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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 85 78
Rank change year-on-year +45 -7 +89
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 134 73 84
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.96% 2.20% 3.57%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.45% 7.03% 10.02%
Number of salaries quoted 37 40 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% +14.42%
75th Percentile £82,500 £62,500 £80,637
90th Percentile £90,000 £79,128 £91,934
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 1,039 838
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.51% 31.35% 35.58%
Number of salaries quoted 266 516 693
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% -0.53%

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 24 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 24 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 +63 107 £30,500 -59.33% 30
Glasgow +6 24 £64,500 +7.50% 15
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 12 (8.96%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.49%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.49%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 27 (20.15%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.49%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 117 (87.31%) Azure
2 82 (61.19%) Azure DevOps
3 53 (39.55%) GitHub Copilot
4 41 (30.60%) AWS
5 31 (23.13%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (20.15%) OCI
7 22 (16.42%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (14.93%) Snowflake
9 18 (13.43%) Power Platform
10 17 (12.69%) dbt
11 15 (11.19%) Entra ID
12 9 (6.72%) Azure Event Grid
12 9 (6.72%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (6.72%) Azure Monitor
12 9 (6.72%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (6.72%) Datadog
13 7 (5.22%) Salesforce Einstein
14 6 (4.48%) Power Automate
15 5 (3.73%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 5 (3.73%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (14.93%) Internet
2 4 (2.99%) DNS
2 4 (2.99%) Firewall
2 4 (2.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (13.43%) Power BI
2 17 (12.69%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (9.70%) Snowflake Schema
4 12 (8.96%) Tableau
5 3 (2.24%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.24%) Metadata
5 3 (2.24%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.24%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.49%) Big Data
6 2 (1.49%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.75%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.75%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (26.87%) Jenkins
2 32 (23.88%) Git
3 29 (21.64%) JIRA
4 27 (20.15%) Oracle Forms
General
1 98 (73.13%) Finance
2 34 (25.37%) Social Skills
3 23 (17.16%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (14.93%) Multimedia
5 7 (5.22%) Marketing
6 5 (3.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.73%) Law
7 4 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.24%) Banking
8 3 (2.24%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.49%) Back Office
9 2 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.49%) Legal
Job Titles
1 48 (35.82%) Senior
2 39 (29.10%) Applications Engineer
3 31 (23.13%) Cloud Engineer
4 20 (14.93%) Trainee
5 19 (14.18%) Developer
5 19 (14.18%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 13 (9.70%) Software Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 12 (8.96%) Software Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Development Engineer
8 9 (6.72%) Trainee Developer
8 9 (6.72%) Trainee Software Developer
9 7 (5.22%) .NET Software Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) C# Software Engineer
9 7 (5.22%) Lead
9 7 (5.22%) Lead Software Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Security Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 6 (4.48%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (36.57%) RESTful
2 27 (20.15%) SOAP
3 24 (17.91%) JSON
4 21 (15.67%) OAuth
4 21 (15.67%) OAuth2
5 20 (14.93%) CSS
5 20 (14.93%) HTML
6 17 (12.69%) .NET
6 17 (12.69%) XML
7 13 (9.70%) REST
8 12 (8.96%) Lightning Web Components
8 12 (8.96%) SAML
9 10 (7.46%) React
10 9 (6.72%) ADO
11 8 (5.97%) AngularJS
11 8 (5.97%) Blazor
12 7 (5.22%) .NET Core
13 6 (4.48%) Spring
14 5 (3.73%) Kafka
15 3 (2.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (39.55%) Cloud Native
2 27 (20.15%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (16.42%) Product Ownership
4 9 (6.72%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.22%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (4.48%) Low-Code
6 6 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.24%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.49%) NHS
9 1 (0.75%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.75%) Distributed Architecture
9 1 (0.75%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.99%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (78.36%) CI/CD
2 96 (71.64%) DevOps
3 90 (67.16%) Asset Management
4 87 (64.93%) Coaching
5 77 (57.46%) Agile
6 76 (56.72%) Test Automation
7 56 (41.79%) Mentoring
8 55 (41.04%) AI
9 52 (38.81%) Observability
10 43 (32.09%) Clean Code
10 43 (32.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 42 (31.34%) Analytics
12 36 (26.87%) Migration
13 32 (23.88%) Data Modelling
13 32 (23.88%) Sprint Planning
13 32 (23.88%) Sprint Retrospective
14 30 (22.39%) ERP
15 27 (20.15%) API Integration
16 26 (19.40%) ETL
17 24 (17.91%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 79 (58.96%) Python
2 47 (35.07%) SQL
3 37 (27.61%) Java
4 29 (21.64%) JavaScript
5 27 (20.15%) PL/SQL
5 27 (20.15%) Shell Script
6 13 (9.70%) Bicep
7 12 (8.96%) Apex Code
8 11 (8.21%) C#
8 11 (8.21%) R
9 10 (7.46%) PowerShell
10 6 (4.48%) Bash
11 4 (2.99%) C
12 3 (2.24%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.75%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (14.93%) AWS Certification
1 20 (14.93%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 20 (14.93%) Azure Certification
1 20 (14.93%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (4.48%) CISSP
2 6 (4.48%) CREST Certified
2 6 (4.48%) SANS
3 5 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (3.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.72%) GDPR
1 9 (6.72%) QA
2 6 (4.48%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.24%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.49%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (15.67%) Docker
2 15 (11.19%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 52 (38.81%) Terraform
2 27 (20.15%) Single Sign-On
3 24 (17.91%) Kubernetes
4 9 (6.72%) Grafana
4 9 (6.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 36 (26.87%) Microsoft
2 27 (20.15%) Oracle
3 15 (11.19%) Okta
4 12 (8.96%) Salesforce
5 9 (6.72%) Ab Initio
6 3 (2.24%) Databricks