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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 46 57
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Git 15 25 15
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.94% 3.86% 1.82%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.48% 18.66% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 13 14
10th Percentile - £400 £380
25th Percentile - £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +17.65% -13.92%
75th Percentile £431 £538 £507
90th Percentile £488 £558 £634
Scotland median daily rate £398 £474 £425
% change year-on-year -16.09% +11.47% -12.82%

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 91 134 91
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.77% 20.71% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 67 59
10th Percentile £358 £400 £295
25th Percentile £406 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £600
90th Percentile £600 £578 £639
Scotland median daily rate £429 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -9.74% -1.04% +1.05%
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 £40.94
% change year-on-year +249.15% -57.39% -32.08%

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 3 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (6.67%) Apache
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Serverless
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DNS
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
1 1 (6.67%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (6.67%) Db2
2 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 2 (13.33%) GitLab
4 1 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
4 1 (6.67%) Postman
4 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Banking
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Front Office
4 1 (6.67%) Military
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
3 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
3 1 (6.67%) iOS Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Pricing Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) REST
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) React
2 2 (13.33%) Spring
2 2 (13.33%) Spring Boot
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Middleware
3 1 (6.67%) Node.js
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth2
3 1 (6.67%) OpenID
3 1 (6.67%) UIKit
3 1 (6.67%) WinForms
3 1 (6.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
2 1 (6.67%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 9 (60.00%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 3 (20.00%) Observability
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (13.33%) AI
6 2 (13.33%) Analytics
6 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) Python
2 2 (13.33%) Bash
2 2 (13.33%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (13.33%) Search Processing Language
2 2 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) Bicep
3 1 (6.67%) C#
3 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.67%) REXX
3 1 (6.67%) Swift
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
3 1 (6.67%) Nagios
3 1 (6.67%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
1 2 (13.33%) Splunk
2 1 (6.67%) Dynatrace
2 1 (6.67%) ForgeRock
2 1 (6.67%) IBM