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

6 months to
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 39 54
Rank change year-on-year -29 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Git 25 31 39
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.77% 4.17% 2.64%
As % of the Development Applications category 17.48% 31.00% 23.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 16
10th Percentile £367 £342 £435
25th Percentile £476 £377 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £472 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.89% -5.65% -9.09%
75th Percentile £726 £534 £522
90th Percentile £736 £556 £655
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 13
10th Percentile £53.00 £54.34 £56.40
25th Percentile £53.75 £59.94 £62.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% -10.71% +3.70%
75th Percentile £58.88 £64.69 -
90th Percentile £59.70 £71.63 £77.00
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £68.63
% change year-on-year -12.00% -8.94% +1.68%

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 143 100 163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.15% 13.46% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 60 96
10th Percentile £319 £355 £400
25th Percentile £407 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £493 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% -8.37% -2.27%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £738 £625 £653
South East median daily rate £475 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 16
10th Percentile £40.00 £55.79 £57.00
25th Percentile £41.56 £60.81 £61.25
Median hourly rate £51.25 £62.50 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% -1.96% -1.92%
75th Percentile £56.88 £64.06 £70.00
90th Percentile £58.88 £70.63 £76.25
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% -1.60% +7.32%

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 February 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 February 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 -4 8 £525 - 3
Southampton 0 5 £718 - 6
Portsmouth -11 3 - - 9
Basingstoke -19 1 £650 +46.56%
Romsey - 1 £770 -
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%) Apache
1 3 (12.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
2 6 (24.00%) Serverless
3 5 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (16.00%) GCP
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure AKS
6 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub
6 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.00%) IaaS
6 1 (4.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) HTTPS
2 2 (8.00%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (4.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Jenkins
1 11 (44.00%) JIRA
2 5 (20.00%) GitLab
2 5 (20.00%) Gradle
3 4 (16.00%) Maven
4 3 (12.00%) Bitbucket
5 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.00%) Gatling
6 1 (4.00%) JUnit
6 1 (4.00%) Postman
6 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
6 1 (4.00%) Selenium
6 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (4.00%) TestNG
General
1 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (8.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Software Engineer
2 8 (32.00%) Developer
3 7 (28.00%) Java Developer
4 6 (24.00%) C++ Software Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 6 (24.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 5 (20.00%) Senior
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Java Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Java Software Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Software Developer
8 1 (4.00%) React Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) Spring
2 6 (24.00%) RESTful
2 6 (24.00%) Spring Boot
3 5 (20.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (12.00%) Hibernate
5 2 (8.00%) React
5 2 (8.00%) Web Services
6 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (4.00%) Gherkin
6 1 (4.00%) gRPC
6 1 (4.00%) JPA
6 1 (4.00%) Kafka
6 1 (4.00%) Keycloak
6 1 (4.00%) Swagger
6 1 (4.00%) WebSockets
6 1 (4.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) CAN bus
2 3 (12.00%) Algorithms
2 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (4.00%) FPGA
4 1 (4.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (36.00%) Linux
2 6 (24.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Agile
2 17 (68.00%) CI/CD
3 14 (56.00%) DevOps
4 13 (52.00%) Software Engineering
5 9 (36.00%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (36.00%) Microservices
5 9 (36.00%) SysML
5 9 (36.00%) UML
6 8 (32.00%) Configuration Management
6 8 (32.00%) Containerisation
7 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (24.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
10 4 (16.00%) Scrum
10 4 (16.00%) Sprint Planning
11 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
11 3 (12.00%) OO
11 3 (12.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) C#
2 8 (32.00%) C++
3 6 (24.00%) Embedded C++
4 4 (16.00%) Python
4 4 (16.00%) SQL
5 2 (8.00%) Bash
5 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (4.00%) C
6 1 (4.00%) Go
6 1 (4.00%) MATLAB
6 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 17 (68.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) Degree
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (4.00%) OCP
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 16 (64.00%) Docker
2 6 (24.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (36.00%) Kubernetes
2 7 (28.00%) Ansible
2 7 (28.00%) Terraform
3 5 (20.00%) Grafana
4 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 4 (16.00%) Puppet
5 2 (8.00%) Podman
6 1 (4.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Google
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Oracle
2 1 (4.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (4.00%) Splunk
2 1 (4.00%) Tenable