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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 73 59 45
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 -1
Contract jobs citing Git 1,215 2,152 4,583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.86% 3.77% 5.24%
As % of the Development Applications category 23.67% 25.37% 29.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 799 1,494 3,091
10th Percentile £350 £410 £410
25th Percentile £418 £464 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £634 £675 £650
90th Percentile £705 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -1.92% +1.46% +20.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 60 50
10th Percentile £49.38 £51.25 £44.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £60.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £63.09 £65.54
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -3.74% +24.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.94 £75.00
90th Percentile £79.38 £75.00 £79.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% - +26.83%

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 5,134 8,483 15,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.86% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,442 5,983 11,126
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £462 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 231 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.60 £38.48
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.89 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £82.50 £76.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

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 15 May 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 15 May 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 15 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
England -16 1,019 £525 -5.83% 757
London -5 595 £525 -12.50% 248
UK excluding London -17 465 £510 -1.92% 551
Work from Home -17 400 £500 -12.28% 440
South East +13 146 £530 -3.64% 111
North of England -16 120 £507 -7.82% 152
Scotland +21 73 £525 +5.00% 31
Midlands -5 61 £358 -30.18% 90
North West -15 59 £525 +2.44% 87
Yorkshire +14 54 £503 -11.84% 51
West Midlands +3 54 £358 -33.70% 62
East of England -36 34 £550 +10.00% 53
South West -55 29 £590 +12.38% 96
North East -16 9 £380 -33.91% 15
East Midlands -13 7 £356 -25.05% 28
Wales +26 6 £529 -15.40% 22

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
1 123 (10.12%) Confluence
2 39 (3.21%) Apache
3 37 (3.05%) CMS
4 36 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 31 (2.55%) Apache Airflow
6 24 (1.98%) nginx
7 15 (1.23%) SAS
8 14 (1.15%) CICS
9 12 (0.99%) JBoss
10 11 (0.91%) Anypoint
10 11 (0.91%) OpenStack
11 10 (0.82%) Headless CMS
12 9 (0.74%) Drupal
12 9 (0.74%) IIS
13 8 (0.66%) SharePoint
14 7 (0.58%) Kentico
15 6 (0.49%) WordPress
16 5 (0.41%) Mule
16 5 (0.41%) Mule ESB
17 4 (0.33%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (0.66%) Simulink
3 7 (0.58%) Stateflow
4 5 (0.41%) TargetLink
5 4 (0.33%) Microsoft Office
6 3 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.25%) Trello
7 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 13 (1.07%) Shopify
2 6 (0.49%) Endur
2 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.16%) BusinessWorks
3 2 (0.16%) Magento
4 1 (0.082%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.082%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.082%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 406 (33.42%) Azure
2 374 (30.78%) AWS
3 197 (16.21%) Azure DevOps
4 138 (11.36%) Serverless
5 126 (10.37%) GCP
5 126 (10.37%) GitHub
6 97 (7.98%) Amazon S3
7 76 (6.26%) Azure Monitor
8 72 (5.93%) Amazon EC2
9 70 (5.76%) AWS Lambda
10 67 (5.51%) Azure Service Bus
11 66 (5.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 58 (4.77%) Amazon EKS
13 54 (4.44%) PaaS
14 48 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
15 46 (3.79%) OpenShift
16 45 (3.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 42 (3.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 41 (3.37%) Azure Functions
19 38 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 59 (4.86%) Firewall
2 40 (3.29%) DNS
3 36 (2.96%) TCP/IP
4 31 (2.55%) Network Security
5 28 (2.30%) HTTP
6 25 (2.06%) 5G
7 24 (1.98%) VPN
8 22 (1.81%) SNMP
9 19 (1.56%) BGP
9 19 (1.56%) Software-Defined Radio
10 17 (1.40%) MPLS
10 17 (1.40%) SSL
