GitHub Job Trends in Scotland

GitHub
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring GitHub skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 124 82
Rank change year-on-year +38 -42 +113
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 60 83 94
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 2.37% 1.90% 3.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.95% 5.43% 9.70%
Number of salaries quoted 19 30 88
10th Percentile - - £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,500 £47,557 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +35.63% -23.91% -3.85%
75th Percentile £82,500 £64,688 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,500 £77,347 £82,548
UK median annual salary £70,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +3.70%

All Cloud Skills
Scotland

GitHub falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 603 1,528 969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 23.82% 34.97% 36.05%
Number of salaries quoted 223 603 801
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,855 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% - -
75th Percentile £71,391 £70,000 £72,433
90th Percentile £86,850 £82,500 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing GitHub as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for GitHub in Scotland

GitHub
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GitHub.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing GitHub

GitHub
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for GitHub in Scotland

GitHub
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing GitHub within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 September 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 +36 33 £30,500 -46.96% 25
Glasgow +61 27 £64,500 +5.31% 12
GitHub
UK

GitHub
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (5.00%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 12 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (3.33%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 45 (75.00%) Azure
2 31 (51.67%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (33.33%) AWS
4 17 (28.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 14 (23.33%) GitHub Actions
6 12 (20.00%) OCI
7 6 (10.00%) Entra ID
7 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
8 5 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (8.33%) ChatGPT
8 5 (8.33%) dbt
8 5 (8.33%) SaaS
8 5 (8.33%) Snowflake
9 4 (6.67%) Azure AI
9 4 (6.67%) Azure App Service
9 4 (6.67%) Datadog
9 4 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
10 3 (5.00%) Dagster
10 3 (5.00%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Internet
2 4 (6.67%) DNS
2 4 (6.67%) Firewall
2 4 (6.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.00%) Power BI
1 6 (10.00%) Tableau
2 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (8.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) Big Data
4 3 (5.00%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.67%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 16 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 12 (20.00%) Git
2 12 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
3 11 (18.33%) JIRA
General
1 34 (56.67%) Finance
2 8 (13.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (11.67%) Law
4 6 (10.00%) Multimedia
5 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (8.33%) Banking
6 4 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Private Banking
7 3 (5.00%) Marketing
8 2 (3.33%) Back Office
8 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 24 (40.00%) Senior
2 17 (28.33%) Software Engineer
3 16 (26.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 16 (26.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 15 (25.00%) Developer
4 15 (25.00%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 12 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
6 10 (16.67%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 9 (15.00%) Lead
8 8 (13.33%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) C# Software Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) Lead Software Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 8 (13.33%) Senior Software Engineer
9 7 (11.67%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (11.67%) Software Developer
10 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
10 6 (10.00%) Java Developer
10 6 (10.00%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (46.67%) RESTful
2 14 (23.33%) .NET
3 12 (20.00%) React
4 9 (15.00%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.00%) Blazor
5 8 (13.33%) .NET Core
5 8 (13.33%) XML
6 7 (11.67%) JSON
6 7 (11.67%) Kafka
6 7 (11.67%) OAuth
6 7 (11.67%) OAuth2
6 7 (11.67%) SOAP
6 7 (11.67%) Spring
7 6 (10.00%) CSS
7 6 (10.00%) HTML
7 6 (10.00%) SAML
8 4 (6.67%) ADO
8 4 (6.67%) Spring Boot
9 3 (5.00%) Hibernate
10 2 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (41.67%) Cloud Native
2 12 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.67%) Distributed Applications
5 4 (6.67%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.33%) NHS
7 1 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
7 1 (1.67%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.67%) VMS
2 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 38 (63.33%) DevOps
3 34 (56.67%) Agile
4 31 (51.67%) Asset Management
5 27 (45.00%) Coaching
6 22 (36.67%) Mentoring
7 21 (35.00%) Software Engineering
7 21 (35.00%) Test Automation
8 20 (33.33%) Microservices
9 19 (31.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 18 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (25.00%) ERP
11 15 (25.00%) Migration
12 14 (23.33%) Clean Code
13 13 (21.67%) Analytics
13 13 (21.67%) Observability
14 12 (20.00%) API Integration
14 12 (20.00%) Containerisation
15 11 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
15 11 (18.33%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (53.33%) Python
2 24 (40.00%) Java
2 24 (40.00%) SQL
3 12 (20.00%) C#
3 12 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 12 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (8.33%) Bicep
6 4 (6.67%) C
6 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.00%) R
8 1 (1.67%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.67%) Bash
8 1 (1.67%) C++
8 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (10.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (3.33%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (28.33%) Docker
2 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 25 (41.67%) Terraform
2 22 (36.67%) Kubernetes
3 12 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
4 4 (6.67%) Grafana
4 4 (6.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.67%) Argo
Vendors
1 16 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (21.67%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) Okta
4 1 (1.67%) Ab Initio
4 1 (1.67%) Salesforce