Git Contracts with Work from Home Options

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Git skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Git over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 60 42
Rank change year-on-year -18 -18 -7
Contract jobs citing Git 403 874 2,427
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.73% 3.66% 5.53%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.86% 25.51% 30.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 610 1,630
10th Percentile £350 £406 £400
25th Percentile £409 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £612 £675 £638
90th Percentile £716 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £508 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 28 34
10th Percentile £44.26 £51.25 £47.38
25th Percentile £51.00 £53.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £68.50 £65.27
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +4.95% +33.20%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £73.13 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.17 £65.54
% change year-on-year -6.95% +2.49% +11.63%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,763 3,426 8,073
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.93% 14.35% 18.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 2,475 5,814
10th Percentile £360 £375 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £538 £536
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +0.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 97 102
10th Percentile £23.43 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £40.00 £52.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year - +24.40% +13.59%
75th Percentile £79.31 £70.00 £65.47
90th Percentile £90.00 £86.88 £75.76
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +5.26% +23.50% +2.04%

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

Git
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

Git
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 10 June 2024.

Git daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Git
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

Git
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 10 June 2024.

Git hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Git
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 38 (9.43%) Confluence
2 17 (4.22%) CMS
3 12 (2.98%) SAS
4 9 (2.23%) CICS
5 7 (1.74%) Apache
5 7 (1.74%) 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 3 (0.74%) Apache Solr
8 3 (0.74%) JBoss
8 3 (0.74%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.50%) Tomcat
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 (0.74%) Shopify
3 2 (0.50%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.50%) Endur
3 2 (0.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 152 (37.72%) Azure
2 130 (32.26%) AWS
3 85 (21.09%) Azure DevOps
4 49 (12.16%) GCP
5 46 (11.41%) Serverless
6 45 (11.17%) GitHub
7 26 (6.45%) PaaS
8 25 (6.20%) Amazon S3
9 23 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
9 23 (5.71%) Azure Service Bus
10 22 (5.46%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 20 (4.96%) Amazon EKS
11 20 (4.96%) AWS Lambda
12 19 (4.71%) OpenShift
13 18 (4.47%) Azure Functions
14 17 (4.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 15 (3.72%) Amazon EC2
16 14 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
17 13 (3.23%) IaaS
17 13 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.71%) Firewall
2 17 (4.22%) TCP/IP
3 16 (3.97%) DNS
4 12 (2.98%) Network Security
5 8 (1.99%) DHCP
6 7 (1.74%) HTTP
6 7 (1.74%) VPN
7 6 (1.49%) NAS
7 6 (1.49%) SAN
7 6 (1.49%) VLAN
8 5 (1.24%) Kerberos
9 4 (0.99%) Wireless
10 3 (0.74%) OpenLDAP
11 2 (0.50%) Internet
11 2 (0.50%) MQTT
12 1 (0.25%) 5G
12 1 (0.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 1 (0.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 1 (0.25%) Radio Access Network
12 1 (0.25%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (13.40%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.95%) NoSQL
3 25 (6.20%) Amazon Redshift
4 24 (5.96%) MySQL
5 23 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (5.71%) Relational Database
6 17 (4.22%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.98%) Azure SQL Database
8 12 (2.98%) Data Lake
9 11 (2.73%) DB2
10 10 (2.48%) Big Data
11 9 (2.23%) Apache Cassandra
11 9 (2.23%) IDMS
12 8 (1.99%) Power BI
13 7 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
13 7 (1.74%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.74%) MongoDB
13 7 (1.74%) Redis
Development Applications
1 98 (24.32%) Jenkins
2 81 (20.10%) JIRA
3 38 (9.43%) GitLab
4 24 (5.96%) TeamCity
5 23 (5.71%) Selenium
6 17 (4.22%) Bitbucket
7 16 (3.97%) git-flow
8 14 (3.47%) Artifactory
8 14 (3.47%) Visual Studio
9 12 (2.98%) Cucumber
9 12 (2.98%) Cypress.io
9 12 (2.98%) SonarQube
10 11 (2.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 11 (2.73%) Postman
11 10 (2.48%) JUnit
11 10 (2.48%) Maven
11 10 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 10 (2.48%) Subversion
11 10 (2.48%) Visual Studio Code
12 9 (2.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 93 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 61 (15.14%) Finance
3 38 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (8.44%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.45%) Banking
6 16 (3.97%) Marketing
7 13 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (1.99%) Front Office
9 8 (1.99%) Investment Banking
10 7 (1.74%) Back Office
10 7 (1.74%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.24%) Electronics
12 5 (1.24%) Retail
13 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
13 4 (0.99%) Publishing
14 3 (0.74%) German Language
15 2 (0.50%) Japanese Language
