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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 30 16
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +5
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 176 127 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 10.73% 5.86% 9.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.46% 6.63% 10.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 92 204
10th Percentile £350 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £430 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £499 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.31% -6.25%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £570
90th Percentile £579 £634 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - £60.25 £62.91
Median hourly rate - £60.50 £65.28
Median % change year-on-year - -7.32% +37.03%
75th Percentile - £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 1,536 1,916 2,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.60% 88.38% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 888 1,164 1,814
10th Percentile £261 £225 £261
25th Percentile £372 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.48%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £559
90th Percentile £606 £656 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 90 56
10th Percentile £16.21 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £12.04
Median hourly rate £20.94 £19.34 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +8.30% +18.98% -58.02%
75th Percentile £24.66 £46.24 £49.24
90th Percentile £50.06 £60.93 £65.78
UK median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.25
% change year-on-year -22.16% +0.69% +41.16%

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 11 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 11 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 +7 95 £465 -6.53% 72
Edinburgh +7 64 £494 -2.37% 58
Lanarkshire +6 6 £525 +14.13% 4
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 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.14%) Apache
2 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.14%) Camunda
2 2 (1.14%) Confluence
2 2 (1.14%) GeoServer
3 1 (0.57%) nginx
Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Adobe XD
1 1 (0.57%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.14%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 94 (53.41%) AWS
2 59 (33.52%) Azure
3 42 (23.86%) Amazon S3
4 36 (20.45%) Serverless
5 33 (18.75%) AWS Lambda
6 29 (16.48%) OpenShift
7 24 (13.64%) GitHub
8 23 (13.07%) AWS CloudFormation
9 19 (10.80%) AWS CodePipeline
10 13 (7.39%) Azure DevOps
11 12 (6.82%) Amazon Cognito
11 12 (6.82%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
11 12 (6.82%) PaaS
11 12 (6.82%) Power Platform
12 11 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 11 (6.25%) SaaS
13 10 (5.68%) Amazon EKS
14 9 (5.11%) GCP
15 8 (4.55%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.68%) NAS
1 10 (5.68%) SAN
2 6 (3.41%) Firewall
3 4 (2.27%) Network Security
3 4 (2.27%) VPN
4 1 (0.57%) DNS
4 1 (0.57%) FTP
4 1 (0.57%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 18 (10.23%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
4 15 (8.52%) MongoDB
5 12 (6.82%) NoSQL
6 10 (5.68%) MySQL
6 10 (5.68%) RDBMS
7 9 (5.11%) Oracle Database
7 9 (5.11%) SQL Server
8 8 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (3.98%) Amazon RDS
9 7 (3.98%) Elasticsearch
10 6 (3.41%) Amazon Athena
10 6 (3.41%) MariaDB
11 5 (2.84%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (2.84%) DynamoDB
11 5 (2.84%) Parquet
12 4 (2.27%) GIS
13 3 (1.70%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (1.70%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 54 (30.68%) Git
2 45 (25.57%) Jenkins
3 20 (11.36%) GitLab
4 12 (6.82%) JUnit
5 10 (5.68%) Cypress.io
5 10 (5.68%) Storybook
6 9 (5.11%) JIRA
7 7 (3.98%) Bitbucket
7 7 (3.98%) Mockito
8 6 (3.41%) Maven
9 5 (2.84%) Artifactory
9 5 (2.84%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.84%) Oracle APEX
9 5 (2.84%) Selenium
9 5 (2.84%) TeamCity
9 5 (2.84%) webpack
10 4 (2.27%) Gradle
10 4 (2.27%) Postman
11 3 (1.70%) WebDriver
11 3 (1.70%) Xcode
General
1 51 (28.98%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.30%) Public Sector
3 37 (21.02%) Finance
4 28 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (12.50%) Banking
6 12 (6.82%) Back Office
7 6 (3.41%) Financial Institution
7 6 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.27%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.70%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Games
11 2 (1.14%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (42.05%) Developer
2 31 (17.61%) Java Developer
3 19 (10.80%) Data Engineer
4 16 (9.09%) Senior
5 14 (7.95%) Architect
6 13 (7.39%) DevOps Engineer
7 12 (6.82%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.25%) Python Engineer
8 11 (6.25%) React Developer
