Git Contracts

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 61 45
Rank change year-on-year -13 -16 -3
Contract jobs citing Git 1,252 2,019 4,496
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.91% 3.60% 5.13%
As % of the Development Applications category 24.29% 25.01% 28.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 824 1,391 3,019
10th Percentile £355 £406 £410
25th Percentile £419 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -1.07% - +17.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 56 45
10th Percentile £30.30 £51.25 £47.75
25th Percentile £53.75 £53.44 £60.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.17 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -6.95% +2.49% +11.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £78.25 £76.50 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.25 £65.76
% change year-on-year -4.21% -0.78% +13.38%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,155 8,073 15,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.97% 14.40% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,455 5,696 11,047
10th Percentile £351 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £457 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 226 201
10th Percentile £26.77 £44.82 £38.00
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.14% +8.81%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £82.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Git in the UK

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git.

Daily rate trend for Git in the UK

Git
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git.

Hourly rate trend for Git in the UK

Git
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Git over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Git in the UK

Git
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -11 1,071 £525 -4.55% 631
London -4 605 £525 -12.50% 200
UK excluding London -7 490 £507 -1.07% 443
Work from Home -18 398 £500 -10.71% 328
South East +20 162 £550 - 87
North of England -9 131 £505 -8.18% 130
Midlands +13 76 £400 -20.00% 73
North West -7 63 £510 -2.86% 76
West Midlands +17 62 £377 -30.92% 52
Yorkshire +15 60 £500 -12.28% 42
Scotland +4 54 £463 -7.50% 25
South West -50 44 £584 +17.88% 80
East of England -34 39 £575 +15.00% 43
East Midlands -8 14 £445 -11.00% 21
North East -9 10 £380 -40.39% 15
Wales +24 8 £529 +5.75% 10

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 117 (9.35%) Confluence
2 39 (3.12%) CMS
3 38 (3.04%) Apache Spark
4 33 (2.64%) Apache Airflow
5 32 (2.56%) Apache
6 18 (1.44%) nginx
6 18 (1.44%) SAS
7 14 (1.12%) CICS
8 12 (0.96%) Anypoint
8 12 (0.96%) JBoss
9 10 (0.80%) Headless CMS
10 9 (0.72%) Drupal
10 9 (0.72%) IIS
11 8 (0.64%) SharePoint
12 7 (0.56%) Kentico
12 7 (0.56%) OpenStack
13 6 (0.48%) WordPress
14 5 (0.40%) Mule
14 5 (0.40%) Mule ESB
15 3 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 11 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.64%) Simulink
3 7 (0.56%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.40%) TargetLink
5 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.32%) Trello
6 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.080%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.80%) Shopify
2 6 (0.48%) Endur
2 6 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.080%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.080%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.080%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 424 (33.87%) Azure
2 389 (31.07%) AWS
3 192 (15.34%) Azure DevOps
4 147 (11.74%) Serverless
5 138 (11.02%) GitHub
6 131 (10.46%) GCP
7 98 (7.83%) Amazon S3
8 76 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
9 72 (5.75%) AWS Lambda
10 70 (5.59%) Amazon EC2
11 67 (5.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 65 (5.19%) Azure Service Bus
13 59 (4.71%) Amazon EKS
14 52 (4.15%) OpenShift
15 50 (3.99%) PaaS
16 46 (3.67%) AWS CloudFormation
17 44 (3.51%) Azure Functions
17 44 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 41 (3.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
19 39 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 54 (4.31%) Firewall
2 41 (3.27%) DNS
3 32 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 28 (2.24%) Network Security
5 26 (2.08%) HTTP
6 24 (1.92%) SNMP
7 21 (1.68%) VPN
8 20 (1.60%) Software-Defined Radio
9 18 (1.44%) 5G
10 16 (1.28%) SSL
11 14 (1.12%) DHCP
11 14 (1.12%) NAS
12 13 (1.04%) BGP
13 12 (0.96%) Kerberos
14 11 (0.88%) MPLS
14 11 (0.88%) SAN
14 11 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (0.80%) Internet
16 9 (0.72%) VLAN
17 8 (0.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (10.70%) SQL Server
2 110 (8.79%) NoSQL
3 105 (8.39%) PostgreSQL
4 96 (7.67%) Relational Database
5 73 (5.83%) MySQL
6 49 (3.91%) Amazon RDS
7 47 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (3.59%) Big Data
9 43 (3.43%) Data Lake
10 40 (3.19%) MongoDB
11 32 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (2.08%) DynamoDB
13 24 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
13 24 (1.92%) Hadoop
14 23 (1.84%) Elasticsearch
15 21 (1.68%) Apache Cassandra
16 19 (1.52%) BigQuery
16 19 (1.52%) RDBMS
17 18 (1.44%) Power BI
18 17 (1.36%) Amazon Athena
Development Applications
1 333 (26.60%) Jenkins
2 238 (19.01%) JIRA
3 90 (7.19%) GitLab
4 80 (6.39%) Bitbucket
5 76 (6.07%) Selenium
6 69 (5.51%) JUnit
7 61 (4.87%) TeamCity
8 55 (4.39%) Cucumber
9 54 (4.31%) Maven
10 48 (3.83%) Visual Studio
11 44 (3.51%) Subversion
12 38 (3.04%) Postman
13 35 (2.80%) SonarQube
14 29 (2.32%) Visual Studio Code
15 26 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 25 (2.00%) Artifactory
16 25 (2.00%) Cypress.io
16 25 (2.00%) NUnit
17 23 (1.84%) Eclipse
18 21 (1.68%) Appium
General
1 272 (21.73%) Social Skills
2 148 (11.82%) Finance
3 134 (10.70%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.79%) Public Sector
5 86 (6.87%) Banking
6 29 (2.32%) Front Office
6 29 (2.32%) Investment Banking
6 29 (2.32%) Marketing
7 27 (2.16%) Retail
8 22 (1.76%) Back Office
8 22 (1.76%) Telecoms
9 21 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
11 18 (1.44%) Aerospace
12 15 (1.20%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.72%) Automotive
13 9 (0.72%) Multimedia
14 8 (0.64%) Wearables
15 7 (0.56%) Electronics
16 6 (0.48%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 498 (39.78%) Developer
2 173 (13.82%) Senior
3 132 (10.54%) DevOps Engineer
4 94 (7.51%) Software Engineer
5 78 (6.23%) Lead
6 77 (6.15%) Java Developer
7 66 (5.27%) Full Stack Developer
8 64 (5.11%) Senior Developer
9 55 (4.39%) Data Engineer
10 51 (4.07%) C# Developer
11 50 (3.99%) Python Developer
12 48 (3.83%) Architect
13 45 (3.59%) Azure Developer
14 44 (3.51%) AWS Engineer
15 38 (3.04%) .NET Developer
15 38 (3.04%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16 37 (2.96%) React Developer
17 35 (2.80%) Azure Engineer
18 31 (2.48%) AWS DevOps
19 30 (2.40%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 222 (17.73%) React
2 197 (15.73%) .NET
3 189 (15.10%) REST
4 168 (13.42%) CSS
5 154 (12.30%) HTML
6 114 (9.11%) Spring
7 106 (8.47%) RESTful
8 94 (7.51%) JSON
9 90 (7.19%) Node.js
10 86 (6.87%) Spring Boot
11 78 (6.23%) .NET Core
11 78 (6.23%) XML
12 76 (6.07%) Kafka
13 73 (5.83%) YAML
14 70 (5.59%) Web Services
15 67 (5.35%) ASP.NET
16 66 (5.27%) AngularJS
17 57 (4.55%) .NET Framework
18 54 (4.31%) SOAP
19 44 (3.51%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 51 (4.07%) Product Ownership
2 49 (3.91%) Algorithms
3 37 (2.96%) Distributed Systems
4 36 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 34 (2.72%) Mobile App
6 30 (2.40%) Public Cloud
7 26 (2.08%) Cloud Native
