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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 109 85
Rank change year-on-year -14 -24 -15
Permanent jobs citing Git 20 43 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.51% 1.68% 3.03%
As % of the Development Applications category 19.80% 17.41% 25.51%
Number of salaries quoted 10 13 40
10th Percentile £41,218 - £39,150
25th Percentile £46,375 £28,250 £51,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,783 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.16% -16.00% -4.36%
75th Percentile £102,500 £82,751 £79,375
90th Percentile - £83,950 £90,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.07% -10.77%

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 101 247 541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.60% 9.67% 11.87%
Number of salaries quoted 47 43 146
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £45,625 £37,743
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -19.23%
75th Percentile £63,750 £75,900 £67,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £84,850 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year - +4.17% -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 12 September 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 12 September 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
Glasgow -10 13 £95,000 +211.48% 33
Edinburgh -5 3 £48,500 -19.17% 20
West Lothian 0 1 £47,500 -9.52%
Fife - 1 £42,500 - 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 3 (15.00%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 11 (55.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) AWS
3 5 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (25.00%) GCP
4 4 (20.00%) Serverless
5 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (15.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (10.00%) Dagster
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (5.00%) GitHub
7 1 (5.00%) Google Play
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (15.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (10.00%) Parquet
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Big Data
3 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (5.00%) ERwin
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) Maven
2 1 (5.00%) MLflow
2 1 (5.00%) Selenium
2 1 (5.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Electronics
6 1 (5.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (5.00%) Marketing
6 1 (5.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Data Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Software Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Android Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) FPGA Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Python Developer
4 1 (5.00%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
1 4 (20.00%) React
1 4 (20.00%) RESTful
2 3 (15.00%) CSS
2 3 (15.00%) HTML5
2 3 (15.00%) JSON
2 3 (15.00%) PySpark
3 2 (10.00%) .NET
3 2 (10.00%) Apache Avro
3 2 (10.00%) CSS3
3 2 (10.00%) JSF
4 1 (5.00%) Android SDK
4 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.00%) OpenCV
4 1 (5.00%) Pandas
4 1 (5.00%) pytest
4 1 (5.00%) Sass
4 1 (5.00%) Spring MVC
4 1 (5.00%) SQLAlchemy
4 1 (5.00%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (5.00%) Device Driver
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (5.00%) FPGA
3 1 (5.00%) Legacy Code
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Verilog
3 1 (5.00%) VHDL
3 1 (5.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (25.00%) Collaborative Culture
5 5 (25.00%) Data Engineering
5 5 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) Analytics
6 4 (20.00%) Design Patterns
6 4 (20.00%) ETL
6 4 (20.00%) Microservices
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 4 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (20.00%) Validation
7 3 (15.00%) High Availability
7 3 (15.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Java
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 8 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (5.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) C++
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
2 4 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (15.00%) QA
4 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
2 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Databricks
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (5.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.00%) Xilinx