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 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 69 65
Rank change year-on-year -26 -4 -15
Permanent jobs citing Git 48 88 119
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.73% 2.83% 4.87%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.51% 34.78% 32.96%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 104
10th Percentile - £40,925 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,202 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £60,000 £69,724
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% -13.95% +17.13%
75th Percentile £32,750 £85,000 £78,286
90th Percentile £48,618 £90,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 246 253 361
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.88% 8.12% 14.78%
Number of salaries quoted 54 141 296
10th Percentile - £31,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £49,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,799 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.91% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £75,900 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,575 £85,000 £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 6 December 2025.

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 6 December 2025. 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 -25 30 £30,500 -49.17% 23
Glasgow +5 11 £30,500 -63.03% 21
Aberdeen - 3 £30,000 - 10
West Lothian - 2 £52,500 - 2
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 - 2
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 15 (31.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (4.17%) WebSphere
2 2 (4.17%) WordPress
3 1 (2.08%) Apache
3 1 (2.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.08%) JBoss
3 1 (2.08%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.08%) WildFly
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (31.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 43 (89.58%) Azure
2 35 (72.92%) GitHub
3 28 (58.33%) AWS
4 15 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (31.25%) GitHub Copilot
4 15 (31.25%) OCI
4 15 (31.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.08%) AWS IoT
6 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.08%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (41.67%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.08%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.08%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (2.08%) Modbus
2 1 (2.08%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) Power BI
1 15 (31.25%) Tableau
2 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.08%) Big Data
4 1 (2.08%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.08%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
4 1 (2.08%) HBase
4 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (39.58%) Jenkins
2 17 (35.42%) JIRA
3 15 (31.25%) Oracle Forms
4 4 (8.33%) Maven
5 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.08%) Ant
6 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
6 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.08%) Gradle
6 1 (2.08%) IntelliJ
6 1 (2.08%) jMock
6 1 (2.08%) JUnit
6 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (2.08%) Subversion
General
1 23 (47.92%) Finance
2 20 (41.67%) Multimedia
3 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
4 6 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.42%) Law
6 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (8.33%) Marketing
7 2 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.08%) Agriculture
8 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Electronics
8 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.08%) Police
8 1 (2.08%) Tech for Good
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (41.67%) Trainee
2 15 (31.25%) Applications Engineer
2 15 (31.25%) Cloud Engineer
3 14 (29.17%) Developer
4 13 (27.08%) Software Developer
5 9 (18.75%) Trainee Developer
5 9 (18.75%) Trainee Software Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) Java Engineer
8 3 (6.25%) Java Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Java Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Administrator
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Developer/Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Java Software Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Lead
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Lead Software Developer
9 2 (4.17%) Trainee Administrator
9 2 (4.17%) Web Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (43.75%) HTML
2 20 (41.67%) CSS
3 16 (33.33%) RESTful
4 15 (31.25%) OAuth
4 15 (31.25%) OAuth2
4 15 (31.25%) SAML
5 4 (8.33%) .NET
6 3 (6.25%) Spring
7 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
7 2 (4.17%) Kafka
7 2 (4.17%) React
7 2 (4.17%) REST
8 1 (2.08%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (2.08%) Flask
8 1 (2.08%) Next.js
8 1 (2.08%) PySpark
8 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
8 1 (2.08%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.08%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 16 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 15 (31.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Equities
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Windows
3 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 23 (47.92%) Agile
3 21 (43.75%) Mentoring
4 18 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
4 18 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 17 (35.42%) AI
5 17 (35.42%) DevOps
5 17 (35.42%) Microservices
6 16 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 16 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 16 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 15 (31.25%) Analytics
7 15 (31.25%) API Integration
7 15 (31.25%) Asset Management
7 15 (31.25%) Clean Code
7 15 (31.25%) Coaching
7 15 (31.25%) ERP
7 15 (31.25%) RBAC
7 15 (31.25%) SOA
8 9 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 40 (83.33%) Python
2 23 (47.92%) JavaScript
3 22 (45.83%) Java
4 20 (41.67%) SQL
5 16 (33.33%) PL/SQL
6 15 (31.25%) Shell Script
7 11 (22.92%) R
8 2 (4.17%) Bash
8 2 (4.17%) C#
9 1 (2.08%) C
9 1 (2.08%) C++
9 1 (2.08%) Groovy
9 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (43.75%) Azure Certification
2 20 (41.67%) AWS Certification
2 20 (41.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 20 (41.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 2 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) JTAG
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Docker
2 3 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (2.08%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (2.08%) HDFS
3 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (33.33%) Terraform
2 15 (31.25%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Podman
4 1 (2.08%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (72.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (39.58%) Oracle
3 1 (2.08%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.08%) Databricks
3 1 (2.08%) Google
3 1 (2.08%) NVIDIA
3 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.08%) Remedy
3 1 (2.08%) SAP
3 1 (2.08%) Splunk