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

6 months to
4 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 44 52
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Git 15 21 22
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.24% 3.41% 2.67%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.02% 21.00% 16.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 15 15
10th Percentile £408 £283 £413
25th Percentile £419 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -19.57% +20.42%
75th Percentile £469 £538 £634
90th Percentile £503 £552 -
Scotland median daily rate £402 £445 £590
% change year-on-year -9.66% -24.58% +18.00%
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 107 100 136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 15.99% 16.23% 16.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 63 103
10th Percentile £358 £322 £370
25th Percentile £416 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £463 £483
Median % change year-on-year +6.49% -4.24% +1.68%
75th Percentile £625 £525 £575
90th Percentile £686 £559 £632
Scotland median daily rate £469 £450 £499
% change year-on-year +4.22% -9.77% +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% -31.53%

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
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) 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%) Snowflake
5 1 (6.67%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub
5 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (6.67%) IaaS
5 1 (6.67%) npm
5 1 (6.67%) PaaS
5 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) Serverless
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
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) GitLab
3 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
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
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Back Office
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Corporate Banking
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%) Data Engineer
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%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
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%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) FastAPI
1 4 (26.67%) Node.js
1 4 (26.67%) React
1 4 (26.67%) REST
2 3 (20.00%) CSS
2 3 (20.00%) Express.js
2 3 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) RESTful
3 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (13.33%) Spring
4 1 (6.67%) .NET
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
4 1 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (6.67%) JSON
4 1 (6.67%) JWT
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (6.67%) Redux
4 1 (6.67%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) Agile
3 5 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) AI
5 3 (20.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) B2B
6 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
6 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) ETL
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) TDD
7 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 1 (6.67%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Java
5 1 (6.67%) Bash
5 1 (6.67%) C#
5 1 (6.67%) C++
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 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (13.33%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (13.33%) GDPR
4 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Adobe
2 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock