CI/CD Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring CI/CD skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 11 15
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 -1
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 83 73 92
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 13.43% 10.24% 9.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.19% 11.87% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 63
10th Percentile £423 £416 £400
25th Percentile £456 £432 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £470
Median % change year-on-year +2.99% +3.30% -3.98%
75th Percentile £600 £524 £525
90th Percentile £625 £569 £585
Scotland median daily rate £500 £456 £494
% change year-on-year +9.59% -7.59% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.19 -
25th Percentile - £38.49 £60.50
Median hourly rate - £51.18 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.11% -
75th Percentile - £63.35 £61.50
90th Percentile - £70.34 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £51.18 £61.00
% change year-on-year - -16.11% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

CI/CD falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 585 615 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 94.66% 86.26% 91.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 314 566
10th Percentile £263 £230 £200
25th Percentile £413 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -0.84%
75th Percentile £546 £533 £539
90th Percentile £608 £609 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 9
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.04 £12.95
25th Percentile - £19.28 £17.72
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% -32.60% +85.19%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £53.70
90th Percentile £65.75 - £61.70
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £23.23 £19.75
% change year-on-year -13.91% +17.63% +5.33%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD

CI/CD
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 5 (6.02%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (4.82%) Apache
2 4 (4.82%) Confluence
3 1 (1.20%) Apache TomEE
3 1 (1.20%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.20%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 44 (53.01%) AWS
2 37 (44.58%) Azure
3 18 (21.69%) Amazon S3
4 14 (16.87%) Serverless
5 13 (15.66%) GCP
6 11 (13.25%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (13.25%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (12.05%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (10.84%) Amazon EKS
8 9 (10.84%) GitHub
9 8 (9.64%) OpenShift
9 8 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (8.43%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (7.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (6.02%) GitHub Actions
12 5 (6.02%) Power Platform
13 4 (4.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 4 (4.82%) Collibra
14 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.41%) Firewall
1 2 (2.41%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.64%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.23%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (7.23%) MongoDB
3 4 (4.82%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (4.82%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.61%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.61%) Metadata
4 3 (3.61%) MySQL
4 3 (3.61%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.41%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (2.41%) Data Mart
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) InfluxDB
5 2 (2.41%) Power BI
5 2 (2.41%) Redis
5 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) MariaDB
6 1 (1.20%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 20 (24.10%) Jenkins
2 14 (16.87%) Git
3 8 (9.64%) GitLab
4 6 (7.23%) JIRA
5 4 (4.82%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.82%) Liquibase
6 2 (2.41%) git-flow
6 2 (2.41%) Maven
6 2 (2.41%) Snyk
6 2 (2.41%) Subversion
6 2 (2.41%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.20%) Ant
7 1 (1.20%) Capybara
7 1 (1.20%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.20%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.20%) MLflow
7 1 (1.20%) Postman
7 1 (1.20%) Selenium
7 1 (1.20%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.20%) webpack
General
1 21 (25.30%) Finance
2 19 (22.89%) Public Sector
3 16 (19.28%) Banking
3 16 (19.28%) Social Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.82%) Retail Banking
5 3 (3.61%) Legal
6 2 (2.41%) Back Office
6 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (15.66%) Developer
2 12 (14.46%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (12.05%) Software Engineer
4 9 (10.84%) AWS Engineer
5 8 (9.64%) Architect
5 8 (9.64%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Python Engineer
6 7 (8.43%) Senior
7 5 (6.02%) Java Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 5 (6.02%) Site Engineer
7 5 (6.02%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 4 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.82%) Senior Data Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
9 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps
9 3 (3.61%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 3 (3.61%) Technical Architect
10 2 (2.41%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (16.87%) RESTful
2 12 (14.46%) React
2 12 (14.46%) Spring
3 10 (12.05%) REST
4 9 (10.84%) Spring Boot
5 8 (9.64%) AWS CDK
6 7 (8.43%) FastAPI
7 6 (7.23%) .NET
8 4 (4.82%) CSS
8 4 (4.82%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (4.82%) HTML
8 4 (4.82%) Node.js
8 4 (4.82%) NumPy
8 4 (4.82%) Pandas
9 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth
9 3 (3.61%) OAuth2
9 3 (3.61%) PySpark
9 3 (3.61%) PyTorch
10 2 (2.41%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.28%) Cloud Native
2 9 (10.84%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (10.84%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (4.82%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.61%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.41%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.41%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.41%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.41%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.41%) PKI
7 1 (1.20%) AI Agents
7 1 (1.20%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.20%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.20%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.20%) Replication
7 1 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.10%) Linux
2 13 (15.66%) Unix
3 9 (10.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (7.23%) Windows
5 2 (2.41%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (67.47%) DevOps
2 49 (59.04%) Agile
3 34 (40.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 17 (20.48%) Containerisation
4 17 (20.48%) Microservices
4 17 (20.48%) Software Engineering
5 15 (18.07%) Test Automation
6 12 (14.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (13.25%) AI
7 11 (13.25%) Observability
7 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.05%) Continuous Integration
8 10 (12.05%) Scrum
9 9 (10.84%) Data Protection
9 9 (10.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 8 (9.64%) Configuration Management
10 8 (9.64%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.64%) Deployment Automation
11 7 (8.43%) Machine Learning
11 7 (8.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (43.37%) Python
2 18 (21.69%) Java
3 16 (19.28%) SQL
4 11 (13.25%) Bash
4 11 (13.25%) TypeScript
5 8 (9.64%) JavaScript
5 8 (9.64%) Shell Script
6 7 (8.43%) Perl
7 6 (7.23%) C#
8 5 (6.02%) Go
9 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.41%) Bicep
10 2 (2.41%) C++
11 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.20%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (9.64%) Degree
2 6 (7.23%) AWS Certification
2 6 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.61%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 3 (3.61%) Master's Degree
3 3 (3.61%) MCP
4 2 (2.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (2.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.20%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (4.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.61%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.61%) QA
4 2 (2.41%) NCSC
4 2 (2.41%) NIST
5 1 (1.20%) GDPR
5 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (24.10%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) KVM
3 1 (1.20%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (34.94%) Terraform
2 26 (31.33%) Kubernetes
3 20 (24.10%) Ansible
3 20 (24.10%) Grafana
4 12 (14.46%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.82%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (2.41%) Fluentd
6 2 (2.41%) HAProxy
6 2 (2.41%) Nagios
7 1 (1.20%) Argo
7 1 (1.20%) Karpenter
7 1 (1.20%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.20%) linkerd
7 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.20%) vRealize
7 1 (1.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (12.05%) Oracle
2 6 (7.23%) Databricks
3 5 (6.02%) Splunk
4 4 (4.82%) Google
4 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.82%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.61%) Commvault
5 3 (3.61%) OpenAI
6 2 (2.41%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.41%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.41%) ForgeRock
6 2 (2.41%) Informatica
6 2 (2.41%) VMware
7 1 (1.20%) Cisco
7 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.20%) Meraki
7 1 (1.20%) Ping Identity
7 1 (1.20%) Qualys
7 1 (1.20%) Thales