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

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	127	78	92
Rank change year-on-year	-49	+14	-21
Permanent jobs citing GitHub	21	85	61
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland	0.49%	3.25%	1.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category	2.87%	12.98%	5.89%
Number of salaries quoted	6	26	28
10^th Percentile	£49,126	-	-
25^th Percentile	£53,689	£28,250	£31,250
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£65,000	£55,000	£32,500
Median % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+69.23%	-53.57%
75^th Percentile	£77,813	£82,500	£60,313
90^th Percentile	£90,625	£90,000	£62,875
UK median annual salary	£67,500	£67,500	£60,000
% change year-on-year	-	+12.50%	-14.29%

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.

	6 months to 17 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills	731	655	1,035
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland	17.10%	25.05%	31.17%
Number of salaries quoted	451	233	485
10^th Percentile	£28,500	£26,250	£31,250
25^th Percentile	£35,000	£32,000	£38,500
Median annual salary (50^th Percentile)	£52,845	£52,500	£55,000
Median % change year-on-year	+0.66%	-4.55%	-
75^th Percentile	£77,500	£71,250	£70,000
90^th Percentile	£100,000	£86,000	£80,750
UK median annual salary	£62,500	£57,500	£65,000
% change year-on-year	+8.70%	-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 Salary Trend in Scotland

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 October 2026.

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 October 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
Glasgow	-4	15	£65,000	+0.78%	30
Edinburgh	-34	6	£77,500	+154.10%	22
GitHub UK

GitHub Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 17 October 2026, job vacancies citing GitHub also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Scotland region with a requirement for GitHub.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	100.0%	21
2	Jenkins	71.4%	15
2	Kubernetes	71.4%	15
2	Python	71.4%	15
5	Docker	57.1%	12
6	Java	52.4%	11
6	Spring	52.4%	11
6	Spring Boot	52.4%	11
9	Azure	47.6%	10
9	Infrastructure as Code	47.6%	10
11	Analytics	42.9%	9
11	Kafka	42.9%	9
13	Agile	38.1%	8
13	Full-Stack Development	38.1%	8
13	Microservices	38.1%	8
13	MongoDB	38.1%	8
13	Terraform	38.1%	8
18	AWS	33.3%	7
18	GitHub Copilot	33.3%	7
18	Machine Learning	33.3%	7
18	Observability	33.3%	7
18	Software Engineering	33.3%	7
23	Data Analytics	28.6%	6
23	Hibernate	28.6%	6
23	JPA	28.6%	6
23	Mentoring	28.6%	6
23	MySQL	28.6%	6
23	REST	28.6%	6
23	SQL Server	28.6%	6
30	DevOps	23.8%	5

GitHub Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Cloud Services

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	47.6%	10
2	AWS	33.3%	7
2	GitHub Copilot	33.3%	7
4	GCP	23.8%	5
5	GitHub Actions	19.0%	4
6	Amazon ECS	14.3%	3
6	Datadog	14.3%	3
6	dbt	14.3%	3
6	IaaS	14.3%	3
10	Anthropic Claude	4.8%	1
10	AWS CloudFormation	4.8%	1
10	Azure AKS	4.8%	1
10	Azure Cosmos DB	4.8%	1
10	Azure DevOps	4.8%	1
10	Azure Functions	4.8%	1
10	Azure Logic Apps	4.8%	1
10	PaaS	4.8%	1
10	Serverless	4.8%	1