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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 43 58
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 +14
Contract jobs citing Git 22 33 43
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.30% 4.47% 2.62%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.32% 29.46% 25.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 11
10th Percentile £397 £354 -
25th Percentile £480 £402 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £514 £350
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% +46.86% -37.78%
75th Percentile £701 £521 £608
90th Percentile £732 £531 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 16
10th Percentile £52.75 - £61.63
25th Percentile £53.13 £50.00 £62.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - -21.43% -5.08%
75th Percentile £56.88 £61.50 £70.94
90th Percentile £57.25 £63.50 £76.25
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% -7.14%

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 127 112 168
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 7.52% 15.18% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 70 84
10th Percentile £363 £381 £347
25th Percentile £461 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £688 £562 £607
90th Percentile £730 £628 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £530
% change year-on-year - -5.66% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 20
10th Percentile £41.94 £50.00 £59.00
25th Percentile £44.86 £50.27 £61.81
Median hourly rate £48.72 £56.25 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £56.50 £63.38 £75.25
South East median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +50.91% -15.38% +15.11%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -17 6 £471 -8.37% 1
Farnborough -7 5 £550 - 5
Southampton -9 4 £718 +51.05% 1
Basingstoke -17 3 £580 - 3
Romsey - 1 £770 - 5
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) AWS
3 6 (27.27%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.55%) Boomi
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub
6 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (4.55%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) HTTPS
2 2 (9.09%) MQTT
2 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) GitLab
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
2 5 (22.73%) JIRA
3 2 (9.09%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) JUnit
4 1 (4.55%) NUnit
4 1 (4.55%) Postman
4 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Finance
2 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.09%) Java Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Backend Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Embedded Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) GUI Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Java Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) REST
1 5 (22.73%) RESTful
2 4 (18.18%) React
3 3 (13.64%) Hibernate
3 3 (13.64%) Spring
3 3 (13.64%) Spring Boot
4 2 (9.09%) gRPC
4 2 (9.09%) Kafka
4 2 (9.09%) Keycloak
4 2 (9.09%) pytest
4 2 (9.09%) Swagger
4 2 (9.09%) Web Services
5 1 (4.55%) Celery
5 1 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (4.55%) IDoc
5 1 (4.55%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (4.55%) ModSecurity
5 1 (4.55%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.55%) OpenAPI
5 1 (4.55%) Protocol Buffers
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 3 (13.64%) Data Structures
2 3 (13.64%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.55%) FPGA
4 1 (4.55%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Embedded Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (77.27%) CI/CD
2 12 (54.55%) Agile
3 9 (40.91%) Software Engineering
4 8 (36.36%) Microservices
5 7 (31.82%) Containerisation
5 7 (31.82%) DevOps
5 7 (31.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (31.82%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 7 (31.82%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Platform Engineering
6 5 (22.73%) Scrum
7 4 (18.18%) Deployment Automation
7 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
7 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (18.18%) SDLC
7 4 (18.18%) SysML
7 4 (18.18%) UML
8 3 (13.64%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (13.64%) Issue Tracking
8 3 (13.64%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) Python
2 6 (27.27%) Java
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) SQL
4 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
5 2 (9.09%) C#
5 2 (9.09%) C++
5 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) Rust
6 1 (4.55%) Apex Code
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) C
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (4.55%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 17 (77.27%) SC Cleared
3 5 (22.73%) Degree
4 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
5 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
6 1 (4.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Firmware
2 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 6 (27.27%) Grafana
2 6 (27.27%) Prometheus
3 5 (22.73%) Terraform
4 4 (18.18%) Ansible
4 4 (18.18%) Puppet
5 3 (13.64%) Podman
6 1 (4.55%) Argo
6 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Google
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Tenable
3 1 (4.55%) Dell
3 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.55%) NVIDIA
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) VMware