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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 66 75
Rank change year-on-year -28 +9 -32
Permanent jobs citing Git 49 85 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.78% 3.10% 4.81%
As % of the Development Applications category 20.59% 34.27% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 28 35 104
10th Percentile - £41,450 £45,375
25th Percentile £28,250 £50,218 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £60,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.17% -14.29% +17.60%
75th Percentile £32,750 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £44,768 £90,000 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,950 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -6.75% -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 238 248 437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.66% 9.03% 15.23%
Number of salaries quoted 55 143 293
10th Percentile - £31,250 £42,439
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -15.38% +9.20%
75th Percentile £75,900 £69,057 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,100 £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 25 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 25 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 -23 36 £30,500 -49.17% 33
Glasgow +2 7 £30,500 -59.33% 21
Aberdeen - 3 £30,000 - 18
West Lothian - 2 £52,500 - 1
Scottish Borders - 1 £39,594 - 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 17 (34.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (6.12%) WebSphere
3 2 (4.08%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (4.08%) WordPress
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
4 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (2.04%) JBoss
4 1 (2.04%) WildFly
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (93.88%) Azure
2 40 (81.63%) GitHub
3 28 (57.14%) AWS
4 17 (34.69%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (34.69%) GitHub Copilot
4 17 (34.69%) OCI
4 17 (34.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (2.04%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.04%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 23 (46.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (34.69%) Power BI
1 17 (34.69%) Tableau
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) Oracle Database
3 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 20 (40.82%) JIRA
2 18 (36.73%) Jenkins
3 17 (34.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
5 1 (2.04%) Ant
5 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.04%) IntelliJ
5 1 (2.04%) jMock
5 1 (2.04%) JUnit
5 1 (2.04%) Maven
5 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (46.94%) Multimedia
2 20 (40.82%) Finance
3 5 (10.20%) Social Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Police
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.04%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 23 (46.94%) Trainee
2 17 (34.69%) Applications Engineer
2 17 (34.69%) Cloud Engineer
3 13 (26.53%) Developer
4 12 (24.49%) Software Developer
5 10 (20.41%) Trainee Developer
5 10 (20.41%) Trainee Software Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Administrator
6 2 (4.08%) Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Support
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Lead
6 2 (4.08%) Lead Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Trainee Administrator
6 2 (4.08%) Web Administrator
7 1 (2.04%) Junior Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Junior Java Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (46.94%) CSS
1 23 (46.94%) HTML
2 18 (36.73%) RESTful
3 17 (34.69%) OAuth
3 17 (34.69%) OAuth2
3 17 (34.69%) SAML
4 4 (8.16%) .NET
5 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.04%) Flask
6 1 (2.04%) Java EE
6 1 (2.04%) Java SE
6 1 (2.04%) Kafka
6 1 (2.04%) Middleware
6 1 (2.04%) Next.js
6 1 (2.04%) Playwright
6 1 (2.04%) Quarkus
6 1 (2.04%) REST
6 1 (2.04%) SOAP
6 1 (2.04%) Swing
6 1 (2.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (36.73%) Cloud Native
2 17 (34.69%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.04%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) Mentoring
2 23 (46.94%) CI/CD
3 21 (42.86%) Cybersecurity
4 20 (40.82%) Agile
5 19 (38.78%) DevOps
5 19 (38.78%) Event-Driven
5 19 (38.78%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 18 (36.73%) API Integration
6 18 (36.73%) Microservices
6 18 (36.73%) Test Automation
7 17 (34.69%) AI
7 17 (34.69%) Analytics
7 17 (34.69%) Asset Management
7 17 (34.69%) Business Intelligence
7 17 (34.69%) Clean Code
7 17 (34.69%) Coaching
7 17 (34.69%) ERP
7 17 (34.69%) RBAC
7 17 (34.69%) SOA
8 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 42 (85.71%) Python
2 25 (51.02%) JavaScript
3 22 (44.90%) SQL
4 21 (42.86%) Java
5 18 (36.73%) Shell Script
6 17 (34.69%) PL/SQL
7 13 (26.53%) R
8 2 (4.08%) C#
8 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
9 1 (2.04%) Bash
9 1 (2.04%) Groovy
9 1 (2.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) AWS Certification
1 23 (46.94%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 23 (46.94%) Azure Certification
1 23 (46.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.08%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (6.12%) Docker
2 2 (4.08%) Firmware
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Single Sign-On
1 17 (34.69%) Terraform
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Control-M
3 1 (2.04%) Podman
3 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 40 (81.63%) Microsoft
2 20 (40.82%) Oracle
3 1 (2.04%) Informatica
3 1 (2.04%) Remedy