CI/CD Contracts in Scotland

CI/CD
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 14 20
Rank change year-on-year -11 +6 +16
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 144 281 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 6.52% 9.85% 7.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.36% 10.62% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 226 184
10th Percentile £404 £413 £413
25th Percentile £448 £446 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £578 £568 £596
90th Percentile £671 £688 £736
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile - £61.50 £43.31
25th Percentile £60.25 £62.91 £45.65
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.28 £49.54
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +31.76% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.64 £50.16
90th Percentile - £69.06 £50.52
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +44.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,956 2,645 3,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.63% 92.68% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,903 2,321
10th Percentile £230 £261 £244
25th Percentile £400 £407 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £588 £554 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 55 49
10th Percentile £12.36 £10.63 £14.94
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.78 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.34 £17.72 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -46.30% -21.43%
75th Percentile £40.94 £54.13 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.75 £67.13 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing CI/CD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
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 CI/CD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 April 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 -4 74 £500 -21.88% 27
Edinburgh -3 58 £492 +2.71% 31
West Lothian +1 1 £540 +10.20%
Renfrewshire -3 1 - -
Lanarkshire - 1 £460 - 6
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
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 5 (3.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.08%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.08%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.39%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (1.39%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 87 (60.42%) AWS
2 36 (25.00%) OpenShift
3 30 (20.83%) Serverless
4 29 (20.14%) Amazon S3
4 29 (20.14%) AWS Lambda
5 27 (18.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 18 (12.50%) Azure
7 13 (9.03%) AWS CodePipeline
8 9 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (4.17%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (4.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (4.17%) GCP
10 6 (4.17%) IaaS
10 6 (4.17%) npm
11 5 (3.47%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.47%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (2.78%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.25%) HTTP
2 8 (5.56%) Firewall
2 8 (5.56%) SSL
2 8 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 7 (4.86%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 7 (4.86%) NetScaler
4 4 (2.78%) Internet
4 4 (2.78%) NAS
4 4 (2.78%) SAN
5 1 (0.69%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (11.81%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (7.64%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (6.94%) Relational Database
5 9 (6.25%) Oracle Database
6 8 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.86%) MySQL
7 7 (4.86%) NoSQL
8 6 (4.17%) MariaDB
8 6 (4.17%) MongoDB
9 5 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (3.47%) GIS
10 4 (2.78%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (2.78%) Big Data
11 3 (2.08%) DB2
11 3 (2.08%) Hadoop
11 3 (2.08%) InfluxDB
11 3 (2.08%) Power BI
12 2 (1.39%) Apache Hive
12 2 (1.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 55 (38.19%) Jenkins
2 30 (20.83%) Git
3 18 (12.50%) GitLab
4 10 (6.94%) Cucumber
5 9 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 8 (5.56%) Maven
7 7 (4.86%) Gradle
7 7 (4.86%) Selenium
8 6 (4.17%) JIRA
8 6 (4.17%) JUnit
8 6 (4.17%) webpack
9 5 (3.47%) Artifactory
9 5 (3.47%) Mockito
9 5 (3.47%) WebDriver
10 3 (2.08%) CircleCI
10 3 (2.08%) TeamCity
11 2 (1.39%) Subversion
11 2 (1.39%) Terragrunt
12 1 (0.69%) JMeter
12 1 (0.69%) NUnit
General
1 41 (28.47%) Public Sector
2 27 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 16 (11.11%) Finance
4 14 (9.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 10 (6.94%) Banking
6 7 (4.86%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (4.17%) Back Office
7 6 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (2.78%) Electronics
9 2 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.39%) Law
10 1 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.69%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (39.58%) Developer
2 26 (18.06%) Java Developer
3 14 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (8.33%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (7.64%) Architect
5 11 (7.64%) Full Stack Developer
5 11 (7.64%) Full Stack Engineer
6 10 (6.94%) Cloud Engineer
7 9 (6.25%) Java Engineer
7 9 (6.25%) Lead
8 8 (5.56%) Data Engineer
8 8 (5.56%) Software Developer
9 7 (4.86%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (4.86%) Software Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Full Stack Java Developer
10 6 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Python Engineer
10 6 (4.17%) Senior
10 6 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 5 (3.47%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (36.11%) REST
2 38 (26.39%) Spring
3 33 (22.92%) Spring Boot
4 31 (21.53%) CSS
4 31 (21.53%) HTML
5 28 (19.44%) AWS CDK
5 28 (19.44%) React
6 18 (12.50%) AngularJS
7 17 (11.81%) Node.js
7 17 (11.81%) RESTful
8 13 (9.03%) OAuth
9 11 (7.64%) JPA
10 10 (6.94%) Spring Security
11 9 (6.25%) OAuth2
12 8 (5.56%) PostGIS
12 8 (5.56%) Spring MVC
12 8 (5.56%) Spring Web Flow
13 7 (4.86%) Kafka
13 7 (4.86%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (4.86%) Thymeleaf
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.42%) Public Cloud
2 13 (9.03%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (6.25%) Cloud Native
4 7 (4.86%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
5 6 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.78%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (2.78%) IoT
6 4 (2.78%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.78%) PCIe
6 4 (2.78%) Verilog
6 4 (2.78%) VHDL
7 3 (2.08%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.08%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.39%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.39%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.39%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 44 (30.56%) Linux
2 28 (19.44%) Unix
3 13 (9.03%) Windows
4 10 (6.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (3.47%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (3.47%) Ubuntu
6 4 (2.78%) VMS
6 4 (2.78%) VxWorks
6 4 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (54.17%) Agile
2 55 (38.19%) DevOps
3 49 (34.03%) Infrastructure as Code
4 38 (26.39%) Microservices
5 34 (23.61%) Software Engineering
5 34 (23.61%) Test Automation
6 28 (19.44%) Full Stack Development
7 26 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
8 20 (13.89%) Containerisation
8 20 (13.89%) Migration
9 19 (13.19%) Continuous Delivery
9 19 (13.19%) SDLC
9 19 (13.19%) TDD
10 18 (12.50%) Analytics
10 18 (12.50%) Data Protection
10 18 (12.50%) Human-Centred Design
11 17 (11.81%) Inclusive Design
11 17 (11.81%) Roadmaps
11 17 (11.81%) Scrum
11 17 (11.81%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 76 (52.78%) Java
2 57 (39.58%) Python
3 41 (28.47%) SQL
4 39 (27.08%) JavaScript
5 35 (24.31%) TypeScript
6 25 (17.36%) Bash
7 16 (11.11%) Perl
8 15 (10.42%) Shell Script
9 14 (9.72%) Groovy
10 7 (4.86%) Ruby
11 6 (4.17%) C
11 6 (4.17%) C#
12 5 (3.47%) Embedded C
12 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
12 5 (3.47%) Scala
13 4 (2.78%) Kotlin
14 3 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (1.39%) C++
15 2 (1.39%) VBA
15 2 (1.39%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (3.47%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (2.08%) Degree
3 2 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.39%) ISEB
3 2 (1.39%) ISTQB
3 2 (1.39%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (0.69%) Azure Certification
4 1 (0.69%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (13.19%) Accessibility
2 15 (10.42%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (2.78%) MISRA
3 4 (2.78%) MISRA C
4 2 (1.39%) GDPR
5 1 (0.69%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 37 (25.69%) Docker
2 4 (2.78%) Firmware
3 1 (0.69%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.69%) HDFS
3 1 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (19.44%) Terraform
2 26 (18.06%) Kubernetes
3 23 (15.97%) Ansible
3 23 (15.97%) Grafana
4 10 (6.94%) Prometheus
5 8 (5.56%) Kibana
6 4 (2.78%) NetBackup
6 4 (2.78%) Packer
6 4 (2.78%) Zipkin
7 1 (0.69%) Argo
7 1 (0.69%) FreeIPA
7 1 (0.69%) Hadoop YARN
7 1 (0.69%) Icinga
7 1 (0.69%) Istio
7 1 (0.69%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (9.72%) Oracle
2 10 (6.94%) F5
3 4 (2.78%) Atlassian
3 4 (2.78%) Intel
3 4 (2.78%) Microsoft
3 4 (2.78%) Veritas
4 3 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (1.39%) Greenplum
5 2 (1.39%) Splunk
6 1 (0.69%) Confluent
6 1 (0.69%) Google
6 1 (0.69%) IBM
6 1 (0.69%) Informatica
6 1 (0.69%) StreamSets