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 23 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 73 78
Rank change year-on-year +33 +5 -31
Contract jobs citing Git 87 47 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.27% 2.26% 3.46%
As % of the Development Applications category 26.61% 14.29% 19.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 30 63
10th Percentile £274 £355 £413
25th Percentile £358 £385 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £434 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -13.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £525 £578 £644
90th Percentile £545 £634 £676
UK median daily rate £490 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -3.92% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year - -57.06% -
UK median hourly rate £54.94 £62.50 £68.67
% change year-on-year -12.10% -8.99% +4.78%

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 327 329 475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.79% 15.81% 17.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 222 351
10th Percentile £300 £363 £373
25th Percentile £403 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £479
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +0.21% +0.84%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile £575 £646 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 5
10th Percentile £16.66 £34.10 £58.11
25th Percentile £16.84 - £59.03
Median hourly rate £17.45 £40.94 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year -57.39% -32.39% +11.10%
75th Percentile £49.98 - £66.56
90th Percentile £65.75 - £67.88
UK median hourly rate £57.63 £65.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -11.35% +4.00% +20.19%

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

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Scotland

Git
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

Git
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 23 June 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 +11 57 £450 +4.65% 93
Edinburgh +9 20 £425 - 67
Stirling - 2 £400 - 1
Perthshire +3 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £438 - 7
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 12 (13.79%) Confluence
2 5 (5.75%) JBoss
3 4 (4.60%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.45%) WebLogic
4 3 (3.45%) WebSphere
5 2 (2.30%) Apache
5 2 (2.30%) Camunda
5 2 (2.30%) OpenROAD
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Spark
6 1 (1.15%) IIS
6 1 (1.15%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Adobe XD
1 1 (1.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.38%) Azure
2 27 (31.03%) AWS
3 16 (18.39%) OpenShift
4 11 (12.64%) IaaS
5 10 (11.49%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (9.20%) Amazon S3
6 8 (9.20%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (8.05%) GCP
8 6 (6.90%) Cohesity
8 6 (6.90%) SaaS
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub
9 4 (4.60%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
10 3 (3.45%) Power Platform
10 3 (3.45%) Snowflake
11 2 (2.30%) Apigee
11 2 (2.30%) PaaS
11 2 (2.30%) PowerApps
12 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.20%) NAS
1 8 (9.20%) SAN
2 1 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.15%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (18.39%) Oracle Database
2 14 (16.09%) Relational Database
3 8 (9.20%) RDBMS
4 7 (8.05%) MongoDB
5 4 (4.60%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.45%) DB2
6 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 3 (3.45%) SQL Server
7 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (2.30%) MySQL
8 1 (1.15%) Big Data
8 1 (1.15%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.15%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 28 (32.18%) Jenkins
2 21 (24.14%) JIRA
3 15 (17.24%) Subversion
4 14 (16.09%) Bitbucket
5 9 (10.34%) Oracle Forms
5 9 (10.34%) PVCS
6 5 (5.75%) JUnit
6 5 (5.75%) Selenium
7 4 (4.60%) IntelliJ
7 4 (4.60%) Maven
7 4 (4.60%) Mockito
7 4 (4.60%) Postman
7 4 (4.60%) PyCharm
7 4 (4.60%) Visual Studio
7 4 (4.60%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (3.45%) Cucumber
8 3 (3.45%) Cypress.io
8 3 (3.45%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (2.30%) Mercurial
General
1 35 (40.23%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.99%) Finance
3 17 (19.54%) Public Sector
4 13 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.64%) Banking
6 10 (11.49%) Back Office
7 2 (2.30%) Front Office
