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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 41 50
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +14
Contract jobs citing Git 15 27 29
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.39% 4.23% 3.30%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.39% 25.96% 20.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 19
10th Percentile £400 £369 £413
25th Percentile £405 £398 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £469 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.77% +15.79%
75th Percentile £466 £538 £634
90th Percentile £497 £539 -
Scotland median daily rate £400 £425 £590
% change year-on-year -5.88% -27.97% +15.69%
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 112 104 144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 17.86% 16.28% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 72 107
10th Percentile £358 £333 £400
25th Percentile £416 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £458 £480
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -4.69% +4.92%
75th Percentile £585 £520 £575
90th Percentile £686 £552 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +6.50%
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 - £40.94
% change year-on-year - - -27.01%

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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) AWS
3 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (13.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
4 2 (13.33%) npm
5 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (6.67%) GIS
3 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
2 3 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (13.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.67%) Maven
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 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Python Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
4 2 (13.33%) React Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Angular Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
5 1 (6.67%) GIS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) React
2 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
2 4 (26.67%) Node.js
2 4 (26.67%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) Express.js
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (13.33%) Jest
4 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
5 1 (6.67%) .NET
5 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) JWT
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
5 1 (6.67%) OAuth
5 1 (6.67%) Redux
5 1 (6.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Architecture
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Unix
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) AI
5 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) B2B
6 2 (13.33%) Coaching
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
6 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
1 7 (46.67%) TypeScript
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) Perl
4 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.67%) VBA
4 1 (6.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (6.67%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Terraform
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock