GitHub Jobs in Scotland

GitHub
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring GitHub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited GitHub over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 180 106
Rank change year-on-year +55 -74 +88
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 42 81 116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.31% 1.23% 2.77%
As % of the Cloud Services category 7.32% 3.17% 7.84%
Number of salaries quoted 32 30 72
10th Percentile - £36,875 £50,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £46,306 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,250 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +6.52% -11.54%
75th Percentile £75,360 £80,661 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £98,626 £82,548
UK median annual salary £71,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.60% -3.85% -

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 574 2,557 1,480
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.90% 38.91% 35.31%
Number of salaries quoted 271 989 840
10th Percentile £32,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £38,084 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,114 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £63,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.73% +0.80%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing GitHub in Scotland.

Salary trend for GitHub in Scotland

GitHub
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing GitHub in Scotland over the 6 months to 1 July 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 1 July 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
Glasgow +110 24 £69,930 +29.50% 88
Dundee +15 9 £32,500 -40.91% 3
Edinburgh +20 8 £75,360 +0.48% 47
Aberdeenshire - 3 £62,500 - 3
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 - 12
North Lanarkshire - 1 £51,000 -
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 9 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 7 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (9.52%) Apache
4 3 (7.14%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Sage 200
1 9 (21.43%) Sage 50
2 1 (2.38%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 14 (33.33%) AWS
2 12 (28.57%) Azure
3 10 (23.81%) GitHub Actions
4 7 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.52%) ChatGPT
5 4 (9.52%) CloudBees
5 4 (9.52%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (7.14%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (7.14%) Azure AI
6 3 (7.14%) Azure Pipelines
6 3 (7.14%) Dagster
6 3 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (7.14%) Prefect
7 2 (4.76%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (4.76%) Serverless
8 1 (2.38%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (2.38%) AWS Fargate
8 1 (2.38%) npm
8 1 (2.38%) Stripe
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (9.52%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.14%) Big Data
3 3 (7.14%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.76%) MySQL
5 1 (2.38%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 20 (47.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (21.43%) Visual Studio
3 4 (9.52%) Git
4 2 (4.76%) Checkstyle
4 2 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (4.76%) SonarQube
General
1 17 (40.48%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Manufacturing
3 7 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 7 (16.67%) Law
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
5 4 (9.52%) Private Banking
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.76%) Local Government
7 2 (4.76%) Social Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Legal
Job Titles
1 20 (47.62%) Developer
2 19 (45.24%) Software Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 14 (33.33%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
4 12 (28.57%) Senior
5 10 (23.81%) Lead
6 9 (21.43%) .NET Developer
6 9 (21.43%) .NET Software Developer
7 8 (19.05%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 8 (19.05%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 8 (19.05%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
8 7 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
8 7 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
9 5 (11.90%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (11.90%) Lead Developer
10 4 (9.52%) Java Software Developer
10 4 (9.52%) Lead Software Developer
10 4 (9.52%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 4 (9.52%) Senior Java Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (40.48%) .NET
2 16 (38.10%) .NET Core
3 12 (28.57%) RESTful
4 10 (23.81%) React
4 10 (23.81%) React Native
5 9 (21.43%) .NET Framework
5 9 (21.43%) CSS
5 9 (21.43%) HTML
5 9 (21.43%) HTML5
5 9 (21.43%) jQuery
6 8 (19.05%) Kafka
7 7 (16.67%) AngularJS
7 7 (16.67%) Blazor
8 4 (9.52%) Spring
8 4 (9.52%) Spring Boot
9 3 (7.14%) Middleware
10 2 (4.76%) EJB
10 2 (4.76%) GraphQL
10 2 (4.76%) REST
10 2 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Cloud Native
2 7 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Distributed Applications
4 3 (7.14%) Robotics
5 2 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 1 (2.38%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 3 (7.14%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (2.38%) Android
3 1 (2.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 21 (50.00%) Agile
3 20 (47.62%) Software Engineering
4 16 (38.10%) Full-Stack Development
5 14 (33.33%) Microservices
6 11 (26.19%) Deployment Automation
7 9 (21.43%) Biometrics
7 9 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 9 (21.43%) DevOps
7 9 (21.43%) E-Commerce
8 8 (19.05%) Containerisation
9 7 (16.67%) Application Security
9 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (16.67%) Operational Stability
9 7 (16.67%) SDLC
10 5 (11.90%) Computer Science
10 5 (11.90%) Continuous Deployment
10 5 (11.90%) OOP
10 5 (11.90%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) C#
2 15 (35.71%) SQL
3 11 (26.19%) JavaScript
4 10 (23.81%) Python
5 9 (21.43%) Java
6 4 (9.52%) C++
7 3 (7.14%) C
7 3 (7.14%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.76%) Bash
9 1 (2.38%) Kotlin
9 1 (2.38%) Objective-C
9 1 (2.38%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (9.52%) Degree
2 3 (7.14%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.38%) QA
1 1 (2.38%) SOC 2
System Software
1 11 (26.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Kubernetes
2 12 (28.57%) Terraform
3 4 (9.52%) Ansible
4 1 (2.38%) Argo
4 1 (2.38%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Sage
2 5 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) IBM
3 4 (9.52%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.38%) Google
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle