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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Git 21 27 45
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.57% 3.44% 3.31%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.91% 27.00% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 22
10th Percentile £368 £342 £427
25th Percentile £433 £377 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £447 £500
Median % change year-on-year +42.70% -10.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £726 £510 £578
90th Percentile £741 £550 £701
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 15
10th Percentile £50.68 £54.63 £55.00
25th Percentile £51.69 £57.44 £56.88
Median hourly rate £54.25 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.20% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £57.69 £64.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £59.23 £71.25 -
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -3.85%

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 151 100 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 11.29% 12.74% 13.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 63 116
10th Percentile £320 £356 £400
25th Percentile £404 £413 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £529
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -10.17% -3.86%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £588
90th Percentile £738 £623 £644
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £539
% change year-on-year - -11.83% -1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 18
10th Percentile - £54.78 £55.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £59.50 £58.75
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £69.06
90th Percentile £56.15 £70.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £60.50 £62.25
% change year-on-year -0.83% -2.81% +0.67%

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 22 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 22 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
Southampton 0 5 £718 - 5
Farnborough -7 5 £310 - 5
Basingstoke -14 3 £625 +40.92% 17
Portsmouth -13 1 - - 11
Romsey - 1 £770 - 1
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 (14.29%) Apache
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) Documentum
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Serverless
3 5 (23.81%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (19.05%) Amazon S3
4 4 (19.05%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (19.05%) GCP
5 3 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub
6 2 (9.52%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.76%) Azure AKS
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (4.76%) IaaS
7 1 (4.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (4.76%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 8 (38.10%) JIRA
3 5 (23.81%) Gradle
4 4 (19.05%) GitLab
4 4 (19.05%) Maven
5 3 (14.29%) Bitbucket
5 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
6 2 (9.52%) Postman
7 1 (4.76%) Gatling
7 1 (4.76%) JUnit
7 1 (4.76%) Poetry
7 1 (4.76%) Pylint
7 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
7 1 (4.76%) Selenium
7 1 (4.76%) SonarQube
7 1 (4.76%) TestNG
7 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Banking
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Software Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) C++ Software Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Embedded Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Embedded C++ Engineer
3 5 (23.81%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 4 (19.05%) Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Java Developer
4 4 (19.05%) Senior
5 3 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Embedded Engineer
6 2 (9.52%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) GUI Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Lead
7 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 1 (4.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) REST
2 4 (19.05%) Spring
3 3 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 3 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.52%) Kafka
5 1 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.76%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.76%) gRPC
5 1 (4.76%) JPA
5 1 (4.76%) Keycloak
5 1 (4.76%) PySpark
5 1 (4.76%) pytest
5 1 (4.76%) WebSockets
5 1 (4.76%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) CAN bus
2 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.76%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.76%) FPGA
4 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.76%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 7 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (4.76%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 15 (71.43%) DevOps
3 13 (61.90%) CI/CD
4 11 (52.38%) Software Engineering
5 9 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (38.10%) Configuration Management
7 7 (33.33%) Containerisation
8 6 (28.57%) Microservices
8 6 (28.57%) SysML
8 6 (28.57%) UML
9 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (23.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
11 3 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
11 3 (14.29%) OO
11 3 (14.29%) OOP
12 2 (9.52%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 2 (9.52%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) C++
2 7 (33.33%) C#
2 7 (33.33%) Java
3 6 (28.57%) Embedded C++
4 5 (23.81%) SQL
5 4 (19.05%) Python
6 2 (9.52%) Bash
7 1 (4.76%) Bicep
7 1 (4.76%) C
7 1 (4.76%) MATLAB
7 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.76%) Rust
7 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (4.76%) OCP
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Docker
2 6 (28.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (38.10%) Terraform
2 7 (33.33%) Ansible
2 7 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (19.05%) Grafana
3 4 (19.05%) Puppet
4 3 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 2 (9.52%) Podman
6 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Google
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.76%) Splunk
2 1 (4.76%) Tenable