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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 105 187
Rank change year-on-year -2 +82 -86
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 29 42 81
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.89% 1.88% 1.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.63% 7.39% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 25 32 31
10th Percentile £28,250 - £39,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £49,153
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -7.69% +13.04%
75th Percentile £81,250 £75,360 £82,548
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £98,474
UK median annual salary £65,500 £71,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -7.75% +13.60% -3.85%

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 799 568 2,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 24.51% 25.43% 39.03%
Number of salaries quoted 377 266 1,014
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,625 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.49% -3.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £68,114
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £81,400
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.17% +4.35% -8.95%

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 20 June 2026.

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 20 June 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
Edinburgh +28 23 £52,500 -30.33% 10
Glasgow +7 4 £65,000 -7.05% 12
Aberdeen - 1 £37,500 - 2
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 3 (10.34%) WordPress
2 1 (3.45%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 16 (55.17%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) AWS
3 7 (24.14%) GitHub Actions
4 6 (20.69%) GCP
5 4 (13.79%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Run
6 2 (6.90%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (3.45%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.45%) Firebase
7 1 (3.45%) Google Play
7 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (3.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (27.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.90%) MySQL
2 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.45%) Data Vault
3 1 (3.45%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.45%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Git
2 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
3 3 (10.34%) JIRA
4 2 (6.90%) fastlane
4 2 (6.90%) JUnit
4 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
5 1 (3.45%) Android Studio
5 1 (3.45%) Appium
5 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.45%) Crashlytics
5 1 (3.45%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) GitLab
5 1 (3.45%) Gradle
5 1 (3.45%) Mockito
5 1 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
5 1 (3.45%) TestRail
5 1 (3.45%) XCTest
5 1 (3.45%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (27.59%) Multimedia
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
2 7 (24.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Advertising
4 1 (3.45%) Legal
4 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Trainee
2 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Security Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Applications Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 3 (10.34%) Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Trainee Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Trainee Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Trainee Software Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Web Administrator
6 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (6.90%) QA Tester
6 2 (6.90%) QC Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (27.59%) CSS
1 8 (27.59%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) REST
2 3 (10.34%) Spring
2 3 (10.34%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.90%) Hibernate
3 2 (6.90%) JPA
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (3.45%) Android SDK
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) Retrofit
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Batch
4 1 (3.45%) Spring Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Swing
4 1 (3.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.45%) WireMock
4 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.90%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
2 1 (3.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) CI/CD
2 10 (34.48%) DevOps
3 8 (27.59%) Agile
3 8 (27.59%) Mentoring
4 7 (24.14%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
5 6 (20.69%) Application Security
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (20.69%) Test Automation
6 5 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (17.24%) Knowledge Transfer
6 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
6 5 (17.24%) SDLC
6 5 (17.24%) Security Testing
6 5 (17.24%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (17.24%) Technology Transformation
6 5 (17.24%) Threat Modelling
7 4 (13.79%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) Observability
7 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
7 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) Python
2 8 (27.59%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) R
4 4 (13.79%) Bash
4 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
5 3 (10.34%) SQL
6 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (27.59%) AWS Certification
1 8 (27.59%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 8 (27.59%) Azure Certification
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (13.79%) CISSP
2 4 (13.79%) CREST Certified
2 4 (13.79%) SANS
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 2 (6.90%) NCSC
3 2 (6.90%) WCAG
4 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
1 6 (20.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.79%) Google
3 3 (10.34%) Pega
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle