GitHub Contracts in Scotland

GitHub
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GitHub 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 78 126 139
Rank change year-on-year +48 +13 -22
Contract jobs citing GitHub 39 3 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.40% 0.14% 0.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.05% 0.41% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 16
10th Percentile £410 - £388
25th Percentile £461 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +8.11%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £678
90th Percentile £585 - £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £600
% change year-on-year -0.94% -11.67% +6.67%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 645 738 1,034
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 39.69% 33.29% 36.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 504 774
10th Percentile £305 £258 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% - -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £600 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
10th Percentile £21.84 £15.39 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £24.09 £17.00 £60.55
Median % change year-on-year +41.71% -71.92% +65.89%
75th Percentile £27.91 £17.67 £66.50
90th Percentile £28.38 £24.85 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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 +26 24 £425 -22.73% 7
Edinburgh +11 8 £550 - 10
Lanarkshire - 6 £525 -
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 17 (43.59%) AWS
2 16 (41.03%) Azure
3 13 (33.33%) Serverless
4 10 (25.64%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (23.08%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (20.51%) Amazon Cognito
6 8 (20.51%) Amazon S3
7 6 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 6 (15.38%) AWS CloudTrail
7 6 (15.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (10.26%) AWS CodePipeline
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (2.56%) AWS CodeBuild
10 1 (2.56%) Cloud Run
10 1 (2.56%) Firebase
10 1 (2.56%) GitHub Copilot
10 1 (2.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 1 (2.56%) Stackdriver
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.38%) Amazon Athena
1 6 (15.38%) DynamoDB
1 6 (15.38%) Parquet
2 4 (10.26%) Amazon Aurora
3 3 (7.69%) DB2
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (23.08%) Jenkins
1 9 (23.08%) JIRA
2 5 (12.82%) Bitbucket
2 5 (12.82%) GitLab
3 4 (10.26%) Maven
3 4 (10.26%) Storybook
4 3 (7.69%) JUnit
4 3 (7.69%) Mockito
5 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.56%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.56%) Postman
6 1 (2.56%) PyCharm
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (25.64%) Banking
2 9 (23.08%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Investment Banking
4 6 (15.38%) Social Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Python Developer
3 6 (15.38%) Cloud Developer
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Data Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (12.82%) Data Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Build and Release Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Build Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Linux Build Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Linux Scripter
5 4 (10.26%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (10.26%) Release Engineer
5 4 (10.26%) Senior
6 3 (7.69%) Architect
6 3 (7.69%) AWS Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Developer
6 3 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.64%) AWS CDK
2 6 (15.38%) JSON
3 5 (12.82%) PySpark
3 5 (12.82%) React
4 4 (10.26%) CSS
4 4 (10.26%) Jest
4 4 (10.26%) Tailwind CSS
5 3 (7.69%) .NET
5 3 (7.69%) Hibernate
5 3 (7.69%) Spring
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Boot
5 3 (7.69%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.13%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.56%) GraphQL
7 1 (2.56%) Middleware
7 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (2.56%) RESTful
7 1 (2.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (25.64%) Linux
2 5 (12.82%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) DevOps
2 19 (48.72%) CI/CD
3 11 (28.21%) Agile
3 11 (28.21%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (25.64%) Build Automation
5 8 (20.51%) Microservices
5 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (20.51%) Test Automation
6 6 (15.38%) Cloud Security
6 6 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
6 6 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 6 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (12.82%) Data Transformation
7 5 (12.82%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (12.82%) ETL
7 5 (12.82%) Issue Tracking
7 5 (12.82%) SDLC
8 4 (10.26%) Cost Optimisation
8 4 (10.26%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) Python
2 16 (41.03%) SQL
3 13 (33.33%) Java
4 12 (30.77%) TypeScript
5 7 (17.95%) C#
6 5 (12.82%) Shell Script
7 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
8 1 (2.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (35.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (17.95%) Ansible
2 7 (17.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Oracle
2 1 (2.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (2.56%) Google
2 1 (2.56%) Splunk