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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 35 51
Rank change year-on-year -13 +16 +1
Contract jobs citing Git 17 30 31
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 2.83% 5.02% 3.41%
As % of the Development Applications category 14.78% 30.93% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 20
10th Percentile £408 £387 £409
25th Percentile £419 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £469 £513
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -8.54% +10.81%
75th Percentile £469 £530 £600
90th Percentile £503 £538 £634
Scotland median daily rate £425 £439 £563
% change year-on-year -3.13% -22.00% +10.29%
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 115 97 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.13% 16.22% 16.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 66 113
10th Percentile £378 £359 £400
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £458 £479
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -4.49% +4.70%
75th Percentile £600 £518 £543
90th Percentile £682 £541 £588
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +2.78% -10.00% +6.38%
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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (11.76%) GCP
4 2 (11.76%) npm
5 1 (5.88%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) IaaS
5 1 (5.88%) PaaS
5 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.88%) SaaS
5 1 (5.88%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (5.88%) GIS
3 1 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.88%) MySQL
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) git-flow
3 1 (5.88%) Maven
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) Storybook
3 1 (5.88%) Subversion
3 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
3 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.88%) webpack
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Back Office
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 3 (17.65%) Full-Stack Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Java Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Python Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) React Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Angular Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Data Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Developer
4 1 (5.88%) QA Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) React
1 7 (41.18%) Spring
2 5 (29.41%) RESTful
2 5 (29.41%) Spring Boot
3 3 (17.65%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) Express.js
3 3 (17.65%) FastAPI
3 3 (17.65%) HTML
3 3 (17.65%) Node.js
3 3 (17.65%) REST
4 2 (11.76%) AngularJS
4 2 (11.76%) Jest
5 1 (5.88%) .NET
5 1 (5.88%) JSON
5 1 (5.88%) JWT
5 1 (5.88%) Kafka
5 1 (5.88%) OAuth
5 1 (5.88%) Redux
5 1 (5.88%) Streamlit
5 1 (5.88%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.76%) Algorithms
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 2 (11.76%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.88%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Linux
1 1 (5.88%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) CI/CD
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
3 6 (35.29%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
4 5 (29.41%) Microservices
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) Front End Development
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 3 (17.65%) OO
6 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (11.76%) AI
7 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 2 (11.76%) Coaching
7 2 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (11.76%) OOD
7 2 (11.76%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) TypeScript
2 7 (41.18%) Java
3 6 (35.29%) JavaScript
3 6 (35.29%) Python
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Perl
6 1 (5.88%) C#
6 1 (5.88%) C++
6 1 (5.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
6 1 (5.88%) VBA
6 1 (5.88%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
3 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
2 3 (17.65%) Accessibility
2 3 (17.65%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Adobe