CI/CD Job Trends in Scotland

CI/CD
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 26 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -18 +29
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 147 186 2,114
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 4.49% 9.33% 33.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.33% 9.99% 36.40%
Number of salaries quoted 38 83 131
10th Percentile £49,375 £48,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £54,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £66,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.54% -3.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £93,778 £78,125
90th Percentile £81,250 £140,677 £92,500
UK median annual salary £72,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year - +3.57% -6.67%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,323 1,861 5,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 70.93% 93.33% 91.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 858 2,382
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,929 £28,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,000 £40,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,778 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £59,684 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.53% +8.52% -9.84%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CI/CD relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Scotland

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing CI/CD.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Scotland over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Scotland

CI/CD
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +4 89 £62,500 -17.06% 26
South Lanarkshire +5 12 £60,000 -
Glasgow -37 12 £62,500 -16.59% 22
Stirling -2 9 - -
West Lothian +2 7 - -
Fife +1 6 - - 1
Lanarkshire 0 5 - - 6
North Lanarkshire -5 4 - - 2
Midlothian - 1 - - 17
CI/CD
UK

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (4.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (3.40%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.68%) Apache
3 1 (0.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (8.16%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (2.72%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 76 (51.70%) Azure
2 59 (40.14%) GitHub
3 55 (37.41%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (20.41%) GitHub Copilot
5 26 (17.69%) AWS
6 24 (16.33%) Snowflake
7 23 (15.65%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (13.61%) dbt
9 15 (10.20%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (8.16%) Azure Key Vault
10 12 (8.16%) OCI
11 10 (6.80%) GCP
11 10 (6.80%) Power Platform
11 10 (6.80%) Serverless
12 7 (4.76%) Amazon S3
12 7 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
12 7 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
12 7 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
12 7 (4.76%) SaaS
13 6 (4.08%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 32 (21.77%) Broadband
2 3 (2.04%) Firewall
2 3 (2.04%) Network Security
3 2 (1.36%) DNS
4 1 (0.68%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.80%) Power BI
3 7 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.76%) Tableau
4 5 (3.40%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (3.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.72%) Metadata
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.36%) MySQL
6 2 (1.36%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
7 1 (0.68%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.68%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 49 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 34 (23.13%) GitLab
3 33 (22.45%) SonarQube
4 13 (8.84%) JIRA
5 12 (8.16%) Oracle Forms
6 11 (7.48%) Git
7 3 (2.04%) fastlane
8 2 (1.36%) Storybook
8 2 (1.36%) Xcode
9 1 (0.68%) Android Studio
9 1 (0.68%) Appium
9 1 (0.68%) Crashlytics
9 1 (0.68%) Gradle
9 1 (0.68%) MLflow
9 1 (0.68%) Postman
9 1 (0.68%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.68%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.68%) TestRail
9 1 (0.68%) XCTest
9 1 (0.68%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (49.66%) Finance
2 44 (29.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 40 (27.21%) Marketing
4 35 (23.81%) Games
5 31 (21.09%) Social Skills
6 15 (10.20%) Analytical Skills
7 8 (5.44%) Banking
7 8 (5.44%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (2.72%) Local Government
9 1 (0.68%) Advertising
9 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.68%) Automotive
9 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.68%) Legal
Job Titles
1 42 (28.57%) Senior
2 35 (23.81%) Architect
3 31 (21.09%) Salesforce Architect
4 18 (12.24%) Applications Engineer
4 18 (12.24%) Salesforce Technical Architect
4 18 (12.24%) Technical Architect
5 15 (10.20%) Lead
6 14 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Azure Engineer
7 12 (8.16%) Salesforce Engineer
8 10 (6.80%) Developer
8 10 (6.80%) Technical Leader
9 9 (6.12%) Salesforce Solution Architect
9 9 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (5.44%) Senior Cloud Engineer
11 7 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (4.08%) Development Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Integration Engineer
12 6 (4.08%) Senior Development Engineer
13 4 (2.72%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (36.73%) REST
1 54 (36.73%) SOAP
2 45 (30.61%) Lightning Web Components
3 32 (21.77%) Visualforce
4 21 (14.29%) RESTful
5 19 (12.93%) OAuth
6 14 (9.52%) JSON
7 13 (8.84%) AWS CDK
7 13 (8.84%) OAuth2
8 8 (5.44%) .NET
9 7 (4.76%) GraphQL
9 7 (4.76%) React
9 7 (4.76%) React Native
10 6 (4.08%) ADO
10 6 (4.08%) OpenAPI
10 6 (4.08%) SAML
10 6 (4.08%) Swagger
10 6 (4.08%) XML
10 6 (4.08%) YAML
11 5 (3.40%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 57 (38.78%) Product Ownership
2 46 (31.29%) Cloud Native
3 13 (8.84%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (4.76%) Mobile App
5 6 (4.08%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.04%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.36%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.68%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.68%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.68%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.68%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.72%) Android
1 4 (2.72%) Linux
1 4 (2.72%) Unix
1 4 (2.72%) Windows
2 3 (2.04%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (85.03%) DevOps
2 110 (74.83%) Agile
3 65 (44.22%) Coaching
3 65 (44.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 64 (43.54%) Asset Management
5 54 (36.73%) Observability
6 53 (36.05%) Test Automation
7 50 (34.01%) Event-Driven
8 42 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 41 (27.89%) OO
10 40 (27.21%) Mentoring
11 39 (26.53%) Roadmaps
12 37 (25.17%) AI
13 36 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
13 36 (24.49%) Scrum
14 35 (23.81%) Data Modelling
15 34 (23.13%) Technical Analysis
16 33 (22.45%) Technology Roadmap
17 32 (21.77%) Community of Practice
17 32 (21.77%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 45 (30.61%) Apex Code
2 42 (28.57%) SQL
3 41 (27.89%) Python
4 32 (21.77%) SOQL
4 32 (21.77%) SOSL
5 20 (13.61%) Java
5 20 (13.61%) JavaScript
6 17 (11.56%) PowerShell
7 16 (10.88%) Shell Script
8 15 (10.20%) TypeScript
9 12 (8.16%) PL/SQL
10 7 (4.76%) C#
11 6 (4.08%) Bicep
12 4 (2.72%) T-SQL
13 3 (2.04%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.36%) Swift
15 1 (0.68%) C
15 1 (0.68%) C++
15 1 (0.68%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.68%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (2.72%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.16%) Accessibility
2 9 (6.12%) GDPR
3 8 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.44%) QA
4 5 (3.40%) WCAG
5 3 (2.04%) NCSC
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.68%) SOC 2
System Software
1 13 (8.84%) Docker
2 10 (6.80%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 48 (32.65%) Terraform
2 16 (10.88%) Kubernetes
3 12 (8.16%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (4.76%) Grafana
5 6 (4.08%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.72%) Control-M
7 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (30.61%) Salesforce
2 32 (21.77%) Splunk
3 28 (19.05%) Microsoft
4 16 (10.88%) Oracle
5 10 (6.80%) Ab Initio
6 8 (5.44%) Google
7 7 (4.76%) Pega
8 6 (4.08%) Databricks
8 6 (4.08%) Okta
9 4 (2.72%) IBM
9 4 (2.72%) Informatica
10 2 (1.36%) Cisco
10 2 (1.36%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.36%) Meraki
11 1 (0.68%) Apple