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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Git 17 29 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.93% 5.12% 3.25%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.78% 30.53% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 17
10th Percentile £419 £392 £408
25th Percentile £444 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £543 £532 £588
90th Percentile £576 £538 £615
Scotland median daily rate £440 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% -18.18% +7.84%

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 115 95 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.79% 16.78% 16.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 63 109
10th Percentile £373 £382 £398
25th Percentile £419 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £469 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.07% -2.29% +6.43%
75th Percentile £525 £523 £543
90th Percentile £600 £538 £588
Scotland median daily rate £465 £455 £500
% change year-on-year +2.20% -9.00% +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £58.11 - £59.03
% change year-on-year - - +12.44%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Edinburgh

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 2 (11.76%) Apache
1 2 (11.76%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (58.82%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (23.53%) Amazon S3
4 3 (17.65%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (17.65%) OpenShift
4 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
4 3 (17.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (11.76%) GCP
5 2 (11.76%) npm
6 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub
6 1 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) MongoDB
1 4 (23.53%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) InfluxDB
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.88%) git-flow
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Storybook
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 9 (52.94%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Back Office
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead Software Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (52.94%) Spring
2 7 (41.18%) Spring Boot
3 5 (29.41%) React
3 5 (29.41%) RESTful
4 3 (17.65%) CSS
4 3 (17.65%) Express.js
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) Node.js
5 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
5 2 (11.76%) AWS CDK
5 2 (11.76%) Jest
5 2 (11.76%) REST
5 2 (11.76%) SOAP
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Security
5 2 (11.76%) Spring Web Flow
5 2 (11.76%) Thymeleaf
5 2 (11.76%) Web Services
5 2 (11.76%) XML
6 1 (5.88%) Streamlit
6 1 (5.88%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Unix
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (11.76%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) CI/CD
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
5 4 (23.53%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (23.53%) Migration
5 4 (23.53%) Software Engineering
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
6 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (17.65%) Network Load Balancing
6 3 (17.65%) Observability
6 3 (17.65%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) Java
2 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 6 (35.29%) TypeScript
4 5 (29.41%) Perl
4 5 (29.41%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
5 3 (17.65%) Bash
6 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
7 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
1 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 5 (29.41%) Docker
2 3 (17.65%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) Terraform
2 4 (23.53%) Kubernetes
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Grafana
3 3 (17.65%) Prometheus
3 3 (17.65%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (11.76%) Fluentd
4 2 (11.76%) HAProxy
4 2 (11.76%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Commvault
2 3 (17.65%) Red Hat
3 1 (5.88%) Adobe