8 24 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
9 22 (1.76%) Data Structures
10 21 (1.68%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.60%) Fixed Income
11 20 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.60%) Management Information System
12 18 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
13 17 (1.36%) Replication
14 14 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 14 (1.12%) IBM Mainframe
14 14 (1.12%) Mainframe
15 12 (0.96%) Clustering
15 12 (0.96%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 231 (18.45%) Linux
2 132 (10.54%) Windows
3 82 (6.55%) Unix
4 48 (3.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (2.48%) Android
6 20 (1.60%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.44%) Apple iOS
8 15 (1.20%) zOS
9 13 (1.04%) VMS
10 7 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
10 7 (0.56%) Solaris
11 6 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
12 5 (0.40%) Windows 10
13 4 (0.32%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.24%) Alpine Linux
14 3 (0.24%) CentOS
14 3 (0.24%) ThreadX
15 2 (0.16%) Debian
15 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.080%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 601 (48.00%) Agile
2 538 (42.97%) DevOps
3 471 (37.62%) CI/CD
4 246 (19.65%) Scrum
4 246 (19.65%) Software Engineering
5 245 (19.57%) Test Automation
6 238 (19.01%) Problem-Solving
7 207 (16.53%) Continuous Integration
8 183 (14.62%) Microservices
9 178 (14.22%) TDD
10 177 (14.14%) Containerisation
10 177 (14.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 136 (10.86%) Unit Testing
12 125 (9.98%) Computer Science
13 123 (9.82%) OO
14 108 (8.63%) SDLC
15 106 (8.47%) Full Stack Development
16 97 (7.75%) Front End Development
17 88 (7.03%) Analytics
17 88 (7.03%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 493 (39.38%) Python
2 311 (24.84%) Java
3 293 (23.40%) SQL
4 253 (20.21%) JavaScript
5 223 (17.81%) C#
6 144 (11.50%) Bash
7 138 (11.02%) TypeScript
8 111 (8.87%) PowerShell
9 93 (7.43%) C++
10 74 (5.91%) Go
11 65 (5.19%) C
12 62 (4.95%) Shell Script
13 45 (3.59%) Perl
14 39 (3.12%) Bicep
15 31 (2.48%) Scala
16 29 (2.32%) Ruby
17 25 (2.00%) PHP
18 21 (1.68%) T-SQL
19 17 (1.36%) Kotlin
20 15 (1.20%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 276 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 238 (19.01%) SC Cleared
3 160 (12.78%) Degree
4 87 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 48 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 28 (2.24%) Master's Degree
7 16 (1.28%) AWS Certification
8 14 (1.12%) PhD
9 11 (0.88%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
10 9 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 9 (0.72%) ISTQB
10 9 (0.72%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 7 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
12 6 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.40%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 3 (0.24%) Azure Certification
14 3 (0.24%) ISEB
14 3 (0.24%) OCP
14 3 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
14 3 (0.24%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (6.31%) QA
2 52 (4.15%) Accessibility
3 24 (1.92%) WCAG
4 18 (1.44%) Data Quality
5 14 (1.12%) GDPR
6 8 (0.64%) JTAG
7 6 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 6 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.48%) MISRA
7 6 (0.48%) MISRA C
7 6 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.40%) AUTOSAR
8 5 (0.40%) ISO 26262
8 5 (0.40%) NCSC
8 5 (0.40%) SLA
9 3 (0.24%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
9 3 (0.24%) NIST
10 2 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 325 (25.96%) Docker
2 96 (7.67%) Active Directory
3 33 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (2.56%) Virtual Machines
5 27 (2.16%) Firmware
6 10 (0.80%) HDFS
6 10 (0.80%) vSphere
7 8 (0.64%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.48%) Embedded Firmware
8 6 (0.48%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.32%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.32%) zsh
11 3 (0.24%) vCloud
12 2 (0.16%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.080%) LXC
13 1 (0.080%) Postfix
13 1 (0.080%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.080%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 315 (25.16%) Kubernetes
2 261 (20.85%) Terraform
3 189 (15.10%) Ansible
4 70 (5.59%) Grafana
5 65 (5.19%) Puppet
6 61 (4.87%) Progress Chef
7 48 (3.83%) Prometheus
8 26 (2.08%) Kibana
8 26 (2.08%) Packer
9 16 (1.28%) Salt
10 15 (1.20%) Consul
10 15 (1.20%) logstash
11 11 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
12 10 (0.80%) vRealize
13 9 (0.72%) Argo
13 9 (0.72%) Podman
14 8 (0.64%) HP Fortify
15 6 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
16 5 (0.40%) CloudHub
16 5 (0.40%) Istio
Vendors
1 157 (12.54%) Microsoft
2 101 (8.07%) Oracle
3 77 (6.15%) Google
4 48 (3.83%) Splunk
4 48 (3.83%) VMware
5 34 (2.72%) Red Hat
6 33 (2.64%) Salesforce
7 30 (2.40%) SAP
8 29 (2.32%) Atlassian
9 28 (2.24%) IBM
10 25 (2.00%) Talend
11 22 (1.76%) Databricks
12 18 (1.44%) Denodo
13 16 (1.28%) MuleSoft
13 16 (1.28%) SaltStack
14 14 (1.12%) Cisco
14 14 (1.12%) Syncsort
15 12 (0.96%) Palo Alto
15 12 (0.96%) ServiceNow
15 12 (0.96%) TIBCO