Git Contracts in Scotland

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 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 41 54 63
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -28
Contract jobs citing Git 86 78 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.29% 3.52% 3.95%
As % of the Development Applications category 27.22% 18.75% 19.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 39 80
10th Percentile £274 £396 £411
25th Percentile £394 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +15.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £526 £634 £650
90th Percentile £550 £700 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -57.06% +35.25%
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £65.25
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.21% +8.75%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 316 416 569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.45% 18.76% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 261 439
10th Percentile £313 £375 £393
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £588 £538
90th Percentile £575 £644 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile £23.77 £35.00 £54.36
25th Percentile £29.81 £37.97 £59.03
Median hourly rate £39.92 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -32.39% +15.33%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £55.99 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Scotland

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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

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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 1 May 2025. 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 +7 49 £465 -14.36% 19
Edinburgh +12 24 £463 -25.70% 21
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire - 2 - -
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 11 (12.79%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) JBoss
3 2 (2.33%) Apache
3 2 (2.33%) Camunda
3 2 (2.33%) OpenROAD
3 2 (2.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.16%) IIS
4 1 (1.16%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.16%) nginx
4 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 38 (44.19%) Azure
2 23 (26.74%) AWS
3 21 (24.42%) OpenShift
4 15 (17.44%) Amazon S3
5 11 (12.79%) Cloud Computing
6 10 (11.63%) Power Platform
7 8 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (9.30%) IaaS
8 7 (8.14%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 6 (6.98%) Cohesity
9 6 (6.98%) PaaS
9 6 (6.98%) SaaS
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (5.81%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 5 (5.81%) AWS Fargate
10 5 (5.81%) Serverless
11 4 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
11 4 (4.65%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (4.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.79%) NAS
1 11 (12.79%) SAN
2 4 (4.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (20.93%) Oracle Database
2 16 (18.60%) Relational Database
3 10 (11.63%) RDBMS
4 8 (9.30%) SQL Server
5 5 (5.81%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
8 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.16%) Big Data
8 1 (1.16%) DB2
8 1 (1.16%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.16%) InfluxDB
8 1 (1.16%) MariaDB
8 1 (1.16%) MySQL
8 1 (1.16%) Neo4j
8 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.16%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 22 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 17 (19.77%) JIRA
3 16 (18.60%) Subversion
4 9 (10.47%) Oracle Forms
4 9 (10.47%) PVCS
5 8 (9.30%) Bitbucket
6 6 (6.98%) Oracle APEX
7 5 (5.81%) Selenium
8 4 (4.65%) Artifactory
8 4 (4.65%) Cucumber
8 4 (4.65%) Postman
9 3 (3.49%) Cypress.io
9 3 (3.49%) TeamCity
9 3 (3.49%) WebDriver
10 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket Server
10 2 (2.33%) Mercurial
11 1 (1.16%) GitLab
11 1 (1.16%) PyCharm
11 1 (1.16%) Ranorex
11 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.40%) Public Sector
3 16 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.44%) Back Office
5 13 (15.12%) Finance
6 9 (10.47%) Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Legal
8 2 (2.33%) Front Office
8 2 (2.33%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.33%) Private Banking
9 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 36 (41.86%) Developer
2 11 (12.79%) Oracle Developer
3 9 (10.47%) Python Engineer
3 9 (10.47%) Senior
4 7 (8.14%) Analyst
4 7 (8.14%) Platform Engineer
4 7 (8.14%) Systems Analyst
5 5 (5.81%) Senior Developer
6 4 (4.65%) Applications Support
6 4 (4.65%) Lead
6 4 (4.65%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) Python Developer
6 4 (4.65%) QA Engineer
6 4 (4.65%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.49%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 3 (3.49%) NetBackup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (18.60%) REST
2 11 (12.79%) AngularJS
3 10 (11.63%) Java EE
3 10 (11.63%) RESTful
4 9 (10.47%) .NET
4 9 (10.47%) CSS
4 9 (10.47%) HTML
4 9 (10.47%) Node.js
5 8 (9.30%) React
6 6 (6.98%) Spring
7 5 (5.81%) Loki
8 4 (4.65%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.65%) AWS CDK
8 4 (4.65%) Express.js
8 4 (4.65%) Middleware
8 4 (4.65%) Spring Boot
9 3 (3.49%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (3.49%) JSON
9 3 (3.49%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (3.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.98%) Data Protection Act
1 6 (6.98%) Management Information System
1 6 (6.98%) Virtual Team
2 5 (5.81%) Distributed Systems
2 5 (5.81%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.49%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.49%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.33%) Derivative
4 2 (2.33%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.33%) FPGA
4 2 (2.33%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.33%) VHDL
5 1 (1.16%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.16%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (24.42%) Unix
2 19 (22.09%) Linux
3 14 (16.28%) Windows
4 11 (12.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.49%) Mac OS
5 3 (3.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.33%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.16%) AIX
7 1 (1.16%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (58.14%) CI/CD
2 44 (51.16%) Agile
3 33 (38.37%) DevOps
4 19 (22.09%) Data Protection
5 14 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (15.12%) Data Modelling
6 13 (15.12%) Test Automation
7 12 (13.95%) Observability
7 12 (13.95%) Scrum
8 11 (12.79%) Containerisation
8 11 (12.79%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (12.79%) Data Deduplication
8 11 (12.79%) ETL
9 10 (11.63%) Decision-Making
9 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (11.63%) Unit Testing
10 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
10 9 (10.47%) Task Automation
10 9 (10.47%) Technical Analysis
11 8 (9.30%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 41 (47.67%) SQL
2 38 (44.19%) Python
3 23 (26.74%) Java
3 23 (26.74%) JavaScript
4 19 (22.09%) PL/SQL
5 9 (10.47%) C
5 9 (10.47%) ProC
6 8 (9.30%) C#
6 8 (9.30%) Shell Script
7 7 (8.14%) Bash
8 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
9 5 (5.81%) Erlang
9 5 (5.81%) Perl
9 5 (5.81%) Prolog
10 3 (3.49%) C++
10 3 (3.49%) VBA
10 3 (3.49%) VBScript
11 2 (2.33%) Groovy
11 2 (2.33%) Objective-C
11 2 (2.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (6.98%) Degree
2 3 (3.49%) ISEB
2 3 (3.49%) ISTQB
2 3 (3.49%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.16%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.16%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.14%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (6.98%) QA
3 5 (5.81%) Accessibility
4 4 (4.65%) NCSC
5 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.16%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (10.47%) Docker
1 9 (10.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.81%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 2 (2.33%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 28 (32.56%) Kubernetes
2 12 (13.95%) Terraform
3 11 (12.79%) NetBackup
3 11 (12.79%) Oracle RMAN
4 9 (10.47%) Ansible
5 7 (8.14%) Grafana
6 5 (5.81%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.33%) Kibana
7 2 (2.33%) Podman
7 2 (2.33%) RSA Archer
7 2 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.16%) Packer
8 1 (1.16%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.16%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (31.40%) Oracle
2 16 (18.60%) Veritas
3 11 (12.79%) VMware
4 7 (8.14%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.14%) Splunk
5 2 (2.33%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.33%) Imperva
5 2 (2.33%) Netskope
5 2 (2.33%) Proofpoint
5 2 (2.33%) Symantec
5 2 (2.33%) Temenos
6 1 (1.16%) Adobe
6 1 (1.16%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.16%) Workday