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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 67 123
Rank change year-on-year -53 +56 +11
Permanent jobs citing Continuous Delivery 29 154 38
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.14% 3.61% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 4.22% 1.49%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 29
10th Percentile - £65,320 £43,294
25th Percentile - £66,595 £60,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £70,576 £69,447
Median % change year-on-year - +1.62% +6.84%
75th Percentile - £76,685 £82,548
90th Percentile - £78,209 £93,769
UK median annual salary £64,000 £70,576 £75,000
% change year-on-year -9.32% -5.90% +3.45%

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 2,285 3,650 2,554
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 89.85% 85.52% 95.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,002 1,596 1,993
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,489 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -30.91% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £61,125 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -

Continuous Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Continuous Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Continuous Delivery 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 19 September 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 -20 19 - - 2
Edinburgh +9 8 - - 7
West Lothian - 2 - - 5
Continuous Delivery
UK

Continuous Delivery
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 (13.79%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (10.34%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) AWS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure
2 4 (13.79%) Azure AKS
2 4 (13.79%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (10.34%) Dagster
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub
3 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (10.34%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.79%) Software-Defined Networking
2 3 (10.34%) BGP
2 3 (10.34%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.34%) NX-OS
2 3 (10.34%) OSPF
2 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
2 3 (10.34%) VXLAN
3 2 (6.90%) Broadband
4 1 (3.45%) Firewall
4 1 (3.45%) LAN
4 1 (3.45%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (27.59%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (24.14%) Big Data
3 4 (13.79%) InterSystems Cache
4 3 (10.34%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (13.79%) Git
3 2 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (6.90%) SonarQube
4 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 21 (72.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 21 (72.41%) Marketing
2 19 (65.52%) Finance
2 19 (65.52%) Law
3 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Banking
4 4 (13.79%) Investment Banking
5 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Software Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Java Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Java Software Engineer
3 9 (31.03%) Lead
4 8 (27.59%) Lead Java Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) Lead Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Azure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Python Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Site Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Analyst
6 3 (10.34%) Architect
6 3 (10.34%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Data Network Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (51.72%) Kafka
2 12 (41.38%) Spring
3 10 (34.48%) REST
4 4 (13.79%) .NET
4 4 (13.79%) AngularJS
4 4 (13.79%) Django
4 4 (13.79%) J2EE
4 4 (13.79%) Pandas
4 4 (13.79%) React
4 4 (13.79%) RESTful
4 4 (13.79%) Web Services
5 3 (10.34%) Middleware
6 2 (6.90%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (6.90%) SOAP
6 2 (6.90%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Credit Risk
2 4 (13.79%) Derivative
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (13.79%) Fixed Income
2 4 (13.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (10.34%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.45%) CMDB
5 1 (3.45%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Ubuntu
1 4 (13.79%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) Agile
2 24 (82.76%) CI/CD
3 19 (65.52%) Software Engineering
4 17 (58.62%) Operational Stability
5 15 (51.72%) SDLC
6 13 (44.83%) Community of Practice
6 13 (44.83%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (37.93%) Architectural Design
7 11 (37.93%) Information Architecture
8 9 (31.03%) DevOps
9 8 (27.59%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (27.59%) Machine Learning
9 8 (27.59%) Roadmaps
10 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (20.69%) OO
12 4 (13.79%) High Availability
12 4 (13.79%) Multithreading
12 4 (13.79%) OOD
12 4 (13.79%) OOP
12 4 (13.79%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (55.17%) Java
2 15 (51.72%) SQL
3 11 (37.93%) Python
4 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
4 4 (13.79%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.90%) Apex Code
5 2 (6.90%) SOQL
5 2 (6.90%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (13.79%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) RACF
2 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (13.79%) Grafana
2 4 (13.79%) Prometheus
2 4 (13.79%) Terraform
3 3 (10.34%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Splunk
2 4 (13.79%) Cisco
2 4 (13.79%) Oracle
2 4 (13.79%) Red Hat
3 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.45%) F5
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) VMware