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 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 85 76
Rank change year-on-year +37 -9 +94
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 127 67 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.63% 2.05% 3.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.43% 6.65% 9.94%
Number of salaries quoted 36 35 80
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% +13.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,875 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £73,500 £84,844
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% -14.29% +3.70%

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 689 1,007 845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.14% 30.74% 35.43%
Number of salaries quoted 264 481 706
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,796
25th Percentile £29,375 £37,500 £39,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £88,375 £82,500 £87,419
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -

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 17 November 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 17 November 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 +63 97 £30,500 -59.33% 33
Glasgow +1 27 £64,500 +3.20% 19
Aberdeen +8 3 £30,000 - 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 11 (8.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 25 (19.69%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.57%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 108 (85.04%) Azure
2 74 (58.27%) Azure DevOps
3 49 (38.58%) GitHub Copilot
4 41 (32.28%) AWS
5 28 (22.05%) GitHub Actions
6 25 (19.69%) OCI
7 20 (15.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 18 (14.17%) Snowflake
9 16 (12.60%) Power Platform
10 15 (11.81%) dbt
11 14 (11.02%) Entra ID
12 8 (6.30%) Azure Event Grid
12 8 (6.30%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (6.30%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (6.30%) Azure Service Bus
12 8 (6.30%) Datadog
13 6 (4.72%) Salesforce Einstein
14 5 (3.94%) ChatGPT
14 5 (3.94%) Power Automate
14 5 (3.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (15.75%) Internet
2 4 (3.15%) DNS
2 4 (3.15%) Firewall
2 4 (3.15%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.60%) Power BI
2 15 (11.81%) Data Warehouse
3 12 (9.45%) Snowflake Schema
4 11 (8.66%) Tableau
5 4 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.36%) Big Data
6 3 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
6 3 (2.36%) Metadata
7 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.79%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.79%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.79%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 34 (26.77%) Jenkins
2 31 (24.41%) Git
3 26 (20.47%) JIRA
4 25 (19.69%) Oracle Forms
General
1 90 (70.87%) Finance
2 29 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 20 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (15.75%) Multimedia
4 7 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (5.51%) Law
4 7 (5.51%) Marketing
5 4 (3.15%) Banking
5 4 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (3.15%) Private Banking
6 2 (1.57%) Back Office
6 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (35.43%) Senior
2 35 (27.56%) Applications Engineer
3 29 (22.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (15.75%) Developer
4 20 (15.75%) Trainee
5 18 (14.17%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) Software Engineer
7 15 (11.81%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 14 (11.02%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
9 13 (10.24%) Software Developer
10 9 (7.09%) Trainee Developer
10 9 (7.09%) Trainee Software Developer
11 8 (6.30%) Development Engineer
11 8 (6.30%) Lead
11 8 (6.30%) Lead Software Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) .NET Software Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) C# Software Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
12 7 (5.51%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (37.01%) RESTful
2 24 (18.90%) SOAP
3 22 (17.32%) JSON
4 20 (15.75%) CSS
4 20 (15.75%) HTML
5 19 (14.96%) OAuth
5 19 (14.96%) OAuth2
6 16 (12.60%) .NET
6 16 (12.60%) XML
7 11 (8.66%) React
7 11 (8.66%) REST
7 11 (8.66%) SAML
8 10 (7.87%) Lightning Web Components
9 8 (6.30%) ADO
9 8 (6.30%) AngularJS
9 8 (6.30%) Blazor
10 7 (5.51%) .NET Core
10 7 (5.51%) Kafka
10 7 (5.51%) Spring
11 4 (3.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 51 (40.16%) Cloud Native
2 25 (19.69%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (14.96%) Product Ownership
4 8 (6.30%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.51%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (3.94%) Low-Code
6 5 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (3.15%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.57%) NHS
9 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.79%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.15%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (77.17%) CI/CD
2 87 (68.50%) DevOps
3 82 (64.57%) Asset Management
4 78 (61.42%) Coaching
5 72 (56.69%) Agile
6 68 (53.54%) Test Automation
7 53 (41.73%) Mentoring
8 50 (39.37%) AI
9 46 (36.22%) Observability
10 38 (29.92%) Analytics
10 38 (29.92%) Clean Code
10 38 (29.92%) Continuous Improvement
11 33 (25.98%) Migration
12 28 (22.05%) Data Modelling
12 28 (22.05%) ERP
12 28 (22.05%) Sprint Planning
12 28 (22.05%) Sprint Retrospective
13 25 (19.69%) API Integration
14 24 (18.90%) Software Engineering
15 23 (18.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 75 (59.06%) Python
2 45 (35.43%) SQL
3 37 (29.13%) Java
4 28 (22.05%) JavaScript
5 25 (19.69%) PL/SQL
5 25 (19.69%) Shell Script
6 12 (9.45%) Bicep
7 11 (8.66%) C#
7 11 (8.66%) R
8 10 (7.87%) Apex Code
9 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.94%) Bash
11 4 (3.15%) C
12 3 (2.36%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.79%) C++
13 1 (0.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 20 (15.75%) AWS Certification
1 20 (15.75%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 20 (15.75%) Azure Certification
1 20 (15.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (3.94%) CISSP
2 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (3.94%) CREST Certified
2 5 (3.94%) Degree
2 5 (3.94%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.30%) GDPR
1 8 (6.30%) QA
2 5 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.36%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (15.75%) Docker
2 14 (11.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 49 (38.58%) Terraform
2 25 (19.69%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (18.90%) Kubernetes
4 8 (6.30%) Grafana
4 8 (6.30%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 35 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 25 (19.69%) Oracle
3 14 (11.02%) Okta
4 10 (7.87%) Salesforce
5 8 (6.30%) Ab Initio
6 3 (2.36%) Databricks