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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 89 83
Rank change year-on-year -13 -6 -8
Permanent jobs citing Git 26 55 268
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.82% 2.49% 4.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 21.31% 20.15% 28.63%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 62
10th Percentile - £47,287 £35,325
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,500 £47,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £57,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -46.96% -11.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £35,063 £67,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £49,350 £83,950 £94,693
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -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 122 273 936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.85% 12.34% 14.37%
Number of salaries quoted 55 106 253
10th Percentile £27,800 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £63,750 £85,000 £73,886
90th Percentile £75,900 £126,588 £91,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £64,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +10.34% -10.77%

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 10 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 10 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 16 £30,500 -49.17% 11
Glasgow +3 7 £31,000 -43.64% 17
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 5 (19.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (11.54%) WebSphere
2 3 (11.54%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (11.54%) WordPress
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (3.85%) Apache
4 1 (3.85%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) AWS
2 18 (69.23%) Azure
3 13 (50.00%) GitHub
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 5 (19.23%) Amazon S3
4 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (19.23%) Serverless
5 4 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (15.38%) AWS CodePipeline
5 4 (15.38%) AWS Step Functions
5 4 (15.38%) SaaS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (7.69%) OCI
6 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.85%) Dagster
7 1 (3.85%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (34.62%) SQL Server
2 5 (19.23%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (7.69%) Tableau
5 1 (3.85%) MySQL
5 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
3 2 (7.69%) Subversion
4 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (3.85%) GitLab
4 1 (3.85%) IntelliJ
4 1 (3.85%) Maven
4 1 (3.85%) MLflow
4 1 (3.85%) Selenium
4 1 (3.85%) WebDriver
4 1 (3.85%) Zephyr
General
1 10 (38.46%) Multimedia
2 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (23.08%) Finance
5 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Banking
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Trainee
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Software Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Informatica Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Trainee Developer
4 4 (15.38%) Trainee Software Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Applications Support
5 3 (11.54%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Trainee Administrator
5 3 (11.54%) Web Administrator
6 2 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (42.31%) CSS
1 11 (42.31%) HTML
2 5 (19.23%) REST
3 4 (15.38%) .NET
3 4 (15.38%) SOAP
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth
4 3 (11.54%) OAuth2
4 3 (11.54%) RESTful
5 2 (7.69%) JSF
5 2 (7.69%) SAML
6 1 (3.85%) DOM
6 1 (3.85%) Java EE
6 1 (3.85%) JDBC
6 1 (3.85%) JSON
6 1 (3.85%) JSP
6 1 (3.85%) SAX
6 1 (3.85%) Servlets
6 1 (3.85%) Spring
6 1 (3.85%) XML
6 1 (3.85%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (11.54%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.85%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
1 4 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (3.85%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
2 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
2 9 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven
4 7 (26.92%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 6 (23.08%) API Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Agile
6 5 (19.23%) Data Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Data Modelling
6 5 (19.23%) Data Pipeline
6 5 (19.23%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
6 5 (19.23%) Workflow
7 4 (15.38%) BDD
7 4 (15.38%) Data Governance
7 4 (15.38%) DevOps
7 4 (15.38%) Microservices
7 4 (15.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 14 (53.85%) Python
2 12 (46.15%) JavaScript
3 11 (42.31%) SQL
4 9 (34.62%) Java
5 6 (23.08%) R
5 6 (23.08%) Shell Script
6 3 (11.54%) T-SQL
7 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.85%) C
8 1 (3.85%) C#
8 1 (3.85%) C++
8 1 (3.85%) Perl
8 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (38.46%) AWS Certification
1 10 (38.46%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 10 (38.46%) Azure Certification
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (19.23%) QA
2 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Control-M
2 3 (11.54%) Terraform
3 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.85%) Grafana
4 1 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) Oracle
3 4 (15.38%) Informatica
4 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.85%) Siemens
4 1 (3.85%) VMware