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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 41 53
Rank change year-on-year -21 +12 -9
Contract jobs citing Git 13 26 20
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.76% 4.19% 2.48%
As % of the Development Applications category 15.66% 19.55% 22.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 17
10th Percentile - £400 £380
25th Percentile - £414 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +13.24% -12.82%
75th Percentile £463 £544 £513
90th Percentile £500 £564 £531
Scotland median daily rate £395 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -21.00% +17.65% -11.46%

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 83 133 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.23% 21.42% 10.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 60 53
10th Percentile £358 £400 £363
25th Percentile £413 £444 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £529 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £566 £600
Scotland median daily rate £438 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -7.89% -1.04% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 £60.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% - -
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%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
3 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) GCP
4 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (15.38%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (15.38%) GitHub
4 2 (15.38%) Serverless
4 2 (15.38%) Snowflake
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (7.69%) AWS KMS
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub Copilot
5 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 1 (7.69%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) IBM UrbanCode
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (7.69%) webpack
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Finance
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
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 2 (15.38%) Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (7.69%) C# Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Pricing Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Software Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
3 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
1 2 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Clustering
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 8 (61.54%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
4 4 (30.77%) Data Modelling
5 3 (23.08%) Containerisation
5 3 (23.08%) Migration
5 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Analytics
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) Observability
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Bicep
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) REXX
3 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%) GDPR
1 1 (7.69%) QA
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
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%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Databricks
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft