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 6 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 59 47
Rank change year-on-year +18 -12 +22
Contract jobs citing Git 25 15 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 3.84% 1.81% 5.22%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.66% 16.13% 24.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 35
10th Percentile £400 £380 £413
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £493
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -13.71% +0.51%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £510
90th Percentile £558 £634 £583
Scotland median daily rate £473 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +11.18% -12.82% -7.14%

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 134 93 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 20.58% 11.22% 21.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 59 172
10th Percentile £400 £295 £382
25th Percentile £450 £390 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £497 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% +1.05% -1.04%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £511
90th Percentile £574 £639 £557
Scotland median daily rate £475 £478 £475
% change year-on-year -0.52% +0.53% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £55.00 - -
25th Percentile £56.88 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.83%
75th Percentile £66.88 - £62.50
90th Percentile £70.25 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £60.28
% change year-on-year -57.39% -32.08% +10.60%

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

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate histogram for Git in Edinburgh

Git
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 4 (16.00%) Apache
2 3 (12.00%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (4.00%) Apache Spark
3 1 (4.00%) Camunda
3 1 (4.00%) Confluence
3 1 (4.00%) IIS
3 1 (4.00%) JBoss
3 1 (4.00%) nginx
3 1 (4.00%) OpenROAD
Cloud Services
1 15 (60.00%) Azure
2 13 (52.00%) AWS
3 7 (28.00%) GCP
4 6 (24.00%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (16.00%) OpenShift
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
6 3 (12.00%) Snowflake
6 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (8.00%) IaaS
7 2 (8.00%) PaaS
7 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
7 2 (8.00%) PowerApps
7 2 (8.00%) SaaS
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (4.00%) npm
8 1 (4.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (28.00%) Relational Database
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.00%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (8.00%) InfluxDB
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.00%) Big Data
4 1 (4.00%) Delta Lake
4 1 (4.00%) Hadoop
4 1 (4.00%) MySQL
4 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) Postman
2 4 (16.00%) Selenium
2 4 (16.00%) Subversion
3 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (8.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (8.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
5 1 (4.00%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket Server
5 1 (4.00%) git-flow
5 1 (4.00%) GitLab
5 1 (4.00%) MSTest
5 1 (4.00%) Ranorex
5 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
5 1 (4.00%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (4.00%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.00%) webpack
General
1 11 (44.00%) Public Sector
2 10 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (12.00%) Banking
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Back Office
4 2 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.00%) Lead
3 3 (12.00%) QA Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Site Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) iOS Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Lead Software Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Java Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) OpenROAD Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (28.00%) RESTful
2 6 (24.00%) .NET
3 5 (20.00%) Spring
3 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 3 (12.00%) React
4 3 (12.00%) REST
4 3 (12.00%) SOAP
4 3 (12.00%) Web Services
4 3 (12.00%) XML
5 2 (8.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (8.00%) AWS CDK
5 2 (8.00%) Core Data
5 2 (8.00%) CSS
5 2 (8.00%) HTML
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Security
5 2 (8.00%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (8.00%) Thymeleaf
5 2 (8.00%) UIKit
5 2 (8.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (16.00%) Mobile App
3 3 (12.00%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (12.00%) Legacy Code
3 3 (12.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (8.00%) Client/Server
4 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.00%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (12.00%) Unix
3 2 (8.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (8.00%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (4.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Agile
2 14 (56.00%) CI/CD
2 14 (56.00%) DevOps
3 8 (32.00%) Migration
4 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Data Protection
5 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) Containerisation
6 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (20.00%) Kanban
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) Test Automation
7 4 (16.00%) API Development
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (12.00%) API Design
8 3 (12.00%) Black-Box Testing
8 3 (12.00%) OWASP
8 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
8 3 (12.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (12.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 14 (56.00%) Java
2 13 (52.00%) SQL
3 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (24.00%) Perl
5 5 (20.00%) C#
5 5 (20.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (20.00%) Python
5 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
6 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 2 (8.00%) C++
7 2 (8.00%) Objective-C
7 2 (8.00%) Swift
7 2 (8.00%) VBA
7 2 (8.00%) VBScript
8 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (4.00%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.00%) VB
8 1 (4.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (8.00%) ISEB
2 2 (8.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) NCSC
3 2 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.00%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (16.00%) Docker
2 3 (12.00%) KVM
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (12.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Grafana
2 3 (12.00%) Prometheus
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat Satellite
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) Fluentd
3 2 (8.00%) HAProxy
3 2 (8.00%) Nagios
4 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Commvault
2 3 (12.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Salesforce