7 2 (2.30%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Legal
7 2 (2.30%) Private Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (39.08%) Developer
2 13 (14.94%) Python Engineer
3 10 (11.49%) Senior
4 9 (10.34%) Oracle Developer
5 8 (9.20%) Linux Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) Platform Engineer
5 8 (9.20%) VMware Engineer
6 7 (8.05%) Analyst
6 7 (8.05%) Java Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Senior Developer
6 7 (8.05%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Python Developer
8 4 (4.60%) Applications Support
8 4 (4.60%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (3.45%) Data Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) NetBackup Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (17.24%) RESTful
2 14 (16.09%) REST
3 10 (11.49%) Java EE
4 9 (10.34%) React
4 9 (10.34%) Spring
4 9 (10.34%) Spring Boot
5 8 (9.20%) .NET
5 8 (9.20%) AngularJS
6 6 (6.90%) Web Services
7 5 (5.75%) Loki
8 4 (4.60%) .NET Framework
8 4 (4.60%) CSS
8 4 (4.60%) HTML
8 4 (4.60%) Middleware
8 4 (4.60%) SOAP
9 3 (3.45%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (3.45%) JPA
9 3 (3.45%) JSON
9 3 (3.45%) Node.js
9 3 (3.45%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Virtual Team
2 11 (12.64%) Distributed Systems
2 11 (12.64%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.75%) Product Ownership
4 5 (5.75%) Public Cloud
5 4 (4.60%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.45%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.30%) Client/Server
7 2 (2.30%) Derivative
7 2 (2.30%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (2.30%) FPGA
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Code
7 2 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.30%) VHDL
8 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
8 1 (1.15%) EMV
8 1 (1.15%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.74%) Linux
2 22 (25.29%) Unix
3 16 (18.39%) Windows
4 8 (9.20%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.15%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) Agile
2 44 (50.57%) CI/CD
3 36 (41.38%) DevOps
4 20 (22.99%) Data Protection
5 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (14.94%) Data Modelling
6 13 (14.94%) Scrum
6 13 (14.94%) Test Automation
6 13 (14.94%) Unit Testing
7 12 (13.79%) High Availability
8 11 (12.64%) Continuous Integration
8 11 (12.64%) ETL
8 11 (12.64%) SDLC
9 10 (11.49%) Microservices
10 9 (10.34%) API Development
10 9 (10.34%) Containerisation
10 9 (10.34%) Observability
10 9 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (10.34%) Task Automation
10 9 (10.34%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 43 (49.43%) SQL
2 35 (40.23%) Python
3 34 (39.08%) Java
4 17 (19.54%) PL/SQL
5 13 (14.94%) JavaScript
6 11 (12.64%) C#
6 11 (12.64%) Perl
7 10 (11.49%) C
8 9 (10.34%) Erlang
8 9 (10.34%) ProC
8 9 (10.34%) Prolog
9 7 (8.05%) Shell Script
9 7 (8.05%) TypeScript
10 3 (3.45%) C++
11 2 (2.30%) Objective-C
11 2 (2.30%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.30%) Swift
11 2 (2.30%) Tcl
11 2 (2.30%) VBA
11 2 (2.30%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (5.75%) Degree
2 2 (2.30%) ISEB
2 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
2 2 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.15%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.34%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.45%) NCSC
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.30%) Data Quality
System Software
1 13 (14.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (12.64%) Docker
3 5 (5.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 3 (3.45%) Active Directory
5 2 (2.30%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 29 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 13 (14.94%) Terraform
3 10 (11.49%) Ansible
4 8 (9.20%) NetBackup
4 8 (9.20%) Oracle RMAN
5 5 (5.75%) Grafana
5 5 (5.75%) Prometheus
6 2 (2.30%) Podman
6 2 (2.30%) RSA Archer
6 2 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.15%) Argo
7 1 (1.15%) Istio
7 1 (1.15%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 25 (28.74%) Oracle
2 15 (17.24%) VMware
3 13 (14.94%) Veritas
4 7 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.05%) Splunk
5 2 (2.30%) Avaloq
5 2 (2.30%) Netskope
5 2 (2.30%) Proofpoint
5 2 (2.30%) Symantec
5 2 (2.30%) Temenos
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Cisco
6 1 (1.15%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) Workday