GitHub Contracts in Edinburgh

GitHub
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 70 98
Rank change year-on-year +11 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing GitHub 8 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.28% 0.25% 1.07%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.86% 0.66% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile - - £368
25th Percentile £475 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 - £688
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +8.11%

All Cloud Skills
Edinburgh

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 280 304 507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 44.80% 37.30% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 188 390
10th Percentile £250 £300 £259
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £538 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £679 £618
Scotland median daily rate £466 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £21.62 £15.80 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.50 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £17.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -4.06% -39.93%
75th Percentile £26.28 £17.50 -
90th Percentile £28.38 £17.61 -
Scotland median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
% change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Edinburgh

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Edinburgh

GitHub
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
1 5 (62.50%) GitHub Actions
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
2 4 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (50.00%) Serverless
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (12.50%) Cloud Run
4 1 (12.50%) CloudFront
4 1 (12.50%) Firebase
4 1 (12.50%) GCP
4 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (12.50%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (12.50%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Storybook
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 2 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) React Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) React
2 4 (50.00%) AWS CDK
2 4 (50.00%) CSS
2 4 (50.00%) Jest
2 4 (50.00%) Tailwind CSS
3 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 2 (25.00%) AngularJS
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (12.50%) AWS Amplify
5 1 (12.50%) GraphQL
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (12.50%) Playwright
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 2 (25.00%) Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Clean Code
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Fintech
4 2 (25.00%) OWASP
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) User Experience
4 2 (25.00%) Web Development
5 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) TypeScript
2 4 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) C#
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Java
4 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Dynatrace
1 1 (12.50%) Google
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) Splunk