Git Contracts with Work from Home Options

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 78 57 40
Rank change year-on-year -21 -17 -1
Contract jobs citing Git 402 960 2,457
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.72% 3.89% 5.59%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.43% 25.79% 30.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 663 1,653
10th Percentile £350 £413 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £545
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +4.59% +9.00%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £687 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £511 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.09% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 33 35
10th Percentile £47.88 £51.25 £45.50
25th Percentile £61.25 £56.25 £58.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £68.75 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,792 3,722 8,179
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.11% 15.10% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 2,671 5,888
10th Percentile £360 £388 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 104 109
10th Percentile £25.99 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £52.38 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - +21.50% +18.89%
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.90 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

Git
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Git trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Git.

Git daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Git over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Git daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Git.

Git hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Git over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Git hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 40 (9.95%) Confluence
2 17 (4.23%) CMS
3 11 (2.74%) Apache
4 10 (2.49%) SAS
5 9 (2.24%) CICS
5 9 (2.24%) nginx
6 6 (1.49%) Anypoint
6 6 (1.49%) Apache Spark
6 6 (1.49%) SharePoint
7 5 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.24%) Headless CMS
7 5 (1.24%) Kentico
7 5 (1.24%) Mule
7 5 (1.24%) Mule ESB
8 4 (1.00%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.75%) JBoss
9 3 (0.75%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
10 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.50%) Simulink
2 2 (0.50%) Stateflow
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.75%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.50%) Endur
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 154 (38.31%) Azure
2 136 (33.83%) AWS
3 87 (21.64%) Azure DevOps
4 51 (12.69%) GCP
5 46 (11.44%) Serverless
6 45 (11.19%) GitHub
7 31 (7.71%) PaaS
8 26 (6.47%) Amazon S3
8 26 (6.47%) Azure Monitor
8 26 (6.47%) Azure Service Bus
9 24 (5.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 22 (5.47%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (5.22%) Amazon EKS
12 19 (4.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (4.48%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (4.48%) Azure Functions
13 18 (4.48%) OpenShift
14 17 (4.23%) Azure Data Factory
15 14 (3.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (3.23%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.97%) Firewall
2 17 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.98%) DNS
4 12 (2.99%) Network Security
5 8 (1.99%) DHCP
5 8 (1.99%) HTTP
6 7 (1.74%) NAS
6 7 (1.74%) SAN
6 7 (1.74%) VLAN
6 7 (1.74%) VPN
7 6 (1.49%) Kerberos
8 4 (1.00%) Wireless
9 3 (0.75%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (0.50%) BGP
10 2 (0.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 2 (0.50%) MQTT
10 2 (0.50%) SSL
11 1 (0.25%) HTTPS
11 1 (0.25%) Intrusion Detection
11 1 (0.25%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.97%) NoSQL
3 24 (5.97%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (5.22%) Relational Database
5 18 (4.48%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (4.48%) Amazon Redshift
6 17 (4.23%) MySQL
7 15 (3.73%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.99%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.74%) Big Data
9 11 (2.74%) DB2
10 9 (2.24%) Apache Cassandra
10 9 (2.24%) IDMS
11 8 (1.99%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.99%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.99%) Power BI
12 7 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
12 7 (1.74%) Couchbase
13 6 (1.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 101 (25.12%) Jenkins
2 84 (20.90%) JIRA
3 42 (10.45%) GitLab
4 24 (5.97%) TeamCity
5 23 (5.72%) Selenium
6 16 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 14 (3.48%) Cypress.io
7 14 (3.48%) git-flow
7 14 (3.48%) Visual Studio
8 13 (3.23%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.99%) Artifactory
9 12 (2.99%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.74%) JUnit
10 11 (2.74%) Sonatype Nexus
10 11 (2.74%) Subversion
11 10 (2.49%) Postman
11 10 (2.49%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (2.24%) Maven
12 9 (2.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (23.13%) Social Skills
2 66 (16.42%) Finance
3 35 (8.71%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 27 (6.72%) Banking
6 14 (3.48%) Marketing
6 14 (3.48%) Telecoms
7 11 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (1.99%) Front Office
8 8 (1.99%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.74%) Back Office
9 7 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 7 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
10 5 (1.24%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.24%) Electronics
11 4 (1.00%) Publishing
12 3 (0.75%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.75%) German Language
12 3 (0.75%) Retail
13 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 145 (36.07%) Developer
2 68 (16.92%) Senior
3 64 (15.92%) DevOps Engineer
4 33 (8.21%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.47%) Lead
6 24 (5.97%) Senior Developer
7 23 (5.72%) Azure Developer
7 23 (5.72%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 21 (5.22%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (5.22%) Full Stack Developer
9 18 (4.48%) AWS Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) .NET Developer
10 17 (4.23%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.23%) React Developer
11 15 (3.73%) JavaScript Developer
12 13 (3.23%) Architect
12 13 (3.23%) Senior DevOps
13 12 (2.99%) AWS DevOps
13 12 (2.99%) C# Developer
13 12 (2.99%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (19.15%) React
2 64 (15.92%) CSS
3 62 (15.42%) .NET
4 57 (14.18%) REST
5 51 (12.69%) HTML
6 35 (8.71%) Node.js
6 35 (8.71%) RESTful
7 34 (8.46%) JSON
8 31 (7.71%) SOAP
9 28 (6.97%) Web Services
10 26 (6.47%) XML
11 23 (5.72%) .NET Core
12 21 (5.22%) GraphQL
13 20 (4.98%) .NET Framework
13 20 (4.98%) ASP.NET
14 19 (4.73%) Jest
14 19 (4.73%) YAML
15 18 (4.48%) AngularJS
15 18 (4.48%) Spring
16 17 (4.23%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 21 (5.22%) Product Ownership
2 20 (4.98%) Algorithms
3 17 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 13 (3.23%) Fixed Income
5 12 (2.99%) Distributed Systems
6 11 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (2.24%) Clustering
7 9 (2.24%) IBM Mainframe
7 9 (2.24%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.99%) Data Structures
8 8 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.99%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.99%) Replication
9 7 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.49%) Equities
10 6 (1.49%) Private Cloud
11 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
11 5 (1.24%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 72 (17.91%) Linux
2 46 (11.44%) Windows
3 26 (6.47%) Unix
4 19 (4.73%) Android
5 16 (3.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (3.48%) Apple iOS
7 11 (2.74%) Windows Server
8 10 (2.49%) zOS
9 7 (1.74%) Oracle Linux
9 7 (1.74%) Solaris
10 4 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (1.00%) VMS
11 3 (0.75%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.75%) Windows 10
12 2 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
12 2 (0.50%) CentOS
12 2 (0.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (50.75%) DevOps
2 172 (42.79%) Agile
3 154 (38.31%) CI/CD
4 77 (19.15%) Software Engineering
5 76 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
5 76 (18.91%) Test Automation
6 60 (14.93%) Infrastructure as Code
7 59 (14.68%) Continuous Integration
8 55 (13.68%) Scrum
9 54 (13.43%) Microservices
10 49 (12.19%) TDD
11 45 (11.19%) Containerisation
12 43 (10.70%) Computer Science
13 41 (10.20%) Unit Testing
14 37 (9.20%) Analytics
14 37 (9.20%) Front End Development
15 36 (8.96%) SDLC
16 32 (7.96%) OO
17 30 (7.46%) Open Source
18 29 (7.21%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 167 (41.54%) Python
2 100 (24.88%) JavaScript
3 93 (23.13%) SQL
4 77 (19.15%) Java
5 73 (18.16%) C#
6 58 (14.43%) TypeScript
7 54 (13.43%) Bash
8 35 (8.71%) PowerShell
9 34 (8.46%) Go
10 25 (6.22%) Perl
11 22 (5.47%) C++
12 18 (4.48%) Bicep
12 18 (4.48%) Shell Script
13 11 (2.74%) C
14 9 (2.24%) CLIST
14 9 (2.24%) COBOL
14 9 (2.24%) PHP
14 9 (2.24%) REXX
15 8 (1.99%) Rust
15 8 (1.99%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 77 (19.15%) Security Cleared
2 59 (14.68%) SC Cleared
3 55 (13.68%) Degree
4 29 (7.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 9 (2.24%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 9 (2.24%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.24%) Master's Degree
7 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.49%) PhD
8 4 (1.00%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (0.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 3 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 2 (0.50%) ISEB
11 1 (0.25%) CEH
11 1 (0.25%) CISSP
11 1 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.72%) Accessibility
1 23 (5.72%) QA
2 10 (2.49%) WCAG
3 9 (2.24%) GDPR
4 7 (1.74%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (1.00%) JTAG
6 3 (0.75%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.50%) NIST
8 1 (0.25%) CDISC
8 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) GxP
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.25%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.25%) NCSC
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 102 (25.37%) Docker
2 36 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 13 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.24%) Firmware
6 4 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (1.00%) vSphere
7 3 (0.75%) vCloud
7 3 (0.75%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.75%) zsh
8 1 (0.25%) Postfix
8 1 (0.25%) PowerDNS
8 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 105 (26.12%) Terraform
2 101 (25.12%) Kubernetes
3 48 (11.94%) Ansible
4 30 (7.46%) Grafana
5 22 (5.47%) Prometheus
6 16 (3.98%) Progress Chef
7 15 (3.73%) Puppet
8 8 (1.99%) Kibana
9 6 (1.49%) EMC NetWorker
9 6 (1.49%) Netcool
9 6 (1.49%) Tivoli
9 6 (1.49%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 5 (1.24%) CloudHub
10 5 (1.24%) Consul
10 5 (1.24%) Packer
11 4 (1.00%) Argo
11 4 (1.00%) logstash
12 3 (0.75%) Autotask
12 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
13 2 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 62 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 34 (8.46%) Oracle
3 25 (6.22%) Google
4 19 (4.73%) IBM
5 18 (4.48%) Splunk
6 14 (3.48%) VMware
7 13 (3.23%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.74%) SAP
9 9 (2.24%) Syncsort
10 8 (1.99%) ServiceNow
11 7 (1.74%) Cisco
12 6 (1.49%) Atlassian
12 6 (1.49%) CyberArk
12 6 (1.49%) Dell
12 6 (1.49%) EMC
12 6 (1.49%) HP
12 6 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 6 (1.49%) Qualys
12 6 (1.49%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.49%) Serena