CI/CD Contracts in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring CI/CD skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CI/CD over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 22 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -3 +8
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 65 57 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.40% 6.99% 10.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.94% 7.92% 10.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 42 112
10th Percentile £400 £414 £413
25th Percentile £416 £436 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £479
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +2.71% -8.76%
75th Percentile £541 £608 £510
90th Percentile £600 £648 £541
Scotland median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.50% +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.32 £60.25 -
Median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% - -
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.28
% change year-on-year -54.79% -7.32% +31.76%

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 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Daily rate trend for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Hourly rate trend for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.08%) Camunda
2 2 (3.08%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) GeoServer
3 1 (1.54%) Apache
3 1 (1.54%) nginx
3 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.08%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 35 (53.85%) AWS
2 22 (33.85%) Serverless
3 21 (32.31%) Azure
4 19 (29.23%) Amazon S3
4 19 (29.23%) AWS Lambda
5 15 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
6 12 (18.46%) AWS CodePipeline
7 11 (16.92%) Azure DevOps
7 11 (16.92%) SaaS
8 9 (13.85%) OpenShift
8 9 (13.85%) Power Platform
9 7 (10.77%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (10.77%) GCP
9 7 (10.77%) PaaS
10 6 (9.23%) AWS Step Functions
10 6 (9.23%) GitHub
10 6 (9.23%) Route 53
11 5 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 5 (7.69%) AWS CodeBuild
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.62%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) DNS
2 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (13.85%) Relational Database
4 6 (9.23%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (7.69%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (6.15%) GIS
6 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
6 4 (6.15%) MySQL
6 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (4.62%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (4.62%) Oracle Database
7 3 (4.62%) RDBMS
8 2 (3.08%) Big Data
8 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.08%) InfluxDB
8 2 (3.08%) MariaDB
8 2 (3.08%) OLAP
8 2 (3.08%) Power BI
8 2 (3.08%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (27.69%) Git
2 15 (23.08%) Jenkins
3 11 (16.92%) GitLab
4 7 (10.77%) JIRA
5 6 (9.23%) Cypress.io
5 6 (9.23%) Storybook
6 5 (7.69%) Artifactory
6 5 (7.69%) Selenium
6 5 (7.69%) TeamCity
7 4 (6.15%) Postman
8 3 (4.62%) Cucumber
8 3 (4.62%) Subversion
8 3 (4.62%) WebDriver
9 2 (3.08%) Ant
9 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
9 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (3.08%) Oracle APEX
9 2 (3.08%) webpack
10 1 (1.54%) JUnit
10 1 (1.54%) NUnit
General
1 20 (30.77%) Public Sector
2 19 (29.23%) Finance
3 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 10 (15.38%) Banking
5 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (9.23%) Games
6 4 (6.15%) Back Office
7 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Developer
2 11 (16.92%) Data Engineer
3 9 (13.85%) Architect
4 7 (10.77%) DevOps Engineer
4 7 (10.77%) Lead
4 7 (10.77%) Senior
5 6 (9.23%) AWS Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Lead Developer
6 4 (6.15%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) QA Engineer
6 4 (6.15%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.15%) Senior Developer
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Developer
7 3 (4.62%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 3 (4.62%) React Developer
7 3 (4.62%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.08%) AWS Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (24.62%) AWS CDK
2 12 (18.46%) RESTful
3 10 (15.38%) React
3 10 (15.38%) REST
4 9 (13.85%) Spring
5 8 (12.31%) Spring Boot
6 7 (10.77%) CSS
7 6 (9.23%) Jest
7 6 (9.23%) PostGIS
8 5 (7.69%) .NET
8 5 (7.69%) JSON
8 5 (7.69%) Tailwind CSS
9 4 (6.15%) GraphQL
9 4 (6.15%) Node.js
9 4 (6.15%) OAuth
9 4 (6.15%) SOAP
10 3 (4.62%) OpenAPI
10 3 (4.62%) Playwright
10 3 (4.62%) PySpark
10 3 (4.62%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Cloud Native
2 5 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (6.15%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (6.15%) Mobile App
4 3 (4.62%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.08%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (3.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Agile
1 33 (50.77%) DevOps
2 25 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 13 (20.00%) Kanban
4 11 (16.92%) Containerisation
4 11 (16.92%) Mentoring
4 11 (16.92%) Scrum
5 10 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (13.85%) API Development
6 9 (13.85%) Microservices
6 9 (13.85%) Migration
6 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (12.31%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (10.77%) Software Delivery
8 7 (10.77%) TDD
9 6 (9.23%) Analytics
9 6 (9.23%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (9.23%) Data Protection
9 6 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (9.23%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) Python
2 20 (30.77%) SQL
3 18 (27.69%) Java
4 12 (18.46%) JavaScript
4 12 (18.46%) TypeScript
5 9 (13.85%) Bash
6 5 (7.69%) C#
7 4 (6.15%) Groovy
7 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
7 4 (6.15%) PowerShell
7 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
8 3 (4.62%) C++
8 3 (4.62%) VBA
8 3 (4.62%) VBScript
9 2 (3.08%) Bicep
9 2 (3.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.54%) Go
10 1 (1.54%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Degree
1 3 (4.62%) ISEB
1 3 (4.62%) ISTQB
1 3 (4.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (3.08%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) OCP
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 5 (7.69%) QA
4 3 (4.62%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.54%) GDPR
5 1 (1.54%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (16.92%) Grafana
3 8 (12.31%) Ansible
4 6 (9.23%) Terraform
5 3 (4.62%) Kibana
5 3 (4.62%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.62%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (3.08%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.54%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.54%) Istio
7 1 (1.54%) linkerd
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Oracle
2 4 (6.15%) Google
2 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.62%) Splunk
4 2 (3.08%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) ForgeRock
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) Imperva
5 1 (1.54%) Informatica
5 1 (1.54%) Okta
5 1 (1.54%) StreamSets