking
6 29 (2.71%) Front Office
6 29 (2.71%) Marketing
7 26 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.05%) Back Office
9 21 (1.96%) Retail
10 18 (1.68%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (1.68%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.40%) Manufacturing
12 12 (1.12%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.84%) Multimedia
14 8 (0.75%) Automotive
15 7 (0.65%) Electronics
16 6 (0.56%) Local Government
16 6 (0.56%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 435 (40.62%) Developer
2 158 (14.75%) Senior
3 99 (9.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 84 (7.84%) Software Engineer
5 73 (6.82%) Lead
6 67 (6.26%) Java Developer
7 66 (6.16%) Full Stack Developer
8 55 (5.14%) Senior Developer
9 48 (4.48%) Python Developer
10 47 (4.39%) Data Engineer
11 43 (4.01%) C# Developer
12 40 (3.73%) Architect
12 40 (3.73%) Azure Developer
13 37 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
14 32 (2.99%) .NET Developer
15 29 (2.71%) AWS DevOps
15 29 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
15 29 (2.71%) React Developer
16 28 (2.61%) Automation Engineer
17 27 (2.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (18.30%) React
2 175 (16.34%) .NET
3 153 (14.29%) REST
4 142 (13.26%) CSS
5 135 (12.61%) HTML
6 90 (8.40%) Spring
7 84 (7.84%) RESTful
8 77 (7.19%) JSON
9 74 (6.91%) Node.js
10 73 (6.82%) .NET Core
11 68 (6.35%) YAML
12 65 (6.07%) Spring Boot
12 65 (6.07%) XML
13 64 (5.98%) ASP.NET
14 61 (5.70%) Kafka
15 56 (5.23%) AngularJS
16 53 (4.95%) Web Services
17 50 (4.67%) .NET Framework
18 39 (3.64%) Elastic Stack
19 37 (3.45%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 49 (4.58%) Product Ownership
2 44 (4.11%) Algorithms
3 34 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 28 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
4 28 (2.61%) Public Cloud
5 26 (2.43%) Mobile App
6 21 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
7 20 (1.87%) Fixed Income
8 19 (1.77%) Data Structures
8 19 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.77%) Management Information System
9 18 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.59%) Replication
11 16 (1.49%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 12 (1.12%) Clustering
14 11 (1.03%) IBM Mainframe
14 11 (1.03%) Mainframe
14 11 (1.03%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 209 (19.51%) Linux
2 112 (10.46%) Windows
3 62 (5.79%) Unix
4 48 (4.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.89%) Android
6 18 (1.68%) Apple iOS
7 16 (1.49%) Windows Server
8 12 (1.12%) zOS
9 9 (0.84%) VMS
10 7 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
10 7 (0.65%) Solaris
11 6 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.47%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.37%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.28%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.28%) CentOS
15 2 (0.19%) Debian
15 2 (0.19%) ThreadX
15 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.093%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 515 (48.09%) Agile
2 454 (42.39%) DevOps
3 404 (37.72%) CI/CD
4 229 (21.38%) Software Engineering
5 224 (20.92%) Scrum
6 207 (19.33%) Test Automation
7 206 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
8 167 (15.59%) Continuous Integration
8 167 (15.59%) Microservices
9 161 (15.03%) TDD
10 158 (14.75%) Containerisation
11 148 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 123 (11.48%) Unit Testing
13 109 (10.18%) OO
14 104 (9.71%) Full Stack Development
15 103 (9.62%) Computer Science
16 93 (8.68%) SDLC
17 79 (7.38%) Front End Development
18 78 (7.28%) Software Testing
19 77 (7.19%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 430 (40.15%) Python
2 270 (25.21%) Java
3 249 (23.25%) SQL
4 216 (20.17%) JavaScript
5 197 (18.39%) C#
6 127 (11.86%) Bash
6 127 (11.86%) TypeScript
7 102 (9.52%) PowerShell
8 88 (8.22%) C++
9 57 (5.32%) Go
10 55 (5.14%) C
11 47 (4.39%) Shell Script
12 39 (3.64%) Bicep
13 32 (2.99%) Perl
14 28 (2.61%) Scala
15 22 (2.05%) PHP
16 17 (1.59%) Kotlin
17 16 (1.49%) Ruby
18 15 (1.40%) MATLAB
19 14 (1.31%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 249 (23.25%) Security Cleared
2 215 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 134 (12.51%) Degree
4 69 (6.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 45 (4.20%) DV Cleared
6 23 (2.15%) Master's Degree
7 14 (1.31%) AWS Certification
8 11 (1.03%) PhD
9 10 (0.93%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 7 (0.65%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 6 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
12 4 (0.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (0.28%) CCNP
13 3 (0.28%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (0.28%) CISSP
13 3 (0.28%) OCP
13 3 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (5.98%) QA
2 46 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.24%) WCAG
4 18 (1.68%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.31%) GDPR
6 8 (0.75%) JTAG
7 6 (0.56%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.56%) MISRA
7 6 (0.56%) MISRA C
7 6 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.47%) AUTOSAR
8 5 (0.47%) ISO 26262
8 5 (0.47%) SLA
9 4 (0.37%) NCSC
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.28%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.28%) NIST
11 2 (0.19%) MiFID
11 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 271 (25.30%) Docker
2 87 (8.12%) Active Directory
3 33 (3.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 30 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
5 26 (2.43%) Firmware
6 9 (0.84%) HDFS
7 7 (0.65%) vSphere
8 6 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.56%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.47%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.37%) zsh
11 2 (0.19%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.093%) Cronacle
12 1 (0.093%) LXC
12 1 (0.093%) Oracle RAC
12 1 (0.093%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.093%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 262 (24.46%) Kubernetes
2 220 (20.54%) Terraform
3 165 (15.41%) Ansible
4 58 (5.42%) Puppet
5 55 (5.14%) Grafana
6 54 (5.04%) Progress Chef
7 38 (3.55%) Prometheus
8 24 (2.24%) Packer
9 22 (2.05%) Kibana
10 16 (1.49%) Salt
11 15 (1.40%) logstash
12 13 (1.21%) Consul
13 11 (1.03%) Docker Swarm
14 10 (0.93%) vRealize
15 9 (0.84%) Podman
16 7 (0.65%) Argo
16 7 (0.65%) HP Fortify
17 6 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
18 5 (0.47%) FortiGate
18 5 (0.47%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 140 (13.07%) Microsoft
2 78 (7.28%) Oracle
3 70 (6.54%) Google
4 47 (4.39%) Splunk
5 45 (4.20%) VMware
6 34 (3.17%) Red Hat
7 28 (2.61%) Atlassian
8 25 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.24%) Talend
10 23 (2.15%) IBM
11 21 (1.96%) SAP
12 19 (1.77%) Databricks
13 17 (1.59%) Denodo
14 15 (1.40%) MuleSoft
14 15 (1.40%) SaltStack
15 13 (1.21%) Cisco
16 12 (1.12%) TIBCO
17 11 (1.03%) ServiceNow
17 11 (1.03%) Sybase
17 11 (1.03%) Syncsort