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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 197 116
Rank change year-on-year +100 -81 +38
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 53 90 119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.85% 1.34% 2.52%
As % of the Cloud Services category 9.71% 3.06% 7.06%
Number of salaries quoted 44 44 86
10th Percentile - £46,306 £47,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £54,375 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,750 £75,000 £58,513
Median % change year-on-year -31.00% +28.18% -9.98%
75th Percentile £72,063 £82,548 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,394 £96,512 £89,852
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +7.69% -3.70% +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 546 2,942 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 19.06% 43.68% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 357 1,027 954
10th Percentile £31,700 £28,150 £31,433
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,250 £42,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £79,569 £67,807 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,548 £85,000
UK median annual salary £61,000 £57,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +6.09% -11.54% +4.00%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +6 19 £75,360 +0.48% 12
Dundee +18 17 £32,500 -45.83% 4
Glasgow +146 12 £62,500 +17.92% 10
Aberdeenshire - 5 £62,500 - 1
Aberdeen +27 1 £71,000 +18.33% 2
Lanarkshire - 1 £48,343 -
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 18 (33.96%) SharePoint
2 5 (9.43%) Apache
3 4 (7.55%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.89%) Solana
4 1 (1.89%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (1.89%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Sage 200
1 17 (32.08%) Sage 50
2 1 (1.89%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.96%) AWS
2 14 (26.42%) Azure
3 6 (11.32%) GCP
4 5 (9.43%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (9.43%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (7.55%) CloudBees
6 3 (5.66%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.66%) Serverless
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.77%) AWS CodeCommit
7 2 (3.77%) dbt
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.89%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.89%) SaaS
8 1 (1.89%) Sentry
8 1 (1.89%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) DNS
1 1 (1.89%) HTTP
1 1 (1.89%) Internet
1 1 (1.89%) SSL
1 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (7.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.77%) Looker
2 2 (3.77%) Power BI
2 2 (3.77%) Tableau
3 1 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (1.89%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.89%) MySQL
3 1 (1.89%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 30 (56.60%) Jenkins
2 17 (32.08%) Visual Studio
3 9 (16.98%) Git
4 5 (9.43%) GitLab
4 5 (9.43%) IBM UrbanCode
5 2 (3.77%) Checkstyle
5 2 (3.77%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.89%) JIRA
6 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (52.83%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Manufacturing
3 11 (20.75%) Banking
4 7 (13.21%) Social Skills
5 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.66%) Retail Banking
6 3 (5.66%) Social Science
7 2 (3.77%) Local Government
7 2 (3.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (41.51%) Developer
2 17 (32.08%) .NET Developer
2 17 (32.08%) .NET Software Developer
3 13 (24.53%) Senior
4 12 (22.64%) Software Engineer
5 5 (9.43%) Robotics Software Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 4 (7.55%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.66%) Audit Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Lead
7 3 (5.66%) Risk Manager
7 3 (5.66%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
8 2 (3.77%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (43.40%) CSS
2 22 (41.51%) .NET
2 22 (41.51%) HTML
3 19 (35.85%) .NET Core
4 18 (33.96%) .NET Framework
4 18 (33.96%) React Native
5 17 (32.08%) HTML5
5 17 (32.08%) jQuery
6 6 (11.32%) React
7 5 (9.43%) Middleware
8 3 (5.66%) RESTful
9 2 (3.77%) AngularJS
9 2 (3.77%) Blazor
9 2 (3.77%) EJB
9 2 (3.77%) GraphQL
9 2 (3.77%) Next.js
9 2 (3.77%) Node.js
9 2 (3.77%) REST
9 2 (3.77%) Web Services
10 1 (1.89%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.43%) Mainframe
1 5 (9.43%) Public Cloud
1 5 (9.43%) Robotics
2 4 (7.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.66%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.77%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.77%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Signage
5 1 (1.89%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.89%) Podcast
5 1 (1.89%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Linux
2 5 (9.43%) Robot Operating System
2 5 (9.43%) Unix
3 1 (1.89%) Android
3 1 (1.89%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.89%) Debian
3 1 (1.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.89%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.89%) Windows
3 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.85%) Software Engineering
2 17 (32.08%) Biometrics
2 17 (32.08%) CI/CD
2 17 (32.08%) E-Commerce
3 15 (28.30%) Agile
4 12 (22.64%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (20.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (20.75%) Mentoring
6 10 (18.87%) OOP
7 9 (16.98%) DevOps
8 8 (15.09%) Deployment Automation
8 8 (15.09%) OO
9 6 (11.32%) Continuous Deployment
9 6 (11.32%) Microservices
10 5 (9.43%) Cash Management
10 5 (9.43%) Data Science
10 5 (9.43%) IT Strategy
10 5 (9.43%) Remote Testing
10 5 (9.43%) SDLC
10 5 (9.43%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (58.49%) SQL
2 26 (49.06%) JavaScript
3 21 (39.62%) C#
4 12 (22.64%) Python
5 10 (18.87%) Java
6 8 (15.09%) Bash
7 7 (13.21%) PowerShell
8 5 (9.43%) C++
8 5 (9.43%) JCL
8 5 (9.43%) Shell Script
9 4 (7.55%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.89%) C
10 1 (1.89%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.89%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.89%) Swift
10 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (16.98%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.55%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (18.87%) Terraform
2 8 (15.09%) Kubernetes
3 5 (9.43%) Ansible
3 5 (9.43%) CA Endevor
4 1 (1.89%) Argo
4 1 (1.89%) Grafana
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.89%) SCCM
Vendors
1 17 (32.08%) Sage
2 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
3 4 (7.55%) IBM
3 4 (7.55%) IBM Sterling
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Apple
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.89%) Yahoo!
5 1 (1.89%) YouTube