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

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 60 169
Rank change year-on-year +24 +109 -48
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 140 73 70
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.63% 3.48% 1.43%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.70% 10.74% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 42 55 59
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £54,360
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,500 £51,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.20% -32.00% +22.72%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £93,005
UK median annual salary £55,000 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -15.38% -7.14% +3.70%

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 791 680 2,085
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 26.16% 32.46% 42.55%
Number of salaries quoted 297 410 927
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £28,650
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £38,084
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £77,750 £76,028 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,778 £82,548
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -11.54%

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 12 March 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 12 March 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 +59 131 £30,500 -59.53% 15
Glasgow -14 5 £31,000 -50.40% 9
Aberdeen -7 4 £30,250 -57.39% 3
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 (7.86%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.57%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 25 (17.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 124 (88.57%) Azure
2 80 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 62 (44.29%) GitHub Copilot
4 41 (29.29%) AWS
5 33 (23.57%) GitHub Actions
6 27 (19.29%) Azure Data Factory
7 25 (17.86%) OCI
8 21 (15.00%) Snowflake
9 18 (12.86%) Power Platform
10 14 (10.00%) dbt
10 14 (10.00%) Entra ID
11 13 (9.29%) Azure Event Grid
11 13 (9.29%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (9.29%) Azure Monitor
11 13 (9.29%) Azure Service Bus
12 11 (7.86%) Salesforce Einstein
13 10 (7.14%) Datadog
13 10 (7.14%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 10 (7.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (5.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 27 (19.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (12.86%) Power BI
2 14 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (7.86%) Tableau
4 9 (6.43%) Snowflake Schema
5 7 (5.00%) Data Lake
5 7 (5.00%) Metadata
6 2 (1.43%) MySQL
6 2 (1.43%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (27.14%) Git
2 37 (26.43%) Jenkins
3 26 (18.57%) JIRA
4 25 (17.86%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.71%) ClearCase
5 1 (0.71%) ClearQuest
5 1 (0.71%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.71%) JUnit
5 1 (0.71%) LoadRunner
General
1 108 (77.14%) Finance
2 43 (30.71%) Social Skills
3 27 (19.29%) Multimedia
4 21 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (7.14%) Marketing
6 3 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 42 (30.00%) Applications Engineer
1 42 (30.00%) Senior
2 27 (19.29%) Trainee
3 25 (17.86%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 13 (9.29%) Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Security Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Software Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Trainee Developer
6 11 (7.86%) Trainee Software Developer
7 10 (7.14%) Development Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Integration Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Development Engineer
9 5 (3.57%) Administrator
9 5 (3.57%) Trainee Administrator
9 5 (3.57%) Web Administrator
10 2 (1.43%) Full-Stack Developer
11 1 (0.71%) DevOps Engineer
11 1 (0.71%) Junior
11 1 (0.71%) QC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (27.14%) RESTful
2 35 (25.00%) SOAP
3 27 (19.29%) CSS
3 27 (19.29%) HTML
3 27 (19.29%) JSON
4 24 (17.14%) OAuth
4 24 (17.14%) OAuth2
5 23 (16.43%) REST
6 21 (15.00%) Lightning Web Components
7 14 (10.00%) XML
8 11 (7.86%) SAML
9 10 (7.14%) .NET
9 10 (7.14%) ADO
10 2 (1.43%) Hibernate
10 2 (1.43%) JPA
10 2 (1.43%) Kafka
10 2 (1.43%) Spring
10 2 (1.43%) Spring Boot
11 1 (0.71%) Swing
11 1 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 47 (33.57%) Cloud Native
2 31 (22.14%) Product Ownership
3 25 (17.86%) Enterprise Software
4 10 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.00%) Low-Code
5 7 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.71%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (72.86%) CI/CD
2 100 (71.43%) DevOps
3 97 (69.29%) Asset Management
3 97 (69.29%) Coaching
4 89 (63.57%) Test Automation
5 77 (55.00%) Agile
6 71 (50.71%) Observability
7 60 (42.86%) AI
8 57 (40.71%) Mentoring
9 49 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 47 (33.57%) Analytics
11 46 (32.86%) Clean Code
12 42 (30.00%) Data Modelling
13 35 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
13 35 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
14 32 (22.86%) Data Integration
15 28 (20.00%) Migration
16 27 (19.29%) ETL
16 27 (19.29%) Root Cause Analysis
17 25 (17.86%) API Integration
Programming Languages
1 89 (63.57%) Python
2 40 (28.57%) SQL
3 37 (26.43%) JavaScript
4 28 (20.00%) Java
5 25 (17.86%) PL/SQL
5 25 (17.86%) Shell Script
6 21 (15.00%) Apex Code
7 16 (11.43%) R
8 13 (9.29%) Bicep
9 10 (7.14%) Bash
9 10 (7.14%) PowerShell
10 7 (5.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (19.29%) AWS Certification
1 27 (19.29%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 27 (19.29%) Azure Certification
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.14%) CISSP
2 10 (7.14%) CREST Certified
2 10 (7.14%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.00%) GDPR
2 10 (7.14%) Accessibility
2 10 (7.14%) QA
3 7 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.71%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 50 (35.71%) Terraform
2 25 (17.86%) Single Sign-On
3 13 (9.29%) Kubernetes
4 10 (7.14%) Grafana
4 10 (7.14%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 38 (27.14%) Microsoft
2 26 (18.57%) Oracle
3 21 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 14 (10.00%) Okta
5 13 (9.29%) Ab Initio
6 7 (5.00%) Databricks
7 2 (1.43%) Google
7 2 (1.43%) Pega