GitHub Job Trends in Edinburgh

GitHub
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 48 80
Rank change year-on-year -16 +32 -38
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 7 31 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.61% 4.01% 1.02%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.59% 10.69% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 9
10th Percentile £46,250 - -
25th Percentile £56,875 £28,250 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £30,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -46.96% -17.86%
75th Percentile £95,313 £63,875 £75,000
90th Percentile £108,750 £82,550 £98,474
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £64,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year +20.16% +35.63% -21.39%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Edinburgh

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 270 290 463
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 23.50% 37.47% 36.31%
Number of salaries quoted 197 113 263
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,855 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -8.58% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £74,572
90th Percentile £106,000 £90,657 £90,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £54,648 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.93% -0.64% -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

GitHub
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Salary histogram for GitHub in Edinburgh

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Anthropic Claude
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Cloud Run
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Vault
1 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Advertising
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Cloud Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) Observability
4 3 (42.86%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) AI
5 2 (28.57%) Application Security
5 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
5 2 (28.57%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
6 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
6 1 (14.29%) Lakehouse
6 1 (14.29%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Scala
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Pega