11 16 (1.32%) NAS
12 14 (1.15%) DHCP
13 13 (1.07%) SAN
13 13 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
14 12 (0.99%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 12 (0.99%) Kerberos
15 11 (0.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 10 (0.82%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (11.52%) SQL Server
2 103 (8.48%) NoSQL
3 101 (8.31%) PostgreSQL
4 82 (6.75%) Relational Database
5 71 (5.84%) MySQL
6 50 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (4.03%) Amazon Redshift
8 45 (3.70%) Big Data
9 38 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 33 (2.72%) Data Lake
11 32 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
12 26 (2.14%) DynamoDB
13 23 (1.89%) Azure SQL Database
14 20 (1.65%) Elasticsearch
14 20 (1.65%) Hadoop
15 19 (1.56%) Apache Cassandra
15 19 (1.56%) RDBMS
16 18 (1.48%) Amazon Athena
16 18 (1.48%) BigQuery
17 17 (1.40%) DB2
Development Applications
1 325 (26.75%) Jenkins
2 232 (19.09%) JIRA
3 92 (7.57%) GitLab
4 78 (6.42%) Bitbucket
5 75 (6.17%) JUnit
6 72 (5.93%) Selenium
7 65 (5.35%) Cucumber
8 59 (4.86%) TeamCity
9 49 (4.03%) Maven
10 47 (3.87%) Postman
10 47 (3.87%) Visual Studio
11 45 (3.70%) Subversion
12 35 (2.88%) SonarQube
13 28 (2.30%) Visual Studio Code
14 26 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 25 (2.06%) Artifactory
15 25 (2.06%) Cypress.io
15 25 (2.06%) NUnit
16 24 (1.98%) Sonatype Nexus
17 21 (1.73%) REST Assured
General
1 268 (22.06%) Social Skills
2 146 (12.02%) Finance
3 122 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
4 99 (8.15%) Public Sector
5 75 (6.17%) Banking
6 28 (2.30%) Front Office
7 27 (2.22%) Marketing
7 27 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.14%) Investment Banking
9 24 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (1.89%) Retail
11 22 (1.81%) Back Office
12 21 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 16 (1.32%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.15%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.74%) Automotive
15 9 (0.74%) Multimedia
16 8 (0.66%) German Language
17 6 (0.49%) Electronics
17 6 (0.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 497 (40.91%) Developer
2 168 (13.83%) Senior
3 129 (10.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 88 (7.24%) Software Engineer
5 82 (6.75%) Lead
6 78 (6.42%) Java Developer
7 70 (5.76%) Full Stack Developer
8 64 (5.27%) Senior Developer
9 54 (4.44%) Data Engineer
10 52 (4.28%) C# Developer
11 47 (3.87%) AWS Engineer
12 44 (3.62%) Azure Developer
12 44 (3.62%) Python Developer
13 39 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
14 37 (3.05%) .NET Developer
14 37 (3.05%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 36 (2.96%) React Developer
16 34 (2.80%) Architect
17 33 (2.72%) AWS DevOps
18 29 (2.39%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (17.94%) React
2 195 (16.05%) REST
3 194 (15.97%) .NET
4 171 (14.07%) CSS
5 160 (13.17%) HTML
6 108 (8.89%) Spring
7 99 (8.15%) RESTful
8 97 (7.98%) JSON
9 95 (7.82%) Node.js
10 89 (7.33%) Spring Boot
11 79 (6.50%) .NET Core
11 79 (6.50%) XML
12 76 (6.26%) Kafka
13 71 (5.84%) Web Services
14 69 (5.68%) ASP.NET
15 59 (4.86%) AngularJS
16 57 (4.69%) YAML
17 54 (4.44%) .NET Framework
18 51 (4.20%) SOAP
19 48 (3.95%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 48 (3.95%) Product Ownership
2 40 (3.29%) Algorithms
3 39 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
4 37 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
4 37 (3.05%) Mobile App
5 34 (2.80%) Public Cloud
6 28 (2.30%) Cloud Native
7 26 (2.14%) Greenfield Project
8 21 (1.73%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.65%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.65%) Fixed Income
9 20 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 19 (1.56%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.40%) Replication
12 16 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.15%) IBM Mainframe
13 14 (1.15%) Mainframe
14 13 (1.07%) Clustering
14 13 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 12 (0.99%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 217 (17.86%) Linux
2 119 (9.79%) Windows
3 86 (7.08%) Unix
4 36 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (2.80%) Android
6 24 (1.98%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.48%) VMS
8 15 (1.23%) zOS
9 8 (0.66%) CentOS
9 8 (0.66%) Solaris
