Git Contracts in the UK excluding London

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Git skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Git over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 72 52
Rank change year-on-year -17 -20 -3
Contract jobs citing Git 469 752 1,284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.31% 3.27% 4.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.91% 23.49% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 528 831
10th Percentile £350 £384 £388
25th Percentile £400 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% - +20.59%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £600
90th Percentile £654 £700 £653
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 34 31
10th Percentile £50.48 £51.25 £46.25
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.09 £58.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -0.44% +31.08%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.54
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.44% +24.84%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

Git is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,243 3,202 4,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.05% 13.92% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,258 3,178
10th Percentile £350 £342 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 166 111
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.45 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.19 £52.50 £44.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £79.59 £79.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the UK excluding London

Git
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
South East +15 148 £550 - 110
North of England -14 126 £507 -7.82% 153
Scotland +6 67 £525 +5.00% 29
Midlands -1 65 £363 -27.54% 92
North West -15 63 £510 +0.74% 90
Yorkshire +9 56 £500 -12.28% 49
West Midlands +9 52 £358 -33.70% 62
East of England -33 35 £550 +10.00% 50
South West -59 30 £590 +13.73% 97
East Midlands -9 13 £445 -6.32% 30
North East -15 9 £380 -33.91% 15
Wales +21 6 £529 -15.40% 22
Git
UK

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (13.22%) Confluence
2 21 (4.48%) Apache
3 18 (3.84%) Apache Spark
4 12 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (2.35%) CICS
5 11 (2.35%) SAS
6 9 (1.92%) Drupal
7 7 (1.49%) JBoss
8 5 (1.07%) CMS
9 4 (0.85%) nginx
10 3 (0.64%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.43%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.43%) Headless CMS
11 2 (0.43%) Kentico
11 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
11 2 (0.43%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.43%) Traefik
12 1 (0.21%) Ethereum
12 1 (0.21%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 8 (1.71%) Simulink
2 7 (1.49%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.07%) TargetLink
4 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.43%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.21%) Magento
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 134 (28.57%) Azure
2 123 (26.23%) AWS
3 59 (12.58%) Azure DevOps
4 53 (11.30%) Serverless
5 44 (9.38%) GCP
5 44 (9.38%) GitHub
6 34 (7.25%) Amazon S3
7 30 (6.40%) Amazon EC2
8 29 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
9 27 (5.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 23 (4.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (4.90%) OpenShift
11 22 (4.69%) Azure Functions
12 21 (4.48%) Entra ID
13 19 (4.05%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (3.62%) PaaS
15 16 (3.41%) Snowflake
15 16 (3.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (2.99%) AWS CloudFormation
16 14 (2.99%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.90%) DNS
1 23 (4.90%) Firewall
2 21 (4.48%) HTTP
3 19 (4.05%) Software-Defined Radio
4 18 (3.84%) SNMP
5 16 (3.41%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.77%) VPN
7 12 (2.56%) SSL
8 8 (1.71%) NAS
9 7 (1.49%) 5G
10 6 (1.28%) Kerberos
10 6 (1.28%) Network Security
10 6 (1.28%) Wireless
11 5 (1.07%) FTP
11 5 (1.07%) SAN
12 4 (0.85%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 4 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
12 4 (0.85%) Wireshark
13 3 (0.64%) BIG-IP
13 3 (0.64%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (10.02%) PostgreSQL
2 44 (9.38%) MySQL
3 43 (9.17%) NoSQL
4 40 (8.53%) Relational Database
5 32 (6.82%) SQL Server
6 31 (6.61%) Amazon Redshift
7 25 (5.33%) Data Lake
8 20 (4.26%) Big Data
9 17 (3.62%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (3.62%) Elasticsearch
10 14 (2.99%) MongoDB
11 12 (2.56%) BigQuery
11 12 (2.56%) Hadoop
11 12 (2.56%) RDBMS
12 11 (2.35%) DB2
12 11 (2.35%) IDMS
13 8 (1.71%) Oracle Database
14 7 (1.49%) Amazon Athena
14 7 (1.49%) DynamoDB
14 7 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 151 (32.20%) Jenkins
2 118 (25.16%) JIRA
3 45 (9.59%) Bitbucket
4 43 (9.17%) GitLab
5 37 (7.89%) JUnit
6 33 (7.04%) Visual Studio
7 31 (6.61%) Subversion
8 29 (6.18%) Selenium
9 24 (5.12%) Cucumber
10 20 (4.26%) Postman
11 19 (4.05%) Eclipse
12 18 (3.84%) SonarQube
13 17 (3.62%) GoogleTest
13 17 (3.62%) Robot Framework
14 12 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 12 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
15 11 (2.35%) Gradle
15 11 (2.35%) IntelliJ
15 11 (2.35%) Maven
15 11 (2.35%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (16.20%) Social Skills
2 49 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (7.46%) Public Sector
4 27 (5.76%) Banking
4 27 (5.76%) Finance
5 16 (3.41%) Aerospace
6 12 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 9 (1.92%) Automotive
8 9 (1.92%) Multimedia
9 5 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.07%) Retail
10 4 (0.85%) Marketing
11 3 (0.64%) Electronics
11 3 (0.64%) German Language
11 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.43%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 187 (39.87%) Developer
2 55 (11.73%) Software Engineer
3 42 (8.96%) Senior
4 36 (7.68%) DevOps Engineer
4 36 (7.68%) Java Developer
5 29 (6.18%) Full Stack Developer
6 22 (4.69%) Lead
7 20 (4.26%) Architect
7 20 (4.26%) Azure Developer
7 20 (4.26%) Linux Engineer
8 19 (4.05%) C++ Software Engineer
9 18 (3.84%) Python Developer
10 17 (3.62%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.62%) Test Engineer
11 16 (3.41%) Cloud Engineer
11 16 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
12 14 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
12 14 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
13 13 (2.77%) Embedded Engineer
14 12 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (15.14%) React
2 67 (14.29%) REST
3 57 (12.15%) .NET
4 52 (11.09%) CSS
5 50 (10.66%) Spring Boot
6 46 (9.81%) Spring
7 44 (9.38%) HTML
8 42 (8.96%) Kafka
9 40 (8.53%) JSON
9 40 (8.53%) RESTful
10 35 (7.46%) XML
11 27 (5.76%) Node.js
12 20 (4.26%) ASP.NET
12 20 (4.26%) Elastic Stack
13 19 (4.05%) GraphQL
13 19 (4.05%) Web Services
14 17 (3.62%) YAML
15 16 (3.41%) .NET Core
15 16 (3.41%) .NET Framework
15 16 (3.41%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 22 (4.69%) Product Ownership
2 17 (3.62%) Algorithms
2 17 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (3.41%) Mobile App
4 14 (2.99%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.77%) Data Structures
6 11 (2.35%) IBM Mainframe
6 11 (2.35%) Mainframe
7 10 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 8 (1.71%) Public Cloud
10 7 (1.49%) Management Information System
11 6 (1.28%) Enterprise Cloud
12 5 (1.07%) Credit Risk
12 5 (1.07%) Device Driver
12 5 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.07%) PKI
12 5 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.85%) ASIC
13 4 (0.85%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 103 (21.96%) Linux
2 63 (13.43%) Windows
3 39 (8.32%) Unix
4 22 (4.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (2.77%) VMS
6 11 (2.35%) zOS
7 8 (1.71%) Windows Server
8 7 (1.49%) Android
8 7 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