15 2 (0.50%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 138 (34.24%) Developer
2 76 (18.86%) Senior
3 60 (14.89%) DevOps Engineer
4 32 (7.94%) Software Engineer
5 26 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 22 (5.46%) Lead
7 21 (5.21%) Azure Developer
7 21 (5.21%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 18 (4.47%) .NET Developer
8 18 (4.47%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (4.47%) Full Stack Developer
8 18 (4.47%) React Developer
9 16 (3.97%) Data Engineer
10 15 (3.72%) AWS Engineer
10 15 (3.72%) Senior DevOps
11 14 (3.47%) Architect
12 13 (3.23%) JavaScript Developer
12 13 (3.23%) JavaScript Engineer
13 11 (2.73%) Data Scientist
13 11 (2.73%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (18.61%) React
2 65 (16.13%) .NET
3 63 (15.63%) CSS
4 58 (14.39%) REST
5 48 (11.91%) HTML
6 36 (8.93%) RESTful
7 33 (8.19%) JSON
8 32 (7.94%) Node.js
9 30 (7.44%) SOAP
10 25 (6.20%) .NET Core
10 25 (6.20%) Web Services
11 24 (5.96%) XML
12 22 (5.46%) Jest
13 21 (5.21%) .NET Framework
14 20 (4.96%) GraphQL
14 20 (4.96%) YAML
15 19 (4.71%) ASP.NET
15 19 (4.71%) Spring
16 18 (4.47%) AngularJS
16 18 (4.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 25 (6.20%) Algorithms
2 19 (4.71%) Product Ownership
3 16 (3.97%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.72%) Fixed Income
5 13 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
5 13 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
6 11 (2.73%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.23%) IBM Mainframe
7 9 (2.23%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.99%) Clustering
8 8 (1.99%) Private Cloud
9 7 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.74%) Replication
9 7 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (1.49%) Cloud Native
10 6 (1.49%) Equities
10 6 (1.49%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
12 4 (0.99%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 66 (16.38%) Linux
2 49 (12.16%) Windows
3 26 (6.45%) Unix
4 20 (4.96%) Android
5 15 (3.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 14 (3.47%) Apple iOS
7 10 (2.48%) Windows Server
7 10 (2.48%) zOS
8 6 (1.49%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (1.49%) Solaris
9 4 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.74%) ThreadX
10 3 (0.74%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.50%) Alpine Linux
11 2 (0.50%) VMS
12 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 193 (47.89%) DevOps
2 175 (43.42%) Agile
3 146 (36.23%) CI/CD
4 84 (20.84%) Software Engineering
5 79 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (18.86%) Test Automation
7 66 (16.38%) Continuous Integration
7 66 (16.38%) Scrum
8 62 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 48 (11.91%) TDD
10 46 (11.41%) Analytics
10 46 (11.41%) Microservices
11 45 (11.17%) Computer Science
11 45 (11.17%) Containerisation
12 38 (9.43%) Unit Testing
13 35 (8.68%) Front End Development
13 35 (8.68%) SDLC
14 32 (7.94%) Open Source
15 31 (7.69%) OO
16 29 (7.20%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 162 (40.20%) Python
2 94 (23.33%) JavaScript
3 88 (21.84%) SQL
4 81 (20.10%) Java
5 71 (17.62%) C#
6 55 (13.65%) TypeScript
7 47 (11.66%) Bash
8 38 (9.43%) PowerShell
9 31 (7.69%) Go
10 27 (6.70%) C++
11 23 (5.71%) Perl
12 19 (4.71%) Bicep
12 19 (4.71%) Shell Script
13 13 (3.23%) C
14 9 (2.23%) CLIST
14 9 (2.23%) COBOL
14 9 (2.23%) PHP
14 9 (2.23%) REXX
15 8 (1.99%) Rust
15 8 (1.99%) SELCOPY
Qualifications
1 74 (18.36%) Security Cleared
2 60 (14.89%) Degree
3 57 (14.14%) SC Cleared
4 29 (7.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.48%) AWS Certification
7 8 (1.99%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 8 (1.99%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.74%) PhD
9 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (1.49%) Numerate Degree
10 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.99%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.25%) ISEB
13 1 (0.25%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.46%) Accessibility
1 22 (5.46%) QA
2 10 (2.48%) WCAG
3 8 (1.99%) GDPR
4 6 (1.49%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 4 (0.99%) JTAG
6 3 (0.74%) 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%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 99 (24.57%) Docker
2 31 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 15 (3.72%) Virtual Machines
4 9 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (1.74%) Firmware
6 4 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.99%) vSphere
7 3 (0.74%) vCloud
7 3 (0.74%) VirtualBox
7 3 (0.74%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.50%) HDFS
8 2 (0.50%) zsh
9 1 (0.25%) Postfix
9 1 (0.25%) PowerDNS
9 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 101 (25.06%) Terraform
2 98 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 48 (11.91%) Ansible
4 36 (8.93%) Grafana
5 21 (5.21%) Prometheus
6 20 (4.96%) Progress Chef
7 17 (4.22%) Puppet
8 7 (1.74%) Kibana
9 5 (1.24%) CloudHub
9 5 (1.24%) Consul
9 5 (1.24%) EMC NetWorker
9 5 (1.24%) Netcool
9 5 (1.24%) Packer
9 5 (1.24%) Tivoli
9 5 (1.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 4 (0.99%) Argo
10 4 (0.99%) logstash
11 3 (0.74%) Autotask
11 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.50%) Karpenter
Vendors
1 56 (13.90%) Microsoft
2 33 (8.19%) Oracle
3 22 (5.46%) Google
4 18 (4.47%) IBM
5 16 (3.97%) Splunk
6 15 (3.72%) VMware
7 14 (3.47%) Salesforce
8 11 (2.73%) Denodo
8 11 (2.73%) Talend
9 9 (2.23%) SAP
9 9 (2.23%) Syncsort
10 7 (1.74%) Red Hat
10 7 (1.74%) ServiceNow
11 6 (1.49%) Cisco
11 6 (1.49%) Databricks
11 6 (1.49%) MuleSoft
12 5 (1.24%) BMC
12 5 (1.24%) Dell
12 5 (1.24%) EMC
12 5 (1.24%) HP