Git Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Git Distributed Version Control System
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 51
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Git 42 27 45
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.14% 2.80% 3.26%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.92% 21.26% 29.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 21
10th Percentile £414 £404 £325
25th Percentile £515 £507 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £568 £570
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -0.44% +3.64%
75th Percentile £734 £600 £585
90th Percentile £749 - £610
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £543
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.83% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 14
10th Percentile - - £63.00
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +2.43%
75th Percentile - £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £58.50 £72.63
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +12.00%

All Development Application Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 156 127 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.96% 13.15% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 88 94
10th Percentile £363 £385 £356
25th Percentile £494 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £650 £586 £603
90th Percentile £730 £609 £668
South East median daily rate £500 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +3.63% -3.50% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 15
10th Percentile £43.00 - £56.78
25th Percentile £47.40 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +14.29%
75th Percentile £95.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - £58.50 £72.25
South East median hourly rate £67.47 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +22.67% -16.03% +12.45%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Git job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Git

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Hampshire over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Hampshire

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Git

Git
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 2026. 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
Farnborough -1 16 £538 -2.27% 12
Basingstoke -14 9 £663 +10.42% 7
Portsmouth -21 5 £507 -1.41% 5
Romsey - 4 £690 -
Southampton -3 2 £578 +21.58% 8
Fareham - 1 - - 3
Git
South East

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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 6 (14.29%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (57.14%) AWS
2 16 (38.10%) Azure
3 9 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (11.90%) GCP
5 4 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 4 (9.52%) Serverless
6 3 (7.14%) Cloudflare
6 3 (7.14%) GitHub
6 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 3 (7.14%) Supabase
7 2 (4.76%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (4.76%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.38%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.38%) Boomi
8 1 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.38%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) MQTT
1 4 (9.52%) Network Security
2 3 (7.14%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 4 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.38%) Redis
Development Applications
1 15 (35.71%) Selenium
2 10 (23.81%) GitLab
3 5 (11.90%) Jenkins
3 5 (11.90%) JIRA
4 4 (9.52%) SonarQube
5 3 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (2.38%) JUnit
6 1 (2.38%) NUnit
6 1 (2.38%) Postman
6 1 (2.38%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (52.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.38%) Automotive
4 1 (2.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Documentum Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Java Architect
3 6 (14.29%) Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Documentum Developer
4 5 (11.90%) DV Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Java Solutions Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (9.52%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.38%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.38%) C++ Software Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 1 (2.38%) Integration Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Platform Engineer
8 1 (2.38%) SAP Architect
8 1 (2.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (21.43%) REST
2 8 (19.05%) RESTful
2 8 (19.05%) Terraform
3 6 (14.29%) ADO
4 4 (9.52%) gRPC
4 4 (9.52%) Kafka
4 4 (9.52%) Keycloak
4 4 (9.52%) Protocol Buffers
5 3 (7.14%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.14%) Next.js
5 3 (7.14%) Spring
5 3 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.14%) Vitest
5 3 (7.14%) Web Services
6 2 (4.76%) CSS
6 2 (4.76%) HTML
6 2 (4.76%) pytest
6 2 (4.76%) React
7 1 (2.38%) ModSecurity
7 1 (2.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.76%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 10 (23.81%) Linux
2 6 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (4.76%) CentOS
4 2 (4.76%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (76.19%) CI/CD
2 31 (73.81%) Agile
3 23 (54.76%) Containerisation
3 23 (54.76%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (50.00%) Test Automation
5 20 (47.62%) SDLC
6 18 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (42.86%) Identity Access Management
6 18 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
7 17 (40.48%) Validation
8 15 (35.71%) Continuous Delivery
8 15 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (35.71%) Data Protection
8 15 (35.71%) Software Testing
9 14 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
9 14 (33.33%) API Testing
9 14 (33.33%) Application Security
9 14 (33.33%) Data Validation
9 14 (33.33%) Defect Management
9 14 (33.33%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (64.29%) Python
2 19 (45.24%) SQL
3 11 (26.19%) Java
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
5 4 (9.52%) Rust
5 4 (9.52%) Shell Script
5 4 (9.52%) TypeScript
6 3 (7.14%) Bash
7 2 (4.76%) C++
8 1 (2.38%) Ada
8 1 (2.38%) C
8 1 (2.38%) C#
8 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 37 (88.10%) Security Cleared
2 27 (64.29%) DV Cleared
3 14 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 3 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
2 1 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (16.67%) Ansible
3 5 (11.90%) Grafana
3 5 (11.90%) Prometheus
4 4 (9.52%) Podman
4 4 (9.52%) Puppet
5 1 (2.38%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) NVIDIA
1 4 (9.52%) Tenable
2 1 (2.38%) Dell
2 1 (2.38%) Google
2 1 (2.38%) IBM
2 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.38%) SAP
2 1 (2.38%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.38%) Splunk
2 1 (2.38%) VMware