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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 74 186
Rank change year-on-year +20 +112 -82
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 102 52 90
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.04% 2.74% 1.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.35% 9.58% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 34 43 44
10th Percentile - - £46,306
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £54,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% -30.00% +28.18%
75th Percentile £77,188 £72,625 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £91,522 £96,512
UK median annual salary £62,500 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -10.71% +7.69% -3.70%

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 899 543 2,794
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.80% 28.59% 43.94%
Number of salaries quoted 348 355 1,027
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £28,150
25th Percentile £33,500 £45,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £79,569 £67,807
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.46% +6.09% -11.54%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 96 £42,500 -43.60% 6
Glasgow -23 3 £65,000 +4.00% 10
Aberdeen -15 2 £34,000 -52.11% 1
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 8 (7.84%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.94%) WordPress
3 1 (0.98%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 16 (15.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 88 (86.27%) Azure
2 56 (54.90%) Azure DevOps
3 44 (43.14%) GitHub Copilot
4 25 (24.51%) AWS
4 25 (24.51%) GitHub Actions
5 18 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 16 (15.69%) OCI
7 14 (13.73%) Snowflake
8 13 (12.75%) Power Platform
9 9 (8.82%) dbt
10 8 (7.84%) Azure Event Grid
10 8 (7.84%) Azure Logic Apps
10 8 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
10 8 (7.84%) Azure Service Bus
10 8 (7.84%) Datadog
10 8 (7.84%) Entra ID
10 8 (7.84%) Salesforce Einstein
10 8 (7.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 8 (7.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (5.88%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (15.69%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) Power BI
2 9 (8.82%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (8.82%) Tableau
3 5 (4.90%) Data Lake
3 5 (4.90%) Metadata
4 4 (3.92%) Snowflake Schema
5 2 (1.96%) MySQL
5 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.96%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.98%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.98%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 25 (24.51%) Git
1 25 (24.51%) Jenkins
2 20 (19.61%) JIRA
3 16 (15.69%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.96%) fastlane
5 1 (0.98%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.98%) Appium
5 1 (0.98%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.98%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.98%) Crashlytics
5 1 (0.98%) GitLab
5 1 (0.98%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.98%) JUnit
5 1 (0.98%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.98%) Postman
5 1 (0.98%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.98%) TestRail
5 1 (0.98%) Xcode
5 1 (0.98%) XCTest
5 1 (0.98%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (71.57%) Finance
2 33 (32.35%) Social Skills
3 16 (15.69%) Multimedia
4 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.84%) Marketing
6 7 (6.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 32 (31.37%) Senior
2 26 (25.49%) Applications Engineer
3 18 (17.65%) Cloud Engineer
4 16 (15.69%) Salesforce Engineer
4 16 (15.69%) Trainee
5 10 (9.80%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 9 (8.82%) Developer
7 8 (7.84%) Development Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (7.84%) Senior Development Engineer
8 7 (6.86%) Security Engineer
9 6 (5.88%) Software Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Trainee Developer
9 6 (5.88%) Trainee Software Developer
10 3 (2.94%) Administrator
10 3 (2.94%) Trainee Administrator
10 3 (2.94%) Web Administrator
11 2 (1.96%) QA Tester
11 2 (1.96%) Site Engineer
11 2 (1.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.51%) RESTful
2 24 (23.53%) SOAP
3 19 (18.63%) REST
4 17 (16.67%) JSON
5 16 (15.69%) CSS
5 16 (15.69%) HTML
5 16 (15.69%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (15.69%) OAuth
5 16 (15.69%) OAuth2
6 8 (7.84%) .NET
6 8 (7.84%) ADO
6 8 (7.84%) SAML
6 8 (7.84%) XML
7 2 (1.96%) Hibernate
7 2 (1.96%) JPA
7 2 (1.96%) Kafka
7 2 (1.96%) Spring
7 2 (1.96%) Spring Boot
8 1 (0.98%) Android SDK
8 1 (0.98%) Retrofit
Miscellaneous
1 33 (32.35%) Cloud Native
2 26 (25.49%) Product Ownership
3 17 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (7.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.92%) Low-Code
5 4 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.96%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.96%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.98%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.96%) Android
2 1 (0.98%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 74 (72.55%) DevOps
3 66 (64.71%) Asset Management
3 66 (64.71%) Coaching
4 64 (62.75%) Test Automation
5 57 (55.88%) Agile
6 54 (52.94%) Observability
7 43 (42.16%) AI
8 35 (34.31%) Mentoring
9 34 (33.33%) Analytics
9 34 (33.33%) Clean Code
9 34 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
10 31 (30.39%) Data Modelling
11 25 (24.51%) Sprint Planning
11 25 (24.51%) Sprint Retrospective
12 22 (21.57%) Data Integration
13 18 (17.65%) API Integration
13 18 (17.65%) ETL
14 17 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
14 17 (16.67%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 61 (59.80%) Python
2 28 (27.45%) SQL
3 24 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 20 (19.61%) Java
5 16 (15.69%) Apex Code
5 16 (15.69%) PL/SQL
5 16 (15.69%) Shell Script
6 10 (9.80%) R
7 8 (7.84%) Bicep
8 6 (5.88%) Bash
8 6 (5.88%) PowerShell
9 5 (4.90%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.98%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.98%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (15.69%) AWS Certification
1 16 (15.69%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 16 (15.69%) Azure Certification
1 16 (15.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (5.88%) CISSP
2 6 (5.88%) CREST Certified
2 6 (5.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) QA
2 9 (8.82%) GDPR
3 8 (7.84%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.90%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.96%) NCSC
5 2 (1.96%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (9.80%) Docker
2 8 (7.84%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 37 (36.27%) Terraform
2 16 (15.69%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (11.76%) Kubernetes
4 8 (7.84%) Grafana
4 8 (7.84%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 25 (24.51%) Microsoft
2 17 (16.67%) Oracle
3 16 (15.69%) Salesforce
4 8 (7.84%) Ab Initio
4 8 (7.84%) Okta
5 6 (5.88%) Databricks
6 4 (3.92%) Google
7 3 (2.94%) Pega
8 1 (0.98%) Dynatrace