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 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 74 58
Rank change year-on-year -27 -16 -17
Permanent jobs citing Git 48 76 111
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.75% 2.32% 4.68%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.83% 34.55% 33.64%
Number of salaries quoted 21 25 96
10th Percentile £27,500 £43,500 £45,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -53.08% -7.14% +21.74%
75th Percentile £32,750 £85,000 £76,616
90th Percentile £53,750 £90,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +1.63%

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 242 220 330
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.80% 6.72% 13.91%
Number of salaries quoted 52 120 278
10th Percentile - £31,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -22.31% +13.04%
75th Percentile £75,900 £63,750 £78,491
90th Percentile £84,850 £80,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +4.00%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 -3 21 £30,500 -66.11% 31
Edinburgh -21 21 £30,500 -54.16% 19
Aberdeen - 2 £30,000 - 7
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 9 (18.75%) 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
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (18.75%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 38 (79.17%) Azure
2 31 (64.58%) AWS
3 25 (52.08%) GitHub
4 9 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (18.75%) GitHub Copilot
4 9 (18.75%) OCI
4 9 (18.75%) Power Platform
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
5 4 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 4 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (8.33%) Serverless
6 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 1 (2.08%) AWS IoT
7 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 16 (33.33%) 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 9 (18.75%) Power BI
1 9 (18.75%) Tableau
2 4 (8.33%) Amazon Athena
2 4 (8.33%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
3 3 (6.25%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 1 (2.08%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.08%) Big Data
5 1 (2.08%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.08%) HBase
Development Applications
1 22 (45.83%) Jenkins
2 11 (22.92%) JIRA
3 10 (20.83%) Maven
4 9 (18.75%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (8.33%) Subversion
6 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.08%) Ant
7 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
7 1 (2.08%) Cypress.io
7 1 (2.08%) Gradle
7 1 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (58.33%) Finance
2 16 (33.33%) Multimedia
3 15 (31.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (31.25%) Law
3 15 (31.25%) Social Skills
4 10 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (18.75%) Banking
6 7 (14.58%) Marketing
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 16 (33.33%) Developer
1 16 (33.33%) Trainee
2 15 (31.25%) Software Developer
3 12 (25.00%) Software Engineer
4 10 (20.83%) Java Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Applications Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Cloud Engineer
5 9 (18.75%) Java Software Engineer
6 8 (16.67%) Trainee Developer
6 8 (16.67%) Trainee Software Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 5 (10.42%) Java Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Java Software Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 4 (8.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 4 (8.33%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
8 4 (8.33%) React Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Site Engineer
8 4 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (41.67%) HTML
2 16 (33.33%) CSS
3 9 (18.75%) OAuth
3 9 (18.75%) OAuth2
3 9 (18.75%) RESTful
3 9 (18.75%) SAML
3 9 (18.75%) Spring
4 8 (16.67%) .NET
5 6 (12.50%) REST
6 5 (10.42%) Kafka
6 5 (10.42%) React
7 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (8.33%) Hibernate
7 4 (8.33%) jQuery
7 4 (8.33%) Spring Boot
8 2 (4.17%) .NET Framework
8 2 (4.17%) PyTorch
9 1 (2.08%) Next.js
9 1 (2.08%) Playwright
9 1 (2.08%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Cloud Native
2 9 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (8.33%) Equities
4 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.08%) ARM Cortex
4 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.08%) IoT
4 1 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.08%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Linux
1 5 (10.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (10.42%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (52.08%) CI/CD
2 24 (50.00%) Agile
3 18 (37.50%) Mentoring
3 18 (37.50%) Software Engineering
4 16 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (31.25%) Test Automation
6 14 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (25.00%) AI
8 11 (22.92%) DevOps
8 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven
8 11 (22.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 11 (22.92%) Microservices
9 10 (20.83%) Analytics
9 10 (20.83%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (18.75%) API Integration
10 9 (18.75%) Asset Management
10 9 (18.75%) Clean Code
10 9 (18.75%) Coaching
10 9 (18.75%) ERP
10 9 (18.75%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 34 (70.83%) Python
2 24 (50.00%) Java
3 22 (45.83%) JavaScript
4 16 (33.33%) SQL
5 10 (20.83%) PL/SQL
6 9 (18.75%) Shell Script
7 8 (16.67%) R
8 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
9 3 (6.25%) C#
10 2 (4.17%) Bash
11 1 (2.08%) C
11 1 (2.08%) C++
11 1 (2.08%) Groovy
11 1 (2.08%) T-SQL
11 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (41.67%) Azure Certification
2 16 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 16 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
2 16 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (12.50%) Degree
4 5 (10.42%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) JTAG
1 1 (2.08%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) 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 13 (27.08%) Terraform
2 10 (20.83%) Kubernetes
3 9 (18.75%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (8.33%) Grafana
4 4 (8.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.08%) Ansible
5 1 (2.08%) Podman
5 1 (2.08%) Puppet
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Microsoft
2 19 (39.58%) Oracle
3 4 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 4 (8.33%) Splunk
4 2 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (2.08%) Cloudera
5 1 (2.08%) Databricks
5 1 (2.08%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.08%) Remedy
5 1 (2.08%) SAP