9 10 (5.68%) Lead
9 10 (5.68%) Senior Developer
10 9 (5.11%) Full-Stack Developer
11 8 (4.55%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 8 (4.55%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.98%) Analyst
12 7 (3.98%) AWS Developer
12 7 (3.98%) Systems Analyst
13 6 (3.41%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
14 5 (2.84%) Cloud Developer
14 5 (2.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (21.59%) Spring
2 33 (18.75%) Spring Boot
3 31 (17.61%) React
4 29 (16.48%) AWS CDK
5 24 (13.64%) CSS
6 21 (11.93%) RESTful
7 19 (10.80%) REST
8 16 (9.09%) Node.js
9 14 (7.95%) AngularJS
10 11 (6.25%) HTML
11 10 (5.68%) Jest
11 10 (5.68%) JSON
11 10 (5.68%) PySpark
12 9 (5.11%) Tailwind CSS
13 6 (3.41%) GraphQL
13 6 (3.41%) OAuth
13 6 (3.41%) PostGIS
14 5 (2.84%) .NET
14 5 (2.84%) Express.js
15 4 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.82%) Cloud Native
2 9 (5.11%) Algorithms
2 9 (5.11%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (3.98%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.98%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.41%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.27%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.70%) Client/Server
7 3 (1.70%) Credit Risk
7 3 (1.70%) iPad
7 3 (1.70%) iPhone
7 3 (1.70%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.14%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.14%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 1 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 23 (13.07%) Windows
2 20 (11.36%) Linux
3 13 (7.39%) Unix
4 10 (5.68%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.70%) Android
5 3 (1.70%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.70%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.57%) CentOS
7 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (46.02%) DevOps
2 78 (44.32%) Agile
3 42 (23.86%) Test Automation
4 37 (21.02%) Infrastructure as Code
4 37 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.34%) Software Engineering
6 26 (14.77%) Microservices
7 24 (13.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 23 (13.07%) Data Protection
9 22 (12.50%) Scrum
10 20 (11.36%) Containerisation
10 20 (11.36%) SDLC
11 18 (10.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (10.23%) Decision-Making
11 18 (10.23%) Process Improvement
12 17 (9.66%) Continuous Integration
12 17 (9.66%) Front End Development
13 16 (9.09%) User Experience
14 15 (8.52%) Data Transformation
14 15 (8.52%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 70 (39.77%) Python
2 56 (31.82%) Java
3 47 (26.70%) SQL
4 32 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 31 (17.61%) JavaScript
6 15 (8.52%) Bash
7 11 (6.25%) PL/SQL
8 8 (4.55%) C#
8 8 (4.55%) Shell Script
9 5 (2.84%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.27%) C++
10 4 (2.27%) Groovy
11 3 (1.70%) Go
11 3 (1.70%) Objective-C
11 3 (1.70%) Swift
11 3 (1.70%) VBA
11 3 (1.70%) VBScript
12 2 (1.14%) Bicep
12 2 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.57%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (3.98%) AWS Certification
1 7 (3.98%) Degree
2 5 (2.84%) Azure Certification
3 3 (1.70%) ISEB
3 3 (1.70%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 3 (1.70%) PMI Certification
3 3 (1.70%) PMP
4 2 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (1.14%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.57%) OCP
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.57%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.82%) Accessibility
1 12 (6.82%) Disclosure Scotland
2 11 (6.25%) QA
3 4 (2.27%) WCAG
4 3 (1.70%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.57%) GDPR
5 1 (0.57%) NCSC
5 1 (0.57%) NIST
5 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.57%) SLA
System Software
1 36 (20.45%) Docker
2 3 (1.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (1.14%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 55 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 42 (23.86%) Terraform
3 21 (11.93%) Grafana
4 17 (9.66%) Ansible
5 10 (5.68%) NetBackup
5 10 (5.68%) Oracle RMAN
6 8 (4.55%) Prometheus
7 4 (2.27%) Progress Chef
8 3 (1.70%) Kibana
8 3 (1.70%) Podman
9 2 (1.14%) RSA Archer
9 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 1 (0.57%) linkerd
10 1 (0.57%) Packer
10 1 (0.57%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (13.07%) Oracle
2 14 (7.95%) Splunk
3 13 (7.39%) Veritas
4 7 (3.98%) Dynatrace
4 7 (3.98%) Microsoft
5 5 (2.84%) Databricks
6 4 (2.27%) Google
7 3 (1.70%) Netskope
7 3 (1.70%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.70%) Symantec
7 3 (1.70%) VMware
8 2 (1.14%) AppDynamics
8 2 (1.14%) Imperva
9 1 (0.57%) Adobe
9 1 (0.57%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.57%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.57%) IBM
9 1 (0.57%) Informatica
9 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.57%) Salesforce