CI/CD Job Trends in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring CI/CD skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +18 +1 -14
Permanent jobs citing CI/CD 155 87 89
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 16.54% 6.80% 8.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 18.74% 7.38% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 17 38 74
10th Percentile £54,900 £49,649 £43,903
25th Percentile £66,091 £54,063 £51,139
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,801 £68,404 £65,351
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +4.67% -3.38%
75th Percentile £78,790 £85,000 £82,536
90th Percentile £94,150 £95,186 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £73,801 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +13.54% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 827 1,179 961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 88.26% 92.18% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 361 490 765
10th Percentile £25,750 £35,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £29,250 £45,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £57,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% -8.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £76,385
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £91,934
Scotland median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%

CI/CD
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

CI/CD job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CI/CD

CI/CD
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing CI/CD in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 2 December 2025.

Salary histogram for CI/CD in Edinburgh

CI/CD
Job Locations in Edinburgh

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CI/CD within the Edinburgh region over the 6 months to 2 December 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
Balerno - 2 - -
CI/CD
Scotland

CI/CD
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 14 (9.03%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (1.29%) CICS
2 2 (1.29%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 31 (20.00%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.65%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 141 (90.97%) Azure
2 108 (69.68%) Azure DevOps
3 103 (66.45%) GitHub
4 60 (38.71%) GitHub Copilot
5 42 (27.10%) dbt
6 41 (26.45%) Snowflake
7 33 (21.29%) AWS
8 32 (20.65%) Azure Data Factory
9 31 (20.00%) OCI
10 22 (14.19%) GitHub Actions
11 21 (13.55%) Power Platform
12 17 (10.97%) Entra ID
13 13 (8.39%) Azure Key Vault
14 12 (7.74%) Datadog
15 11 (7.10%) Azure Event Grid
15 11 (7.10%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (7.10%) Azure Monitor
15 11 (7.10%) Azure Service Bus
15 11 (7.10%) GCP
16 9 (5.81%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (6.45%) Firewall
2 6 (3.87%) DNS
2 6 (3.87%) LAN
2 6 (3.87%) WAN
3 5 (3.23%) BGP
3 5 (3.23%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.23%) VPN
4 4 (2.58%) MPLS
4 4 (2.58%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (2.58%) Wireless
5 2 (1.29%) Broadband
5 2 (1.29%) DHCP
6 1 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.65%) NX-OS
6 1 (0.65%) OSPF
6 1 (0.65%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.71%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (13.55%) Power BI
3 14 (9.03%) Snowflake Schema
3 14 (9.03%) Tableau
4 4 (2.58%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (2.58%) Data Lake
4 4 (2.58%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (2.58%) Metadata
4 4 (2.58%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.58%) Redis
5 2 (1.29%) DB2
5 2 (1.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 39 (25.16%) JIRA
2 33 (21.29%) Jenkins
3 31 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
4 15 (9.68%) Git
5 6 (3.87%) Storybook
6 2 (1.29%) GitLab
6 2 (1.29%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.65%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.65%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.65%) JMeter
7 1 (0.65%) Locust
General
1 134 (86.45%) Finance
2 53 (34.19%) Social Skills
3 27 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (9.68%) Marketing
5 7 (4.52%) Games
6 2 (1.29%) Health Technology
6 2 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (1.29%) Law
7 1 (0.65%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.65%) Retail
7 1 (0.65%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 69 (44.52%) Senior
2 39 (25.16%) Applications Engineer
3 37 (23.87%) Cloud Engineer
4 21 (13.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
5 19 (12.26%) Azure Engineer
6 11 (7.10%) Development Engineer
7 10 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (4.52%) Integration Engineer
8 7 (4.52%) Platform Engineer
9 6 (3.87%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (3.87%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
10 5 (3.23%) Lead
10 5 (3.23%) Senior Development Engineer
11 4 (2.58%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.58%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.58%) Network Engineer
11 4 (2.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.58%) Software Engineer
12 3 (1.94%) Java Engineer
12 3 (1.94%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (29.03%) RESTful
2 35 (22.58%) SOAP
3 34 (21.94%) JSON
4 33 (21.29%) OAuth
5 25 (16.13%) OAuth2
6 18 (11.61%) Lightning Web Components
6 18 (11.61%) REST
7 17 (10.97%) XML
8 14 (9.03%) SAML
9 12 (7.74%) ADO
10 11 (7.10%) .NET
11 8 (5.16%) GraphQL
11 8 (5.16%) OpenAPI
11 8 (5.16%) Swagger
12 6 (3.87%) JSON-LD
12 6 (3.87%) Next.js
12 6 (3.87%) React
13 5 (3.23%) YAML
14 4 (2.58%) Django
15 2 (1.29%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 63 (40.65%) Cloud Native
2 34 (21.94%) Product Ownership
3 31 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (7.10%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.52%) Low-Code
5 7 (4.52%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.58%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.29%) Mainframe
10 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (3.87%) Linux
2 4 (2.58%) Unix
2 4 (2.58%) VMS
3 3 (1.94%) Windows
4 1 (0.65%) Android
4 1 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (92.90%) DevOps
2 131 (84.52%) Coaching
3 129 (83.23%) Asset Management
4 104 (67.10%) Agile
5 99 (63.87%) Test Automation
6 79 (50.97%) Observability
7 64 (41.29%) AI
8 61 (39.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (34.84%) Mentoring
10 53 (34.19%) Clean Code
11 48 (30.97%) Analytics
12 45 (29.03%) Data Modelling
13 44 (28.39%) Migration
14 39 (25.16%) Infrastructure as Code
14 39 (25.16%) Problem-Solving
15 35 (22.58%) Sprint Planning
15 35 (22.58%) Sprint Retrospective
16 34 (21.94%) API Integration
17 31 (20.00%) ERP
17 31 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 76 (49.03%) Python
2 67 (43.23%) SQL
3 36 (23.23%) Java
4 31 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 31 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 27 (17.42%) PowerShell
6 18 (11.61%) Apex Code
7 15 (9.68%) Bicep
8 12 (7.74%) JavaScript
9 9 (5.81%) C#
10 7 (4.52%) TypeScript
11 4 (2.58%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.29%) SOQL
12 2 (1.29%) SOSL
13 1 (0.65%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.65%) Swift
Qualifications
1 5 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 5 (3.23%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (0.65%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (10.32%) Accessibility
2 13 (8.39%) QA
3 11 (7.10%) GDPR
4 7 (4.52%) WCAG
5 4 (2.58%) Data Quality
System Software
1 24 (15.48%) Docker
2 20 (12.90%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.29%) RACF
3 2 (1.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 90 (58.06%) Terraform
2 31 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
3 20 (12.90%) Kubernetes
4 19 (12.26%) Grafana
5 16 (10.32%) Prometheus
6 10 (6.45%) Ansible
7 3 (1.94%) AWS Copilot
Vendors
1 34 (21.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (20.00%) Oracle
3 18 (11.61%) Salesforce
4 17 (10.97%) Okta
5 12 (7.74%) Ab Initio
6 9 (5.81%) Splunk
7 5 (3.23%) Google
7 5 (3.23%) ServiceNow
7 5 (3.23%) SolarWinds
8 4 (2.58%) Databricks
8 4 (2.58%) F5
8 4 (2.58%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.94%) IBM
10 2 (1.29%) Broadcom
11 1 (0.65%) Cisco