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

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 93 84
Rank change year-on-year -15 -9 -3
Permanent jobs citing Git 24 51 261
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.73% 2.27% 3.99%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.87% 19.17% 28.81%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 58
10th Percentile - £46,672 £37,275
25th Percentile £28,250 £51,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £57,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -46.09% -9.80% +6.25%
75th Percentile £44,248 £67,500 £83,125
90th Percentile £49,799 £84,250 £92,854
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 115 266 906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.51% 11.82% 13.86%
Number of salaries quoted 59 99 240
10th Percentile £28,100 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,875 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £64,375 £87,500 £73,886
90th Percentile £77,720 £140,677 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -2 12 £30,500 -49.17% 11
Glasgow +7 8 £31,000 -43.64% 18
Fife -6 1 £42,500 -
Aberdeen - 1 £37,500 - 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 4 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (12.50%) WordPress
3 2 (8.33%) IIS
3 2 (8.33%) WebSphere
3 2 (8.33%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (4.17%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) AWS
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) GitHub
3 5 (20.83%) Serverless
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (12.50%) AWS CodePipeline
5 3 (12.50%) AWS Step Functions
5 3 (12.50%) SaaS
6 2 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Dagster
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) Google Play
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
5 1 (4.17%) Big Data
5 1 (4.17%) MySQL
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Subversion
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) ERwin
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) MLflow
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (33.33%) Multimedia
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Trainee
2 7 (29.17%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Support Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Informatica Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Senior
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Trainee Software Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Web Administrator
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Support
5 2 (8.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Software Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Software Support Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) CSS
1 10 (41.67%) HTML
2 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) REST
3 3 (12.50%) SOAP
4 2 (8.33%) JSF
4 2 (8.33%) React
4 2 (8.33%) RESTful
5 1 (4.17%) Android SDK
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
5 1 (4.17%) CSS3
5 1 (4.17%) Next.js
5 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
5 1 (4.17%) OpenCV
5 1 (4.17%) Pandas
5 1 (4.17%) pytest
5 1 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 1 (4.17%) Sass
5 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
5 1 (4.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Replication
2 1 (4.17%) SCADA
2 1 (4.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
2 2 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (37.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (20.83%) Agile
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) Scrum
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Data Governance
6 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 4 (16.67%) DevOps
6 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (16.67%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 4 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 4 (16.67%) Web Development
6 4 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) JavaScript
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 9 (37.50%) SQL
4 7 (29.17%) Java
5 5 (20.83%) R
6 3 (12.50%) Shell Script
7 2 (8.33%) C#
7 2 (8.33%) T-SQL
7 2 (8.33%) TypeScript
8 1 (4.17%) C
8 1 (4.17%) C++
8 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
8 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) AWS Certification
1 8 (33.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 8 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Control-M
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (12.50%) Informatica
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) MuleSoft
5 1 (4.17%) Siemens