9 8 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 7 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
10 7 (0.58%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.41%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.33%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
13 3 (0.25%) Debian
14 2 (0.16%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.082%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 594 (48.89%) Agile
2 520 (42.80%) DevOps
3 453 (37.28%) CI/CD
4 244 (20.08%) Test Automation
5 232 (19.09%) Scrum
6 230 (18.93%) Software Engineering
7 223 (18.35%) Problem-Solving
8 211 (17.37%) Continuous Integration
9 184 (15.14%) Microservices
10 174 (14.32%) TDD
11 164 (13.50%) Containerisation
12 157 (12.92%) Infrastructure as Code
13 131 (10.78%) Unit Testing
14 125 (10.29%) OO
15 110 (9.05%) Computer Science
16 106 (8.72%) SDLC
17 103 (8.48%) Full Stack Development
18 99 (8.15%) Front End Development
19 87 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
20 86 (7.08%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 482 (39.67%) Python
2 305 (25.10%) Java
3 298 (24.53%) SQL
4 255 (20.99%) JavaScript
5 225 (18.52%) C#
6 146 (12.02%) Bash
7 135 (11.11%) TypeScript
8 89 (7.33%) PowerShell
9 82 (6.75%) C++
10 78 (6.42%) Go
11 62 (5.10%) C
12 60 (4.94%) Shell Script
13 53 (4.36%) Perl
14 40 (3.29%) Bicep
15 31 (2.55%) Scala
16 25 (2.06%) PHP
16 25 (2.06%) Ruby
17 19 (1.56%) T-SQL
18 16 (1.32%) Groovy
18 16 (1.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 259 (21.32%) Security Cleared
2 229 (18.85%) SC Cleared
3 143 (11.77%) Degree
4 81 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 41 (3.37%) DV Cleared
6 23 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 18 (1.48%) AWS Certification
8 13 (1.07%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 9 (0.74%) ISTQB
10 8 (0.66%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 8 (0.66%) PhD
11 7 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (0.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 4 (0.33%) Azure Certification
14 4 (0.33%) CISSP
14 4 (0.33%) ISEB
14 4 (0.33%) Numerate Degree
15 3 (0.25%) CCNP
15 3 (0.25%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.00%) QA
2 52 (4.28%) Accessibility
3 23 (1.89%) WCAG
4 15 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 13 (1.07%) GDPR
6 7 (0.58%) JTAG
6 7 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.49%) MISRA
7 6 (0.49%) MISRA C
7 6 (0.49%) NCSC
8 5 (0.41%) AUTOSAR
8 5 (0.41%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.41%) ISO 26262
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.41%) SLA
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.25%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.16%) MiFID
10 2 (0.16%) NIST
11 1 (0.082%) CDISC
System Software
1 317 (26.09%) Docker
2 93 (7.65%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.81%) Firmware
4 20 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.82%) vSphere
7 8 (0.66%) HDFS
7 8 (0.66%) VMware NSX
8 6 (0.49%) VirtualBox
9 5 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
9 5 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.33%) Hyper-V
10 4 (0.33%) zsh
11 3 (0.25%) vCloud
11 3 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.16%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.16%) Varnish
13 1 (0.082%) Apache ZooKeeper
13 1 (0.082%) LXC
13 1 (0.082%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 299 (24.61%) Kubernetes
2 254 (20.91%) Terraform
3 175 (14.40%) Ansible
4 72 (5.93%) Grafana
5 50 (4.12%) Prometheus
5 50 (4.12%) Puppet
6 38 (3.13%) Progress Chef
7 30 (2.47%) Kibana
8 24 (1.98%) Packer
9 15 (1.23%) Consul
10 12 (0.99%) logstash
11 11 (0.91%) Docker Swarm
12 9 (0.74%) Podman
12 9 (0.74%) vRealize
13 8 (0.66%) HP Fortify
14 7 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
14 7 (0.58%) ZABBIX
15 6 (0.49%) EMC NetWorker
15 6 (0.49%) FortiGate
15 6 (0.49%) Hadoop YARN
Vendors
1 152 (12.51%) Microsoft
2 108 (8.89%) Oracle
3 70 (5.76%) Google
4 51 (4.20%) Splunk
5 32 (2.63%) VMware
6 31 (2.55%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.39%) IBM
8 27 (2.22%) SAP
9 26 (2.14%) Atlassian
10 25 (2.06%) Talend
11 21 (1.73%) Cisco
12 20 (1.65%) Red Hat
13 19 (1.56%) Databricks
14 18 (1.48%) Denodo
15 17 (1.40%) F5
16 15 (1.23%) MuleSoft
17 14 (1.15%) Nokia
17 14 (1.15%) Syncsort
18 13 (1.07%) ServiceNow
19 12 (0.99%) Veritas