CI/CD Contracts in Scotland

CI/CD
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 17 26 15
Rank change year-on-year +9 -11 +6
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 170 142 280
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.46% 6.41% 9.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.20% 7.23% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 104 223
10th Percentile £351 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £439 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £568
90th Percentile £600 £671 £695
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile £26.32 £60.25 £62.91
Median hourly rate £27.35 £60.50 £65.28
Median % change year-on-year -54.79% -7.32% +31.76%
75th Percentile £28.38 £60.75 £67.64
90th Percentile - - £69.06
UK median hourly rate £63.25 £65.00 £65.61
% change year-on-year -2.69% -0.92% +0.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,518 1,963 2,651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.42% 88.54% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 920 1,196 1,908
10th Percentile £263 £229 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £556
90th Percentile £606 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 94 54
10th Percentile £16.19 £12.36 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%
75th Percentile £24.66 £40.94 £53.75
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.75 £66.09
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 +2 88 £469 -6.25% 51
Edinburgh +8 65 £500 +1.63% 51
Lanarkshire +6 7 £525 +14.13% 1
Stirling - 3 £400 -
Perthshire - 1 - -
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 4 (2.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.18%) Apache
2 2 (1.18%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.18%) Camunda
2 2 (1.18%) Confluence
2 2 (1.18%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.59%) nginx
3 1 (0.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.59%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 86 (50.59%) AWS
2 59 (34.71%) Azure
3 42 (24.71%) Amazon S3
4 33 (19.41%) Serverless
5 30 (17.65%) AWS Lambda
6 28 (16.47%) OpenShift
7 19 (11.18%) AWS CloudFormation
7 19 (11.18%) GitHub
8 15 (8.82%) AWS CodePipeline
9 14 (8.24%) SaaS
10 13 (7.65%) Azure DevOps
10 13 (7.65%) Cloud Computing
10 13 (7.65%) Power Platform
11 11 (6.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 11 (6.47%) PaaS
12 10 (5.88%) Amazon Cognito
12 10 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
13 9 (5.29%) GCP
14 8 (4.71%) Amazon EC2
14 8 (4.71%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.47%) NAS
1 11 (6.47%) SAN
2 5 (2.94%) Firewall
3 4 (2.35%) Network Security
3 4 (2.35%) VPN
4 1 (0.59%) DNS
4 1 (0.59%) FTP
4 1 (0.59%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.76%) Relational Database
2 15 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (7.06%) Amazon Aurora
4 10 (5.88%) RDBMS
4 10 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.29%) MongoDB
5 9 (5.29%) NoSQL
6 8 (4.71%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (4.71%) MySQL
6 8 (4.71%) Oracle Database
7 7 (4.12%) Amazon Athena
7 7 (4.12%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (4.12%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (3.53%) DynamoDB
8 6 (3.53%) MariaDB
8 6 (3.53%) Parquet
9 4 (2.35%) GIS
10 3 (1.76%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (1.76%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.76%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 50 (29.41%) Git
2 37 (21.76%) Jenkins
3 17 (10.00%) GitLab
4 8 (4.71%) JIRA
5 6 (3.53%) Bitbucket
5 6 (3.53%) Cypress.io
5 6 (3.53%) JUnit
5 6 (3.53%) Storybook
6 5 (2.94%) Artifactory
6 5 (2.94%) Cucumber
6 5 (2.94%) Oracle APEX
6 5 (2.94%) Selenium
6 5 (2.94%) TeamCity
6 5 (2.94%) webpack
7 4 (2.35%) Postman
8 3 (1.76%) Mockito
8 3 (1.76%) Subversion
8 3 (1.76%) WebDriver
8 3 (1.76%) Xcode
9 2 (1.18%) Ant
General
1 48 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 41 (24.12%) Public Sector
3 39 (22.94%) Finance
4 28 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (11.76%) Banking
6 12 (7.06%) Back Office
7 7 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.53%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.53%) Games
9 4 (2.35%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.76%) Legal
11 1 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.59%) Retail
11 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (39.41%) Developer
2 25 (14.71%) Java Developer
3 20 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 16 (9.41%) Architect
5 14 (8.24%) Senior
6 12 (7.06%) DevOps Engineer
7 11 (6.47%) Python Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
8 10 (5.88%) Lead
9 8 (4.71%) Python Developer
9 8 (4.71%) Senior Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Analyst
10 7 (4.12%) AWS Developer
10 7 (4.12%) Systems Analyst
11 6 (3.53%) Cloud Developer
11 6 (3.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 6 (3.53%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (3.53%) React Developer
12 5 (2.94%) Release Manager
12 5 (2.94%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (19.41%) Spring
2 29 (17.06%) Spring Boot
3 26 (15.29%) AWS CDK
4 22 (12.94%) React
5 18 (10.59%) CSS
5 18 (10.59%) REST
6 17 (10.00%) RESTful
7 15 (8.82%) Node.js
8 11 (6.47%) JSON
9 10 (5.88%) HTML
9 10 (5.88%) PySpark
10 9 (5.29%) AngularJS
11 6 (3.53%) Jest
11 6 (3.53%) PostGIS
12 5 (2.94%) .NET
12 5 (2.94%) OAuth
12 5 (2.94%) Tailwind CSS
13 4 (2.35%) GraphQL
13 4 (2.35%) Middleware
13 4 (2.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.65%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.29%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.71%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.12%) Algorithms
4 7 (4.12%) Mobile App
5 6 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
5 6 (3.53%) Virtual Team
6 4 (2.35%) Mainframe
6 4 (2.35%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.76%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.76%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.76%) iPad
7 3 (1.76%) iPhone
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.18%) Low-Code
9 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.59%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.59%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.53%) Windows
2 19 (11.18%) Linux
3 14 (8.24%) Unix
4 11 (6.47%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.76%) Android
5 3 (1.76%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.76%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.18%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.59%) CentOS
7 1 (0.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (43.53%) DevOps
2 72 (42.35%) Agile
3 40 (23.53%) Test Automation
4 37 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 26 (15.29%) Software Engineering
7 23 (13.53%) Data Protection
8 21 (12.35%) Microservices
9 20 (11.76%) Scrum
10 19 (11.18%) Decision-Making
11 18 (10.59%) Process Improvement
12 17 (10.00%) Containerisation
12 17 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
13 16 (9.41%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (9.41%) SDLC
14 15 (8.82%) Data Transformation
14 15 (8.82%) Kanban
14 15 (8.82%) Project Delivery
15 14 (8.24%) Observability
15 14 (8.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 70 (41.18%) Python
2 49 (28.82%) Java
3 46 (27.06%) SQL
4 27 (15.88%) JavaScript
5 24 (14.12%) TypeScript
6 15 (8.82%) Bash
7 11 (6.47%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.71%) Shell Script
9 7 (4.12%) C#
10 5 (2.94%) PowerShell
11 4 (2.35%) C++
11 4 (2.35%) Groovy
12 3 (1.76%) Objective-C
12 3 (1.76%) Swift
12 3 (1.76%) VBA
12 3 (1.76%) VBScript
13 2 (1.18%) Bicep
13 2 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (1.18%) Go
14 1 (0.59%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (4.71%) AWS Certification
1 8 (4.71%) Degree
2 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.76%) ISEB
3 3 (1.76%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.76%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (1.76%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.76%) PMP
4 2 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.18%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.59%) OCP
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) Accessibility
2 12 (7.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 9 (5.29%) QA
4 4 (2.35%) WCAG
5 3 (1.76%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.18%) GDPR
7 1 (0.59%) NCSC
7 1 (0.59%) NIST
7 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.59%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (18.24%) Docker
2 3 (1.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (1.18%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 50 (29.41%) Kubernetes
2 38 (22.35%) Terraform
3 19 (11.18%) Grafana
4 16 (9.41%) Ansible
5 11 (6.47%) NetBackup
5 11 (6.47%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (4.71%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.35%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.76%) Kibana
8 3 (1.76%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.18%) Podman
9 2 (1.18%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.59%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.59%) Istio
10 1 (0.59%) linkerd
10 1 (0.59%) Packer
10 1 (0.59%) Puppet
Vendors
1 21 (12.35%) Oracle
2 14 (8.24%) Veritas
3 12 (7.06%) Splunk
4 7 (4.12%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.94%) Databricks
5 5 (2.94%) Dynatrace
6 4 (2.35%) Google
7 3 (1.76%) Netskope
7 3 (1.76%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.76%) Symantec
7 3 (1.76%) VMware
8 2 (1.18%) Imperva
8 2 (1.18%) Okta
9 1 (0.59%) Adobe
9 1 (0.59%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.59%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.59%) IBM
9 1 (0.59%) Informatica
9 1 (0.59%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.59%) Talend