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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 26 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -9 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing CI/CD 128 262 269
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.94% 9.63% 7.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.72% 10.42% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 204 192
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £431 £442 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £519
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -6.11% +15.39%
75th Percentile £550 £568 £575
90th Percentile £634 £676 £729
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% +30.00%

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 1,904 2,514 3,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.31% 92.43% 93.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,167 1,792 2,248
10th Percentile £225 £260 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £471
Median % change year-on-year - +0.96% +10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £550
90th Percentile £650 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 54 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.51 £17.78
Median hourly rate £19.50 £16.25 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -56.59% -6.43%
75th Percentile £46.24 £52.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £67.22 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +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 15 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 15 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 -2 63 £498 -17.08% 39
Edinburgh -4 54 £508 +6.05% 30
Lanarkshire +4 1 £460 -21.10% 14
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 (5.47%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.34%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.34%) Cloud Foundry
2 3 (2.34%) GeoServer
3 2 (1.56%) Confluence
4 1 (0.78%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 76 (59.38%) AWS
2 31 (24.22%) OpenShift
3 26 (20.31%) Amazon S3
4 23 (17.97%) AWS Lambda
4 23 (17.97%) Serverless
5 22 (17.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 16 (12.50%) Azure
7 13 (10.16%) AWS CodePipeline
8 9 (7.03%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (7.03%) Amazon EKS
9 8 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (5.47%) GCP
10 7 (5.47%) npm
11 6 (4.69%) AWS CodeBuild
11 6 (4.69%) AWS CodeDeploy
11 6 (4.69%) IaaS
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon ECS
12 5 (3.91%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 5 (3.91%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (3.91%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.91%) Firewall
2 4 (3.13%) Internet
2 4 (3.13%) NAS
2 4 (3.13%) SAN
3 2 (1.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (0.78%) HTTP
4 1 (0.78%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.78%) SSL
4 1 (0.78%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.09%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (10.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 11 (8.59%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (8.59%) Relational Database
4 9 (7.03%) Oracle Database
5 8 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (5.47%) MySQL
7 6 (4.69%) MariaDB
7 6 (4.69%) MongoDB
7 6 (4.69%) NoSQL
8 5 (3.91%) Big Data
8 5 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (3.91%) GIS
8 5 (3.91%) Power BI
9 3 (2.34%) DB2
9 3 (2.34%) Hadoop
9 3 (2.34%) InfluxDB
10 2 (1.56%) Apache Hive
10 2 (1.56%) SQL Server
11 1 (0.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 42 (32.81%) Jenkins
2 22 (17.19%) Git
3 15 (11.72%) GitLab
4 10 (7.81%) Cucumber
5 8 (6.25%) JIRA
5 8 (6.25%) Maven
6 7 (5.47%) Gradle
7 6 (4.69%) Cypress.io
7 6 (4.69%) JUnit
7 6 (4.69%) Selenium
7 6 (4.69%) webpack
8 5 (3.91%) Artifactory
8 5 (3.91%) Mockito
8 5 (3.91%) WebDriver
9 3 (2.34%) CircleCI
9 3 (2.34%) TeamCity
10 2 (1.56%) CMake
10 2 (1.56%) Subversion
10 2 (1.56%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.78%) NUnit
General
1 33 (25.78%) Public Sector
2 20 (15.63%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.50%) Finance
4 14 (10.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.25%) Banking
6 6 (4.69%) Back Office
6 6 (4.69%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.13%) Electronics
8 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.78%) Legal
Job Titles
1 47 (36.72%) Developer
2 25 (19.53%) Java Developer
3 13 (10.16%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (9.38%) AWS Engineer
5 11 (8.59%) Full Stack Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Java Engineer
6 9 (7.03%) Lead
7 8 (6.25%) Data Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Architect
8 7 (5.47%) Cloud Engineer
8 7 (5.47%) Full Stack Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Full Stack Java Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Software Developer
8 7 (5.47%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Python Engineer
9 6 (4.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
10 5 (3.91%) AWS DevOps
10 5 (3.91%) Site Manager
10 5 (3.91%) Site Reliability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (31.25%) REST
2 37 (28.91%) Spring
3 30 (23.44%) Spring Boot
4 27 (21.09%) CSS
4 27 (21.09%) HTML
5 24 (18.75%) AWS CDK
6 23 (17.97%) React
7 18 (14.06%) RESTful
8 17 (13.28%) Node.js
9 15 (11.72%) AngularJS
10 11 (8.59%) JPA
11 10 (7.81%) Kafka
12 9 (7.03%) OAuth
13 8 (6.25%) PostGIS
14 7 (5.47%) Elastic Stack
14 7 (5.47%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (4.69%) OAuth2
15 6 (4.69%) OpenTracing
15 6 (4.69%) SOAP
15 6 (4.69%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.94%) Public Cloud
2 13 (10.16%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.03%) Cloud Native
3 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.25%) Data Structures
5 5 (3.91%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (3.13%) Device Driver
6 4 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (3.13%) IoT
6 4 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.13%) PCIe
6 4 (3.13%) Product Ownership
6 4 (3.13%) Verilog
6 4 (3.13%) VHDL
7 2 (1.56%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.56%) Client/Server
7 2 (1.56%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.78%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (25.78%) Linux
2 18 (14.06%) Unix
3 9 (7.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (7.03%) Windows
4 6 (4.69%) Embedded Linux
5 5 (3.91%) Ubuntu
6 4 (3.13%) VMS
6 4 (3.13%) VxWorks
6 4 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (55.47%) Agile
2 44 (34.38%) DevOps
3 36 (28.13%) Software Engineering
4 35 (27.34%) Microservices
5 33 (25.78%) Infrastructure as Code
6 32 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 24 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 24 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
8 22 (17.19%) SDLC
9 18 (14.06%) Continuous Delivery
9 18 (14.06%) Scrum
10 17 (13.28%) Artificial Intelligence
11 16 (12.50%) Analytics
11 16 (12.50%) Containerisation
11 16 (12.50%) Machine Learning
11 16 (12.50%) Migration
12 15 (11.72%) Decision-Making
12 15 (11.72%) Operational Stability
12 15 (11.72%) Roadmaps
12 15 (11.72%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 66 (51.56%) Java
2 42 (32.81%) Python
3 37 (28.91%) SQL
4 30 (23.44%) TypeScript
5 29 (22.66%) JavaScript
6 18 (14.06%) Bash
7 15 (11.72%) Shell Script
8 14 (10.94%) Groovy
9 8 (6.25%) Perl
10 7 (5.47%) C
10 7 (5.47%) Ruby
10 7 (5.47%) Scala
11 6 (4.69%) Embedded C
11 6 (4.69%) Kotlin
12 5 (3.91%) C#
13 4 (3.13%) PowerShell
14 3 (2.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (1.56%) C++
15 2 (1.56%) VBA
15 2 (1.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (2.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (1.56%) Degree
2 2 (1.56%) ISEB
2 2 (1.56%) ISTQB
2 2 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (0.78%) Azure Certification
3 1 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (10.94%) Accessibility
1 14 (10.94%) Disclosure Scotland
2 4 (3.13%) MISRA
2 4 (3.13%) MISRA C
3 2 (1.56%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 32 (25.00%) Docker
2 5 (3.91%) Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 1 (0.78%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.78%) HDFS
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (21.09%) Kubernetes
2 26 (20.31%) Terraform
3 21 (16.41%) Ansible
4 20 (15.63%) Grafana
5 12 (9.38%) Prometheus
6 8 (6.25%) Kibana
7 6 (4.69%) Zipkin
8 4 (3.13%) NetBackup
9 3 (2.34%) Packer
10 1 (0.78%) Argo
10 1 (0.78%) FreeIPA
10 1 (0.78%) Hadoop YARN
10 1 (0.78%) Icinga
10 1 (0.78%) Istio
10 1 (0.78%) ITRS Geneos
10 1 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 14 (10.94%) Oracle
2 4 (3.13%) Atlassian
2 4 (3.13%) Intel
2 4 (3.13%) Veritas
3 3 (2.34%) Databricks
4 2 (1.56%) Greenplum
4 2 (1.56%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.56%) Splunk
5 1 (0.78%) Confluent
5 1 (0.78%) F5
5 1 (0.78%) Foundry
5 1 (0.78%) IBM
5 1 (0.78%) Informatica
5 1 (0.78%) StreamSets
5 1 (0.78%) VMware