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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 50 49
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 -16
Contract jobs citing Git 26 39 50
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.55% 3.24% 3.77%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.84% 28.06% 22.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 32
10th Percentile £379 £420 £446
25th Percentile £540 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £570 £521
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.40% +1.66%
75th Percentile - £585 £591
90th Percentile £604 £608 £662
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 13
10th Percentile - £64.75 £52.00
25th Percentile - - £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +12.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £72.63 £73.00
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £68.63
% change year-on-year -28.57% +1.99% +5.59%

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 138 139 218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.52% 11.56% 16.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 82 134
10th Percentile £381 £357 £407
25th Percentile £430 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £541
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.62% -1.59%
75th Percentile £575 £587 £600
90th Percentile £600 £631 £654
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £538
% change year-on-year - -11.63% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 22
10th Percentile - £58.56 £51.25
25th Percentile - £68.13 £55.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £70.00 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +14.29% -5.77%
75th Percentile £55.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile - £71.88 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -16.03% +13.91% -11.54%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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 -2 11 £384 - 10
Basingstoke +8 7 £600 +50.00% 12
Southampton - 2 - - 12
Farnborough -6 1 £550 -5.50%
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 2 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.85%) Anypoint
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 3 (11.54%) Azure
1 3 (11.54%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
3 1 (3.85%) AWS
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (3.85%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.85%) Dagster
3 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
3 1 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.85%) DNS
2 1 (3.85%) Firewall
2 1 (3.85%) SSH
2 1 (3.85%) SSL
2 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.85%) Big Data
1 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.85%) Delta Lake
1 1 (3.85%) Hadoop
1 1 (3.85%) Metadata
1 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
1 1 (3.85%) Parquet
1 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (61.54%) JIRA
2 14 (53.85%) Jenkins
3 6 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 6 (23.08%) GitLab
3 6 (23.08%) Postman
3 6 (23.08%) Selenium
3 6 (23.08%) WebDriver
4 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.69%) Poetry
4 2 (7.69%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.85%) Maven
5 1 (3.85%) MLflow
5 1 (3.85%) PyCharm
5 1 (3.85%) Pylint
5 1 (3.85%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (11.54%) Aerospace
2 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (23.08%) Architect
1 6 (23.08%) Java Architect
1 6 (23.08%) Java Solutions Architect
1 6 (23.08%) Software Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Software Test Engineer
1 6 (23.08%) Solutions Architect
1 6 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Lead
5 1 (3.85%) Principal Software Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Developer
5 1 (3.85%) Senior Embedded Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (46.15%) REST
2 5 (19.23%) RESTful
3 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
3 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 4 (15.38%) Spring Boot
3 4 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (3.85%) Apache Avro
4 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (3.85%) Flask
4 1 (3.85%) JSF
4 1 (3.85%) Kafka
4 1 (3.85%) MUnit
4 1 (3.85%) NumPy
4 1 (3.85%) Pandas
4 1 (3.85%) PySpark
4 1 (3.85%) pytest
4 1 (3.85%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (23.08%) CAN bus
3 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (15.38%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
1 6 (23.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Agile
2 12 (46.15%) CI/CD
3 10 (38.46%) DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) SysML
3 10 (38.46%) UML
4 9 (34.62%) Scrum
4 9 (34.62%) Sprint Planning
4 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 8 (30.77%) SDLC
5 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
6 7 (26.92%) Code Quality
6 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
7 6 (23.08%) Configuration Management
7 6 (23.08%) Exploratory Testing
7 6 (23.08%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
7 6 (23.08%) Service Delivery
7 6 (23.08%) Software Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Design Patterns
8 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
8 5 (19.23%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) Java
2 6 (23.08%) C#
2 6 (23.08%) C++
2 6 (23.08%) Embedded C++
3 2 (7.69%) Python
3 2 (7.69%) SQL
4 1 (3.85%) Bash
4 1 (3.85%) Bicep
4 1 (3.85%) Groovy
4 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 7 (26.92%) Docker
2 6 (23.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Argo
2 1 (3.85%) CloudHub
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Istio
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (3.85%) Cloudera
1 1 (3.85%) Databricks
1 1 (3.85%) Google
1 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
1 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
1 1 (3.85%) Salesforce