GitHub Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

GitHub
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 54 65
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing GitHub 28 18 15
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 3.82% 2.40% 1.71%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.46% 7.63% 5.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 3 7
10th Percentile £470 £432 £423
25th Percentile £494 £442 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +1.19%
75th Percentile £734 £488 £713
90th Percentile - £495 £726
Scotland median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +22.22%

All Cloud Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 236 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 40.38% 31.42% 29.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 157 183
10th Percentile £313 £313 £345
25th Percentile £402 £363 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.43% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £513 £636
90th Percentile £638 £616 £722
Scotland median daily rate £500 £450 £488
% change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.75 £15.42
Median % change year-on-year +119.78% +47.54% +17.17%
Scotland median hourly rate £31.95 £23.50 £16.57
% change year-on-year +35.97% +41.82% -6.49%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow.

GitHub job vacancy trend in Glasgow

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Glasgow over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Glasgow

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (32.14%) WebLogic
2 1 (3.57%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 25 (89.29%) AWS
2 19 (67.86%) GitHub Actions
3 13 (46.43%) Azure
4 10 (35.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 2 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (7.14%) SaaS
5 2 (7.14%) Serverless
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.57%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.57%) Datadog
6 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 3 (10.71%) MSDE
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
4 2 (7.14%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (3.57%) DB2
5 1 (3.57%) DynamoDB
5 1 (3.57%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (46.43%) Jenkins
2 11 (39.29%) Bitbucket
2 11 (39.29%) JIRA
3 10 (35.71%) IntelliJ
3 10 (35.71%) Visual Studio Code
4 9 (32.14%) CircleCI
4 9 (32.14%) PyCharm
4 9 (32.14%) Visual Studio
5 7 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
6 5 (17.86%) Git
7 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
7 2 (7.14%) GitLab
7 2 (7.14%) Selenium
8 1 (3.57%) JUnit
8 1 (3.57%) Mockito
8 1 (3.57%) Snyk
8 1 (3.57%) SonarQube
8 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (39.29%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
5 2 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.57%) Military
6 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Architect
2 10 (35.71%) Technical Architect
3 9 (32.14%) Developer
4 8 (28.57%) Lead
4 8 (28.57%) Lead Architect
4 8 (28.57%) Technical Leader
5 6 (21.43%) Python Developer
6 4 (14.29%) Java Engineer
6 4 (14.29%) Python Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps
8 2 (7.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) AWS Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Developer in Test
8 2 (7.14%) Java Software Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes Engineer
8 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 2 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) RESTful
2 3 (10.71%) Spring
2 3 (10.71%) Spring Boot
3 2 (7.14%) Gherkin
3 2 (7.14%) JSON
3 2 (7.14%) Node.js
3 2 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) .NET
4 1 (3.57%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) Apache Camel
4 1 (3.57%) HTML
4 1 (3.57%) J2EE
4 1 (3.57%) jQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth
4 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
4 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (3.57%) SOAP
4 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (10.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Linux
2 10 (35.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 15 (53.57%) Agile
3 12 (42.86%) DevOps
4 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (39.29%) SDLC
5 10 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (35.71%) Roadmaps
6 9 (32.14%) Domain-Driven Design
6 9 (32.14%) Strategic Roadmap
6 9 (32.14%) TDD
7 8 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
8 7 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
8 7 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
8 7 (25.00%) Test Automation
9 6 (21.43%) Technology Strategy
10 5 (17.86%) Case Management
10 5 (17.86%) IT Strategy
10 5 (17.86%) Line Management
11 4 (14.29%) Build Automation
11 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (71.43%) TypeScript
2 16 (57.14%) Java
3 11 (39.29%) C#
3 11 (39.29%) Python
4 2 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 24 (85.71%) Kubernetes
2 23 (82.14%) Terraform
3 10 (35.71%) Ansible
3 10 (35.71%) Prometheus
4 9 (32.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Oracle
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) Checkmarx
3 1 (3.57%) Pega
3 1 (3.57%) Veracode