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 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 42 55
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing Git 15 24 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.15% 3.81% 2.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.02% 22.43% 12.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 11
10th Percentile £408 £303 £410
25th Percentile £419 £400 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £623
Median % change year-on-year - -25.70% +30.03%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £634
90th Percentile - £551 -
Scotland median daily rate £425 £445 £575
% change year-on-year -4.49% -22.61% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
Scotland median hourly rate £58.73 - £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 107 107 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.35% 16.98% 16.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 64 99
10th Percentile £361 £330 £363
25th Percentile £413 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £483
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% -3.47% +1.68%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £575
90th Percentile £686 £563 £634
Scotland median daily rate £470 £460 £499
% change year-on-year +2.17% -7.77% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £27.80
25th Percentile - - £30.50
Median hourly rate - £60.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - +71.43% -33.33%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £39.92 £40.94
% change year-on-year +52.60% -2.50% -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 (33.33%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) AWS
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) GCP
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub
4 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) npm
4 1 (6.67%) PaaS
4 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.67%) SaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
2 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (6.67%) GIS
2 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 3 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) Selenium
4 1 (6.67%) Storybook
4 1 (6.67%) Subversion
4 1 (6.67%) TeamCity
4 1 (6.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 5 (33.33%) Python Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) React Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (6.67%) GIS Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Pricing Developer
6 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
3 3 (20.00%) REST
3 3 (20.00%) RESTful
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) Node.js
4 2 (13.33%) OAuth
4 2 (13.33%) Spring
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) Express.js
5 1 (6.67%) Jest
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) JWT
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) Middleware
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
5 1 (6.67%) OpenID
5 1 (6.67%) Quarkus
5 1 (6.67%) Redux
5 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (46.67%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) AI
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) B2B
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
7 1 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) Java
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) C++
5 1 (6.67%) REXX
5 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
5 1 (6.67%) VBA
5 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
3 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Nagios
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
1 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Adobe
1 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
1 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
1 1 (6.67%) IBM
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle