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 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 82 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 -9 +115
Permanent jobs citing GitHub 93 65 94
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 3.47% 1.99% 3.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.76% 6.50% 10.68%
Number of salaries quoted 28 33 91
10th Percentile - - £46,250
25th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,750 £32,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.54% -53.57% +13.31%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £63,750 £84,056
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% -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 676 1,000 880
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 25.22% 30.68% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 242 477 736
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £71,532 £70,000 £72,450
90th Percentile £87,450 £80,000 £84,056
UK median annual salary £57,500 £65,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -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 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 27 October 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 27 October 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 +50 64 £30,500 -46.96% 28
Glasgow +6 27 £64,500 +3.20% 11
Aberdeen +9 2 £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 9 (9.68%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.23%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.15%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 21 (22.58%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (2.15%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 76 (81.72%) Azure
2 53 (56.99%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (35.48%) AWS
4 31 (33.33%) GitHub Copilot
5 21 (22.58%) OCI
6 20 (21.51%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (12.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 12 (12.90%) Entra ID
8 11 (11.83%) Power Platform
9 10 (10.75%) Snowflake
10 9 (9.68%) dbt
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Event Grid
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (5.38%) Azure Service Bus
11 5 (5.38%) ChatGPT
11 5 (5.38%) Datadog
11 5 (5.38%) SaaS
12 4 (4.30%) Azure AI
12 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.05%) Internet
2 4 (4.30%) DNS
2 4 (4.30%) Firewall
2 4 (4.30%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.83%) Power BI
2 9 (9.68%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (9.68%) Snowflake Schema
2 9 (9.68%) Tableau
3 4 (4.30%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.30%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.23%) Big Data
4 3 (3.23%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.15%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.08%) Metadata
6 1 (1.08%) MongoDB
6 1 (1.08%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 28 (30.11%) Jenkins
2 23 (24.73%) Git
3 21 (22.58%) Oracle Forms
4 18 (19.35%) JIRA
General
1 62 (66.67%) Finance
2 15 (16.13%) Social Skills
3 14 (15.05%) Multimedia
4 11 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.53%) Law
6 4 (4.30%) Banking
6 4 (4.30%) Marketing
6 4 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Private Banking
7 2 (2.15%) Back Office
7 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.15%) Legal
Job Titles
1 36 (38.71%) Senior
2 26 (27.96%) Applications Engineer
3 25 (26.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (18.28%) Developer
5 16 (17.20%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 16 (17.20%) Software Engineer
6 15 (16.13%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 14 (15.05%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
7 14 (15.05%) Trainee
8 10 (10.75%) Software Developer
9 8 (8.60%) Lead
9 8 (8.60%) Lead Software Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) .NET Software Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) C# Software Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (7.53%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) Senior Full-Stack Software Engineer
10 7 (7.53%) Senior Software Engineer
11 6 (6.45%) Java Developer
11 6 (6.45%) Trainee Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (43.01%) RESTful
2 17 (18.28%) JSON
2 17 (18.28%) SOAP
3 14 (15.05%) CSS
3 14 (15.05%) HTML
3 14 (15.05%) OAuth
3 14 (15.05%) OAuth2
3 14 (15.05%) XML
4 13 (13.98%) .NET
5 11 (11.83%) React
6 9 (9.68%) SAML
7 8 (8.60%) AngularJS
7 8 (8.60%) Blazor
8 7 (7.53%) .NET Core
8 7 (7.53%) Kafka
8 7 (7.53%) Spring
9 6 (6.45%) REST
10 5 (5.38%) ADO
10 5 (5.38%) Lightning Web Components
11 4 (4.30%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 39 (41.94%) Cloud Native
2 21 (22.58%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (11.83%) Product Ownership
4 7 (7.53%) Distributed Systems
5 5 (5.38%) Onboarding
6 4 (4.30%) Distributed Applications
7 2 (2.15%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.15%) NHS
7 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.08%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.08%) Blockchain
8 1 (1.08%) Distributed Architecture
8 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (77.42%) CI/CD
2 61 (65.59%) DevOps
3 56 (60.22%) Asset Management
4 52 (55.91%) Agile
4 52 (55.91%) Coaching
5 45 (48.39%) Test Automation
6 40 (43.01%) Mentoring
7 32 (34.41%) AI
8 28 (30.11%) Observability
9 25 (26.88%) Analytics
9 25 (26.88%) Clean Code
9 25 (26.88%) Migration
10 24 (25.81%) ERP
11 22 (23.66%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (22.58%) API Integration
12 21 (22.58%) Microservices
12 21 (22.58%) Software Engineering
13 18 (19.35%) Full-Stack Development
14 17 (18.28%) Sprint Planning
14 17 (18.28%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 55 (59.14%) Python
2 36 (38.71%) SQL
3 33 (35.48%) Java
4 21 (22.58%) PL/SQL
4 21 (22.58%) Shell Script
5 19 (20.43%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.83%) C#
7 9 (9.68%) Bicep
8 8 (8.60%) R
9 7 (7.53%) PowerShell
10 5 (5.38%) Apex Code
11 4 (4.30%) C
12 3 (3.23%) Bash
13 1 (1.08%) C++
13 1 (1.08%) T-SQL
13 1 (1.08%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (15.05%) AWS Certification
1 14 (15.05%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 14 (15.05%) Azure Certification
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (5.38%) Degree
3 3 (3.23%) CISSP
3 3 (3.23%) CREST Certified
3 3 (3.23%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.38%) GDPR
1 5 (5.38%) QA
2 3 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.15%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 17 (18.28%) Docker
2 12 (12.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 39 (41.94%) Terraform
2 21 (22.58%) Kubernetes
2 21 (22.58%) Single Sign-On
3 5 (5.38%) Grafana
3 5 (5.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.58%) Oracle
3 12 (12.90%) Okta
4 5 (5.38%) Ab Initio
4 5 (5.38%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.08%) Databricks