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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 39 58
Rank change year-on-year -16 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing Git 15 23 18
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 1.90% 3.66% 2.08%
As % of the Development Applications category 16.13% 19.83% 16.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 16
10th Percentile - £400 £380
25th Percentile - £406 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +8.82% -13.71%
75th Percentile £463 £538 £634
90th Percentile £500 £550 -
Scotland median daily rate £390 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -15.68% +8.82% -13.71%

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 93 116 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 11.76% 18.44% 12.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 61 71
10th Percentile £358 £381 £306
25th Percentile £413 £420 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% - -
75th Percentile £552 £538 £600
90th Percentile £636 £563 £634
Scotland median daily rate £430 £470 £475
% change year-on-year -8.51% -1.05% -0.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £68.00 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.62% - -
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 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
3 4 (26.67%) GCP
4 3 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
5 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (6.67%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (6.67%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (6.67%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
6 1 (6.67%) Serverless
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 1 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.67%) Db2
1 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
1 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) GitLab
3 1 (6.67%) IBM UrbanCode
3 1 (6.67%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) webpack
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
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 3 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Backend Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.67%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (6.67%) GIS Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Pricing Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leader
4 1 (6.67%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) REST
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.67%) CSS
3 1 (6.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (6.67%) JSON
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%) Spring
3 1 (6.67%) SwiftUI
3 1 (6.67%) UIKit
3 1 (6.67%) WinForms
3 1 (6.67%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Clustering
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 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 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (53.33%) DevOps
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
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 Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Monitoring
6 2 (13.33%) Migration
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) Python
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Bash
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (6.67%) Bicep
4 1 (6.67%) C#
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) REXX
4 1 (6.67%) Swift
4 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
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (6.67%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) 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