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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 43 56
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 -10
Contract jobs citing Git 13 24 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.89% 3.88% 2.89%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.29% 18.60% 26.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 20
10th Percentile - £400 £380
25th Percentile - £442 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £429
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +12.18% -9.68%
75th Percentile £463 £534 £523
90th Percentile £500 £572 £534
Scotland median daily rate £400 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -7.61%

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 85 129 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 12.35% 20.87% 11.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 60 56
10th Percentile £393 £400 £341
25th Percentile £414 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £462
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +4.22% -2.74%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £531
90th Percentile £600 £566 £600
Scotland median daily rate £434 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -12.20% +4.00% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 £63.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -
Scotland median hourly rate £60.91 £17.45 -
% change year-on-year +249.15% - -

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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (7.69%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (23.08%) GCP
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) Serverless
4 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) HTTPS
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (7.69%) Db2
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 1 (7.69%) Claude Code
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
3 1 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Front Office
4 1 (7.69%) Military
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Developer
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Developer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
2 1 (7.69%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (7.69%) iOS Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Pricing Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
2 1 (7.69%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) REST
1 2 (15.38%) RESTful
1 2 (15.38%) Spring
1 2 (15.38%) Spring Boot
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Core
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Core Data
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth
2 1 (7.69%) OAuth2
2 1 (7.69%) OpenID
2 1 (7.69%) Quarkus
2 1 (7.69%) React
2 1 (7.69%) RxSwift
2 1 (7.69%) SwiftUI
2 1 (7.69%) UIKit
2 1 (7.69%) WinForms
2 1 (7.69%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 3 (23.08%) Data Modelling
4 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 2 (15.38%) ITIL
5 2 (15.38%) Microservices
5 2 (15.38%) Observability
5 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (15.38%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 2 (15.38%) Search Processing Language
3 2 (15.38%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) REXX
4 1 (7.69%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Nagios
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Splunk
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
3 1 (7.69%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft