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 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	64	60	73
Rank change year-on-year	-4	+13	-14
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	15	27	18
As % of all permanent jobs in Glasgow	1.00%	3.45%	1.66%
As % of the Cloud Services category	5.38%	11.84%	4.65%
Number of salaries quoted	3	14	4
10^th Percentile	£50,500	£28,250	-
25^th Percentile	£55,000	£34,938	£57,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£64,500	£61,250
Median % change year-on-year	+0.78%	+5.31%	+2.08%
75^th Percentile	£67,500	£82,500	£64,688
90^th Percentile	-	-	£66,375
Scotland median annual salary	£65,000	£55,000	£32,500
% change year-on-year	+18.18%	+69.23%	-53.57%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	279	228	387
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Glasgow	18.56%	29.16%	35.73%
Number of salaries quoted	168	81	185
10^th Percentile	£31,250	£29,000	£32,600
25^th Percentile	£40,259	£36,250	£38,000
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£55,500	£57,000	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	-2.63%	+3.64%	+4.76%
75^th Percentile	£75,500	£75,000	£68,750
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£87,000	£80,000
Scotland median annual salary	£52,845	£52,500	£55,000
% change year-on-year	+0.66%	-4.55%	-

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 Salary Trend in Glasgow

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Glasgow citing GitHub.

GitHub Salary Histogram in Glasgow

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Glasgow over the 6 months to 17 October 2026.

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Glasgow region with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	100.0%	15
2	Kubernetes	93.3%	14
3	Jenkins	86.7%	13
3	Python	86.7%	13
5	Docker	73.3%	11
5	Java	73.3%	11
5	Spring	73.3%	11
5	Spring Boot	73.3%	11
9	Analytics	60.0%	9
9	Kafka	60.0%	9
11	Full-Stack Development	53.3%	8
11	Microservices	53.3%	8
11	MongoDB	53.3%	8
14	GitHub Copilot	46.7%	7
14	Infrastructure as Code	46.7%	7
14	Machine Learning	46.7%	7
17	AWS	40.0%	6
17	Azure	40.0%	6
17	Data Analytics	40.0%	6
17	Hibernate	40.0%	6
17	JPA	40.0%	6
17	MySQL	40.0%	6
17	Observability	40.0%	6
17	REST	40.0%	6
17	SQL Server	40.0%	6
17	Terraform	40.0%	6
27	Agile	33.3%	5
27	GitLab	33.3%	5
27	Mentoring	33.3%	5
27	Software Engineering	33.3%	5

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	GitHub Copilot	46.7%	7
2	AWS	40.0%	6
2	Azure	40.0%	6
4	GCP	26.7%	4
4	GitHub Actions	26.7%	4
6	Amazon ECS	20.0%	3
6	Datadog	20.0%	3
6	dbt	20.0%	3
9	AWS CloudFormation	6.7%	1
9	Azure Functions	6.7%	1
9	Azure Logic Apps	6.7%	1
9	Serverless	6.7%	1