GitHub Contract Job Trends in Scotland

GitHub
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring GitHub skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 77 114
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 +25
Contract jobs citing GitHub 27 44 17
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 1.66% 2.66% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.33% 6.91% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 7
10th Percentile £319 £413 £448
25th Percentile £354 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% +1.19%
75th Percentile £632 £525 £676
90th Percentile £686 £563 £726
UK median daily rate £513 £540 £540
% change year-on-year -5.09% - -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £32.50
% change year-on-year +82.65% -15.77% -39.81%

All Cloud Computing 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 624 637 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.31% 38.44% 31.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 440 481
10th Percentile £310 £262 £300
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.22% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £599 £534 £588
90th Percentile £675 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 10
10th Percentile £12.24 £22.06 £15.39
25th Percentile £13.05 £22.50 £15.69
Median hourly rate £35.00 £24.18 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.75% +42.24% -51.43%
75th Percentile £57.00 £27.75 £17.67
90th Percentile £64.00 £28.38 £24.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year +47.06% +19.33% -14.52%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Scotland

GitHub
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GitHub.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GitHub

GitHub
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Scotland over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for GitHub in Scotland

GitHub
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GitHub.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GitHub

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 14 March 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
Edinburgh +16 17 £525 +5.00% 16
Glasgow -10 9 £358 -20.44% 11
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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 5 (18.52%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Apache
2 1 (3.70%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.70%) nginx
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (70.37%) GitHub Actions
2 18 (66.67%) Azure
3 12 (44.44%) AWS
4 8 (29.63%) GCP
5 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.41%) Azure AKS
6 2 (7.41%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 2 (7.41%) Serverless
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (3.70%) AWS KMS
7 1 (3.70%) AWS Step Functions
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Cloud Run
7 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.81%) Network Security
2 1 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.93%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (18.52%) MongoDB
2 5 (18.52%) MySQL
2 5 (18.52%) NoSQL
3 4 (14.81%) DynamoDB
3 4 (14.81%) Relational Database
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (3.70%) MariaDB
5 1 (3.70%) Metadata
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
5 1 (3.70%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 16 (59.26%) Jenkins
2 9 (33.33%) GitLab
3 5 (18.52%) JIRA
4 4 (14.81%) Snyk
5 1 (3.70%) Appium
5 1 (3.70%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.70%) ClearCase
5 1 (3.70%) CocoaPods
5 1 (3.70%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.70%) Git
5 1 (3.70%) git-flow
5 1 (3.70%) Gradle
5 1 (3.70%) MSTest
5 1 (3.70%) NUnit
5 1 (3.70%) Postman
5 1 (3.70%) ScriptRunner
5 1 (3.70%) Selenium
5 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (33.33%) Finance
2 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 5 (18.52%) Security Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
2 4 (14.81%) Design Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
4 2 (7.41%) Applications Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Software Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) iOS Android Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Android Developer
5 1 (3.70%) JIRA Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) React Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (33.33%) RESTful
2 7 (25.93%) REST
3 6 (22.22%) Flask
3 6 (22.22%) Node.js
3 6 (22.22%) React
3 6 (22.22%) Redux
4 5 (18.52%) Express.js
4 5 (18.52%) FastAPI
4 5 (18.52%) NestJS
5 4 (14.81%) Django
5 4 (14.81%) GraphQL
5 4 (14.81%) MERN Stack
5 4 (14.81%) SLSA
6 3 (11.11%) .NET
7 2 (7.41%) AWS CDK
7 2 (7.41%) Jest
7 2 (7.41%) Spring
7 2 (7.41%) Spring Boot
8 1 (3.70%) PySpark
8 1 (3.70%) Zustand
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Cloud Native
2 5 (18.52%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (14.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.11%) Linux
2 2 (7.41%) Windows
3 1 (3.70%) Android
3 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) CI/CD
2 16 (59.26%) DevOps
3 11 (40.74%) Microservices
4 8 (29.63%) Application Security
4 8 (29.63%) Containerisation
4 8 (29.63%) Software Engineering
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) Architectural Patterns
5 6 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
6 5 (18.52%) Data Protection
6 5 (18.52%) Full-Stack Development
6 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (18.52%) OWASP
6 5 (18.52%) SDLC
6 5 (18.52%) Static Application Security Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Event-Driven
7 4 (14.81%) Secure Coding
7 4 (14.81%) Security Testing
7 4 (14.81%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 11 (40.74%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) JavaScript
3 6 (22.22%) Java
3 6 (22.22%) TypeScript
4 3 (11.11%) C#
4 3 (11.11%) SQL
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
6 1 (3.70%) C
6 1 (3.70%) C++
6 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.70%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) Swift
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) CISM
1 3 (11.11%) CISSP
1 3 (11.11%) Degree
1 3 (11.11%) TOGAF Certification
2 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.81%) NIST
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) SOC 2
System Software
1 7 (25.93%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) Kubernetes
2 5 (18.52%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) Istio
3 1 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Checkmarx
1 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) BiZZdesign
2 3 (11.11%) Black Duck
2 3 (11.11%) Tenable
3 2 (7.41%) Google
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) Apple
4 1 (3.70%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.70%) Databricks
4 1 (3.70%) ForgeRock
4 1 (3.70%) NetApp
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
4 1 (3.70%) Veracode