9 4 (0.85%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.64%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.64%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.43%) CentOS
11 2 (0.43%) Debian
11 2 (0.43%) Solaris
12 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.21%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 236 (50.32%) Agile
2 203 (43.28%) DevOps
3 166 (35.39%) CI/CD
4 128 (27.29%) Scrum
5 122 (26.01%) Software Engineering
6 106 (22.60%) Continuous Integration
7 95 (20.26%) Test Automation
8 84 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
9 78 (16.63%) Containerisation
10 71 (15.14%) Microservices
11 57 (12.15%) TDD
12 56 (11.94%) Unit Testing
13 54 (11.51%) Infrastructure as Code
14 46 (9.81%) Full Stack Development
15 42 (8.96%) Software Testing
16 40 (8.53%) Computer Science
16 40 (8.53%) OO
17 38 (8.10%) SDLC
18 37 (7.89%) Deployment Automation
19 36 (7.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 183 (39.02%) Python
2 113 (24.09%) Java
3 110 (23.45%) SQL
4 76 (16.20%) C#
4 76 (16.20%) JavaScript
5 73 (15.57%) Bash
6 48 (10.23%) C++
7 41 (8.74%) C
8 38 (8.10%) PowerShell
9 33 (7.04%) TypeScript
10 31 (6.61%) Shell Script
11 26 (5.54%) Go
12 25 (5.33%) Perl
13 14 (2.99%) MATLAB
14 13 (2.77%) PHP
15 11 (2.35%) CLIST
15 11 (2.35%) COBOL
15 11 (2.35%) REXX
16 10 (2.13%) Ruby
16 10 (2.13%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 118 (25.16%) Security Cleared
2 100 (21.32%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.30%) Degree
4 26 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 25 (5.33%) DV Cleared
6 16 (3.41%) Master's Degree
7 7 (1.49%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.28%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 5 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.07%) PhD
10 2 (0.43%) HND
10 2 (0.43%) ISEB
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.21%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (6.18%) QA
2 9 (1.92%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.28%) GDPR
3 6 (1.28%) JTAG
3 6 (1.28%) MISRA
3 6 (1.28%) MISRA C
4 5 (1.07%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.07%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.85%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.64%) ISO 22301
6 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.64%) NCSC
6 3 (0.64%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.21%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.21%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.21%) WCAG
System Software
1 113 (24.09%) Docker
2 37 (7.89%) Active Directory
3 22 (4.69%) Firmware
4 7 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.49%) vSphere
5 6 (1.28%) VirtualBox
6 5 (1.07%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.85%) zsh
8 3 (0.64%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.43%) HDFS
9 2 (0.43%) Varnish
9 2 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.21%) LXC
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
10 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 112 (23.88%) Kubernetes
2 76 (16.20%) Ansible
2 76 (16.20%) Terraform
3 31 (6.61%) Grafana
4 26 (5.54%) Progress Chef
5 23 (4.90%) Kibana
6 21 (4.48%) Puppet
7 17 (3.62%) Prometheus
8 11 (2.35%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.92%) logstash
10 8 (1.71%) Packer
11 7 (1.49%) HP Fortify
12 6 (1.28%) vRealize
13 4 (0.85%) HAProxy
13 4 (0.85%) NetBackup
14 3 (0.64%) Argo
14 3 (0.64%) Istio
15 2 (0.43%) Consul
15 2 (0.43%) Kustomize
15 2 (0.43%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (9.81%) Microsoft
2 38 (8.10%) Google
3 33 (7.04%) Oracle
4 26 (5.54%) Splunk
5 21 (4.48%) Talend
6 20 (4.26%) Atlassian
7 16 (3.41%) Denodo
8 15 (3.20%) VMware
9 14 (2.99%) Red Hat
10 13 (2.77%) IBM
11 11 (2.35%) Syncsort
11 11 (2.35%) Veritas
12 10 (2.13%) Cadence
13 8 (1.71%) Informatica
14 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
15 5 (1.07%) AppDynamics
15 5 (1.07%) Arqiva
15 5 (1.07%) Databricks
15 5 (1.07%) F5
15 5 (1.07%) ServiceNow