Continuous Delivery Job Trends in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Scotland requiring Continuous Delivery skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 118 120
Rank change year-on-year +14 +2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 40 28 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 1.47% 0.86% 1.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.02% 1.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 27
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile £66,091 £64,471 £46,306
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,079 £69,308 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +6.63% -7.14%
75th Percentile £74,066 £74,145 £77,715
90th Percentile - £77,193 £79,648
UK median annual salary £65,000 £70,000 £70,576
% change year-on-year -7.14% -0.82% -5.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Continuous Delivery 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 2,427 2,742 2,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.39% 84.40% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 1,297 1,809
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +5.77% -5.45%
75th Percentile £60,000 £70,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,900 £82,548
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Continuous Delivery relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Continuous Delivery job vacancy trend in Scotland

Continuous Delivery
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Continuous Delivery.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Continuous Delivery

Continuous Delivery
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Continuous Delivery within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Glasgow +6 19 - - 3
Edinburgh -13 8 £70,079 +1.11% 6
Stirling - 4 - -
West Lothian - 3 - - 2
Lanarkshire - 2 - -
Fife - 1 - - 2
Midlothian - 1 - - 3
Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
North Lanarkshire - 1 - -
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
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 4 (10.00%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) AWS
2 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) Azure AKS
2 4 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (7.50%) Dagster
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (7.50%) Prefect
4 1 (2.50%) Datadog
4 1 (2.50%) dbt
4 1 (2.50%) PaaS
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) Broadband
2 3 (7.50%) BGP
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (7.50%) NX-OS
2 3 (7.50%) OSPF
2 3 (7.50%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
2 3 (7.50%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (17.50%) Big Data
3 4 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 19 (47.50%) Jenkins
2 15 (37.50%) GitLab
2 15 (37.50%) SonarQube
3 4 (10.00%) Git
4 1 (2.50%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.50%) JMeter
4 1 (2.50%) Locust
General
1 34 (85.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 34 (85.00%) Marketing
2 19 (47.50%) Finance
2 19 (47.50%) Law
3 15 (37.50%) Games
4 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Banking
5 4 (10.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Architect
1 15 (37.50%) Software Engineer
2 14 (35.00%) Salesforce Architect
3 12 (30.00%) Java Engineer
3 12 (30.00%) Java Software Engineer
4 9 (22.50%) Lead
5 8 (20.00%) Lead Java Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Lead Software Engineer
5 8 (20.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 8 (20.00%) Technical Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 4 (10.00%) Site Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (7.50%) Data Centre Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (57.50%) REST
2 15 (37.50%) Kafka
2 15 (37.50%) Lightning Web Components
2 15 (37.50%) SOAP
2 15 (37.50%) Visualforce
3 12 (30.00%) Spring
4 4 (10.00%) .NET
4 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
4 4 (10.00%) Django
4 4 (10.00%) J2EE
4 4 (10.00%) Pandas
4 4 (10.00%) React
4 4 (10.00%) RESTful
4 4 (10.00%) Web Services
5 3 (7.50%) Middleware
6 1 (2.50%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 11 (27.50%) Cloud Native
3 4 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 4 (10.00%) Derivative
3 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (10.00%) Fixed Income
3 4 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.50%) CMDB
5 1 (2.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
1 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) Agile
1 36 (90.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (65.00%) Community of Practice
3 24 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 21 (52.50%) DevOps
5 19 (47.50%) OO
5 19 (47.50%) Roadmaps
5 19 (47.50%) Software Engineering
6 16 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (40.00%) Operational Stability
6 16 (40.00%) Technology Roadmap
7 15 (37.50%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 15 (37.50%) Design Patterns
7 15 (37.50%) Event-Driven
7 15 (37.50%) PLM
7 15 (37.50%) Scrum
7 15 (37.50%) SDLC
7 15 (37.50%) Static Code Analysis
7 15 (37.50%) Technical Analysis
7 15 (37.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Java
2 15 (37.50%) Apex Code
2 15 (37.50%) SOQL
2 15 (37.50%) SOSL
2 15 (37.50%) SQL
3 12 (30.00%) Python
4 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (12.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) RACF
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Kubernetes
2 5 (12.50%) Grafana
2 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 4 (10.00%) Prometheus
4 3 (7.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 19 (47.50%) Splunk
2 15 (37.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (10.00%) Oracle
3 4 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow