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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 43 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 +20
Contract jobs citing Git 22 28 48
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.52% 3.70% 4.88%
As % of the Development Applications category 18.49% 30.43% 29.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 25
10th Percentile £416 £382 £400
25th Percentile £438 £398 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £429 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.18% -4.67% -3.02%
75th Percentile £551 £514 £538
90th Percentile £580 £534 £600
Scotland median daily rate £500 £425 £463
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.11% -9.31%

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 119 92 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 19.04% 12.15% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 57 103
10th Percentile £386 £376 £374
25th Percentile £423 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +1.06%
75th Percentile £518 £513 £528
90th Percentile £556 £538 £585
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +5.56% -6.98% +1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £55.13 - -
25th Percentile £57.19 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £63.75 - £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.00%
75th Percentile £69.69 - £62.50
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £17.45 - £59.52
% change year-on-year - - +13.99%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Edinburgh

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 (9.09%) Apache
1 2 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 14 (63.64%) AWS
2 11 (50.00%) Azure
3 8 (36.36%) GCP
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 4 (18.18%) OpenShift
5 3 (13.64%) Amazon EKS
5 3 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 3 (13.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (9.09%) npm
6 2 (9.09%) Snowflake
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub
7 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (4.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) Relational Database
2 3 (13.64%) MongoDB
3 2 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (9.09%) InfluxDB
3 2 (9.09%) MySQL
3 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
4 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
1 2 (9.09%) git-flow
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
1 2 (9.09%) Subversion
1 2 (9.09%) webpack
2 1 (4.55%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.55%) GitLab
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) Maven
2 1 (4.55%) Postman
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Finance
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (9.09%) Back Office
6 1 (4.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Lead
3 3 (13.64%) Site Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Analytics Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Angular Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Automation Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Analytics Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Data Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (45.45%) Spring
2 9 (40.91%) Spring Boot
3 8 (36.36%) RESTful
4 6 (27.27%) React
5 3 (13.64%) CSS
5 3 (13.64%) HTML
5 3 (13.64%) Node.js
5 3 (13.64%) Web Services
6 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 2 (9.09%) AWS CDK
6 2 (9.09%) Express.js
6 2 (9.09%) Jest
6 2 (9.09%) REST
6 2 (9.09%) SOAP
6 2 (9.09%) Spring Security
6 2 (9.09%) Spring Web Flow
6 2 (9.09%) Thymeleaf
6 2 (9.09%) XML
7 1 (4.55%) Streamlit
7 1 (4.55%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (22.73%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Native
3 3 (13.64%) Legacy Code
3 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
4 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
4 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
5 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
1 4 (18.18%) Unix
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) CI/CD
2 13 (59.09%) Agile
3 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 8 (36.36%) Data Protection
4 8 (36.36%) Microservices
5 7 (31.82%) Migration
5 7 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (31.82%) Software Engineering
6 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (22.73%) Scrum
8 4 (18.18%) API Design
8 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
8 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
8 4 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
8 4 (18.18%) Mentoring
9 3 (13.64%) API Development
9 3 (13.64%) Observability
9 3 (13.64%) Secure Coding
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
2 8 (36.36%) Perl
3 7 (31.82%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) TypeScript
5 5 (22.73%) Python
6 3 (13.64%) Bash
7 2 (9.09%) PL/SQL
7 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
8 1 (4.55%) C#
8 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
4 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Docker
2 3 (13.64%) KVM
Systems Management
1 6 (27.27%) Terraform
2 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Grafana
3 3 (13.64%) Prometheus
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (9.09%) Fluentd
4 2 (9.09%) HAProxy
4 2 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Oracle
2 3 (13.64%) Commvault
2 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) VMware