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 permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 62 139
Rank change year-on-year +28 +77 -16
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 164 85 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.72% 3.40% 2.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.33% 9.67% 4.93%
Number of salaries quoted 36 54 76
10th Percentile - - £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £41,250 £70,576
Median % change year-on-year -26.06% -41.55% +15.36%
75th Percentile £32,750 £68,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £55,200 £63,750 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.41% -8.93% +0.80%

All Cloud Computing 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 769 879 1,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.80% 35.19% 40.76%
Number of salaries quoted 276 414 841
10th Percentile £26,375 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £73,886 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

GitHub
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing GitHub relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

GitHub job vacancy trend 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 27 January 2026.

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 27 January 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 +58 154 £30,500 -59.33% 15
Glasgow +4 7 £30,500 -50.20% 10
Aberdeen -2 3 £30,000 -57.75% 11
GitHub
UK

GitHub
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 (10.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.22%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 37 (22.56%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (92.68%) Azure
2 103 (62.80%) Azure DevOps
3 72 (43.90%) GitHub Copilot
4 51 (31.10%) AWS
5 37 (22.56%) OCI
6 36 (21.95%) GitHub Actions
7 32 (19.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 26 (15.85%) Snowflake
9 24 (14.63%) Power Platform
10 20 (12.20%) Entra ID
11 19 (11.59%) dbt
12 14 (8.54%) Azure Event Grid
12 14 (8.54%) Azure Logic Apps
12 14 (8.54%) Azure Monitor
12 14 (8.54%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (8.54%) Datadog
13 12 (7.32%) Salesforce Einstein
14 10 (6.10%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 10 (6.10%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 7 (4.27%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.07%) Internet
2 4 (2.44%) DNS
2 4 (2.44%) Firewall
2 4 (2.44%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (14.63%) Power BI
2 19 (11.59%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (10.37%) Tableau
4 14 (8.54%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (4.27%) Data Lake
5 7 (4.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 45 (27.44%) Git
1 45 (27.44%) Jenkins
2 37 (22.56%) Oracle Forms
3 36 (21.95%) JIRA
4 1 (0.61%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.61%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.61%) HP UFT
4 1 (0.61%) JUnit
4 1 (0.61%) LoadRunner
General
1 133 (81.10%) Finance
2 51 (31.10%) Social Skills
3 28 (17.07%) Multimedia
4 26 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (6.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 58 (35.37%) Senior
2 52 (31.71%) Applications Engineer
3 41 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 28 (17.07%) Trainee
5 24 (14.63%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 15 (9.15%) Developer
7 14 (8.54%) Development Engineer
8 13 (7.93%) Software Developer
8 13 (7.93%) Trainee Developer
8 13 (7.93%) Trainee Software Developer
9 10 (6.10%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Security Engineer
10 8 (4.88%) Senior Development Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Azure Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.44%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 2 (1.22%) Full-Stack Developer
12 2 (1.22%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (32.93%) RESTful
2 42 (25.61%) SOAP
3 34 (20.73%) JSON
4 31 (18.90%) OAuth
4 31 (18.90%) OAuth2
5 28 (17.07%) CSS
5 28 (17.07%) HTML
6 22 (13.41%) Lightning Web Components
6 22 (13.41%) REST
7 20 (12.20%) XML
8 17 (10.37%) SAML
9 14 (8.54%) .NET
9 14 (8.54%) ADO
10 3 (1.83%) Hibernate
10 3 (1.83%) Spring
11 2 (1.22%) React
12 1 (0.61%) Swing
12 1 (0.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 63 (38.41%) Cloud Native
2 37 (22.56%) Enterprise Software
3 36 (21.95%) Product Ownership
4 14 (8.54%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.27%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.27%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.61%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (77.44%) CI/CD
2 124 (75.61%) Asset Management
2 124 (75.61%) Coaching
2 124 (75.61%) DevOps
3 107 (65.24%) Test Automation
4 95 (57.93%) Agile
5 82 (50.00%) Observability
6 72 (43.90%) AI
6 72 (43.90%) Mentoring
7 59 (35.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 58 (35.37%) Clean Code
9 57 (34.76%) Analytics
10 48 (29.27%) Data Modelling
11 44 (26.83%) Sprint Planning
11 44 (26.83%) Sprint Retrospective
12 43 (26.22%) Migration
13 37 (22.56%) API Integration
13 37 (22.56%) ERP
14 34 (20.73%) Root Cause Analysis
15 33 (20.12%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 105 (64.02%) Python
2 59 (35.98%) SQL
3 42 (25.61%) JavaScript
4 41 (25.00%) Java
5 37 (22.56%) PL/SQL
5 37 (22.56%) Shell Script
6 22 (13.41%) Apex Code
7 18 (10.98%) Bicep
8 15 (9.15%) R
9 12 (7.32%) PowerShell
10 8 (4.88%) Bash
11 7 (4.27%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (17.07%) AWS Certification
1 28 (17.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 28 (17.07%) Azure Certification
1 28 (17.07%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (4.88%) CISSP
2 8 (4.88%) CREST Certified
2 8 (4.88%) SANS
3 3 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (1.83%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.54%) GDPR
1 14 (8.54%) QA
2 8 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 20 (12.20%) Active Directory
2 18 (10.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 69 (42.07%) Terraform
2 37 (22.56%) Single Sign-On
3 18 (10.98%) Kubernetes
4 14 (8.54%) Grafana
4 14 (8.54%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 45 (27.44%) Microsoft
2 38 (23.17%) Oracle
3 22 (13.41%) Salesforce
4 20 (12.20%) Okta
5 14 (8.54%) Ab Initio
6 7 (4.27%) Databricks