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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 10 20
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 77 91 65
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 11.11% 14.72% 8.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.92% 15.56% 9.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 51 39
10th Percentile £400 £419 £413
25th Percentile £420 £456 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £527 £600 £516
90th Percentile £600 £625 £539
Scotland median daily rate £439 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -12.25% +11.11% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
Scotland median hourly rate £75.00 - £75.00

All Process & 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 596 585 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 86.00% 94.66% 86.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 287 367
10th Percentile £238 £304 £213
25th Percentile £388 £413 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £528
90th Percentile £638 £600 £605
Scotland median daily rate £470 £468 £450
% change year-on-year +0.53% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 21 23
10th Percentile £15.81 £17.30 £13.27
25th Percentile £16.03 - £16.50
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.87 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -18.77% -48.24%
75th Percentile £22.54 £45.80 £24.18
90th Percentile £73.40 £65.00 £48.84
Scotland median hourly rate £16.86 £20.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year -15.70% +0.31% +5.32%

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 14 October 2026.

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 3 (3.90%) Apache
1 3 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.60%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) CICS
3 1 (1.30%) nginx
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.30%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 42 (54.55%) AWS
2 28 (36.36%) Azure
3 15 (19.48%) Amazon S3
4 14 (18.18%) GCP
5 11 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 10 (12.99%) OpenShift
6 10 (12.99%) Serverless
7 9 (11.69%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (11.69%) Power Platform
8 8 (10.39%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (7.79%) Azure Data Factory
9 6 (7.79%) GitHub
9 6 (7.79%) Snowflake
10 5 (6.49%) Amazon EKS
10 5 (6.49%) Anthropic Claude
10 5 (6.49%) Azure AKS
10 5 (6.49%) Power Automate
10 5 (6.49%) PowerApps
10 5 (6.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) DNS
2 2 (2.60%) HTTP
2 2 (2.60%) Network Security
3 1 (1.30%) BIG-IP
3 1 (1.30%) DHCP
3 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (1.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.30%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (10.39%) SQL Server
3 6 (7.79%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (7.79%) Power BI
4 5 (6.49%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.19%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (5.19%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.90%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (3.90%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.60%) Metadata
7 2 (2.60%) MySQL
7 2 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 2 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.60%) Power Query
7 2 (2.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.30%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.30%) Data Vault
8 1 (1.30%) Db2
8 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 21 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 17 (22.08%) GitLab
3 9 (11.69%) Git
4 3 (3.90%) JIRA
5 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.60%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.30%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.30%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (1.30%) JUnit
6 1 (1.30%) Mockito
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.30%) Selenium
6 1 (1.30%) webpack
General
1 22 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 19 (24.68%) Finance
3 15 (19.48%) Social Skills
4 10 (12.99%) Banking
5 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.90%) Retail
7 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Back Office
8 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.30%) Legal
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Developer
2 9 (11.69%) Senior
3 8 (10.39%) DevOps Engineer
3 8 (10.39%) Lead
4 6 (7.79%) Cloud Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Data Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) AWS Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Python Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) DBA
6 4 (5.19%) Technical Leader
7 3 (3.90%) Architect
7 3 (3.90%) AWS Developer
7 3 (3.90%) AWS DevOps
7 3 (3.90%) AWS DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (29.87%) Terraform
2 19 (24.68%) REST
3 10 (12.99%) React
3 10 (12.99%) Spring
3 10 (12.99%) Spring Boot
4 8 (10.39%) Node.js
5 7 (9.09%) OAuth
6 6 (7.79%) Next.js
6 6 (7.79%) OAuth2
7 5 (6.49%) .NET
7 5 (6.49%) CSS
7 5 (6.49%) HTML
7 5 (6.49%) Playwright
7 5 (6.49%) PyTorch
8 4 (5.19%) AWS CDK
8 4 (5.19%) Kafka
8 4 (5.19%) RESTful
8 4 (5.19%) SOAP
8 4 (5.19%) Spring Security
9 3 (3.90%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 24 (31.17%) Cloud Native
2 9 (11.69%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.90%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.90%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.60%) Clustering
5 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.60%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.30%) Online Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.09%) Windows
2 6 (7.79%) Linux
3 4 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.60%) zOS
6 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (54.55%) DevOps
2 34 (44.16%) Agile
3 32 (41.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 25 (32.47%) AI
5 24 (31.17%) Observability
6 22 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
7 20 (25.97%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (24.68%) Software Engineering
9 17 (22.08%) Test Automation
10 15 (19.48%) Containerisation
10 15 (19.48%) LLM
10 15 (19.48%) Mentoring
11 14 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
12 13 (16.88%) Event-Driven
12 13 (16.88%) Microservices
13 11 (14.29%) Data Modelling
13 11 (14.29%) Migration
13 11 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (12.99%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 40 (51.95%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) Java
3 15 (19.48%) SQL
4 13 (16.88%) TypeScript
5 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
6 9 (11.69%) Bash
6 9 (11.69%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.90%) C#
7 3 (3.90%) Go
7 3 (3.90%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.60%) Bicep
8 2 (2.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.60%) Search Processing Language
9 1 (1.30%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.30%) R
9 1 (1.30%) REXX
9 1 (1.30%) Scala
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) BPSS Clearance
2 5 (6.49%) AWS Certification
3 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.60%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 2 (2.60%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) Degree
6 1 (1.30%) RHCE
6 1 (1.30%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.19%) QA
4 2 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.30%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 17 (22.08%) Docker
2 3 (3.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.30%) RACF
4 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.30%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 28 (36.36%) Kubernetes
2 10 (12.99%) Grafana
3 6 (7.79%) Ansible
4 4 (5.19%) Prometheus
5 3 (3.90%) Argo
5 3 (3.90%) Kibana
6 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.30%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.30%) Functional Safety
6 1 (1.30%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.30%) Istio
6 1 (1.30%) linkerd
6 1 (1.30%) Nagios
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.30%) yum
6 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle
2 5 (6.49%) Splunk
3 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
3 4 (5.19%) Google
4 3 (3.90%) Databricks
4 3 (3.90%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.90%) RedGate
4 3 (3.90%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.60%) IBM
5 2 (2.60%) VMware
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) F5
6 1 (1.30%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.30%) New Relic
6 1 (1.30%) Okta
6 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.30%) Pega