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

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 76 85
Rank change year-on-year +43 +9 +73
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 149 76 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.39% 2.49% 3.46%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.91% 7.50% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 32 44 83
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £32,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.15% -53.57% +11.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £91,934
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year - -17.24% +7.20%

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 680 1,014 933
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.62% 33.17% 37.52%
Number of salaries quoted 259 503 691
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £71,391 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

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 8 December 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 8 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 +60 129 £30,500 -59.33% 15
Glasgow +13 17 £64,500 +7.50% 15
Aberdeen -1 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 15 (10.07%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.34%) WordPress
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 33 (22.15%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.34%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 136 (91.28%) Azure
2 98 (65.77%) Azure DevOps
3 66 (44.30%) GitHub Copilot
4 42 (28.19%) AWS
5 35 (23.49%) GitHub Actions
6 33 (22.15%) OCI
7 28 (18.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (16.11%) Snowflake
9 22 (14.77%) Power Platform
10 19 (12.75%) dbt
11 18 (12.08%) Entra ID
12 12 (8.05%) Azure Event Grid
12 12 (8.05%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (8.05%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (8.05%) Azure Service Bus
12 12 (8.05%) Datadog
13 10 (6.71%) Salesforce Einstein
14 8 (5.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 8 (5.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 7 (4.70%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.42%) Internet
2 4 (2.68%) DNS
2 4 (2.68%) Firewall
2 4 (2.68%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (14.77%) Power BI
2 19 (12.75%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (10.07%) Tableau
4 14 (9.40%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (3.36%) Data Lake
5 5 (3.36%) Metadata
6 2 (1.34%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.67%) Big Data
7 1 (0.67%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 40 (26.85%) Jenkins
2 35 (23.49%) Git
3 34 (22.82%) JIRA
4 33 (22.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 118 (79.19%) Finance
2 45 (30.20%) Social Skills
3 26 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.42%) Multimedia
5 9 (6.04%) Marketing
6 3 (2.01%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Back Office
7 2 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.34%) Law
8 1 (0.67%) Banking
8 1 (0.67%) Legal
8 1 (0.67%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 55 (36.91%) Senior
2 46 (30.87%) Applications Engineer
3 37 (24.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 22 (14.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 20 (13.42%) Trainee
6 14 (9.40%) Developer
7 12 (8.05%) Development Engineer
8 10 (6.71%) Software Developer
9 9 (6.04%) Trainee Developer
9 9 (6.04%) Trainee Software Developer
10 8 (5.37%) Full-Stack Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (5.37%) Software Engineer
11 7 (4.70%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Security Engineer
12 6 (4.03%) Senior Development Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) .NET Software Engineer
13 5 (3.36%) C# Software Engineer
14 4 (2.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 4 (2.68%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (36.24%) RESTful
2 36 (24.16%) SOAP
3 30 (20.13%) JSON
4 27 (18.12%) OAuth
4 27 (18.12%) OAuth2
5 20 (13.42%) CSS
5 20 (13.42%) HTML
5 20 (13.42%) XML
6 19 (12.75%) REST
7 18 (12.08%) .NET
7 18 (12.08%) Lightning Web Components
8 15 (10.07%) SAML
9 12 (8.05%) ADO
10 8 (5.37%) React
11 6 (4.03%) AngularJS
11 6 (4.03%) Blazor
12 5 (3.36%) .NET Core
13 4 (2.68%) Spring
14 3 (2.01%) Hibernate
15 2 (1.34%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 60 (40.27%) Cloud Native
2 33 (22.15%) Enterprise Software
3 31 (20.81%) Product Ownership
4 12 (8.05%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.70%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.34%) NHS
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (0.67%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (80.54%) CI/CD
2 117 (78.52%) DevOps
3 111 (74.50%) Asset Management
4 110 (73.83%) Coaching
5 96 (64.43%) Test Automation
6 90 (60.40%) Agile
7 70 (46.98%) Observability
8 68 (45.64%) AI
9 63 (42.28%) Mentoring
10 54 (36.24%) Clean Code
10 54 (36.24%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (34.90%) Analytics
12 42 (28.19%) Data Modelling
13 41 (27.52%) Migration
14 40 (26.85%) Sprint Planning
14 40 (26.85%) Sprint Retrospective
15 34 (22.82%) ERP
16 33 (22.15%) API Integration
17 31 (20.81%) Data Integration
17 31 (20.81%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 89 (59.73%) Python
2 53 (35.57%) SQL
3 40 (26.85%) Java
4 33 (22.15%) PL/SQL
4 33 (22.15%) Shell Script
5 32 (21.48%) JavaScript
6 18 (12.08%) Apex Code
7 16 (10.74%) Bicep
8 11 (7.38%) R
9 10 (6.71%) PowerShell
10 8 (5.37%) C#
11 6 (4.03%) Bash
12 5 (3.36%) T-SQL
13 2 (1.34%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (13.42%) AWS Certification
1 20 (13.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 20 (13.42%) Azure Certification
1 20 (13.42%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.03%) CISSP
2 6 (4.03%) CREST Certified
2 6 (4.03%) SANS
3 5 (3.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.05%) GDPR
1 12 (8.05%) QA
2 6 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.34%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (14.77%) Docker
2 18 (12.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 62 (41.61%) Terraform
2 33 (22.15%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (15.44%) Kubernetes
4 12 (8.05%) Grafana
4 12 (8.05%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (24.83%) Microsoft
2 33 (22.15%) Oracle
3 18 (12.08%) Okta
3 18 (12.08%) Salesforce
4 12 (8.05%) Ab Initio
5 5 (3.36%) Databricks