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 11 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Git 47 25 40
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.47% 2.45% 3.27%
As % of the Development Applications category 31.13% 17.86% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 10 16
10th Percentile £320 £379 £388
25th Percentile £515 £540 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +5.26% +9.40%
75th Percentile £734 - £585
90th Percentile £744 £604 £608
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 14
10th Percentile - - £64.75
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 - - £72.63
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% -

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 151 140 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.94% 13.74% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 96 85
10th Percentile £320 £382 £356
25th Percentile £482 £429 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.70% -9.09% +1.62%
75th Percentile £649 £577 £588
90th Percentile £730 £612 £635
South East median daily rate £492 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +3.58% - -11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 16
10th Percentile £43.00 - £58.56
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -28.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £95.00 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - - £71.88
South East median hourly rate £63.74 £55.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +15.88% -16.03% +10.08%

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 11 October 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 11 October 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 +3 16 £625 +13.64% 12
Basingstoke -13 12 £675 +12.50% 10
Portsmouth -16 6 £507 +31.97% 11
Romsey - 4 £690 - 1
Southampton -4 1 £720 - 21
Fareham - 1 - - 4
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 (12.77%) Documentum
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (51.06%) AWS
2 17 (36.17%) Azure
3 11 (23.40%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (12.77%) GitHub
4 6 (12.77%) OpenShift
5 5 (10.64%) Cloudflare
5 5 (10.64%) Supabase
6 4 (8.51%) Anthropic Claude
6 4 (8.51%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.51%) GCP
6 4 (8.51%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (8.51%) Serverless
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Boomi
8 1 (2.13%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) HTTPS
1 4 (8.51%) MQTT
1 4 (8.51%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (29.79%) Relational Database
2 6 (12.77%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (8.51%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 14 (29.79%) Selenium
2 11 (23.40%) GitLab
3 6 (12.77%) Jenkins
3 6 (12.77%) JIRA
4 5 (10.64%) Visual Studio Code
5 4 (8.51%) SonarQube
6 1 (2.13%) Postman
6 1 (2.13%) Rational DOORS
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.51%) Aerospace
2 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.13%) Automotive
3 1 (2.13%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.53%) Developer
2 7 (14.89%) Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Documentum Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Java Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Documentum Developer
4 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared Java Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Java Solutions Architect
4 5 (10.64%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.38%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Linux Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) Backend Developer
7 1 (2.13%) C++ Software Engineer
7 1 (2.13%) SAP Architect
7 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA Architect
7 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.40%) Terraform
2 10 (21.28%) REST
3 9 (19.15%) RESTful
4 6 (12.77%) ADO
5 5 (10.64%) Next.js
5 5 (10.64%) Vitest
6 4 (8.51%) CSS
6 4 (8.51%) gRPC
6 4 (8.51%) Hibernate
6 4 (8.51%) HTML
6 4 (8.51%) Kafka
6 4 (8.51%) Keycloak
6 4 (8.51%) Protocol Buffers
6 4 (8.51%) Spring
6 4 (8.51%) Spring Boot
6 4 (8.51%) Web Services
7 2 (4.26%) React
8 1 (2.13%) Celery
8 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
8 1 (2.13%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.51%) AI Agents
2 4 (8.51%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (8.51%) Low-Code
3 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
3 2 (4.26%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.13%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (27.66%) Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (12.77%) Windows
3 4 (8.51%) CentOS
3 4 (8.51%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (78.72%) CI/CD
2 31 (65.96%) Agile
3 26 (55.32%) Containerisation
4 25 (53.19%) Infrastructure as Code
5 24 (51.06%) Test Automation
6 21 (44.68%) SDLC
7 19 (40.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 19 (40.43%) Validation
8 18 (38.30%) Identity Access Management
8 18 (38.30%) Vulnerability Management
9 16 (34.04%) DevOps
9 16 (34.04%) Software Testing
10 15 (31.91%) Continuous Delivery
10 15 (31.91%) Continuous Integration
10 15 (31.91%) Data Protection
11 14 (29.79%) Coaching
11 14 (29.79%) Data Validation
11 14 (29.79%) Manual Testing
11 14 (29.79%) Network Monitoring
11 14 (29.79%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) Python
2 21 (44.68%) SQL
3 12 (25.53%) Java
4 7 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.77%) Bash
5 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 4 (8.51%) Rust
6 4 (8.51%) Shell Script
7 2 (4.26%) C++
8 1 (2.13%) Ada
8 1 (2.13%) C
8 1 (2.13%) C#
8 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 39 (82.98%) Security Cleared
2 31 (65.96%) DV Cleared
3 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
4 5 (10.64%) Degree
5 3 (6.38%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) QA
System Software
1 14 (29.79%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (27.66%) Kubernetes
2 10 (21.28%) Ansible
3 4 (8.51%) Grafana
3 4 (8.51%) Podman
3 4 (8.51%) Prometheus
3 4 (8.51%) Puppet
4 1 (2.13%) Argo
Vendors
1 4 (8.51%) NVIDIA
1 4 (8.51%) Tenable
2 2 (4.26%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.13%) Dell
3 1 (2.13%) IBM
3 1 (2.13%) MuleSoft
3 1 (2.13%) SAP
3 1 (2.13%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.13%) Splunk
3 1 (2.13%) VMware