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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 87 73
Rank change year-on-year -13 -14 -35
Permanent jobs citing Git 45 130 103
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.78% 2.98% 3.83%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.22% 26.53% 29.18%
Number of salaries quoted 15 40 85
10th Percentile - £42,525 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,500 £50,686
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £76,375 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,650 £90,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -7.69% +4.00%

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 247 490 353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 9.76% 11.22% 13.13%
Number of salaries quoted 43 145 284
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,625 £37,574 £46,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,900 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £83,950 £80,000 £89,854
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% +4.00%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Git 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 17 September 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 17 September 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
Glasgow +38 22 £30,500 -66.11% 21
Edinburgh -20 19 £40,250 -36.86% 17
West Lothian - 2 £52,500 -
Git
UK

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.22%) Apache
2 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.22%) JBoss
2 1 (2.22%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 6 (13.33%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 28 (62.22%) Azure
2 27 (60.00%) AWS
3 12 (26.67%) GitHub
4 9 (20.00%) GCP
5 6 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (13.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 6 (13.33%) OCI
5 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
6 5 (11.11%) Amazon S3
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon ECS
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon EMR
7 4 (8.89%) Amazon MSK
7 4 (8.89%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (8.89%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.89%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (8.89%) Serverless
8 2 (4.44%) AWS IoT
8 2 (4.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (4.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (13.33%) Internet
2 2 (4.44%) Bluetooth
2 2 (4.44%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.44%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (4.44%) Modbus
2 2 (4.44%) MQTT
3 1 (2.22%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.33%) Power BI
1 6 (13.33%) Tableau
2 5 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (11.11%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.89%) Amazon Athena
3 4 (8.89%) Elasticsearch
3 4 (8.89%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (8.89%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (6.67%) MongoDB
4 3 (6.67%) MySQL
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle Database
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Apache Hive
6 1 (2.22%) Big Data
6 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.22%) HBase
Development Applications
1 26 (57.78%) Jenkins
2 15 (33.33%) Maven
3 7 (15.56%) JIRA
4 6 (13.33%) Oracle Forms
5 5 (11.11%) GitLab
6 4 (8.89%) Gradle
6 4 (8.89%) JUnit
6 4 (8.89%) Subversion
7 3 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (4.44%) Mockito
8 2 (4.44%) SonarQube
8 2 (4.44%) Visual Studio
9 1 (2.22%) Ant
9 1 (2.22%) Artifactory
9 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
9 1 (2.22%) Xcode
9 1 (2.22%) XCTest
9 1 (2.22%) XCUITest
General
1 30 (66.67%) Finance
2 19 (42.22%) Social Skills
3 15 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (33.33%) Law
4 14 (31.11%) Banking
5 11 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (17.78%) Marketing
7 6 (13.33%) Multimedia
8 3 (6.67%) Telecoms
9 2 (4.44%) Agriculture
9 2 (4.44%) Electronics
9 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
9 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
10 1 (2.22%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Software Engineer
2 15 (33.33%) Developer
3 10 (22.22%) Java Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 9 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
5 8 (17.78%) Java Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (13.33%) Trainee
7 5 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 5 (11.11%) Java Software Developer
7 5 (11.11%) Senior
8 4 (8.89%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (8.89%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (8.89%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
8 4 (8.89%) Lead
8 4 (8.89%) React Developer
8 4 (8.89%) Site Engineer
8 4 (8.89%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) Spring
2 13 (28.89%) RESTful
3 10 (22.22%) HTML
4 9 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 9 (20.00%) Spring Boot
5 8 (17.78%) OAuth
5 8 (17.78%) OAuth2
6 7 (15.56%) .NET
6 7 (15.56%) Kafka
6 7 (15.56%) React
6 7 (15.56%) REST
6 7 (15.56%) SAML
7 6 (13.33%) AngularJS
7 6 (13.33%) CSS
8 4 (8.89%) JPA
8 4 (8.89%) jQuery
9 2 (4.44%) .NET Framework
9 2 (4.44%) JWT
9 2 (4.44%) RabbitMQ
9 2 (4.44%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.56%) Cloud Native
2 6 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.89%) Equities
4 3 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 3 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (4.44%) ARM Cortex
5 2 (4.44%) IoT
6 1 (2.22%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (11.11%) Windows
3 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
4 3 (6.67%) Unix
5 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 25 (55.56%) Agile
3 23 (51.11%) Software Engineering
4 22 (48.89%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (37.78%) DevOps
6 15 (33.33%) Microservices
7 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
8 12 (26.67%) Mentoring
9 9 (20.00%) Analytics
9 9 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (20.00%) Event-Driven
9 9 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (17.78%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (17.78%) Containerisation
10 8 (17.78%) SDLC
10 8 (17.78%) Strategic Planning
10 8 (17.78%) System Integration Testing
10 8 (17.78%) TDD
10 8 (17.78%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (15.56%) Front End Development
Programming Languages
1 28 (62.22%) Java
2 27 (60.00%) Python
3 16 (35.56%) SQL
4 13 (28.89%) JavaScript
5 7 (15.56%) PL/SQL
5 7 (15.56%) Shell Script
6 4 (8.89%) PowerShell
7 3 (6.67%) Bash
7 3 (6.67%) C
7 3 (6.67%) C#
7 3 (6.67%) R
8 2 (4.44%) C++
8 2 (4.44%) Go
9 1 (2.22%) Groovy
9 1 (2.22%) Rust
9 1 (2.22%) Swift
9 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (22.22%) Azure Certification
2 8 (17.78%) Degree
3 6 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 6 (13.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
3 6 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
2 2 (4.44%) JTAG
3 1 (2.22%) ECSS
System Software
1 14 (31.11%) Docker
2 4 (8.89%) Firmware
3 2 (4.44%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 16 (35.56%) Kubernetes
2 13 (28.89%) Terraform
3 7 (15.56%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.89%) Grafana
4 4 (8.89%) Prometheus
5 2 (4.44%) Ansible
5 2 (4.44%) Istio
6 1 (2.22%) Podman
6 1 (2.22%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 16 (35.56%) Oracle
2 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (8.89%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.89%) Splunk
4 3 (6.67%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) NVIDIA
5 2 (4.44%) SAP
6 1 (2.22%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.22%) Databricks
6 1 (2.22%) ForgeRock
6 1 (2.22%) Ping Identity