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 29 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 15 22 18
Rank change year-on-year +7 -4 -4
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 71 59 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 10.87% 6.87% 9.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.41% 8.09% 10.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 85
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £418 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -0.72% -4.88%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £519
90th Percentile £603 £634 £548
Scotland median daily rate £498 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +3.86% -4.10% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £60.50 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £60.50 £60.55
% change year-on-year - -0.08% +27.11%

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 622 729 1,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.25% 84.87% 93.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 411 768
10th Percentile £211 £213 £250
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% -2.11% -1.04%
75th Percentile £534 £554 £538
90th Percentile £600 £650 £611
Scotland median daily rate £463 £452 £475
% change year-on-year +2.44% -4.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 33 6
10th Percentile £17.15 £13.22 £17.21
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £21.36
Median hourly rate £22.00 £19.17 £32.09
Median % change year-on-year +14.76% -40.25% +42.92%
75th Percentile £31.34 £60.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £61.00 - £58.13
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.55 £15.99
% change year-on-year +2.33% +22.23% -57.28%

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 29 June 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 5 (7.04%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (4.23%) Apache
3 2 (2.82%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.82%) Camunda
3 2 (2.82%) Confluence
3 2 (2.82%) GeoServer
4 1 (1.41%) nginx
Business Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 39 (54.93%) AWS
2 26 (36.62%) Azure
3 19 (26.76%) Serverless
4 18 (25.35%) Amazon S3
5 16 (22.54%) AWS Lambda
5 16 (22.54%) Azure DevOps
6 15 (21.13%) GitHub
7 14 (19.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 12 (16.90%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (15.49%) AWS CodePipeline
10 8 (11.27%) GCP
11 7 (9.86%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (9.86%) Power Platform
12 6 (8.45%) Amazon Cognito
12 6 (8.45%) Amazon EKS
13 5 (7.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 5 (7.04%) AWS CodeBuild
13 5 (7.04%) Snowflake
14 4 (5.63%) Amazon SQS
14 4 (5.63%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.41%) DNS
1 1 (1.41%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) Amazon Aurora
2 11 (15.49%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (11.27%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.04%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (7.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 5 (7.04%) MongoDB
5 4 (5.63%) GIS
6 3 (4.23%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (4.23%) MariaDB
6 3 (4.23%) Metadata
6 3 (4.23%) MySQL
6 3 (4.23%) Power Query
6 3 (4.23%) Redis
7 2 (2.82%) Big Data
7 2 (2.82%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (2.82%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.82%) Oracle Database
7 2 (2.82%) Power BI
7 2 (2.82%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.41%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 19 (26.76%) Jenkins
2 13 (18.31%) Git
3 10 (14.08%) Storybook
4 8 (11.27%) Cypress.io
4 8 (11.27%) GitLab
5 6 (8.45%) JIRA
6 5 (7.04%) Selenium
7 4 (5.63%) Postman
7 4 (5.63%) TeamCity
8 3 (4.23%) Artifactory
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.82%) Bitbucket Server
9 2 (2.82%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.82%) Snyk
9 2 (2.82%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.82%) Subversion
9 2 (2.82%) WebDriver
10 1 (1.41%) JUnit
10 1 (1.41%) NUnit
10 1 (1.41%) Oracle APEX
General
1 20 (28.17%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.35%) Finance
3 15 (21.13%) Public Sector
4 12 (16.90%) Banking
5 10 (14.08%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.23%) Legal
7 2 (2.82%) Back Office
7 2 (2.82%) Games
7 2 (2.82%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (26.76%) Developer
2 14 (19.72%) Architect
3 10 (14.08%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (11.27%) Lead
4 8 (11.27%) Senior
5 6 (8.45%) Data Engineer
5 6 (8.45%) React Developer
6 5 (7.04%) AWS Engineer
7 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Lead Developer
7 4 (5.63%) Senior Developer
8 3 (4.23%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (4.23%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Software Engineer
8 3 (4.23%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.82%) Automation Test Lead
9 2 (2.82%) AWS DevOps
9 2 (2.82%) AWS DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.82%) GCP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (23.94%) React
2 14 (19.72%) AWS CDK
2 14 (19.72%) RESTful
3 11 (15.49%) Spring
4 9 (12.68%) .NET
4 9 (12.68%) CSS
4 9 (12.68%) Jest
4 9 (12.68%) Spring Boot
4 9 (12.68%) Tailwind CSS
5 6 (8.45%) GraphQL
5 6 (8.45%) REST
6 5 (7.04%) SOAP
6 5 (7.04%) YAML
7 4 (5.63%) JSON
7 4 (5.63%) Playwright
7 4 (5.63%) PostGIS
8 3 (4.23%) ARM Templates
8 3 (4.23%) AWS Amplify
8 3 (4.23%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (2.82%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.68%) Cloud Native
1 9 (12.68%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (7.04%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.23%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (4.23%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.23%) Low-Code
3 3 (4.23%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.23%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.82%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.82%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.41%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.41%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.41%) Replication
5 1 (1.41%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.45%) Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.63%) Windows
3 2 (2.82%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (63.38%) DevOps
2 32 (45.07%) Agile
3 22 (30.99%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (29.58%) Test Automation
5 17 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (16.90%) Mentoring
7 11 (15.49%) Containerisation
7 11 (15.49%) Microservices
8 10 (14.08%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (12.68%) Data Protection
10 8 (11.27%) Data Engineering
10 8 (11.27%) DevSecOps
10 8 (11.27%) ETL
11 7 (9.86%) Analytics
11 7 (9.86%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (9.86%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (9.86%) Technical Leadership
12 6 (8.45%) High Availability
12 6 (8.45%) Performance Tuning
12 6 (8.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.58%) Python
2 20 (28.17%) Java
3 16 (22.54%) SQL
4 13 (18.31%) TypeScript
5 9 (12.68%) C#
5 9 (12.68%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.27%) Bash
7 5 (7.04%) PowerShell
8 3 (4.23%) Bicep
8 3 (4.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (4.23%) PL/SQL
8 3 (4.23%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.82%) C++
9 2 (2.82%) VBA
9 2 (2.82%) VBScript
10 1 (1.41%) Go
10 1 (1.41%) Groovy
10 1 (1.41%) Perl
10 1 (1.41%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (5.63%) Degree
2 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
3 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
3 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.82%) ISEB
3 2 (2.82%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.41%) OCP
4 1 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.04%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.63%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.63%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (5.63%) QA
3 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (11.27%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (18.31%) Terraform
2 9 (12.68%) Ansible
2 9 (12.68%) Kubernetes
3 8 (11.27%) Grafana
4 4 (5.63%) Prometheus
5 3 (4.23%) Progress Chef
6 2 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.41%) Kibana
7 1 (1.41%) linkerd
7 1 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Oracle
2 6 (8.45%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.63%) Google
4 3 (4.23%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.23%) Informatica
4 3 (4.23%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.23%) Splunk
5 2 (2.82%) ForgeRock
6 1 (1.41%) Databricks
6 1 (1.41%) IBM
6 1 (1.41%) StreamSets
6 1 (1.41%) VMware