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 17 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 42 53
Rank change year-on-year -6 +11 +8
Contract jobs citing Git 14 24 30
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.30% 3.88% 3.36%
As % of the Development Applications category 12.73% 25.53% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 19
10th Percentile £408 £332 £412
25th Percentile £419 £393 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% -13.10% +10.53%
75th Percentile £469 £528 £600
90th Percentile £503 £542 £634
Scotland median daily rate £414 £415 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -27.83% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £26.00

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 110 94 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 18.03% 15.21% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 64 120
10th Percentile £358 £315 £400
25th Percentile £416 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £450 £477
Median % change year-on-year +5.11% -5.66% +3.41%
75th Percentile £585 £514 £550
90th Percentile £686 £542 £600
Scotland median daily rate £461 £450 £498
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.55% +4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £27.80
25th Percentile - - £30.50
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £61.84 - £35.00
% change year-on-year - - -33.33%

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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Power Platform
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (14.29%) npm
5 1 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.14%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (7.14%) GIS
3 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
3 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 2 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) Maven
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Storybook
3 1 (7.14%) Subversion
3 1 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
3 1 (7.14%) webpack
General
1 5 (35.71%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (21.43%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) React Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Angular Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
4 1 (7.14%) GIS Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (28.57%) React
1 4 (28.57%) Spring
2 3 (21.43%) CSS
2 3 (21.43%) Express.js
2 3 (21.43%) FastAPI
2 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 3 (21.43%) Node.js
2 3 (21.43%) REST
2 3 (21.43%) RESTful
3 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
3 2 (14.29%) Jest
3 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
4 1 (7.14%) .NET
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) JWT
4 1 (7.14%) Kafka
4 1 (7.14%) OAuth
4 1 (7.14%) Redux
4 1 (7.14%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (21.43%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
3 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 2 (14.29%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) CI/CD
2 9 (64.29%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) DevOps
3 5 (35.71%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Data Protection
4 4 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (21.43%) Front End Development
5 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
5 3 (21.43%) OO
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) AI
6 2 (14.29%) Coaching
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (14.29%) Microservices
6 2 (14.29%) OOD
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
1 6 (42.86%) TypeScript
2 5 (35.71%) Python
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 2 (14.29%) Perl
6 1 (7.14%) C#
6 1 (7.14%) C++
6 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
6 1 (7.14%) VBA
6 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
2 3 (21.43%) Accessibility
3 2 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe