Git Contracts in Scotland

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 63 41
Rank change year-on-year +4 -22 +4
Contract jobs citing Git 80 114 199
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.58% 3.98% 5.66%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.87% 19.90% 31.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 81 139
10th Percentile £398 £406 £400
25th Percentile £458 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -1.96% +21.43%
75th Percentile £634 £650 £584
90th Percentile £700 £676 £673
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £40.95
25th Percentile - - £42.39
Median hourly rate £26.00 £60.55 £44.77
Median % change year-on-year -57.06% +35.25% -
75th Percentile - - £47.16
90th Percentile - - £48.59
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £60.55 £60.00
% change year-on-year +3.22% +0.92% +17.07%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 424 573 634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 18.96% 20.02% 18.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 443 452
10th Percentile £376 £389 £358
25th Percentile £424 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £558
90th Percentile £645 £625 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 9
10th Percentile £35.00 £54.36 £35.45
25th Percentile £37.97 £59.03 £42.50
Median hourly rate £40.94 £60.55 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.39% +15.33% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £66.56 £55.75
90th Percentile - £67.88 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.35
% change year-on-year +1.63% +22.14% +11.89%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in Scotland

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Git in Scotland

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Scotland over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Scotland

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Git in Scotland

Git
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Glasgow +13 42 £543 -16.46% 12
Edinburgh -8 17 £623 +29.69% 27
West Lothian +12 16 £585 +17.00%
South Lanarkshire - 4 £700 -
Git
UK

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 24 (30.00%) Confluence
2 5 (6.25%) IIS
2 5 (6.25%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.00%) Apache
4 3 (3.75%) Cloud Foundry
4 3 (3.75%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (2.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.25%) AWS
2 14 (17.50%) OpenShift
3 7 (8.75%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (5.00%) Azure
5 3 (3.75%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.75%) IaaS
5 3 (3.75%) Serverless
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 2 (2.50%) PaaS
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.50%) SSL
2 9 (11.25%) HTTP
3 8 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 8 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 7 (8.75%) 5G
4 7 (8.75%) Firewall
4 7 (8.75%) NetScaler
5 6 (7.50%) Kerberos
6 5 (6.25%) DNS
7 4 (5.00%) NAS
7 4 (5.00%) SAN
8 1 (1.25%) 2G
8 1 (1.25%) BGP
8 1 (1.25%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 1 (1.25%) MPLS
8 1 (1.25%) VPLS
8 1 (1.25%) VPN
8 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.00%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.50%) Big Data
3 2 (2.50%) DB2
3 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.25%) Flink
4 1 (1.25%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.25%) HBase
4 1 (1.25%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.25%) MySQL
4 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 56 (70.00%) Jenkins
2 28 (35.00%) JIRA
3 17 (21.25%) Postman
4 14 (17.50%) Cucumber
4 14 (17.50%) JUnit
5 10 (12.50%) IntelliJ
6 8 (10.00%) Bitbucket
7 7 (8.75%) Gradle
8 6 (7.50%) Maven
9 5 (6.25%) Visual Studio Code
10 4 (5.00%) Subversion
11 2 (2.50%) Cypress.io
11 2 (2.50%) Selenium
11 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
11 2 (2.50%) Terragrunt
11 2 (2.50%) WebDriver
12 1 (1.25%) Android Studio
12 1 (1.25%) GitLab
12 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
12 1 (1.25%) Xcode
General
1 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Banking
2 12 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Finance
5 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.25%) Automotive
6 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 44 (55.00%) Developer
2 20 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 15 (18.75%) Senior
4 8 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 7 (8.75%) Python Developer
5 7 (8.75%) Senior Java Developer
6 6 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) PowerShell Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Site Manager
7 5 (6.25%) Site Reliability Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (5.00%) Site Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Hardware Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Linux Developer
9 3 (3.75%) UI Developer
9 3 (3.75%) Unix Developer
10 2 (2.50%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (43.75%) REST
2 20 (25.00%) Kafka
3 18 (22.50%) Spring
3 18 (22.50%) Spring Boot
4 13 (16.25%) JSON
4 13 (16.25%) XML
5 12 (15.00%) Apache Camel
5 12 (15.00%) RESTful
6 11 (13.75%) React
7 10 (12.50%) CSS
8 9 (11.25%) J2EE
9 7 (8.75%) .NET
9 7 (8.75%) HTML
10 6 (7.50%) LDAP
10 6 (7.50%) OpenID
10 6 (7.50%) Web Services
11 5 (6.25%) AngularJS
11 5 (6.25%) Jest
11 5 (6.25%) Node.js
11 5 (6.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 14 (17.50%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (7.50%) Enterprise Cloud
3 5 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
5 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.25%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.25%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.50%) Unix
2 25 (31.25%) Linux
3 17 (21.25%) Windows
4 9 (11.25%) Windows Server
5 4 (5.00%) VMS
6 1 (1.25%) Android
6 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (47.50%) Agile
2 30 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 24 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
4 21 (26.25%) DevOps
5 18 (22.50%) Data Protection
6 14 (17.50%) Test Automation
7 13 (16.25%) TDD
8 11 (13.75%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (13.75%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (12.50%) Migration
10 9 (11.25%) Coaching
10 9 (11.25%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 9 (11.25%) Microservices
11 8 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
11 8 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (10.00%) OO
12 7 (8.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 35 (43.75%) Java
2 30 (37.50%) Python
3 24 (30.00%) SQL
4 18 (22.50%) Perl
5 14 (17.50%) Bash
5 14 (17.50%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.25%) C
6 9 (11.25%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.75%) Groovy
8 6 (7.50%) Go
8 6 (7.50%) PowerShell
8 6 (7.50%) Ruby
9 5 (6.25%) PL/SQL
10 4 (5.00%) C#
11 2 (2.50%) C++
11 2 (2.50%) VBA
11 2 (2.50%) VBScript
12 1 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (6.25%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.50%) ISEB
4 2 (2.50%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.25%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 24 (30.00%) Docker
2 11 (13.75%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (1.25%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 13 (16.25%) Kubernetes
2 12 (15.00%) Terraform
3 10 (12.50%) Ansible
4 9 (11.25%) Kibana
5 4 (5.00%) NetBackup
6 2 (2.50%) Grafana
6 2 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.50%) Puppet
7 1 (1.25%) Argo
7 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) FreeIPA
7 1 (1.25%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (1.25%) Icinga
7 1 (1.25%) Istio
7 1 (1.25%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Oracle
2 8 (10.00%) F5
3 6 (7.50%) Cadence
4 4 (5.00%) Veritas
5 2 (2.50%) HP
5 2 (2.50%) IBM
5 2 (2.50%) Sage
5 2 (2.50%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) BMC
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco
6 1 (1.25%) Databricks
6 1 (1.25%) Dell
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Nokia
6 1 (1.25%) Remedy
6 1 (1.25%) SaltStack
6 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow