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 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 84 38 54
Rank change year-on-year -46 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Git 29 34 54
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.56% 3.75% 3.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.71% 25.95% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 14 20
10th Percentile £428 £420 £325
25th Percentile £513 £507 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £529 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.74% -7.28% +3.64%
75th Percentile £735 £596 £590
90th Percentile £750 £600 £615
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 17
10th Percentile £53.25 - £63.50
25th Percentile £54.38 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.94 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -21.52% -
75th Percentile £55.63 £58.39 £73.75
90th Percentile £56.75 £58.75 £76.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £54.94 £70.00
% change year-on-year +0.11% -21.52% +6.31%

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 140 131 182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.55% 14.46% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 89 94
10th Percentile £419 £402 £363
25th Percentile £492 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% -6.55% -
75th Percentile £644 £600 £605
90th Percentile £730 £626 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 19
10th Percentile £35.56 - £51.20
25th Percentile £46.77 £50.00 £67.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.94 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -21.52% +19.15%
75th Percentile - £58.39 £71.88
90th Percentile £56.25 £58.75 £75.50
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -15.38% +13.04%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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
Portsmouth -16 8 £471 -8.37% 8
Basingstoke -17 8 £675 +12.50% 4
Farnborough -11 5 £550 - 5
Romsey - 4 £690 - 2
Southampton -5 2 £578 +21.58% 1
Fareham - 1 - - 5
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 (20.69%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP MDG
1 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 9 (31.03%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (13.79%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Boomi
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.24%) HTTPS
2 4 (13.79%) MQTT
2 4 (13.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (27.59%) GitLab
1 8 (27.59%) JIRA
2 4 (13.79%) SonarQube
3 3 (10.34%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.90%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) JUnit
5 1 (3.45%) NUnit
5 1 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (3.45%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Aerospace
3 2 (6.90%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Automotive
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Developer
2 9 (31.03%) Java Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Architect
4 6 (20.69%) Documentum Architect
4 6 (20.69%) Java Architect
5 5 (17.24%) Documentum Developer
5 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 5 (17.24%) Java Solutions Architect
5 5 (17.24%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (13.79%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (13.79%) Software Engineer
7 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 2 (6.90%) Java Software Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
8 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 2 (6.90%) Senior
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Developer
9 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
9 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) REST
1 10 (34.48%) RESTful
2 6 (20.69%) ADO
3 5 (17.24%) Hibernate
3 5 (17.24%) Spring
3 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
4 4 (13.79%) gRPC
4 4 (13.79%) Kafka
4 4 (13.79%) Keycloak
4 4 (13.79%) Protocol Buffers
4 4 (13.79%) React
4 4 (13.79%) Web Services
5 2 (6.90%) pytest
5 2 (6.90%) Swagger
6 1 (3.45%) Flask
6 1 (3.45%) IDoc
6 1 (3.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (3.45%) ModSecurity
6 1 (3.45%) OAuth2
6 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (17.24%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.79%) Algorithms
2 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.45%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 7 (24.14%) Linux
2 6 (20.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (72.41%) Agile
2 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
3 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 10 (34.48%) Microservices
3 10 (34.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 10 (34.48%) Sprint Planning
4 9 (31.03%) Scrum
4 9 (31.03%) Software Engineering
5 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
6 7 (24.14%) Containerisation
6 7 (24.14%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (24.14%) SDLC
7 6 (20.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 6 (20.69%) Software Delivery
7 6 (20.69%) SysML
7 6 (20.69%) UML
8 5 (17.24%) Customer Requirements
8 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (17.24%) Sprint Retrospective
8 5 (17.24%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 14 (48.28%) Java
2 11 (37.93%) Python
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
3 4 (13.79%) Rust
3 4 (13.79%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) C#
5 2 (6.90%) C++
5 2 (6.90%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Ada
6 1 (3.45%) Apex Code
6 1 (3.45%) C
6 1 (3.45%) Go
6 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 25 (86.21%) Security Cleared
2 19 (65.52%) SC Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) DV Cleared
4 8 (27.59%) Degree
5 3 (10.34%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB
6 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) QA
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 6 (20.69%) Grafana
2 6 (20.69%) Prometheus
3 5 (17.24%) Terraform
4 4 (13.79%) Ansible
4 4 (13.79%) Podman
4 4 (13.79%) Puppet
5 1 (3.45%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) NVIDIA
1 4 (13.79%) Tenable
2 2 (6.90%) Google
3 1 (3.45%) Dell
3 1 (3.45%) IBM
3 1 (3.45%) MuleSoft
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.45%) Splunk
3 1 (3.45%) VMware