Git Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Git Distributed Version Control System
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Git skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 47 57
Rank change year-on-year -9 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Git 18 22 18
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.27% 3.40% 2.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.51% 18.49% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 15
10th Percentile £404 £205 £380
25th Percentile £409 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% - -13.92%
75th Percentile £491 £519 £634
90th Percentile £511 £538 -
Scotland median daily rate £402 £424 £429
% change year-on-year -5.19% -1.17% -14.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Scotland median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -57.06%

All Development Application Skills
Edinburgh

Git falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 109 119 107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 13.73% 18.36% 12.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 62 76
10th Percentile £360 £315 £363
25th Percentile £416 £413 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £477
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -0.42% -0.10%
75th Percentile £608 £538 £575
90th Percentile £686 £596 £634
Scotland median daily rate £465 £464 £475
% change year-on-year +0.27% -2.37% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £60.75 £26.90
25th Percentile - £61.88 £28.25
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% +113.11% -49.17%
75th Percentile - £69.38 £32.75
90th Percentile - £71.25 £34.10
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 £40.94
% change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -32.39%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Git relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Git job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Git
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Git.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Git

Git
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Git.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Git

Git
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 5 (27.78%) Confluence
2 2 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (5.56%) Apache
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (33.33%) AWS
1 6 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) GCP
3 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) GitHub
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (11.11%) Amazon S3
4 2 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.11%) Snowflake
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (5.56%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (5.56%) AWS KMS
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.56%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) HTTP
1 1 (5.56%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) Db2
2 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (5.56%) GIS
2 1 (5.56%) Power BI
2 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Jenkins
2 6 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.56%) GitLab
3 1 (5.56%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (5.56%) Postman
3 1 (5.56%) Selenium
3 1 (5.56%) Subversion
3 1 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.56%) webpack
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
3 3 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Retail
5 1 (5.56%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Front Office
5 1 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Military
5 1 (5.56%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Python Developer
3 4 (22.22%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (16.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) React Developer
6 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Backend Developer
6 1 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Pricing Developer
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) FastAPI
1 4 (22.22%) React
2 3 (16.67%) REST
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
3 2 (11.11%) RESTful
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.56%) CSS
4 1 (5.56%) Entity Framework
4 1 (5.56%) JSON
4 1 (5.56%) Middleware
4 1 (5.56%) Node.js
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth
4 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (5.56%) OpenID
4 1 (5.56%) Spring
4 1 (5.56%) Spring Boot
4 1 (5.56%) WinForms
4 1 (5.56%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.56%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) CI/CD
2 9 (50.00%) DevOps
3 8 (44.44%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (22.22%) AI
5 4 (22.22%) Data Modelling
5 4 (22.22%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (16.67%) Data Protection
6 3 (16.67%) Observability
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (11.11%) Analytics
7 2 (11.11%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 2 (11.11%) Kanban
7 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
7 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 4 (22.22%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 2 (11.11%) Bash
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Java
4 2 (11.11%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (5.56%) Bicep
5 1 (5.56%) C++
5 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.56%) REXX
5 1 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) VBA
5 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Nagios
3 1 (5.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle
1 2 (11.11%) Splunk
2 1 (5.56%) Dynatrace
2 1 (5.56%) ForgeRock
2 1 (5.56%) IBM