GitHub Job Trends in Glasgow

GitHub
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Glasgow requiring GitHub skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 54 115
Rank change year-on-year -8 +61 -61
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 13 27 41
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow 0.96% 3.63% 2.12%
As % of the Cloud Services category 4.39% 12.16% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1 14 4
10th Percentile - £36,275 -
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,563 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £64,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.78% +5.31% +6.52%
75th Percentile £67,500 £82,500 £64,688
90th Percentile - - £66,375
Scotland median annual salary £77,500 £64,500 £47,557
% change year-on-year +20.16% +35.63% -23.91%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 296 222 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow 21.75% 29.88% 43.35%
Number of salaries quoted 176 80 215
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,150 £35,850
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,500 £73,125 £69,375
90th Percentile £100,000 £90,000 £80,000
Scotland median annual salary £52,500 £54,855 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.26% -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

GitHub job vacancy trend in Glasgow

GitHub
Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GitHub

GitHub
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 3 (23.08%) Apache Airflow
1 3 (23.08%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) GitHub Copilot
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) GCP
2 4 (30.77%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (23.08%) Datadog
3 3 (23.08%) dbt
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (46.15%) MongoDB
1 6 (46.15%) MySQL
1 6 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Jenkins
2 3 (23.08%) GitLab
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) IntelliJ
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Maven
3 2 (15.38%) Mockito
3 2 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 1 (7.69%) Claude Code
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (23.08%) Law
2 3 (23.08%) Marketing
3 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Full-Stack Java Developer
1 6 (46.15%) Java Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) GCP Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (84.62%) Spring
1 11 (84.62%) Spring Boot
2 9 (69.23%) Kafka
3 6 (46.15%) Hibernate
3 6 (46.15%) JPA
3 6 (46.15%) REST
4 4 (30.77%) Terraform
5 3 (23.08%) .NET
6 2 (15.38%) RESTful
6 2 (15.38%) Spring Batch
6 2 (15.38%) Spring Cloud
6 2 (15.38%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 3 (23.08%) Algorithms
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (69.23%) Analytics
3 8 (61.54%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (53.85%) Machine Learning
5 6 (46.15%) Data Analytics
5 6 (46.15%) Microservices
6 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (30.77%) Community of Practice
7 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
7 4 (30.77%) Observability
7 4 (30.77%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (23.08%) Agile
8 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (23.08%) Chaos Engineering
8 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
8 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (23.08%) Cost Optimisation
8 3 (23.08%) DevOps
8 3 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) Java
1 11 (84.62%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Bash
2 1 (7.69%) Bicep
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Argo
2 3 (23.08%) Grafana
2 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Dynatrace
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Google