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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 96 85
Rank change year-on-year -23 -11 -22
Permanent jobs citing Git 20 51 245
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.60% 2.04% 4.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.00% 19.84% 28.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10 22 51
10th Percentile £28,925 £46,979 £38,250
25th Percentile £30,188 £51,375 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,918 £58,750 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.95% -6.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £49,875 £69,375 £81,250
90th Percentile £67,468 £84,100 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% -11.54%

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 125 257 850
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.75% 10.27% 13.98%
Number of salaries quoted 63 93 213
10th Percentile £28,400 £32,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £33,750 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £85,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £83,180 £112,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.62% +13.04% -11.54%

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 July 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 July 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
Glasgow +9 9 £31,000 -43.64% 25
Edinburgh -3 6 £43,335 -27.78% 9
Fife -5 1 £42,500 -
West Lothian - 1 £47,500 -
Aberdeen - 1 £37,500 - 1
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 3 (15.00%) WordPress
2 2 (10.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) GitHub
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.00%) Dagster
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) Google Play
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Subversion
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) ERwin
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) MLflow
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Multimedia
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (5.00%) Electronics
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Trainee
3 3 (15.00%) Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Trainee Administrator
3 3 (15.00%) Web Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Support
4 2 (10.00%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Android Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (35.00%) CSS
1 7 (35.00%) HTML
2 4 (20.00%) .NET
3 3 (15.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) CSS3
4 2 (10.00%) HTML5
4 2 (10.00%) JSF
5 1 (5.00%) Java EE
5 1 (5.00%) JDBC
5 1 (5.00%) JPA
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) JSP
5 1 (5.00%) NumPy
5 1 (5.00%) OAuth
5 1 (5.00%) Servlets
5 1 (5.00%) Spring
5 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
5 1 (5.00%) XML
5 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Cortex
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.00%) Device Driver
1 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (5.00%) FPGA
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.00%) Replication
1 1 (5.00%) SCADA
1 1 (5.00%) Verilog
1 1 (5.00%) VHDL
1 1 (5.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (35.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 6 (30.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (25.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) DevOps
5 4 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (20.00%) Web Development
6 3 (15.00%) Clean Code
6 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (15.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Code Quality
7 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
7 2 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (35.00%) Java
2 7 (35.00%) Python
2 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) R
4 2 (10.00%) C
4 2 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) C++
4 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.00%) TypeScript
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Grafana
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) VMware
3 1 (5.00%) Databricks
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Siemens
3 1 (5.00%) Xilinx