Git Contracts in Scotland

Git Distributed Version Control System
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Git skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Git over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 76 43
Rank change year-on-year +9 -33 -2
Contract jobs citing Git 49 93 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.29% 3.48% 5.16%
As % of the Development Applications category 13.76% 19.29% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 64 126
10th Percentile £356 £413 £406
25th Percentile £395 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £612
90th Percentile £634 £676 £673
UK median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £26.00 £60.55 -
Median % change year-on-year -57.06% - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £67.34 £65.54
% change year-on-year -7.19% +2.75% +13.00%

All Development Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 356 482 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 16.61% 18.04% 19.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 358 483
10th Percentile £363 £371 £371
25th Percentile £418 £416 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £553
90th Percentile £645 £613 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 7
10th Percentile £34.10 £59.49 £32.40
25th Percentile - £60.17 £45.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £62.46 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.46% +14.61% +36.25%
75th Percentile - £67.11 £56.63
90th Percentile - £68.09 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £51.10
% change year-on-year +4.00% +22.31% +6.74%

Git
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Git as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Git in Scotland

Git
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Git in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Git in Scotland

Git
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Git in Scotland over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Git in Scotland

Git
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Git in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Git in Scotland

Git
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Git within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 13 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +20 26 £443 -31.92% 14
Edinburgh -6 19 £425 -13.27% 20
Perthshire +10 2 £525 -4.55%
Git
UK

Git
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.08%) Cloud Foundry
1 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.73%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 12 (24.49%) OpenShift
4 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (8.16%) PaaS
6 4 (8.16%) SaaS
6 4 (8.16%) Serverless
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (4.08%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.08%) GitHub
7 2 (4.08%) IaaS
7 2 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.24%) Firewall
1 6 (12.24%) Kerberos
2 2 (4.08%) NAS
2 2 (4.08%) SAN
2 2 (4.08%) SSL
3 1 (2.04%) 2G
3 1 (2.04%) 5G
3 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Relational Database
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server
3 4 (8.16%) NoSQL
3 4 (8.16%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (44.90%) Jenkins
2 7 (14.29%) Bitbucket
3 6 (12.24%) Gradle
3 6 (12.24%) Maven
4 5 (10.20%) JIRA
4 5 (10.20%) Selenium
4 5 (10.20%) Visual Studio
5 4 (8.16%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.16%) Subversion
6 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (4.08%) JUnit
6 2 (4.08%) TeamCity
6 2 (4.08%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.04%) Appium
7 1 (2.04%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 5 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Automotive
4 1 (2.04%) Finance
4 1 (2.04%) German Language
4 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.86%) Developer
2 6 (12.24%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Senior
3 5 (10.20%) Site Manager
3 5 (10.20%) Site Reliability Manager
4 4 (8.16%) .NET Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Java Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Test Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.12%) UI Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) AWS Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Functional Test Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Python Developer
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (30.61%) RESTful
2 14 (28.57%) REST
3 12 (24.49%) .NET
4 10 (20.41%) Web Services
5 9 (18.37%) JSON
6 8 (16.33%) OpenID
6 8 (16.33%) SOAP
6 8 (16.33%) Spring
6 8 (16.33%) XML
7 7 (14.29%) CSS
7 7 (14.29%) Kafka
8 6 (12.24%) LDAP
8 6 (12.24%) Spring Boot
9 5 (10.20%) React
10 4 (8.16%) .NET Core
10 4 (8.16%) .NET Framework
10 4 (8.16%) Playwright
10 4 (8.16%) WinForms
10 4 (8.16%) WPF
11 2 (4.08%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.24%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 4 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.16%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.12%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (6.12%) Data Structures
5 2 (4.08%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.08%) Client/Server
5 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (4.08%) Legacy Code
5 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.04%) IoT
6 1 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.04%) NB-IoT
6 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (30.61%) Unix
2 14 (28.57%) Windows
3 11 (22.45%) Linux
4 4 (8.16%) VMS
5 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
6 1 (2.04%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (40.82%) Agile
1 20 (40.82%) DevOps
2 19 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 17 (34.69%) Continuous Integration
4 16 (32.65%) Test Automation
5 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (16.33%) Deployment Automation
6 8 (16.33%) Migration
6 8 (16.33%) OO
6 8 (16.33%) TDD
7 7 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 7 (14.29%) Microservices
7 7 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
7 7 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 6 (12.24%) Application Security
8 6 (12.24%) Configuration Management
8 6 (12.24%) OWASP
8 6 (12.24%) SDLC
9 5 (10.20%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (34.69%) SQL
2 13 (26.53%) Java
2 13 (26.53%) Python
3 12 (24.49%) C#
4 8 (16.33%) C
4 8 (16.33%) Shell Script
5 6 (12.24%) Bash
5 6 (12.24%) Go
5 6 (12.24%) Groovy
5 6 (12.24%) Ruby
6 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
6 5 (10.20%) Perl
7 4 (8.16%) VB
7 4 (8.16%) VB6
8 3 (6.12%) C++
9 2 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
9 2 (4.08%) VBA
9 2 (4.08%) VBScript
10 1 (2.04%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (4.08%) ISEB
3 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.08%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (18.37%) Docker
2 8 (16.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) Kubernetes
2 8 (16.33%) Ansible
2 8 (16.33%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.04%) Argo
4 1 (2.04%) Grafana
4 1 (2.04%) Istio
4 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.04%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Oracle
2 6 (12.24%) Cadence
3 4 (8.16%) Infragistics
4 2 (4.08%) Adobe
4 2 (4.08%) IBM
4 2 (4.08%) Sage
4 2 (4.08%) Veritas
4 2 (4.08%) Xamarin
5 1 (2.04%) BMC
5 1 (2.04%) Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) Dell
5 1 (2.04%) HP
5 1 (2.04%) Remedy
5 1 (2.04%) Renesas
5 1 (2.04%) SaltStack
5 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow