GitHub Copilot Contract Job Trends in Scotland

GitHub Copilot
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring GitHub Copilot skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 116 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing GitHub Copilot 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 0.44% 0.061% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.07% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £460 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £480 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £585 £490 -
% change year-on-year +19.51% - -

All Cloud Computing Skills
Scotland

GitHub Copilot 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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 746 651 740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.03% 39.89% 33.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 445 505
10th Percentile £313 £309 £256
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £465 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.15% -0.96% -1.16%
75th Percentile £579 £538 £550
90th Percentile £675 £600 £656
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 10
10th Percentile £12.57 £21.84 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.97 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £14.44 £24.09 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.06% +41.71% -71.92%
75th Percentile £50.00 £27.91 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £27.35 £21.00
% change year-on-year +56.07% +30.24% -40.00%

GitHub Copilot
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

GitHub Copilot job vacancy trend in Scotland

GitHub Copilot
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 GitHub Copilot within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 2 May 2026. 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 £470 - 2
Edinburgh -3 1 - -
GitHub Copilot
UK

GitHub Copilot
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) GitHub
2 7 (87.50%) Anthropic Claude
2 7 (87.50%) ChatGPT
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) Metadata
2 6 (75.00%) DB2
2 6 (75.00%) MongoDB
2 6 (75.00%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 7 (87.50%) Front Office
2 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
3 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
4 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Equity Derivative
2 6 (75.00%) Derivative
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) AI
1 8 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (87.50%) CI/CD
2 7 (87.50%) LLM
3 6 (75.00%) BDD
3 6 (75.00%) Data Lineage
3 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
3 6 (75.00%) Metadata Management
3 6 (75.00%) TDD
3 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (62.50%) Actionable Insight
4 5 (62.50%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (62.50%) Risk Management
5 3 (37.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (25.00%) Data Architecture
7 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
7 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (12.50%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
1 7 (87.50%) Python
1 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 6 (75.00%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Sybase
2 5 (62.50%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft