CI/CD Contracts in Scotland

CI/CD
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for CI/CD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CI/CD over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 17 21
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 127 261 266
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.86% 9.50% 7.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.63% 10.27% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 203 189
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £430 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.31% -7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £575
90th Percentile £634 £676 £734
UK median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile - £61.50 £42.65
25th Percentile £60.25 £62.91 £44.01
Median hourly rate £60.50 £65.28 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +37.03% -18.86%
75th Percentile £60.75 £67.64 £49.89
90th Percentile - £69.06 £50.42
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.61 £65.00
% change year-on-year -0.92% +0.93% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

CI/CD is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,542 3,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.54% 93.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,810 2,261
10th Percentile £225 £262 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £472
Median % change year-on-year - +0.64% +11.06%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 49
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £11.51 £17.80
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £46.24 £44.55 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £66.09 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 2024.

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 2024. 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 -4 63 £498 -17.08% 37
Edinburgh -2 53 £506 +5.64% 24
Lanarkshire +3 1 £460 -21.10% 12
West Lothian - 1 £540 -
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 7 (5.51%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.36%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.36%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.57%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 74 (58.27%) AWS
2 31 (24.41%) OpenShift
3 25 (19.69%) Amazon S3
4 23 (18.11%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (18.11%) Serverless
5 22 (17.32%) AWS CloudFormation
6 15 (11.81%) Azure
7 13 (10.24%) AWS CodePipeline
8 8 (6.30%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (6.30%) Amazon EKS
9 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (5.51%) GCP
10 6 (4.72%) AWS CodeBuild
10 6 (4.72%) AWS CodeDeploy
10 6 (4.72%) IaaS
10 6 (4.72%) npm
11 5 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (3.94%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 5 (3.94%) AWS Fargate
12 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) Firewall
2 4 (3.15%) Internet
2 4 (3.15%) NAS
2 4 (3.15%) SAN
3 3 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 3 (2.36%) HTTP
3 3 (2.36%) NetScaler
3 3 (2.36%) SSL
3 3 (2.36%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.57%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.26%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (8.66%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (8.66%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.09%) Oracle Database
5 8 (6.30%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.51%) MySQL
7 6 (4.72%) MariaDB
7 6 (4.72%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.72%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.94%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.94%) GIS
9 4 (3.15%) Big Data
9 4 (3.15%) Power BI
10 3 (2.36%) DB2
10 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
10 3 (2.36%) InfluxDB
11 2 (1.57%) Apache Hive
11 2 (1.57%) SQL Server
12 1 (0.79%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 44 (34.65%) Jenkins
2 24 (18.90%) Git
3 15 (11.81%) GitLab
4 10 (7.87%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.30%) Maven
6 7 (5.51%) Gradle
6 7 (5.51%) JIRA
7 6 (4.72%) JUnit
7 6 (4.72%) Selenium
7 6 (4.72%) webpack
8 5 (3.94%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.94%) Cypress.io
8 5 (3.94%) Mockito
8 5 (3.94%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.36%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.36%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.57%) CMake
10 2 (1.57%) Subversion
10 2 (1.57%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.79%) REST Assured
General
1 33 (25.98%) Public Sector
2 22 (17.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (11.81%) Finance
4 14 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 9 (7.09%) Banking
6 6 (4.72%) Back Office
6 6 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.15%) Electronics
8 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.57%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.57%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.79%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (37.01%) Developer
2 25 (19.69%) Java Developer
3 13 (10.24%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.45%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (8.66%) Full Stack Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Lead
7 8 (6.30%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Architect
8 7 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.51%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Full Stack Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Full Stack Java Developer
9 6 (4.72%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Senior
10 5 (3.94%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (33.07%) REST
2 35 (27.56%) Spring
3 30 (23.62%) Spring Boot
4 27 (21.26%) CSS
4 27 (21.26%) HTML
5 24 (18.90%) AWS CDK
6 21 (16.54%) React
7 18 (14.17%) RESTful
8 17 (13.39%) Node.js
9 15 (11.81%) AngularJS
10 11 (8.66%) JPA
11 9 (7.09%) Kafka
11 9 (7.09%) OAuth
12 8 (6.30%) PostGIS
13 7 (5.51%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (5.51%) RabbitMQ
14 6 (4.72%) OAuth2
14 6 (4.72%) OpenTracing
14 6 (4.72%) SOAP
14 6 (4.72%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.02%) Public Cloud
2 13 (10.24%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.09%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.09%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.30%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.94%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.15%) Device Driver
6 4 (3.15%) IoT
6 4 (3.15%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.15%) PCIe
6 4 (3.15%) Verilog
6 4 (3.15%) VHDL
7 3 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.57%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.79%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 35 (27.56%) Linux
2 20 (15.75%) Unix
3 9 (7.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.09%) Windows
4 6 (4.72%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (3.94%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.15%) VMS
6 4 (3.15%) VxWorks
6 4 (3.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (53.54%) Agile
2 43 (33.86%) DevOps
3 35 (27.56%) Microservices
3 35 (27.56%) Software Engineering
4 34 (26.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (25.20%) Test Automation
6 24 (18.90%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (18.11%) Full Stack Development
8 20 (15.75%) SDLC
9 18 (14.17%) Continuous Delivery
10 17 (13.39%) Migration
11 16 (12.60%) Analytics
11 16 (12.60%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (12.60%) Containerisation
11 16 (12.60%) Scrum
12 15 (11.81%) Machine Learning
12 15 (11.81%) Roadmaps
12 15 (11.81%) TDD
13 14 (11.02%) Mentoring
13 14 (11.02%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.97%) Java
2 44 (34.65%) Python
3 36 (28.35%) SQL
4 30 (23.62%) JavaScript
4 30 (23.62%) TypeScript
5 20 (15.75%) Bash
6 15 (11.81%) Shell Script
7 14 (11.02%) Groovy
8 10 (7.87%) Perl
9 7 (5.51%) C
9 7 (5.51%) Ruby
9 7 (5.51%) Scala
10 6 (4.72%) Embedded C
10 6 (4.72%) Kotlin
11 5 (3.94%) C#
12 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
13 3 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 2 (1.57%) C++
14 2 (1.57%) VBA
14 2 (1.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.36%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.57%) Degree
2 2 (1.57%) ISEB
2 2 (1.57%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.79%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (11.02%) Accessibility
1 14 (11.02%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.15%) MISRA
2 4 (3.15%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.57%) GDPR
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (25.20%) Docker
2 5 (3.94%) Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) HDFS
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (20.47%) Kubernetes
1 26 (20.47%) Terraform
2 21 (16.54%) Ansible
3 20 (15.75%) Grafana
4 12 (9.45%) Prometheus
5 8 (6.30%) Kibana
6 6 (4.72%) Zipkin
7 4 (3.15%) NetBackup
8 3 (2.36%) Packer
9 1 (0.79%) Argo
9 1 (0.79%) FreeIPA
9 1 (0.79%) Hadoop YARN
9 1 (0.79%) Icinga
9 1 (0.79%) Istio
9 1 (0.79%) ITRS Geneos
9 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.79%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (11.02%) Oracle
2 4 (3.15%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.15%) Intel
2 4 (3.15%) Veritas
3 3 (2.36%) Databricks
3 3 (2.36%) F5
4 2 (1.57%) Greenplum
4 2 (1.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.57%) Splunk
5 1 (0.79%) Confluent
5 1 (0.79%) Foundry
5 1 (0.79%) IBM
5 1 (0.79%) Informatica
5 1 (0.79%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.79%) VMware