Git Job Trends in Scotland

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Git skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 68 81
Rank change year-on-year -18 +13 -25
Permanent jobs citing Git 55 77 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 2.02% 2.97% 4.72%
As % of the Development Applications category 22.73% 31.69% 32.03%
Number of salaries quoted 31 33 105
10th Percentile - £41,100 £45,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,686 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% -14.29% +21.74%
75th Percentile £32,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile - £90,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% -

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring development application skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 242 243 462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.90% 9.36% 14.74%
Number of salaries quoted 58 142 301
10th Percentile - £31,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,574 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,797 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.64% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £75,900 £72,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £86,675 £85,253 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% -

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Git job vacancy trend in Scotland

Git
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Git.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Git

Git
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Git in Scotland over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Git in Scotland

Git
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh -17 42 £30,500 -49.17% 24
Glasgow +4 7 £30,500 -59.33% 17
Aberdeen - 3 £30,000 - 14
West Lothian - 2 £52,500 - 2
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 -
Git
UK

Git
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 17 (30.91%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (7.27%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (5.45%) WebSphere
4 2 (3.64%) WebSphere Application Server
4 2 (3.64%) WordPress
5 1 (1.82%) Apache
5 1 (1.82%) JBoss
5 1 (1.82%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 50 (90.91%) Azure
2 44 (80.00%) GitHub
3 34 (61.82%) AWS
4 17 (30.91%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (30.91%) GitHub Copilot
4 17 (30.91%) OCI
4 17 (30.91%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon S3
5 4 (7.27%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.27%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (7.27%) SaaS
5 4 (7.27%) Serverless
6 1 (1.82%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (49.09%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (30.91%) Power BI
1 17 (30.91%) Tableau
2 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
3 5 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (7.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 20 (36.36%) JIRA
2 18 (32.73%) Jenkins
3 17 (30.91%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
5 1 (1.82%) Ant
5 1 (1.82%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.82%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.82%) jMock
5 1 (1.82%) JUnit
5 1 (1.82%) Maven
5 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (49.09%) Multimedia
2 20 (36.36%) Finance
3 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Police
7 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (49.09%) Trainee
2 17 (30.91%) Applications Engineer
2 17 (30.91%) Cloud Engineer
3 15 (27.27%) Developer
4 14 (25.45%) Software Developer
5 12 (21.82%) Trainee Developer
5 12 (21.82%) Trainee Software Developer
6 4 (7.27%) Informatica Engineer
7 2 (3.64%) Administrator
7 2 (3.64%) Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Applications Support
7 2 (3.64%) Applications Support Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Lead
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Lead Software Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Trainee Administrator
7 2 (3.64%) Web Administrator
8 1 (1.82%) Junior Developer
8 1 (1.82%) Junior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (49.09%) CSS
1 27 (49.09%) HTML
2 18 (32.73%) RESTful
3 17 (30.91%) OAuth
3 17 (30.91%) OAuth2
3 17 (30.91%) SAML
4 4 (7.27%) .NET
4 4 (7.27%) REST
4 4 (7.27%) SOAP
5 2 (3.64%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.82%) Flask
6 1 (1.82%) Java EE
6 1 (1.82%) Java SE
6 1 (1.82%) Kafka
6 1 (1.82%) Middleware
6 1 (1.82%) Next.js
6 1 (1.82%) Quarkus
6 1 (1.82%) Swing
6 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (30.91%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (7.27%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.91%) Linux
2 4 (7.27%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (49.09%) Mentoring
2 25 (45.45%) CI/CD
2 25 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
3 22 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 22 (40.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 21 (38.18%) API Integration
5 20 (36.36%) Agile
6 18 (32.73%) DevOps
6 18 (32.73%) Microservices
7 17 (30.91%) AI
7 17 (30.91%) Analytics
7 17 (30.91%) Asset Management
7 17 (30.91%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (30.91%) Clean Code
7 17 (30.91%) Coaching
7 17 (30.91%) ERP
7 17 (30.91%) RBAC
7 17 (30.91%) SOA
7 17 (30.91%) Test Automation
8 8 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 46 (83.64%) Python
2 28 (50.91%) JavaScript
3 25 (45.45%) SQL
4 21 (38.18%) Shell Script
5 20 (36.36%) Java
6 17 (30.91%) PL/SQL
7 15 (27.27%) R
8 2 (3.64%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.82%) Bash
9 1 (1.82%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 27 (49.09%) AWS Certification
1 27 (49.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 27 (49.09%) Azure Certification
1 27 (49.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.64%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.64%) QA
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
1 2 (3.64%) Firmware
2 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (30.91%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (30.91%) Terraform
2 4 (7.27%) Control-M
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Podman
3 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 44 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 23 (41.82%) Oracle
3 4 (7.27%) Informatica
4 1 (1.82%) Remedy