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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 50 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Git 23 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.76% 3.12% 3.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.74% 24.76% 22.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 24
10th Percentile £375 £342 £373
25th Percentile £399 £377 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -10.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £647 £510 £588
90th Percentile £731 £550 £691
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 14
10th Percentile £50.68 £52.70 £55.00
25th Percentile £51.69 £59.50 £55.94
Median hourly rate £54.25 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% - -7.41%
75th Percentile £57.69 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £59.23 £72.00 -
South East median hourly rate £54.25 £62.50 £64.88
% change year-on-year -13.20% -3.67% -3.88%

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 156 105 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.94% 12.61% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 67 124
10th Percentile £320 £356 £400
25th Percentile £400 £415 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £526
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.99% -5.44%
75th Percentile £552 £575 £589
90th Percentile £728 £618 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 11 16
10th Percentile - £54.63 £55.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £60.38 £57.81
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £56.15 £71.25 -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £59.02 £62.50
% change year-on-year +27.08% -5.57% -1.96%

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 8 January 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 8 January 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 -7 6 £430 - 4
Basingstoke -15 5 £600 +35.29% 13
Southampton 0 3 £530 - 16
Portsmouth -14 2 £384 -13.95% 15
Romsey - 1 £770 -
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 4 (17.39%) Apache Spark
2 3 (13.04%) Apache
3 2 (8.70%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (4.35%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 10 (43.48%) AWS
2 7 (30.43%) Azure
3 6 (26.09%) GCP
3 6 (26.09%) Serverless
4 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
4 5 (21.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (17.39%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (17.39%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (13.04%) GitHub
7 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (8.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.35%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (4.35%) Dagster
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) DNS
1 1 (4.35%) MQTT
1 1 (4.35%) SSH
1 1 (4.35%) SSL
1 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.35%) Big Data
2 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.35%) Metadata
2 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) Parquet
2 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (60.87%) Jenkins
2 8 (34.78%) JIRA
3 7 (30.43%) GitLab
4 5 (21.74%) Gradle
5 4 (17.39%) Maven
6 3 (13.04%) Bitbucket
6 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
7 2 (8.70%) Poetry
7 2 (8.70%) Postman
7 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
8 1 (4.35%) Gatling
8 1 (4.35%) JUnit
8 1 (4.35%) MLflow
8 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
8 1 (4.35%) Pylint
8 1 (4.35%) REST Assured
8 1 (4.35%) Selenium
8 1 (4.35%) TestNG
8 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.35%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Java Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Architect
4 3 (13.04%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Java Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Java Solutions Architect
4 3 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Lead
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (17.39%) REST
1 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
2 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
3 2 (8.70%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (8.70%) Kafka
4 1 (4.35%) Apache Avro
4 1 (4.35%) Flask
4 1 (4.35%) Gherkin
4 1 (4.35%) gRPC
4 1 (4.35%) JPA
4 1 (4.35%) Keycloak
4 1 (4.35%) NumPy
4 1 (4.35%) Pandas
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
4 1 (4.35%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) CAN bus
2 3 (13.04%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Agile
2 15 (65.22%) DevOps
3 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
4 9 (39.13%) Software Engineering
5 8 (34.78%) Configuration Management
5 8 (34.78%) Containerisation
5 8 (34.78%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
6 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (26.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (26.09%) SysML
6 6 (26.09%) UML
7 4 (17.39%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (17.39%) Test Automation
8 3 (13.04%) OO
8 3 (13.04%) OOP
8 3 (13.04%) Platform Engineering
8 3 (13.04%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) Java
2 6 (26.09%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) C++
2 6 (26.09%) Embedded C++
3 5 (21.74%) Python
3 5 (21.74%) SQL
4 3 (13.04%) Bash
5 1 (4.35%) Bicep
5 1 (4.35%) Groovy
5 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) Rust
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (65.22%) Security Cleared
2 10 (43.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (26.09%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.35%) OCP
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) Docker
2 6 (26.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (39.13%) Kubernetes
2 8 (34.78%) Terraform
3 7 (30.43%) Ansible
4 5 (21.74%) Grafana
5 4 (17.39%) Prometheus
5 4 (17.39%) Puppet
6 2 (8.70%) Podman
7 1 (4.35%) Argo
7 1 (4.35%) Istio
7 1 (4.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Google
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.35%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk
2 1 (4.35%) Tenable