Git Contracts in Edinburgh

Git Distributed Version Control System
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 60 46
Rank change year-on-year +14 -14 +21
Contract jobs citing Git 23 18 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.52% 2.06% 5.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.01% 16.67% 22.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 39
10th Percentile £225 £380 £413
25th Percentile £400 £405 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £425 £493
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% -13.71% -4.18%
75th Percentile £509 £634 £510
90th Percentile £538 - £613
Scotland median daily rate £438 £429 £500
% change year-on-year +1.98% -14.20% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £26.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £26.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -57.06% -

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 121 108 266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.53% 12.37% 22.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 75 202
10th Percentile £322 £363 £374
25th Percentile £414 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £479 £478
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% +0.16% -0.16%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £527
90th Percentile £593 £634 £573
Scotland median daily rate £470 £477 £479
% change year-on-year -1.47% -0.42% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £60.75 £26.90 -
25th Percentile £61.88 £28.25 £57.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +113.11% -49.17% +14.83%
75th Percentile £69.38 £32.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £71.25 £34.10 -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £60.55
% change year-on-year -57.39% -32.39% +11.10%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Git in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for Git in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for Git in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (8.70%) Apache
1 2 (8.70%) Camunda
1 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) OpenROAD
2 1 (4.35%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 15 (65.22%) Azure
2 11 (47.83%) AWS
3 7 (30.43%) GCP
4 6 (26.09%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake
6 2 (8.70%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (8.70%) Apigee
6 2 (8.70%) IaaS
6 2 (8.70%) PaaS
6 2 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 2 (8.70%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.70%) SaaS
7 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (4.35%) npm
7 1 (4.35%) OCI
7 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (8.70%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.70%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JIRA
1 4 (17.39%) Postman
1 4 (17.39%) Selenium
2 3 (13.04%) Cypress.io
3 2 (8.70%) Artifactory
3 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (8.70%) Bitbucket Server
3 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (8.70%) Subversion
3 2 (8.70%) TeamCity
3 2 (8.70%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.35%) git-flow
4 1 (4.35%) MSTest
4 1 (4.35%) NUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Ranorex
4 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (4.35%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 10 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Public Sector
3 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 4 (17.39%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Back Office
5 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 4 (17.39%) Lead
3 3 (13.04%) QA Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Analyst
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) iOS Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Open Source Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (43.48%) RESTful
2 6 (26.09%) .NET
2 6 (26.09%) Spring
2 6 (26.09%) Spring Boot
3 3 (13.04%) React
3 3 (13.04%) REST
4 2 (8.70%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.70%) AngularJS
4 2 (8.70%) Core Data
4 2 (8.70%) CSS
4 2 (8.70%) HTML
4 2 (8.70%) LDAP
4 2 (8.70%) OpenAPI
4 2 (8.70%) Spring Security
4 2 (8.70%) Swagger
4 2 (8.70%) UIKit
4 2 (8.70%) YAML
5 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (4.35%) Java SE
5 1 (4.35%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (17.39%) Mobile App
3 3 (13.04%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.04%) Legacy Code
3 3 (13.04%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.70%) Client/Server
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Apple iOS
1 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 1 (4.35%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) DevOps
2 14 (60.87%) CI/CD
3 13 (56.52%) Agile
4 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (30.43%) Containerisation
5 7 (30.43%) Data Protection
6 6 (26.09%) Microservices
7 5 (21.74%) API Design
7 5 (21.74%) Migration
7 5 (21.74%) Test Automation
8 4 (17.39%) API Development
8 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (17.39%) Mentoring
8 4 (17.39%) Scrum
9 3 (13.04%) BDD
9 3 (13.04%) Black-Box Testing
9 3 (13.04%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
9 3 (13.04%) User Stories
9 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (56.52%) Java
2 11 (47.83%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 5 (21.74%) C#
5 3 (13.04%) Perl
5 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.04%) Shell Script
6 2 (8.70%) C++
6 2 (8.70%) Objective-C
6 2 (8.70%) Python
6 2 (8.70%) Swift
6 2 (8.70%) VBA
6 2 (8.70%) VBScript
7 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
7 1 (4.35%) VB
7 1 (4.35%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) ISEB
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (34.78%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) NCSC
3 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
2 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Oracle
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) VMware
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce