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 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 43 55
Rank change year-on-year -33 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing Git 25 30 55
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.46% 3.77% 3.06%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.84% 26.32% 30.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 19
10th Percentile £421 £450 -
25th Percentile £509 £507 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £514 £570
Median % change year-on-year +9.92% -9.82% -0.87%
75th Percentile £726 £537 £596
90th Percentile £735 £588 £619
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 18
10th Percentile £52.75 - £61.78
25th Percentile £53.13 £50.00 £63.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% -1.75%
75th Percentile £56.88 £58.73 £72.81
90th Percentile £57.25 £59.71 £75.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -21.43% +4.97%

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 126 114 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.33% 14.34% 9.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 77 87
10th Percentile £332 £402 £358
25th Percentile £462 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.81% -7.73% +3.77%
75th Percentile £688 £575 £608
90th Percentile £730 £626 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 22
10th Percentile £31.83 - £59.10
25th Percentile £40.21 £50.00 £62.00
Median hourly rate £51.86 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -21.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £55.63 £58.73 -
90th Percentile £56.75 £59.71 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £75.75 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +37.73% -15.38% +14.07%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 -13 6 £471 -8.37% 1
Basingstoke -9 5 £615 +2.50% 4
Farnborough - 5 £550 - 9
Southampton -5 4 £718 +51.05% 4
Romsey - 4 £690 - 2
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 3 (12.00%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (52.00%) Azure
2 9 (36.00%) AWS
3 6 (24.00%) GCP
4 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (16.00%) Serverless
5 1 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Boomi
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) MQTT
1 4 (16.00%) Network Security
2 3 (12.00%) HTTPS
3 2 (8.00%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) GitLab
2 5 (20.00%) JIRA
3 4 (16.00%) SonarQube
4 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (8.00%) Selenium
6 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (4.00%) JUnit
6 1 (4.00%) NUnit
6 1 (4.00%) Postman
6 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Documentum Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Java Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Java Solutions Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Documentum Developer
5 2 (8.00%) DV Cleared Java Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 2 (8.00%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) RESTful
2 7 (28.00%) REST
3 4 (16.00%) gRPC
3 4 (16.00%) Kafka
3 4 (16.00%) Keycloak
3 4 (16.00%) Protocol Buffers
3 4 (16.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) ADO
4 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
4 3 (12.00%) Spring
4 3 (12.00%) Spring Boot
5 2 (8.00%) pytest
5 2 (8.00%) Swagger
5 2 (8.00%) Web Services
6 1 (4.00%) Celery
6 1 (4.00%) Flask
6 1 (4.00%) IDoc
6 1 (4.00%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (4.00%) ModSecurity
6 1 (4.00%) OpenAPI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.00%) Data Structures
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (12.00%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) FPGA
4 1 (4.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (28.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (64.00%) Agile
3 9 (36.00%) DevOps
3 9 (36.00%) Software Engineering
4 8 (32.00%) Microservices
5 7 (28.00%) Containerisation
5 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (28.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 7 (28.00%) Scrum
6 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 6 (24.00%) Test Automation
7 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (16.00%) Agile Coaching
8 4 (16.00%) DevSecOps
8 4 (16.00%) Edge Computing
8 4 (16.00%) Front End Development
8 4 (16.00%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (16.00%) SDLC
8 4 (16.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) Python
2 9 (36.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
3 4 (16.00%) Rust
3 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
4 3 (12.00%) C#
4 3 (12.00%) C++
4 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 3 (12.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.00%) Apex Code
5 1 (4.00%) C
5 1 (4.00%) Go
5 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
5 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (72.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) Degree
4 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
6 1 (4.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Docker
2 1 (4.00%) Firmware
2 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (24.00%) Grafana
2 6 (24.00%) Prometheus
3 5 (20.00%) Terraform
4 4 (16.00%) Ansible
4 4 (16.00%) Podman
4 4 (16.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) NVIDIA
1 4 (16.00%) Tenable
2 2 (8.00%) Google
3 1 (4.00%) Dell
3 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) VMware