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

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 83 79
Rank change year-on-year +44 -4 +81
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 144 73 87
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 5.22% 2.30% 3.62%
As % of the Cloud Services category 20.99% 7.19% 9.93%
Number of salaries quoted 33 42 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% +12.22%
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 686 1,015 876
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.86% 31.98% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 258 501 690
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 £71,532 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £63,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -5.51% +1.60% -2.14%

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 1 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 1 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 +69 122 £30,500 -59.33% 18
Glasgow +10 19 £64,500 +7.50% 12
Aberdeen +1 3 £30,000 -57.75% 8
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 14 (9.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.39%) WordPress
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.69%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 31 (21.53%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 130 (90.28%) Azure
2 93 (64.58%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (43.06%) GitHub Copilot
4 42 (29.17%) AWS
5 33 (22.92%) GitHub Actions
6 31 (21.53%) OCI
7 26 (18.06%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (15.97%) Snowflake
9 21 (14.58%) Power Platform
10 19 (13.19%) dbt
11 17 (11.81%) Entra ID
12 11 (7.64%) Azure Event Grid
12 11 (7.64%) Azure Logic Apps
12 11 (7.64%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (7.64%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (7.64%) Datadog
13 9 (6.25%) Salesforce Einstein
14 7 (4.86%) Power Automate
14 7 (4.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (4.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.89%) Internet
2 4 (2.78%) DNS
2 4 (2.78%) Firewall
2 4 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (14.58%) Power BI
2 19 (13.19%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (9.72%) Snowflake Schema
3 14 (9.72%) Tableau
4 4 (2.78%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.78%) Metadata
5 2 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.39%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.69%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.69%) Big Data
6 1 (0.69%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 39 (27.08%) Jenkins
2 34 (23.61%) Git
3 33 (22.92%) JIRA
4 31 (21.53%) Oracle Forms
General
1 112 (77.78%) Finance
2 42 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 26 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (13.89%) Multimedia
5 8 (5.56%) Marketing
6 3 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.08%) Law
6 3 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Back Office
7 2 (1.39%) Banking
7 2 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.39%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 53 (36.81%) Senior
2 44 (30.56%) Applications Engineer
3 35 (24.31%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (14.58%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 20 (13.89%) Trainee
6 16 (11.11%) Developer
7 11 (7.64%) Development Engineer
7 11 (7.64%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.25%) Trainee Developer
8 9 (6.25%) Trainee Software Developer
9 8 (5.56%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (4.86%) Integration Engineer
11 6 (4.17%) Security Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) C# Software Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Lead
12 5 (3.47%) Lead Software Engineer
12 5 (3.47%) Senior Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (36.11%) RESTful
2 33 (22.92%) SOAP
3 28 (19.44%) JSON
4 25 (17.36%) OAuth
4 25 (17.36%) OAuth2
5 20 (13.89%) CSS
5 20 (13.89%) HTML
6 19 (13.19%) XML
7 17 (11.81%) .NET
7 17 (11.81%) REST
8 16 (11.11%) Lightning Web Components
9 14 (9.72%) SAML
10 11 (7.64%) ADO
11 8 (5.56%) React
12 6 (4.17%) AngularJS
12 6 (4.17%) Blazor
13 5 (3.47%) .NET Core
13 5 (3.47%) Spring
14 3 (2.08%) Hibernate
14 3 (2.08%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 58 (40.28%) Cloud Native
2 31 (21.53%) Enterprise Software
3 28 (19.44%) Product Ownership
4 11 (7.64%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.86%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.47%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (1.39%) NHS
8 1 (0.69%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (0.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (79.86%) CI/CD
2 110 (76.39%) DevOps
3 105 (72.92%) Asset Management
4 103 (71.53%) Coaching
5 90 (62.50%) Test Automation
6 86 (59.72%) Agile
7 64 (44.44%) AI
7 64 (44.44%) Observability
8 61 (42.36%) Mentoring
9 51 (35.42%) Clean Code
9 51 (35.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (34.03%) Analytics
11 40 (27.78%) Migration
12 39 (27.08%) Data Modelling
13 38 (26.39%) Sprint Planning
13 38 (26.39%) Sprint Retrospective
14 33 (22.92%) ERP
15 31 (21.53%) API Integration
16 30 (20.83%) ETL
17 29 (20.14%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 85 (59.03%) Python
2 51 (35.42%) SQL
3 39 (27.08%) Java
4 31 (21.53%) JavaScript
4 31 (21.53%) PL/SQL
4 31 (21.53%) Shell Script
5 16 (11.11%) Apex Code
6 15 (10.42%) Bicep
7 11 (7.64%) R
8 10 (6.94%) PowerShell
9 8 (5.56%) C#
10 6 (4.17%) Bash
11 4 (2.78%) T-SQL
12 3 (2.08%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (13.89%) AWS Certification
1 20 (13.89%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 20 (13.89%) Azure Certification
1 20 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.17%) CISSP
2 6 (4.17%) CREST Certified
2 6 (4.17%) SANS
3 5 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.47%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.64%) GDPR
1 11 (7.64%) QA
2 6 (4.17%) Accessibility
3 4 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.39%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (14.58%) Docker
2 17 (11.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 59 (40.97%) Terraform
2 31 (21.53%) Single Sign-On
3 23 (15.97%) Kubernetes
4 11 (7.64%) Grafana
4 11 (7.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (25.69%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.53%) Oracle
3 17 (11.81%) Okta
4 16 (11.11%) Salesforce
5 11 (7.64%) Ab Initio
6 4 (2.78%) Databricks