GitHub Contracts in Scotland

GitHub
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for GitHub skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GitHub over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 136 120
Rank change year-on-year +5 -16 -10
Contract jobs citing GitHub 4 24 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.18% 0.84% 1.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.54% 2.33% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 34
10th Percentile - £388 £445
25th Percentile £525 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +8.11% +30.59%
75th Percentile £575 £678 £625
90th Percentile - £688 £734
UK median daily rate £530 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -11.67% +6.19% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -26.61% -0.91% +4.27%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

GitHub is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 745 1,028 1,084
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.32% 35.92% 30.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 772 779
10th Percentile £263 £250 £281
25th Percentile £400 £413 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £574
90th Percentile £660 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 20
10th Percentile £15.39 £18.25 £17.50
25th Percentile £15.69 £45.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £60.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -71.92% +65.89% -36.80%
75th Percentile £17.67 £66.50 £47.43
90th Percentile £24.85 £76.00 £48.83
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +62.79% -4.44%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Scotland

GitHub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for GitHub in Scotland

GitHub
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Edinburgh +24 2 - - 10
Glasgow +3 2 £550 +22.22% 6
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Build and Release Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Build Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Build Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Scripter
1 1 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Release Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cryptography
3 1 (25.00%) Data Encryption
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Security Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Perl
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Puppet